Boss Fight?

When we last left our heroes, they had defeated the half-dragon Langdedrosa Cyanwrath and a pair of his lackeys. That fight left us a little drained, so we took a short rest in his chamber. The hour passed uneventfully, and Thok took the lead, climbing up a rope ladder down a short passage. He was followed by Censura, and I was at the base of the ladder while Sandi guarded the rear. Thok made a stealth check with advantage. A canvas topped a portal at the top of the ladder.

Thok moved aside the canvas and came face-to-face with a woman in purple robes brandishing a halberd. Thok tried to intimidate her, but failed. Then Censura tried diplomacy, also with limited success. The clincher came when I followed them up the ladder to make sure I could support them when the guards the woman called would enter the room. We would later learn that this was one of the cult's lieutenants in the area: Frulam Mondath.

We were soon swarmed by low level cultists, but fortunately they used their actions Dashing (this edition's equivalent of taking a double move). Only one slightly stronger guard appeared. Mondath cast an area spell with an initial effect of slowing enemies in its area, and it required concentration. Sandi used his hail of thorns spell to drop some of the low level cultists, and even managed to injure Mondath, causing her to lose concentration on the spell. This was good, because the DM let us know that Mondath's spell would have done more nasty things at the beginning of her turn.

We managed to kill a few other cultists before laying fully into Mondath. I ended up contributing one of the bigger lump sums of damage with a 2nd level inflict wounds, which does 4d10 necrotic damage. Afterwards, Mondath fled. Shortly afterwards, between thaumaturgy assisted intimidation from Censura broke the moral of the remaining cultists and most fled.

Once we had killed the stragglers, we searched for treasure, finding some valuables on the cultists, and some clues on a desk in the room: a map and letter indicating that the treasure the cult was gathering was headed north to a place called Naerytar.

We then barricaded ourselves in the room and took a much needed long rest.

When I return, I'll finish my discussion of the DMG.