Oh so Alice is complaining, let's roll the dice... Interesting result, this feature is not yet implemented though, so 4 it is.

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The fume drake takes a direct hit and the deafening blast shakes it to its core, everyone is deafened for 1 turn.

Alice grins seeing the drake can be damaged with physical attacks and pounces at it

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.

Alice jumps back, impressed, if not frightened by Yulya's massive attack power
Woah, careful there! You almost obliterated me as well! If that hit me I'd be a goner...

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

Alice sighs
Is there no end to this? Is this place already a gate to hell?

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

This raises Alice's spirit again!
Oh, a cool mushroom dude! Did you come to help us? I'll hold the guy down, you hit him again!



Alice tries to show her support by moving North of the Drake#1 to flank it with the Shroom. She crams herself in the space between the drake and the rock pillar and executes a grapple-shove combo. Again amplified by spending one Ki point if grapple or shove fail. If not, Alice adds one unarmed attack.

Please elaborate...

I had a long, vivid future dream, a dystopian future where people lived in singlet studio dorms that were divided vertically so you get 3.5 ft ceilings, a small bedroom with no kitchen or bathroom, the door in was 2ft x 2ft, greatly limiting what you could bring in. There was no entrance to the livibg area without a temporary physical entrance card after you were verified, no one was allowed phones or computers in their rooms, just a TV that had access to schedualed services. There were windows, one per room, and outside was a desolate natural landscape outside the provided housing.

The only privacy was that room but the windows didn't have coverings and it could view every inch of space. There wasn't even a closet, just a hexagonal shaped main room with a smaller room attached.

The food was kibble-like ultra processed snack-like universal dry food, and water. Even the food container was edible. The kibble was savory, meaty taste, the container was hard-tack-like sweet like a sugar cone or gingerbread.

I was visiting a friend and he was a monster more or less, completely unhinged, violent, definitely needed to be stripped of all privileges and monitored 24/7.

Then I went to another group of friends and watched a small portion of Cocomellon type propaganda laden, education-lite infotainment "movie" with no clear beginning or end, no plot, completely AI generated of course, random, but with a name and a theme that could crudely be distinguished from other scheduled shows. That was obviously meant for education, entertainment and consistency of control. Everyone was white.

What more could a useless, non-working dependant society of animals need? One step above cages. All services provided. It wasn't English, it was like remnants of English, like thick Scottish riddled with colloquialisms and pigeon.

The buildings were tall, dark grey skyscrapers with a double helix or helix-like repetition  and what looked like a 100:1 height ratio, thin and tall.

It felt like we were at a high latitude, very cold outside the building. Since you owned nothing, you had to have very specific permission and be supplied clohing. You couldn't get out without that and if you did you would succumb to the elements.

I got a sense that the "food" suppressed sexual urges and left everyone child-like in their actions and desires. Why even have people at all? What were they doing? There was no one over 30ish so it could be that even age was controlled, culling after a certain aesthetic was no longer desired.

I got no sense that these people, including me, did anything but play games or watch "movies", socialize physically, constantly eat, and sleep. No school, tightly controlled activities, no labor, no ownership other than a personal space and thin bedding.

The spaces were ventilated somehow, there was a common fresh odor. Just residents and guards that had a blank stare and zero aggression but a simple insistence, they were likely androids.

Outside the dorms were high ceilings, grand architecture, open spaces, with people in a large mall feel. There was no advertisement anywhere.

Quite a dream. Limbo-like existence.

[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]