Friday, May 3, 2024

Bay Beach Barrier Bugs, directed by Michael Bay - May 3, 2024

 - Remote play for April's sinus surgery

- Dice kitty "Just because I can't see it doesn't mean I don't need to write it down."


- The group spends a couple of day walking down the coast, but they haven't seen any bay trees yet.

- So on the fourth day when they see an island off the coast in the direction they are walking with a lot of trees. It's a barrier island a couple of miles off the coast.

- Osiris ritually casts Water Walk on the group (except Tiff and Tina who are on Tiff's broom)

- They walk for about an hour over the water, then Tiff casts Rope Trick and they all ascend to the extradimensional safe space for a recast, and they have to do this twice and almost a third time before they reach the sandy beach of the island

- There are a couple shipwrecks. A few small fishing vessels on the beach, but also there's a much larger vessel out on the shoals, and all of them look like they were fire damage.

- Not all the boats look like they were shipwrecked at the same time.

- Tiff does a quick fly-around of the big boat out in the water, and she sees that the ship had a major fire and it's weatherworn, so it's been there for a while. There's no reef, it's just stuck on sand, and there are little chips and scorch marks like maybe a firebolt spell?

- Osiris casts Locate Object for Bay leaves and gets a ping north of her 837 ft.

- Tiff is flying along maybe 10' above the ground when she runs into some kind of invisible wall. She manages to do a somersault and land on her feet holding the broom.

- Rusty can't feel the wall and can walk through it.

- Dwarven made invisible force field?

- Everyone except Tiff starts to notice a buzzing sound. It's above and farther inland.

- Osiris climbs onto the broom with Tiff and they start flying up, trying to see the the wall has a top.

- One of Osiris's arrow's doesn't get stopped by the barrier and neither does her hammer. 

- The buzzing is starting to get very loud, and there are three things that are about the size of an eagle and they look like mechanical dragonflies.

- The force field is a dome, by the way.

- Tiff jets on the broom back in the direction of the ground

BEACH BUGGY BATTLE

- Rusty Rages and calls out in Dwarven, "Stand down, we're friendly!" and he readies an attack action if one of the Mechanical Dragonflies does something aggressive to anyone in the party.

- MD1 casts something at MD2 that gives it a glimmering sort of shield, and the dive bombs Ràian for 16 bludgeoning dmg (tail hit) then darts away again. Then it shoots her with a lightning bolt for 15 (7) lightning dmg

- Ràian moves to within 15' of MD1 and casts Burning Hands on it for 13 fire dmg and then moves back toward the group again

- MD2 dives for Tina for 16 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 14 lightning dmg

- Osiris casts Aura of Vitality on herself (she can't tell if the aura reach through the barrier or not) and then she sends Tina 10 HP

- MD3 dives at Lyrielle for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then shoots her for 22 lightning dmg

- Lyrielle uses a ki point to Dodge as a bonus action then climbs on the broom with Tiff and readies an attack action for Tiff to bring her to one of the 

- Tiff tries to put MD2 that attacked Tina in a Resilient Sphere, but it dodges. Then she flies with Lyrielle over to MD3 and Lyrielle punches it for 10 bludgeoning dmg.

- Tina casts a 4th level Fire ball over the ocean such that MD2 and MD3 are in the range but Lyrielle and Tiff are not. They take 30 fire dmg, and then Tina runs and hides behind a nearby palm tree.


- Rusty throws two javelins and misses twice. But he does put himself closer to the one that was attacking Tina

- MD1 dive bombs Ràian again for 18 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it for 6 force dmg and it discombobulated enough not to shoot lightning at her

- Ràian casts a 6th level Fireball such that it gets MD1 and MD3 without hitting anyone else for 45 fire dmg. And that's her turn.

- MD2 misses Tiff on its dive bomb and then shoots her with lightning for 21 dmg.

- Osiris sends Ràian 14 HP. Then she casts Aid at 4th level on Ràian, Tiff, and Lyrielle (15 HP up).

- MD3 smacks Lyrielle without needing to move for 12 bludgeoning dmg and then gets smacked for 8 bludgeoning as it moves away from her then it misses with the lightning bolt.

- Tiff shoots MD2 with Melf's Acid Arrow (3rd level) for 12 acid dmg and then flies Lyrielle over to MD2 where she punches it again. Tiff then drops off the broom into the soft sand below leaving Lyrielle in control of the broom

- Tina casts a 5th level Cloud of Daggers around MD3 for 22 slashing dmg. She then continues to hide behind the tree.


- Rusty runs and leaps and grabs MD3 by the legs and pulls it down onto the beach. He is holding it by the legs and it is squirming.

- MD1 dives at Ràian again for 15 bludgeoning dmg and she Telekinetically Reprisals it again for 9 force dmg

- Ràian casts a 5th level Fireball for 20 fire dmg and MD2 crumbles into bits to the ground. The copse of trees at the water line is now on fire.

- Md2 is dead!

- MD3 escapes from Rusty's grip and flies away up the beach inside the barrier. Rusty stabs MD3 for 15 piercing dmg

- Osiris attempts to Misty Step through the barrier, but she rebounds off of the barrier and ends up standing next to where she was before she cast the spell, so she turns and casts Toll the Dead on MD1 for 25 (necrotic dmg, and the dmg doesn't seems to be as bad as it should be.

- Lyrielle is on a broom! She flies to MD1 and punches it for 9 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 13 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 12 bludgeoning and MD1's face collapses inward and it falls to the beach.

- Tiff sends the Healing Bonk Hammer over to Ràian and then she moves near to Osiris and the barrier and calls to Rusty to grab the last MD and bring it to her to try to deactivate.

- Tina casts Magic Missile at 4th level for 12 force dmg. She continues to hide behind the palm tree.


- Rusty tackles MD3 again and drags it over to Tiff who Tinkers it for 25 effective dmg though it's non-destructive to the construct

- Ràian takes some rope out of her bag and attempts to tie it up so that it can't fly any more.

- MD3 misses Ràian with a lightning bolt and then claws Tiff for 16 dmg

- Osiris backs away from the melee that has overtaken her and sends 16 HP to Tina. She then asks Tina is she thinks Dispel Magic would work on the barrier. Tina has no idea. Osiris suggests she try on her next turn.

- Lyrielle strategically punches it for 6 bludgeoning dmg and then again for 11 bludgeoning dmg so she stomps it for 8 bludgeoning dmg

- Tiff keeps going with her tinker tools and it powers down!


- Tiff finds some similarities to Rusty's construction, but less refined. She is sketching and diagramming and note taking furiously. 

- Tina casts Dispel Magic on the barrier and you can see it hit the barrier and see ripples through it, 


- There is a whistling sound, also mechanical, and there is something flying over the trees moving very fast. The thing looks a bit like a cross between a bird and an airplane. It has fixed wings that are shaped like a bird's, but they don't flap. The front of it also looks a bit like a bird's head.

- Osiris says everyone step through the interrupted barrier on the count of three.

- Rusty grabs Tina and gets ready to carry her through the barrier.

- Osiris casts Dispel Magic and crosses the invisible barrier.

- Lyrielle runs through

- Ruff runs through

- Tina is carried through by Rusty.

- The flying thing dives straight at Tiff and hits her for 23 bludgeoning dmg and explodes dealing 26 bludgeoning dmg and 24 fire dmg to Tiff and half as much to everyone else (except Lyrielle who was completely out of range of the explosion). 

- Osiris casts Mass Healing Word on everyone for 11 HP, then yells run and take her own advice, heading inland.

- They find a good spot to hide in the jungle.


- 2,200 XP ea for 140,000 XO total ea.

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