Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #279 - Pyrotechnics in the library

(G279 17/06/2016 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira)

DAY 249 (15 Uktar)(November) cont ...

The fight with the flaming skulls was a long one, not just because there were lots of them but also because of their spell resistance.

So many of mine, Irritator's, Sybil's and even Basil's spells were failing to do anything that it was extremely vexing.

Then there was the effects of the dragon making all Conjuration spells hard to cast, which meant that all the spellcasters were just about spent by the end of it.

Still, we did manage to finish them in the end. Irritator kept throwing magic missiles at them and a enough landed to take a few of them out. I cast an ice storm which caused a lot of chaos, but didn't actually harm them. Yli was very effective with his bow, as was Drashnag.

Between the two of them they probably took out most of the skulls.

The summoned creatures did their part, but they were in more danger from Shump than the skulls I think as he killed a dire bat by accident with a misplaced arrow!

I summoned some water elementals and Basil summoned two hippogriffs, which certainly made the library even more crowded, if such a thing was possible. The elementals were not much use as the flaming skulls were magical, but one of the hippogriffs really got stuck in and killed one of the skulls.

Shump wasn't the only one that was being incompetent with a bow. Sylvia, out of spells, started shooting with her crossbow... and took out a water elemental. Archery practise definitely needed for certain members of the party then.

We'd just finished off a bunch of the skulls when the Wind Wall came down and we had the other half of the room to deal with. Just as things were looking up Shump shot Sylvia. What was it with those two? I seriously considered just taking the bows off them as they were doing more harm than good.

We whittled them down one by one. Irritator did some damage with a Shout spell and by some fluke I managed to summon a Unicorn, which can use its horn to cast healing spells - a handy way to get around that pesky dragons interference.

Well, anyway, by the time the unicorn had turned up the skulls were all dealt with and all the other animals had gone back to their home planes of existence. By a brute force and throwing everything at them we had won the battle against the flame skulls.