It continues to swing It's hammer down on the thug.
Basic attack (1d20+14=32, 1d8+10=17)
Fabes
The battle turns into a slog in the mud, as the thugs are slowly overcome.
Eldritch Blast (Ref) v Red 4 (1d20 9=21, 1d10 7=9, 1d8=1)
Akahale sploshes unhappily through the mud and aims a half-hearted blast of dark energy at cultist 4.
"My rod is not operating reliably," he informs Grafile, sotto voce.
Akahale's half-hearted blast is enough; the cultist is looking crazed but very close to death.
All of this mud has worn on the Dragonborn. Grafire digs deep in to his resolve and finds a renewed energy as he focuses on Bahamut.
Warlord strike on Thug 3:
1d20+13=31
Damage - 2d10+9=24
-Hit: Battle Axe [2d10] + 5 Strength modifier damage. Until the end of your next turn, all of your allies gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against the target.
-Inspiring Presence: The bonus to damage rolls equals 1 + 3 Charisma modifier. Total power bonus to damage +4
With a mighty hew, Grafire's axe bites deep and the thug dies noisily.
The Stealth issue
Stealth: At the end of a move action.
Opposed Check: Stealth vs. passive Perception. If multiple enemies are present, your Stealth check is opposed by each enemy’s passive Perception check. If you move more than 2 squares during the move action, you take a –5 penalty to the Stealth check. If you run, the penalty is –10.
Becoming Hidden: You can make a Stealth check against an enemy only if you have superior cover or total concealment against the enemy or if you’re outside the enemy’s line of sight. Outside combat, the DM can allow you to make a Stealth check against a distracted enemy, even if you don’t have superior cover or total concealment and aren’t outside the enemy’s line of sight. The distracted enemy might be focused on something in a different direction, allowing you to sneak up.
Success: You are hidden, which means you are silent and invisible to the enemy.
Failure: You can try again at the end of another move action.
Remaining Hidden: You remain hidden as long as you meet these requirements.
Keep Out of Sight: If you no longer have any cover or concealment against an enemy, you don’t remain hidden from that enemy. You don’t need superior cover, total concealment, or to stay outside line of sight, but you do need some degree of cover or concealment to remain hidden. You can’t use another creature as cover to remain hidden.
Keep Quiet: If you speak louder than a whisper or otherwise draw attention to yourself, you don’t remain hidden from any enemy that can hear you.
Keep Still: If you move more than 2 squares during an action, you must make a new Stealth check with a –5 penalty. If you run, the penalty is –10. If any enemy’s passive Perception check beats your check result, you don’t remain hidden from that enemy.
Don’t Attack: If you attack, you don’t remain hidden.
Not Remaining Hidden: If you take an action that causes you not to remain hidden, you retain the benefits of being hidden until you resolve the action. You can’t become hidden again as part of that same action.
Enemy Activity: An enemy can try to find you on its turn. If an enemy makes an active Perception check and beats your Stealth check result (don’t make a new check), you don’t remain hidden from that enemy. Also, if an enemy tries to enter your space, you don’t remain hidden from that enemy.
Dark power flows across the battlefield to little effect as the mystics try to use their magic against our heroes.
MAnny slogs forward through the sticky morass that their battlefield has become. He nears IT and Grafire, and asks,
"HOw's it goin'? Nice day for a trudge through the sludge, isn't it?" He asks cheerfully. He lowers his staff towards the blue-robed caster.
"YOU, on the other hand, are seriously getting on my nerves!" He declares happily in that same cheerful voice, with the same happy grin, as a barrage of thunder pours forth from his staff. The noise and force batter at the blue-robed caster, trying to literally pick him up and slam him down again,...
Rowan cuts loose another priest's shield on Red#2
"Heh, not worth my time anyway", he says as the mystic moves away.
"Let's test your freinds worth"
Mayhem is the order of the day as the heroes show what they are made of, Rowan and Seram concentrating on one of the thugs whilst Manny smashes into one of the mystics with his magical might.
Squelching doggedly onwards, Akahale squints into the rain and sets his sights on the pair of thugs assailing Seram and Rowan. Crisply cursing the nearest foe, he follows up with a blast of dark energy.
Curse, Blast Red 1 (Ref) (1d20 9=29, 1d10 7=12, 1d8=5).
Extra crit damage on Red 1 (2d10=20)
Akahale appears and blows a hole in the cultist, who drops to the ground smoking.
Akahale allows himself as slight, smug smile as the thug topples. "Most satisfactory. Do continue Mr Zal."
"Anyone heard thunder before that lightning bolt hit?" Rowan asks casually as Red 1 hits the deck.
"Me neither," he adds pointedly to his opponents.
"There would be no sound prior to transmission of the energy field as the source is in fact drawn from the soundless vacuum of the dark spaces between the planes. As we saw, on arrival, the blast delivers a noise, although this is often difficult to discern through the screams of the victim."
Akahale delivers a short lecture on the properties of eldritch power.
Seram swings his blade, but the mud and momentum of the blade almost knock the big man off his feet.
Rowan unleashes another priest's shield on his foe whilst calling upon his faith to heal himself before his injuries overwhelm him
Rowan unleashes another priest's shield on his foe whilst calling upon his faith to heal himself before his injuries overwhelm him
Akahale squelches menacingly in the shadow of the trees, wrapped in arcane shadow and plotting more carnage.
Mandrake the Mad retaliates with his own icy attack against the spellcaster.
It, as unperturbed by immobilization as by anything else, pivots It's shoulderbow around to aim at the cultist Grafire is attacking, but misses.
The remaining thug whales on Rowan but is parried by the troublesome priest.
Eyes whirling with dark energy, Akahale's rod mis-fires as he attempts to follow up his destructive path by flattening Red 2. Snuffling irritably, he moves into the trees, wrapping himself in shadow as he does so.