After creating a fog to obscure the kobold's and triceratops vision, Lenna proceeds with the little time she has. Making herself invisible and enhancing her speed or linking her allies to a message spell, the halfling instructs Liz to move her close to the kobolds but still a distance from them and behind a tree where she dismounted to hide or move to hide. Following the separation, Lenna tells Liz to move into position where she can be ready to be a nuisance to the triceratops and the kobold rider before readying herself to cast ghost sound at the area in proximity to the illusory dinosaur that will be created by Zoltan.
(If Lenna has to move by herself to hide after dismounting, the check is 56)
Zoltan casts a silent image spell , creating a smaller replica of a dinosaur coming into the clearing, not too far from where Lenna is hiding.
The kobolds and triceratops turn sharply to look at the image, their attention fixed on the grunting, smaller triceratops. It doesn't look like one of theirs!
After her arms lengthen, Mira moves to the southeast, staying just out of sight of the clearing.
Barkskin:
+2 enhancement bonus to the creature’s existing natural armor bonus
Bless:
a +1 morale bonus on attack rolls and on saving throws against fear effects (for caster and allies)
Bull' Strength:
+4 enhancement bonus to Strength
Enlarge:
+2 size bonus to Strength
-2 size penalty to Dexterity (to a minimum of 1)
-1 penalty on attack rolls and AC
space of 10 feet
natural reach of 10 feet
All equipment worn or carried by a creature is similarly enlarged by the spell.
Shillelagh:
Your own non-magical club or quarterstaff becomes a weapon with a +1 enhancement bonus on attack and damage rolls. A quarterstaff gains this enhancement for both ends of the weapon. It deals damage as if it were two size categories larger (a Small club or quarterstaff so transmuted deals 1d8 points of damage, a Medium 2d6, and a Large 3d6), +1 for its enhancement bonus.
Wood Bond:
+1 competence bonus with wood weapons
Wooden Weapon:
Mwk Longspear
+1 Longspear +12 to hit 2d8+8 damage / Power Attack +10 to hit 2d8+14 damage
Reach 20ft (10ft natural reach with longspear)
AC: 16
+1 morale bonus vs fear
-1 to Reflex saves
Sunreturn swells in size and his longspear gnarls and hardens. He strides through the trees to the flank the kobold position.
Literally, through the trees. And trying not to be too obvious about it.
Startled, the kobolds hurl a huge barrage of slingstones at the illusory creature while the triceratops charges. The kobold on the back of the triceratops draws a small, black bag from its larger pack and hurls it at the illusion. It lands in the grass with a burst of sticky resins.
Three kobolds start to get suspicious and begin shouting in draconic. "Fake! Fake dino!"
Sunreturn takes aim at the closest kobold and drives the hardened wooden tip of the spear towards their back.
Sunreturn draws first blood, ending the surprised Kobold in front of him. The others turn in shock, slowly reacting to the changed situation around them.
Lenna bit her lips even as their plan achieved their desired outcome.
"That went pretty well. Okay, Liz. Get ready. Once my distractions are gone which are the monsters that I am going to summon, step up and challenge the other dino but be ready to move out of the way when it charges at you. Zozo, it would be great if you can take out the rider."
Lenna reads the summon monster II (as full-round action) to bombard the kobold rider with at least an eagle that will attack him.
If there is one or more eagle, she summons them to surround the kobold rider and attack him with their beaks and talons.
Zoltan concentrates on the mounted rider, and mutters an incantation, causing a sphere of fire to appear in his space.
All eyes stand transfixed at the three dinosaurs facing off in the clearing, not all of which seem altogether real. There's a sudden rustle in the bushes... and a fourth dinosaur leaps into the midst of the kobolds, slashing like lightning at an exposed throat.
This one? Real. Very real.
Mira kills the kobold in front of her with her ambush attack. Zoltan's fire kills the riding kobold and draws a roar of pain from the triceratops. Not knowing what to attack, the beast attacks the image once more. But as its horns pass through air once more, the great beasts eyes narrow in comprehension.
Seeing the hostile Mira and Sunretrn amongst them, a dark-scaled kobold shouts and orders the rest to attack the smaller one, Mira.
A hail of slingstones head Mira's way, many of them hitting her but having little effect (1 damage after DR from the one that crit).
Under the barrage of stones Mira hops out of the undergrowth and tilts her head to the side, as though she suspects that she's being attacked but isn't quite certain. Then she shreds her maybe-attackers into ribbons.
As soon as the scorch from the flaming balls kill the rider, three eagles to flanks the huge dinosaur (see previous post for rolls), lunging with their beaks and swiping their talons at it. Lenna moves backwards after her work is done at half-speed.
"That salvaged our half-baked attempt earlier. Okay, get ready, Liz. Once the eagles are down and if your master and the ones up there are not done yet, go out there and challenge the dino. Once it is about to charge your direction, brace yourself and sidestep its charge before it gets close to you."
After she hides, her short-lived invisibility wears off.
Zoltan continues to concentrate, keeping the ball of fire on the dinosaurs rear, hoping to maybe chase this dangerous mount off.
Activating his boots of levitation, Zoltan then rises 20 feet into the air, to watch Mira work.
Sunreturn plods forward, but not before stabbing at the west-most kobold.
Sunreturn and Mira finish off the kobolds in their section of the barricades. The remaining light-scaled kobolds look quite alarmed but the dark-scaled kobolds know no fear, as stupid as that may be. One raises a horn to his lips and blows. Out of the somewhat out-of-place bushes you passed a little while ago, 10 more kobolds burst from hiding! They focus on the closest target, Zoltan! A flight of stones whistle toward him, dealing 9 bludgeoning damage to the floating wishgranter! The kobolds behind the barrier, seeing the ineffectivenss of their slings, resort to non-traditional tactics. One throws a sticky contraption at Mira while another launches an orange flask at her.
The sticky bag hits Mira and resins spread over her limbs, entangling her and gluing her to the ground! The orange flask misses her and lands between her and Sunny (1 fire damage each).
The triceratops tires of its illusory enemy and wants to get away from Zoltan's fire anyway so it turns on Liz, charging her. But the agile dinosaur leaps out of the way. Frustrated, the creature looks around for an easier target and spots Mira and Sunreturn. It turns toward them and paws at the ground in fury.
Triceratops: -23 hp
Knowing the range on those slings is pretty decent, Zoltan stays where he is in the air. He mentally commands the fire to move back to the triceratops, since it clearly isn't easily scared off.
Looking down at these kobolds, he figures he should better deal with them. Casting a magic missile spell, he targets one, and then the next (if the first falls) as blue flashes of light shoot from his fingertips.
Zoltan kills one of the kobolds with beams of magical energy impacting in from opposing directions.
Mira slashes at the resin that glues her to the ground, growling in frustration.
If freed, she turns to the kobold who threw it. Struggling forward, she clambers onto the stone path that leads down the cliffside, taking care to avoid the spikes.
Mira scrapes away the goo and climbs around the stakes, getting into position to devastate her attackers.
Seeing that Mira and himself have finished off the nearest group of kobolds, and that their reinforcements arrived from the west, Sunreturn turns around, slips around the trees as if they were not there to impede him, and stabs the nearest diminutive reptilian.
Lenna's birds lashes out as the triceratops rushes towards Liz who dodges out of the way and out of its range.
The birds continue their assaults after one of them 5 ft stepping and the other two flying into reach to peck at it; one flying straight at the dinosaur (provoking AoO, not going to roll for it unless triceratops rolls a nat 1 because I know it is dead) and the other flying around it to flank with the eagle that 5 ft step.
Lenna slips out of the triceratops reach, retreating 25 ft away from it while it cannot see her. She instructs Liz to do the same with through the message spell. Once she moved behind another tree, she greases the space where the triceratops currently occupied (Ref DC 16 or fall prone).
The approaching eagle explodes in a spray of feathers as the triceratops casually flicks a horn into its center. But then the grass under the great beast becomes slippery and it falls onto its flank.
Sunrerturn kills two more kobolds while the dark-scaled ones order their companions to move away from him and keep firing on Zoltan (5 damage: update HP to 17/31). One of the light-scaled kobolds attacking Zoltan flees into the forest instead, fearing the approach of the large Sunreturn.
The triceratops stands up and tries to move carefully over the grease toward Sunreturn, seeing him as the largest target it hasn't tried yet but in its anger to attack him, it falls back down. But it succeeds in ducking under Zoltan's fire as it falls.
The light kobold in front of Mira withdraws (but I think long arm still gets her an AoO?) while the dark kobolds attack her with spear and sling (5 dam before DR).
Triceratops: -23 hp and prone
Seeing the danger to Zoltan, Sunreturn stomps after the kobolds, skewering one straight away.
Poised at the top of the cliffside, Mira takes out one approaching foe with a swipe of her claw and snarls at the one who takes his place, meeting his spear with tooth, horn, and talon. Should he fall, Mira hops forward and lashes at the final adversary.
As the triceratops struggles to stand from its fall, its movements provokes the eagles into retaliating on their downed opponent.
The eagles then lashes out at the beast with their appendages in fury, lunging with their beaks and slashing with their talons.
After they perform their flurry, they vanish back to whence they came. Lenna instructs Liz to use her double move action to stray away from the battle but stay close to her (giving the Mira's dinosaur her location through message), following her (Lenna) actions.
"Liz, keep moving away from the dino but stay close to me after I move. Pick off any stragglers or runners that come our way."
Then, she sees Zoltan getting pelt by the kobold reinforcements.
That doesn't look good.
"Zozo, need any help moving from those smallies? Wish granted!"
Lenna dances and empowers herself with fey's grace. Zoltan is likewise blessed.
"All you got to do now is to believe where you want to go and the wind will take you there. I would personally look for a cover away from these dirty creepers so that I can continue to abuse my spells in peace. Besides, Sunny got you covered."
Lenna then ports 40 ft back to behind a tree with Liz following suit with her empowered speed to stand beside her after the halfling told the dino her exact location that she ported to.
The eagles flurry at the triceratops. In all of their efforts, they have struck only two minor blows.
Zoltan crosses his arms and nods his head, and then "poof" he disappears, reappearing 40' away.
With both the fireball and the illusion disappearing, he decides to concentrate more on the for kobolds. "Look, my friends. Look deep into my eyes..."
"Calm your large dinosaur, and lead him away from this clearing. It is the only way he will survive."
Four kobolds look at Zoltan with rapt attention.
The four fascinated kobolds nod their heads agreeably. Zoltan's words are so pretty. But they don't do anything as they have no idea what he's saying.
The triceratops stands up and moves toward Sunreturn, successfully walking off the grease this time.
The kobolds on Mira's side of the map close on her with spears and some attempt to hit her with slings (1 damage).