@Dark Light
Thugs B and C are attacking the party in the area by where we recovered our stuff. Thug C was in the hall firing a Crossbow, while Thug B is engaged in melee combat with Orchid. Najila just knocked Thug C out, so all that's left (as far as we know) is Thug B, and Orchid just attacked Thug B.

As for Layout, the best I can describe is that Orchid and Aron are standing close to the door and are in melee with Thug B. I think Thug B is eliminated, if 11 hits. I vaguely remember that they don't have great AC but I'm not sure if their AC is 11 or 12, and I think they have around 30 HP. With Aron's 15, Orchid's 10 (5 from the glaive and 5 from booming), if her 11 hits for 9 glaive damage that should put the thug down. Also Orchid is pretty wounded.

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to give a quick update and not have the RP feel too silent. Work has almost been a 24/7 routine for these past 2 weeks. Most days I jump out of bed to start work and once work is finished, its about time to sleep, and the process. For the little time that I do have, I need to spend do usual life stuff that requires my attention and priority. Which leaves me little time to spend on the RP. But I'm still very interested in the party and the world that will eventually unfold as they progress. I just need the the work and life balance to be correct as it should be so I can comfortably start moving things at a good pace.

Yeah that's understandable mate. The world's all whack right now and at best some of us gotta cope with this massive change in our daily schedules, but others are going to have to go crazy hard due to those same life circumstances. Tis just a game, the story can wait.

It is important to take care of yourself during these crazy times. Take as much time as you need! ^_^

@Expolar

I have a mechanical question out of curiosity.
Apparently WotC updated Unearthed Arcana for the Warlock of the Genie Patron.
Source
Could/Should I update Najila accordingly, or would you like me to keep it the same?

@Expolar

I have a mechanical question out of curiosity.
Apparently WotC updated Unearthed Arcana for the Warlock of the Genie Patron.
Source
Could/Should I update Najila accordingly, or would you like me to keep it the same?

Since this is a rare occurrence that a subclass gets revisited and this game is still very early enough that I am open to the possibility of changes to the character since little to none of her abilities has been shown. But it will leave the decision to you and once you make that decision, just let us know.

OK.

I've thought about it, and I've decided I'll update Najila accordingly to fit the updated rules.

EDIT: Najila has been updated to account for the updated Unearthed Arcana.

Before you leave, don't forget about that bag of gold and sentimental objects Angus threw on the ground.

Added in the Eldritch Blast into my last post since Orchid’s charging in.

@Lucius Cypher
How would Orchid have reached the half elf when he was about 100ft away from where most of the party was? Angus is about 60 ft from the party, standing at the end of the hall that opens to the spacious room where on the other side of the room, about 40 ft away is the half elf. There is the homebrew that I mentioned where you can use your entire turn to move 5 times your speed in a straight line, but it would mean you wouldn't be able to attack on that turn. Also I'm not really counting it as a surprise round charging ahead as running down from 100 ft from where the elf is facing is something he can easily see and not be surprised. So your latest post would be Orchid's turn.

@Guardian Angel Haruki
Najila is find as you were holding your action, thus were at the ready to fire and the spell was in range.

@Expolar

Sorry, forgot to mention since it was flavor text, but Orchid burns her Action Surge to do a dash. 30 movement, 30 aggressive, 30 dash action surge, than booming blade with a glaive (So +10 reach) so reach 100 feet.

So 100ft and an attack all in about six seconds.

So just to be clear, who's turn is it? Are we gunna wait for Dark Light or what?

Just as a note,

With how the initiative is and to help pacing of posts, I decided to edit the post to show what the enemies did in the initiative order. Because of this, if Azzen wanted to try and do something against the enemy before their turn finished, just let me know and I will edit the the post if it needs to be changed due to the post. Orchid, since your turn is after the enemies' turn, you can continue with your old post or change it. Just let me know which one so I know you finished your turn for this round.

Next time, I think will try to note when a situation may cause initiative rolls to occur. Also to help, please let me know when you plan to attack anyone before you make your post. That way, if the attack is not a surprise, then I will roll the initiative roll. If it was a surprise, it would be part of the surprise round and then the initiative rolls would occur. For this current situation, I felt Najila's attack would be the surprise and cause the trigger to occur for the initiative rolls. Because of the distance and visibility, I felt Orchid's post would not be surprising enough to be included in the surprise round.

EDIT:
If Orchid does continue to try and attack, please do another attack roll at disadvantage as the Employer may or may not still be in the room to attack in range of the glaive.

With the way initiative and stuff is being done, is the employer going to have his spell go off before or after Orchid's more-or-less surprise attack? Yeah I know doing a 100 feet dash isn't exactly subtle, if the guy teleports by the time Orchid's turn comes up, there's no real reason for her to burn all of her actions and such trying to chase him down, ya know? Just not to mention I was operating on the previous premise that we were doing collective team turn order and not regular turn order stuff. If it was the latter, we'd still be going first since the average of our initiative bonus is higher than the average of the Employer and his Guard Drake.

Oh okay, because its been quite a while since we had combat, I forgot to mention this, and thus sorry for the inconvenience.

After the first combat and Angus's solo combat, it made me consider a few things and decide how I wanted the postings and combat to be. Because initiative could play a important part of combat involving the timing and order of things, I thought it would be important to keep the usual initiative rule and not average the rolls. Additionally there is the factor of hidden or new enemies joining combat. Because I like to show most of my rolls, having these extra factors being added feel like can complicate the average that I do and not having hidden enemies shown in the totaling and average of the roll did not feel right to me as that average would be something that I showed everyone. However I am still keeping the rule that if the team (enemy or player) happens to have their members next to each other in the turn order, then they can make a post when ever want during that round.

In this particular case, after Azzen does his turn and as I already did the enemies turn (already posted their turn as I thought to give everyone an idea what happens, provide time for everyone to prepare a post, and felt Azzen's turn may not alter too much of it), then everyone can post make a post for their character's turn as all of the party initiative happens to be next to each other.

But in the future, lets say a party member, PC A happens to have their initiative roll be between the turns of two enemies. Then this person would have to wait for the rest of the party to post, then once I make a post of the enemy's turn that came before PC A's turn, then PC A can post.

@Expolar

Would I be correct in assuming that I should start rolling death saves for Angus?

@Expolar

Alright, but back to my question, would my turn come up before or after the Employer? As it is I was still under the assumption that our team won the initiative bout and would go before them. Angus might not because he had started combat separately from the group and thus has his own thing going on. But it is important at least to know where exactly Orchid falls in this order.

Initiative and such probably should’ve been rolled up as soon as Najila Hexed and shot the Employer, so Tis a mistake on my part for not asking about that before taking my action. But moving forward to prevent confusion I just need to know:

Since we are now doing traditional initiative rolls, can I just change the entirety of Orchid’s post? It would not make sense otherwise for her to charge into the room to go after the employer if he was faster than Orchid and no longer there or well beyond her reach.

@rush99999
Yes you would have to do a death save until someone heals or stabilize you.

@Lucius Cypher
Orchid's turn would come after the employer's turn. Thus Orchid would see the Employer vanished by the time she stepped into the room.

Whose turn is it currently?