[Game Thread] Call of the Ancient - Part 4

[Admin Bhelogan]

Kerwin cast a sleep spell, hoping to stop two knights in their tracks. He could feel the pull of the magic, that despite putting extra oomph into it, only one of these foes was forced to sleep, and even that one nearly overpowered the spell. Meanwhile, Gallindan levied a trio of attacks at the vile group leader. One swing of his glave and the followup from the butt of his weapon landed home, and lit up with radiant smiting energy. He could tell that the blows were hurting, and starting to stack up against the man.

Adelaide was still a blur of action as she slashed, then shoved the nearest foe back down the pit she had created. After that, her speed carried her easily to the knight who was running towards the town and put an end to his flight. She then worked her way down to where the rest of the battle was still raging. Oren managed to keep himself in the air, and sent two more blasts of energy towards the leader of the heinous group. One hit squarely and was met with a dark curse under the man's breath.

Up on the hillside, a knight poked his head up from a pit, which he was in for the 2nd time, and peered around to make sure that the fiery redheaded paladin was not waiting to kick him down again. Seeing that she had moved to other areas of the fight, he climbed back out of the hole, and confidently moved towards Kerwin, "Hold still," he demanded, assuming all the illusions he was seeing were an artifact of the bump he had on his head. Two quick slashes failed to find the Wizard, but Kerwin found himself now face to face against the knight, without any more illusionary duplicates of himself for protection.

Around Markus, the Knight still on a horse, the knight on foot, and the zombie all continued to pummel away at the senior paladin. Like the enemy group's leader, the continual barrage of blows was adding up again, and Markus wasn't sure how much longer he could hold out without some help.

Gallindan faced another kind of trouble. The knight with the lantern now gave him the full attention that he seemed to be begging for. "You should be scared, begging for your life!" He tapped his lantern twice, and a sickening green ray shot out at Gallindan, making him feel ill to the stomach.

Near the church, one of the knights was taking a nice nap, but the other proceeded towards the doorway, gritting his teeth through the pain of the moonbeam burning his skin, and flung the door open. He came face to face with Daybreak, who was blocking the way, and quickly slashed at her with his wicked blade. A wince of pain and anger indicated that the blow had landed, though it would take much more than that to cause Daybreak to abandon her post.

A moment later, a broom broke over the man's head. Isabella had run forward and smashed her improvised weapon on the Knights head, determined to at least get a swing in this fight. Deabreak then pushed her aside, snarling like an animal. Then, suddenly, she WAS an animal, a massive dire wolf. Her teeth sunk into the knight's leg, and pulled them out from underneath him, leaving the helpless figure pinned to the ground, covered in moonlight.

Marcus decided that just playing defense wasn't going to get him out of trouble. He turned his desperation into furry, and swung his hammer with strength at the knight still up on the horse. The sounds of bone breaking were so loud, that commoners in the village probably heard it over their dinner conversations. The result was one more foe down, and now Marcus knew he had broke the flank that was leaving him vulnerable.

Royal Rumble 1 square = 5' Click on map to see a larger version

OODM zebedee - these knights are Humanoids, not fiends (well, and the one is Undead now). To flank, you need to physically be next to the creature, not just have them in your threat range, and have an ally physically next to them on the opposite side. Gallindan is hit with a curse. DC 17 WIS save. On a failure, every attack he makes against K1 has disadvantage. tomplum - both Kerwin's illusions are now gone. Everyone us up to act! NPC Status (not listed are unhurt) Marcus = -37 HP

Enemies
K<x> - Knight on Foot. AC 15. K1 is holding the lantern
KH<x> - Knights on Horses. AC 16 (KH2/3/4/5/6 are no longer on horses, KH4 is asleep)
RED COLORED - Zombie Kniht, AC 13

[Starflier]

Adelaide Darkdraft Haste Action - Dash; Move to O14Charging towards the church, Adelaide came to Gallindan’s aid with Attack 1 w/advantage, 22 to hit, 9 damage; Attack 2 w/advantage, missa flurry of sword strikes at the enemy assailing her mentor with foul magic. Still empowered by Haste - round 5Kerwin’s spell, Adelaide swept her gaze over the battlefield and caught sight of an old friend sneaking up on the wizard. ”I thought you were dead,” she muttered under her breath as she Shove to knock K1 prone, Str(Athletics) 12plowed her shield into the evil knight’s back, trying to knock him to the ground before heading off to Kerwin’s aid. Move to E12Sliding to a stop behind the honourless dog, she tapped him on the shoulder, ”Long time, no see. Ready for another go?”

OOC +2 AC, 60’ movement, ADV on Dex saves, extra action (Attack, Dash, Disengage, Hide, Use an ObjectHaste (Round 5) Conceding the possible OA to K1

 

Actions Rolls Action: Attack K1 w/advantage Attack 1 K1: Dice Roll: 2d20+6kh1sch15 (11, 16 (keeping 16) )+6 ✔ Total = 22 1d8+5 (4)+5 Total = 9 Attack 2 K1: Dice Roll: 2d20+6kh1sch15 (7, 5 (keeping 7) )+6 ✘ Total = 13 1d8+5 (2)+5 Total = 7 Reaction: Opportunity Attack if Available Bonus: Shove K1 Prone, Strength (Athletics) Dice Roll: 1d20+6 (6)+6 Total = 12 Haste Action: Dash (120’ movement) Move: To O14, Attack K1, Shove K1, To E12 to cover Kerwin Interaction: Concentration:

Stat Block Adelaide Darkdraft | Lawful Good | Human | Paladin 6 (Oath of the Ancients) Armor Class: 21 w/haste (19) | Hit Points: 44/52 | Speed: 30 | Proficiency Bonus +3 Ability Scores: Str 16/+3 | Dex 8/-1 | Con 14/+2 | Int 8/-1 | Wis 12/+1 | Cha 16/+3 With +3 from Aura of ProtectionSaving throws: Str +6 | Dex +2 | Con +5 | Int +2 | Wis +7 | Cha +9 Skills: Athletics +6 | Insight +4 | Intimidation +6 | Nature +2 | Persuasion +6 Passive Perception: 11 | Languages: Common, Dwarven, Goblin, Elvish Longsword: +6, 1d8+5 | Javelin: +6, 1d6+5, 30/120 | Splint Armour: AC 17 | Shield: AC +2 | Dagger x 2 Bullseye Lantern (filled and lit) x 2 Steel Mirror x 2 10 foot pole x 2 Hempen Rope (50 feet, coiled) x 2 Sack x 2 2 Mastiffs x 2 Bag of 100 gp x 1 10 gems worth 100 gp each x 2 Portable Ram x 1 10x10x10 pit x 2 Robe of Useful Items Relevant Skills/Feats: Fighting Style: Dueling | Divine Sense | Divine Health | Divine Smite | Lay on Hands: 30/30 | Channel Divinity: 1/1 | Extra Attack | Aura of Protection (+3, 10’ radius) | If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you. If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect. Shield Master | Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. When you score a critical hit that deals slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it. Until the start of your next turn, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls. Slasher Spell Slots: 2/4, 2/2 | Spell Save DC: 14 | Spell Attack Bonus: +6 | Spells Prepared: 6 Oath Spells: Ensnaring Strike, Speak with Animals, Moonbeam, Misty Step Spells: Compelled Duel, Shield of Faith, Thunderous Smite, Lesser Restoration, Protection from Poison, Find Steed

 

Character Sheet

[zebedee]

Gallindan Gallindan's stomach roils at the assault... but somehow, he Wisdom save 26resists the effect. Grinning, he answers the man's taunt. "Your feeble lantern is no match for the dawn." And without any further ado, he spins Move to P17away from the lantern-bearer and takes full advantage of the length of his weapon. Two hits for 27 total.Twice his blade slices through the man's armor. He stands ready for the counterattack.

 

Dice Wisdom save:

d20	19
d4+7t	(2)+7	Running Total = 28		Total = 9

AC: 17
HP: 40/46
Move: Move to P17 to flank undead knight.
Action: Attack K1
Bonus action: butt attack
Polearm master: other creatures provoke an attack of opportunity if they enter the reach of his polearm.
27 damage from two hits.
I just realized I never rolled a concentration check for my Bless! I'm QUITE sure it's down. Poop. Sorry about that! That's what I get for copying and pasting the dice rolls. It doesn't affect any results this round, at least.

Dice attack 1:

d20	19
d4+7t	(4)+7	Running Total = 30		Total = 11

Dice possible damage 1:

d10+4

(9)+4

Total = 13

Dice butt attack snicker:

d20	3
d4+7t	(2)+7	Running Total = 12		Total = 9

Dice possible butt damage snicker:

d4+4

(1)+4

Total = 5

Dice attack 2:

d20	13
d4+7t	(4)+7	Running Total = 24		Total = 11

Dice possible damage 2:

d10+4

(10)+4

Total = 14

[mountainbound]

Seeing Adelaide and Gallindan teaming up on the leader, Oren focuses on one of the knights on foot still harrassing Marcus. He fires yet another round of psychic power down at the battlefield, hoping to drive the man back.

OOC   Dice Roll: 1d20+7 (19)+7 Total = 26 Dice Roll: 1d10+5 (8)+5 Total = 13 Dice Roll: 1d20+7 (15)+7 Total = 22 Dice Roll: 1d10+5 (5)+5 Total = 10 AC: 16 HP: 39/39 (temp HP gone) Action: Fly Condition: Armor of Agythys Bonus: none Move: T16, still hovering just above the church roof Action: Eldritch blasts at K4 Spell save DC: 15

[tomplum]

Kerwin Powell As Adelaide left the hill that Kerwin stood on, having vanquished their foes, the rotund mage found himself rather exposed as the formerly horsebound knight clambered back out of the pit he had fallen into. Having no inclination to have bits of himself hacked off, Kerwin summoned three illusory copies of himself in an effort to avoid any harm. Adding to his illusion, he said, "Your friend didn't make it too far when he tried to run but she's down the hill at the church...and I certainly won't run after you." Might send a trio of magic missiles into your back but I won't be running, he thought, waiting to see if the foul knight would see reason and retreat.   Movement: none Action: Cast Mirror Image Bonus Action: Reaction: Free Action: Conditions: Maintain Haste on Adelaide; Mirror Image; Sleep Rolls:   Kerwin Powell | 6th-Level Transmutation Wizard | 5'3" 190 lbs. Variant Human HP: 44/44 | AC: 9 | Initiative: +4 | Spell Slots: 4/4 | 1/4 | 0/3 | Spell DC: 15 Weapons: +2 to hit, 1d6-1 B, Versatile (1d8)Quarterstaff Cantrips Known: Enchantment cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: S, M (a small amount of makeup applied to the face as this spell is cast) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute For the duration, you have advantage on all Charisma checks directed at one creature of your choice that isn’t hostile toward you. When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you. Another creature might seek retribution in other ways (at the DM’s discretion), depending on the nature of your interaction with it.Friends, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (two lodestones) Duration: Instantaneous This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as a broken chain link, two halves of a broken key, a torn cloak, or a leaking wineskin. As long as the break or tear is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving no trace of the former damage. This spell can physically repair a magic item or construct, but the spell can’t restore magic to such an object.Mending, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous or 1 hour You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You affect it in one of the following ways: You instantaneously expand the flame 5 feet in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location. You instantaneously extinguish the flames within the cube. You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour. You cause simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature, an inanimate object, or a location—to appear within the flames and animate as you like. The shapes last for 1 hour. If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.Control Flames, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 10 feet Components: V, S Duration: Up to 1 hour This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range: You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor. You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire. You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot. You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour. You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour. You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn. If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.Prestidigitation 1st-Level Spells Known: 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a piece of string and a bit of wood) Duration: 1 hour This spell creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless, Medium force that performs simple tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range. It has AC 10, 1 hit point, and a Strength of 2, and it can’t attack. If it drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends. Once on each of your turns as a bonus action, you can mentally command the servant to move up to 15 feet and interact with an object. The servant can perform simple tasks that a human servant could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, folding clothes, lighting fires, serving food, and pouring wine. Once you give the command, the servant performs the task to the best of its ability until it completes the task, then waits for your next command. If you command the servant to perform a task that would move it more than 60 feet away from you, the spell ends.Unseen Servant, 1st-level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 hour You make yourself – including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person – look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can’t change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you. The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair. To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.Disguise Self, 1st-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Instantaneous You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously and you can direct them to hit one creature or several. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell creates one more dart for each slot level above 1st.Magic Missile, 1st-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: V, S, M (a pinch of fine sand, rose petals, or a cricket) Duration: 1 minute This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8, the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures). Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature’s hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature’s hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected. Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren’t affected by this spell. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, roll an additional 2d8 for each slot level above 1st.Sleep, 1st-level abjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a tiny bell and a piece of fine silver wire) Duration: 8 hours You set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. Choose a door, a window, or an area within range that is no larger than a 20-foot cube. Until the spell ends, an alarm alerts you whenever a tiny or larger creature touches or enters the warded area. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures that won’t set off the alarm. You also choose whether the alarm is mental or audible. A mental alarm alerts you with a ping in your mind if you are within 1 mile of the warded area. This ping awakens you if you are sleeping. An audible alarm produces the sound of a hand bell for 10 seconds within 60 feet.Alarm, 1st-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous Choose one object weighing 1 to 5 pounds within range that isn’t being worn or carried. The object flies in a straight line up to 90 feet in a direction you choose before falling to the ground, stopping early if it impacts against a solid surface. If the object would strike a creature, that creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the object strikes the target and stops moving. When the object strikes something, the object and what it strikes each take 3d8 bludgeoning damage. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the maximum weight of objects that you can target with this spell increases by 5 pounds, and the damage increases by 1d8, for each slot level above 1st.Catapult, 1st-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 round An invisible barrier of magical force appears and protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile.Shield, 1st-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self (30-foot line) Components: V, S, M (a bit of rotten food) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute A stream of acid emanates from you in a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be covered in acid for the spell’s duration or until a creature uses its action to scrape or wash the acid off itself or another creature. A creature covered in the acid takes 2d4 acid damage at start of each of its turns. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 1st.Tasha's Caustic Brew 2nd-Level Spell Known: 2nd-level divination Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a copper piece) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t speak any language, the creature is unaffected. You initially learn the surface thoughts of the creature—what is most on its mind in that moment. As an action, you can either shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts or attempt to probe deeper into the same creature’s mind. If you probe deeper, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, you gain insight into its reasoning (if any), its emotional state, and something that loom s large in its mind (such as something it worries over, loves, or hates). If it succeeds, the spell ends. Either way, the target knows that you are probing into its mind, and unless you shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts, the creature can use its action on its turn to make an Intelligence check contested by your Intelligence check; if it succeeds, the spell ends. Questions verbally directed at the target creature naturally shape the course of its thoughts, so this spell is particularly effective as part of an interrogation. You can also use this spell to detect the presence of thinking creatures you can’t see. When you cast the spell or as your action during the duration, you can search for thoughts within 30 feet of you. The spell can penetrate barriers, but 2 feet of rock, 2 inches of any metal other than lead, or a thin sheet of lead blocks you. You can’t detect a creature with an Intelligence of 3 or lower or one that doesn’t speak any language. Once you detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.Detect Thoughts, 2nd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (powdered corn extract and a twisted loop of parchment) Duration: 1 hour You touch a length of rope that is up to 60 feet long. One end of the rope then rises into the air until the whole rope hangs perpendicular to the ground. At the upper end of the rope, an invisible entrance opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends. The extradimensional space can be reached by climbing to the top of the rope. The space can hold as many as eight Medium or smaller creatures. The rope can be pulled into the space, making the rope disappear from view outside the space. Attacks and spells can’t cross through the entrance into or out of the extradimensional space, but those inside can see out of it as if through a 3-foot-by-5-foot window centered on the rope. Anything inside the extradimensional space drops out when the spell ends.Rope Trick, 2nd-level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 minute Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it’s impossible to track which image is real. You can use your action to dismiss the illusory duplicates. Each time a creature targets you with an attack during the spell’s duration, roll a d20 to determine whether the attack instead targets one of your duplicates. If you have three duplicates, you must roll a 6 or higher to change the attack’s target to a duplicate. With two duplicates, you must roll an 8 or higher. With one duplicate, you must roll an 11 or higher. A duplicate’s AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier. If an attack hits a duplicate, the duplicate is destroyed. A duplicate can be destroyed only by an attack that hits it. It ignores all other damage and effects. The spell ends when all three duplicates are destroyed. A creature is unaffected by this spell if it can’t see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.Mirror Image, 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (gold dust worth at least 25 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: Until dispelled You touch a closed door, window, gate, chest, or other entryway, and it becomes locked for the duration. You and the creatures you designate when you cast this spell can open the object normally. You can also set a password that, when spoken within 5 feet of the object, suppresses this spell for 1 minute. Otherwise, it is impassable until it is broken or the spell is dispelled or suppressed. Casting knock on the object suppresses arcane lock for 10 minutes. While affected by this spell, the object is more difficult to break or force open; the DC to break it or pick any locks on it increases by 10.Arcane Lock 3rd-Level Spells Known: 3rd-level evocation (ritual) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere) Components: V, S, M (a small crystal bead) Duration: 8 hours A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains stationary for the duration. The spell ends if you leave its area. Nine creatures of Medium size or smaller can fit inside the dome with you. The spell fails if its area includes a larger creature or more than nine creatures. Creatures and objects within the dome when you cast this spell can move through it freely. All other creatures and objects are barred from passing through it. Spells and other magical effects can’t extend through the dome or be cast through it. The atmosphere inside the space is comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside. Until the spell ends, you can command the interior to become dimly lit or dark. The dome is opaque from the outside, of any color you choose, but it is transparent from the inside.Leomund's Tiny Hut, 3rd-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You reach into the mind of one creature you can see and force it to make an Intelligence saving throw. A creature automatically succeeds if it is immune to being frightened. On a failed save, the target loses the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all creatures it can see as enemies until the spell ends. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Whenever the affected creature chooses another creature as a target, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within range of the attack, spell, or other ability it’s using. If an enemy provokes an opportunity attack from the affected creature, the creature must make that attack if it is able to.Enemies Abound, 3rd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you see a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous You attempt to interrupt a creature in the process of casting a spell. If the creature is casting a spell of 3rd level or lower, its spell fails and has no effect. If it is casting a spell of 4th level or higher, make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. The DC equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a success, the creature’s spell fails and has no effect. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the interrupted spell has no effect if its level is less than or equal to the level of the spell slot you used.Counterspell, 3rd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a shaving of licorice root) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Choose a willing creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, the target’s speed is doubled, it gains a +2 bonus to AC, it has advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and it gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. When the spell ends, the target can’t move or take actions until after its next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over it.Haste, 3rd-lvl abjuration Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 10 feet Target: A 10-foot-radius, 20-foot-tall cylinder centered on a point on the ground that you can see within range Components: V S M (Holy water or powdered silver and iron worth at least 100 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: 1 hour You create a 10-foot-radius, 20-foot-tall cylinder of magical energy centered on a point on the ground that you can see within range. Glowing runes appear wherever the cylinder intersects with the floor or other surface. Choose one or more of the following types of creatures: celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. The circle affects a creature of the chosen type in the following ways: The creature can’t willingly enter the cylinder by nonmagical means. If the creature tries to use teleportation or interplanar travel to do so, it must first succeed on a Charisma saving throw. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets within the cylinder. Targets within the cylinder can’t be charmed, frightened, or possessed by the creature. When you cast this spell, you can elect to cause its magic to operate in the reverse direction, preventing a creature of the specified type from leaving the cylinder and protecting targets outside it. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the Duration increases by 1 hour for each slot level above 3rd.Magic Circle Features: Always on the lookout for danger, you gain the following benefits: You can’t be surprised while you are conscious. You gain a +5 bonus to initiative. Other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you. Alert, Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Transmutation spell into your spellbook is halved.Transmutation Savant, Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can temporarily alter the physical properties of one nonmagical object, changing it from one substance into another. You perform a special alchemical procedure on one object composed entirely of wood, stone (but not a gemstone), iron, copper, or silver, transforming it into a different one of those materials. For each 10 minutes you spend performing the procedure, you can transform up to 1 cubic foot of material. After 1 hour, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), the material reverts to its original substance.Minor Alchemy, Starting at 6th level, you can spend 8 hours creating a transmuter's stone that stores transmutation magic. You can benefit from the stone yourself or give it to another creature. A creature gains a benefit of your choice as long as the stone is in the creature's possession. When you create the stone, choose the benefit from the following options: Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet An increase to speed of 10 feet while the creature is unencumbered Proficiency in Constitution saving throws Resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage (your choice whenever you choose this benefit) Each time you cast a transmutation spell of 1st level or higher, you can change the effect of your stone if the stone is on your person. If you create a new transmuter's stone, the previous one ceases to function.Transmuter's Stone, You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. For example, if you're a 4th-level wizard, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level spell slot or two 1st-level spell slots.Arcane Recovery Spells Prepared for Normal Day: Enemies Abound, Haste, Detect Thoughts, Rope Trick, Mirror Image, Catapult, Disguise Self, Sleep, Tasha's Caustic Brew, Shield Spells Prepared if Expecting Trouble: Enemies Abound, Haste, Counterspell, Mirror Image, Rope Trick, Catapult, Sleep, Tasha's Caustic Brew, Shield, Magic Missile

[Admin Bhelogan]

What had started out looking like improbable odds quickly turned around. Gallindan and Adelaide worked in unison, mimicking their movements from all those hours of sparing practice, to dispatch of the evil knight, wielding the magical lantern. With their leader down, Oren finished off the last knight harassing Marcus. Marcus immediately followed up by dispatching the zombie. The foe that was caught in Daybreak's grasp continued to be burned by a moonbeam, and torn to shreds by wolf teeth. A few whacks more of a broom from Isabella was needed, but added for good measure. One last night was still magically asleep, and the other watched as Kerwin put up more images of himself in a defensive posture. Seeing he was now essentially alone, after spending most of the fight being repeatedly kicked down a hole, he dropped his weapons and surrendered at the mage's feet.

Marcus grabbed a rope and immediately started tying up the sleeping Knight, making sure he had no chance to flee or fight when he awoke soon afterward. Unceremoniously, the night grew quiet, with the expectation of a torch coming from down the road. Frath was on his way, and his son Olliver was right behind. They had heard all the commotion and felt the evil presence that the rest had, and were arriving to see if they could provide any help with the situation.

Kerwin marched his prisoner down to the chapel, and Marcus smiled at the group. "I don't know that I would have survived this, surrounded by any other group of warriors. You have my thanks and have certainly proven your worth." There were a lot of questions to be asked now. Who were these Knights? What was with that Lantern? What would happen next? And, it seemed Isabella had a new idol, as she watched Daybreak's every move, now determined to learn from the Druid.

[Starflier]

Adelaide Darkdraft While Kerwin escorted the prisoner to the church, Adelaide turned her attention to the injured horse that had fallen into the pit she’d created. Scrambling down the side of the pit, which the other knight had climbed out of on two occasions, she found herself standing on the damp soil next to the wounded mount. Calling on her training with Gallindan she first began establishing Cast Speak with Animalsa connection between herself and the horse to help her keep the creature from panicking. ”Whoa, easy, I can help,” she said softly with hands held out palms up as she took a few, slow steps forward. ”Remain still, and I will mend your leg so that you may run once more.” Adelaide wasn’t really sure how to ‘talk’ to a horse, even with the aid of the magic linking the two of them, but what else did horses do but run and eat and sleep. Taking a few more slow steps forward, she reached out with one hand and placed it gently on the horse’s nearest shoulder. As she did so she Lay on Hands]However many HP requiredchanneled healing energy into the broken leg, hoping it would be enough, ”Easy… easy… when this is better I will find someone to get you out of this hole.”

OOC +2 AC, 60’ movement, ADV on Dex saves, extra action (Attack, Dash, Disengage, Hide, Use an ObjectHaste (Round 6) Speak with Animals (10 minutes)

 

Actions Rolls Action: out of combat - Cast Speak with Animals; Lay on Hands ?HP Reaction: Opportunity Attack if Available Bonus: Haste Action: Move: Interaction: Concentration:

Stat Block Adelaide Darkdraft | Lawful Good | Human | Paladin 6 (Oath of the Ancients) Armor Class: 21 w/haste (19) | Hit Points: 44/52 | Speed: 30 | Proficiency Bonus +3 Ability Scores: Str 16/+3 | Dex 8/-1 | Con 14/+2 | Int 8/-1 | Wis 12/+1 | Cha 16/+3 With +3 from Aura of ProtectionSaving throws: Str +6 | Dex +2 | Con +5 | Int +2 | Wis +7 | Cha +9 Skills: Athletics +6 | Insight +4 | Intimidation +6 | Nature +2 | Persuasion +6 Passive Perception: 11 | Languages: Common, Dwarven, Goblin, Elvish Longsword: +6, 1d8+5 | Javelin: +6, 1d6+5, 30/120 | Splint Armour: AC 17 | Shield: AC +2 | Dagger x 2 Bullseye Lantern (filled and lit) x 2 Steel Mirror x 2 10 foot pole x 2 Hempen Rope (50 feet, coiled) x 2 Sack x 2 2 Mastiffs x 2 Bag of 100 gp x 1 10 gems worth 100 gp each x 2 Portable Ram x 1 10x10x10 pit x 2 Robe of Useful Items Relevant Skills/Feats: Fighting Style: Dueling | Divine Sense | Divine Health | Divine Smite | Lay on Hands: 30/30 | Channel Divinity: 1/1 | Extra Attack | Aura of Protection (+3, 10’ radius) | If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you. If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect. Shield Master | Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. When you score a critical hit that deals slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it. Until the start of your next turn, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls. Slasher Spell Slots: 1/4, 2/2 | Spell Save DC: 14 | Spell Attack Bonus: +6 | Spells Prepared: 6 Oath Spells: Ensnaring Strike, Speak with Animals, Moonbeam, Misty Step Spells: Compelled Duel, Shield of Faith, Thunderous Smite, Lesser Restoration, Protection from Poison, Find Steed

 

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[zebedee]

Gallindan The eladrin watched the enemy leader fall and whirled to look for another opponent... only to find that there weren't any! The tide had turned so quickly, he hadn't quite appreciated it. He relaxed and lowered his glaive. "Well fought, all of you. And you, Kerwin! Your enchantment of Adelaide might have been the most important part of this victory." He crouched to look at the lantern that had fallen from the leader's hands. "Kerwin, what do you make of this artifact? Am I right to be wary to touch it?"

[mountainbound]

Oren Oren waves at Frath and Oliver, gladly accepting the help of these trusted old companions. "You missed the battle, but there's plenty of cleaning up to do," he says, knowing that they'd have to mobilize the town to bury the knights. To Marcus the warlock says, "Should you perform some holy ritual over their bodies before we put them to rest?" Everyone had questions, and Oren was glad that a couple of the evil knights survived. He says to Kerwin, "Well done magician! You fought well tonight." The biggest surprise though, was Isabella's sudden admiration for Daybreak. Pulling Daybreak aside he says, "You must have made some impression on her in the chapel. It is a very good thing to give her someone to look up to. I can't think of anyone better," he tells the tiefling woman. Her powers continued to grow, and he was glad as ever to have her support. He sighs, though the odds were against them, they prevailed with a bit of luck and teamwork. Looking to Marcus he says, "Something tells me this is not the last we'll see of these knights."

[Admin Bhelogan]

Frath took the cue, and good word that the dangers had been dealt with, and headed back to the town to grab a few more helping hands. "Will need to clean up the bodies before burial. The armor and weapons they brought can be put to good use though. Maybe we should have our own local militia, given how many dangers we have seen lately." Frath's pragmatic response was intended to help calm his son Olliver, who looked like he was going to be sick after seeing the dead bodies. Oren knew to old man well enough to know that he had a lot more concern about what he was seeing there than he was letting on.

Kerwin was a little too focused on his task of keeping an eye on their prisoner to hear Gallindan's praise or question. Marcus had a thought though. "I wouldn't directly touch it, until we can discern what kind of magic it holds. Pick it up with a rod, or keep it wrapped in cloth for now. We should study it though."

Daybreak felt that Isabella's fragile emotional state would probably not be helped by being around the lantern, or hearing whatever conversation would be had with the two prisoners. "Let's talk a walk outside for a bit," she suggested to the young woman.

Marcus nodded his approval, not that it was needed. "We still should attempt that cleansing ritual on her, when we are ready. It seems the worst of it has passed for the time though. Keep an eye on her." Daybreak understood the situation well enough that she didn't need the direction though, and had a better intuition for how to handle Isabella than Marcus ever would.

A little later that evening, a dozen villagers were working to bury the corpses of the slain Knights and clean up the battlefield outside. The Knight's steeds had been rounded up, a task made much easier by the previously injured horse's willingness to work with Adilade, and tied to posts on the backside of the church. After mending the beast's leg, it was a rival task to topple enough dirt back into the hole to make a ramp for it to hop back up to the surface.

The two prisoners were tied together, and held inside the church, while the Lantern was sitting underneath a cloak Marcus had provided. So far, the prisoners hadn't spoken a word. Marcus had spent the better part of the last hour meditating, resting, praying, and recovering from the fight. The group was going to have to make some decisions about what to do next.

[Starflier]

Adelaide Darkdraft Having only just climbed from the pit when Kerwin’s magic ended on her, Adelaide was struck by a wave of disorientation and fatigue that left her feeling sick to her stomach. In the moment she lost focus on her own spell and could only hope the horse in the pit remained calm a while longer. Indeed, the villagers soon arrived and made quick work of getting the horse free, despite their confusion over how the pit came to be there. Adelaide did not feel like explaining that, or having curious townsfolk trying to pull patches from her cloak and so remained quiet on the subject. With the townsfolk taking care of the battlefield and the prisoners tied up, Adelaid offered to watch the two knights while the others focused on the lantern and ritual. Her connection with the natural order might give her abilities similar in some ways, but she was quite certain that Kerwin or Marcus or Oren would be better suited to magical investigation. Even Gallindan’s experience made him an asset in such matters, but keeping an eye on these two and keeping them in line? She could handle that just fine. ”Feel free to speak,” she said to the two bound prisoners Dice Intimidation: 1d20+6 (15)+6 Total = 21 while cleaning their companions' blood from her blade, the only thing she’d said since sitting down nearby twenty minutes earlier, ”so long as you have something we would like to hear.”

 

Actions Rolls Action: Intimidation to get the men to speak. Reaction: Opportunity Attack if Available Bonus: Haste Action: Move: Interaction: Concentration:

Stat Block Adelaide Darkdraft | Lawful Good | Human | Paladin 6 (Oath of the Ancients) Armor Class: 19 | Hit Points: 44/52 | Speed: 30 | Proficiency Bonus +3 Ability Scores: Str 16/+3 | Dex 8/-1 | Con 14/+2 | Int 8/-1 | Wis 12/+1 | Cha 16/+3 With +3 from Aura of ProtectionSaving throws: Str +6 | Dex +2 | Con +5 | Int +2 | Wis +7 | Cha +9 Skills: Athletics +6 | Insight +4 | Intimidation +6 | Nature +2 | Persuasion +6 Passive Perception: 11 | Languages: Common, Dwarven, Goblin, Elvish Longsword: +6, 1d8+5 | Javelin: +6, 1d6+5, 30/120 | Splint Armour: AC 17 | Shield: AC +2 | Dagger x 2 Bullseye Lantern (filled and lit) x 2 Steel Mirror x 2 10 foot pole x 2 Hempen Rope (50 feet, coiled) x 2 Sack x 2 2 Mastiffs x 2 Bag of 100 gp x 1 10 gems worth 100 gp each x 2 Portable Ram x 1 10x10x10 pit x 2 Robe of Useful Items Relevant Skills/Feats: Fighting Style: Dueling | Divine Sense | Divine Health | Divine Smite | Lay on Hands: 30/30 | Channel Divinity: 1/1 | Extra Attack | Aura of Protection (+3, 10’ radius) | If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you. If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect. Shield Master | Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. When you score a critical hit that deals slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it. Until the start of your next turn, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls. Slasher Spell Slots: 1/4, 2/2 | Spell Save DC: 14 | Spell Attack Bonus: +6 | Spells Prepared: 6 Oath Spells: Ensnaring Strike, Speak with Animals, Moonbeam, Misty Step Spells: Compelled Duel, Shield of Faith, Thunderous Smite, Lesser Restoration, Protection from Poison, Find Steed

 

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[mountainbound]

Oren Remembering the demonic invasion in Trebblefork, Oren can only wince to think of a band of farmers taking on a sudden horde. But he can see Oliver's resolve come back, and says, "I think that an armed volunteer force might be an excellent way to alert the village of danger. Perhaps Oliver might even want to be part of it." Oren sees Isabella following Daybreak around, and watches as the tiefling woman gives the younger girl some unheard words. He decides to let his friend handle that situaion and instead makes his way to join Adelaide with the prisoners. The warrior woman also had things in hand, so he merely sheathes his dagger, dispels his weapon and stands by to listen to what they had to say. Insight on the prisoners   Dice Roll: 1d20+2 (16)+2 Total = 18

[tomplum]

Kerwin Powell Now that the fight was over, Kerwin could feel his adrenaline fading while his hands began to shake. He tugged them into his waistcoat to try and hide them from those assembled. He could feel the sweat beading on his forehead and running down his neck behind his ears. So, this is what it feels like to kill a man, he thought to himself. Sure he had swatted down the odd goblin highway robber or gotten himself out of a pack of wolves with a torch and a few well placed magic missiles but this was the first time he had killed another human. It made him feel like he would retch and it wasn't over a rotten pie either. His mind scrambled for something solid to grip onto to pull itself back out of the whirlpool of despair it felt itself sinking into when it realized why he had been coming to the church in the first place. "The ritual!" he blurted out rather loudly. He snapped his mouth shut and then meekly added, "I found some information that might be of assistance with an alchemical exorcism."   Movement: none Action: Bonus Action: Reaction: Free Action: Conditions: Rolls:   Kerwin Powell | 6th-Level Transmutation Wizard | 5'3" 190 lbs. Variant Human HP: 44/44 | AC: 9 | Initiative: +4 | Spell Slots: 4/4 | 1/4 | 0/3 | Spell DC: 15 Weapons: +2 to hit, 1d6-1 B, Versatile (1d8)Quarterstaff Cantrips Known: Enchantment cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: S, M (a small amount of makeup applied to the face as this spell is cast) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute For the duration, you have advantage on all Charisma checks directed at one creature of your choice that isn’t hostile toward you. When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you. Another creature might seek retribution in other ways (at the DM’s discretion), depending on the nature of your interaction with it.Friends, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (two lodestones) Duration: Instantaneous This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as a broken chain link, two halves of a broken key, a torn cloak, or a leaking wineskin. As long as the break or tear is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving no trace of the former damage. This spell can physically repair a magic item or construct, but the spell can’t restore magic to such an object.Mending, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous or 1 hour You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You affect it in one of the following ways: You instantaneously expand the flame 5 feet in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location. You instantaneously extinguish the flames within the cube. You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour. You cause simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature, an inanimate object, or a location—to appear within the flames and animate as you like. The shapes last for 1 hour. If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.Control Flames, Transmutation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 10 feet Components: V, S Duration: Up to 1 hour This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range: You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor. You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire. You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot. You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour. You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour. You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn. If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.Prestidigitation 1st-Level Spells Known: 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a piece of string and a bit of wood) Duration: 1 hour This spell creates an invisible, mindless, shapeless, Medium force that performs simple tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range. It has AC 10, 1 hit point, and a Strength of 2, and it can’t attack. If it drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends. Once on each of your turns as a bonus action, you can mentally command the servant to move up to 15 feet and interact with an object. The servant can perform simple tasks that a human servant could do, such as fetching things, cleaning, mending, folding clothes, lighting fires, serving food, and pouring wine. Once you give the command, the servant performs the task to the best of its ability until it completes the task, then waits for your next command. If you command the servant to perform a task that would move it more than 60 feet away from you, the spell ends.Unseen Servant, 1st-level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 hour You make yourself – including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person – look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can’t change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you. The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair. To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.Disguise Self, 1st-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Instantaneous You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike simultaneously and you can direct them to hit one creature or several. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell creates one more dart for each slot level above 1st.Magic Missile, 1st-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: V, S, M (a pinch of fine sand, rose petals, or a cricket) Duration: 1 minute This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8, the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures). Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature’s hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature’s hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected. Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren’t affected by this spell. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, roll an additional 2d8 for each slot level above 1st.Sleep, 1st-level abjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a tiny bell and a piece of fine silver wire) Duration: 8 hours You set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. Choose a door, a window, or an area within range that is no larger than a 20-foot cube. Until the spell ends, an alarm alerts you whenever a tiny or larger creature touches or enters the warded area. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures that won’t set off the alarm. You also choose whether the alarm is mental or audible. A mental alarm alerts you with a ping in your mind if you are within 1 mile of the warded area. This ping awakens you if you are sleeping. An audible alarm produces the sound of a hand bell for 10 seconds within 60 feet.Alarm, 1st-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous Choose one object weighing 1 to 5 pounds within range that isn’t being worn or carried. The object flies in a straight line up to 90 feet in a direction you choose before falling to the ground, stopping early if it impacts against a solid surface. If the object would strike a creature, that creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the object strikes the target and stops moving. When the object strikes something, the object and what it strikes each take 3d8 bludgeoning damage. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the maximum weight of objects that you can target with this spell increases by 5 pounds, and the damage increases by 1d8, for each slot level above 1st.Catapult, 1st-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 round An invisible barrier of magical force appears and protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile.Shield, 1st-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self (30-foot line) Components: V, S, M (a bit of rotten food) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute A stream of acid emanates from you in a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be covered in acid for the spell’s duration or until a creature uses its action to scrape or wash the acid off itself or another creature. A creature covered in the acid takes 2d4 acid damage at start of each of its turns. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 1st.Tasha's Caustic Brew 2nd-Level Spell Known: 2nd-level divination Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a copper piece) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t speak any language, the creature is unaffected. You initially learn the surface thoughts of the creature—what is most on its mind in that moment. As an action, you can either shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts or attempt to probe deeper into the same creature’s mind. If you probe deeper, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, you gain insight into its reasoning (if any), its emotional state, and something that loom s large in its mind (such as something it worries over, loves, or hates). If it succeeds, the spell ends. Either way, the target knows that you are probing into its mind, and unless you shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts, the creature can use its action on its turn to make an Intelligence check contested by your Intelligence check; if it succeeds, the spell ends. Questions verbally directed at the target creature naturally shape the course of its thoughts, so this spell is particularly effective as part of an interrogation. You can also use this spell to detect the presence of thinking creatures you can’t see. When you cast the spell or as your action during the duration, you can search for thoughts within 30 feet of you. The spell can penetrate barriers, but 2 feet of rock, 2 inches of any metal other than lead, or a thin sheet of lead blocks you. You can’t detect a creature with an Intelligence of 3 or lower or one that doesn’t speak any language. Once you detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.Detect Thoughts, 2nd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (powdered corn extract and a twisted loop of parchment) Duration: 1 hour You touch a length of rope that is up to 60 feet long. One end of the rope then rises into the air until the whole rope hangs perpendicular to the ground. At the upper end of the rope, an invisible entrance opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends. The extradimensional space can be reached by climbing to the top of the rope. The space can hold as many as eight Medium or smaller creatures. The rope can be pulled into the space, making the rope disappear from view outside the space. Attacks and spells can’t cross through the entrance into or out of the extradimensional space, but those inside can see out of it as if through a 3-foot-by-5-foot window centered on the rope. Anything inside the extradimensional space drops out when the spell ends.Rope Trick, 2nd-level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 minute Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it’s impossible to track which image is real. You can use your action to dismiss the illusory duplicates. Each time a creature targets you with an attack during the spell’s duration, roll a d20 to determine whether the attack instead targets one of your duplicates. If you have three duplicates, you must roll a 6 or higher to change the attack’s target to a duplicate. With two duplicates, you must roll an 8 or higher. With one duplicate, you must roll an 11 or higher. A duplicate’s AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier. If an attack hits a duplicate, the duplicate is destroyed. A duplicate can be destroyed only by an attack that hits it. It ignores all other damage and effects. The spell ends when all three duplicates are destroyed. A creature is unaffected by this spell if it can’t see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.Mirror Image, 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (gold dust worth at least 25 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: Until dispelled You touch a closed door, window, gate, chest, or other entryway, and it becomes locked for the duration. You and the creatures you designate when you cast this spell can open the object normally. You can also set a password that, when spoken within 5 feet of the object, suppresses this spell for 1 minute. Otherwise, it is impassable until it is broken or the spell is dispelled or suppressed. Casting knock on the object suppresses arcane lock for 10 minutes. While affected by this spell, the object is more difficult to break or force open; the DC to break it or pick any locks on it increases by 10.Arcane Lock 3rd-Level Spells Known: 3rd-level evocation (ritual) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere) Components: V, S, M (a small crystal bead) Duration: 8 hours A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains stationary for the duration. The spell ends if you leave its area. Nine creatures of Medium size or smaller can fit inside the dome with you. The spell fails if its area includes a larger creature or more than nine creatures. Creatures and objects within the dome when you cast this spell can move through it freely. All other creatures and objects are barred from passing through it. Spells and other magical effects can’t extend through the dome or be cast through it. The atmosphere inside the space is comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside. Until the spell ends, you can command the interior to become dimly lit or dark. The dome is opaque from the outside, of any color you choose, but it is transparent from the inside.Leomund's Tiny Hut, 3rd-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You reach into the mind of one creature you can see and force it to make an Intelligence saving throw. A creature automatically succeeds if it is immune to being frightened. On a failed save, the target loses the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all creatures it can see as enemies until the spell ends. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Whenever the affected creature chooses another creature as a target, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within range of the attack, spell, or other ability it’s using. If an enemy provokes an opportunity attack from the affected creature, the creature must make that attack if it is able to.Enemies Abound, 3rd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you see a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous You attempt to interrupt a creature in the process of casting a spell. If the creature is casting a spell of 3rd level or lower, its spell fails and has no effect. If it is casting a spell of 4th level or higher, make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. The DC equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a success, the creature’s spell fails and has no effect. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the interrupted spell has no effect if its level is less than or equal to the level of the spell slot you used.Counterspell, 3rd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a shaving of licorice root) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Choose a willing creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, the target’s speed is doubled, it gains a +2 bonus to AC, it has advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and it gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. When the spell ends, the target can’t move or take actions until after its next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over it.Haste, 3rd-lvl abjuration Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 10 feet Target: A 10-foot-radius, 20-foot-tall cylinder centered on a point on the ground that you can see within range Components: V S M (Holy water or powdered silver and iron worth at least 100 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: 1 hour You create a 10-foot-radius, 20-foot-tall cylinder of magical energy centered on a point on the ground that you can see within range. Glowing runes appear wherever the cylinder intersects with the floor or other surface. Choose one or more of the following types of creatures: celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. The circle affects a creature of the chosen type in the following ways: The creature can’t willingly enter the cylinder by nonmagical means. If the creature tries to use teleportation or interplanar travel to do so, it must first succeed on a Charisma saving throw. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets within the cylinder. Targets within the cylinder can’t be charmed, frightened, or possessed by the creature. When you cast this spell, you can elect to cause its magic to operate in the reverse direction, preventing a creature of the specified type from leaving the cylinder and protecting targets outside it. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the Duration increases by 1 hour for each slot level above 3rd.Magic Circle Features: Always on the lookout for danger, you gain the following benefits: You can’t be surprised while you are conscious. You gain a +5 bonus to initiative. Other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you. Alert, Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Transmutation spell into your spellbook is halved.Transmutation Savant, Starting at 2nd level when you select this school, you can temporarily alter the physical properties of one nonmagical object, changing it from one substance into another. You perform a special alchemical procedure on one object composed entirely of wood, stone (but not a gemstone), iron, copper, or silver, transforming it into a different one of those materials. For each 10 minutes you spend performing the procedure, you can transform up to 1 cubic foot of material. After 1 hour, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), the material reverts to its original substance.Minor Alchemy, Starting at 6th level, you can spend 8 hours creating a transmuter's stone that stores transmutation magic. You can benefit from the stone yourself or give it to another creature. A creature gains a benefit of your choice as long as the stone is in the creature's possession. When you create the stone, choose the benefit from the following options: Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet An increase to speed of 10 feet while the creature is unencumbered Proficiency in Constitution saving throws Resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage (your choice whenever you choose this benefit) Each time you cast a transmutation spell of 1st level or higher, you can change the effect of your stone if the stone is on your person. If you create a new transmuter's stone, the previous one ceases to function.Transmuter's Stone, You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. For example, if you're a 4th-level wizard, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level spell slot or two 1st-level spell slots.Arcane Recovery Spells Prepared for Normal Day: Enemies Abound, Haste, Detect Thoughts, Rope Trick, Mirror Image, Catapult, Disguise Self, Sleep, Tasha's Caustic Brew, Shield Spells Prepared if Expecting Trouble: Enemies Abound, Haste, Counterspell, Mirror Image, Rope Trick, Catapult, Sleep, Tasha's Caustic Brew, Shield, Magic Missile

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Gallindan Gallindan had seen enough of Marcus's methods to know the interrogation would make him uncomfortable. But he also knew that Adelaide would work to keep the man in check. He knew better than to meddle with the mysterious lantern on his own. And he knew that Isabella didn't want him around. So he took his leave to wander into the woods nearby. He should meditate, he knew; battle seemed to find them far more regularly than he would like. But he opted instead to walk among the trees and listen to the birds and the other animals. He found simple joy in the unfamiliar birdsongs of this place. Even squirrels and the like made different sounds than their kin in the Feywild. He knew better than to wander far, but he reveled in the growing dusk.

OOC: Setting up preparing Find Steed overnight to finally cast first thing in the morning. Assuming we get to rest.

[Admin Bhelogan]

Gallindan went off to meditate alone in the woods, while Isabella and Daybreak went for their own walk. Outside the church, the townsfolk were busy starting the process of preparing bodies for burial. Inside the church, Oren, Adelaide, and Marucs were joined by Kerwin when the alchemist remembered the task he had been working on earlier that evening. Marcus heard his words, and nodded with approval. "We should still do that. Isabella seems to be doing better at the moment, but she still needs our help."

Adelaide, with the aid of another Zone of Truth from Marcus, was ready to hear what their prisoners might have to say. "Tell us about that lantern," Marcus insisted.

One of the dark cultists seemed happy enough to respond, "The Antilantern. It's how we track down our marks."

"It had different colors, red and white, what do those mean?" Marcus probing further. He could guess the answer to this question, but they had to start somewhere.

"The red lights lead us to those sworn to the cult of the hooded lantern." He couldn't help but include some kind of insinuation towards his captors. "The white lights lead us to those who are blessed and ready to open gates. We just... help them along."

"The Antilantern produced other forms of magic your leader invoked from it, what do you know about that?"

"The Antilantern has many gifts for those who have sworn loyalty, and curses for those who offend."

Marcus then turned to the rest of the group in the chapel. "I think it's safe to say, we probably can't touch the lantern, without maybe putting it through a cleansing ritual, like what we need to do for Isabella. Anything you want to ask these goons?"