Deathless moves up, rages and intimidates chanter (green) and she is now shaken.
Deathless takes half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Wong casts blessing of fervor, channels vigor and takes half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Darnak charges at chanter (orange) and hits his flat-footed and does non-lethal damage to the man. You take half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Shinobi hits and does damage to pink. You take half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Chanter (orange) will begin chanting and fosters a sense of growing dread in his enemies, causing them to take become shaken. then concentrates to cast a spell and fails. He takes damage from the hot coals.
Chanter (pink) will begin chanting then concentrate to cast a spell and succeeds.
Spellcraft
Hou Wong Xia You don't know what the spell is.
The party is unsure what happened as nothing targeted you.
He takes damage from the hot coals.
Chanter (blue) will begin chanting then concentrate to cast a spell and succeeds.
Spellcraft
Hou Wong Xia You know he is casting invisibility sphere.
He takes damage from the hot coals.
Chanter (green) will concentrate to cast a spell and fails. She takes damage from the hot coals.
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Up next, everyone!
Hot Coals Combat Map
Round 2
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20.02 - Deathless
18.05 - Hou Wong Xia
14.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.09 - X the Shinobi
05.02 - Chanters
---Round End---
Wong thanks the gods for bestowing their blessings upon him, then concentrates to see where the chanters are.
He moves forward and asks for a new gift, imbuing himself with a protective aura.
Deathless "Hmph!" 's and stands awaiting something to happen.
Darnak unloads of volley of attacks against the chanter in front of him.
X wonders what the audience will think of an entire team vanishing...surely that can not be entertaining to them. He focuses his ki and steps lightly across the coals taking no damage.
Deathless delays
.
Deathless takes half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Wong casts See Invis and takes half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Darnak hits (orange) with 1st, 3rd & 5th attack and does non-lethal damage to the man.
You hit him so much that you start to see blood and he falls to the hot coals.
You take half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Shinobi uses light step.
Chanter (orange) is unconscious and takes damage from the coals.
Darnak is no longer shaken as the performance is over.
Chanter (pink) continues chanting, 5 ft steps and pulls out a whip, then concentrate to cast a spell and succeeds.
Spellcraft
Hou Wong Xia
You do not know what he casted and he is still invisible to Deathless & Shinobi
He takes damage from the hot coals.
Chanter (blue) continues chanting then concentrate to cast a spell and fails. He takes damage from the hot coals.
He is still invisible to Deathless & Shinobi
Chanter (green) starts to chant, 5 ft steps while pulling out a whip then concentrates to cast a spell and succeeds
Spellcraft
Hou Wong Xia You know she is casting Heroism on herself.
She takes damage from the hot coals.
She is still invisible to Deathless & Shinobi
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Up next, everyone!
Hot Coals Combat Map
Round 2
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20.02 - Deathless
18.05 - Hou Wong Xia
14.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.09 - X the Shinobi
05.02 - Chanters
---Round End---
"Oh come on!"
Wong picks some arrows from his quiver, stepping forward to get a better angle, and cries for divine help before shooting.
As one Chanter falls, Darnak switches his attacks and continues his assault upon the nearest one.
X continues to invisibly light step over the coals biding time.
Deathless delays.
Deathless takes half of fire damage from the hot coals.
Wong hits blue with two shots and the man falls unconscious. The last two arrows hit pink and he falls unconscious.
Wong takes fire damage from the hot coals.
Darnak moves down to attack green and hits with the first two attacks.
Shinobi dances on the coals.
Chanter green surrenders.
Out of Combat!
The officials race in to assist getting the unconscious men off the bed of coals and the crowd cheers as they see who the victors are.
Shortly after the battle of the embers, the Emissary tasks the your party with their third test of the competition. He describes to you a scintillating ruby bracelet made of 99 tiny gems, braided together with golden filaments. This bracelet, he explains, is currently in the possession of a guardian named Tsavati in the bamboo forest north of Yun Chumo. He gives you until sundown to locate the bracelet and retrieve it from the guardian, who has been instructed to defend it with deadly force.
Do you accept this task?
Wong looks at the others. "What time does the sun go down here, more or less?" he asks the Emissary, worried about their date at 9pm.
"Oooh, ya got a hot date champion?" Deathless pokes. "If you're too busy I can fly solo on this one. They don't call me 'Deathless' for nuthin'!"
X looks to Hou Wong Xia and nods. "I accept this task." He restores his Tabi boots of haste and prepares himself for a duel in the bamboo forest.
Darnak nods as well, "I'm in." He then moves and retrieves his own boots and puts them back on.
The party makes their way to the forest. As you arrive you hear a voice, ”So you have come, now it’s time to take this from me. You hear leafs moving in the canopy above as if something was up there but fled.
The bamboo forest is dense with tall, thin bamboo stalks standing an average of 50 feet from the forest floor. The 8-inch-diameter shoots are bare of any foliage from the ground to a height of approximately 40 feet, where masses of thick leaves create a translucent canopy. Other than the bamboo itself, no other undergrowth exists in the forest. Any creature in the canopy gains cover against creatures on the ground, as well as concealment as though it were in light undergrowth. All normal penalties on movement and on Acrobatics and Stealth checks apply within the canopy, as though it were ground-borne undergrowth. A PC can scale a bamboo shoot with a DC 15 Climb check, and each plant has AC 4, hardness 5, and 20 hit points.
Initiative
Hou Wong Xia
Darnak Deepstone
Deathless
X the Shinobi
Tsavati
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Up first, everyone!
Bamboo Forest
Round 1
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23.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.05 - Hou Wong Xia
11.09 - X the Shinobi
08.02 - Deathless
05.03 - Tsavati
---Round End---
Wong liberates his wings, flying up with the intention to have a look from above the canopies. "I'll check up there!"
X vanished like a ghost once more moving into the bamboo forest for a stealth battle with the other combatant.
"Trees. Why does it have ta be so many trees? I can't see a blasted thing." The dwarf readies himself with his dragon stance and waits for... something.
Deathless smiles and begins laying into the trees around him.
Wong flies up to the top and you can see your opponent.
Shinobi moves, you can’t see her as you are under the dense foliage of the forests tree tops.
Darnak looks around and also can only see the dense forest.
Deathless beats on a poor tree.
The nagaji has pale green scales that blend in with the dense bamboo, but the ridges of metallic bronze scales on her bald head clearly mark her among the foliage. You can see the bracelet on her wrist.
She seems to also be flying as she swiftly moves a little closer and casts a spell.
Spellcraft
Hou Wong Xia
You don't know what she is casting.
She fires a ray at Wong tch 17
Hits
20/x2
strength damage
Fort 15 halves damage
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Up next, everyone!
Bamboo Forest
Round 2
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08.02 - Deathless
11.05 - Hou Wong Xia
23.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.09 - X the Shinobi
05.03 - Tsavati
---Round End---
Deathless yells amid the tree punching.
Darnak shrugs as he leans against a tree and watches the spectacle of Deathless "the tree killing machine" go to work.
Debilitated by the draining ray, Wong shouts. "At your three!"
Wong then murmurs a prayer to regain some strength and tries some arrows at his target.
X mounts his broom of flying while invisible and takes off directly up into the canopy taking care to move stealthily as he homes in on his target. He spends his whole turn just getting behind the foe while drawing a Wakazashi in one hand.
+ any cover and circumstance mods.
37 14 19
25 16
31 16
Deathless beats on more trees.
Darknak delays.
Wong attacks all hit and damages her.
Shinobi gets on the flying broom and moves up into the canopy.
She quickly casts a spell on herself.
Hou Wong Xia You know she just cast a quickend shield on herself.
Then she casts another spell on herself.
Hou Wong Xia You do not know what she just cast.
She goes invisible.
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Up next, everyone!
Bamboo Forest
Round 3
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08.02 - Deathless
11.05 - Hou Wong Xia
23.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.09 - X the Shinobi
05.03 - Tsavati
---Round End---
Wong doesn't know what his enemy has just cast, but the fact that she disappeared gives him a hint. "She's invisible!" he warns, hoping his friends in the ground can hear him.
Then he flies towards the middle of the trees, en garde for when his foe appears.
X delays invisibly waiting and watching for the invisible foes.
Hearing their opponent has gone invisible, Darnak remains in place and readies himself.
Deathless beats on more trees.
Darknak takes a total defensive stance.
Wong moves and readies an action.
Shinobi delays.
You do not see her anywhere.
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Up next, everyone!
Bamboo Forest
Round 4
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08.02 - Deathless
11.05 - Hou Wong Xia
23.03 - Darnak Deepstone
11.09 - X the Shinobi
05.03 - Tsavati
---Round End---
Wong keeps holding his shot.
X the Shinobi listens holding still as he delays.
Darnak keeps his defensive stance.
"You do remember that it is our task to get something within a time limit right!?"
"Can you see her?" shouts Wong to Deathless. "If you can, tell us! Meanwhile, we'll have to wait!"
While retaining his arrow, Wong looks for any sign of movement that could give him a hint.
"I can't see nothin'! And if we gotta time limit, I surely wouldn't be bettin' on us."
X continues to remain silent and invisible listening as he waits patiently for the enemy to give themselves away. Movement will create sounds to follow even if he can not pinpoint their location. The others banter however is only telling the enemy their weaknesses. He hopes that none of them draw particular attention to him as it is unlikely the enemy knows he is there yet.
It soon becomes clear that Wong knows a lot about arrows, but nothing about sneaking or stealthing. Hopefully, X seems an expert, and with a pinch of luck he might spot their target in time.
Wong has been too quick to spend his special vision last combat...