As combat opened, Ailekk came out from behind a pillar, smacking a dragon knight. Ron polymorphed Rurrick into a giant ape. The dragon knights took a step back and said, “Oh fuck” then 7 of them advanced on Rurrick doing around 100 damage in a round. 4 of them stuck back by Queen Lightcrown. Rurrick bashed Nivicras in his ape form, after which Nivicras fiddled with a ring and drew 24 hit points from Queen Lightcrown as he healed and she took on his wounds. Volandra moved to the north, firing a couple of arrows at Nivicras. Urd made his way to the fray to confront Queen Lightcrown, she stabbed at him but he parried the blow. Kalrithni moved off to the north near Pixi and Sir Vatcher. The hobgoblins took formation to the south of Breschka to move on the Indrasians, firing arrows at them. Two robed hobgoblins attempted to cast spells but Sir Vatcher countered one and Ma Thornberry countered the other. The elven Thrinegrove defectors fired arrows at Nivicras, doing okay damage. Cassius moved north, misty stepped, and smacked Lord Nivicras hard dumping some divine smites and doing 40-50 damage. On her turn, Queen Lightcrown’s bodyguards moved to her side and dimension doored off far to the southeast. The Sir Vatcher cast cone of cold on the bullywugs while Pixi went in to mop them up, cutting one of them down. The Indrasian diplomats took rank and engaged the hobgoblins. Brescka roared, “This is my castle, put your weapons down!” She smacked a hobgoblin devastator with her battleaxe, using a level 3 smite and incinerated him. She moved to the north and smacked a dragon knight, but not hard enough to drop him. Ma Thornberry cast a force wall sphere around the Dree Dragon Knight Commander and her nearby knights. On Nivicras’ turn, he took flight with Cassius and the giant ape both not hitting him. He flew into the air and roared, summoning 4 green dragon wyrmlings and 4 young dragons to his aid. He then let loose a blast of poison, incinerating the Indrasian diplomats, knocking Sir Vatcher unconscious, and hurting both Kalrithni and Ailekk. He then flew 40 feet off the ground. The remaining 3 bullywugs began jumping away for their lives. On his turn Ailekk flew to the southwest, letting his lightning javelin go, taking down the regular hobgoblins and damaging some dragon knights. Ron cast sending to Feng with the message: “ITS RON HELP US IN GALA ROOM NIVICRAS IS KILLING BRESHKA/INDRA/RAFFOLK SLAYERS WE CAN WIN NEED HELP ASAP RSVP PRONTO!” He got the response, “I KNOW, I KNOW, MA TOLD ME, I'M FUCKING COMING.” The Dragon Knights continued their assault on Rurrick, knocking him out of great ape form with four of them surrounding Urd. Rurrick threw a boulder at Lord Nivicras and missed. Volandra successfully stealthed and fired two more shots at Nivicras. Urd escaped from the Dragon Knights and fled south east. Kalrithni disappeared and appeared in the middle of the hobgoblins with a thunderous boom, dealing damage and knocking several of them prone then fled to the southwest. The hobgoblin devastator cast a lightning bolt at Ailekk who saved and dodged out of the way, but the hobgoblin captain smacked him a couple times with his longsword. The others chased after Kalrithni, firing at her with their bows. The Thrinegrove Defectors continued to fire at Lord Nivicras. Cassius healed Rurrick with his lay on hands and used Hunter’s Mark on Nivicras. One of Queen Lightcrown’s Necromatons moved to the northwest, now standing 15 feet up on the balcony above Ron but looking north into the fray. Sir Vatcher moved to the south, feeding a healing potion to Sir Vatcher. Sir Vatcher got up and cast ice storm on the hobgoblins and Nivicras. Breschka moved next to Rurrick, dropping 54 points of healing on him getting him back to full health. Nivicras failed to recharge his breathe weapon, and fled 80 feet into the sky. The bullywug continued to flee and Rirre and her 2 aarakocra diplomats followed behind her. Ailekk flew after Nivicras, striking and missing him twice. Nivicras roared and bashed Ailekk with his tail, knocking him unconscious and he fell to the ground, thus failing a death save. Ron ran into the middle of the room, letting loose a high level fireball at Nivicras in the air. The dragon knights went after Rurrick, Urd and Cassius, knocking Rurrick out of his ape form. On Rurrick’s turn he cast stoneskin (right?) on himself and took cave bear form. Volandra fired two more arrows at Nivicras. Urd attacked and missed. Kalrithni fled to the northwest, hiding behind a pillar. The hobgoblin captain moved over Ailekk and cleaved him, killing him, then flanked the Thrinegrove defectors, killing one of them and hurting another. Three Thrinegrove elves moved into the center of the room yelling, “Kiernard returns” in elvish. They unleashed arrows doing 9 damage to Nivicras. Cassius used scorching ray and released a firebolt at Nivicras, doing 28 fire damage. Then Sir Vatcher moved forward and cast a fireball at Nivicras, causing him to fall from the sky onto Ron, Volandra, and Ailekk’s body. On Queen Lightcrown’s turn she appeared back on the couch, dagger still in her hands and fully healed, now with no collar around her neck. She said, “Dragons, Nivicras is dead and I am your queen as declared by Shrave himself. Give them a volley of poison gas to let them know where they stand, then we shall talk.” 4 young and 4 wyrmling green dragons proceeded to gas Urd, Rurrick, Cassius, Breschka, Volandra, and Sir Vatcher with Vatcher dropping again. Urd dropped but came back to 1 hit point, Breschka is pretty low on hit points. Note: [Cassius should have taken ((22/2/2 = 5) + (38/2/2 = 9) + (46/2/2 = 11)) = 25] [Rurrick should have taken ((22/2/2 = 5) + (22/2/2 = 5) + (38/2 = 18) = (46/2/2 = 11)) = 38] Mistakes I made: The turn Nivicras flew away he should have either double moved or cast a spell. Two hobgoblins got skipped. A dragon knight got skipped. [Precedent] I really should have made the falling damage full damage not 1/2. PC Mistakes: Patrick - Especially on a thing like this, for the great ape make sure to use the character sheet when possible. It helps me reconstruct events. Cassius - Didn't record some damage from one of the breath attacks, I updated it