[Round 1 Continues]

Ashley takes a signal from Cat and sends her summons in with rally Growth. "Yulya? No Bless?"

Alice races around the rock pillar counterclockwise. She lights and throws an explosive stick at the large fume dragon, then she charges it and attempts to grapple it. If successful, Alice expends 1 Ki point for an unarmed strike as second bonus action. If unsuccessful, Alice expends one Ki point for a second bonus action grapple.

The loud boom and shock wave cause the fungal spores to erupt all over the cave.



[Explosive DEX vs DC12 1d20+1=(CM)][DMG 3d6*1.5=16][Ear damage CON vs DC12 1d20+3+3+0,+0,+0,+0,+2=(19,13,3,4,14,17,9)][DMG 1d4=(3,3,1)][Grapple vs DC15 1d20+5=20,13]

The fume drake takes a direct hit and the deafening blast shakes it to its core, everyone is deafened for 1 turn. The repeated loud blasts have taken a toll on the ear drums of Nixie, Olga and Alice causing them to suffer additional damage of 3, 3, and 1 respectively. Alice's first grapple fails against the smoky creature but she realizes it's not mere smoke, there is a solid creature here, Alice's second attempt to grapple it succeeds.   

Yulya immediately moves 5ft N and uses her Healing Hands on Cat. Then she expends all 4 missiles of her staff (leaving only the last emergency reserve) and targets the large drake. With one use of her ring of quick casting Yulya puts all 6MP of her focus into Toll the Dead and targets the large drake again.

Cat gains 2d4=5 HP from healing hands.

[Magic Missiles DMG 12d4+12=38 force damage][Luck 1d20=CR, Flavor 1d4=1][Toll of the Dead to 3&3/4 level (again forgetting to enhance it with the goblin staff) WIS vs DC15 1d20+3=6][DMG=1d12*3.75*2=70!!]

The missiles strike the target unerringly. Yulya next uses her focus to cast her illegal spell and it bursts with energy doubling any damage it could have dealt! A massive tone of a necrotic wave field melting the drake from Alice's grip and downing it in a fetid pile of flesh, scales and smoke. Because of the massive necrotic damage, it auto fails it's death saving throw.

Cat enters Rage and waits for Ashley's lynxes to flank. Then she hits the fume drake with her greatsword using Heavy

Cat gained 4THP

[HIT vs AC16 1d20+5+2+1-5=CR][DMG (2d6+5+1+2+1+10) x2=52]

The drake didn't stand a chance and is nearly cut in half, Olga takes the opportunity to disembowel it, killing it instantly. Nixie and Helga await further targets and stand on guard.

[Round 2]

The celebration is short lived, as four more fume drakes rise from the dust ready to attack.

[Initiative 1d20+1,+1,+1,+3,+3=(8,6,7,18,11)][Nature DC15 1d20+5,+3,+2,+2=(CR,5,4,4)]

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An unintended consequence of the noise from Alice and Yulya's attacks, two large violet fungi awaken disturbed by the loud noises, one in the middle of the fungi patch to the South and one just south of the pillar. They were hard to notice before with all the other fungi around them. Though not formally trained but well versed in Nature, Yulya recognizes them as Myconids, a naturally peaceful race of beings. Though incapable of speech, she remembers they are known to be intelligent and can be reasoned with if connected to psychically, assuming anyone has that ability, which none of you do.

The larger of the two attack the closest Fume Drake.

[HIT vs AC16 1d20+11,+6=(25,10)][Pox Fort vs DC17 1d20+5=23, Saved][DMG 2d6+2+4=14 Bludgeoning]

The Myconid hits the fume drake with an audible slam, doing moderate damage.

Ashley touches Yulya's focus and fills it back up to full, "We're going to need to pull out all the stops, and don't forget to Bless us too!"

[Make your moves]
 

Being German, Bernd can't stand up for himself. Alice would then ironically be the pent up stress and repressed traditional toxic masculinity to compensate.

>when they finally catch Bernd

New weird dream, same school friends.
I exited a military cargo plane with one of my friends from high school when among other people leaving the plane, I saw a girl that vaguely looked like my childhood crush. My friend would have known her since we were in the same class from age 10 upwards but he didn't. The brain decided this was my grade school crush though she looked different. We were again all late teens. The guy was our class clown, pretty much bipolar and I didn't particularly like him. Still for whatever reason I told him about that girl. Something I'd never do IRL. He doesn't even know about all the drama with my childhood crush though we were in the same class. I said that girl now works in the music industry. And this dream character looks at me and says something extraordinary: 'How do you know this?'
I was baffled and had no explanation either. Yet however not enough to become lucid.

We were in a very moist temperate forest, everything overgrown with moss, tall fir trees. The forest was dark and somewhat eerie, something out of a Hänsel and Gretel fairy tale. We crossed ravines that had been bridged by crudely hewn logs. I thought it looked dangerous but it was easy to cross. Deep in the forest we came upon an ancient derelict stone house.



One of the guys with us looked like a seasoned buff adventurer from an isekai. Drawn in manga style and completely unmatching to the rest of the highly realistic scenery. He jumped onto the roof and ran along the gutter ninja-style. I also made it onto the roof and saw that in contrast to the rest of the house, the chimney was brand nw. It was highly detailed and I effortlessly managed to balance on top of it on my toes. Gravity was minimal. It was clear that the house was not abandoned, and after a while the inhabitant came out to see who was on the roof. It was a pich-black skeleton.

The dream ended like most dreams do in such situation, Alice felt threatened and beat everything to a pulp. only the smoldering foundations of the house remained.

Cat halfheartedly listens to the conversation with no particular interest but is still surprised by the drakes due to Alice's fungus shenanigans and takes a massive hit.
Nyaa Fume Drakes!



Cat enters Rage and waits for Ashley's lynxes to flank. Then she hits the fume drake with her greatsword using Heavy