D&D 5e: The Lost Mines of Phandelver

[Lurks_In_Shadows]

Balin shakes his head and clears it some. He places a bruised hand upon himself and attempts to heal some of the damage.
Self healing: 1d8+2 = [1] = 3

[Rodgeir]

Aimee sees that they are probably not going to be taking that break, even if it means the party will have to have drag itself into a fight.

"Hey, so I am pretty good at sneaking and can go up and zap the goblins before they see me! There are two of them? No problem and you can stay outta sight until they are either dead or come to get me! Great plan ya?"

She pantomimes blasting them with a grin.

[GathersIngredients]

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((What is the prayer that Saca is constantly saying throughout her day? Who does she pray to?))

uhm prayer? also, what choices of "who to pray to" are there (from the Trickery domain)? ^^

Saca listens to Aimee and whispers: "I can make you even sneakier, but it will only last a minute."
Out loud she says:"Maybe you should check out the situation first and then come back and report what you have seen to us, so we all know what we're dealing with? Our goal is to rescue Gundren and Sildar and I don't know if zapping goblins at random is going to achieve that."

[Rodgeir]

((I think we already know that there are two goblins and how things look from Cal?

And Saca's sneaky power enhancer lasts an hour, not a minute!))

[spiderwrangler]

((Guidance has verbal and somatic components, I may have been presuming, I guess I've just seen most clerics that use it flavoring that as a prayer, but so far you've been keeping it up constantly, so is Saca walking around gesturing to the sky and muttering "Oh god, help me..." at least once a minute?))

((Sam hasn't said what Lewis sees with his 9, so not sure what the current sentry situation is.))

[GathersIngredients]

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((I think we already know that there are two goblins and how things look from Cal?

And Saca's sneaky power enhancer lasts an hour, not a minute!))

a) Iirc, that was HOURS ago, before we went to town to deliver the cart, we don't know yet what the situation is NOW. Also even if nothing changed, we don't know where Gundren and Sildar are, so I'm very much for finding that out - if possible - before launching a frontal attack wherein prisoners might be killed.

b) I'm talking about using guidance on Aimee. What are you talking about?

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((Guidance has verbal and somatic components, I may have been presuming, I guess I've just seen most clerics that use it flavoring that as a prayer, but so far you've been keeping it up constantly, so is Saca walking around gesturing to the sky and muttering "Oh god, help me..." at least once a minute?))

Nah, she's most likely using some other wording for guidance. Like "(insert deity name), I'm/you're (depending on target) so awesome at (insert skill name here)." And she can do it mumbling and/or under her breath, no? As far as I understood it, just not completely silently.
And the gesture is touching the (willing) creature, not a big deal to tap her ears or something. ^^

[spiderwrangler]

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Blessing of the Trickster
Starting when you choose this domain at 1st level, you can use your action to touch a willing creature other than yourself to give it advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This blessing lasts for 1 hour or until you use this feature again.

So you could do both if you want to make someone else really super sneaky.

Volume needed for Verbal components is up to the DM, I was asking more from a flavor standpoint, if Saca was continually beseeching higher powers if she is constantly concentrating on guidance. If that the case, sending his senses into Lewis might be a break from the continual self-affirmations!

[GathersIngredients]

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I guess Saca is about as annoying as Rainbow Dash from MLP - FIM.
And I didn't see that one in the spell list. How often can someone do that?

[spiderwrangler]

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It's not a spell, it's a domain feature you get as a trickery domain cleric.

Trickery Domain

You don't get any of the other fun stuff until higher levels though.

[Rodgeir]

((Aimee is up for checking things out too, without shooting anyone.))

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"Want me to come? I can bring my lute."

[SamWiser]

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(( Sam, am I right in calculating Balin's HP at 3 right now?))

Yes, that's right. 6, after healing.

Lewis flies out to report on what's changed since he last scouted, but as the sun is slowly going down, his vision seems to be somewhat impaired. His report is mostly the same, but less detailed. About 30 minutes walk up ahead there is a river that flows out of a cave. Cut into some brambles on the far edge is some goblins, though he can't tell how many there are.

Let me know who is going to try to sneak up on the goblins, and everybody who is going roll stealth.

[spiderwrangler]

Cal relays all of that to the others.

[Rodgeir]

"So! Same plan except I look, report back and then we can decide how best to blast? My money is on Gundred and Sildar being in the cave so I can check to see how deep it is too!"

She looks at Kryz and adds, "I would love to have musical accompaniment but from my experience it makes it harder to sneak!"

If the party agrees and when they get within about 5 minutes of the cave she starts sneaking. Hopefully Saca makes her super sneaky.

Sneaking with advantage: 2D20.HIGH(1)+4 = [10, 2]+4 = 14


She will try to stay out of sight of the goblins and look into the cave before trying to get a count on the goblins outside.

Looking while sneaking: 1D20+1 = [9]+1 = 10


Should all that go well she will sneak back to the group and report her findings. Should it go poorly she will instead run back to the group lickity-splity.

[thinkslogically]

Kryz shrugs and lets Aimee go on ahead, as he quietly checks the tuning on his lute while he waits for her to come back.

[SamWiser]

How far is Aimee wanting to go inside the cave?

[Lurks_In_Shadows]

Balin is going to take the opportunity to sit for a bit.

[spiderwrangler]

((Lewis has instructions to perch within view of the entrance, and fly back and alert Cal and the others if she runs into trouble.))

[Rodgeir]

Aimee would check to see if it is a short cave or looks more like a tunnel and listen if there is anyone near the entrance that would be alerted when they deal with the goblins. So probably just past the entrance as long as she doesn't see someone before that.

[GathersIngredients]

"So! Same plan except I look, report back and then we can decide how best to blast? My money is on Gundred and Sildar being in the cave so I can check to see how deep it is too!"
If the party agrees and when they get within about 5 minutes of the cave she starts sneaking. Hopefully Saca makes her super sneaky.

(Yes, ofc, Saca applies the blessing of the trickster on Aimee. And guidance, though that will probably wear off before she even gets to where it's interesting.)

[Rodgeir]

((Didn't add the blessing since it would wear off, but Aimee appreciates the sentiment in her own odd, enthusiastic way.))

[SamWiser]

Aimee walks toward the mouth of the cave. The last few hundred feet follow a river flowing downhill away from the mouth of the cave. The northern slope is completely surrounded by a rough thicket. As Aimee gets to the mouth of the cave, she sees two goblins in an area hidden by the thickets, clearly set up for an ambush. The ambushing goblins are too busy playing some sort of dice game to notice Aimee.

Just inside the cave mouth, a few uneven stone steps lead up to a small, dank chamber on the east side of the passage. The cave narrows to a steep fissure at the far end, and is filled with the stench of animals. Savage snarls and the sounds of rattling chains greet her ears where two wolves are chained up just inside the opening. Each wolf's chain leads to an iron rod driven into the base of a stalagmite. They are sniffing the air, searching for a new scent. Meanwhile, a small path is carved into the side of the river, leading up into the cave, but it's too dark to get a good view of what's up the path.

[Rodgeir]

Aimee hurries back to the others to report the layout.

"Maybe don't need to blast the goblins but going to need to blast those wolves..."

She ponders for a second.

"Back to plan A of me sneaking up and blasting those two goblins and you covering me when they get close? Gundren and Sildar weren't outside so I guess we go in?"

((In the off chance her plan is agreed to:

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Sneak: 2D20.HIGH(1)+4 = [13, 2]+4 = 17

Initiative: 1D20+2 = [16]+2 = 18

Eldritch blast attack, damage 1: 1D20+3 = [10]+3 = 13
1D10 = [8] = 8

Eldritch blast attack, damage 2: 1D20+3 = [15]+3 = 18
1D10 = [2] = 2

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[spiderwrangler]

((Cal and Kryz are decently sneaky if we want to try to get a sneak going. I've got the same range on firebolt as Aimee does on EB, so we can double blast, but dwarves aren't sneaky even before their armor disadvantage, so we'll be limited in how close they can get before things pop off...))

[Lurks_In_Shadows]

(( Sneaky, no. Good at breaking down doors and smashing things, probably. ))