IC Story Thread: Ch.1,Ad.2 - The Far Reach

Hello team, just a heads up, it's been a stressful week at work in my world, and I've temporarily consumed much of my energies for conducting optional activities in life.

And so this may be my last post until next week.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We haven't established positioning on the deck, this ability has an area effect, if it's ok with you all, I will just roll randomly to establish who is within the area of effect, as a more expedient means over marking your positions and me positioning him for a potentially more optimal effect - it's a 15' radius, and he could in truth probably get you all, but I want to continue to treat this like a puzzle that can be worked and solved, as well as fought.

And my thought is to just roll a d6 for each of you and the top 3 highest numbers must roll a Will save, DC15. In case of a tie, PCs will be affected in alphabetical order, max of 3 of you can be effected.

Let me know if that procedure is/not agreeable. It's not something I'm trying to establish as precedent for common use. Just for this time to keep things moving, but to still give you guys options.

EDIT: So @Drakis2,@Dr_B,@rpgventurer please roll a Wisdom save to avoid the Frightened Condition.

Alright couple of good rolls there, but @Drakis2 Seonaid is affected by the Frightened Condition:
- A frightened creature has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while the source of its fear is within line of sight.
- The creature can't willingly move closer to the source of its fear.

So you can still take actions and move (and ofc talk), just can't move closer to the ghost, and an increased chance of failure on attacks or skill checks.

Also I should have rolled another Recharged check last "turn", so I'm gonna roll that now, along with it's next one.

Everyone can go ahead and continue to act and try things and talk etc.

@Dr_B you can absolutely do that: move to the locked door and there's nothing it can do to stop you, but I don't think you can do that without provoking an attack of opportunity, even with Turil's indication of it's location - short of going through the hatch in the deck that opens into the hold.

And to go through the hatch and still get to the door in this round (not using an action to carefully climb down), he would take fall damage.

So it's kind of 6 to one, half-a-dozen to the other, so to speak.

Let me know which one you want to do, and give me a STR check to batter down the door, if that is how he's trying to open it (aren't you a Treasure Hunter tho? Do have lockpicks?)

@rpgventurer would be good to have an action from Eothain.

Rolling recharge, then will edit this post with ghosts turn.

The ghost suffers Disadvantage on the attack for being in Daylight, but it is also invisible to Duinhir and so gains Advantage on attacks against him.

The two effects cancel out for an unmodified attack roll.

If Duinhir has his shield out, that's a miss.

Ok, all PCs go ahead and go! @Dr_B Cirion will need to make an Athletics check if he's trying to bust down the door with brute Strength.

Oh no 😅

He's gonna take damage equivalent to an Improvised Weapon damage (1d4) as a consequence of the Critical Failure. Please note that's NOT going to be a standard consequence of failing such a check. Just using the Critical Hit/Miss optional rule there to spice things up.

Totally agree with the shield-assessment. It s only a move to take it out if he didn't have it out before his last turn, so totally within both action economy and logic.

And you absolutely CAN attack the invisible target. Cueing off Turil's pointing, it's wailing and the chill in the air it causes...