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@Lord of Evil
I've something to say regarding that investigation of yours, but I'll need to have a night's sleep before I post anything. Expect to hear of me "tomorrow" (it technically is past midnight) in any case.

@Dusksong
I don't see why not, although I'd rather not take a designated spot for myself for obvious reasons.

@Dusksong I'm here too.

@Gordian Nought
I don't think those that remain need any help, but if you want to try and bolster their fighting spirit further you are free to do so. In this situation, I'd almost call for pure CHA roll but there is a possible case to use Perform if one truly performs. Persuasion won't fit: The guards are already doing what you would want them to do, so there is no use persuading them.

The situation on the battlements was nearing chaos. Some of the guards that had heard the adventurers words did just as asked and ran away, while others were left shouting after them. The remaining deemed them cowards that took the first order from anyone other than themselves to vanish from duty: The governor himself had ordered the keep to be defended from this aerial assault and these strangers surely were not higher in the hierarchy. Of course, the runners cared little for any of this and continued on their panicked way.

Torus was attempting to build a makeshift barrier, but they would need more time: The cantrip's power was limited and while they now had the shape correct, it was still but water: It would not protect them yet. Luckily enough all that remained to be added was another casting so that the water would freeze. It seemed they might have just enough time, as the dragon began turning back towards north and looping around at a healthy distance from the battlements.

Before it got fully out of the way of the defenders arrows, however, another cloud of them was sent it's way. As per usual, most bounced off. Emphasis on the word most. A single arrow from a certain cleric's shortbow, as well as one from the substantially bigger weapon of the paladin struck the dragon and pierced the hide of the giant adversary, even if it seemed to barely care about the attack.

The dragon's flight brought it back to the side of the keep our heroes kept their watch on, with it keeping a somewhat steady flight height of 25 to 30 feet above the parapet. No sparks in it's maw as of now, but there was no telling if it would draw forth something from itself as it reached.. whatever it was intending to bombard this time. The halfling could notice the dragon's eyes fixed on herself: What was it after?

@Gordian Nought, I believe you can piece together the Shape Water thing from what I wrote: You can only do one of the functions per casting, even though you can have up to two active at once.
@Norschtalen I chose to disregard your second roll, given how Faerie Fire grants advantage that cancels out the disadvantage from the non-optimal range. It still hits though.

Dragon is, again, flying towards the tower, but it does not seem it is going to scale the height this time, instead seeming to veer to the outer side of the keep. Current distance from lower group is 30ft. and higher up group has the distance at exactly 50 feet.

That would mean Orchid's reaction is triggered. However, his roll of 12 will mean the harpoon does NOT stick to the dragon. I'll let @Lucius Cypher describe the event as they see fit.

@Ryonara
Well, one would use History if it was a particular known dragon or you tried to get your by comparing this dragon to one you have heard stories of. Arcana does not fit too well... I'd say it would be a difficult-ish Nature check, but History would be available if sufficient background of dealing with/studying about dragons was presentable as a reason to use that.

Anyway, seems the turn goes to @Norschtalen.

Working on it.@Ryonara
Good to know!

@Ryonara
Have you noticed it is your turn? I would appreciate a post ASAP now that we have finished messing with what Orchid did.

@Lucius Cypher
Orchid will have made it to the top, it was about 40 feet of climbing. Let me make some basic trigonometry to find the distance. For simplicity, let us assume the dragon's current flying height is approximately equal to the height of the tower (while it really flies a bit higher, but I am no mathematician).

As per the Pythagorean theorem, in a right triangle we can find the length of any side through a2 + b2 = c2. In our case, c would be the distance from the rest of the party (100 feet) and a would be distance to the top of the tower (40 feet). Thus we will have to find b.

402 + b2 = 1002
1600 + b2 = 10000    || - 1600
b2 = 8400    || take square root
b = ~92ft.

That would mean that b (the distance between Orchid and the dragon) is roughly 92 feet, a wee bit far to fling harpoons. Also, if I use any terms that are off, please excuse me. I don't speak science that well in English, given all of my education has been in Finnish.

@Lucius Cypher
To be honest, I would rather have you roll again due to it being a different action. What was the range of a harpoon again? As was said, I have no books here.

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