Episode 1

J, throne room basic gives advantage on STR athletics checks. Anything Throne Room Defense will do? Like the saving throw bonus? Maybe one more dice for Kray a la triple advantage?

Only a step away from the threshold! So close.

But he cannot make it. Kray fights but he cannot keep his motion and mobility, cannot resist the press of the invisible force.

He is lifted off of the ground. Sorcha Rhone is still in his arms. And he begins to float backwards.

Everyone grabs and dives in to help, pulling and pushing with all of their strength trying to take hold of Kray and retain him, but the force of The Hierophant pulls with impossible power. At one moment, Kray and Sorcha thrust upward sharply. The sudden change in motion throws everyone off balance. Almost at once, they lose their grip.

Kray and Rhone float upward and outward at an angle, rising higher in the air and back towards the Throne.

All the while the two great blocks continue to grind inward towards one another. Soon the door will be closed again.

Maeriks saw the Ulathi closing in but had decided to try to save Kray and Rhone instead of defending.

Now a second later, the lead Ulathi in chase is upon them, charging forward with a brass-headed harpoon.

Maeriks sees the glimpse in the Ulathi's eye. Though Maeriks is the closest and biggest target, at the last moment the Deep One diverts his attack to another. The creature takes one step past Maeriks and thrusts the harpoon at Bryn.

U7.2: Attack Bryn with Harpoon, 2 handed

"Keep running, Casidhe!", Laoise shouts to her little sister. "Run! Don't look back."

The smaller girl's face is locked in terror, in full flight as the Deep Ones run in behind them, getting closer and closer.

Laoise knows that they cannot make the angle, not together. She turns at the last minute to block the way, hoping to let her sister continue.

The closest two Deep Ones close in and target Laoise.

U2.4 Net Attack Laoise
U2.1 (injured) short sword Attack Laoise

RESULT: Net Hit. Laoise Restrained.

RESULT: Short Sword Hit.

The net falls heavily over Laoise and she is captured. The other Deep One stabs in at her viciously with an old dirty green bronze gladius.

Seeing the barren girl captured in the net, two other Ulathi move in for the kill. This girl is not needed as a prisoner, and she has already proven herself to be dangerous.

U4.2 Attacks Laoise with Spear, two handed
U4.3 Attacks Laoise with Javelin

RESULT: One Miss. One Hit.

Despite being captured in the net, the elusive Laoise tries her best to dodge the deadly spears.

Other Group 4 Deep Ones
BR1

Some Dash north as far as they can.
Some move to intervene against the women group.
One (U4.1) Moves up to Casidhe and attempts to Grapple

The Ulathi in the back of the room disperse, spreading out in the room to find someone to assail.

RESULT: Casidhe resists Grapple.

Casidhe ducks under the groping arms of an Ulathi that tries to snatch her. The little Colvert girl keeps running, giving it everything she's got, but at this point running towards other Deep Ones who have already moved ahead. And still yet, more Deep Ones are chasing her from behind.

She is running free, barely, but is surrounded.

Ulathi Group 6

More Deep Ones flood the gap between the two great blocks, even as the gap narrows every second.

Dash Action to charge opponents. Uses all Action.
No Attack possible, but are staged to force OAs depending on opponent Movement.

Kray watches as he and Rhone rise quickly higher and higher in the air, all the while approaching the Dark Throne. Though he cannot turn on his own accord, his body is being gradually turned around 180 degrees, and tilted to where his head is leaning forward from feet.

He gets the disturbing view from above of the Ulathi assault - Deep Ones swarming everywhere. Rushing forward with weapons and nets. Wrestling women to the ground. Flooding the narrow pass between the two great stone blocks. Some are attacking without hesitation or mercy, to kill Laoise and Boann who have both been declared barren. They are attack his comrades now also.

Kray feels his arms being forced open.

Now Sorcha Rhone, once over his shoulder, is separating from him. Floating forward, but still rising with him, held in the invisible force.

Eventually when she is a foot or so away, he sees her face. She is struggling. Eyes and teeth clenched. Tears forcing out of the outside corners over her eyes.

She is shaking in small quakes. Her arms begin to shake the most, and he sees her eyes tilt down to look at her hands.

Now she slowly moves her fingers in. Very slowly at first, but then they close in a fist, and then clinch tight. She tilts her forearms up, with great effort.

He reads her lips. They move slowly. There is no sound, but the single word is clear.
"Mom."

Kray sees now that her nose is bleeding.

Quickly now she too is pivoting, turning high in the air to face the Throne.

Beside the Dark Throne stands the Hierophant. Down below. One hand outstretched, the other held relaxed but at attention at her side.

Kray reads The Hierophant's lips. He hears her words, but he is not sure if it is normal sound, in his mind, or both.

"Now," she says in a foreign and sinister tone, but in Dannein. "Who are you, little girl, to have so many striving to save you, and so many hoping to be saved by you?"

Several Deep Ones move in to kill Boann, the defiant Barren who has broken free and stands rallying the other women to revolt.

3.1, 5.1, 4.8 all Attack Boann

RESULTS: Hit, Miss, Hit

Boann barely avoids being killed by the assault, trying everything she can to stay alive, knowing that her luck will soon run out.

"Curse you, Maeriks!," she yells with one dodge. "Curse you, Rutcranna Daol!" she yells as the trident cuts her side. Her fury is driving her on in defiance of the odds.

Laoise TR2

Laoise tries to roll out of the net and run free.

Attempt Net escape. Advantage for Throne Room Vision.
Cunning Action: Disengage
Movement if possible.

RESULT: Success.


She slides out barely, deftly sidesteps the would-be captors who surround her, and darts forward trying to catch up with her sister Casidhe.

She looks around to see Ulathi ahead, behind, and to the side, and alligators on her right side. Danger in every direction, but she tries to assess to decide what to do.

Casidhe
TR2

"Go!," Laoise shouts from behind her, "Run through!"

Casidhe sees the Deep Ones ahead of her. How can she get past? She tries to weave past one of them who is already running the same way. She tries desperately to keep moving, to make it to the hallway filled with daylight before the door closes again.

Action: Dash
Bonus Action: Tumble (reference DMG optional p. 272)

RESULT: Success on Tumble.
Pause on Movement: Maintains face off with opponent, to avoid activation of OA. Wait for development.

Casidhe dashes past the Deep One near one of the great cauldrons and the sliding stone block on the right. She makes it past him, but in the process alerts his attention. Seeing that she cannot yet complete her escape, she turns and faces him to look for the right moment to dive forward and press on.