D&D 5e: Arcana of the Ancients (IC)

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Chaos at the Fair

The Dragon's invisible force carries the detonation across the ground, not throwing it so much as ferrying it, and removes the pin, pops the lever, and drops the weapon at the goblin's feet. Both of them tip their closed eyes down at it, and one attempts to leap out of the way, but both are wrapped in a mustard yellow gas that floods from the detonation. As soon as the gas touches flesh, the goblins begin to scream, but this does not last long. Almost immediately their flesh metamorphoses into liquid quicksilver, and two white skeletons fall to the ground, seemingly at eerie peace.

On the other side of the battlefield, Greck's hammer smashes another goblin into the dirt, broken and dead. A beam of light from the heavens, directed by Yusha's signal, strikes another just as it is about to attack his rear, causing it to fall backwards, howling in pain.

The savage assault of Shalar on the bugbear is best left to the imagination, grisly and disturbing as it is. The corpse of the once mighty goblinoid settles into a rapidly expanding pool of it's own blood.

Finally, Calen's spell flows out of his tablet into the area, and unceremoniously all the remaining goblins slump down to the ground, truly asleep and no longer walking, or more importantly, fighting. It would be a simple task to either tie them up or execute them for their crimes.

Spoiler: OOC

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Each of you gets 240 xp for the brief fight. Laughable that the standard encounter building rules consider this a "deadly" fight, isn't it? Also, if anyone bothers to search to goblins, you also find a dangerous looking sphere . This is definitely a cypher of some sort that the goblins stole from someone.

Spoiler: DC 10 Ancients Arcana Check (1/2 Arcana bonus without the feat)

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This looks similar to the exploding gas weapon The Dragon threw at the archer goblins, but it feels more menacing somehow.

Spoiler: DC 15

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There is a piece of strange, slippery paper stuck to the sphere. It removes easily enough if you wish, and has an image of a swirling vortex of some sort on it.

Spoiler: DC 20

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You may have heard legends of weapons like these. They use the force of gravity as a potent and deadly weapon. It has a larger radius of effect than the minor cypher Ar-Raaqis threw, and has the lethality to kill even someone as strong as Shalar in the following eruption of gravitic energy. This is the most dangerous and potent weapon any of you have ever held.