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Surprise Round
Combat map is on slide 6
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The party can easily sneak to a point relatively near these distracted ogres while they're trying to figure out why the machinery has stopped.
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Surprise Round
Combat map is on slide 6
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The party can easily sneak to a point relatively near these distracted ogres while they're trying to figure out why the machinery has stopped.
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While the enemy is distracted, one of them begins to retch on the floor--courtesy of the party's witch. The other two, not understanding, point and laugh in derision.
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Taking advantage of the distraction, Professor studies one.
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Surprise Round
Combat map is on slide 6
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The party can easily sneak to a point relatively near these distracted ogres while they're trying to figure out why the machinery has stopped.
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The Taldan stealths forward strategically to gain either a flank or a full attack or both next round.
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Round 1
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
- Obo Go!
- Professor Go!
- Theodric Go!
Red Ogre
Yellow Ogre
Blue Ogre
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Round 1
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: move, attack
Professor: move, attack
Theodric: move, attack
Red Ogre
Yellow Ogre
Blue Ogre
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Moving with deadly efficiency, Obo catches the ogres is a wave of acid.
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Professor and Theodric press the attack with precisely aimed blows that draw grunts of pain and surprise from their foes.
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Fandral is up
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Round 1
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
Fandral: move attack
Obo: move, attack
Professor: move, attack
Theodric: move, attack
Red Ogre
Yellow Ogre
Blue Ogre
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Fandral similarly attacks, striking the red ogre.
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Round 1
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
Fandral: move attack
Obo: move, attack
Professor: move, attack
Theodric: move, attack, received 18 HP cold damage
Red Ogre: received 59 HP damage, nauseated
Yellow Ogre: attack
Blue Ogre: attack, received 26 HP damage, sickened
Spider-Thing: move attack
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The red orge continues to dry heave.
The yellow and blue ogres bellow at the top of their lungs and try to counterattack, but to no avail.
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A huge spider-like creature joins the fray. It looks at Theodric and a sickly blue ray leaps from one of its eyes, striking the Taldan in the center of his chest. The duelist dodges as much as he can, but still feels his precious body heat leave him.
Standard Action: Zap! ,
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Round 2
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
- Obo Go! (18 damage)
- Professor Go!
- Theodric Go!
Red Ogre (59 damage)
Yellow Ogre
Blue Ogre (26 damage)
Spider-Thing
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Round 2
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: move cast spell
- Professor Go!
Theodric: step, full attack (18 damage)
Red Ogre (dead)
Yellow Ogre (79 damage)
Blue Ogre (66 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
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Obo identifies the retriever, moves strategically, and fires a beam at the huge creature.
The beam tears off three spidery legs and half its face.
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Theodric gives better than he gets. He finishes off the red ogre wit his first strike, and nearly fells the yellow orge with his iterative attacks.
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Fandral and Professor are up!
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Round 2
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: move cast spell
- Professor Go!
Theodric: step, full attack (18 damage)
Red Ogre (dead)
Yellow Ogre (dead)
Blue Ogre (dead)
Retriever (118 damage)
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The Professor strikes with nearly surgical precision. His first strike removes a kidney. The next pierces a lung. The third ruptures a liver. At the end of the savage sequence, the remaining two ogres fall.
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Fandral is up!
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Round 2
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: move cast spell
Professor: full attack
Theodric: step, full attack (67 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
Mutants (red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, pink): move from around the corner, gaze
??? (something unknown): moving with stealth
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The retriever attacks the nearest creature. Theodric dodges most of the attacks. But, the Taldan is struck by a claw and an eye beam for an additional 49 HP of damage! The heat from the eye beam sears the flesh that it touches.
, miss!
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At this point, six mana wastes mutants join the fracas. Superficially, they have the look of slaves. But the party instantly recognizes the glaze over their eyes--their will is not their own! They move to form a wall between the party and the retriever.
While they have generally humanoid features, their faces have been twisted into goatish caricatures, complete with horns and rectangular pupils. Their flesh is fused with heavy pieces of platinum in various places, different for each mutant; where one has metallic shoulders that jut a foot out on either side, another has plating covering half of her face. They move with eerie silence, and they maintain their composure with an strange grace--all the while keeping their veiled eyes on the party at all times.
As they approach, Theodric, Fandral, and the Professor can feel the effects of the mutants' distorted presence upon their psyches. This feeling is especially strong when the mutants look directly at someone. Thankfully, the Pathfinders stave off the effects--for now.
Obo senses that something unknown is approaching from the east (behind the party).
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Fandral is up!
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Round 2
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: move cast spell
Professor: full attack
Theodric: step, full attack (50 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
Mutants (red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, pink): move from around the corner, gaze
??? (something unknown): moving with stealth
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Round 2 AND 3
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
- Obo Go!
- Professor Go!
- Theodric Go! (50 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
Mutants (red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, pink): move from around the corner, gaze
??? (something unknown):
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The party is up!
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Theodric smashes his shield into the red mutant to send him reeling back into the retriever!
Theodric 5-ft steps forward, following the reeling mutant. He then turns into a barrage of adamantine against the red mutant, turning some of his assault on mutant orange if red falls.
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Round 2 AND 3
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
- Obo Go!
- Professor Go!
Theodric: full attack, 5-foot-step (50 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
Mutants (yellow, blue, purple, pink)
??? (something unknown):
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Fandral, Obo, and Professor are up!
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Round 3
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral Go!
Obo: dragons breath
- Professor Go!
Theodric: full attack, 5-foot-step (50 damage)
Retriever (118 damage)
Mutants (yellow -44, blue, purple, pink)
??? (something unknown):
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Obo exhales a caustic cloud upon the retriever.
It screams with agony as its face melts.
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Fandral grievously wounds one of the slaves, though the creature remains standing. It is eerie how silent the mutant is whilst receiving excruciatingly painful injuries.
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Fandral and Professor are up!
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Professor is happy to have some targets walk up to him for once he will start attacking the southernmost creatures. Poking at where he hypothesizes their organs to be. "You can only move lungs so far. I have tried."
The creature is sickened.
(adamantine/furious/keen, rage, furious, heroism, reduce person, mutagen, study, haste)
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Round 3
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
Fandral: full attack (7 damage)
Obo: dragons breath
Professor: full attack (7 damage)
Theodric: full attack, 5-foot-step (57 damage)
Retriever (defeated)
Mutants (defeated)
??? (something unknown): cast spell, move
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Moving almost in tandem, Fandral and the Professor movewith deadly efficiency and grace--bringing an end to the remaining mutants.
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Obo hears the uttering of some divine necromancy roughly 50 to 60 feet away--partially obscured by a stalagmite. Then, a wave of negative energy fills part of the area.
<== Fandral, Professor, and Theo each take a mere 7 HP of damage.
Following the spell incantation is the very, very faint sounds of footsteps moving away.
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Round 4
Action is on Slide 6
Sorted initiative Order (Bold may go):
- Fandral: (7 damage)
- Obo:
- Professor: (7 damage)
- Theodric: (57 damage)
Retriever (defeated)
Mutants (defeated)
??? (something unknown): cast spell, move
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The party is up!
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You saw a humanoid--a tiefling--almost at the edge of your darkvision. Her fiendish features are very pronounced, even for a tiefling.
- From the text of the module: "Primal magic [...] is an optional (though highly recommended) subsystem that can be utilized in this adventure. It’s important to note that primal magic includes a large element of randomness, and is thus more likely to affect PCs than monsters and NPCs. The system is intended to make adventuring in a location like the Mana Wastes more fun, so if you feel the inclusion of primal magic in the adventure may adversely affect your players’ fun, feel free to omit it [...]"
- From the divine caster's statblock: "[...] she may roll d% twice when generating the result. She may pick which of the two results actually occurs. She gains a +2 bonus on all saving throws made to resist primal magic events or magical effects [...]"
I feel like it could be potentially awful to inject that much randomness into the encounter.
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Unfortunately, the tiefling started at 50 feet away, then moved away with stealth--taking advantage of bumps and large stones and other topological features common in the mine.
Happy to say that Fandral moves to where the tielfling was, in the hopes of finding her. Unfortunately, he subsequently loses track of her.
Even if we used your first roll from your previous post (18), rather than my roll (13), that would be insufficient to spot her.