Session 85: Cliffside Bloodbath Wedding Part 1 (June 19, 2025)
Last session, our heroes planned for a wedding! Together with the Eladrin, Izume, and others, they turned an empty cliff side battleground into a place of celebration. And a place of danger, as pits were painted, caltrops were placed, and Mahos were hidden beneath layers of frosting. Ash spent most of the time out-of-sight after telling Elias that the night in the tomb was the first time she’d allowed herself to rest since meeting Hooded Beth.
The time eventually arrived and everyone took their places for the wedding. A string quartet played the wedding march from the Nor’Southern Isles documentary A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Ash walked through the aisle up to the flowered arch where Elias stood. Heph read a prepared speech, received rings from Wynn, and asked for objections. On cue, Kogar, along with four Mistguard, arrived, Kogar voicing his disapproval with “No rat will marry my daughter!”.
- Finally in the fight of his life, Elias turns to Ash and
asks her for permission to shoot her dad in the face, and getting it shoots
Mistguard #1 in the face instead, dealing some damage and poisoning him,
turning to Ash and claiming to have “missed” afterwards
- Heph steps forward, casts Heat Metal on Kogar’s bracer, and steps back to put a bit more distance between himself and Kogar
- Kogar uses legendary actions to step forward and cast Fog Cloud
- He then strides into the Fog Cloud and swings at Elias, demanding he step aside so Kogar can talk to his daughter, and enters a rage after doing so, causing Elias to drop concentration
- Mistguard #1 dashes into the cloud of mist up next to Kogar
- Mistguard #2 runs up to the other side of Kogar and falls into one of the pits, taking some damage as he does so
- Karrl flies over the fog cloud, doing his best to mark Kogar’s location
- Ana runs into the fog cloud, attacking where she thinks Kogar is, and with a bit of luck manages to hit him, dealing a good chunk of damage
- Kogar uses a legendary action to attack Elias, landing a solid blow on him
- Ash steps into the fog, stabs at her father but misses, then shoves a health potion down Elias’ throat, healing him a bit, and with the wild magic surge that goes along with it Elias teleports 30 feet across the river, and then Ash heads across the “bridge” to the other side, getting out of range of the Glyph of Warding
- Kogar uses a legendary action to swing as Elias, who is now no longer there, and misses, hitting a bucket that randomly appeared where Elias was
- Maho does an epic front flip out of the cake, turning large and landing in the fog as she does, impressing the Eladrin and those who can see, and attempts to attack Mistguard #1, but misses two strikes, but action surges and lands a critical hit on the guard, pushing him back 20 feet into the waterfall, and he falls down the cliff into the river, and he dies as he lands on the sharp rocks
- She shifts around Kogar and takes her final swing at him, landing another critical hit on him and pushing him back, launching fiery chains after him and restraining him as he falls into another pit that we dug
- Mindprison and the Goliaths ready actions to attack if someone comes near
- Elias recreates the bridge, moves out of the way of the Glyph of
Warding and jumps into the cake, hiding himself
- Heph repeats the Heat Metal damage and backs out of the range of the Glyph of Warding, readying an action to activate it when Kogar is in range and ideally Heph’s allies are out of harm’s way
- Kogar is restrained by Maho’s chains and is stuck in a pit, but manages to barely break free at the end of his turn
- Mistguard #2 manages to climb out of the pit and makes a couple of attacks against Maho, but misses twice, steps into the river and gets swept away, but manages to fey step away from the edge and ends up directly in front of Heph
- Mindprison uses her prepared attack to throw a javelin and Mistguard #2 and hits him
- Ana attempts to stab at Mistguard #2 but misses, and disengages and moves behind Mindprison
- Kogar uses a couple of legendary actions to misty step out of the hole
- Heph picks that moment to pop the glyph of warding, dealing a bunch of thunder damage to Mistguard #2, Maho, and Kogar, causing water to spray from the point of explosion, and causing some more of the cliff to break off and fall down into the sea
- Ash stabs at an punches Mistguard #2, missing the stab but landing the punch, then disengages and backs away from the front lines of combat
- Kogar uses another legendary action to move along the river’s edge away from Maho
- Maho walks across the river and attacks Mistguard #2, but is parried, and uses a bonus action to second wind
- Mindprison throws a javelin at Kogar, but misses
- Suzuki pops out of the cake and swings at Mistguard #2, missing twice
- Tomatsu pops out of the cake and swings at Mistguard #2, also missing twice
- Ando pops out of the cake and swings at Mistguard #2, also missing twice
- Elias pops out of the cake and shoots at
Kogar, landing an arrow and dealing some damage but not
managing to poison him, and then hides in a tree, giving Ash a peck
on the cheek as he runs by, which surprises her and causes her to blush beet
red
- We hear a rustling in the leaves of the tree near Kogar, and a swarm of dolls drop down carrying daggers, clambering over each other and trying to attack Kogar, but don’t manage to land any hits, also trying to cackle at him but he manages to resist
- Heph activates the heat metal, casts Shatter on Kogar, and flies 35 feet up in the air with his winged boots, Mistguard #2’s attack of opportunity missing
- Kogar chugs a superior health potion and heals himself a bit, but trying to step away from the dolls they stab him and grapple him, he manages to escape but it costs him some time, and as he vaults over the wall and lands in more caltrops, he is momentarily impeded by them and loses any additional movement
- Mistguard #2 swings at Maho, landing one shot, and Misty Stepping next to Kogar, getting impaled and impeded by the caltrops in the process
- Ana stabs at Mistguard #2 and hits, but Kogar uses his reaction to reduce the damage a bit, and then disengages and retreats through the tent to get closer to Izume and tells Izume to retreat a bit further back
- Kogar uses a legendary action to step towards Elias and Ash, swinging at Elias and hits him twice, although Maho uses the Cloud Rune to redirect the first one to Mistguard #2, killing him, and Elias takes some damage, although he manages to dodge some of it
- Ash grabs Elias and drags him away, Kogar yelling out “Keep your hands off my daughter” and Elias yelling back “I’ll put my hands wherever I want” which causes Ash to look almost apologetically at her dad, and tries to give Elias a peck on the cheek, Elias turns his head at the last second and they end up fully kissing, which absolutely infuriates Kogar
- Maho runs around Kogar and swings at him, pushing him back 10 feet and knocking him prone, then she steps up to him and swings at him one more time, pushing him back another 10 feet, and he falls into the river, taking some damage
- Mindprison runs over to the cliff edge and throws a javelin, but misses and runs back away from the edge
- The goliaths prepare to shove Kogar off the edge if he makes it back up
- Elias tries to shoot Kogar, but misses, and
then hides behind the goliaths at the cliff’s edge
- The dolls head to the gift table of knives and start grabbing tons of daggers, and Elias feels a warmth and is certain that he is being prayed for, as the devotees of the heavenly cap pray for him and he gets healed
- Heph flies over the edge of the cliff and launches a lightning bolt at Kogar, but isn’t able to get close enough to Kogar to activate Heat Metal
- Kogar dives under the water and disappears from sight
- We tell Ana, Ash and Mindprison to wait, and Maho, Elias and the goliaths prepare to jump off the cliff at the same moment
- Ash seems intent to follow, but Elias kisses her on the lips and convinces her to stay, and she demands “don’t you dare die” as he jumps off the cliff, followed shortly by Maho and the goliaths
- As Elias lands on the water, he casts Locate Object on Kogar’s magic rock