End of round one
Eozindra rushes past the pool, discharging her crossbow into the water, and then takes cover behind a bookshelf, content to wait with
Adran for the two rounds it will take for the speakers to arrive. The bard's crossbow bolt whizzes past
Morik's fuzzy ear and passes through the
creature harmlessly. If it hit the
creature (
it did, but he's not sure, because the creature is invisible while it is in the water),
Morik observes, it did not slow down at all.
OOC:
From this the players can deduce that the creature is immune to piercing damage, even if their PCs may not realize it yet.
ROUND TWO
With a wild thrashing of his muscular body,
Ishi breaks free of the grapple.
Ishi remains 20' underwater, but is not Grappled or Restrained.
Elowin calls upon
Lunea in song, casting
Faerie Fire on the pool.
The creature, Ishi, Morik, and Elysia must all roll DEX saving throws, DC13 (note that
Morik has DISADV on DEX saves from being Restrained). The
invisible-while-in-water monster fails its save and is outlined in
Lunea's glow, as does
Morik.
Ishi and
Elysia avoid
Lunea's limning.
Attacks on the creature have ADV, which cancels out the DISADV from invisibility, so they
are straight rolls now. Attacks on
Morik continue to have ADV (from being Restrained AND from
Faerie Fire), so no change there.
Morik bites into the
creature and rakes it with his claws (both attacks hit [!], but now
Morik is certain that it is immune to piercing damage).
The invisible-while-in-water creature takes 11 slashing damage. Morik remains 20' underwater.
Elysia whips out her sword, dives headfirst into the pool, swims down, and attacks the
creature with her rapier. She, too, realizes that she has hit the
creature but that it is unaffected by what would have been 12 points of piercing damage.
Elysia is also 20' underwater.
Like his sister,
Adran waits for someone to appear, whereupon he will loose his weapon as well. Realizing that they won't arrive for several more seconds,
Adran pulls the trigger intending to hit the
transparent monster. The crossbow bolt disappears into the pool with a splash.
Faithfully sitting by the artificer's side,
Mara waits for a command.
OOC:
In case the "at least ten seconds" wasn't clear, it will be round four or round three at the earliest that the Lord Mayor's Men come into view. Those of you who have prepared attacks for when they come into view during round two can revise your action to do something else this round if you wish.
The
transparent liquid creature, either confident in its invisibility while in water or too stupid to do anything but attack when creatures remain in its lair, attacks
Morik again.
Morik is struck for 15 damage and is Grappled and Restrained again.
Edit:
It is Eozindra's turn, and...
With the ease of long practice,
Eozindra hauled back the arms of the crossbow and locked them into place, slotted a bolt into the channel, and loosed the bolt with a KA-CHUNK into the depths of the pool. Looking around for anything else that might be of help, she notices something about the shelves...
Elowin and/or Adran can amend their turns in case they misunderstood that the speaking residents will not come into view this round.
In addition, everyone except Eozindra can declare their round three turns, too..
[ +- ] Fight in the Library
Elysia,
Ishi, and
Morik (blue dots) are in the pool with
the creature that is invisible while it is in the water.
Morik is
Grappled and Restrained, and can use his action to break that Grapple/Restraint (DC15).
20 - Ishi (24/35) Underwater
15 - Elowin (17/24)
10 - Morik (Bear 10/34 Dwarf 33/33) Underwater, Grappled, Restrained
8 - Elysia (24/24) Underwater
7 - Adran (26/26)
7 - Mara (20/20)
7 - Thing (invisible while underwater)
1 - Eozindra (15/15)