Ryonara

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

I didn't do so well, even with Brave giving Parum advantage against being Frighten.

Initiative = 13
Wisdom Save = 12/10 with Advantage, but neither one is going to beat a 17.

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Parum was writing down the events of this day in her journal when she heard the alarms. There must have been a large force approaching, or perhaps even the dragon itself, for this much of a ruckus. It wasn't long before Brannor arrived to fetch Parum herself. "After you." Parum quickly slipped the book back into her backpack and followed Brannor towards the battlement. There she was met with some of the others, the only one currently missing was Ramado, who Parum was certain would be here soon. Sure enough her fears were well founded: The dragon was on it's way to attack. While flying by and spraying it's dragon's breath over the battlements and castle walls was the most obvious action, Parum had to keep wary of any other possibilities. Sieges weapons, sappers, even an attack from the skies itself. She took her viol and rapier out, ready for battle, whatever that would be.

"Do you have any plans on how we can take that thing down? I'm going to guess it won't land close enough for our blades or arrows to strike it."

The Chronicles of Dosei: Sands of Blood, A Dungeons and Dragons Roleplay. (Reboot)(Full)

Catarina La'Spada

There was a sting in Catarina's side. It wasn't the most painful feeling; this mercenary was no stranger to a blade going into her gut. but the numbing sensation that followed shortly after wasn't good. She figured these gnolls would poison their blades, and unfortunately of all the magical supplies they brought Cataraina did not have any cure poisons. She did have anti-toxins, which hopefully would let Cataraina rest out the effects of the poison. Hopefully. In a mix of anger and pragmatism, Cataraina made sure to cut off the gnoll's head, just in case anyone had any idea of turning him into a zombie out here. She'd do the same for everyone else, but looking back towards the group it seemed like Vivian had some explaining to do.

So the fighter stumbled her way over, listening as everyone spoke. Alexander did the knightly thing and talk about how he couldn't turn over Vivian for reasons of chivalry and all that, but Cataraina was much less honorable. "Those gnolls had a job, and so do we. Raiding that ruin. Can't do that without you Vivian, and unless they dropped 50,000 gold right at our feet, I wasn't going to let them just walk away with you. That being said, anyone else here want to drop their disguises?!" Cataraina yelled rather loudly. The poison was making her rather antsy. "Really now... Once we get somewhere to rest... You and I are going to have some words." Cataraina looked at Vivian before getting back onto the wagon, popping an anti-toxin to numb the effects of the poison.

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Parum

By the time Parum got up it looked like the battle was over. Malkai came over to cover for her but that didn't seem necessary. "Thanks big guy. Didn't have too much trouble there did you?" Parum joked with Malkai before it looked like a scene was starting. Vivian apologized to the group, Alexander defended her actions, but Cataraina seemed a bit peeved. She loudly asked if anyone else had a disguise, but of course no one was going to drop it. Unless Malkai was as dumb as most orcs. Parum at least had no intentions of revealing her motives. "Hey, come on now, I'm sure we all have our own ghosts from the past. Let's not let it ruin our partnership together. Like she said, how about we all get to that village, find a place to rest for the night, and then maybe we can use that chance to get to know one another, yeah? Sure, maybe none of you are looking for friends, but no sense in being enemies, right?" Parum also climbed into the wagon, taking her seat back at the reins. "See if those gnolls have anything else with them that could help us. Potions, money, maybe even notes."

The War of the Three

Hibiki & Shizuka

One crazy thing after another. About midway across the bridge Shizuka felt a ripple of force touch her shield. She had just enough time to brace herself as the rest of it sent just about everyone sprawling into the lobby room. Shizuka wasn't sure if this was Hohenheim's mechanization or the failed attempt to clear the bridge. Whatever the choice Shizuka wasn't going to waste time. She was blown into the room, but used her wings and shield to help slow her flight enough that she could make a straight line towards one of the elevators. Shizuka's senses were going wild as she absorbed the various things going on, noticing that the demons had copies of themselves fighting each other, Henry making a run for one of the elevators, and Ni-Mu deploying spikes along the walls to impale everyone else.

"Avoid the enemies for now, our priority is to reach the elevators. Henry is about to make a run for one and I don't have a visual on Miyu. Her mech seems destroyed, but she could still be alive."

Shizuka fired a burst of plasma towards the chassis of the Daimyo as the maid shielded herself from it's explosion. Assuming Miyu didn't have an escape pod, Shizuka intended to make sure she was dead this time. But Shizuka didn't bother to double check and instead made a straight line for one of the elevators, using her wing's speed and her energy shield to protect her from any attempt at interception. If they didn't hurry Shizuka worried about what else would come into the room.

Meanwhile Hibiki was teleported to Hohenheim's lair, where she immediately disarmed herself and got out of her combat armor. Patting down her skirt the maid bowed towards Hohenheim and went to prepare her a refreshment. She reached into her bomb bag to retrieve the miniature matter replicator, which usually made her bombs. However with a bit of fiddling, Hibiki was able to make it produce some foodstuffs she could quickly prepare. And being the best maid there is, Hibiki was able to whip up opal jelly, doughnuts, and a glass of ice tea. She brought these over to Hohenheim on a silver platter Hibiki also made with her matter replicator, holding it steadily in her hands. "Your refreshments. I shall be your maid for today, and what do you wish for me to refer you as?"

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D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

With a breath of relief Parum looked around as everyone shuffled about. There was a tension in the air unrelated to their enemy outside. Parum worried about her party's relationship with the castellan and by extension the forces of this castle. She understood that in a way it is the castle who are imposing on them, and there should be some respect given to the party of adventurers. But these are desperate times and during times like these little luxuries like formality and politeness tends to go. One of the reasons why Parum was a bit nervous getting into these sort of situations, but she must continue to be brave. But at the same time she must maintain some level of professionalism and confidence as well; if she starts raising her voice and insults the very people helping her, they would be a house divided. Kobolds and their allies would end up the least of their worries.

Everyone cleared out of the sallyport and went to rest up. Parum thought to do the same but her body was simply too tense. So much fighting, so much violence, and the very present danger of a dragon was looming literally over their heads. What would the party do now? Supposedly they were going to use the sallyport to get out or clear a way, but that path has been compromised. How long could they stay and defend this fortress? Parum didn't want to find out. As she wandered around Parum eventually gave up on trying to relax, and felt like she needed to do something. Anything.

And of course being a bard, there was only one thing Parum could do: Preform. Taking out viol and rapier, Parum went to found a quiet, somewhat isolated location. No where too far where she couldn't call for help if she was in danger, but out of the way so if anything happens she wouldn't interfere. Once she was sure she was in a good spot, Parum played a few notes on her viol, tuned it, and played a song. She could imagine the accompaniment of other instruments as she played alone in this room, memories of her time at the bard college bringing a bit of levity in this dark hour.

The War of the Three

Well, if we can't fly around or under the bridge, how about over it? Because if anything in the air gets sucked in, Bonesword and Fran should have been pulled in as well since they went airborn. I was hoping that Shizuka can still just fly up and over if needed, without going over the sides of the bridge. Dora storm makes it a bit hard, but I think it'd be doable if Shizuka focuses on flying.

The War of the Three

She's aware of that. But fighting on the bridge, while it may be what Hohenheim wants, isn't a good idea to Shizuka either. I'm more concerned if there are any other hard counters to any sort of flying, like if Shizuka tries to fly around the snake ladies or simply tries to gets back onto the bridge if she gets knocked off.

The War of the Three

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Forgot to put mentions in my post.

The War of the Three

Hibiki & Shizuka

"But of course. Maid to serve!" Hibiki said as Hohenheim responded to her. Hibiki watched from her position as Shizuka stormed off to help her Machina allies get across the bridge, wishing her luck. Of course, before she left, Shizuka left a little something behind herself. It wouldn't activate immediately and in the chaos of everything happening it'd be easy to miss, more so since now everyone was heading off. But hopefully it could make a difference. "I'm ready whenever you are, mistress."

As for Shizuka, things got intense quickly. Henry shot forward to avoid the traps laid behind Ni-Mu, while a bunch of imps ran right into them. Bonesword managed to get closer to the entrance but at the same time more imps had triggered the elevator's trap, summoning three snake-women. And then the Angel's blessing went off and various amazonian warriors arrived. And just to make matters worse it was raining and now Balrog was on his way. Shizuka didn't bother thinking too much about who was the biggest threat or had the greatest chance of succeeding; it was time to act.

First Shizuka activated her Force Shield. The light blue energy expanded out wide enough to block the entire bridge behind her; fortunately most of her team sans Hibiki was already in front of Shizuka, leaving only the forces of heaven and any straggling demons behind. Second, Shizuka made sure to outpace Balrog as best she could. None of her weapons had any hope of destroying him right now, so out running him was most important. Next, Shizuka began to hover just a bit above the ground using her wings. The storm made it somewhat hard for her to fly, yes, but it was faster and easier for her to simply glide above the bridge then to try and run across it. It was getting too slick, and her footing was getting thrown off by Balrog's massive steps. Next was to eliminate the threats before her.

While Shizuka knows that Hohenheim intends to sick her creations on everyone, Shizuka wasn't entirely concerned about them. No, it was more important that she prevents others from winning instead. While she wouldn't ignore the snake women, right now Shizuka was more concerned about Henry, who had managed to get into the thick of things. Those amazonian were also going to be an issue, so Shizuka glided up to the head of the machina pack to get in position as she spoke over the comms. "Aim for Henry. He's still has to deal with the snake women. We can avoid them by flying underneath the bridge, but watch out for whatever Alchemist might have up her sleeve." With one arm holding her shield behind her, Shizuka braced her rifle and fired with one hand in Henry's direction. Shizuka made sure to at the front of the Machina pack, sans Bonesword, to prevent any friendly fire incidents.

The War of the Three

Awe. And i was just about to post too...