Log 0038

[8:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: With blunders all around... The adventurers managed to retreat from the library after detection by the mind flayers, and relocated into the abandoned drow city. They found a cellar with reasonable defense against scrying attempts, and formulated plans and defenses - alarms, red herrings, and the like - to throw off the mind flayer pursuits.
[8:06 PM] Mizuki: (mhmm, lets wait a bit more, more people might show up)
[8:07 PM] Runic: Hihi
[8:07 PM] Runic: I can play
[8:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The safehouse is an abandoned drow slave market, with the cellar containing cages that formerly contained exotic animals and the like - including a silver dragon that's still somehow alive, hibernating and extremely weakened in her current state.
[8:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... From there, the party finally had a good night of rest, tending to their wounds and the silver dragon.

[8:12 PM] Runic: Lexon gets up from his night of sleep, stretching a bit, he goes over and curiously pokes the dragon a bit to check on it
[8:13 PM] Bot Fodder: (Hello~)
[8:14 PM] Runic: (o/ Kap)
[8:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: At Exhaustion 4, the silver dragon is able to move, albeit at a vastly reduced speed and overall strength. It seems that the enforced, long term hibernation has left its mark on the dragon - anyone familiar with silver dragon (which is to say, none of you, hopefully) would note her visibly smaller and frailer frame.
[8:15 PM] Runic: "So uh... what do we do now guys? We gonna just hold out here for now?" facing back to his group
[8:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: A comparison... Hm. It's like a rabbit that's only skins and bones.
[8:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "That's a good question - what now?" Recelle voices her concern.
[8:16 PM] Eon: "I still say we kill the Yochlol, but.." Esker trails off, motioning to their missing members.
[8:17 PM] Runic: Lexon goes back to his bedroll and lies on his side, "Think it's safe to explore by now? I'd rather not be stuck hiding in here for a couple of days..."
[8:17 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: While uncomfortable with the personal vendetta verging on possible mind control, Shadow merely peeks out from his distraction (In the form of Tot) at Esker.
[8:18 PM] Bot Fodder: John's not missing! "Well, did we have any clues to follow up on?"
[8:18 PM] Eon: "What? I just want to settle a score smite evil!" Esker retorts
[8:19 PM] Mizuki: Alicia gets up and streaches - "It's nice to finally have some rest..."
[8:19 PM] Mizuki: She then approaches the Silver dragon - "Can you speak?"
[8:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: [Nightmare] "I didn't say nothing!" Shadow protests, obviously distaughted by the sudden reply verging on mind-reading.
[8:19 PM] Eon: ( :thinking: oh yeah.)
[8:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Fearing the situation, Shadow steps away from Esker, a little distrusting of her suddenly. [Nightmare]
[8:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Do be very, very careful.)
[8:20 PM] Bot Fodder: (... Does Esker even have a reason to hold a grudge? I thought she really did just want to kill it because evils.)
[8:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The silver dragon, in her weakened state, has been tended to with food and water, as well as medication.
[8:21 PM] Eon: (probably the whole 'Fuck off' scenario)
[8:21 PM] Bot Fodder: (What scenario?)
[8:21 PM] Eon: (remember that one time Esker told the Yochlol to fuck off?)
[8:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She peeks up weakly at Alicia, blinking slowly for a moment, before registering the situation, "Uh..."
[8:22 PM] Bot Fodder: (Yeah... but uh, what happened?)
[8:22 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She seems to be trying to formulate words, but is having difficulty speaking. It'll take some empathy to get the words and information out from her.

[8:23 PM] Eon: "There, there. Take your time." Significantly mellowed, Esker reaches out to pat the dragon.. Does she flinch back?
[8:23 PM] Eon: She was kept down here for who knows how long by drow, after all!
[8:23 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She's not really at the point where she can flinch back yet.
[8:25 PM] Mizuki: "Do we have any food for her?" - Asked Alicia. She pets her wyverns and tell them to take it easy with the silver dragon, for now.
[8:25 PM] Bot Fodder: John puts his hands on his hips, unsure how to address the sitation. "Erm, do dragons eat anything in particular?"
[8:25 PM] Faerie: (Hello)
[8:25 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: There are enough food around, thanks to Recelle packing way too much at all times.
[8:26 PM] Eon: "We already fed her. But still."
[8:26 PM] Mizuki: "Considering the status of this one, I bet it will, John." - She asnwered
[8:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The silver dragon's largely being fed with wet rations - rations cooked down to a gruel-like consistency, and slowly fed to the dragon.
[8:26 PM] Faerie: (I'm medicating, be ready in a bit. Obligatory "I'm glad it's friday")
[8:26 PM] Eon: "We can probably use this place as a base of operations, for a time. We can watch over the dragon in the meanwhile."
[8:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wyverns whimper and licks the silver dragon gently, evidently empathic in their far-removed cousin's fate.

[8:28 PM] Mizuki: "Recelle, can you... Erm... Use the horn on the Dragon? That might help it..." - Said Alicia carefully :sadpopo:
[8:28 PM] Bot Fodder: (How large is the dragon?)
[8:28 PM] Eon: (it's a young dragon)
[8:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (that doesn't answer the question on size)
[8:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The horn really only recovers wound and removes diseases and poisons, but it's worth a try.
[8:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tapping the unicorn horn like a wand, Recelle activates the horn's effect.
[8:30 PM] Bot Fodder: (Since I'd assume it would take a LOT of human rations to sate a dragon's appetite, even when young enough to be of comparable size.)
[8:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ths silver dragon doesn't visibly get any better - fatigue, exhaustion, hunger, and years of hibernation recovers poorly with magic.
[8:30 PM] Mizuki: "Well, that probably cured any possible diseases it might have... Thanks."
[8:31 PM] Mizuki: (we don't require food, so it's fine!)
[8:31 PM] Bot Fodder: (We might need something more nutritious. Even eating expends a lot of energy.)
[8:31 PM] Bot Fodder: (>Wasted a unicorn horn)
[8:31 PM] Bot Fodder: (Noooooo!)
[8:31 PM] Mizuki: (it has 3 charges!)(edited)
[8:31 PM] Eon: "... I guess we need to come up with a course of action, then." Esker finally pipes up.

[8:32 PM] Bot Fodder: (Every one is priceless ;_;)
[8:32 PM] Mizuki: (S-Sorry!)
[8:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle nods, petting the silver dragon gently.
[8:32 PM] Eon: (eh, it's basically Lay on Hands on a stick.)
[8:33 PM] Bot Fodder: (Unicorn horns are used to make medicine and spells potentially a lot more valuable than the horn by itself. :T )(edited)
[8:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's used as a charge item, 3/day)
[8:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (not 3/never recharge)
[8:34 PM] Bot Fodder: (Ah, that's good.)

[8:35 PM] Mizuki: Alicia sits down with Azura resting on her lap. - "Well then... We found this place here, but so far we've been just hiding from the mindflayers. I wish we had any leads."
[8:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow... Silently prepares, re-wrapping the Godsbane fragment in bandage and the like and affixing the hilt again to make it more feasible to use.
[8:35 PM] Eon: "Exactly. We're fumbling in the (under)dark right now.."
[8:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Azura ruffles her feathers, hooting softly.

[8:35 PM] Bot Fodder: John thumbs his brow, gears turning. "Hrm... well, we don't really have any other leads, do we? Maybe we could find something more nutritious for the dragon to eat while we look back through the city. I don't think combat rations will be enough..."
[8:36 PM] Eon: "But we have found out a little about this world. The whole deal with crashing moons, moon-eating abberations and star sailing is what we have to go on."
[8:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... I don't think there's much edible things left in the city, unless you count mushrooms or the like." Recelle interjects. "Which... is a possibility?"
[8:37 PM] Mizuki: She thinks for a while, about all that happened lately. The water elemental told them about an aboleth. She wonders if it is working against or with the mindflayers. There's also the Yochlol the others told her about... Mhmm...
[8:37 PM] Eon: "We could always just kill anything evil on the way and try to blunder our way to the 'solution'.."
[8:38 PM] Bot Fodder: John stares blankly at Esker. "I... see? How does all that elf mythology help us here, though?"
[8:38 PM] Mizuki: "Esker would probably know some good mushrooms to help someone recover." - Said Alicia turning to the druid.
[8:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hmm.
[8:38 PM] Eon: "Well, err. I dunno about the Underdark.." Esker scratches the back of her head.

[8:38 PM] Bot Fodder: (Don't listen to John, he's just a retard when it comes to plot magic.)
[8:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... You don't?
[8:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm.
[8:39 PM] Eon: (mushrooms in the underdark, at least.)
[8:39 PM] Mizuki: "Are you sure? You might have heard something at some point." - She insisted.
[8:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Except you did.)
[8:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Which is ... a conflict of facts. Funtimes.)
[8:39 PM] Eon: (edible ones? hmm.)
[8:40 PM] Bot Fodder: (Nature is nature, be it underground or above~)
[8:40 PM] Eon: (poisonous ones yeah, but edible ones?)
[8:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Girl is plotting, please wait warmly.)
[8:40 PM] Mizuki: (can't you roll nature for that?)
[8:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow stands up, sighing. "Anyways."
[8:40 PM] Eon: (alicia actually has more to nature than Esker ;-;)
[8:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I'll look around - I am a half 'drow', after all." Shadow states, despite it being a red herring of a lineage.
[8:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Maybe there's something out there in the city that I can find?" Shadow notes, looking at the party for advice.
[8:41 PM] Bot Fodder: (And I know a lot of problems probably WILL sort themselves out with Esker's Reimu-approved approach to incident resolution ™ But I can't really condone it IC. Sorry~)
[8:41 PM] Eon: (... wait. Shadow isn't actually half-drow?)
[8:41 PM] Eon: (is he pulling a Drizzt?)
[8:42 PM] Eon: (>Reimu-approved)
[8:42 PM] Eon: (kek)
[8:42 PM] Bot Fodder: (Like if we went to the lake using metaknowledge and beat up the Aboleth, something would probably come of it.)
[8:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Eon is putting so little attention into things it's dangerous to the party, so...)
[8:42 PM] Mizuki: "Wait, Shadow! You shouldn't go outside alone." - Said Alicia.
[8:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Ah, don't worry about me, fam, I can turn invisible and the like." Shadow grins, patting Alicia on the shoulder.
[8:42 PM] Bot Fodder: (... The catch being we need to Aboleth-proof ourselves.)
[8:43 PM] Mizuki: (Ah, Koga, just saying, I set up the alarm to everyone's minds)
[8:43 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Mhmm.)

[8:43 PM] Mizuki: (so they'll know where it rings, even if we are far from each other)
[8:44 PM] Eon: (I guess we can go look for medicinal mushrooms, I thought we were looking for food for some reason ;-;)
[8:44 PM] Bot Fodder: (We sort of are? We need something to recover natural strength, not something to cure illness. The dragon is just plain weak.)
[8:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Of course, long rest x 4 will be fine given food and water.)
[8:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( :smugpopo: )
[8:45 PM] Eon: (It's not like we're going to get much else done twiddling thumbs, I guess.)
[8:45 PM] Mizuki: Alicia thinks. - "We have nothing else to do, we can go all together."
[8:46 PM] Eon: "Agreed." Esker shrugged.
[8:46 PM] Faerie: (Alright, I'm here. Sorry for the delay)
[8:46 PM] Bot Fodder: "Well, this is all really beyond me, but... we could split up? We could search for clues much faster that way," John suggests.(edited)
[8:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Someone should stay behind to watch for the dragon." Recelle suggests.
[8:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Uh, splitting up might be bad." Recelle adds to John. "... I don't want to be caught alone with mind flayers, so there's that. There's just no good balance about it."
[8:47 PM] Bot Fodder: "Mm. You're right. But who's going to stay?"(edited)
[8:47 PM] Eon: (>John trying to spilt up the party)
[8:47 PM] Faerie: Who's that by the campsite? (Yes, someone had the gall to set up one inside. How does combustion work??) - it's just Razmik, stirring away at some previously-boiled water, letting it steep.
[8:47 PM] Mizuki: She also explains everyone about the alarm spell network she placed around the city - "You'll all know the exact place and time, when and if it rings."(edited)
[8:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow raises his hand. "Let's go wtih me and Recelle -and the wyverns? They seem to have taken a liking to the silver dragon."
[8:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyone else that doesn't wish to be present for the exploration outside can be considered "staying at base", as well.
[8:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wyverns are taking care of their larger cousin in their own ways.
[8:48 PM] Runic: "Guess I'll join in on going as well"
[8:49 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle nods, "Well, I don't know about Shadow, but I am trained to stay quiet, so... It should work out fine for me."
[8:49 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Hey, what's that supposed to mean! I am good at staying silent as well!"
[8:49 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Tot snickers.

[8:49 PM] Bot Fodder: (SILENT AS A SHADOW)
[8:49 PM] Mizuki: (Koga, the alarm doesn't set if the party goes through the place, right?)
[8:50 PM] Eon: "I AM SHADOW, THE JAGER." Esker subtly parrots.
[8:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (The alarm won't trigger given you've made exception for the party)
[8:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Shadow pointly ignores Esker.
[8:50 PM] Mizuki: (o-of course I did)
[8:50 PM] Faerie: He's gotten and prepared a concoction, made from dried herbal leaders. Now, Razmik didn't know if it'd be good enough to help the dragon, bu it was a gift from some other, less icy realm. ''Good for one's body'', he repeats the Lizardman chief's words. At least it ought to make the poor thing feel slightly less terrible.
[8:51 PM] Bot Fodder: (noice)

[8:51 PM] Faerie: He'll then search around for a way to give the dragon it. [Herbal tea, advantage on CON saves for an hour.]
[8:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The dragon can be fed slowly, that's not too big an issue.
[8:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle's been doing it, helping the dragon sip on various food and liquid the party provides.

[8:53 PM] Faerie: ''Hm. I never thought Elves were ones to know so much about dragons... Not your first time seeing a good one, Recelle?''
For Razmik, it was first contact with a metallic. Even if it kind of looked half-dead from exhaustion and lack of proper food...
[8:54 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hm?" Recelle looks at Razmik, surprised, "No, I don't know much about them. I just treat it like a large animal. Like... A big cow or horse."
[8:54 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You think you saw the silver dragon choke for a bit.
[8:54 PM] Bot Fodder: (Snrk.)
[8:54 PM] Eon: ( :thinking: )
[8:54 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow blinks for a moment. "Uh... Fam..."
[8:54 PM] Bot Fodder: "Recelle, please," John chides.
[8:54 PM] Bot Fodder: "Horses can't breathe fire."
[8:54 PM] Faerie: (System command: Something something declaration of mass protection, everyone that wishes can get 11 temporary HP. Lexon, John and Razmik gain 5 more extra HP to their HP total, on top of that)
[8:55 PM] Bot Fodder: (Does that work outside of combat?)
[8:55 PM] Mizuki: (I wish!)
[8:55 PM] Eon: (didn't we do that at the end of the last session already?)
[8:55 PM] Faerie: Is it alright? :sadpopo:
[8:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: o/

[8:55 PM] Faerie: (It was at the very end, so... Koga said I should bring it up next session, lest people forget)
[8:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow and Recelle will forego the bonus - they don't plan on seeing combat much, and Shadow's plan with invaders would be Invisibility.
[8:56 PM] Eon: (o7)
[8:56 PM] Mizuki: "Well, I think it's working well." - Said Alicia patting Recelle's shoulder.
[8:56 PM] Mizuki: (who's staying?)
[8:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle nods, stroking the silver dragon... It's strangely like how a milk maid would to a cow.

[8:57 PM] Faerie: Slightly concerned, Razmik goes over the dragon's form and... well, if like Recelle says it's just a big horse, petting it should be alright. But there was no mane to be seen!
[8:57 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (The NPCs :smugpopo: )
[8:57 PM] Mizuki: (but Shadow is the one who knows about the mushrooms!)
[8:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nah, Shadow just has IC reason to not wanting to stay with the party for the time being)
[8:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (But ignore that, and move on - Shadow isn't acting too out of character, and you do need to have guard in the safehouse)

[8:59 PM] Eon: If no one is really going to stay, Esker will do it..
[8:59 PM] Eon: (despite the whole getting mushrooms meme)
[8:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Also if anyone willing split the party)
[8:59 PM] Faerie: Razmik scratches his head. ''So it'll go like going shopping for supplies, then?''
[8:59 PM] Bot Fodder: (Wut. I thought Shadow and Recelle were staying?)
[8:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (I will ambush the lesser party very, very hard as a punishment <3)
[8:59 PM] Mizuki: ([panic])
[9:00 PM] Eon: (Shadow wants to run off, right?)
[9:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Like 50% TPK for the weaker party or so :smugpopo: )
[9:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You don't know that, Eon)
[9:00 PM] Bot Fodder: (metaaaa)
[9:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Repeated metagamign is punishable)

[9:00 PM] Eon: (;-;)
[9:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Your unreasonable action seems to be sowing the seed of suspection deeper in Shadow's mind...
[9:00 PM] Mizuki: "I guess so." - Said Alicia turning to Raz - "But we're all walking together."
[9:00 PM] Faerie: Well, you know, if those two were gonna stay...
Idly considering making a joke that'd incurr the ire of Recelle, and probably Shadow's confusion (easy targets!), Razmik muses...
[9:01 PM] Bot Fodder: (ANYWAY let's just get search-checkin'. Kogasa, can I roll Investigation?)
[9:01 PM] Faerie: ''Do we have any way of communicating, should anything happen? Or would the alarms do the trick?''
[9:01 PM] Eon: (We should get goin before I mess up even more ;-;)
[9:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You'll have to leave the safehouse first, John!
[9:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hm, that's an issue.."
[9:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Shadow ponders for a moment... And hand Razmik a cat.
[9:01 PM] Mizuki: "Shadow, can you tell us of any good mushrooms you might remember?" - She asked
[9:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Tot stares at Razmik. And then Shadow. And then back at Razmik
[9:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Not This Shit Again." Tot covers his eyes with his paws.
[9:02 PM] Bot Fodder: That would be step one, yes."Well, sitting around longer probably won't help us, so let's just start looking around some more," John suggests. "We'll pick some mushrooms up if we find any useful ones around."
[9:02 PM] Faerie: ''Ahh. This is fine, isn't it?'', Razmik lifts Tot up and places the familiar on his head. He won't need to tell Doomwing to get a shower if he can't smell him!
[9:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Uhhh." Shadow shakes his head. "I was gonna go out and look, but since you folks are gonna do it... The myconids would know more, right?"
[9:03 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot digs his claws down on Razmik's head, hanging on and flapping his wings, like a head accessory.
[9:03 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Slot 1 Head Accessory, to be exact)

[9:03 PM] Runic: (Naisu!)
[9:03 PM] Mizuki: "Oh, that's a sound plan." - She said smiling. How she didn't think about that before?

[9:04 PM] Faerie: (Oi, can Shadow's pact option cast Lesser Restoration?)
[9:04 PM] Eon: "They are a ways away, though."
[9:04 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's as close to a plan as anything you have. Setting the goal on finding way to make the silver dragon better, the party set out... When you are ready?
[9:04 PM] Bot Fodder: John slowly glances over at Shadow. The young half-elf has been acting slightly strangely, he thinks... (Insight +5)
[9:04 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (I actually haven't had time to update Undying Light)
[9:04 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go for it, John - with advantage, I suppose.
[9:04 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow's not hiding his body language or glances.
[9:04 PM] Mizuki: (brb)
[9:04 PM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+5 what's on shadow's mind?
[9:04 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+5]: 8, Result: 13
[9:05 PM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+5
[9:05 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+5]: 18, Result: 23
[9:05 PM] Faerie: Doomwing equipped: +1 Panache, +1 Odor, Litany of Curses available.(edited)
[9:05 PM] Faerie: (Just kidding)
[9:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow's eyes seem to dart toward Esker every once in a while, frowning, and occasionally making religious signs from various deities of good at Esker's direction silently and quietly.
[9:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It seems that Shadow's suspecting Esker to be possessed by... Something.
[9:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Noticing your glance, Shadow frowns, pointing to Esker quietly, John.
[9:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: And mouth "aboleth" and "mind flayer" quietly, evidently concerned.
[9:06 PM] Faerie: (That's pretty hilarious)
[9:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... That, or he read too much comic about Underdark betrayals.
[9:07 PM] Eon: (man, being a mindflayer druid would be cool af)

[9:08 PM] Bot Fodder: John tilts his head and shrugs. Shadow must be using Cant again. What could 'Abolish nine layers' possibly mean...?
[9:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow nods, confirming John's COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF HIS PHANTOMINE.
[9:08 PM] Faerie: (:sadpopo:)
[9:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: And gives John a thumbs up.

[9:09 PM] Eon: (nine layers of hell? :thinking: )
[9:09 PM] Faerie: (This is so, so conflicting)
[9:09 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, what now?
[9:09 PM] Faerie: (Yes, also known as ''elven females'')
[9:09 PM] Mizuki: (Lets head out! To the Myconid place)(edited)
[9:09 PM] Eon: (Myconids seem good.)
[9:09 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Without much reason to stay, the party moves out into the street of the drow city ruins, and started looking back southward.
[9:09 PM] Bot Fodder: (Yup. Better than playing telephone~)
[9:09 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d100
[9:09 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d100]: 46, Result: 46
[9:10 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Any special things while on the way?
[9:10 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: If not, we'll carry on.
[9:11 PM] Faerie: Not really ''special'', but Razmik keeps an eye out for anything that might resemble plant life in here. Beyond the obvious mushrooms
[9:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[9:11 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 15, Result: 15
[9:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright.
[9:11 PM] Faerie: (Just out of curiosity, are trees a thing in the Underdark?)
[9:11 PM] Mizuki: On the way there Alicia will look around, trying to memorize some of the mushrooms and their locations.
[9:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not normal ones - there might be root at higher level of Underdark, and there are mushroom "trees")
[9:11 PM] Mizuki: (better not touch them and get poisoned before we know which ones are good!)

[9:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The area is illuminated by bioluminencent mushroom and the like, so it's not too... horrible.
[9:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You chance upon ... some corpses, in the way(edited)
[9:12 PM] Eon: Esker frowns. What kind of corpses were they?
[9:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It seems to be the bodies of quaggoths.
[9:12 PM] Faerie: Razmik suggests not to wield too much in the way of unnatural light. That could be bad, experience suggests.
[9:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: One quaggoth is clad in similar armor as to those psionblades you've previously encountered before.
[9:13 PM] Faerie: Standing at a prudent distance, Razmik closes his eyes and feels around for any... oddities on them. Just trying to be cautious... Divine Sense.
[9:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You detect a fiend right on top of your head.
[9:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot sneezes.
[9:14 PM] Eon: Mmm. Esker will cast Detect Magic then.
[9:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot sniffles a bit, before clawing your hair gently, Razmik, as if asking you to warn him before you do that.
[9:14 PM] Eon: (not as a ritual, for once.)
[9:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm.
[9:15 PM] Faerie: ''A, ah!''
Razmik's a bit startled. Truth be told, he barely even remembered Tot was there!
[9:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The quaggoth psionblade's armor and weapon radiates a bit of magic, as well as the illithid-craft mask.
[9:15 PM] Faerie: ''Haven't turned'', he says. ''So at least there's that.''
[9:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The magic aura are registered as something alien.

[9:16 PM] Eon: "Mmm. Someone or something else is also not a friend of the mind flayers." Esker concluded.
[9:16 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wounds on the quaggoth suggest rapier and glaive wounds - the stab and cuts.
[9:16 PM] Faerie: Narrowing his eyes at the sight of more of those masks, Razmik sneezes back. Not like it was too pleasant for him, either.
[9:16 PM] Eon: But was it intelligent? Esker perks up at the chance of a potential ally.
[9:17 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Any arcane spellcasters, investigate.
John, investigate.
[9:17 PM] Eon: Weapon use did suggest so.
[9:17 PM] Bot Fodder: John raises his brow under his helm upon being relayed this information. Rapiers and glaives... aren't those weapons preferred by elven millitary?
[9:17 PM] Eon: (I don't count as arcane, do I?)
[9:18 PM] Faerie: Razmik lets the detectives do their fancy detective work: he'll get something out of the way, drawing closer to the corpses.
[9:18 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You are divine spellcaster)
[9:18 PM] Mizuki: Alicia approaches the bodies and look for any possible clues. Rapiers and glaives huh.
[9:18 PM] Eon: (just double checking.)

[9:18 PM] Faerie: ''Anything out of the ordinary? What kind of weapon did this?''
[9:18 PM] Mizuki: "Azura, take a look at this." [help action]
[9:18 PM] Runic: Lexon decides to leaves the investigation work to the others, and keeps watch(edited)
[9:18 PM] Eon: Esker will guide.. Alicia!
[9:18 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Azura hoots softly, aiding you, Alicia.
[9:18 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7 investigation
[9:18 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 6, Result: 13
[9:18 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7
[9:18 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 2, Result: 9
[9:18 PM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+3
[9:18 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 17, Result: 20
[9:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The only thing Alicia is able to tell is some wounds caused by either... magic missiles, or some other force spells.
[9:19 PM] Faerie: Taking Salamander out, Razmik puts the flametongue's tip to the masks before briefly making the weapon ignite, warping and burning the artifacts away one by one.
[9:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: John, the rapier wound are precise, followed up after what appears to be arcane trauma - traditional mark of mage knights.
[9:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The glaive wounds... Comparing what you can do with the wounds, the person causing those glaive wounds are at least as strong as you, if not stronger.
[9:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Looking at the wound and of the muscle nearby, it seem to be wounds dealt by a Paladin.
[9:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wound placement suggests an ambush against the quaggoths.
[9:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Some Quaggoths suffered claw wounds - likely being turned against each other.
[9:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's all you get.

[9:22 PM] Bot Fodder: "These cuts are pretty precise... I think I see burns from magic, too." John passes all of this on to the party.
[9:22 PM] Mizuki: "Mhm, mhm." - Alicia nods, confirming John's suspicion about wounds caused by magic.
[9:23 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (To put it in mechanical terms - there are force damage from someone who immediately made a follow-up with rapier attack, glaive with damage mod of +5 or so, and some sort of smite effects on top, as well as signs of enchantment/domination/crown of madness? effects)
[9:23 PM] Eon: "An enemy of an enemy is my friend? We might be able to find an ally, if not allies down here, after all." Esker speaks encouragely

[9:24 PM] Faerie: Razmik wonders if the tradition was to stab people, and then blast them with magic, or the other way around. But that's not really all on his mind...
[9:24 PM] Eon: ... That said, they didn't know where they went after that. Were there any tracks around?
[9:24 PM] Bot Fodder: (... Know Your Enemy is pretty good for forensics, huh.)
[9:24 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (heh)

[9:24 PM] Faerie: ''Claw markings? A divine strike? How odd...''
[9:24 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: So, what now? Whoever made those quaggoth bodies should still be around - they can't be too far off considering the wounds.
[9:25 PM] Mizuki: "Always expect the worst, Esker." - Said Alicia - "But yeah, it's good to know someone else is taking the fight to them."(edited)
[9:25 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The body suggests for the wounds to be 2 hours old or so, top.
[9:25 PM] Faerie: Indeed, he's getting mixed signals: isn't it usually one way or the other?

[9:26 PM] Eon: "They were either going where we are going now, or towards the city.." Esker postulates.
[9:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+4
[9:26 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+4]: 18, Result: 22
[9:26 PM] Bot Fodder: John turns to Esker. "Think you can turn into an animal? You might be able to pick up a trail."
[9:26 PM] Eon: "Mmhmm."
[9:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d5 target
[9:26 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d5]: 5, Result: 5
[9:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Lexon.
[9:26 PM] Faerie: ''Do you think there's more people trying to survive around here? Several people?'' Because if not, the alternative'd make him fairly confused.
[9:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Intelligence saving throw.
[9:27 PM] Eon: (uhoh.png)
[9:27 PM] Runic: roll 1d20-1
[9:27 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20-1]: 2, Result: 1
[9:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d6
[9:27 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d6]: 2,1,2, Result: 5
[9:27 PM] Runic: (Oh boy)
[9:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Take... 11 psychic damage.
[9:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Suddenly, a brain with claws and furry limbs attach itself on top of Lexon's head!
[9:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It suckles! ... ineffectively.
[9:28 PM] Eon: (oh fug.)
[9:28 PM] Faerie: (Can he Uncanny it?)
[9:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (uh.)
[9:28 PM] Faerie: (A HEADCRAB?)
[9:28 PM] Runic: Lexon winces at a sudden pain emerging from his head
[9:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You can't see the attacker before the damage, so no)
[9:28 PM] Faerie: (Oh, says you have to see the attacker)
[9:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The ... Intellect Devourer stares at the party for a moment.
[9:29 PM] Mizuki: Alicia gasps surprised and stabs the brain with her dagger! Due to it's size, it won't reach Lexon's head.
[9:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: We'll fast forward about 3 seconds of combat where the ID is executed.
[9:29 PM] Mizuki: (can I do that?)
[9:29 PM] Bot Fodder: Clearly, it regrets its choice of victim.
[9:29 PM] Faerie: (>about 3 seconds
I laughed)
[9:29 PM] Eon: (>about 3 sec-)
[9:29 PM] Faerie: (WOAOW)
[9:29 PM] Eon: (fae please no hivemind)
[9:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The Intellect Devourer twitches for a bit, and expires.
[9:30 PM] Eon: "Where did that come from? The ceiling?"
[9:30 PM] Runic: "Ah, ah, thanks Alicia"
[9:30 PM] Bot Fodder: "... These things aren't very bright," John remarks. No wonder they need other peoples' brains!
[9:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (I'll take nonlethal instead if the party want to leave it alive for some reason.)
[9:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( :smugpopo: )
[9:30 PM] Eon: (befriend the int dev!)
[9:30 PM] Mizuki: (I won't)
[9:30 PM] Bot Fodder: (Naw, I'm good fam.)
[9:30 PM] Eon: (but seriously, kill it.)
[9:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: it ded
[9:31 PM] Eon: ".. You think the mind flayers know where we are, now?"
[9:31 PM] Mizuki: Alicia quickly sheates her dagger - "Don't mention it."
[9:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Azura seems concerned. "It's been hiding here? ..."
[9:31 PM] Mizuki: (can I roll perception to see if anything else is around?)
[9:31 PM] Runic: Lexon gives the Intellect Devourer a good kick out of revenge
[9:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Sure, Alicia.
[9:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[9:31 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 9, Result: 9
[9:31 PM] Faerie: ''...May be. Careful.''
[9:31 PM] Mizuki: Alicia takes a look around, with a concerned Azura's help.

[9:31 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+3
[9:31 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 14, Result: 17
[9:32 PM] Bot Fodder: (Lexon: "I can't give u my lisence oficer :<" )
[9:32 PM] Faerie: Can Razmik join in? He's got  good eyesight, I swear!
[9:32 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+3 adv from help action
[9:32 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 10, Result: 13
[9:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Doesn't appear to be the case, Alicia.
[9:32 PM] Runic: "Didn't expect to get attacked out of nowhere by suprised, thought my magic dart was suppose to prevent that"
[9:32 PM] Eon: Anyway, there was no time to lose. Esker will transform into... A wolf? She'll try to sniff out where these people went.
[9:32 PM] Runic: (That wasn't a suprise attack right Koga?)(edited)
[9:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nah, that didn't get a bonus from surprise attack)
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nor does ID have traits that work with surprise attack, a la assassin or doppel)
[9:33 PM] Runic: (Ahh kk)
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright, hm
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Survival check, then, Esker.
[9:33 PM] Mizuki: "Seems like there's nothing else around, but be careful just in case." - She said
[9:33 PM] Eon: roll 1d20+8 surv
[9:33 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 19, Result: 27
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Seems good.
[9:33 PM] Eon: ( :smugpopo: )
[9:33 PM] Mizuki: Alicia will keep her sword and staff ready.
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: They... disappeared.
[9:33 PM] Eon: Esker lets out a confused bark.
[9:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Their trail came from the myconid's direction,
[9:34 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: but disappeared right where you are.
[9:34 PM] Eon: Transform back
[9:34 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You also smell illithids.
[9:34 PM] Eon: "They.. disappeared? Right here."
[9:34 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Given the Quaggoth, the latter may or may not be a surprise.
[9:34 PM] Eon: "Also, the mind flayers are coming."
[9:34 PM] Faerie: ''Alicia,'', Razmik calls out for the mage. ''You're sure you can still sense the alarms, right?''
[9:34 PM] Faerie: ''I might be worrying too much, but please do keep us aware in case anything goes off.''
[9:35 PM] Eon: Esker stares at the wall with the quaggoth in it. Don't tell her..
[9:35 PM] Faerie: ''Coming? What, from where?''
[9:35 PM] Eon: (wait. I'm being silly again, aren't I.)

[9:35 PM] Faerie: Esker sounded oddly calm, saying that...
So Razmik looks around, guard up, shield readied to cast. No more fiascos.(edited)
[9:36 PM] Eon: (wait, I smelled illithid, but there isn't a corpse nearby of one.)
[9:36 PM] Mizuki: "I mapped the city with the alarms." - Said Alicia - "But not the Myconid hive."

[9:36 PM] Bot Fodder: "....." John edges over to Alicia, and motions for the others to do the same.
[9:36 PM] Faerie: Ah, yeah - Razmik meant the tavern and surrounding area.
[9:37 PM] Eon: "Anyway. Whoever slayed the Quaggoths up and disappeared right here."
[9:37 PM] Bot Fodder: "Know any anti-invisibility spells? Just in case..." John whispers.(edited)
[9:37 PM] Eon: "Teleportation?" Esker muses.
[9:38 PM] Mizuki: "I don't." - She whispers back.
[9:38 PM] Faerie: Razmik did, except it only worked to prevent invisibility for some odd reason... He shakes his head.
[9:38 PM] Bot Fodder: (Wait, Esker smells Illithid as in "they were here" or "they ARE here"?)
[9:38 PM] Bot Fodder: (How recent is the trail?)
[9:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Uh. It's scent.)
[9:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[9:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The illithid scents are roughly 2 hours old.
[9:39 PM] Bot Fodder: (Does Faerie Fire reveal invis?)
[9:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It does.)
[9:39 PM] Faerie: (Were, by what Koga said)
[9:39 PM] Eon: Is the quaggoth wedged into the wall or just against it?
[9:39 PM] Eon: (yeah, just ignore Esker's hallucinations)
[9:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Note that I said "way" instead of "wall" after edit.
[9:39 PM] Bot Fodder: John makes like an elf and searches the wall!
[9:40 PM] Eon: (ah.)
[9:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm? It's natural cavern.
[9:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d24+12
[9:40 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d24+12]: 18, Result: 30
[9:41 PM] Eon: "Still, how did they just disappear? And why?"

[9:41 PM] Faerie: ''Plenty of ways to just up and leave when you're a magician, no?'' Razmik suggests.
[9:41 PM] Bot Fodder: John looks along the cavern surfaces. "Unless there's a secret door here... they're either hiding or they took off with magic."
[9:43 PM] Faerie: Really, having seen Shadow (and taking people with him, to boot!) do so enough times made Razmik wholly unsurprised by the prospect.
[9:43 PM] Bot Fodder: (Meta: They could also have possibly cast Pass Without Trace.)
[9:43 PM] Eon: (was what I was thinking.)
[9:43 PM] Faerie: ''The trail, where did it come from?''
[9:43 PM] Bot Fodder: (We know they've got sword and spell, so a Ranger isn't impossible.)(edited)
[9:43 PM] Eon: "The myconid hive."
[9:43 PM] Mizuki: Alicia thinks of any spells that might have been used to erase the fighters' presence.
[9:44 PM] Faerie: (It was several weapons, though, wasn't it? It could be a lot of things)
[9:44 PM] Mizuki: (arcana w/ Azura's help as always)
[9:44 PM] Eon: (It was probably more than one person)
[9:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go ahead, Alicia.
[9:44 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7
[9:44 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 16, Result: 23
[9:44 PM] Faerie: (Mizu, there's like 300000 spells that could have done that :sadpopo:)
[9:44 PM] Eon: (unless it has the sickest multiclass ever)
[9:44 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7
[9:44 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 20, Result: 27
[9:44 PM] Bot Fodder: "Hm... if it was someone from the surface, maybe they used the mushroom hive as shelter like we did?" John suggests.(edited)
[9:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: There are a ton of methods.
[9:45 PM] Mizuki: (20!)
[9:45 PM] Mizuki: (I deserve a bonus!)
[9:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Pass without Trace from rangers and druids, or myriad of teleportation effects,
[9:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: or, as a horrible thought rings in your head,
[9:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: a mind flayer's plane shift.
[9:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Those normally only transport themselves,
[9:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: but you've seen mind flayers transporting their troops... That bright flash of lightning? that must've been some sort of psionic ripple.
[9:46 PM] Eon: "Mmm. Disappointing, should we continue to the myconids, then?"

[9:51 PM] Bot Fodder: (I have to shower in a half hour. :sadpopo: )
[9:51 PM] Faerie: ''So,'', to confirm to Razmik, ''they're just gone, like that? ...uh...''
[9:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The party up and left, toward the myconid hive.
[9:51 PM] Eon: (why do you shower at a set time :thinking: )
[9:51 PM] Runic: Lexon nervously scratches the back of his head, "Guess so, we still got business with them, plus they're the only possible lead if we want to find out what happened to these guys"
[9:52 PM] Faerie: Razmik turns to keep going, considering what might have happened had he not gotten so lucky.
[9:52 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: After an hour or so, you made it there.
[9:52 PM] Mizuki: Alicia will explain the others her theory on the way. Planeshift. The Mindflayers warped both themselves and the fighters somewhere else. They're probably dead by now.
[9:52 PM] Faerie: (Showering at night is what true scholars do)
[9:52 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The myconids seem to be the same old, excited and bouncing up and down at your arrival. The only remaining adult waves and approached you.
[9:52 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Friends!"
[9:52 PM] Bot Fodder: (Because if I don't, I won't get to shower at all.)
[9:53 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You sense telepathy from the myconids, as the happy little mushroom's spores spread and granting you rapport.
[9:53 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20 Tot sneezing
[9:53 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 9, Result: 9
[9:53 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot sneezes...
[9:53 PM] Faerie: Razmik greets them, one by one if need be. ''Hello, hi!''
[9:53 PM] Runic: Lexon waves both hands greeting them(edited)
[9:53 PM] Faerie: He's glad to see the little ones doing well. That said, where's the king?

[9:53 PM] Eon: Esker smiles and nods.

[9:53 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "The king? The king is tending to wounded friend!"
[9:54 PM] Mizuki: Alicia waves and asks - "Any other friends passed through here lately?"(edited)
[9:54 PM] Faerie: ''Ah, I se-'' Razmik gently brushes one of the small caps away from his leg, concerned. ''Wait, right now? Could you take us to them, please?''(edited)
[9:54 PM] Bot Fodder: John semi-comfortably greets them, preferring verbal communication.
[9:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The adult leads the party into the mushroom forest...
[9:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[9:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hidden deep within the mushroom field, there's a young elf, laying down, unconscious, with the myconid sovereign towering over him...
[9:55 PM] Faerie: ''Test, test.'', Razmik tests. He had given Azura's words some consideration. Filtering your own 'spoken' thoughts wasn't as hard as he initially thought.
[9:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... and a concerned-appearing, comely and exquisite woman, with bat wings, hovering to the side.
[9:56 PM] Faerie: Bat wings...?
[9:56 PM] Bot Fodder: ^Yeah, that.
[9:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The woman notices the party, and frowns at the sign of Razmik.
[9:56 PM] Faerie: Like an imp, or...?
[9:56 PM] Faerie: Razmik glares. Religion?
[9:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Like an imp, sorta, yeah.
[9:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go ahead, Razmik.
[9:56 PM] Faerie: roll 1d20+2
[9:56 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+2]: 19, Result: 21
[9:56 PM] Bot Fodder: (A little devil)
[9:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot sniffles. "I thought I smelled something - it stank of bitches."
[9:56 PM] Bot Fodder: John looks at Tot, hoping for insight.(edited)
[9:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It's a succubus!
[9:57 PM] Faerie: (>bitches
TOT PLEASE THIS IS A PROGRESSIVE AND FEMINISM FRIENDLY SPACE)
[9:57 PM] Faerie: Razmik sniffs. He's... not overly sure what bitches stench like, so technically he's unable to refute the imp's claim.
[9:57 PM] Mizuki: (I bet she wouldn't be able to use the unicorn's horn!)

[9:57 PM] Eon: (wew mizu)
[9:57 PM] Faerie: How, big, shall we say, is this evil? Divine Sense.
[9:58 PM] Runic: (Kek, that's a pretty damn safe bet)
[9:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Uh. She's medium-sized, and a clear succubus.
[9:58 PM] Bot Fodder: (Funfact: Succubi don't technically need to have sex to feed of mortals! In DnD, anyway.)
[9:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... The female elf on the ground radiates evil as well, not quite a fiend, but...
[9:58 PM] Bot Fodder: (But most do anyway because it's easiest.)
[9:58 PM] Eon: "...... Hi." Esker finally breaks the silence.
[9:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It seems that she and the succubus is bounded by a Pact.
[9:58 PM] Faerie: How bad was the stench? Or how bad Razmik's arm pricked, or what have you.
[9:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It's a Warlock, of Fiend Pact.
[9:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm? YOU don't smell anything.
[9:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It's Tot that's complaining.
[9:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "..." The succubus glance at the party, uneasy for a moment.
[9:59 PM] Faerie: ''Anyways!'', Razmik raises his arms. Looks like... something. It sure looked like something.
[9:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The myconid sovereign seems confused.
[9:59 PM] Mizuki: "What happened here?" - Asked Alicia
[9:59 PM] Faerie: Razmik looms closer. ''What happened, here? Will she be alright?'', taking a seat to look at the elf.
[9:59 PM] Bot Fodder: "Hail, adventurers," John says with a smile.
[10:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The elf's eyes open, as she groans, "Wait, Fei, stand down... Uh."
[10:00 PM] Bot Fodder: (Elf as in a surface elf?)
[10:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The elf's head shakes, as the succubus shrugs, shifting behind the warlock.
[10:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She seems to be a High Elf, a commonly seen elf.
[10:00 PM] Eon: ... Esker glances at the elf, how badly wounded was she?
[10:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Dusting herself a bit, she coughs, obviously unwell. "... You are adventurers, as well?"
[10:01 PM] Faerie: (It's strange that ''High'' Elves are the common kind of Elf...)
[10:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She's... Not wounded from what it appears like, but does seem to be suffering from a level of fatigue, and possibly damage to her psyche?
[10:02 PM] Bot Fodder: "We are!" John takes a moment to answer. In spite of all that's happened, it's still so strange to think of himself as such.
[10:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Not insanity, mind you - merely mental fatigue from, say, suffering a mind blast.
[10:02 PM] Faerie: ''Not quite, no. We travel.'', Razmik corrects. He clearly doesn't understand the implied meaning behind the word ''adventurer''.
[10:02 PM] Mizuki: "How did you end up here?" - Asked Alicia. She wondered if she knew her friends were probably dead.(edited)
[10:03 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Doesn't matter - good enough as any." She dusts herself off. "Adventurers, will you hear out my plight and lend me your aid?"
[10:03 PM] Bot Fodder: (How can people from Faerun not know what 'adventurer' implies? :smugpopo: )
[10:03 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Oh, should I have started from the beginning?"
[10:03 PM] Faerie: Razmik looks at John. He thought John was a guard!
Before turning back to the woman. ''Hey, do you feel well?''
[10:03 PM] Runic: "Uhmmm" Lexon let's out, taken back by the sudden request
[10:03 PM] Runic: "I guess, don't see what's the harm in listening" he mutters
[10:04 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She smirks, lifting a tome to her hand, and displays an arcane symbol. "I am Nirvain, the Pact Holder of Fell here." She points behind her, to the succubus.
[10:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain gives a curtsy, lifting the corner of her robe. "Pleasure to meet you, fellow adventurers."
[10:05 PM] Eon: A succubus was an.. interesting choice, Esker thinks.
[10:05 PM] Bot Fodder: John nods slowly, all of this seeming strangely familiar to him. If he's an adventurer, then next he should say... "What's the reward? Ah, no, wait, I skipped a step."
[10:05 PM] Faerie: Razmik thinks to himself, a light going on in his mind. ''Pact holder? A succubus?''
[10:05 PM] Faerie: He thinks back to Shadow, stuck with 'ol Tot the Doomwing.
[10:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain chuckles.
[10:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "The reward? Let's see... How about a Spelljammer?"
[10:06 PM] Bot Fodder: John shakes his head. "Uh, I'm John, of the Armsdale Watch." He salutes the elf and her companion.
[10:06 PM] Faerie: (Dude.)

[10:06 PM] Bot Fodder: "Spelljammer?" A thing that jams spells...?
[10:06 PM] Eon: "Spell.. what?" Was that an anti-magic tool or something Kappa
[10:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "A craft capable of tranversing dimensions!" She corrects the party.
[10:07 PM] Eon: Esker thinks back to what they found back at the library..
[10:07 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Sighing, she holds out a hand to her forehead, suffering from migrain still. "First, if you have some healing capabilities, I wouldn't say no to them..."
[10:07 PM] Faerie: ''Right'', Razmik raises his hand, outstretched palm in greeting. ''Awakened of Lathander, at your service'', he recites.
[10:08 PM] Faerie: ''Still, I don't believe I heard that right.''
[10:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain takes the hand and shakes it firmly.
[10:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Normally, we'd be enemies, but here's some strange circumstance." She says, winking at Razmik.
[10:08 PM] Bot Fodder: John pauses for a moment, staring at the elf a little harder than he means to. Is this woman High Elf... or the kind of Elf that Recelle is? Not that John can really tell, himself...
[10:08 PM] Mizuki: (how does exactly a spelljammer works?)
[10:09 PM] Eon: "Still, what use would we have for a.. Spelljammer?"
[10:09 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (A spellcaster takes the helm, which can be a literal helm - while rest can man stations or just be transported)
[10:09 PM] Faerie: Razmik'll keep her hand in his. ''Says you, heh. Not my style to assume of people'', he chuckles.
[10:09 PM] Bot Fodder: ( Magic Rocketship Piloting 101)
[10:09 PM] Runic: "Well, my name is Lexon Cottswell" he introduces, not sure what else to say due to a lack of a title
[10:09 PM] Faerie: How pained did she look? Her gaze, mostly. Tired? That kind of thing.
[10:10 PM] Faerie: Psychic abilities and the damage they could bring unto people were a bit hard to gauge, Razmik knew well.
[10:10 PM] Mizuki: (hold up)
[10:10 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain shrugs. "How about this - you save my companions, and we'll give you a share of the communal fund we have back in Shadowvale."
[10:10 PM] Mizuki: (a spelljammer is a fucking spaceship?)
[10:10 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Yeah.)
[10:10 PM] Eon: (yes.)
[10:10 PM] Mizuki: (holy fug)
[10:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... The spelljammer's our goal, but well. That can be discussed if you save our leader first."
[10:11 PM] Eon: (we can go on a space adventure and crash into the eldritch thing that eats moons :smugpopo: )
[10:11 PM] Faerie: (It's a fucking space-traveling spaceship. Clearly, what we do now is tell the dream demon to fuck off and go to Sigil!)

[10:12 PM] Bot Fodder: "Ah! There are more of you? Then let's hurry!" John says, despite having no ability to heal.
[10:12 PM] Eon: (I'm thinking Healstick won't do much to solve headaches, Fae ;-;)
[10:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hold on." Fell pulls Nirvain back. "You are too friendly to those strangers, Nir." She chides, looking at the party with a level of enmity still.
[10:12 PM] Mizuki: "Were you on the fight against those mindflayers and beasts to the east?" - She asked
[10:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hm? It's fine, it's fine~ Enemies of my enemy is my friends, as they always say."
[10:12 PM] Faerie: ''Crap.'', you hear Razmik mutter in his mind. ''Awakened? That was last week, you should have introduced yourself as a Dawnbringer...'' ...and promptly make a fool out of himself for forgetting his title.
[10:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Mind flayers... Yeah."
[10:13 PM] Eon: Esker nods. Exactly!
[10:13 PM] Bot Fodder: (Uhhh... technically it will, since it's still just HP damage. But the psychic damage type rules are fucking weird, so don't overthink it...)(edited)
[10:13 PM] Faerie: Anyways, yeah...
[10:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain nods, confirming, "Our party encountered some mind flayers, while trying to investigate the rumor of a forgotten Spelljammer in the area."
[10:13 PM] Faerie: 10 from LoH. She's left her guard down, as Razmik is still grasping it!
[10:13 PM] Eon: (fug. I should have taken Locate Object.)
[10:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: >38/78
[10:14 PM] Mizuki: "Do you remember exactly what happened?"
[10:14 PM] Eon: (78? :surprisedpopo: )
[10:14 PM] Faerie: (>78
Do these look like PC health levels to you? Geez)
[10:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She seem fine, and ... Pulls you close, Razmik, giving you a hug around your shoulder and a peck on the cheek. "Thanks, Razmik."
[10:14 PM] Faerie: (I mean, I've got 85 and so does John, but)
[10:14 PM] Eon: (oh snap.)
[10:14 PM] Mizuki: Alicia seems a bit displeased, but hides her thoughts.
[10:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Grinning, she takes a step back from Razmik, before continuing on, "Anyways... I don't have the right to offer much, but if they are dead, then there's moot point in keeping our fund going."
[10:15 PM] Eon: Bold, Esker thinks.
[10:15 PM] Bot Fodder: (Wut? I have way less than 85.)
[10:15 PM] Mizuki: "Slut."(edited)
[10:15 PM] Faerie: She actually called his name? She's not being condescending, or anything? Wow, okay. ''You're welcome, it's nothing!'', he offers
[10:15 PM] Faerie: (Oh geez)
[10:15 PM] Faerie: (Uh, 11 from THP and +5 to your HP total from Aid for 8 hours)
[10:15 PM] Eon: Was this prescriptive or descriptive of the Succubus Pact? :thinking:
[10:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... If you recover my companion, then, five thousand gold pieces." Nirvain offers, "And the spelljammer detail we can sort it out - you'll be rewarded at least ten thousand more gold pieces afterwrad if you would leave it to us."
[10:16 PM] Eon: Oh well, it was a moot point. Esker walks over and pokes the warlock with Healstick.
[10:16 PM] Eon: roll 1d8+5
[10:16 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8+5]: 1, Result: 6
[10:17 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain smiles, thanking Esker.

[10:17 PM] Faerie: ''Well...'', Razmik scratches his head. ''I'm sure that can be sorted out later.'' Reward? Who asked for that?
''If you could tell us what needs doing, and who these people needing our help are...'' he lets out a low sigh.
Took all kind, huh? Shadow and Tot evoked a very different kind of image.(edited)
[10:18 PM] Bot Fodder: "Oh, never mind that." John waves his hand. "I was just trying to think of what an adventurer would normally say! We can talk after everyone's safe and healthy."
[10:18 PM] Eon: "Up to 15 000 gold pieces? Are you guys queens or something?" Esker was kind of.. aghast at that amount of money.(edited)
[10:19 PM] Mizuki: Alicia thinks for a moment. She's a bit distrustful, that's a lot of money. She's also being so nice to everyone... What was the point of that kiss anyway?!
[10:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "A former contract, then?" Nirvain shrugs, "Or.. .I guess you are the type that would do Good for the sake of Good? That's concerning, but works for me. Regardless, that's as much as I'll promise -
Break into the mind flayer hive and save my companions with me, before they are used by the mind flayers to make their own kind. Then we can look for the Spelljammer together, if you wish."
[10:19 PM] Eon: Esker did a double take.
[10:19 PM] Eon: "You want to invade the mind flayers?"
[10:20 PM] Mizuki: She shakes her head and listens carefully, to the warlock's words. Is she hiding something?(edited)
[10:20 PM] Bot Fodder: (Alica a qt)
[10:20 PM] Eon: Now she was suspicious, was she telling the truth?
[10:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Why else would I pay you 15 000 gold pieces for?" The warlock glances at Esker, smiling.
[10:20 PM] Faerie: (:sadpopo:)
[10:20 PM] Mizuki: insight, with Azura
[10:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go ahead, Alicia.
[10:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Azura however, offers you no Help action, merely observing quietly!
[10:20 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20
[10:20 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 18, Result: 18
[10:20 PM] Eon: (can I get insight too ;-;)
[10:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She... Seems genuine.
[10:21 PM] Faerie: ''That's... suicide, surely.'' Razmik looks at her, thinking the worst.
[10:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Being at a weakened state, the warlock doesn't seem to have much choice - she'd likely prefer some other adventurers that she can trust, but you are all she's got.
[10:21 PM] Faerie: It could be that, it could very possibly be that... and yet...
''These people must mean a lot to you, huh?''
[10:21 PM] Bot Fodder: John waves his arms. "Guys? Injured people in need of help, here. Can we worry about gold later? I can bind a wound, but sure don't know any healing spells."(edited)
[10:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain thinks for a moment.
[10:22 PM] Mizuki: Alicia sighs. - "I don't think we can just go and enter a mindflayer hive. Any plans?"
[10:22 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Not really, but there's bigger issue at stake here." Nirvain nods, "The leader of the party, Augus of Might - you might've heard of him? He's a half-giant. Half frost giant, actually,"(edited)
[10:23 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "And one of the few next in line for the giant's Ordning and for the Frost Giant's throne, so..."
[10:23 PM] Eon: (... how does giant and humanoid breeding even work..)
[10:23 PM] Runic: Lexon looks at his party, confused
[10:23 PM] Bot Fodder: "Oh, we met some on the surface the other day! They seemed like nice folks." John says this without a shred of irony.
[10:23 PM] Bot Fodder: ... They weren't at all like those Hill Giant jerkwards.(edited)
[10:24 PM] Faerie: No, Razmik knew how it was! People you'd trust with your every possession, people you would stake limb, life and soul for! He could relate deeply to the W- Wait, what? 'No?' Did she really say 'no'?, he thinks to himself.(edited)
[10:24 PM] Faerie: He might have... misjudged. You might or might not have heard his reasoning due to the spores. Razmik clears his throat.
[10:25 PM] Eon: "Then, surely, we should get allies before we march into a mind flayer hive. If he is who you say he is.. We could get frost giant allies, maybe?"
[10:25 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Side mission: Recover the following persons alive.
- Augus of Might (Half Frost Giant, Paladin of Conquest)
- Elerith, Kngiht (Human, Warlock/Fighter)
- Vel the Blessed (Tiefling Sorcerer)
- Unnamed Drow Enchanter (I ran out of time)(edited)
[10:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Time limit: Unknown.
[10:26 PM] Bot Fodder: (Pfffft)
[10:26 PM] Faerie: (I ran out of time best girl, come at me heathens)
[10:26 PM] Mizuki: (>I ran out of time)
[10:26 PM] Eon: ... Esker remembers how the last interaction with frost giants went. She would rather not play charades again..
[10:26 PM] Eon: (Iranoutoftime is a valid name right :smugpopo: )
[10:26 PM] Faerie: (Feelio when I can't put another 'w')
[10:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Eon is supposed to run today)
[10:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (So that's Eon's fault.jpg)

[10:27 PM] Eon: (it's not like I want to be sick ;-;)
[10:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (it's not like I want to run out of time either)
[10:27 PM] Bot Fodder: (Ir'Anout Oftim'e)
[10:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( :smugpopo: )
[10:27 PM] Mizuki: (EON STOP GETTING SICK)
[10:27 PM] Eon: (like I'm already fucking up as a player pretty badly ;-;)

[10:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, what will you do, adventurers?
[10:28 PM] Eon: (frost giant allies? maybe?)
[10:28 PM] Mizuki: (I asked her about a plan up there)
[10:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You don't have much time to consider - It's likely Nirvain will do so herself if you are unable to help her.
[10:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain shrugs, "I don't have a plan - that's an issue in itself."
[10:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... If you have one, I'd be all ears. Elsewise, I was going to do the whole going in and set fire on everything tactic."
[10:29 PM] Faerie: Razmik stops her ''Now, hold that pretty thought for a second, lady.''
[10:29 PM] Eon: Was that really a tactic? Esker muses.
[10:29 PM] Faerie: ''You are trying to say, you'll attempt to do this no matter what, regardless? Even if alone?''
[10:29 PM] Bot Fodder: John frowns. "Hm... I'm sorry to ask this, but why are they keeping your friends alive? We'll need to know whether we're dealing with hostages or not."
[10:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Pretty?" Nirvain chuckles, "No no, that'd be your girlfriend there. And yeah, well - I am contract bound to keep Augus alive."
[10:30 PM] Faerie: (I think that's just how mind flayer turning procedures work)
[10:30 PM] Eon: "Alright. Let's do this slow. Do you at least know where the hive is?"
[10:30 PM] Eon: (>girlfriend)
[10:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: She opens her robe, revealing a rune scribed in blood on just beneath her neck. It throbs once in a while omniously.
[10:30 PM] Faerie: ''Girlfriend?'' Literally who?
[10:31 PM] Faerie: Razmik's eyebrows arch. ''What's that? It can't be safe.''
[10:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Geas of the Frost Giants - to protect Augus with my life. Literally, in this case." She shrugs, "I die if I don't help out. Mind you, I like Augus, but I wouldn't exactly die for him, or much of anyone else, on a suicide mission."
[10:31 PM] Bot Fodder: John looks over at Tot. "We might need backup. Can you go get Shadow? Recelle too, if she thinks her patient will be all right."
[10:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I understand if you aren't willing to help out - I admit it, it's prettttty suicidal."
[10:31 PM] Mizuki: Alicia looks to the floor, nowhere in particular. What was that girl thinking? She doesn't like this!
[10:32 PM] Eon: (does she know where to go ;-;)
[10:32 PM] Eon: (or is it fumbling in the underdark 2.0 again)

[10:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The hive...
[10:32 PM] Eon: "I could just dispel that. You know." Esker offers.
[10:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I can sense Augus's direction, so."
[10:32 PM] Eon: "Attempt to, anyway."
[10:32 PM] Bot Fodder: (>Dispell Geas)
[10:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Oh, you could? Unfortunately, that'd cause it to explode, causing a rather gory messy for me." Nirvain chuckles.
[10:33 PM] Eon: (Why not?)
[10:33 PM] Faerie: (Ayyy)
[10:33 PM] Bot Fodder: (Because it's too high level?)
[10:33 PM] Eon: (you have to roll, but you can try)
[10:33 PM] Faerie: Hmm...
[10:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain fixs her robe instead, covering her rune contract before anyone has a chance to mess with it.
[10:34 PM] Bot Fodder: (Also because attempting to cast that on GM Plot Device: The Spell is meta-inadvisable.)
[10:34 PM] Faerie: Razmik looks at the rune. Truth be told, it doesn't look too high for his current clearance level.

[10:34 PM] Eon: (of course. plot magic)(edited)
[10:34 PM] Faerie: Shame, that - he'd be able to get rid of it had they meet in a few more days.
[10:35 PM] Bot Fodder: (ASDF this is the worst time, but I have to go shower. :sadpopo: )
[10:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Ahaha, see you in a bit)
[10:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (People drag their feet a lot so you should be ok)
[10:35 PM] Eon: "... What do you think, guys?" Esker turns to the party. To say she was hesitant was.. an understatement.
[10:35 PM] Bot Fodder: (Will hurry. Sorry!)
[10:35 PM] Mizuki: (See you!)
[10:35 PM] Faerie: ''So that rules dispelling the Geas out.'', he unhelpfully reminds.

[10:35 PM] Bot Fodder: (PS John will insist on helping regardless, of course.)
[10:35 PM] Faerie: ''Anyone know how long it takes for mindflayers to be born?''
[10:35 PM] Eon: The less they deal with brain eating aberrations the better.
[10:36 PM] Runic: "Can't say I do Razmik"
[10:36 PM] Mizuki: (Can Alicia filter her thoughts to show them only to the party?)
[10:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain's statblock is that of Warlock of the Archfey from Volo's Guide, with replacement features to work as a Fiend pact.
[10:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You can telepathic toward only certain targets)
[10:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain shrugs, stepping back a little. "I'll let you folks decide - discuss it amongst yourselves."
[10:37 PM] Faerie: (Well, considering Remove Curse and Greater Restoration can remove Geas, I don't think a rock'd fall if we did have those available. Anyways.)
[10:37 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain retreats for the time being, leaving you to your discussion in private. Fel throws a glance at the party for a moment, before fading back.
[10:37 PM] Faerie: (Just wondering, but what does killing someone under Geas and then bringing them back do to the Geas?)
[10:37 PM] Eon: In the mean, Esker will hit up the myconid sovernign.
[10:37 PM] Faerie: (>Fel
L-like the dabus?)
[10:38 PM] Eon: And ask about those medicinal mushrooms.
[10:38 PM] Mizuki: "She's desperate." - Started Alicia - "I hate to say this, but going inside a mindflayer hive without a plan is suicide."
[10:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Mind Flayers take about... around a day or so, depending, is the time you have?
[10:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roughly... 1d24+12 hours or so.
[10:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: :smugpopo:
[10:39 PM] Eon: (... from memory..)
[10:39 PM] Eon: (you rolled a 30?)
[10:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The myconid sovereign muses for a moment, before producing some nutritious mushrooms.
[10:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: When fed to the dragon, it'll greatly reduce her exhaustion level (by 3) immediately.

[10:40 PM] Faerie: A lightbulb gets turned on above Razmik's head, where Tot would be! ''...and that's where you come in, right? Alicia?''
[10:40 PM] Faerie: Surely, evidently, she only mentions the lack of plan because she had come up with one herself!
[10:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ah, normal humanoids would take poison damage instead, so.
[10:40 PM] Eon: "Thank you very much." Esker nods. Mushrooms were so useful. Poison, food, medicine, hallu- wait scratch the last one.

[10:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot stares at the dense paladin beneath him.
[10:41 PM] Eon: "... Honestly. If we were to actually invade the hive.."
[10:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hey, fam, you want me to relay message back to Shadow and Recelle, just say the word." Tot says, scratching Razmik's head a little.
[10:41 PM] Eon: "I doubt plain old Pass without Trace and invisibility will work."
[10:41 PM] Mizuki: "It's not that easy!" - She replied - "Also... Keep our base in secret for now."

[10:41 PM] Faerie: ''...You know, I'm starting to see why those in charge tend to be older. It's not like age necessarily makes someone wiser, but having lived longer tends to do that to people either way and...''
[10:42 PM] Eon: "That said, we don't have to murder every mind flayer in our way."
[10:42 PM] Faerie: Razmik's not making so much sense, convinced Alicia's already cooked something up.
[10:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot bites Razmik for getting off-track with his thoughts!
[10:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It's ineffective!

[10:42 PM] Faerie: Hm? Did Tot want to play? ''Regardless, what's the plan, then?''
[10:43 PM] Eon: "Not like we know the layout of the hive or exactly where they are kept so.. Getting in and out quickly is.. a bad idea, likely."
[10:43 PM] Mizuki: "There is no plan!" - She said frustrated.
[10:43 PM] Eon: "We could always ask Miliekki."
[10:43 PM] Faerie: Raz (finally) taps at Tot's paw a few times. ''That sounds useful, yeah. If you could at the very least tell them what's going on, I'd be grateful.''
[10:44 PM] Eon: But err, she doubted the goddess would know much about invading mind flayer hives.
[10:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Aye aye, captain dandruff."
[10:44 PM] Mizuki: (she probably would!)
[10:44 PM] Eon: (it's not like I can ask her for a map of the hive)
[10:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot relays message to the two at the base.

[10:45 PM] Mizuki: "Sounds like a good way to start." - Said Alicia turning to Esker.
[10:45 PM] Faerie: As for locations... Nirvain, the Warlock, had mentioned knowing where Augus was.
[10:45 PM] Eon: (it's more like she knows the direction, but not the actual path, right?)
[10:45 PM] Eon: (like a compass)
[10:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Like that, yeah)
[10:46 PM] Faerie: That likely had to do with the contract binding her in the half-giant's service, Razmik thought. At any rate, it sounded more reliable than a plain old Locate spell.
[10:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (btw, their party is a CC-heavy team, mostly with a bunch of folks able to cast Tasha's and Hold Person's, so they slaughtered the Quaggoths really easily.)
[10:46 PM] Eon: Esker sits down. If she were to Divination.. Phrasing, phrasing.
[10:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Like 3 casters capable of CC, and two melee DPS.)
[10:46 PM] Eon: (Did you actually goldfish the fight)(edited)
[10:47 PM] Faerie: ''Then we should do something in the way of intel, agreed.''
[10:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It went like "hold person x 3" "charm" "SMITE" "EB pull rapier autocrit")
[10:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (and then "lol mind blasts")
[10:47 PM] Faerie: (>hold personing a quaggoth)

[10:48 PM] Faerie: ''How about'', Razmik will suggest to Esker
[10:49 PM] Faerie: ''Since this will already be difficult to pull off, how about we skip the first obvious question we'd want to make?''
[10:49 PM] Eon: "Mm? What do you suggest we ask, then?"

[10:49 PM] Faerie: Tapping his foot on the ground, he adds. ''No use in asking if going's a good idea, when it's clearly not.''
[10:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Well, I am 100% opposed to helping out a skank." Tot voices his opinion, "Succubi are assholes, ok?"
[10:50 PM] Faerie: He'd vote for anything that'd help the group navigate the lair/maze/whatever it is mind flayers use.
[10:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot seems to have personal vendetta toward succubi.
[10:50 PM] Eon: (let me read up on divination.)

[10:51 PM] Faerie: Razmik looks upwards, glancing at Tot only very slightly. ''Did you get swindled by one, or somesuch?''
[10:51 PM] Eon: (mm, we have to ask for a goal, event, or activity.)
[10:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "One moment is like, hey boy wanna have a good time, the next it's like, into the dumpster after getting robbed." Tot grumbles. "Yeah, basically!"
[10:51 PM] Mizuki: (could we ask for a map of the hive?)(edited)
[10:52 PM] Eon: (What is the shortest and safest path to where Augus is going to undergo ceremorphosis?)
[10:52 PM] Faerie: (Whatever it is, it should start with something like ''provided we take Nirvain up on her offer and aid her...'', since the spell explicitly mentions not taking into account the loss or gain of companions)(edited)
[10:52 PM] Eon: (mmm.)
[10:53 PM] Eon: (let me go make a sandwich or two, can't divine on an empty stomach)
[10:53 PM] Mizuki: (p l s)
[10:53 PM] Faerie: Razmik wonders precisely what an Imp would have on him, worth stealing... Wasn't Tot basically a cat with wings, back in the lower planes?
[10:53 PM] Mizuki: (wanna discuss this ooc on the lobby?)
[10:54 PM] Faerie: (OR WE COULD MESS WITH TOT)
[10:55 PM] Faerie: (Anyways, is anyone not wanting to go and get this done? I could see why not; it sounds incredibly ''you're fucked with no good plan'' tier)
[10:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: If you contact Nirvain and ask about what she can do, she might help you factor a few things into the design.
[10:56 PM] Mizuki: "Your fault for trusting someone like that"  - Alicia nodded towards Tot - "Yeah."
[10:56 PM] Runic: (Yeah should probably ask what her and her succubus's abilities are)
[10:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Never trust those bitches!" Tot proclaims.
[10:57 PM] Eon: Esker glances at Tot's.. dimunitive form. "How do you even.."
[10:57 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot glances at Esker. And sneers, with a superior look on the cat's face.
[10:58 PM] Eon: "Nirvain, was it? Before we decide whether or not to help you, what are you capable of?" Esker turns to the warlock.
[10:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Between the two of us," Nirvain motions to Fel, "We can conjure up ethereal transportation. You are not gonna like this, Razmik, but it'll be two Nightmares. Hope you aren't too... Offended about fiends?" She shrugs, "Each can carry three, but Fel can carry me with her, so ... I can take care of six, in term of transportation via Ethereal. It'll be much easier than Material Plane. Our primary encounters would be only the mind flayers, and we ignore the worst of it. Unfotunately, getting out of there after we get in is another issue."
[11:00 PM] Bot Fodder: (Back!)
[11:00 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I am capable of some illusion magics, and... Oh, I guess I can dimension door and the like."(edited)
[11:00 PM] Eon: "Teleportation is useful." Esker nods. Her skillset would come in handy!
[11:01 PM] Faerie: Razmik listens, his ears peeled. Wondering...
[11:01 PM] Bot Fodder: (Huh. This is fun. "How does the party react to an evil ally?")
[11:01 PM] Faerie: She meant Nightmares, didn't she? Razmik was superficially familiar.
[11:01 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Uh, yeah.
[11:01 PM] Eon: (do you know how they are made? :smugpopo: )
[11:01 PM] Faerie: (I'd rather not know)(edited)

[11:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "..." She ponders for a moment, recalling her allies's abilities.
[11:02 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "The tiefling can turn some of you invisible, so can Idun - that's the drow."
[11:03 PM] Eon: Esker glances at John and Razmik, those two would probably want to help the warlock. Alicia was.. hesitant, like her. And Lexon..
[11:04 PM] Faerie: ''You ought to know better than to consort with hellspawn like that-'' Between Esker's back and forth with Nirvain, Razmik sternly lectures... if you can call it that? It does come off as a bit condescending, in a childlike 'I-told-you-so' way. ''Why would you agree to such things so quickly?'' He sounds legitimately concerned about the familiar imp's well-being, at any rate. ''Or is the prospect of true love too alien for your kin?'' Even if his words come off as harsh.(edited)
[11:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Evil or good aside, our goals align." Azura speaks, to the party, now that they are under rapport. "The mind flayers are both party's issues."
[11:05 PM] Bot Fodder: John looks between the woman and her familiar. "But... can she really carry you? Her arms look pretty thin," he says, nodding apologetically to the succubus. "No offense, ma'am."
[11:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot shrugs. "What is love?"
[11:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more)
[11:05 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Fel stares at John for a moment. "... I believe I'll do just fine holding my mistress here, thank you."
[11:06 PM] Eon: Esker gave an exagerrated sigh. And sat down, grabbing some incense from one of her many pouches and sprinkling it in a circle.
[11:06 PM] Eon: Stupid heroics -you can hear her mutter over the rapport.(edited)
[11:06 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "But yeah, love is dead." Tot complains, moping at the fact that the group seems inclined to help out the warlock.
[11:06 PM] Faerie: Razmik beats his chest, not a hint of jest in his face. ''Maybe one day you'll know.''

[11:06 PM] Bot Fodder: "Hm. Well, all right then!" John replies cheerfully, evidently relieved. If she says she's strong, he won't question it!
[11:06 PM] Eon: Ritual cast Divination.
[11:07 PM] Bot Fodder: (Do we have time for rituals...?)
[11:07 PM] Eon: (I mean, 10 minutes, we have 30 hours)
[11:07 PM] Faerie: (Probably, since Nirvain already gave us some time)
[11:07 PM] Eon: (better than using a spellslot)
[11:07 PM] Bot Fodder: (True.)
[11:07 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "If you are willing to help, I'll prepare my ritual as well to summon the nightmares."
[11:08 PM] Eon: "Assuming we bring Nirvain with us, what is the shortest and safest route to where Augus and his party are being turned into illithids?" She finally asks.(edited)
[11:08 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[11:08 PM] Eon: (fuck typos in a divination)
[11:08 PM] Faerie: ''At any rate,'' Razmik warns over spore-network-communication ''I suggest we look into what these people's motivations are, after we make it back. Leaving them be could be dangerous.''

[11:10 PM] Bot Fodder: (Can't everyone hear whatever is said via spores?)
[11:10 PM] Faerie: (It's selective)
[11:11 PM] Faerie: (Alicia: ''Slut.'')
[11:11 PM] Bot Fodder: (pff)
[11:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Thta's a really hard question to ask and not much of a good answer)
[11:11 PM] Mizuki: "What about Recelle and Shadow?" - Asked Alicia via spores too, just to the party. - "Maybe Tot should go and tell them about this, if we're really going in."
[11:11 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (I'll give you a freebie question after.)
[11:11 PM] Bot Fodder: (Fel: "Virgin :^) ")
[11:11 PM] Eon: (you can always just say we now know the path ;-;)
[11:12 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The scent of a distant forest fills the area, a distinctly different smell from the musk of the mushrooms around you.
"The path is what thy feet makes of it,
the journey is where the road take ye.
The way within the nightmare is filled with peril,
Thy steps are best behoove upon thy strange friends."
[11:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... The answer seems obvious, perhaps because there really isn't much else that the gods themselves know of that you can do.
[11:13 PM] Faerie: Tot should already have told them of what's going on. Speaking of... ''anything from their side, Tot?''
[11:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... As an apology, you get to ask another question without charge.
[11:13 PM] Eon: ... that was philosophical. Esker muses.(edited)
[11:13 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle and Shadow... Uh.
[11:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle and Shadow's point of view is for you lots to get whatever mushroom it is that you have to the dragon, if possible, first.
[11:14 PM] Bot Fodder: "... Well, whether or not they're good people, they need help," John spores to the others. "And besides, they definitely know more about that... spelljammer... thing... than we do."
[11:14 PM] Eon: (The dragon might know something!)
[11:14 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle is in support of "busting some aliens", while Shadow's supporting the fact of "joining forces".
[11:14 PM] Bot Fodder: (The dragon won't be ready to talk within 30 hours.)
[11:15 PM] Eon: (we got super shrooms!)

[11:15 PM] Bot Fodder: (How super?)
[11:15 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (remove 3 levels of exhaustion type)
[11:16 PM] Faerie: Mielikki, or her servant's answer registered as ''good enough'' for Raz. All green on his end! If anything, thinking they could count with divine support reassured him greatly.(edited)
[11:16 PM] Bot Fodder: (Hm, that's pretty super...)
[11:16 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (So she'd have exhaustion 1 at the end of it)

[11:16 PM] Bot Fodder: (But the journey back takes a few hours, right?)
[11:16 PM] Eon: "... I guess we have to ask something else, then. Any ideas?"

[11:16 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (About two, normally.)
[11:16 PM] Bot Fodder: (So, 4 hours round trip. That's kind of pushing it.)
[11:17 PM] Eon: (I have a feeling the hive is in the same direction as the city.)
[11:17 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You can go back with Nirvain, so that'd be 2)
[11:17 PM] Faerie: ''Say... the alternative would be taking Nirvain back to our place. But that's... well.''
[11:17 PM] Bot Fodder: (Ah, true.)
[11:17 PM] Eon: "The dragon might know something." Esker concludes, standing up.
[11:18 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... With the sound of thunder, suddenly, the wall in dimension crack... And two Nightmares, dreadful abyssal steed, appears.
[11:18 PM] Bot Fodder: (S-should we vote? John thinks we should go right now.)
[11:18 PM] Faerie: Razmik's putting them neurones to use. ''We'd do well to be cautious, at any rate.''
[11:18 PM] KogasaGaSagasa:

[11:18 PM] Mizuki: (go without Recelle and Shadow?)
[11:18 PM] Bot Fodder: (Know something? The dragon's been in a coma since the world ended, and it's been imprisoned even longer.)(edited)
[11:18 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Special Note: Nirvain do not need to concentrate on the spell.
[11:18 PM] Eon: "Warlock, point the direction this Augus is at."
[11:18 PM] Faerie: (What spell is this?)
[11:18 PM] Eon: (Find Steed?)
[11:19 PM] Mizuki: (>fire resistance)
[11:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Conjure Fiend, a version of Conjure Celestial)
[11:19 PM] Faerie: (It's not Find Steed)
[11:19 PM] Mizuki: (but I already have that!)
[11:19 PM] Faerie: (It lasts one hour only, right?)
[11:19 PM] Bot Fodder: (Yeah, but your speed isn't 90 :smugpopo: )
[11:19 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Normally.)
[11:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Those ones last 24 hours.)
[11:20 PM] Eon: They could at least confirm if the mind flayer hive was in the direction of the city, anyway.
[11:20 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Because I lied, it's planar ally-esq effect :rainbowpopo: )
[11:20 PM] Faerie: (Yeah, I honestly think taking a dragon with us would... not end well for a lot of people. Including illithids, but the dragon's bound to go down)
[11:20 PM] Eon: (well, not taking it with us, but asking it for information.)
[11:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The Nightmares look around, snorting a little...
[11:21 PM] Bot Fodder: (We won't be taking the dragon, no. We were just gonna ask it needless questions. :smugpopo: )
[11:21 PM] Bot Fodder: John approaches one.
[11:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain pets them, feeding them bags of... gems.
[11:21 PM] Faerie: They make Razmik slightly uncomfortable. Why, if Interloper were here she ought to...
[11:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: While chewing on the gems, the Nightmare stares at John.
[11:21 PM] Mizuki: (I doubt the dragon would know anything about the illithid lair)
[11:21 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It snorts a gout of flame.
[11:21 PM] Eon: "You're really rich, huh."
[11:22 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hm? I've been around." Nirvain shrugs. "You don't look too shabby on your end - I recognize a few items of legend on your side."
[11:22 PM] Faerie: He'll keep his thoughts to himself, though. Hopefully there would be no outside horse-races to witness this day.
[11:22 PM] Eon: Esker stares at the fiendish horse. Well, she wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth!
[11:22 PM] Mizuki: (so, hold on, I don't really understand how it's going to be)
[11:23 PM] Faerie: (>been around
SURE YOU HAVE, SLUT LMAO)
[11:23 PM] Eon: (it would help if she told us the general direction ;-;)

[11:23 PM] Mizuki: (we mount the horses, go to the ethereal planes and kill mind flayers?)
[11:23 PM] Faerie: (The horsies are gonna planeshift us, somehow)
[11:23 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (The nightmares shift the party into Ethereal planes in batches of 6 per 2 rounds)
[11:23 PM] Mizuki: (mhmm)
[11:24 PM] Faerie: (Then we play Metal Gear Solid Plate Gear Ethereal and do things)
[11:24 PM] Eon: (Oh hang on, we can noclip in ethereal plane, can we?)
[11:24 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Riding in Ethereal avoids the worst of the mind flayer's minions - only mind flayers can plane shift, normally, unless they have some other device)
[11:24 PM] Faerie: Right, then. Razmik raises his hand.
[11:24 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not fully. Solid objects are problematic. There are a few rules about it.)
[11:24 PM] Bot Fodder: John thinks back. The fellow he got his armor from was riding one of these, right? "They're... supposed to be on fire, right? Just checking."
[11:25 PM] Eon: "If we are in a rush. Tot." Esker produces the medicinal mushrooms.
[11:25 PM] Faerie: He makes a question that might or might not be common knowledge to wizards and such. ''How does this plane of existence work? I'm not familiar.''
[11:25 PM] Faerie: The name ethereal made him think of, like, ghosts, or something. Was there anything in particular to watch out for?
[11:25 PM] KogasaGaSagasa:

[11:26 PM] Bot Fodder: (Dammit, Raz. Being ignorant was supposed to be John's thing. :sadpopo: )
[11:26 PM] Eon: "Bring these to Recelle and Shado, will you?"
[11:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "They are - they are basically fire horses. From hell." Nirvain explains to John.
[11:26 PM] Bot Fodder: (Muh character dynamics)
[11:26 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tot nods, "I can do that. I think."
[11:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain give a basic lesson on Ethereal,
[11:27 PM] Faerie: (>Paladin
>Arcana
They don't call people like us ''smelly, dumb, primey scum'' for no reason)
[11:27 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: and notify everyone to "not wander too far off the path when they are there".
[11:27 PM] Bot Fodder: "Hm. 'Kay." John says, nodding.
[11:27 PM] Eon: "... Lets go then. We have a time limit, after all." She was still hesitant, but oh well.
[11:27 PM] Faerie: (Anyways, yeah, that piece of text was exactly what I wanted :happpopo:)

[11:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: So here's what will happen next:
[11:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The next hour, Tot fetches Recelle and Shadow, giving them the mushroom and healing the dragon back up.
[11:28 PM] Eon: (we get turned into illithid thralls? :thinking:)(edited)
[11:28 PM] Faerie: (Yes, but wait, there's more!)
[11:28 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The party will enter ethereal and travel toward whichever places, including directly into the mind flayer's hive if that's what you wish.
[11:29 PM] Eon: (is fighting an elder brain how we tpk? :thinking: )
[11:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: If the party wishes to meet up, it'll take you under an hour or so.
[11:29 PM] Faerie: (This half-giant nigga better be like, CR999999 or something)
[11:29 PM] Mizuki: (we should meet up)
[11:29 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nah, CR 4 or so, as a level 9 adventurer)
[11:29 PM] Eon: (yeah, this isn't exactly a very clandestine mission.)
[11:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (The "other party" is on-par.)
[11:30 PM] Eon: (we need more dakka)
[11:30 PM] Faerie: (>on par
I DISPUTE THIS CLAIM roll to-hit.png)
[11:30 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright. It'll take you about two hours in total to meet up and be prepared fully.
[11:30 PM] Bot Fodder: (Also how did Razmik get 85 HP? :V )
[11:30 PM] Mizuki: (seems good, are we leaving the dragon alone)
[11:30 PM] Faerie: (Skill.)

[11:31 PM] Eon: (We have inspiration still, right?)
[11:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ethereal travel is safe, your primary worry is being stranded if the nightmares die.
[11:31 PM] Bot Fodder: (You have almost 20 more than me. :firepopo: )
[11:31 PM] Faerie: (But mostly, magic and the power of feats. John's up to 84)
[11:31 PM] Eon: (would be nice to remember that if we get mind blasted)
[11:31 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Or being kidnapped by mind flayers, I guess?

[11:31 PM] Bot Fodder: (Oh, you meant including the temp HP?)
[11:31 PM] Faerie: (Effective HP is efffective HP!)
[11:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (btw, while acting in large number like this with NPCs, you have drastically reduced EXP gain. pls understand)
[11:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's like playing in a 10 player party)
[11:32 PM] Mizuki: (ah ;-;)
[11:32 PM] Faerie: (Not like it matters :happypopo:)
[11:32 PM] Runic: (That is a-okay for me in this situation)
[11:32 PM] Bot Fodder: (Unless we're split up :thinking: )
[11:32 PM] Eon: (eh, we'll just wipe the whole hive to compensate right :smugpopo: )
[11:32 PM] Faerie: (MUH NARRATIVE)

[11:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright.
[11:32 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... After 2 hours, you've met up just outside of the drow city, in Ethereal Plane. Or Border Ethereal, to be more precise.
[11:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Everything is... strange and weird, blurred in a way, almost transparent, weightless.
[11:33 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow, Recelle, and... A silver dragon is with you, in Ethereal, brought to you by a Nightmare that played fetch with Tot.
[11:34 PM] Bot Fodder: (Wait how did that work)
[11:34 PM] Mizuki: Alicia sighs. She can't believe they're going on a suicide mission for someone they just met.
[11:34 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "This is a lot of people." Nirvain says, nervous. "It'll be fine, but we'll have to do two waves of engaging and the like."
[11:34 PM] Eon: Esker can't believe that too!
[11:34 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nightmare can shift back and forth with an action, bringing 0 - 3 creatures next to it.)
[11:34 PM] Faerie: Razmik's seen touching his own face and armor extensively, as if trying to get used to the sensation of... halfway not being there.
[11:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You feel absolutely... Ghostly, Razmik.
[11:35 PM] Bot Fodder: John finds it a lot easier to believe than the fact that they're riding flaming demon horses through spooky ghostland to fight aliens.
[11:35 PM] Eon: "It's not like we can just get in and out without confrontation. We should bring all the firepower we can get."
[11:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: In fact, you can probably touch and hit ghosts, considering ghost thrives in Ethereal Plane.
[11:35 PM] Bot Fodder: John misses his gate post, sometimes...
[11:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... The silver dragon bows her head, quiet and submissive toward the party.
[11:35 PM] Faerie: ''Seen weirder'', Razmik tells himself.
[11:35 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Uh, we brought her, is that ok?" Shadow says, still looking at Esker with a degree of mistrust.
[11:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Ah... I..." The dragon starts to speak, but quiets, seemingly timid.
[11:36 PM] Bot Fodder: (I guess I must've missed it while away, but did we send the shrooms to the dragon?)
[11:36 PM] Mizuki: "I'm not sure if that was a good idea..." - She started - "But yeah, lets all come back alive."
[11:36 PM] Eon: (we did!)
[11:36 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wyverns are with you now, as well, Alicia.
[11:36 PM] Faerie: ''Alright.'', Razmik says, rotating his shoulder blade. He'll get into the mindset. The mindset of someone about to probably-die to slavers.
[11:37 PM] Bot Fodder: (T-too many NPCs :sadpopo: )
[11:37 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Via Tot's Flying Very Fast transpotation)
[11:37 PM] Eon: "Yes. Alive. With brains intact." Esker glances at Raz, you didn't want to go through that again.

[11:37 PM] Mizuki: (Very Fast Tot Flying At Incredible High Speed)
[11:37 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The party... Guided by Nirvain, trek down toward the region that the mind flayers have control in...
[11:37 PM] Bot Fodder: (That's the spirit, Dawnbringer!)
[11:38 PM] Faerie: ''...Yes?'', Razmik turns to the dragon. ''Yss, was it? What is it?''
[11:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Due to being in Border Ethereal, you ignore the Lair effects of the Elder Brain.
[11:38 PM] Eon: (We don't know her name yet ;-;)
[11:38 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The dragon avoids looking into Razmik's eyes, timid.
[11:38 PM] Mizuki: (>we're actually killing the elder brain)
[11:38 PM] Eon: (LETS BEFRIEND IT)
[11:38 PM] Mizuki: (what the fuuck)
[11:39 PM] Faerie: (We -met up- already, arguably Tot would have given us her name since Shadow knew it already, at the very least)
[11:39 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I am Yss, uh... Thank you." She says, shrinking back a little.
[11:39 PM] Faerie: (>no lair effects
Wait WHAT)
[11:39 PM] Bot Fodder: John glances at the the dragon and cringes, seeming to realize something unpleasant. He doesn't care to share it with the rest of the party now.
[11:39 PM] Eon: (we're aren't on the poopy material plane anymore!)
[11:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The tunnels are the same as they were, though you have narrower vision if you stare at it... hard enough to pierce back toward the material realm. Otherwise, your vision on the ethereal plane is normal.
[11:40 PM] Faerie: Razmik pleads a little. ''I do hope you feel better, but please, if there's anything you feel we should hear - we're all ears.''
[11:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The nightmares radiate heat and light, providiing light equal to that of torch.
[11:40 PM] Faerie: It's all very weird, getting to walk (...float?) with a dragon, for once.
[11:40 PM] Bot Fodder: (Also important to know: What are ethereal things vulnerable to? Force, and possibly psychic. And what kinds of damage do psionics use most often? :firepopo: )
[11:40 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I... Don't really know what's going on," Yss goes on, "But if you need my help... I'll try my best."
[11:40 PM] Faerie: Instead of the usual.
[11:41 PM] Faerie: (Is that a thing in 5e?)

[11:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d100
[11:41 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d100]: 57, Result: 57
[11:41 PM] Eon: Esker was uncomfortable. A dragon was being.. submissive.
[11:41 PM] Mizuki: "I don't really know it either." - Complained Alicia turning to the dragon.
[11:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You traverse down tunnels, occasionally leaping through thinner walls...
[11:41 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Passing by strange tribes in the tunnel complex.
[11:41 PM] Bot Fodder: (... We're taking the sick dragon WITH us??)
[11:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Troglodytes, sahuagins, frog-like creatures, occasional duergers, quaggoth...
[11:42 PM] Eon: (it's only on exhaus 1 now!)
[11:42 PM] Bot Fodder: (Whose hairbrained plan was... bah, forget it. :T)
[11:42 PM] Faerie: Razmik muses. They could have explained, but all things considered... he apologizes instead. ''I hope we can make it up to you, somehow.''
[11:42 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: They seem to be in some sort of conflict, against each other, but all kept under the control of mind flayers.
[11:42 PM] Faerie: (Apparently! We Cawa Doody instead of Metal Gear now)
[11:42 PM] Mizuki: (we just saved it's fuggin life, Raz pls)
[11:43 PM] Faerie: (And then took it to a fucking mindflayer lair :smugpopo:)
[11:43 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: There's the occasional mind flayers, who are unable to notice you while you are in Ethereal...
[11:43 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d100
[11:43 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d100]: 29, Result: 29
[11:43 PM] Mizuki: (that's what friends are for!)
[11:43 PM] Faerie: Are there any signs that would point to all, or most of these strange tribes being under the illithids' control?

[11:44 PM] Faerie: Would it really be possible for them all to be no more than thralls? ...Or could the aboleth be involved too?
[11:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The occasional few mind flayers walking through them without being hampered, or being attacked by mind flayers without them striking back.
[11:44 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: It seems that they are in fear of the mind flayers, and has been bred to not assault them back.

[11:44 PM] Faerie: (Oh shite)
[11:44 PM] Faerie: (Guys, remember)
[11:44 PM] Eon: (not even thralls, just bred.)
[11:45 PM] Faerie: (Flesh cannot cut steel, but steel can cut flesh ♂)
[11:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The occasional few corpses, emptied of brain by the mind flayers, are quickly divided up by their foes.

[11:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Just then...
[11:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain pauses, frowning.
[11:45 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Incoming. There's a patrol of illithids."
[11:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Ethereal ones, what do you wish to do?"
[11:46 PM] Eon: "How many?"
[11:46 PM] Faerie: ''Ethereal?'', Razmik asks.
[11:46 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Four." Nirvain gauges.
[11:46 PM] Eon: "Fighting here would just alert the entire hive."
[11:46 PM] Mizuki: "What else can we do?" - Asked Alicia - "We put them down."
[11:46 PM] Faerie: How far away? There was no probable way of hiding in there, so...
[11:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Fel nods, eyeing Alicia with some interest. "..."
[11:47 PM] Eon: "Are there any other paths we can take?"
[11:47 PM] Bot Fodder: "... Ethereal patrols?" John rubs his chin. Say what you will about hiveminds, but they sure do have a thorough security detail...
[11:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: They are 120ft down the tunnel - but well.
[11:47 PM] Faerie: Hmm.
[11:47 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's the alert range for Nirvain.
[11:47 PM] Faerie: (Yo, what's the range on a dragon's breath?)

[11:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (30ft cone)
[11:48 PM] Bot Fodder: "Can they sense us or something while we're ethereal?" John asks quickly.
[11:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (fly speed of 80ft for reference - Yss is Large, so she's also a viable mount.)
[11:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Well, yeah - we can see them as they can see us, physically. As physical as it gets." Nirvain adds.
[11:48 PM] Faerie: (Shame we can't DDoor the dragon with Shadow, heh)
[11:48 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle frowns. "... Can I shoot them?"
[11:49 PM] Eon: (can we whack them?)
[11:49 PM] Mizuki: (Wait)
[11:49 PM] Eon: (we really should avoid a confrontation if possible)
[11:49 PM] Mizuki: (they can't see more than 30ft away, is that right?)
[11:49 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain shrugs. "I'd rather we jump them than not. If we finish them off quickly, we should be fine..."
[11:49 PM] Faerie: Razmik signals for Recelle to hold off just a bit. ''Feel free when we give the order, but for now...''
[11:49 PM] Faerie: (Can she be made to Ready?)
[11:49 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (They can see normally against Ethereal targets as they are also Ethereal)
[11:49 PM] Bot Fodder: "I meant, can they 'see' us without using their eyes?" the out-of-place guard explains. "I want to know if we can surprise them."
[11:49 PM] Mizuki: (that's how ethereal travelling works, right?)
[11:49 PM] Mizuki: (ah...)
[11:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (They can see 30ft into Material, which is what they are paying attention to)
[11:50 PM] Bot Fodder: (Ah, clever~)
[11:50 PM] Mizuki: (can they use telepathy after being stunned?)
[11:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle nods, pistols ready.

[11:50 PM] Mizuki: (to warn the other mindflayers)
[11:50 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: You aren't sure, Alicia.
[11:50 PM] Eon: ".. An alpha strike, then?"
[11:51 PM] Faerie: (So if they're paying attention to the material plane, are they still paying attention to the ethereal?)
[11:51 PM] Bot Fodder: "A what? Uh, sure...?" John says. He's fine with a normal strike, honestly.
[11:51 PM] Mizuki: (Alicia knows Yss has paralizing breath?)
[11:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Yss would've told you, yes.)
[11:51 PM] Mizuki: (cool)
[11:51 PM] Faerie: (How many people can Yss carry?)

[11:51 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (just 1.)
[11:52 PM] Mizuki: "I have a plan, it's probably our best bet." - Whispered Alicia to the others
[11:52 PM] Faerie: Razmik would ask John if he's ever heard of the Skyriders. Dragon, lance, Dragon lance...
[11:52 PM] Bot Fodder: (Boy, you guys sure did a great job fixing up your slave dragon and putting her right to work! :firepopo: )
[11:52 PM] Eon: "Is it blasting them out of existence?" Esker gives a wyrd smile.
[11:52 PM] Faerie: If only John could cast Jump.
[11:52 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I'll have the Nightmares off combat. If they die, we'd have no transportation." Nirvain whispers. "But I'll help where I can."
[11:53 PM] Mizuki: "Yss, you will paralyze them with your breath, and then we take care of the rest. Hopefully that will block their telepathy." - She said - "You're already here, so we're counting on you!"
[11:53 PM] Faerie: (Wait)
[11:53 PM] Bot Fodder: (You know why she's submissive, right? Dragons don't get like that unless you break them. For a LONG time. That's what John didn't want to bring up...)
[11:53 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yss looks down on the ethereal floor, nodding softly.
[11:54 PM] Faerie: (ahh, fuck. I don't have Thunderoust Smite prepared. We could have gone around a bit, hit the ground with that, and then have someone DDoor Razmik back to throw the illithids off)
[11:54 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle pets the dragon, encouraging her a little.
[11:54 PM] Faerie: (WHAT WAS THAT SOUND)
[11:54 PM] Mizuki: Alicia pets the dragon as well - "You can do it."
[11:54 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wyverns cries out, petting the silver dragon with their wings-hands-claws as well.
[11:54 PM] Mizuki: (what sound?)
[11:54 PM] Faerie: (John would know a thing or two about breaking dragons
And nothing, Mizu. *WHOSE FOOTPRINTS ARE THESE)(edited)
[11:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Like a whine?)

[11:55 PM] Bot Fodder: (I don't know what you're referring to. :smugpopo: )
[11:55 PM] Eon: Esker will prepare a Wall of Fire to trigger once Yss' breath goes.
[11:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, given engagement, initiative.
[11:55 PM] Eon: roll 1d20+3 init
[11:55 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 7, Result: 10
[11:55 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[11:55 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 20, Result: 20
[11:55 PM] Faerie: roll 2d20 take highest
[11:55 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 6,6, Result: 12
[11:55 PM] Eon: (did I get the prepare off? ;-;)
[11:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yep, Esker.
[11:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[11:56 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 13, Result: 14
[11:56 PM] Runic: roll 2d20+3 init with adv
[11:56 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20+3]: 14,8, Result: 25
[11:56 PM] Runic: 17
[11:56 PM] Mizuki: (they're far as fug, right?)
[11:56 PM] Faerie: (120 feet or so?)
[11:56 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (120ft or so)
[11:57 PM] Mizuki: (we should wait until they get closer, how's the tunnel? Is it a straight thing, or does it turn?)
[11:57 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (But the party can move up to 65ft before engaging without issues)
[11:57 PM] Faerie: (Yo, can you cast Expeditious Retreat on others? Or is it self only?)
[11:57 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's a straight tunnel!)
[11:57 PM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+3 anyway, my init
[11:57 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 6, Result: 9
[11:57 PM] Eon: (how wide is the tunnel, btw?)
[11:57 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Exp  retreat is self)
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Enough for 2 huge creatures to fly abreast)
[11:58 PM] Eon: (so 20 ft.)
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (So like, 40-60ft)

[11:58 PM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+1
[11:58 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 4, Result: 5
[11:58 PM] Eon: (wait. large is 15x15 ish, nvm.)
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[11:58 PM] Bot Fodder: (Isn't large 10x10?)
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow ponders for a moment.
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Huge.)
[11:58 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not Large.)
[11:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Also wing span.)
[11:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle takes this opportunity to take aim at the lead Mind Flayer...
[11:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[11:59 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 3, Result: 12
[11:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[11:59 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 16, Result: 25
[11:59 PM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d10+6
[11:59 PM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 5, Result: 11
June 10, 2017
[12:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... While Shadow casts Armor of Radiance, shrouding himself in a layer of bright, radiant feathers and wings.
[12:00 AM] Faerie: (I am the Voooid, and these wings Destruction!)
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yss... Charges up to 30ft, alerting the Mind Flayers of her sudden presence, and breaths down on them.
[12:01 AM] Mizuki: Alicia prepares a common firebolt. She better save her strenght for the worst of it later.
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: A cloud of gas engulfs the mind flayeres...
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[12:01 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 8, Result: 9
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[12:01 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 20, Result: 21
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[12:01 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 15, Result: 16
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[12:01 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 11, Result: 12
[12:01 AM] Mizuki: (oh nvm, I thought we had a round to prepare)
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Two of them stiffens.
[12:01 AM] Eon: and a Wall of Fire appears.
[12:01 AM] Eon: roll 5d8
[12:01 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [5d8]: 4,7,3,5,7, Result: 26
[12:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Firebolt is fine, Alicia.
[12:02 AM] Eon: (on top of them, naturally.)
[12:02 AM] Mizuki: (prepared it then)
[12:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 8d20
[12:02 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [8d20]: 13,7,10,19,8,17,20,3, Result: 97
[12:02 AM] Eon: (pointing behind them if they plan of retreating)
[12:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: They seem to be rather well-off considering, well, fire.
[12:02 AM] Eon: (paralysed folks auto fail dex saves, right?)
[12:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Yeah.)
[12:03 AM] Mizuki: (eh, I didn't specify when to cast it :sadpopo:)(edited)
[12:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain blasts one that's not paralyzed...
[12:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d20
[12:03 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d20]: 12,5,3, Result: 20
[12:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d10
[12:03 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d10]: 4,8, Result: 12
[12:03 AM] Faerie: ''Don't get too close,'' Razmik urges. ''Unless they can already hear us, having a dragon swoop in like this is bound to surprise anyone.''
[12:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Lexon, your turn.
[12:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The mind flayers are sunk into a state of confusion!
[12:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: They gibber amongst each other, being attacked suddenly.
[12:04 AM] Eon: "Well. There goes the element of surprise." Esker grumbles.
[12:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: [Bonus may occur if you finish the combat before the end of the combat turn.]
[12:04 AM] Bot Fodder: (... Are they too far for John to even engage? :sadpopo: )

[12:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (60ft is the distance right now.)
[12:05 AM] Mizuki: "Bring down the ones standing first!" - Alicia suggested.
[12:05 AM] Faerie: (120 feet, fam. I know, these combats are maximum fun for me as well)
[12:05 AM] Faerie: (Wait, did we all move forward?)
[12:05 AM] Eon: (go for the fireball fireball memes alicia :smugpopo: )
[12:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You advanced to 60ft to engage, so.
[12:05 AM] Mizuki: She will fire her spell with Lexon's attack, if that's okay.
[12:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Seems good, Alicia.
[12:06 AM] Faerie: (''Guys, let's walk into their mind blast range'' '''kay!''
I think we fucking blast them all to shit now.)
[12:06 AM] Faerie: (Does Dualcast work with if you Surge?)
[12:06 AM] Bot Fodder: John prepares a javelin, though he hopes Alicia's bombardment will render it unneeded.
[12:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Hm? Yeah, of course.)
[12:07 AM] Faerie: (HOLY SHIT)
[12:07 AM] Mizuki: (Alicia isn't planning to blast them too hard :sadpopo:)
[12:07 AM] Bot Fodder: (Fireball might be enough... the other mindflayers we've fought weren't all that sturdy.)
[12:08 AM] Eon: (DELETE THEM)
[12:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... In term of combat, noticing your need for speed, Nirvain points out that while she'd prefer to keep the Nightmares out of combat... You can mount them and ride them into combat if you need to. Anything to keep the rescue effort going is a good thing. But that's up to your judgment.
[12:08 AM] Faerie: (Be right back, dogs)
[12:08 AM] Eon: (who's turn is it, anyway?)
[12:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Lexon)

[12:08 AM] Runic: (Oh shit, so I can make the 60 ft without having to dash by riding them?)
[12:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Well, you are the only one that can dash far enough)
[12:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (But otherwise, yeah.)
[12:09 AM] Eon: (running alone into mindflayers ;-;)
[12:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Ideally, you should've declared mount before combat, but hey.)
[12:09 AM] Faerie: (Lexon can make the dash normally, anyway)
[12:10 AM] Runic: (Okay, okay, so there's two currently stunned, while two aren't right?)
[12:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (If you feel the need to be mounted on the Nightmare, declare so at the start of your turn that you are on a nightmare)
[12:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Two are paralyzed, two others are otherwise "fine".
[12:10 AM] Mizuki: (leave the horse to the others)
[12:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Their "retreat" is covered by Wall of Fire.
[12:10 AM] Runic: ( :sadpopo: )
[12:10 AM] Eon: (shanking the paralysed dudes is autocrit.)
[12:10 AM] Mizuki: (you can dash without an action, can't you?)
[12:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (... reminder that Cunning Action is a bonus action)
[12:11 AM] Runic: (I can use a bonus action yes, but I want to use my bonus action for punches)
[12:11 AM] Runic: (Bah, fine, I'll let the slowpokes take the horses!)
[12:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Razmik should've summoned his mount :smugpopo: )
[12:12 AM] Faerie: (Then it gets fucking eaten by nightmares ;_;)

[12:12 AM] Runic: Lexon dashes, moving 60 feet towards the mind flayers, Lexon throws a wild punch at one of the two that haven't been paralyzed
[12:12 AM] Runic: roll 1d20+6 hit
[12:12 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+6]: 17, Result: 23
[12:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Haven't? Alright.
[12:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's a hit.
[12:12 AM] Eon: (why wouldn't you take the autocrits ;-;)
[12:13 AM] Runic: roll 1d4+3
[12:13 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d4+3]: 1, Result: 4
[12:13 AM] Runic: Stunning Strike save DC 11 Wis
[12:13 AM] Mizuki: Alicia follows Lexon's strike with a firebolt!
[12:13 AM] Faerie: (>• A paralyzed creature is incapacitated (see the condition) and can't move or speak.
>Can't move or speak
That's actually better than Stunned. Huh.)
[12:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+6
[12:13 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+6]: 18, Result: 24
[12:13 AM] Eon: (ah. that's why. alright.)
[12:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The mind flayer frowns...
[12:13 AM] Faerie: (Because there's still the possibility of them not being able to communicate mentally while paralyzed)
[12:13 AM] Runic: End turn
[12:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... And enters a... Stance.
[12:14 AM] Eon: (oh fug.)
[12:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Esker, your turn.
[12:14 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7 to hit before Lexon ends the turn
[12:14 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 1, Result: 8
[12:14 AM] Eon: (wait, the next init is really 10?)

[12:14 AM] Mizuki: (Azura!)
[12:14 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+7
[12:14 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 9, Result: 16
[12:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Advantage.
[12:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 16 is a hit!
[12:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (And yes, Esker.)
[12:15 AM] Mizuki: roll 2d10
[12:15 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d10]: 8,4, Result: 12
[12:15 AM] Eon: Esker frowns. She'll walk closer and throw a Produce Flame at the mind flayer her two allies have been wailing on
[12:15 AM] Eon: roll 1d20+8 pls
[12:15 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 2, Result: 10
[12:15 AM] Eon: naturally. pass.
[12:15 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The barrage of flame rain down on the mind flayers!
[12:15 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alicia, your turn.
[12:16 AM] Mizuki: (ah... one fireball is fine, I guess!)
[12:16 AM] Eon: (you know, it'll be really easy for us to all get mind blasted and ded)
[12:16 AM] Faerie: (You can't cast a swift spell and a normal action spell on the same turn, right?)
[12:16 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow glances at Nirvain, nervously...
Nirvain smiles back. "...?"
[12:16 AM] Mizuki: (Ah, Koga, I wanted to ask you)
[12:17 AM] Mizuki: ( can I change the element of a spell I cast using the ruby's slot?)
[12:17 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nope.)
[12:17 AM] Bot Fodder: (Shadow is such a ladykiller. Kek.)
[12:17 AM] Mizuki: (alright)

[12:19 AM] Faerie: (OH.)
[12:19 AM] Mizuki: Alicia's ruby floats in front of her as a fiery power gather around it! With a soft touch from her fingers it unleashes a fireball against the mindflayers.
[12:20 AM] Mizuki: roll 8d6 sculpting Yss and Lexon out
[12:20 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [8d6]: 4,4,1,2,4,4,6,6, Result: 31
[12:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 8d20 (half of which are autofail's anyway)
[12:20 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [8d20]: 6,10,20,14,4,11,10,19, Result: 94
[12:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Most of them are drastically wounded.
[12:21 AM] Mizuki: (dc 15
[12:21 AM] Mizuki: pass
[12:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anything else-
[12:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright. Uh.
[12:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The wyverns charge along with Yss.
[12:21 AM] Eon: (I'm not sure if the two martials can double meme the non-paralysed ones.)
[12:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+7
[12:21 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+7]: 10, Result: 17
[12:22 AM] Mizuki: (oh shit, I always forget the wyverns :sadpopo:)
[12:22 AM] Mizuki: (t-thanks Koga)
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d6+3
[12:22 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d6+3]: 4,6, Result: 13
[12:22 AM] Eon: (Alicia would make a really bad mom)
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[12:22 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 8, Result: 8
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 8d6 poison
[12:22 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [8d6]: 6,1,6,1,6,6,2,2, Result: 30
[12:22 AM] Faerie: (I had something else in mind. If we really wanted to end fast, you guys could have casted better memes)
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... The barb sinks into a paralyzed mind flayer's head, and injects it with lethal poison.
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[12:22 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 6, Result: 6
[12:22 AM] Eon: (wall of fire will nuke the paralysed ones anyway!)
[12:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20
[12:22 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 8,15, Result: 23
[12:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Uh, ew.
[12:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 10d6+3
[12:23 AM] Faerie: (By 'better memes' I really mean FIREBALL FIREBALL ACTION SURGE FIREBALL overkill)
[12:23 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [10d6+3]: 3,5,5,1,2,1,1,1,2,2, Result: 26
[12:23 AM] Eon: (10d6? :surprisedpopo: )
[12:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The other paralyzed one is barely alive after injection from Jade.
[12:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (8d6 poison, 2d6 normal, after crits)
[12:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Razmik, your turn.
[12:23 AM] Eon: (ouch.)
[12:24 AM] Faerie: Two flayers still left unparalyzed?
[12:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: One mind flayer's dead, slain by lethal injection. The other paralyzed target is... almost gone.
[12:24 AM] Eon: "Let the fire take it." Esker reaffirms.
[12:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The other two standing targets are dying slowly, still wounded.
[12:24 AM] Faerie: Razmik's mind goes off, fast-firing ideas. Out of his element (whatever a Paladin's element was), he considers the most expedite means of stopping the illithids from alerting their peers safely. Safely: he wasn't taking any chances with the nightmares and those monsters' damn psyblast.
[12:24 AM] Faerie: So he sets off! Running like his life depended on it. Which... honestly, it probably does.
[12:25 AM] Faerie: Promptly, he gives one of the standing Flayers a Commandment: ''Daydream.'' But that's not all
[12:25 AM] Mizuki: (you didn't use the nightmares?)
[12:25 AM] Faerie: But that's not all. ''Daydream.'', again, twice over, to the other standing illithid!
[12:25 AM] Faerie: [Command, level 2]
[12:25 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d20 +6 advantage
[12:25 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d20]: 6,13,19,1, Result: 39
[12:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Both succeed on the save, blocking out your command toward them.
[12:26 AM] Faerie: (>advantage
WE)
[12:26 AM] Eon: (you mean, you didn't know? ;-;)
[12:26 AM] Faerie: (I'm not a metagaming nerd, so I don't look at the statblocks during fights)
[12:27 AM] Faerie: (Alright, so it's not possible to cast both a bonus spell and normal action spell in the same turn, right?)
[12:27 AM] Eon: (neither do I, but we have seen their magic resistance before :sadpopo:)
[12:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Uh...
[12:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: There's a rule for that, unless it's a cantrip.
[12:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You are a paladin, so effectively, "No".
[12:28 AM] Bot Fodder: (Spess psychics are indeed resilient to mental attacks, yes. :sadpopo: )

[12:29 AM] Bot Fodder: (Wait, you can't cast a spell with a bonus action + a spell with a normal action? Even if neither need concentration?)
[12:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (No, unless the primary spell is a cantrip)
[12:29 AM] Faerie: Just dandy. Razmik'll have to hold onto that Sanctuary for now. Salamander's brandished, erupting into flames as it's unsheathed. [Pass]
[12:29 AM] Eon: (if you cast a bonus action spell you can only cast cantrips with your action)
[12:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (No, you can't double fireball normally.)
[12:29 AM] Bot Fodder: (Huh.)
[12:29 AM] Faerie: (I guess it's to stop Twinned Spell from being actually good, or something)
[12:29 AM] Bot Fodder: (Fireball isn't a bonus action normally.)
[12:29 AM] Faerie: (Can't give Sorcerers good things)

[12:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (quickened spell)
[12:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, Razmik.
[12:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anything else?
[12:29 AM] Eon: (^)
[12:30 AM] Bot Fodder: (I said normally.)
[12:30 AM] Eon: (he did say pass already ;-;)
[12:30 AM] Bot Fodder: (So does that mean Quickened Spell doesn't let you cast twice in a turn?)
[12:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Yeah, but even with exception to the norm, you can't fireball)
[12:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Oh
[12:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...

[12:30 AM] Faerie: (Nope, pass)
[12:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: John, your turn.
[12:31 AM] Eon: (please gib the non-paralysed ones ;-;)
[12:31 AM] Bot Fodder: John moves forward 40 feet and casts a javelin into whatever's closest. And alive.(edited)
[12:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Seems good.

[12:32 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+8
[12:32 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 19, Result: 27
[12:32 AM] Faerie: (Also, of note: we can't actually make use of the insta-crit from paralysis, as those need you to attack from within 5 feet)
[12:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's a hit.
[12:32 AM] Eon: (if you took the mount you would have)
[12:33 AM] Eon: (that said, it's more or less to wall of fire anyway)
[12:33 AM] Bot Fodder: (What action do you need to draw another throwing weapon?)
[12:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not an action!)
[12:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Just do it as part of your attack.)
[12:33 AM] Bot Fodder: (Good~)
[12:33 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d6+5
[12:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d6+5]: 3, Result: 8
[12:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Your javelin jams right into the mind flayer's torso!
[12:33 AM] Faerie: (I think you're fucked if you want to draw two javelins in a single turn, though. A-action economy, it's a feature)
[12:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nah, it's fine, as per houserule.)
[12:34 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+8 Jav2
[12:34 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 5, Result: 13
[12:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (We don't track weapon drawing speed here - so dual wields are easier to start with)
[12:34 AM] Faerie: (Phew. Yeah, I've read a lot of people complaining about that limitation effectively gutting most thrown weapon builds)
[12:34 AM] Bot Fodder: (... Fuck, I forget whether I can use my maneuvers with ranged attacks.)
[12:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (For most of them, should be)
[12:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not for Sweeping if you have that)
[12:35 AM] Faerie: (Depends on the maneouver)
[12:35 AM] Eon: (sweep with a jav :thinking: )
[12:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Precision is notoriously used for Sharpshooters)
[12:35 AM] Bot Fodder: (I'll use that, then.)

[12:35 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[12:35 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 3, Result: 3
[12:35 AM] Faerie: (Fuck that, ramming a javelin so hard into something you push them away is where it's at)
[12:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It hits!
[12:36 AM] Bot Fodder: (Also I just realized: my rolls should be 1 higher due to a new Proficiency bonus at level 8, right?)
[12:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( :sadpopo: )
[12:36 AM] Faerie: (What)
[12:36 AM] Eon: (isn't that level 9)
[12:36 AM] Faerie: (I think that's level 9, man)
[12:36 AM] Bot Fodder: (Was it 9?)
[12:36 AM] Bot Fodder: (Never mind.)
[12:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( CR 9, so should be 9 )
[12:36 AM] Faerie: (According to my class table, it's 9)
[12:36 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d6+5
[12:36 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d6+5]: 6, Result: 11
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's enough!
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The second javelin pierced the skull of the mind flayer!
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Unfortunately, two mind flayers are still alive at this point.
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: One is paralyzed, one is fine.
[12:37 AM] Bot Fodder: Squids don't have bones, though. But anyway... Pass!
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Or rather, "wounded", but not under condition.
[12:37 AM] Eon: (there goes the bonus ™ )
[12:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20
[12:37 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 7,13, Result: 20
[12:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Roll wall of fire damage, please.
[12:38 AM] Eon: roll 5d8
[12:38 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [5d8]: 3,5,8,8,5, Result: 29
[12:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: As expected, the one on the floor expires.
[12:38 AM] Bot Fodder: (Oh, right, Wall deals damage on their turns...)
[12:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...

[12:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The lone mind flayer finally adapts into combat, and reaches out to the targets in melee,
[12:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: which is to say, Lexon.
[12:39 AM] Eon: (please don't get brain eaten.)
[12:39 AM] Eon: (please don't tell me you actually made mind flayer monks)
[12:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9 to hit
[12:39 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 1, Result: 10
[12:39 AM] Faerie: (He literally can't, with Expertise in Athletics)
[12:39 AM] Bot Fodder: (Lexon knows how to grapple, though.)
[12:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: First hit misses,
[12:39 AM] Bot Fodder: (Yeah that.)
[12:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[12:39 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 9, Result: 18
[12:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20+4 psychic damage
[12:39 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20+4]: 16,3, Result: 23
[12:39 AM] Faerie: (Psyche, you don't get to athletics check if you're stunned!)
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Autograpple!
[12:40 AM] Runic: ( :thinking: )
[12:40 AM] Eon: .. Esker gulps. Not this again.
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: DC 15 intelligence saving throw,
[12:40 AM] Runic: roll 1d20-1
[12:40 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20-1]: 17, Result: 16
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: and on your turn if you wish to escape grapple, escape DC = 15
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You are not stunned! ...
[12:40 AM] Bot Fodder: (Phew.)
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Stunning Strike!
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Con save.
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: DC 15!
[12:40 AM] Eon: (you actually made mind flayers monks. What have I done.)
[12:40 AM] Mizuki: (KOGA)
[12:40 AM] Eon: (I am terribly sorry to everyone else here :sadpopo: )
[12:40 AM] Bot Fodder: (Giths pls.)
[12:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (you can blame Eon)
[12:41 AM] Runic: roll 1d20+2
[12:41 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+2]: 18, Result: 20
[12:41 AM] Runic: Kay
[12:41 AM] Mizuki: (!report Eon)
[12:41 AM] Eon: (HAPPENING)
[12:41 AM] Faerie: (/ban Eon)
[12:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You resist the mind control ability of the mind flayer monk!
[12:41 AM] Eon: (;-;)
[12:41 AM] Runic: Can I please attempt to escape the grapple?
[12:41 AM] Bot Fodder: (Throw it into the fire~)
[12:41 AM] Runic: roll 1d20+9 athletics
[12:41 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 18, Result: 27
[12:41 AM] Eon: (man, rolls on point)
[12:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You can use your action to escape.
[12:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: On your turn, that is. Grapple by mind flayers are automatic confirm's, and are escapeable as per normal grapples.
[12:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa:

[12:42 AM] Eon: (is someone's turn still after the mind goober?)
[12:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Intruders!" It shouts, sending off mental alarm.
[12:42 AM] Eon: "Bah. Too late." Esker grumbles.
[12:42 AM] Runic: (Oh so on my turn then)
[12:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Turn end, top of the round!
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle curses loudly...
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20
[12:43 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 12,7, Result: 19
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d6
[12:43 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d6]: 5,5,6,6, Result: 22
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d10+4
[12:43 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+4]: 4, Result: 8
[12:43 AM] Faerie: (It ded)
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shooting the mind flayer in the head.
[12:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Just a split second too late, it seems, as the mental alert has been sent to the mind flayer hive.
[12:44 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Combat ended!
[12:44 AM] Eon: Esker dispels her Wall of Fire. "No time to lose, move."
[12:44 AM] Mizuki: (fuggg)

[12:44 AM] Eon: (we should have just spent a little more resources ;-;)
[12:44 AM] Bot Fodder: John hurries to re-mount!
[12:44 AM] Runic: Lexon casually pushes the Mind Flyer off of him
[12:44 AM] Faerie: You hear a sharp noise in your head. ''Let's get going! Come on!''
[12:44 AM] Eon: (which is why I wall of fired ;-;)
[12:44 AM] Eon: (oh well.)
[12:44 AM] Faerie: Where to, according to Nirvain?
[12:44 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "We got no time to lose now." Nirvain says, "Let's hurry." and points the way.
[12:45 AM] Bot Fodder: (Can't you shape the wall of fire to hit more than a line?)
[12:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yss looks at the mind flayers and the adventurers, seemingly a bit not used to combat.
[12:45 AM] Eon: (not like it does more damage that way!)
[12:45 AM] Runic: "God this sucks," he groans, he takes out a bottle of mead and jugs it out, all while quickly following the group down further
[12:45 AM] Mizuki: "You could use the horses, you know?" - She said turning to John and Raz
[12:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 10d100
[12:45 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [10d100]: 51,74,45,95,49,93,5,52,68,83, Result: 615
[12:45 AM] Eon: "This is no time to drink! Wait, can you even drink in the Border Ethereal?)
[12:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm.
[12:45 AM] Bot Fodder: John's way ahead of her.
[12:45 AM] Eon: (10d100)
[12:45 AM] Eon: (we ded)

[12:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You enter what appear to be a tunnel... complex... no, a dead drop off a cliff.
[12:46 AM] Faerie: ''I'd rather not be stranded here, you know!''
[12:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain dived down without hesitation, able to ignore gravity in Ethereal.
[12:46 AM] Eon: Aren't we.. ethereal.
[12:46 AM] Faerie: (Secretly the brine pool)
[12:46 AM] Eon: yeah.
[12:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ridind down verticle, the sheer cliff seems to be by design.
[12:46 AM] Eon: Esker will jump off after her, hesitation was death.
[12:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tunnels and holes line the smooth cliff, carved out by disintegration rays... This must be work of beholders.
[12:47 AM] Bot Fodder: John lets the Nightmare do its thing. It can fly, right?
[12:47 AM] Faerie: Yup. Razmik's flown by himself before, this will be just like pretending his horse's swimming through the air!
[12:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It can fly as well as ride vertically in Ethereal - gravity does not apply in Ethereal, after all, so EVERYONE can fly!(edited)
[12:47 AM] Eon: "What number was that mind witness we saw again? 32th?" Esker was apprehensive.
[12:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The tunnels and holes, are what you came here for, it seems.
[12:47 AM] Runic: "I guess this is safe if everyone else is doing it..." Lexon mutters, a bit of mead flowing out of his mouth
[12:48 AM] Runic: He jumps off the cliff shortly after
[12:48 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain quickly takes a turn into the cliff, diving into one of the hole, while attuning to the sound of her rune.
[12:48 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: From around the cliff, as you gaze out...
[12:48 AM] Mizuki: "They're probably tightening the security now." - Complained Alicia while floating. - "We need to hurry."
[12:48 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Dozens of mind flayers are gathering, shifting into Ethereal...
[12:48 AM] Eon: "Probably, you say?" Esker quips sarcastically
[12:49 AM] Faerie: Razmik stays around, not too behind the Warlock. Keeping guard, if that...
[12:49 AM] Faerie: ''You're not wanna see this.'', he simply says.
[12:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You count around 20 Illithids, as well a few variant illithids. The accumulation of psionic energy gathers like a storm.
[12:49 AM] Eon: (bah. for want of a nail.)
[12:49 AM] Eon: Question
[12:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: They are still a distance away - the cliff opens to a large, large, LARGE cavern down below, stretching out for miles.
[12:49 AM] Eon: how does plant growth work in Ethereal?
[12:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Poorly - Ethereal environment does not allow for plant growth normally.
[12:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: If you exit Ethereal, however, you can likely do it.
[12:50 AM] Eon: (actually you can just float above it even if it worked so. eh.)
[12:50 AM] Faerie: ''Nirvain!'', Razmik probes into her consciousness pushing for a quick answer. ''Have you found anyone yet? It doesn't look good, out here. We need to hurry!''
[12:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain is still in the lead, not really looking behind her, "Uh, I did not have a plan for when things go - went - south!"
[12:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "It's this way! That's all I know!"
[12:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Fel sighs, seems exhausted at her mistress's antics.
[12:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Meanwhile...
[12:51 AM] Faerie: (We can't dimension door the mounts, huh...)
[12:51 AM] Eon: "Is she always like that?" Esker turns to the succubus.
[12:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Behind you, out of the cliff face, the mind flayers seem to shimmer, as one of them enters, larger in size than the other mind flayers,
[12:51 AM] Faerie: Who's the nearest to the makeshift hivemind?
[12:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: riding on what appears to be a flying chariot.
[12:52 AM] Faerie: The flayers sort of looked like stars, the way they lighted up...
[12:52 AM] Faerie: Please don't let the stars be right.
[12:52 AM] Eon: "This has to be a really bad joke." Esker gawks in disbelief.
[12:52 AM] Mizuki: "Remember the chasmes?" - Asked Alicia - "We do the same, lets find a thinner tunnel!"
[12:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It snarls and screeches, and you can hear it from even literally five hundred feet away.
[12:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The mind flayers charge, flooding into the tunnel right on your tail.

[12:53 AM] Faerie: (G-good thing Nightmares are faster!)
[12:53 AM] Eon: (bah. I can't do anything to impede them on ethereal ;-;)
[12:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain's navigation, meawhile, has proven to be rather positive.
[12:54 AM] Faerie: Riding along, Razmik lends her his own pair of eyes to look around as they gallop through the tunnels, urging Tot and Shadow to do the same.
[12:54 AM] Bot Fodder: (... If we cast wall of force while ethereal, does it affect the material plane? :thinking: )
[12:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Taking the right turns, leaping "down" sheer drops, she takes you deeper and deeper into the chambers that the mind flayers have taken for their own uses. You have to dodge a few mindwitnesses that occupied the Material Plane, as collision would be annoying,
[12:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Yes, Kap.)
[12:54 AM] Bot Fodder: (Wish we could :sadpopo: )
[12:54 AM] Runic: Lexon groans louder in frustration, "Man, I don't have enough alcohol for this situation," he mutters
[12:54 AM] Faerie: ''Actually-'', he stops himself. ''Shouldn't Alicia be doing this, too?'' Sharper than him, and all.
[12:54 AM] Bot Fodder: (It'd be a great way to deal with the Chariot.)
[12:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: There are a few mind flayer's pets and minions, but they are unable to react to you.
[12:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... You hear a crash, and what sounds like rocks being devoured, from behind you.
[12:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: While you don't recognize it, it's the sound of drills, breaking down cliff on the Ethereal side.
[12:55 AM] Faerie: Razmik doesn't even feel like glancing back. ''WHAT NOW?''
[12:55 AM] Eon: "MOVE."
[12:55 AM] Bot Fodder: "Oh." That's not a good sound.
[12:55 AM] Faerie: (D-drills?)
[12:56 AM] Eon: (IT SHALL PIERCE TH-)
[12:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Taking a leap of faith, Nirvain descend down ... And down... Into what appears to be an operation room.
[12:56 AM] Eon: (oh, I think I know what it is.)
[12:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: There are a few beds, and a few prisoners tied onto the beds, on the material plane side of things.
[12:56 AM] Mizuki: (Maximum :blobsweats:)
[12:56 AM] Faerie: (The Magic Slammer Spelljammer?)
[12:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: And... A mind flayer, waiting for you.
[12:56 AM] Eon: (no, its a crab.)
[12:56 AM] Faerie: A single mindflayer?
[12:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Taking its ready action, it blasts Nirvain wtih a powerful Mind Blast!
[12:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1
[12:56 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 20, Result: 21
[12:56 AM] Faerie: Razmik's close by!
[12:57 AM] Mizuki: (HOLY)
[12:57 AM] Eon: (SHE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT)
[12:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Nirvain largesly ignores it!
[12:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d8+4
[12:57 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d8+4]: 8,1,1,1, Result: 15
[12:57 AM] Mizuki: (fuggin fug)
[12:57 AM] Eon: Thick skull must be useful against mind flayers. Esker concludes.
[12:57 AM] Mizuki: (all those 1s, we have been blessed by the dice)
[12:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Gritting her teeth, she shouts an order to her succubus, who enters melee toward the mind flayer... Burying her claws into the mind flayer's face while biting on its tendril.
[12:58 AM] Eon: (Kinky.)
[12:58 AM] Faerie: (S-she's eating it?)
[12:58 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The mind flayer tries to screen, but is soon placated, and slowly being drained of life force.
[12:58 AM] Faerie: (Wwhat the fugg...)
[12:58 AM] Eon: "... Remind me not to fall for a Succubus."
[12:58 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Quick, exit Ethereal with the Nightmares and retrieve those guys!" Nirvain shouts, ordering for the nightmares to move.
[12:59 AM] Eon: "These are them? Alright." Esker does as she commands.
[12:59 AM] Mizuki: "W-Wow..." - Even Alicia is impressed!
[12:59 AM] Faerie: Razmik's been looking for a way to shift back since they entered the room! He's settled for giving the nightmare a few punts.
[12:59 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The Nightmare snort, and shifts John, Razmik, Lexon, Shadow, Esker, and Alicia out.
[12:59 AM] Faerie: What do they see? How many people, in what condition? Razmik's trying to look around as fast as he can!
[12:59 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle remain behind in the Ethereal for the time being. (Those who don't wish to go can refuse the plane shift)
[12:59 AM] Mizuki: "WAKE UP, WE'RE GETTING OUT!" - She shouted.
[1:00 AM] Eon: "Do we just.. carry them?"
[1:00 AM] Faerie: Is Augus there? He should be easy enough to distinguish. If he is, Razmik checks for vitals.
[1:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You can transport 6 targets from Material into Ethereal with an action, or vice versa, with 3 in a batch.
[1:00 AM] Bot Fodder: "Wait, what about..." John gulps. There had been a pretty good reason for taking most of the trip on the Ethereal plane...
[1:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus is here, a 8ft-tall man with white mane, tied down to the operation table. His brain is split open, but he's very much alive.
[1:01 AM] Mizuki: Alicia quickly takes out her dagger and starts cutting the ropes, freeing the prisioners.
[1:01 AM] Faerie: (WHAT THE FUCK)
[1:01 AM] Eon: What a gruelsome sight.
[1:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: He stares at you, Razmik, with icy, cold glance for a moment, before realizing that you are here to help.
[1:01 AM] Faerie: ''UHH'', ''SHIT''
[1:01 AM] Faerie: Razmik panics a bit at the sight. 'WHAT DO I DO THIS ISN'T OKAY'
[1:01 AM] Faerie: Why
[1:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: He grits his teeth, and gives a shout. "..." And with a rip, tears off the operation bed and the binding.
[1:02 AM] Bot Fodder: "Uh. Can somebody fix this? It won't be good if it falls out while we're running," John says in a manner completely like any other day.
[1:02 AM] Eon: That can't be alright. You can't just do that with your brain exposed!
[1:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The other members of Augus's party is cut out of their binding, between your daggers and attempts, though some of them are very slow to act.
[1:02 AM] Faerie: ''Alright, that works. Help us rip everyone off, then get on the horse!''
[1:02 AM] Mizuki: "Check his brain!" - Shouted Alicia - "Any tadpoles? If so, remove it and heal him up!"
[1:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... I offer you my thanks, stranger, but this is not the place for it." Augus says, slowly, narrowing his eyes.
[1:02 AM] Runic: Lexon, awkwardly tries to pull out a dagger from his shoulder belt with his free hand, and attempts to aid Alicia on freeing the prisoners(edited)
[1:03 AM] Eon: "The time for niceties is later. We need to run."
[1:03 AM] Faerie: Does anyone seem frightened?
[1:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: There are no tadpoles... Yet. This is operation chamber, not breeding chamber. They have been transported here only a few hours ago.
[1:03 AM] Faerie: Also, as Alicia said. Anything weird?
[1:03 AM] Eon: Esker glances back, do any of them need healing?
[1:03 AM] Bot Fodder: John does the same. "We have to get back to the ghost-plane-thing soon."
[1:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Uh, they are all at 0 HP beside for Augus.
[1:03 AM] Eon: oh fug.
[1:03 AM] Eon: (Raz, do 1 1 1 1 heals :smugpopo: )
[1:04 AM] Bot Fodder: All stable, I take it?
[1:04 AM] Faerie: Lay on Hands Lay on Hands Lay on Hands
[1:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: They are all stable.
[1:04 AM] Eon: (Lay it on thick, will you :smugpopo:)(edited)
[1:04 AM] Faerie: It's like a motherfucking baptism in here. ''Esker, hurry along and help!''
[1:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus lay-on-hand'd himself for 1, enough to go back on his feet, while grunting.
[1:04 AM] Faerie: (How many people is that?)
[1:04 AM] Mizuki: Alicia quickly chugs a potion down the strongest looking prisioner's throat, they need all the help they can get.
[1:04 AM] Eon: (muh Healstick charges!)
[1:04 AM] Bot Fodder: (Oh, right, Paladins of Conquest don't die when they are killed.)(edited)
[1:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You've mended their skulls, closing their wounds, somewhat. The gentlest breeze will still knock them out with just 1 HP LoH's, but...
[1:05 AM] Faerie: (They totally do. The fuckers that just refuse to die are Ancients)
[1:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: After about 20 seconds of fumbling and some confusion, the four of them are ripped out of Material and back to Ethereal with you, in two batches.
[1:06 AM] Mizuki: (who did I heal with the potion?)
[1:06 AM] Eon: "Move, move, move." Esker mumbles, like it was some sort of mantra.
[1:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: By then, the tunnels are rumbling - on both Material and Ethereal ends.
[1:06 AM] Faerie: (Presumably Augus)
[1:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Roll your potion heal first, Alicia)
[1:06 AM] Mizuki: (what was the roll again?)
[1:06 AM] Eon: (2d4+something?)
[1:06 AM] Bot Fodder: (So... got teleport? :sadpopo: )
[1:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (depends on your potion)
[1:07 AM] Mizuki: roll 2d4
[1:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d4]: 4,2, Result: 6
[1:07 AM] Eon: (mizupls)
[1:07 AM] Mizuki: (normalest potion)

[1:07 AM] Eon: (it's +2)
[1:07 AM] Faerie: (that one's 2d4+2, so 8)
[1:07 AM] Eon: (so heal for 8)
[1:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You forcefed the potion down into the Tiefling, who's nearby,
[1:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The tiefling, by the name of Vel, coughs.
[1:08 AM] Faerie: Alright. Razmik recalls the tiefling!
[1:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Taking a look at the situation, she raises a hand, and casts a spell. Mass Cure Wounds.
[1:08 AM] Faerie: She could turn people invisible, right? Right, so!
[1:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d8+5
[1:08 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d8+5]: 1,7,6, Result: 19
[1:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d8
[1:08 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 2, Result: 2
[1:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Their party seems relatively healthy (Around 30 HP each)
[1:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "So, uh, how do we get out?" Vel looks at Augus, sighing in relief that he seems to be alright.
[1:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Uh, I never planned that far. Ehehe." Nirvain says, laughing... Nervously.
[1:09 AM] Runic: (does Lexon get the healing as well?)
[1:09 AM] Eon: ... Esker facepalms.
[1:09 AM] Faerie: (Where's the spelljammer, again?)
[1:09 AM] Eon: "We naturally kill the entire hive, obviously."
[1:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Invisiblity? That won't work on illithids." The dark elf murmurs.
[1:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "That is a thing we can do, small one." Augus says, slow and steady.
[1:10 AM] Runic: Lexon takes another sip of his drink, still hoping it'll calm him down... still hasn't
[1:10 AM] Mizuki: "Nirvain!" - SHouted Alicia - "Is the spelljammer inside this hive?"
[1:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... So, yes, indeed - what will you do?
[1:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Uhhh, what? We haven't looked for it yet!"
[1:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain seems surprised. (They haven't been to the drow city yet.)
[1:11 AM] Eon: Esker facepalms again.
[1:11 AM] Faerie: The spelljammer. ''You haven't looked for it yet?''
[1:11 AM] Mizuki: Alicia looks around, examining the room. How many entrances?
[1:11 AM] Faerie: So that's off the list, then. Razmik rescinds his spell.
[1:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus frowns. "... You know something of the craft? Tell me about it. What does it look like?"
[1:11 AM] Faerie: Typical.
[1:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The room is on the bottom of a 60ft deep pit.
[1:11 AM] Eon: "A tower.."
[1:11 AM] Bot Fodder: "Uh. Got magic that can get through walls?" John suggests.
[1:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: However, as it is Ethereal, you are able to rise out of the room without issue.
[1:12 AM] Mizuki: (oh, yeah)
[1:12 AM] Eon: "Without windows?" Esker scratches her head. She couldn't recall.
[1:12 AM] Faerie: (Didn't Alicia know about it?)
[1:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus nods, listening to Esker's explaination. "... I need more detail."
[1:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Alicia has seen it, yes.)
[1:12 AM] Eon: (I don't even remember the thing ooc)
[1:12 AM] Faerie: It seems they had the same idea, then.
[1:12 AM] Bot Fodder: "Anyway, we have to move. They'll know we were headded here."
[1:12 AM] Faerie: Razmik's asking for details on it
[1:12 AM] Mizuki: "We need to find a smaller place to stand and fight!" - Said Alicia - "We've been through something like this before, lets go!"
[1:12 AM] Faerie: Actually -
[1:12 AM] Faerie: He's sharing a mental link with Alicia.
[1:12 AM] Eon: was there only one entrance to the pit?
[1:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yep, Esker.
[1:13 AM] Mizuki: "A lot of tunnels around, shouldn't be too hard."
[1:13 AM] Faerie: Could she feasibly explain everything faster than it'd take her to explain out loud?
[1:13 AM] Eon: ... Ignoring the drilling whatever, that seems like a sembalance of a plan
[1:13 AM] Bot Fodder: (How many can the nightmares carry?)
[1:13 AM] Mizuki: (about spelljammers?)
[1:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The nightmare can be mounted by 1 person, and transport 3 across Ethereal/Material boundary.
[1:14 AM] Eon: "... Do we actually stand and fight then? Alicia is right, we have experience in tight corridors."(edited)

[1:14 AM] Bot Fodder: (How many Nightmares do we have...?)
[1:14 AM] Faerie: (Yes, about spelljammers. It should take less time to beam the knowledge into Razmik telepathically, or something)
[1:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (2.)
[1:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm. It'll take you about 30 seconds to explain, or...
[1:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow holds up his hand. "I got this fam."
[1:14 AM] Bot Fodder: John shakes his head. "No way. Too many mind-spells flying around. The terrain won't help us."
[1:14 AM] Faerie: ''Against dozens? No, I'm rather attache to my brain!''
[1:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: .... Minor Illusion, image of the Spelljammer.
[1:14 AM] Mizuki: Truth be told, Alicia doesn't know much about spelljammers, she would say that's Recelle's area of expertise.
[1:15 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus grins. "Just what I needed. Thanks, little one."
[1:15 AM] Eon: (you read the qualith ;-;)
[1:15 AM] Faerie: Razmik studies it as closely as he can.
[1:15 AM] Bot Fodder: (Also why are we talking about this?)
[1:15 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus casts Locate Object: Spelljammer.
[1:15 AM] Eon: ...
[1:15 AM] Eon: (wew.)
[1:15 AM] Faerie: He'll leave the actual spell to Augus, as he's more familiar with the place.
[1:15 AM] Mizuki: (HAPPENING)
[1:15 AM] Faerie: (Happening)
[1:15 AM] Eon: (LETS FUCK OFF TO SPACE BOIS)
[1:16 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... 6 seconds later, Augus frowns... "I know where it is. Bad news. It's deeper in."
[1:16 AM] Eon: "How far?"
[1:16 AM] Faerie: ''Deeper in WHERE?''
[1:16 AM] Runic: Lexon takes a heavier swig of his drink, practically emptying it(edited)
[1:16 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Good news is... It's only a few hundred feet down." Augus points downward.
[1:16 AM] Mizuki: "No time to lose then, lets go!" - She shouted.
[1:16 AM] Eon: "... Down?" She had bad experiences with digging down.
[1:16 AM] Faerie: Actually,''Do we look like we have time to ask at our own leisure? Move.'', Razmik tells the giant.
[1:17 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Which means, there are tunnels around... Trap doors? Hidden entrances? Side tunnels?"
[1:17 AM] Bot Fodder: "Oh, that is good news!" John remarks optimistically.
[1:17 AM] Eon: ...
[1:17 AM] Eon: Esker plops down and crudely sprinkles incense again.
[1:17 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The drow sighs, taking out a bundle of leaves, and lights some on fire, taking a huff of it. "... Relax. I'll buy some time for you lot."
[1:17 AM] Eon: (does this take my spellslot?)
[1:18 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (What are you trying to do?)
[1:18 AM] Faerie: (What, are you casting Divination again?)
[1:18 AM] Eon: (divination, find the way)
[1:18 AM] Faerie: (Don't. We might get false information)
[1:18 AM] Eon: (or do I not even need to cast it again, just ring meliekki?)
[1:18 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ask your question.
[1:18 AM] Mizuki: The sea of stars! Alicia is going to see it with her own eyes, despite the situation, she's actually excited! But first, they need to survive that.

[1:18 AM] Mizuki: The sea of stars! Alicia is going to see it with her own eyes, despite the situation, she's actually pretty excited! But first, they need to survive.(edited)
[1:19 AM] Eon: (... I realised my question is simillar to the previous one ;-;)
[1:19 AM] Faerie: (25% chance we get fed bullshit. I don't like those odds)
[1:19 AM] Eon: (I get a freebie question!)
[1:19 AM] Faerie: (Oh. That didn't need to be asked on the spot?)
[1:19 AM] Eon: "Where is the path to the Spelljammer?"
[1:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It had to be.)
[1:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (But well, ti's fine)
[1:19 AM] Eon: (that was terribly worded. But I dunno ;-;)
[1:19 AM] Bot Fodder: "How many feet down, did you say...?" John asks.
[1:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The dark elf casts something... And the tunnel above you disappears, replaced by an illusion.
[1:20 AM] Faerie: ''I doubt that'll keep them for long, but it is a nice start. Good job!'', Razmik cheers
[1:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Esker... Instead of a rhyme, you receive what appears to be a ... Thread. A line of silver sheen, pointing a path before you. In exchange, you have to Concentrate on the effect.
[1:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It points to the wall of the tunnel.
[1:21 AM] Eon: (wasn't it.. downwards?)

[1:21 AM] Eon: (I guess stairs.)
[1:21 AM] Eon: "This way!" Esker points to the thread
[1:21 AM] Faerie: (It points at the way there, instead of just the direction?)(edited)
[1:22 AM] Eon: "Err. Do we smash it or.."
[1:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain looks at the wall for a moment... And tackles it. She goes through - the wall's a false one, and thin enough to phase through in Ethereal!
[1:22 AM] Bot Fodder: John approaches Augus. "You said about a hundred feet...? How confident are you in that guess? Someone here can cast that, um... that 'door' spell, right?"
[1:22 AM] Faerie: ''Oh, wow.''
[1:22 AM] Eon: Right. Ethereal.
[1:22 AM] Faerie: Razmik's sure Alicia had seen through the illusion already!
[1:22 AM] Bot Fodder: (Metagaming, sorry :sadpopo: )
[1:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Dimension Door? Shadow perks up, raising his hand, "I can totally do that!"
[1:22 AM] Mizuki: Alicia follows after Nirvain and the others - "Lets go!"
[1:22 AM] Eon: (... Detect magic would have sufficed, huh :thinking: )
[1:22 AM] Eon: (OH WELL, IT WAS DRAMATIC.)
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... But that would have taken just 1 target, of course.
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain enters another dead drop,
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (How much time do you guys have?)
[1:23 AM] Eon: "Lets move, in either case."
[1:23 AM] Eon: (Asking me is a moot point ;-;)
[1:23 AM] Faerie: (Uhh, time?)
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's a bit faster than expected, for me, but... it should be doable.)
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (IRL time)
[1:23 AM] Bot Fodder: (An hour at most, probably...?)
[1:23 AM] Mizuki: (mhm, same)
[1:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yss struggles to fit down the tunnel, but is fine. Everyone else are sufficiently small...
[1:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[1:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright, then,
[1:24 AM] Faerie: (Oh. It's still not that late for me, and it's a friday. #yolo)
[1:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Going down, down, down... It's a dead drop that opens to what appears to be a collapsed, natural cavern.
[1:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: With the silver thread guiding your path, you came to a sight that makes even the bravest of men's skin crawl.
[1:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: During this time... Augus asks for a spare weapon.
[1:24 AM] Runic: (I'm past the threshold of drowsiness and I feel nothing, so probably a couple more hours)(edited)
[1:25 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (If nobody have anything, Recelle has a dagger.)
[1:25 AM] Eon: (I have a 1/4staff..?)
[1:25 AM] Mizuki: Alicia hands Augus her shortsword.
[1:25 AM] Faerie: What the fuck is even happening. There's like 11 people trotting along, and a dragon. Razmik doesn't even know.
[1:25 AM] Mizuki: "Take good care of it."
[1:25 AM] Faerie: Razmik offers a true weapon!
[1:25 AM] Faerie: A warhammer.
[1:25 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Augus takes the heavier weapon.
[1:26 AM] Eon: (Do I tick off my spellslot for that divination, koga?)
[1:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nah.)
[1:26 AM] Runic: (Lexon dumps 20 of his darts on the ground. He casually picks one up and hands it over to Augus)
[1:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It' your "refund", I guess)
[1:26 AM] Mizuki: Alicia smiles and sheats back her shortsword.
[1:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain tosses the two mages some spell components each, while running straight down into what might as well as be the core of the earth.
[1:26 AM] Eon: (Miliekki has good customer support :smugpopo: )
[1:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: All around you, there are... Water. It doesn't hamper you much on this side, but...
[1:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: .. The water are filled with tiny, crawling bugs, with teeth and tails...
[1:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Tadpoles? No, no....
[1:27 AM] Faerie: 'Why is Alicia so excited?', Razmik wonders. Vocalization or not, he could feel it.
[1:27 AM] Eon: (oh boy.)
[1:27 AM] Faerie: A lot of them?
[1:27 AM] Eon: (is this where we get dumpstered by an elder brain)
[1:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You seem to be in the Mind Flayer's spawning pool, swimming across it in Ethereal. You are slipping past by most of them.
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: And... Then, the tunnel turns upward, into a round antechamber, 60ft in radius.
[1:28 AM] Faerie: (Oh, Jesus.)
[1:28 AM] Faerie: (Thank god it was in Ethereal)
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: In the center, sits a giant brain, Huge in size.
[1:28 AM] Bot Fodder: "Gross..." John murmurs.
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It pulsates, and turns, slowly, floating to face you.
[1:28 AM] Eon: "... By all the gods."
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Unfortunately...)
[1:28 AM] Faerie: ''Okay.''
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Your feel your mind being invaded slowly, by a sinister whisper.
[1:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "You... Have come."
[1:29 AM] Eon: And Esker wasn't even that religious!
[1:29 AM] Faerie: Razmik sighs. ''Something like this was bound to happen.''
[1:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "It's right underneath it!" Augus shouts.
[1:29 AM] Eon: That can't be comfortable.
[1:29 AM] Runic: Lexon staggers a bit in response
[1:29 AM] Mizuki: Alicia felt her heart drop. It knew they were coming, ever since she saw it in the drow library. - "I-I can't believe we're doing this..." - She whispered(edited)
[1:29 AM] Eon: (is this how it goes? we have to smash an elder brain?)
[1:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Please, esteemed guest..." The voice whispers, "This is extremely rude, to enter my home like this, taking away my food..."
[1:30 AM] Eon: "... If we kill that thing, what happens to the mind flayers?"
[1:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Sounds like, you should join us." The elder brain threatens, radiating with psionic energy.
[1:30 AM] Faerie: Razmik prepares.
[1:31 AM] Mizuki: (are we seriously going to explode an elder brain?)
[1:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Initiative. You are at the edge of the antechamber.
[1:31 AM] Eon: (we do have two parties worth of duders.)
[1:31 AM] Mizuki: (I am so unbelievably hyped you can't possibly understand)
[1:31 AM] Runic: Lexon desperetly pulls out another bottle of mead, uncapping it with his teeth, and chugs it down, again, attempting to calm himself down
[1:31 AM] Eon: (And we can't exactly run back.)
[1:31 AM] Eon: roll 1d20+3 lets go.
[1:31 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 1, Result: 4
[1:31 AM] Runic: roll 2d20+3 init with adv
[1:31 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20+3]: 2,9, Result: 14
[1:31 AM] Eon: ...
[1:31 AM] Runic: 12
[1:31 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+3 init pls
[1:31 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 10, Result: 13
[1:31 AM] Eon: (lets not go, then.)
[1:31 AM] Bot Fodder: John readies his pike. "Well, I guess we're fighting a giant floating organ, now."
[1:31 AM] Eon: Esker is caught flat-footed!
[1:31 AM] Mizuki: (can I prepare a spell, Koga?)
[1:32 AM] Faerie: ''How long would it take to start operating the Jammer?'', a jammed Razmik asks.
[1:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (No, Alicia.)
[1:32 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+1
[1:32 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 15, Result: 16
[1:32 AM] Faerie: roll 2d20 highest
[1:32 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 4,14, Result: 18
[1:32 AM] Mizuki: (ah)
[1:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (The elder brain... Did not monologue.)
[1:32 AM] Mizuki: (also, brb)
[1:32 AM] Eon: (... is that a jab? :sadpopo: )
[1:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The other party enters formation, with Augus standing side by side with Razmik.  Everyone else seems to fall into position that they are comfortable with as well.

[1:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20 Other Party
[1:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 2, Result: 2
[1:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20 NPCs
[1:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 3, Result: 3
[1:33 AM] Faerie: Razmik sizes Augus up. The son of Giants looked capable enough, for a gangleader. Surely, he was sure of himself, as well.
[1:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[1:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 4, Result: 4
[1:34 AM] Eon: (2, 3, 4 :thinking: )
[1:34 AM] Faerie: (Does anyone on either group know how long it takes to start operating a spelljammer?)
[1:34 AM] Eon: (it's under the brain, unless you want to ddoor below it and impale it.)
[1:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus takes a Nightmare for his own purpose, and one of you may start mounted on a Nightmare.
[1:35 AM] Eon: (I don't think I have any good spells against this one :sadpopo: )
[1:35 AM] Bot Fodder: I guess John can do it...?
[1:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: John, your turn.
[1:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You are mounted on a Nightmare, which seems ... Angry.
[1:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Not at you, per se. Angry at the world.
[1:36 AM] Eon: (isn't that just you, koga :smugpopo: )
[1:36 AM] Faerie: (It's on the center of the room, right? The brain. How far away is that?)
[1:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 60ft.
[1:36 AM] Faerie: (Fucking kill me)
[1:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (yes, the 60ft memes are real.)
[1:37 AM] Bot Fodder: Well, that's fine, as long as it angries in a straight line toward the brain. John is unused to cavalry tactics, but he can manage that much!
[1:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: .. Yss offers for you to mount her instead, Razmik.
[1:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: As this is an emergency.
[1:37 AM] Eon: (Dragon Rider? :surprisedpopo: )

[1:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You may direct your Nightmare, despite it not being your Steed, John.
[1:38 AM] Faerie: But is that really alright? :sadpopo:
[1:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Normally, they move on their own initiative and the like, but for this combat...)

[1:38 AM] Faerie: Razmik feels a tinge of guild, not having had the time to summon Interloper...
[1:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa:

[1:39 AM] Faerie: He'll take it, though. Razmik adjusts an invisible helmet by his nose. Yeah...
Just like Dragon Rider.
[1:39 AM] Eon: (did bot collaspe?)
[1:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Your wish to fight is noted." The elder brain pulses, "Die, then."
[1:40 AM] Bot Fodder: (Huh?)
[1:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Your turn, John)
[1:40 AM] Eon: (... ;-;)
[1:40 AM] Bot Fodder: (Oh, it got pushed off my screen.)

[1:41 AM] Bot Fodder: John charges! The nightmare should be more than fast enough to cover the distance.
[1:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Indeed, the nightmare charges you right next to it.
[1:42 AM] Faerie: (Man, is anyone else peeved at how these fuckers are always like ''YOU CHOOSE TO FIGHT THEN, ADVENTURERS? DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE...!'' when the alternative is literally just not fighting and dying?)
[1:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (While John acts, I'll washroom and post init, so you can prep)
[1:42 AM] Bot Fodder: (Please explain)
[1:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa:

[1:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Oh. Your mount will act, move you next to the elder brain,
[1:42 AM] Bot Fodder: (Oh, I see~)
[1:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You have your full action, bonus action, movemetn (including to dismount) etc
[1:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: while your mount still have action and bonus action (which it will use)
[1:43 AM] Faerie: ''Alicia, Alicia'', Razmik bothers.
[1:43 AM] Mizuki: "Mhm?"
[1:43 AM] Faerie: ''What can you tell us? What do we do?''
[1:43 AM] Mizuki: "Hit it as hard as you can." - She said simply
[1:43 AM] Faerie: It looks like Razmik expects Alicia to know, and refers to her as the ''weird shit expert'' in the group.
[1:44 AM] Eon: (solid advice.)
[1:44 AM] Mizuki: "That's like, the king of all mindflayers here, but you probably know it already." - She added.
[1:45 AM] Bot Fodder: John dismounts! He can fight best on his feet. Seeing no need to search for a weak point on a mass of gelatinous flesh, he stabs forward.
[1:45 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[1:45 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 17, Result: 26
[1:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... it hits, of course.
[1:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I know what you are." The elder brain whispers. "Gith spies. Here to steal my right."
[1:46 AM] Eon: "We aren't spies!" Esker retorts.
[1:46 AM] Faerie: (Pffft)
[1:46 AM] Faerie: (PFFFT.)
[1:46 AM] Bot Fodder: Distracting Attack! John resents being called a spy and a thief, and twists the spear.
[1:46 AM] Mizuki: (ESKER P L S)
[1:47 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d10+6
[1:47 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 9, Result: 15
[1:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It howls, causing a ripple of psionic energy.
[1:47 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[1:47 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 8, Result: 8
[1:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 23 damage.
[1:47 AM] Mizuki: (fucking John)
[1:47 AM] Mizuki: (you know what to do)
[1:47 AM] Eon: (just stab it already ;-;)
[1:47 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[1:47 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 5, Result: 14
[1:48 AM] Bot Fodder: (No Precise; I wanna see how much AC it has.)
[1:48 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 14... is a hit.
[1:49 AM] Eon: ( :surprisedpopo: )
[1:49 AM] Mizuki: (I didn't expect that!)
[1:49 AM] Faerie: (WOW)
[1:49 AM] Bot Fodder: (Thought so! Immobile unarmored squishy thing.)
[1:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It can move! 5ft!)
[1:49 AM] Eon: (roll damage ;-;)
[1:49 AM] Eon: (>5)
[1:49 AM] Runic: (slow!)
[1:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Dash for 10)
[1:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( :smugpopo: )
[1:49 AM] Eon: (OSOI)
[1:50 AM] Bot Fodder: John doesn't need to thrust so much as... churn. It can't be comfortable. (Goading Attack)
[1:50 AM] Faerie: (How big is the brain, anyway? Like, huge?)
[1:51 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d10+6
[1:51 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 4, Result: 10
[1:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Huge. It's larger than it's kind, taking up 15x15, as it's partially fused with something underneath it)
[1:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[1:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: What does Goading Attack do again? :sadpopo:
[1:51 AM] Eon: (dis on attacking others than the goader, I think)
[1:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alrigth.
[1:51 AM] Faerie: (GUYS)
[1:51 AM] Eon: (wasn't there a save?)
[1:52 AM] Bot Fodder: (+superiority to damage, and WIS save vs. 16)
[1:52 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[1:52 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 5, Result: 5
[1:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[1:52 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 19, Result: 28
[1:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It ignores your goading strike entirely, itself a master in the art of taunts.
[1:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anything else, John?
[1:52 AM] Faerie: (Should I Crusader's Mantle? We have a whole bunch of people, and since the radius is 30 feet we should get the benefit despite the huge size)

[1:53 AM] Bot Fodder: The brain is above provocation! But it's not similarly immume to being hit.
[1:53 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[1:53 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 17, Result: 26
[1:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: That's your bonus action attack?
[1:53 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d4+6
[1:53 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d4+6]: 4, Result: 10
[1:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright.
[1:53 AM] Bot Fodder: (Yup.)
[1:53 AM] Eon: (the deeps!)
[1:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The brain howls...
[1:53 AM] Bot Fodder: No time to hesitate now... Action Surge!
[1:54 AM] Mizuki: (YES!)
[1:54 AM] Faerie: (HAPPENING)
[1:54 AM] Bot Fodder: John redoubles his attacks!
[1:54 AM] Eon: (I'M CALLING A CRIT)
[1:54 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[1:54 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 18, Result: 27
[1:54 AM] Mizuki: (so close!)
[1:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Keep going.
[1:54 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d10+6 plus Goading (again)
[1:54 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 4, Result: 10
[1:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[1:54 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 4, Result: 13
[1:54 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[1:54 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 6, Result: 6
[1:55 AM] Eon: (man, blowing everything?)
[1:55 AM] Bot Fodder: (I'm in melee range before it had a chance to act, I'm not getting a better chance than now!)
[1:55 AM] Faerie: (I will shove you into a locker if you don't blow your load, Eon)
[1:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... It turns attention toward you, John. The alien creature murmurs...
[1:55 AM] Eon: (I don't even have loads to blow!)
[1:56 AM] Bot Fodder: (... Also, John is resistant to psychic damage.)
[1:56 AM] Eon: (I'm AoE and utility :sadpopo: )
[1:56 AM] Eon: (please continue stabbing the thing ;-;)
[1:56 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[1:56 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 6, Result: 15
[1:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Attend to me, my minions!" It screeches, as the humble town guard assaults it.
[1:56 AM] Eon: "... Uh oh."
[1:57 AM] Bot Fodder: Whoops. John's on the clock. The wild rain of blows continues! (Trip Attack because why not. :sadpopo: )
[1:57 AM] Bot Fodder: (I don't have maneuvers that just do damage.)
[1:57 AM] Eon: (err. giant brain. prone..)
[1:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm.
[1:57 AM] Bot Fodder: (Yeahhhh.)
[1:57 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[1:57 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 6, Result: 6
[1:57 AM] Faerie: (I don't think there's any damage only maneouvers...)
[1:58 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Just roll additional damage.
[1:58 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d10+6
[1:58 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 9, Result: 15

[2:03 AM] Bot Fodder: (Ahaha.)
[2:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+15 con save
[2:03 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+15]: 11, Result: 26
[2:03 AM] Eon: (p-plus 15)
[2:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 12d8 cold damage
[2:03 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [12d8]: 2,3,7,6,5,8,5,3,2,5,1,3, Result: 50
[2:04 AM] Bot Fodder: (... W-was the breath that strong before?)
[2:04 AM] Eon: (it has two breaths)
[2:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The brain matter doesn't seem to freeze from the dragon's breath, as it twitches and churns, as if thinking.
[2:04 AM] Faerie: (:thinkingbrain:)
[2:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "You... Came for the craft? To escape?"
[2:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, Razmik, carry on. Faster!
[2:04 AM] Bot Fodder: (Thinking "Why the fuck didn't I make this room bigger")
[2:04 AM] Eon: (brainfreeze? :smugpopo: )
[2:04 AM] Faerie: Razmik looks at John all the while. Become inspired, become inspired! He's witnessing history, seeing how but a humble town guard breaks through the figurative wall in front of them, bringing tyrants to their knees! (nonexistent knees)
[2:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I see, I see... Nightmares... Nightmares..."
[2:05 AM] Eon: "Uh oh."
[2:05 AM] Faerie: Razmik casts Shield of Faith in John. ''There you go!''
[2:05 AM] Bot Fodder: (>Not just attacking it)
[2:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Hahaha... Hahahaha... I see. There's nothing to be afraid of, then. There are no gith, nor any of the Outer Gods, watching, preying upon us..."
[2:06 AM] Faerie: Before turning back to the Elder Brain. Salamander! Take in his example and dance along for a better future!
[2:06 AM] Eon: (reminder we still have inspiration from safehouse ;-;)
[2:06 AM] Faerie: ''Wrong. We're here to stop you!'', Razmik retorts.
[2:06 AM] Faerie: Attack action.
[2:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I see, I see..." The monstrous brain matter... Spurts pus, mutates, as it bleeds grey matter.
[2:06 AM] Bot Fodder: (Save that for saves. It could still make things unpleasant if it dominates one of us.)
[2:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go ahead, Razmik.
[2:06 AM] Faerie: roll 1d20+8
[2:06 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 17, Result: 25
[2:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hit, of course.
[2:07 AM] Faerie: roll 1d20+8 second
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 16, Result: 24
[2:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Also hit.
[2:07 AM] Faerie: roll 1d8+7 slashing
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8+7]: 6, Result: 13
[2:07 AM] Bot Fodder: (Also [Nightmare] could happen if we don't beat our DPS check. :smugpopo: )
[2:07 AM] Faerie: roll 1d8+7 slashing
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8+7]: 4, Result: 11
[2:07 AM] Faerie: roll 2d6 fire
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d6]: 4,6, Result: 10
[2:07 AM] Faerie: roll 2d6 fire
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d6]: 4,5, Result: 9
[2:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d1+13+11+10+9-1
[2:07 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d1+13+11+10+9-1]: 1, Result: 43
[2:08 AM] Faerie: (W-what's that roll even?)
[2:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (math.)
[2:08 AM] Eon: (calculator)
[2:08 AM] Mizuki: (counting your damage)
[2:08 AM] Faerie: (Oh, it can do that?)
[2:08 AM] Bot Fodder: (He had to roll a D1 for the syntax.)

[2:08 AM] Faerie: Razmik will Smite, then, on the first hit
[2:08 AM] Faerie: roll 2d8 radiant
[2:08 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d8]: 8,7, Result: 15
[2:08 AM] Faerie: And Razmik will Smite, then, on the second hit!
[2:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[2:08 AM] Faerie: roll 2d8
[2:08 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d8]: 6,7, Result: 13
[2:08 AM] Faerie: (Pass)
[2:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Additional 1d8 each, as it is not longer Abberation.
[2:09 AM] Faerie: (...FUCK)
[2:09 AM] Eon: (uhoh.png)
[2:09 AM] Faerie: roll 1d8 radiant
[2:09 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 2, Result: 2
[2:09 AM] Faerie: roll 1d8 radiant
[2:09 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 7, Result: 7
[2:09 AM] Bot Fodder: (So it mutates into... more of an Abberation? A double abberation?)
[2:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: [200+ damage accumuated]
[2:09 AM] Faerie: (It's a fucking fiend.)
[2:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The brain splits, like a meat flower.
[2:10 AM] Mizuki: (FUCKING BRING IT ON)
[2:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "How does it work... Nightmare? Nightmare matters..."
[2:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anything else, Razmik?

[2:10 AM] Faerie: ''Aaaaah!!'', Razmik's lungs explodes as he parts flesh and tissue, Salamander finding its mark with no complication whatsoever this time
[2:10 AM] Faerie: (Pass)
[2:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Dream Eater Demon? Don't be a fool, such a thing... Can hardly control me." The Elder Brain resonates psionic energy.
A pool of black ooze surrounds the psionic energy, slowly taking shape...
[2:11 AM] Bot Fodder: (Wow. Razmik outdamages John on non-dragons with ease.)
[2:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... From the ground, standing at each corner of the brain, four sprouts of black ooze, eyeballs, and gibbering mouth sprouts, and forms... Into Mind Flayers.
[2:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: They look strange...
[2:12 AM] Faerie: It's... just a thought, but as his blade exhudes crackling light into the budding flower, Razmik realizes just what might be happening there...
[2:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "From dreams, nightmare. This is the realm of the psions..."
[2:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Legendary Action, Heal.
[2:12 AM] Mizuki: counterspell
[2:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Go for it.
[2:12 AM] Bot Fodder: (KEK)
[2:12 AM] Mizuki: (what level is heal?)
[2:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 6th, normally.
[2:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Spellcasting ability, no proficiency, DC 16.
[2:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (NO WIZARD BONUS PLS)

[2:13 AM] Mizuki: (o-okay)
[2:13 AM] Mizuki: (Azura's help?)
[2:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+1 initiative Nightmare Flayers
[2:13 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 15, Result: 16
[2:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Nope, can't)
[2:13 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+4 PLS WORK
[2:13 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+4]: 16, Result: 20
[2:13 AM] Mizuki: (HELL YEAH MY NIGGAS)
[2:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The heal spell fizzles, as the psionic energy disperses.
[2:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The elder brain sneers.
[2:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alicia, your turn.
[2:14 AM] Bot Fodder: (>The elder brain sneers. )
[2:14 AM] Bot Fodder: ( :thinking: )
[2:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Four Mind Flayers made of Nightmare Stuffs surrounds the Elder Brain.
[2:15 AM] Mizuki: "Should have brought your minions earlier!" - Shouted Alicia raising her staff.

[2:18 AM] Mizuki: first lightning ball is full damage 8x6
[2:18 AM] Faerie: (Can you sculpt both, though?)
[2:18 AM] Mizuki: roll 8d6 fireball
[2:18 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [8d6]: 6,4,2,2,4,6,3,4, Result: 31
[2:18 AM] Eon: (I can hit 4, then, wall is 60ft long)
[2:18 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d20
[2:18 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d20]: 20,16,11,2, Result: 49
[2:18 AM] Mizuki: sculptng allies out, obviously
[2:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The imperfect copies of mind flayers collapse under the resonating arcane energy, ripped apart back into the stuff of nightmare.
[2:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The Elder Brain...
[2:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20 +0
[2:19 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 3,19, Result: 22
[2:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:19 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 6, Result: 6
[2:19 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Takes full damage from 48, half from 31
[2:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Legendary Resistance, take half from 48.
[2:20 AM] Faerie: (Wow, Mizu)
[2:20 AM] Mizuki: "Jade, Quartz, go for it!"
[2:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Not yet...." It howls...
[2:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The two wyverns cries out, and tackles the elder brain.
[2:20 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d20
[2:20 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d20]: 4,18,13,10, Result: 45
[2:21 AM] Faerie: (Man, if there's one thing Alicia's good at, it's blowing the FUCK out of whole rooms, huh. Stronk)
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: >1 miss
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d6+9
[2:21 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d6+9]: 6,2,3, Result: 20
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Lexon's turn since Alicia is done.
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Right?
[2:21 AM] Eon: ;-;
[2:21 AM] Mizuki: right!
[2:21 AM] Eon: (wait, was that right? I guess.)
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Legendary Action, Heal...
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+5
[2:21 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+5]: 1, Result: 6
[2:21 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+5
[2:21 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+5]: 11, Result: 16
[2:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Counterspell! Vel, Nirvain, and Idun all attempted to counter the Heal spell.
[2:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The Heal spell fizzles!
[2:22 AM] Eon: >triple cspell
[2:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Esker, you go first
[2:22 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: We'll go back to Lexon after if he's around.
[2:22 AM] Eon: "Ash to ash!" Esker raises another wall of fire.
[2:23 AM] Eon: roll 5d8
[2:23 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [5d8]: 7,3,3,8,3, Result: 24
[2:23 AM] Eon: (dex save 16)
[2:23 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:23 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 11, Result: 11
NEW MESSAGES
[2:23 AM] Runic: (Oh I missed that part where you said it was my turn)
[2:23 AM] Eon: (hits brain and 3 mind goobers)
[2:23 AM] Faerie: Razmik observes as the fire and thunder meshes and meets into a torrent of pure, unadultered raw magical fuckery. No two ways around it; that's what that was. He considers getting on Alicia's good graces, in the near future, lest she decide to stop contorting the elemental energies around him to keep him safe.

[2:24 AM] Faerie: ''...I don't think this is what Sariel had in mind...'', you hear him off-handedly comment.
[2:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You only immolated the Elder Brain, as the other Mind Flayers were dead with Alicia's spell
[2:24 AM] Eon: ... wew.
[2:24 AM] Runic: (Chat scrolled up past it after the whole triple spell shenanigan, sorry)
[2:24 AM] Eon: alright o7
[2:24 AM] Eon: pass.
[2:24 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, go ahead, Lexon.

[2:24 AM] Runic: Lexon turns around...
[2:24 AM] Runic: With the two almost empty bottles of mead in both hands, he slams both bottles against the cavern wall breaking them.
[2:25 AM] Runic: They shatter, beads of leftover mead drip from the remnants of the glass bottle Lexon is holding onto.
[2:25 AM] Runic: He again turns around and immediately rushes towards the elder brain, throwing out his best war cry; far from being motivational
[2:25 AM] Runic: With that, he makes 30 ft. stopping on his right foot, and with utmost technique, he twists his body around and chucks one of the bottles as hard as he can!
[2:25 AM] Runic: roll 1d20+6
[2:25 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+6]: 1, Result: 7
[2:26 AM] Eon: (.. after all that ;-;)
[2:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It flies across the elder brain and the cavern, shattering across the chamber!
[2:26 AM] Bot Fodder: (Using alcohol on a brain :thinking: )
[2:26 AM] Runic: (Well... guess that's that)
[2:26 AM] Faerie: (THERE WAS STILL MEAD IN THERE)
[2:26 AM] Runic: end turn ;-;

[2:26 AM] Bot Fodder: (Well, that's one way to kill brain cells?)
[2:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[2:26 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Legendary Action,
[2:26 AM] Faerie: (Reminder we have inspiration and stuff)
[2:26 AM] Eon: (didn't he already use 3?)
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Who said it's a Large Aberration?)
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The air shimmers.
[2:27 AM] Runic: (No, that's just dex+proficent)
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: And then, psionic storm rips across the room.
[2:27 AM] Faerie: (Ohh. It shifted mid-round)
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: DC 18 Int save.
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Everyone.)
[2:27 AM] Runic: roll 1d20-1
[2:27 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20-1]: 17, Result: 16
[2:27 AM] Eon: roll 1d20+1 int oh boy
[2:27 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 15, Result: 16
[2:27 AM] Faerie: roll 1d20+2
[2:27 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+2]: 4, Result: 6
[2:27 AM] Bot Fodder: rool 1d20
[2:27 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20
[2:27 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 5, Result: 5
[2:27 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 6d10+6 psychic damage, success take half. Failure on save... Stunned for 1 minute.
[2:27 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [6d10+6]: 7,9,9,7,9,3, Result: 50
[2:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 50 psychic damage to all that didn't make DC 18.
[2:28 AM] Runic: (Okay)
[2:28 AM] Runic: Lexon falls
[2:28 AM] Faerie: (Can I roll inspiration?)
[2:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yep.
[2:28 AM] Faerie: roll 1d20+2
[2:28 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+2]: 3, Result: 5
[2:28 AM] Eon: (I'm on 12 now ;-;)
[2:28 AM] Faerie: Ded
[2:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Those in range of Razmik, you have +3 to saves.
[2:28 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+8 (4 int, 3 wiz bonus™, 1 cloak)
[2:28 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 7, Result: 15
[2:28 AM] Bot Fodder: (I guess I'll try it too? Using Inspiration.)
[2:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Those NOT in range of Razmik, if you haven't moved,
[2:28 AM] Eon: wait.
[2:28 AM] Eon: INSPIRATION.
[2:28 AM] Runic: Oh hold on, let me do inspiration as well
[2:28 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You have +4 from Augus, whose a paladin.
[2:28 AM] Runic: roll 1d20-1
[2:28 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20-1]: 13, Result: 12
[2:28 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+3
[2:28 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 9, Result: 12
[2:28 AM] Eon: Not like this!
[2:29 AM] Runic: (It was worth a try)
[2:29 AM] Eon: roll 1d20+1 PLEASE
[2:29 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 4, Result: 5
[2:29 AM] Bot Fodder: (Nope, still didn't make it.)
[2:29 AM] Eon: (pfft.)
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ahahahahaha.
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: While John is likely fine, others...
[2:29 AM] Mizuki: inspiration for me too!
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The drow falls, immediately,
[2:29 AM] Mizuki: roll 1d20+8
[2:29 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+8]: 9, Result: 17
[2:29 AM] Mizuki: goddamn
[2:29 AM] Bot Fodder: (John's still stunned for a minute :V )
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d20
[2:29 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d20]: 3,19,19, Result: 41
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus gives a loud shout, and rest of his allies are fine.
[2:29 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:29 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 7, Result: 7
[2:30 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ah, the succubus fainted. :thinking:
[2:30 AM] Faerie: (Same here. But I'm at 35 HP, at least. BETTER BUST OUT THE HEALING WORDS)
[2:30 AM] Mizuki: Alicia at 15 hp
[2:30 AM] Eon: (on 12 ;-;)
[2:30 AM] Mizuki: are we all stunned?
[2:30 AM] Runic: (Lexon be at 0)
[2:30 AM] Faerie: (Please don't forget the temp HP from the feat)

[2:31 AM] Mizuki: (ah, roll for the wyverns too, please)
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Did anyone in the player party made it? :thinking:
[2:31 AM] Faerie: ''-owwww, OW'', Razmik falls onto Yss and clutches his head. That... He doesn't quite realize what hit him, but it hurt like a truck.
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:31 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 7, Result: 7
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:31 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 8, Result: 8
[2:31 AM] Eon: "Cabbage." Esker mutters.
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Both Yss and the two wyverns are stunned!
[2:31 AM] Bot Fodder: (None of us have INT, nor proficiency in it :sadpopo: )
[2:31 AM] Faerie: It's like a cluster headache, threatening to split his head into two. Not again...
[2:31 AM] Eon: (>wiznerd.)
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Alicia, with a 15, +4, you succeed)
[2:31 AM] Mizuki: (I had fuggin +9 and failed twice)
[2:31 AM] Bot Fodder: (Except Alicia.)
[2:31 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You don't have to spend inspiration)
[2:32 AM] Mizuki: (what, I didn't roll 15)
[2:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus's aura of protection shields your mind from the worst of it.
[2:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (You didn't need to roll again, as you had +4 from the NPC paladin)
[2:32 AM] Mizuki: (oh fug, nice)
[2:32 AM] Eon: hol up

[2:32 AM] Eon: am I next to the paladin too
[2:32 AM] Mizuki: (then 25 damage only, right?)
[2:32 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yes, Esker.
[2:33 AM] Eon: huh. not fucked then.
[2:33 AM] Eon: sweet
[2:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: If you are near Razmik, get +3. If you are near Augus, +4.

[2:33 AM] Mizuki: (at 40 hp then, thanks)
[2:33 AM] Eon: (I guess I roll concentration)
[2:33 AM] Eon: roll 1d20+5 con save dc 12
[2:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+5]: 15, Result: 20
[2:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The brain withers a bit, seemingly spent...
[2:33 AM] Eon: The wall of fire is a-ok!
[2:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d6 recharge
[2:33 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d6]: 5, Result: 5
[2:33 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... And renews its vigor.
[2:34 AM] Faerie: (WOW)
[2:34 AM] Runic: (So am I okay because of Ramik's +3? Or am I too far?)
[2:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "You... All.... Die... Illithidkind need me. Sacrifice yourselves upon our destiny!"
[2:34 AM] Bot Fodder: (What ends Stunned?)
[2:34 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (If the +3 would've let you made it, you take 25 and isn't stunned)
[2:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Uh, end of your turn you can reroll against DC 18)
[2:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (elsewise, Heal, Greater Resto etc)
[2:35 AM] Bot Fodder: (RIP)
[2:35 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Not even greater resto lol)
[2:36 AM] Runic: (Well yeah, I know that, but am I too far from Ramik or Augus is my question? I'm 30 feet away from him and Augus)
[2:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Augus charges, straight for the elder brain.
[2:36 AM] Faerie: Razmik, somehow, manages to fire off a single, stray thought as his mind is submerged back into the mental miasma. ''-Ahahaha what the hell does that even mean''
[2:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Ah, you'd be too far, then, aura are only 10ft wide.
[2:36 AM] Eon: (hang on, did the wall of fire tick on the elder brain?)
[2:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Right
[2:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20
[2:36 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20]: 17, Result: 17
[2:36 AM] Eon: roll 5d8
[2:36 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [5d8]: 8,8,4,7,6, Result: 33
[2:36 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Roll it, Esker.
[2:36 AM] Runic: (kk, that's what I needed to know)
[2:37 AM] Faerie: 'Sacrifice yourselves upon our destiny'? Sorry, did his brain get blasted too hard? That makes no sense!
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20+9
[2:37 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 3, Result: 12
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Conquering Strike.
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Wait, no need.
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d6
[2:37 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d6]: 5,1, Result: 6
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d8 smite
[2:37 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d8]: 6,3,5,1, Result: 15
[2:37 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus drives his warhammer down on the Elder Brain. "Come on, finish it off before it gets to react!"
[2:38 AM] Bot Fodder: John lolls on his feet. "Wha~?"
[2:38 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Ugh..." The Tiefling whimpers, reaching out... Twinned Haste on Razmik and Augus (wrong order OP), Heal on John.
[2:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: John, heal for 70 hp, remove Stunned.
[2:39 AM] Faerie: (FUCK)
[2:39 AM] Bot Fodder: (WOW that's a big heal)
[2:39 AM] Faerie: (Yeah...)
[2:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Nirvain huffs, and blasts the Elder Brain, "DIe monster, you don't belong in this world!"
[2:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d20
[2:39 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d20]: 19,4,17, Result: 40
[2:39 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d10
[2:39 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d10]: 6,10, Result: 16
[2:40 AM] Faerie: (Oh, wow, that's a sixth level spell. Weird it's just called ''Heal'', though)
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle shouts, "Ok, that's enough."
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20
[2:40 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 7,10, Result: 17
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 4d6
[2:40 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [4d6]: 5,4,6,2, Result: 17
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d10+10
[2:40 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d10+10]: 1,4, Result: 15
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow stands back up from being downed by the blast!
[2:40 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Ow!"
[2:40 AM] Faerie: (Headshotheadshotheadshot)
[2:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Top of the round,
[2:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Initiative 20, Lair Action.
[2:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Wall of Force around the Elder Brain, forming a barrier.
[2:41 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (5th level spell)
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 2d20
[2:42 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [2d20]: 14,13, Result: 27
[2:42 AM] Eon: (is the wall of fire still memeing?)
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Both counterspells fail!
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Wait... plus ability modifier...)
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Both succeeded :firepopo:
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yeah, Esker, it's fine.
[2:42 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: John, your turn.
[2:43 AM] Faerie: (H-how are we supposed to deal with the wall, if not CSpell? :sadpopo:)
[2:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The elder brain attempted to put on a psionic field to defend itself, but the other party's casters are relentless.
[2:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Disintegration, or... Not.)
[2:43 AM] Bot Fodder: John rattles his helmet, striking it with his palm a few times. "Right. Thanks!" he shouts to the Tiefling.
[2:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "I, I didn't do it for you, I did it for Auggy!"
[2:43 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus falters for a moment.
[2:43 AM] Faerie: (THEY HAVE A TSUN MAGE TOO)
[2:44 AM] Eon: Interesting party dynamics, Esker muses.

[2:44 AM] Eon: (I'm about to die guys if I collaspe, err.)
[2:44 AM] Faerie: (Hahahahahahahaha)
[2:44 AM] Eon: (irl)
[2:44 AM] Eon: (eyes tearing up for some reason)
[2:44 AM] Mizuki: (tired?)
[2:44 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Well, yeah, you ARE sick. Don't worry.)
[2:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (This should be the last action/round)
[2:45 AM] Bot Fodder: John attacks! Gotta bring it down before it uses another of those. Or before players die...(edited)
[2:45 AM] Faerie: (Also, is the brain still Huge? I think Wall of Force only covers a 10 feet sphere)
[2:45 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (... Let's pretend it stretched :troubledkoga: )
[2:45 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[2:45 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 1, Result: 10
[2:45 AM] Faerie: (O-okay!)
[2:46 AM] Faerie: (OH SHIT.)
[2:46 AM] Bot Fodder: (... uh, is critfail autofail)
[2:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Autofail)
[2:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (But y'know. You have mutliattacks.)
[2:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Grahh!" The brain wails, spurting grey ooze. It raises its tendril, knocking the Dragon Slayer aside for a second!
[2:46 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[2:46 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 8, Result: 17
[2:46 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: But it's unable to dodge the second hit!
[2:47 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d10+6 plus distracting.
[2:47 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d10+6]: 9, Result: 15
[2:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It shudders, near death!
[2:47 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d8
[2:47 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d8]: 6, Result: 6
[2:47 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anything else?
[2:49 AM] Bot Fodder: (Ah, wait, forgot bonus)
[2:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (John pls)
[2:49 AM] Bot Fodder: (Im on my phone ;_;)
[2:49 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (shhh, it's ok)
[2:49 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+9
[2:49 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+9]: 10, Result: 19
[2:50 AM] Faerie: (Posted from my Lumia530, sponsored by N O K I A)
[2:50 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d4+6
[2:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Alright, then.
[2:50 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d4+6]: 2, Result: 8
[2:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[2:50 AM] Faerie: (GWF?)
[2:50 AM] Bot Fodder: (Nope, switched it out.)
[2:50 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: No, no. 400 exact damage...
[2:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Your shaft thrusts, and reaches into the flower of brain matter and grisle.
[2:51 AM] Faerie: (Ahh, right... Also, h-how many phases does this have?)
[2:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It twists.
[2:51 AM] Bot Fodder: (Another attack might do it.)
[2:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Like a brain surgeon, you precisely severed an important connection within the Elder Brain.
[2:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It explodes....
[2:51 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 6d10+6
[2:51 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [6d10+6]: 3,3,10,6,7,7, Result: 42
[2:51 AM] Bot Fodder: (Oh okay)
[2:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus, Razmik, John, take 42 Psychic damage, DC 16 int save half.
[2:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: sorry... Dex
[2:52 AM] Faerie: Razmik watches in anticipation. Heart pumping, blood leaving his mouth, the whole package. He daren't think how the others are doing...
[2:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Explosion, physical.
[2:52 AM] Faerie: Disadvantage?
[2:52 AM] Runic: (grumble)
[2:52 AM] Faerie: I'm still stunned
[2:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 1d20-1+4
[2:52 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20-1+4]: 12, Result: 15
[2:52 AM] Bot Fodder: roll 1d20+1
[2:52 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+1]: 16, Result: 17
[2:52 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Oh. Yeah, take disadvantage, but get haste bonus, and ... Uh, all of you get +7 on the save
[2:52 AM] Faerie: roll 1d20+3
[2:52 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [1d20+3]: 19, Result: 22
[2:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: +3 Razmik, +4 Augus
[2:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: I frogot, right, paladin aura :firepopo:
[2:53 AM] Faerie: (>+7
NOW THIS IS JUSTICE)
[2:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Yeah, uh, 21 bludgeoning damage.
[2:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The elder brain is no more, as the remain is devoured by the flame!
[2:53 AM] Bot Fodder: (What, they stack?!)(edited)
[2:53 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... A trapdoor reveals itself, as the brain matter dried out.
[2:53 AM] Faerie: Razmik looks like shit, but his corpse body didn't even get sent flying backwards
[2:53 AM] Faerie: (Not normally)
[2:54 AM] Mizuki: (who's down?)
[2:54 AM] Faerie: ''ahhh-''
[2:54 AM] Faerie: That's still not it! Razmik struggles, as people's lives are still on the line. He can't stay like that, he needs to get up!
[2:54 AM] Faerie: You hear a plea.
[2:54 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Augus slumps, while the tiefling goes around, helping people up. "This is still not good, we need to move." Nirvain advices.
[2:54 AM] Faerie: ''---bring everyone downed to me''
huff
[2:54 AM] Faerie: ''NOW''
[2:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Mass Cure Wounds, to those who need it to get out of death saves.
[2:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: roll 3d8+3
[2:55 AM] BOTDiceBot: Dice: [3d8+3]: 5,2,4, Result: 14
[2:55 AM] Faerie: I was next on turn order, can I roll for stun?
[2:55 AM] Faerie: (NEVERMIND THEN)
[2:55 AM] Runic: (yay)
[2:55 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Stun condition ends on Elder Brain's death, don't worry.
[2:55 AM] Mizuki: (Koga, are the wyverns kill or do they get saves too?)
[2:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (They were uncon, and now they are back to 14-)
[2:56 AM] Mizuki: (actually, I'm not even sure if they're doown)
[2:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hit Points 52 (8d8 + 16)
[2:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: NEVERMIND
[2:56 AM] Mizuki: (cool!)
[2:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: >stayed alive with 2 HP
[2:56 AM] Faerie: ''I... augh...''
[2:56 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Quick, into the... Whatever it is!" Shadow shouts.
[2:56 AM] Bot Fodder: John lands with a thud. He looks up and, seeing paste where a brain once was, lets his head fall back for a relieved groan. He hops to his feet, albeit slower than normal.
[2:56 AM] Faerie: Razmik remains down for the count, as a wave of slowness washes over his body!
[2:56 AM] Eon: Esker weakly nods.
[2:57 AM] Faerie: Now he sort of understood John. Going fast had its price!
[2:57 AM] Mizuki: "Lexon, everyone, get up, we're moving on!" - Said Alicia - "Come on Raz, no time to play around!"
[2:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Recelle picks Lexon up. "You alright?"
[2:57 AM] Faerie: But he's very glad, and very thankful for the healing spell. ''T-that's such good news...''
[2:57 AM] Runic: Lexon gets back up after falling unconcious, "ugh," he looks at the direction of where the elder brain should be, and sighs. "Yeah, I'm alright, got a massive headache right now, but I'm good"(edited)
[2:57 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Shadow takes a quick look at the other party, making sure that their behavior aren't too out of the line.
[2:58 AM] Bot Fodder: John takes Razmik over the shoulder to help him along.
[2:58 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Augus turns to Shadow, giving him a knowing glance, and shrugs.
[2:58 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Let's get into the Spelljammer." Augus offers. "We should move out before we discuss anything."
[2:59 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... The two parties will retreat into the Spelljammer device, of which Recelle knows the operation of, with some difficulty, and is able to launch it within a minute.
[3:00 AM] Faerie: ''Thank you, John'', said he, motion returning to his limbs.
[3:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The destruction of the Elder Brain immediately caused a shift in the mind flayer's ranks, as they lost the one thing binding them together. Some defect and fled, while others band together, trying to hunt the party down.
[3:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: While yet others seek to reform the hive, with a mind flayer undergoing a transformation...
[3:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: But... For you guys? That's not something you have to worry about.
[3:00 AM] Faerie: Raz looks over Recelle's shoulder, looking at... whatever it is she's using to operate the thing. He can't make heads or tails of it.
[3:00 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: You are inside what appears to be a mage tower, with five layers, complete with a kitchen (No supplies, sadly) and bedrooms.
[3:01 AM] Faerie: (Oh my god what)
[3:01 AM] Eon: The druid is out of her element!
[3:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The primary, top floor contains a magical device, which.... Recelle seems to operate wtihout much issue, stating that she's seen it before.
[3:01 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: With a bit of a shudder, everything went quiet.
[3:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Something seems to howl outside for a moment, and the tower itself seems to rumble.
[3:02 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: But... After even that, there's a strange, dissociative sensation.
[3:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The walls on the top floor becomes enchanted with one-way invisibility, and... You are able to gaze outside the mage tower.
[3:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The mage tower is flying. Far above the sky - even the land itself. Everything around you is dark, save for a cold, ice-covered disk below you.
[3:03 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Stars fill your sight, everywhere you see.
[3:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: In the distance, three moons... moon-like objects, flys around the disk of ice, slowly.
[3:04 AM] Faerie: Razmik's shuddering. ''Is this real? Last we knew, we went underground just to escape from the cold, but...''
[3:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: A red moon, a bright, earthy moon, and... a gigantic ball of flesh, eyes, and gibbering mouth.
[3:04 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: The ball of flesh, chains thusly, sense your gaze, and shudders a little, the chain rattling...
[3:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... And Recelle turns the invisibility spells off. "Ok, let's not look at that."
[3:05 AM] Runic: 'This is all cool and all, but man is this view not helping out with my headache right now' Lexon thinks to himself, refraining from voicing his opinion to not ruin the mood
[3:05 AM] Faerie: He reaches out his hand. ''I've always wanted to grasp for the stars, but I can't believe my eyes.''
[3:05 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Welcome to the Sea of Stars." Recelle says, taking off the magical device - a literal helm. "... Eesh."
[3:06 AM] Faerie: Hey, Razmik wonders - if there's three moons, is there a sun?
[3:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "... Ok, ok, for the time being, close your jaws." Recelle says, to most of the others around the room.
[3:06 AM] Bot Fodder: "It's true, then... the world really is round." The ever grounded guard looks up when the walls turn opaque. "What? What was everyone else looking at?"
[3:06 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Even Augus seems flabbergasted, too stunned to talk.
[3:07 AM] Mizuki: "My first time on the sea of stars..."
[3:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Uh. I'll readjust things in a bit." Recelle says. "There's settings and the like that... Yeah."
[3:07 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ... Oh, the Tiefling casts Revivfy on the Drow. :sadpopo:
[3:07 AM] Mizuki: "Turn the invisibility on again, Recelle, I want to see more!" - She seemed excited. - "We can just ignore that thing for now."
[3:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 1500 XP  for everyone (Split between you AND the other party)
[3:08 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: "Yeah, yeah, hold your horses." Recelle says, seemingly happy as well.
[3:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: As the party recouperate from the worst of it, and relish in the defeat of a monster that held a region of the world hostage, while flying across the Sea of Stars,
[3:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: we'll end today here?
[3:09 AM] Mizuki: yeah
[3:09 AM] Bot Fodder: (Ok! Introductions and stuff later.)
[3:09 AM] Faerie: (I think so, yeah)
[3:09 AM] Mizuki: man, we fuggin killed an elder brain

[3:09 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's actually CR 16...)
[3:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ( But well, it's a party of like, 12 or so, so exp was divided 10 ways :sadpopo: )
[3:10 AM] Runic: Lexon didn't get to do anything, though he wouldn't get to do much anyway :cryingpopo:
[3:10 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: pets Lexon.
[3:10 AM] Bot Fodder: (Was gonna say how strong those are in 3.5)
[3:10 AM] Faerie: Hm. Interesting, quite! Razmik taps Recelle on the shoulder. ''Please tell me if you ever turn that off again, okay? I probably should go get people something to eat sometime soon.''
[3:10 AM] Faerie: (CR 16 holy shit)
[3:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (It's 14, modified upward for its damage.)
[3:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: (Death throe's just me being mean, though.)
[3:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: I was hoping I can at least kill someone :sadpopo:
[3:11 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: But not even the wyverns died :sadpopo:
[3:12 AM] Bot Fodder: (The Drow :3c )
[3:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Anyways, the session ended, so d/w about RP modo. I don't think mots of you are not tired enough to RP
[3:12 AM] Mizuki: it's hard when we have such an amazing party!
[3:12 AM] Faerie: (The drow died, huh? I missed that during combat)

[3:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: I did too
[3:12 AM] Faerie: (Wew)
[3:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: I calculated his HP on the spot (I didn't have time)
[3:12 AM] Bot Fodder: Kek
[3:12 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Then realized, uh.
[3:13 AM] Bot Fodder: I think your calc doesn't account for how hax our party is at this point, though.
[3:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: Hm? No no, it's fine. If you notice, it's "only" 1500 XP
[3:13 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: It's about "as good as 3 or 4 mind flayers"
[3:14 AM] Bot Fodder: Wait. Do we get XP for the 3 or 4 mindflayers we DID fight?
[3:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: ...
[3:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: oh, uh
[3:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: fugg
[3:14 AM] Faerie: (Oh, I was gonna ask)
[3:14 AM] Faerie: (Ruh
roh)
[3:14 AM] Runic: Good thinking!
[3:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: 1450 on top of that, so... let's round it up, 3000 XP!
[3:14 AM] KogasaGaSagasa: END LOG HERE HOLY SHIT