[OOC] D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

[Hekazu]

With the last of the results in I'll be able to determine what comes next. Please hold, post to come tomorrow!

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

Unless those terrible stirges have reappeared, I fear rousing the bats will only alert any potential enemies ahead of it. This is good and bad in one.

[Hekazu]

@Norschtalen Kyra finds a bunch of Kobold tracks going back and forth from the stairway to the right, most approaching by the edge of the cliff and passing the spear, but heading back in a more centre aligned path. The other direction is more densely populated in steps, and sports both small and large reptilian tracks, as well as boot marks of humanoids. Clearly the way the cavern naturally curves to is more travelled.

[Zverda]

... I just had a visual... since I'm rolling a Cleric once the opportunity arises... could you just imagine this large human just smacking someone with a holy book shouting 'REPENT'? XD

[Zverda]

@Norschtalen What kinda Cleric are you?

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

I will come to post this evening but if an event happens between then, no need to worry, I will adapt. There will be some response one way or another, just in this moment attempting to give others the chance to post their doings rather than emphasizing push comes to shove that we keep moving.

[Lucius Cypher]

Honestly all I was going to do was a perception check, but I think Kyra’s roll would’ve found anything Orchid could have if not better. I’m willing to just move onwards. I say we go left.

[Norschtalen]

@Zverda

I'm a life cleric, though I have a level in ranger right now since she's always trained with her father for hunting. She's just learned enough to really qualify after the attack on Greenest.

@Hekazu

I'll have Kyra tell everyone what she learns then. She'd suggest heading left; the right path probably just leads to the kobold rooms or something since she doesn't notice any human footprints, but the path with more tracks likely leads towards somewhere important.

[Hekazu]

I suppose it might as well be time to move on, with some contributing less to the decision than others. Please provide me with a Perception check @Norschtalen.

[Norschtalen]

I rolled a 14, 16 with advantage if this perception check has anything to do with humanoids.

[Hekazu]

Thank you, I'll be writing a post in the next couple hours to move this thing along. Would I be right to assume your marching order to have remained mostly the same in the form of the following list?

• Kyra
• Brannor
• Orchid
• Torus
• Parum

[Lucius Cypher]

Looks good to me. Sorry for not having write a post, I kinda felt like there wasn’t anything Orchid would need to do that isn’t just “see’s the crossroad, watches carefully”.

[Hekazu]

There you go! I hope this will provide interesting information to work on.

[Hekazu]

I would prefer this to not take another two weeks to progress, so I'm going to poke the people we are still waiting for if you will excuse me…

@Norschtalen Kindly provide a CON save. We can talk more about the effects of the poison after that.

@Lucius Cypher and @Ryonara, of you I will need to know whether you will abandon stealth by jumping the gap or risking triggering the trap for your own. A post is not necessarily required for this decision, but I will need it to lead things onward.

[Lucius Cypher]

Orchid will break stealth to avoid the trap, and likely have his sword and shield out at the ready prior to doing so as well. Battle is inevitable so he may as well get ready for it. if possible, I'd like it if he could activate his rage while doing so so he could have it ready before the battle begins.

[Norschtalen]

@Hekazu

Sorry about the wait, I've been having Internet issues. I was hoping to put this into a post but I'll just give you the results: 10. I really hope this isn't going to be too disastrous or else I'll need Brannor to purge any poison in Kyra's system.

[Hekazu]

You succeed on your save, @Norschtalen. You are affected by the poison for the first round of the upcoming combat only. What the poison does is make you act as if you were under the Confusion spell. The roll for the effect came up as 8, which means you will be spending that turn making a random melee attack at a nearby target. I shall determine the target of this at the appropriate time, but it seems likely you will be striking an ally. Other than that, you are free to move after the attack.

A similar effect has befallen Torus (@Zverda), who despite the risks elected to try and sneak over the trap. With three damage to their name and another for the effect after a successful save as well, they will be taking no action or movement on said turn.

[Lucius Cypher]

Since Orchid is gunna run in rage a blazing, could he take the hit?

[Hekazu]

It says randomly @Lucius Cypher, so it'll be up to the dice once I get the battlemap going. It's likely to be aimed at a frontliner though, be it him or Brannor who would have been close.

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

Were I playing a rogue, these Confusion inflicting spikes sound like a wonderful plaything to go about jabbing enemies with. Perhaps not so effective but at least a chance to disorient and confuse or injure foes, at least more so than allies.