Chapter 2: The Gorgon Queen's Lair

Assuming Pass without Trace Active

Chiron doesn't care if he is noticed and with his heavy armor it would suprise him if someone didnt notice. Moves towards the voices...

I don't want to make an erroneous assumption, so just to clarify you are walking towards the voices, as in in clear view? You are not trying to make a run for it?

No…I just want you to DIE!!!

Chironides rushes forward, grabs the leading snake man (SM2) and drags him away. Taking the ceiling route he heads back to the gathered heroes and offering them a kill.

"INCOMING!"

Maintains his hold and ends his move just north of Omeros ground level (Assuming all goes according to plan!)

Correction - 20' East of Omeros

Ok, so a lot needs to happen for that to happen. I'm writing this before I roll anything. First, I will roll initiative for you against their passive initiative (10 + mod). If you go before them, then i'll roll a athletics or acrobatics check for the enemy. Not likely to beat a 21, but they might roll high, who knows. If you go after them, they might move and do things before you get to the guy, such as pulling out bows and firing or casting spells. If that happens, I'll have them go and tell you what happens and you can decide if you still do that or not. If you roll low initiative, i'll refrain from rolling the athletics or acrobatics check until I know you still want to do that plan.

Ok, rolling initiative.

Post Roll: Ok, looks like you tied with all of their passive initiatives. I let players win initiative ties automatically, just like how if you roll equal to a DC you pass, not have to reroll. Going to roll the snake man's check to see if you grapple or not.

Alright, looks like things went exactly as you had planned. Obviously, combat has started. I'm going to go like normal, having everyone roll against the enemy's passive initiative of 12 like you did. You Chironides has used his action and all his movement. Unless you have a bonus action you plan to use, i'm going to say we'll just skip Chironides turn since he kinda already got to act.

For the rest of you, if you see a check next to your initiative, you go before the enemy. If you see an X, you don't go until after everyone else goes and the enemy goes. This goes for Isaiah too, since combat cares about 6 second increments. As always, if you have a way to give a bonus to initiative or have advantage and I didn't include it, tell me and i'll adjust if it would change anything.

Looks like @valdattaMadun,@annex can go now, then the enemy goes, and then we'll just go to a side initiative system where all the players go and then all the enemies.

Oh, and I guess I'll add the 2 snake men in the long tunnel since Isaiah's movements will occur during combat, though those 2 will not really be aware of any combat until after they walk down the long hallway and realize the others are doing something, so maybe 2 or 3 rounds until they realize that as they'd be walking, not running.

"Curse it, brother," Omeros grumbled but there was no disengaging now, so he stepped forward and swung Invictus twice at the snakeman between him and Chironides.

Why would he be restrained? I saw grapple. All that does is let you drag him with you. What did you do to restrain him? He wouldn't be prone either since you fall prone if you fall 10 feet or more and even from a ceiling you aren't strong enough to lift him to the ceiling so he would be 5 feet under you and thus fall maybe 5 feet if you let him go

Ok, that's a separate roll, one for the grapple, and one for the shove. I'll make those rolls here. if Chironide got a higher roll, he's prone and there would be advantage. If they tie or Chironide is less, then nothing changed.

Post Roll: ok, so the enemy is prone so the attacks were with advantage. The one-shot is close to over, but just in case it happens again please make all of those rolls at once. I am not saying it happened, but since the nat 1 was already out there, it is possible to decide to knock prone after seeing that and knowing that prone is better than attacking yourself. As such, if this kind of event happens again, I will say "you waited too long. You can make an attack but not shove." Now, if you wanted to do some teamwork and weave your turns together since this will be side initiative soon, that's one thing if declared ahead of time, but I would prefer not to wonder if the shove only came because the nat 1 occurred, not because it was always the plan.

Link to battle information

You count as large for carrying capacity but remember you still spend double the speed when grappling an enemy. You need to be 2 sizes larger to ignore that.

@valdattaMadun You're up before the enemy goes. Due to how far away the combat is, you may need to dash. Also, just a note to everyone, the hallway is only 5 feet wide, so remember (a) moving through allies is difficult terrain (b) you can shoot past creatures, but they get half cover and (c) while crowd control spells might be good battles in such narrow places can become a slog so unless you have some way of just locking the enemy away I suggest you move to a larger room before this gets less fun.

Kelnes rushes forward to the danger as close as he can get