While Seamus is able to withstand the mental assault posed by the mind flayer, Rhyna is a dog, which makes her considerably less equipped to defend herself against the monster's unnatural suggestion. That suggestion, in incomprehensible words, is "die", which Rhyna promptly does her best to do.
Rhyna takes 25 psychic damage and would be stunned for 1 minute if she weren't dying instead. The mind flayer uses the remainder of its movement to move to N21, where it now has half cover.
Round 3
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (0/0).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active. Paralyzed (Wis save DC 10 at end of turn, 10/10).
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 30/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 21/63; AC 15 - Status: Half cover vs non-adjacent enemies.
Jelenneth tries not to panic, moving forward as she watches each of her allies seemingly get stopped in their tracks, deciding to focus on the strange creature she mutters a word as she chokes back her fear. "Sleep."
alright move to m4, then cast sleep covering the area of the mind flayer.
geth roll 5d8 for sleeping
Well, let's hope for the best and @Denada you're up.
Exchanging one dwarf for another, Theresa extends her hand again, muttering the same unholy incantation as she did before. This time, however, the spell has no effect.
Theresa casts Inflict Wounds as a 2nd level spell against Lakor, but her attack misses.
Tal and Rhyna are both down. I'm not going to bother with Rhyna's death save because, come on.
Halath is paralyzed, so @Nealneal just make another Wisdom save against that.
Meanwhile, Sophia's voice rings out from her hiding place. It's a gross imitation of her formerly silver tongue, but the magic is still there and it still assaults Seamus's will.
Sophia casts Vicious Mockery at Seamus. @silence1186 please make a Wisdom save.
Nope. You get hit with an OA only if you leave someone's threatened area, enter the threatened area of an enemy with the Polearm Master Feat, cast a spell standing next to someone with the Mage Slayer Feat, or move or attack someone else when next to someone with the Sentinel Feat.
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I should have killed you while I had the chance, Halath!
Halath comes back around just in time to see Seamus lower his weapon slightly, a look of self-doubt on his face.
Seamus takes 4 psychic damage and has disadvantage on his next attack.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (0/0).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 26/46; AC 20 - Status: Disadvantage on next attack.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 21/63; AC 15 - Status: Half cover vs non-adjacent enemies.
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@denadaIf I get on top of the altar/raised platform looking thing, will I have line of sight on the Mind flayer? Also, what is Sophia behind? A pillar connecting the ground to the ceiling? Finally, does diagonal movement cost 5ft, or alternate 5ft and 10ft (for example could I make it to P17 making 5 diagonal moves)?
You have line of sight to the mind flayer now, he just has some cover from standing behind a raised platform. If you get up there (doesn't cost any extra movement) and get next to him he won't have cover against you.
Sophia is standing behind a floor-to-ceiling pillar.
Diagonal movement costs the same as regular movement. 5ft all day long.
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As Seamus maneuvers himself towards the Mind Flayer, he stows his Warhammer and pulls out his bonded Handaxe. He takes aim, knowing it's a long shot, and hurls the axe at the Illithid. Afterwards he teleports the axe back to his hand.
Move to N13. Swap weapons. Make a long range thrown attack against the Mind Flayer (I already have disadvantage, so it can't get any worse). As a bonus action teleport the Handaxe back to my hand after the throwing attack finishes.
Geth roll 2d20l1+5;1d6+3 for Don't tell me the odds and hope for miracle slashing damage
for miracle slashing damage:
2d20l1+513 [2d20l1=[8], 17]
1d6+37 [1d6=4]
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Ugh, I figured it would be something like that. @am0n you're up next.
Lakor dances around Theresa, putting himself closer to the real threat. With a wave and a wink, flames burst from the ceiling aiming to smite the Mind Flayer. In their wake, a shadow hammer appears, taking a swing at the creature.
Move to K9 (doesn't provoke OA I believe) and then Sacred Flame the Mind Flayer. Follow it up with Spiritual Weapon, placing the weapon at M21 to prevent cover.
Geth roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame Damage Dex ST vs DC13
Geth roll 1d20+5;1d8+3 for Spiritual Weapon Attack;Spiritual Weapon Damage
Edit: And if it matters, Sacred Flame is Radiant damage and Spiritual Weapon is Force Damage.
The mind flayer succeeds on its saving throw vs Sacred Flame.
The mind flayer strides forward, but doesn't seem to be able to focus on an attack at the moment. Instead, it puts its attention on avoiding your attacks.
The mind flayer moves to N15, then uses the Dodge action. Until the start of its next turn, all attacks against it from enemies that it can see have disadvantage, and it has advantage on Dex saves.
Round 4
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (1S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 26/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 17/63; AC 15 - Status: Dodging.
Jelenneth holds her breath she watches the move defensively. Finally deciding the best way to take it out is to go for spells with no real fail state, as she looses Melf's Acid Arrow.
hurrah for spells that do damage on a miss. Melf's acid arrow at mind flayer
geth roll 2d20l1+5;4d4 for hitting and the acid damage
Half damage on a miss, another 2d4 at the start of his turn on a hit.
Theresa seems quite concerned with protecting her (its?) master, so she shuffles around Lakor and creates a pillar of burning light on Seamus.
Theresa moves to L10, then casts Sacred Flame on Seamus.
Minion, roll 1d20 for Seamus's Dex save.
Minion, roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame radiant damage.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Dodging.
Tal and Rhyna are both down, so that brings us to @Nealneal's turn.
Noticing that the Mind Flayer was still watching him, Halath decides to go for broke and cast a spell,throwing a pinch of dust in it's direction.
Geth roll 5d8 for Go to sleep nightmare monster
Suddenly, you hear a weirdly comical pop!, and Sophia's body falls to the ground, lifeless. Another intellect devourer appears next to the corpse, but it doesn't stay there. It skitters around Seamus and then slashes at his legs with its claws while also poking at his brain with its ... brain. Which is also its body.
I3 uses 5 feet of movement to abandon Sophia's body and appear in O13. It then moves around to M13 and uses Multiattack to attack Seamus with Claws and Devour Intellect. The claws miss.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (1S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 23/23; AC 12 - Status: Normal.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (10 rounds left).
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Oh gods, that could have ended poorly. @denada If the Mind Flayer wakes up this turn (perhaps because someone smacks it in the face), would it still be considered Dodging for the rest of the turn? Or would that not matter since it's fallen prone? As a follow up, do both attacks from a Two-Weapon/Dual Wield attack auto-crit against an unconscious foe?
E: Also, rolling our saves is a nice way to speed up turns, Denada. Great idea.
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"So you wanna tussle with ole Stoutstuff, do ye little brain? Well see how ye like this!" Seamus stows his handaxe and reaches down and attempts to grab the tiny monster brain. Seamus initiates a Grapple against ID3. @Denada contest my Athletics with ID3's Athletics or Acrobatics, then I'll finish my turn.
Dodge states that you lose the benefit if you are incapacitated, which the mind flayer currently is. Sleep states that the target wakes up if they take damage. Since the attacks from Extra Attack are resolved separately (and in the case of fighting with two weapons the second attack is an optional bonus action, which is definitely resolved separately) I would rule that only the first attack will auto-crit, because the damage from that first attack is resolved (thereby waking up the Unconscious target) before the second attack occurs.
You would still have advantage on subsequent attacks because the mind flayer will still be prone (from being Unconscious) until it stands up.
Continuing his dance with Theresa (Why, what pretty eyes you have, miss.), Lakor moves around Theresa, inching his way closer to the Mind Flayer. With a strong swing, he beckons his shadow hammer forward to swing at the Intellect Devourerer (erererererer) As the swing comes down, light pierces through the ceiling once again, bathing the Intellect Devourerer in a radiant beam.
Move to M11. As a bonus action, move my Spiritual Weapon to M18 and attack the ID in M17. Follow that up with Sacred Flame on the ID.
Geth roll 1d20+5;1d8+3 for Spiritual Weapon Attack;Spiritual Weapon Damage
Geth roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame Damage Dex vs DC13
I3 fails its Dex save and takes 6 damage. The mind flayer continues snoozing.
Round 5
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 17/23; AC 12 - Status: Grappled.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (9 rounds left).
Another pop! sounds in the chamber as Theresa's body falls to the floor. Her little passenger appears near Lakor and does pretty much exactly what the other intellect devourer did to Seamus.
I4 uses 5 feet of movement to abandon Theresa's body, appearing in L11. It then moves to M12 and uses Multiattack to attack Lakor with Claws and Devour Intellect. The claw attack misses.
Lakor can feel the pain of the intellect devourer's psychic assault, but his mind remains intact for now.
Lakor takes 13 psychic damage, but does not succumb to any Intelligence drain.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Intellect Devourer 4 - HP 21/21; AC 12 - Status: Normal.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/1F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 15/23; AC 12 - Status: Grappled.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 27/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (9 rounds left).
So Seamus is holding a brain-shaped ham monster, and a brain-shaped, ham monster just popped out of Theresa's head. Since I can't find it anywhere...there doesn't seem to be any negatives for me shooting Seamus's ham. Since it is definitely within 5 ft of an ally I would get my Sneak Attack Damage right? I wonder if you can hide from an eyeless brain-ham? So many questions @Denada.
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Also, does Halath count as an unseen attacker if he attacks from outside of the brain's Blindsight radius?
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Rhyna takes 25 psychic damage and would be stunned for 1 minute if she weren't dying instead. The mind flayer uses the remainder of its movement to move to N21, where it now has half cover.
Round 3
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (0/0).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active. Paralyzed (Wis save DC 10 at end of turn, 10/10).
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 30/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 21/63; AC 15 - Status: Half cover vs non-adjacent enemies.
@Melding is up.
alright move to m4, then cast sleep covering the area of the mind flayer.
geth roll 5d8 for sleeping
Well, let's hope for the best and @Denada you're up.
Well, fuck.
Theresa casts Inflict Wounds as a 2nd level spell against Lakor, but her attack misses.
Tal and Rhyna are both down. I'm not going to bother with Rhyna's death save because, come on.
Halath is paralyzed, so @Nealneal just make another Wisdom save against that.
Meanwhile, Sophia's voice rings out from her hiding place. It's a gross imitation of her formerly silver tongue, but the magic is still there and it still assaults Seamus's will.
Sophia casts Vicious Mockery at Seamus. @silence1186 please make a Wisdom save.
Geth roll 1d20 for Shaking it off.
@denada As you were
Halath comes back around just in time to see Seamus lower his weapon slightly, a look of self-doubt on his face.
Seamus takes 4 psychic damage and has disadvantage on his next attack.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (0/0).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 26/46; AC 20 - Status: Disadvantage on next attack.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 21/63; AC 15 - Status: Half cover vs non-adjacent enemies.
@silence1186 is up.
Sophia is standing behind a floor-to-ceiling pillar.
Diagonal movement costs the same as regular movement. 5ft all day long.
No.
Move to N13. Swap weapons. Make a long range thrown attack against the Mind Flayer (I already have disadvantage, so it can't get any worse). As a bonus action teleport the Handaxe back to my hand after the throwing attack finishes.
Geth roll 2d20l1+5;1d6+3 for Don't tell me the odds and hope for miracle slashing damage
Lakor dances around Theresa, putting himself closer to the real threat. With a wave and a wink, flames burst from the ceiling aiming to smite the Mind Flayer. In their wake, a shadow hammer appears, taking a swing at the creature.
Move to K9 (doesn't provoke OA I believe) and then Sacred Flame the Mind Flayer. Follow it up with Spiritual Weapon, placing the weapon at M21 to prevent cover.
Geth roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame Damage Dex ST vs DC13
Geth roll 1d20+5;1d8+3 for Spiritual Weapon Attack;Spiritual Weapon Damage
Edit: And if it matters, Sacred Flame is Radiant damage and Spiritual Weapon is Force Damage.
@Denada
The mind flayer strides forward, but doesn't seem to be able to focus on an attack at the moment. Instead, it puts its attention on avoiding your attacks.
The mind flayer moves to N15, then uses the Dodge action. Until the start of its next turn, all attacks against it from enemies that it can see have disadvantage, and it has advantage on Dex saves.
Round 4
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (1S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 26/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 17/63; AC 15 - Status: Dodging.
@Melding is up.
hurrah for spells that do damage on a miss. Melf's acid arrow at mind flayer
geth roll 2d20l1+5;4d4 for hitting and the acid damage
Half damage on a miss, another 2d4 at the start of his turn on a hit.
back to you @Denada
Theresa moves to L10, then casts Sacred Flame on Seamus.
Minion, roll 1d20 for Seamus's Dex save.
Minion, roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame radiant damage.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Sophia - HP 20/20; AC 14 - Status: Normalish.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Dodging.
Tal and Rhyna are both down, so that brings us to @Nealneal's turn.
Move to G4
Use Cunning Action to Hide
Geth roll 1d20+5 for Hide, hide dear Lolth please hide
Geth roll 5d8 for Go to sleep nightmare monster
I3 uses 5 feet of movement to abandon Sophia's body and appear in O13. It then moves around to M13 and uses Multiattack to attack Seamus with Claws and Devour Intellect. The claws miss.
Minion, roll 1d20+2 for Seamus's Int save.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (1S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 23/23; AC 12 - Status: Normal.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (10 rounds left).
@silence1186 is up.
E: Also, rolling our saves is a nice way to speed up turns, Denada. Great idea.
Geth roll 1d20+5 for Seamus's Athletics check
You would still have advantage on subsequent attacks because the mind flayer will still be prone (from being Unconscious) until it stands up.
I3 fails the contest and is now Grappled.
Seamus picks up the tiny brain and takes it along with him, as you would a tasty ham.
Seamus moves to M16, and drags ID3 to M17
@am0n you are up.
Move to M11. As a bonus action, move my Spiritual Weapon to M18 and attack the ID in M17. Follow that up with Sacred Flame on the ID.
Geth roll 1d20+5;1d8+3 for Spiritual Weapon Attack;Spiritual Weapon Damage
Geth roll 1d8 for Sacred Flame Damage Dex vs DC13
@Denada
Edit: Damn. That was nice damage, too. And a miss.
Round 5
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Theresa - HP 19/23; AC 18 - Status: Normalish.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/0F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 17/23; AC 12 - Status: Grappled.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 40/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (9 rounds left).
@Melding is up.
move up to P10, then cast ray of frost on ID3
geth roll 1d20+5; 1d8 for hitting and then cold damage.
back to you @Denada
I4 uses 5 feet of movement to abandon Theresa's body, appearing in L11. It then moves to M12 and uses Multiattack to attack Lakor with Claws and Devour Intellect. The claw attack misses.
Minion, roll 1d20+1 for Lakor's Int save.
Lakor takes 13 psychic damage, but does not succumb to any Intelligence drain.
Jelenneth - HP 27/27; AC 13 - Status: Normal.
Intellect Devourer 4 - HP 21/21; AC 12 - Status: Normal.
Tal - HP 25/40; AC 16 - Status: Int 0. Stunned.
Rhyna - HP 0/21; AC 14 - Status: Dying (2S/1F).
Halath - HP 27/30; AC 16 - Status: Mage Armor active.
Intellect Devourer 3 - HP 15/23; AC 12 - Status: Grappled.
Seamus - HP 22/46; AC 20 - Status: Normal.
Lakor - HP 27/40; AC 18 - Status: Normal.
Mind Flayer - HP 14/63; AC 15 - Status: Unconscious (9 rounds left).
@Nealneal is up.