Chapter 3.3: Orlane in the early morning

@WhtKnt - Just to set expectations: having disengaged and moved away, Ember is in a similar situation to Morton with his zombie: she can get far enough away from the bugs that they have to Dash to catch up to her, but if they catch up to her, she has to Disengage again on the next turn to get away without provoking an attack of opportunity. You can keep doing that; they might eventually lose interest, or you might find a hazard to harm them, or bring them close enough to another target that they will attack instead of you, or even kite them all the way to the Temple! Or you can try to fight (very dangerous) or run away without disengaging (which would allow them to attack her once, but then she would outdistance them).

@WanderOne - Since Morton is using a ranged attack on an adjacent enemy, please reroll the attack with DISADV. I'll let you reroll the damage, too.

@WhtKnt - Congratulations! If you wish, you can engage the swarm with missile weapons from far enough away that it can't catch you (moving away and attacking each round), or you can just leave them behind. Your choice.

@WanderOne - Morton is dying, but not dead. The zombie has left for the time being, so what remains is for you and Arya to make death saves. For drama's sake, I encourage you to roll each one as a separate post, but you do not have to do that. Remember that, any result 10 or higher is a success, but if you roll a 20 on a death save, Morton will regain consciousness with 1 HP. Three non-20 successes would mean that Morton stabilizes, he is no longer dying (and can stop rolling), and someone will likely find him in the forest. A 1 on a death save counts as 2 failures, and 3 failures mean that Morton has died.

@WanderOne - Refresh my memory, as I've forgotten: when did Morton reduce a creature to 0 HP last? If he had reduced a creature to 0 HP since the last long rest, you're correct, he would have had 5 temporary HP this whole time, and the 11 damage would have come off of the 5 first, and he would then lose 6 of the actual HP, leaving him standing with 3 HP! Let me know when it was; I neglected to mark it in my notes.

As to the question about level 2: I've said specifically that PCs gain the HP of the gained level, but none of the special/class abilities without training. Class abilities includes Dark One's Blessing, so that remains +5 for Morton for now.

Finally, a side note: when a character is at 0 HP, they are either stable-and-unconscious, or dying. This is true no matter how many temporary HP they have. So a character with 0 HP and 5 temporary HP would still be unconscious or dying. I'll point out that situation - where a character has 0 HP but some amount of temp HP - is an extremely rare edge case. Since damage dealt always removes temporary HP first, there are very few cases where a character would still have temp HP when they are losing HP, much less when they reach 0 HP.