Chapter 1, Day 3: Skull Gorge Bridge

"Corban! Wait!" Zaris yells as he scrambles up the stairs, wand in hand. Sprinting, he does his best to close the distance between the two of them.

I test out my spiked gauntlets, immediately slamming into the hobgoblin that attacked me. Then, with my other hand I stab at him with my dagger.

Xara slams the hobgoblin in the face with her spiked gauntlet, and the creature falls to the ground - dead. She turns to the one beside her and stabs at him with her dagger, but it deflects off of his chain shirt.

Jorr lets fly another arrow which strikes the hell hound harassing Kaiakas in the shoulder.

That's a kill with the gauntlet reaction, and a miss with the attack. Still up: Warklegnaw, Corban, Rurik, Kaiakas, Zaris has an action (move was used getting to the top of the tower)

"Corban! Wait for me!" Zaris yells as he reaches the top of the stairs. His expression turns to one of panic as he sees the hobgoblin turning towards them, bow in hand. The wizard points his wand at the creature and conjures the thought process necessary to unleash the darts of energy.

Corban will jump as the missiles fly past him into the hobgoblin. After advancing to the side of the tower he'll pop a shot at the hobgoblin in the opposite tower with his crossbow.

The bolt strikes the tower, missing its target. Warknlegnaw lumbers up behind Xara and Kaiakas, and using his incredible reach, slams his club, which is the size of a small tree, into the hell hound harassing Xara.

Rurik and Kaiakas are up

"Thanks, buddy!" I knew there was a reason I brought the big guy with us!

I stand utterly contemptuous of the dragon and its underlings. I look at the hellhound trying to nip at me and point at it unleashing another blast of energy,heedless of what it might try to do to me in return.

Satisfied with the crunch of my new gauntlets on the now-dead hobgoblin, I draw away from it quick-like and head towards the one harassing Kaiakas.

OOC: Using bonus action to disengage.

The hobgoblin Xara disengaged from runs towards the bridge, and stands in the relative safety between the two towers. The goblin captain swings his greatsword at Pawetha in two cleaving arcs. She ducks under the first one, but it struck by the flat of the blade as she tries to evade the second cleave (8 Damage to Pawetha). The burst of aggression, however, leaves the captain relatively unprepared to defend himself and open to attack (Attacks on Captain have Advantage).

The two hobgoblins Rurik had commanded regain control of themselves, get to their feet and collect their swords from the ground. The remaining archers focus their attention on Corban and Zaris. Two fire at Corban, both shots deflecting off of the stone in front of him. One fires at Zaris, but the arrow misses by a wide margin.

The dragon swoops around the southwestern tower and unleashes a blast of its breath. A thick, rolling green cloud of poisonous gas envelopes the group battling at the base of the bridge (Kaiakas, Xara and Rurik make a DC 11 Constitution save. On failure, take 22 Damage. On success, take 11 Damage). It swoops past, circling around behind the other tower. The hellhounds lunge for their targets, but at caught up in the blast of the dragon's breath. They both perish in the acidic blast, and sparing Rurik and Kaiakas from their fury.

Player turn. Kaiakas has 2 sets of actions.
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I stand defiant in the face of the acid breath, roaring a challenge in return. The roar turns into a shriek of agony that takes the form of flaming words that leap back toward the dragon in a Hellish Rebuke before my acid etched body falls to the stones of the bridge
Dex save DC: 12 for half damage.

Pawetha briefly muses at the irony of her dancing in melee with the taller hobgoblins, but understands that she brought this situation upon herself. The ranger needs to end this quickly and return to range, so she thrusts in with her shortsword, trying to find an opening in the captain's armor.

Zaris moves hastily to the edge of the tower by Corban and unleashes another trio of missiles at the hobgoblin in the middle of the bridge. "Corban, we are sitting ducks up here for that dragon!" he gasps. "We need to find some cover before we are poised," he adds, looking nervously at the wyrm flying overhead.

Seeing the carnage after the dragon unleashed its acidic breath, Corban thinks carefully about his and Zaris' position. None of the thoughts are positive.

"You're right, make your way to the stairs! I'll cover your withdrawal and be right behind you!"

Corban takes aim with his crossbow and fires a shot at the hobgoblin in the opposite tower again.

Zaris' magic bolts strike the hobgoblin dead on his feet. Corban's bolt clangs off of the stone wall of the opposing tower. Jorr presses forward and fires an arrow at the captain engaged with Pawetha, striking him in the chest and briefly staggering him.

Zaris hits and kills, Corban misses, Jorr hits and deals a bit of damage.

Warklegnaw and Kaiakas left, Kai has 2 sets of actions...

Charging up to join Paws, I dodge much of the dragon's deadly breath. I strike at the Captain with my new blade as it glows a cold blue, one of my attacks causing frost to grow around the wound.