Dark Rumblings

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+20
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+20 --> [ 1d20=4 ]{24}

"Aaaaaaaaaagh!"

In the flash of light the room is bleached. All is white, the design below now back to how it should be. Barrels, bows, arrows and more are all now pure white, shining with a faint light.

"Rest," Ebony intones quietly, "As you should have on your first death."

[Ebiris]

Alicia nods in agreement with Ebony's sentiments, reminding herself that the shadow probably spawned from an innocent murdered by another such undead. With that to think about she goes and opens the door to the East.

[Anastasia]

A deep closet, full of more arrows, crossbow bolts and so on. Insects scurry away from you, into the shadows of darkness.

Your keen eyes note a single eye in the ceiling, forming and looking about the room, yet it seems to slide over the three of you.

[Ebiris]

Is it a spell like a freaky scrying sensor or something I can identify?

[Anastasia]

It is.

[Ebiris]

"Scrying sensor, don't think it can beat our nondetection," Alicia says as she detonates another sunburst in the room to clear out what few insects there are. If it's a hivemind then every bug they kill will reduce its potency.

[19:02] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+31 sunburst SR
[19:02] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+31 sunburst SR --> [ 1d20=18 ]{49}
[19:02] <@Ebiris> roll 6d6 damage to non-undead
[19:02] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 6d6 damage to non-undead --> [ 6d6=18 ]{18}

DC 41 ref half

[Anastasia]

Ref save is irrelevant.

The bugs are obliterated in sunlight, Ebony nodding slightly. "They we proceed deeper, and go slowly. We have reason to be through now, even more than before."

[Ebiris]

"We need to develop better spells for exterminating castles like this," Marie opines as Alicia goes back and opens the North door in the armoury.

[Anastasia]

"Marie's Castle Crusher?" Ebony asks, a hint of a smile on her face.

Ahead is a long hallway, sacs all over the walls. Doors in the middle go both east and west, while a door to the north can be seen. Insects crawl over something that's in the shape of a body, writhing over it constantly.

https://imgur.com/a/zzqpWa7

[Ebiris]

"Well that one would just knock the castle down, which we can't really do when this is a sacred holy site for Mystra," Marie laments. "I do like that volcano spell your friend Afina used on all those devil forts, though."

"That is a good way to make a statement," Alicia agrees approvingly. "Also Marie, smite?"

"Done!" the eladrin raises her hand and brings it down, a righteous smite erupting over the hallway.

[19:18] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+31 righeous smite SR
[19:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+31 righeous smite SR --> [ 1d20=15 ]{46}
[19:18] <@Ebiris> roll 20d6
[19:18] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 20d6 --> [ 20d6=58 ]{58}

DC 32 will half

[Anastasia]

The sacs and vermin are obliterated in holy power, reduced to scraps and the way clear.

"Let us not lament this. Every step here is a step doing good," Ebony remarks.

[Ebiris]

Before going any further down that freshly cleared hallway, Alicia goes to open the door to the West of the armoury!

[Anastasia]

Another closet, loaded with vermin - but they're gathering together, like a lash striking out at Marie.

Init, which Alicia autowins so go ahead. I'll roll it out in case action is needed beyond her go.

[Ebiris]

Alicia pre-empts them with a burst of holy power!

[19:52] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+31 holy smite SR
[19:52] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 1d20+31 holy smite SR --> [ 1d20=3 ]{34}
[19:52] <@Ebiris> roll 5d8
[19:52] <Kobot> Ebiris rolled 5d8 --> [ 5d8=16 ]{16}

DC 37 will half, blinded if save fails

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+4 20s happen
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+4 20s happen --> [ 1d20=3 ]{7}

Holy power vaporizes many of the bugs - not all, but enough for the last to fall apart, the survivors scurrying into the darkness and shadows.