(Waiting on Karasha's save to know how to proceed. Stand by.)

Even as the woman grabs her, the rat nips the woman's hand, not hard enough to hurt her, but enough to loosen her grip and get away. The rat scurried away out of sight

Baba Lysaga drops the rat, and turns in time to see the greatsword slice down at her. It strikes true, but does not cleave through her, merely barely putting an inch deep gash between her neck and shoulder. She hisses and mutters a strange and dark language, and Skuldja sees white and is unable to move.


Power word stun. Skuldja is automatically stunned.
Skuldja make a Constitution saving throw DC17 at the end of each of your turns. On a successful save, this stunning effect ends.

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ROUND 2
BABA LYSAGA AC15
HP-14

Karasha turned to see the sword bite the woman with limited effect and knew the warrior was in trouble. She reverted into her form, already the tatto of a vine growing from her arm like a whip, she snapped it towards her. She was concerned for her friend, and missed the woman. Even as she did, she called out.

"COME"

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<OOC: Bonus Action - drop shapechange

Action - Cast thorn whip

Karasha rolled 5 using 1d20+4.  Thorn whip.

Nope.

Misc Action - call to others>

Skuldja stops roaring and then just stands there, her tongue hanging out and drooling a little.

03:42, Today: Skuldja Blackrazor rolled 12 using 1d20+4.  Con Save, DC 17.

Zrakrud swirls and chants in rythym as he completes an incantation he thrusts his mind towards Baba Lysaga

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OOC: Cast Tasha's Mind Whip, DC 13

10:09, Today: Zrakrud rolled 16 using 3d6 with rolls of 6,5,5.  Mind Whip.

quote:

You psychically lash out at one creature you can see within range. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 3d6 psychic damage, and it can't take a reaction until the end of its next turn. Moreover, on its next turn, it must choose whether it gets a move, an action, or a bonus action; it gets only one of the three. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and suffers none of the spell's other effects.

Lando freed the last of the wereravens.  When he looked back at Skuldja, she was just standing there; she wasn't killing the witch like she's supposed to.  She's the front line fighter! that's what she gets paid for!  Of course she wasn't getting payed, but he wasn't going to tell her that.  Well, he had freed the wereravens, so his job was done, he could just leave. But his conscience nagged at him; he was going to have to go in there and help his friend.  Silently he cursed his soft heart, resolutely he turned toward the cottage, and started approaching.

Action: opening the second cage

Movement: waiting on movement til next turn

Zrakrud feels his ability unable to fully affect the witch's mind. He hears laugher whispering in reply.

The ravens pour out of the cages, immediately flying away to escape this wretched place.

One of the ravens turns into an older woman, frail, half-starved, and naked. She pulls her gray and black hair out of her face and nods to Lando, then shouts at the fleeing ravens. There is something strong in her, despite the weakness of her physical being.

"Come back! Come back! Take your vengeance!"
Half of the ravens immediately obey, turning and flooding into the hut to swarm around the witch.

They bite and claw at her, but she only laughs. Laughs. Laughs.

KABOOM. A bright streak blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame.
Half of the ravens drop dead.


Karasha make a Dexterity dc17 saving throw.
Skuldja I highly recommend you roll that inspiration and apply it to round 2, if you do get a 5 or 6 you will get to make a dex save against the fireball. If you don't you automatically fail.
A target takes 25 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

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ROUND 3
BABA LYSAGA AC15
HP-29
INSIDE THE HUT: Baba Lysaga, Karasha, Skuldja, 2 swarms of ravens at half health.
OUTSIDE: Zrakrud, Lando,
Female Wereraven Leader AC13 HP 35

Lando walked stoically up to the cottage and leaned nonchalantly against the doorway.  "hey there, good lookin',  there's no need for all this fuss."  He tried not to gag on the words.  Hopefully the witch was too distracted to notice.  Maybe the witch will be so busy laughing that they can sneak away.

21:08, Today: Lando rolled 12 using 1d20+7.  persuasion.
21:10, Today: Lando rolled 14 using 1d20+7.  persuasion.
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Karasha paled as soon as she saw the smile from the woman, then all she felt was the fire....the burning fire. The elf screamed as she fell back, from the explosiona nd pain of the fire. She lay there, burnt, moaning in pain.

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<OOC: Karasha rolled 14 using 1d20+3.  dex save.

25 damage. Still conscious (just)>

Lando was quite surprised to see the witch was not at all what he was expecting. Her skin was not green and bubbled but smooth and sun-kissed, her purple leotard hugged curves from thigh to bosom and her painted red lips spread into a wide smile revealing perfect white teeth as she smiled at him. She brushed long black braids of silk hair away from her face so she could get a better look at him.

"Don't play dumb. We are all too smart for that. I know who you are and I know what you think you're doing here. I have all the cards, and you will all certainly die if you aren't willing to play the hand I will deal you now.

"The Martikovs, wereravens, and the Keepers of the Feather are my enemies. You have helped them, but just now I killed more than half of their numbers. Though I preferred to make them suffer rather than end their misery so swiftly.

"I will let you all live if one of you kills this woman. This is Isla Martikov, the matron of the family. The true leader of the Keepers. Kill her and I will heal the four of you and let you leave Berez knowing you have no hope. That will satisfy me. Nothing more. Besides, Strahd probably wouldn't like it if I killed his little playthings, don't you think? Hehehehee."

01:59, Today: Skuldja Blackrazor rolled 8 using 1d20+4.  Con Save, DC 17.

Skuldja fell, from the explosion. Her clothes were blackened and burning a little. It was hard to tell, but her scales were blackened a bit too. She was conscious, just still stunned.

Zrakrud uses his rythmic dancing and chanting to place some distance between him and this witch, but as he does so he lets lose a single word cause his mind to whip towards the witch once again.

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OOC: Cast Tasha's Mind Whip, DC 13 and move away full speed.


14:17, Today: Zrakrud rolled 6 using 3d6 with rolls of 1,3,2.  Mind Whip. (Cry a little)

quote:

You psychically lash out at one creature you can see within range. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 3d6 psychic damage, and it can't take a reaction until the end of its next turn. Moreover, on its next turn, it must choose whether it gets a move, an action, or a bonus action; it gets only one of the three. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and suffers none of the spell's other effects.

Karasha, on the ground, barely conscious and burnt, muttered in the elvish language as her hand clutched in the dirt. She felt the cool energy as she called to the earth, called for the nutrients to heal and soothe her wounds.

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<OOC: Action - Casts Cure wounds, Second level on herself

Karasha rolled 11 using 2d8+2.  cure wounds - second level.

Gains 11 hp.

Bonus Action - none>

Lando noticed that Karasha was well enough to heal herself. Skuldja was burnt, on the ground, and unmoving.  He spoke words laced with magic, "Come now. This is no time for lying about.  Get up." When he saw no movement, he tried to stall, "well you see we had an accord with the wereravens.  They aren't my allies of course.  I have no interest in the conflict between you on a personal level.  However, they are associates of a local tradesman with whom I have a working relationship, and some of them are needed in that business. I need assurances that they and my companions will be freed, if I should agree to your proposal."  When the magic whip shot in, he dropped all pretense of negotiation, grabbed Skuldja, and dragged her out of the door.  "Sorry! It looks like I must be going.  Come on, everyone! let's go!"

Action: grab Skudja

Move: as far as Lando can go out of the hut and away

Bonus action: casting healing word at level 2 on Skuldja
17:28, Today: Lando rolled 11 using 2d4+3 with rolls of 4,4.  healing word.

I just noticed Skuldja's weight, and there is no way Lando's 8 strength is moving her.  Hopefully Karasha will get up and help, ot Skuldja will make her next save check.

Suddenly she grabs her head, "Aghh!" (from mind whip) and Lando and Karasha find the moment to do their healing spells.

"Assurances, my boy??? I assure you if you do not obey me you will all die here. He hehehehee."

Baba Lysaga walks next to Lando as he goes about trying to drag the half-dragon out of her hut. She mutters discouraging things to him like, "Don't lift with your back, you might pull a disc...no, sweetie, not like that....tsk tsk, tut tut..." And she giggles most annoyingly the entire time.

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Skuldja and Karasha are healed a bit. Baba Lysaga seems unaware of Zakrud.
Karasha is inside the hut, Lando, Skuldja and Baba Lysaga are at the doorway.
Round 3.

Lando straitened up with a slight thoughtful frown, "I hadn't planned on dying just yet.  That will accelerate my plans faster than I had wanted, but you did win the battle.  Although, it's a bit too sooty to die in here, don't you think?"  He stepped out of the doorway, and looked about, "no no, this is far too muddy." He moved to the north side of the hut, out of view from the door.  "Aha! how about here? You could kill me here."

Action: disengage

move: If he has to walk around the roots he can get behind the front root.  He'd like to get behind the second root if he could

Karasha saw the whole thing happeneing as if in slow motion, and winced. She did not want her friend killed, so she did what she thought would help.

Hand on the ground, she called nature to help her, calling vines to encase the woman.

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<OOC: What the hell!

Action - Casts Entangle on the woman, so captures her but not lando.

DC strength 12 or be restrained

Bonus action - None>

Zrakrud watches Lando move around the edge of the hut but still call out to Lysaga he figured he had a moment, whispering a short enchantment his words carried upon the winds to Karasha's ears only ""

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OOC: Continue to move away, but keep others in sight and cast the cantrip message

"I don't want to kill-what?" Vines wrapped around her legs but she shook them off, "I've changed my mind. FNGRFDTH."

She says the curse and points at Lando.
You send negative energy coursing through a creature that you can see within range, causing it searing pain. The target must make a Constitution saving throw DC17. It takes 58 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

A humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command, following your verbal orders to the best of its ability.

So you see, if you die, you get to be a zombie! The game is far from over. :)

Baba Lysaga seems unaware of Zakrud.
Karasha is inside the hut, Lando, Skuldja and Baba Lysaga are outside, near the massive roots of the hut.
Round 4.
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Lando collapsed to the ground.


18:43, Today: Lando rolled 13 using 1d20.  constitution save.

Lando is dead.  I'll start work on a new character

Karasha watched as the bard, the friendliest of teh lot in this group, fell dead. The elf felt pity for his soul, but also a welling anger as she looked at the woman. A single tear dropped into her hand, and she used it to fashon ice cold magic in the form of a dagger.

With a flick, the dagger lashed out at the woman.

The shot, in her anger, missed teh woman, but it exploded with a cold burst.

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<OOC: Action - Casts ice knife

Karasha rolled 7 using 1d20+4.  ice knife.

MISSED!

Karasha rolled 6 using 2d6.  cold damage. or all in n5 feet

Bonus Action - None>

Finally, Skuldja found herself kicked back into consciousness. Her eyes opened wide and dilated quickly. She was on the ground and felt hot embers on her scales. She quickly got up and saw things were not going well, Lando was on the ground like she had been. She grabbed her Lute and cast fly on herself and then attempted to grab Lando with one hand, Karasha with the other, and then Zrakrud with her mouth or he could grab on to her. Then she planned to blast off in a random direction away from the witch.

Zrakrud watched from a far, seeing what he could do to help, but with a single word Lando fell dead. Staying within the brushes that he knew so well how to hide in he watched, a slow rhythm being tapped upon his side.

"Flee flee flee. I have taken my prize and you have yours. Fear. Dread. Despair. Your only hope is to serve Strahd. Anything else and you will die."

Baba Lysaga moves Stands over Lando's body, not allowing anyone to have it, but does nothing to stop you from leaving.

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You may choose to go to any other location in Berez, check the map.