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Sorry to hear it. I cannot blame you - two high-level AP campaigns plus whatever else you might have going on is a lot. Thanks for keeping it alive so long.

Or try to d-door everyone past and avoid it entirely.

I can open up with magic missile when you are ready.

Yes, the description of the scene is at the top of the latest gameplay page. The chapel is visible and there is some sort of trap / undead on the front doors.

”I don’t. If it’s a typical ghost, I only have bolts of force. Nothing to aid your strikes.”

"Well, friends, how do you suggest we proceed? Any idea how best to defeat this foe?"

My checks were really weak and my initiative is only better than the corpse, anyway, so I don't really think I should be going first.

I hope you all have had an opportunity to spend time with loved ones and know you are loved. If not, know that you are still loved. Here’s to a fantastic New Year for each of you.

Duardlara gazes at the site, evaluating what she knows or suspects.

I'm not sure I understand which map is which, sorry.

"Victor, allow me to give you an advantage in the dark." Duardlara cast greater darkvision on the engineer and herself.

She looks around at the party. "Ready when you are."

Same idea as last time, vanish so she's invisible when they arrive because she's essentially helpless after a dimension door. She has more wall of force and fly spells.

I'm fine with it.

My planning from last October(!). Anyone want/need the greater darkvision that Jetro doesn't need now?

"I will enhance Jethro's eyesight and mine to take better advantage of the range of our bows. I have prepared three dimensional hops for tonight. The first to a tower - under you say? which one? And the second to our ultimate goal, which is what, the vampires? And a third to escape. When we arrive, I can tell you I will be unable to do anything right away due to the stress of the transition. My plan is to arrive, recover, and leave, so if you intend to stay longer, I need to know."

Buffs
Greater darkvision on Jethro and I, which will last for hours and has a range of 120'.
EDIT: She casts shield and fly on herself.
When we are ready to leave, she will cast vanish so she cannot be targeted easily while she's focused on transport.

Thinking it out
First round of vanish, cast dimension door, end of turn
Second round of vanish, action to be determined
Third round of vanish, cast dimension door, end of turn
Fourth round of vanish, action to be determined
Fifth round of vanish, action to be determined

Duardlara would suggest entering a building that we don't care about so we are out of view - but our location known - of the soldiers that remain, then teleport back to the Hut. Let them siege where we aren't.

We ended up burning a teleport that I expected to have in reserve, anyway. I have one left to return to the Hut.

What do you think, team? Ready to just move on from the camp or see what wonders remain undiscovered? I’m good either way.

Alas, poor Jetro.

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Duardlara is holding her fire to avoid losing the advantage her invisibility gives her from the bears and the woman. The towers can still see her if she gets careless.

Duardlara is outside, so she cannot respond, but I presume Sigurd would remember that a fight in the open will draw fire from the towers. You guys start the play you want to make and Duardlara will back it to the best of her ability.

Be well, Jetro.

I’m here, also

I haven't been posting from a computer, so I haven't actually been able to look at the map for a bit. The tanks are much closer than I realized and closer than the figure with the polar bears. And I didn't realize we were in the smaller area to the south - I've been imaging us up in the camp proper. Leading me to suggest:

Message: "Pausing has allowed the situation to change. Go inside to the east end of the building. Will set wall when tanks reach end."

She is still flying and hopefully doing so stealthily. She will wait - when the tanks round the end of the building, she will set a north-south wall across the west end of the building to slow them down between the wall and the fences. She will wait while the tanks move and her allies reposition.

My big question is - how are we getting into the camp proper? Wasn't that the goal on this mission? Or did I misunderstand where our adversaries are located? That's very likely.

Message again after Titian's reply, "I have prepared a wall of force. Tell me where you want it when you want it and I will make it so."

Duardlara casts message to update her companions.

The whisper comes back to Titian, "Large humanoid, spikes, three white dire bears. Tanks approach separately. Engage? Draw them away?"

Duardlara was trying to hide outside the building to keep an eye on developments. She's airborne and rolled stealth earlier to find a vantage point from which to hide. She's no longer invisible, not that it matters with the magic searchlights.

Casting message: Titian hears a disembodied whisper, "Single party approaches from the west. Two tanks position closer to barracks. Two towers train lights on your position. I am outside and above among the beams and infrastructure."

Welcome back, get some rest. Looking forward to some troll-antics on this poor squad of soldiers.

Things always slow down around holidays. I've been very ill recently, but I've been trying to conserve my limited resources while we are facing creatures that don't require my involvement.

We have new team members and I'm hoping that gives the game new life.

The airborne elf continues to watch the approaching indivdual, feeling that her allies have the soldiers well in hand. Her current spells afford her 120' darkvision, if it matters. Aware of the spotlights, she will try to find a vantage point to avoid the towers' gazes.

Stealth: 1d20 + 34 ⇒ (18) + 34 = 52

"We have company from the east." She holds her fire until she sees what her allies choose to do.

As Duardlara's spell of invisibility wears off, she replies, "So it seems." She is flying, above the other members of party, focusing her attention on the areas around and behind them. "I would suggest that you use the door as a chokepoint so they cannot overrun and surround you. I will watch your backs."

She and Jetro still have greater darkvision active and she has fly.

Perception, watching for incoming threats outside the barracks: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (3) + 20 = 23

Perception: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (10) + 20 = 30

Reflex DC 19: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (17) + 19 = 36 Evasion for no damaee.

"When the electricity shot across, I see the central monastery was bathed in purple light, appearing as a fully-restored and onion-domed monastery."

Let’s do it. D’lara will ready the teleport while Vasily warms up the neighbors and someone else may or may not find out how conductive human beings really are…

”I think this was a success, if quieter than expected. Let us move before we are discovered.” She begins to cast her spell to transport the strike team to where they suspect the vampires will be found. Right?

I have a +20 to disable device. I could fly up top to see what’s up there. I could cast a fireball to the next tower or let Vasily do it. Or I can open the teleport and let one of you sabotage and another fireball the neighbors. Preference?

Duardlara watches the adjacent tower, considering a splashy farewell or a quiet departure. "Do we leave the next guards something to remember us by? Or a mystery of what happened to these four?"

She is prepared to send a fireball over or to teleport the party to their next destination.

Whee! New characters up first! When you give her a nod, Duardlara will open the trapdoor.

GM: I think we are improvising because we didn’t understand ourselves. Landing under the tower then flying up seems to be the plan.

”Very well. I have flight, I will go up and check the door. If it’s unlocked, I will open it when you are ready to enter. If it’s locked, I’ll try to unlock it for you.”

She will fly to the entry to the tower, inspect it first for a trap, test to see if it is locked, unlock it if necessary, and open it when the others are ready to charge in.

Ok, let’s do this. Who’s flying with the dragon? Is the next tower within range of the archers and their 120’ darkvision? Remember, we don’t make a stand, we raise a little Hades and bug out.

Climbing the ladder will take longer than I thought we planned to be here, let alone having an actual combat to get through a trapdoor at the top of said ladder. That's why I was thinking I would try to drop us inside the tower originally, but I felt like that idea didn't get any traction - or maybe I didn't like it enough to actually say it out loud.

We would have known the situation from past experience before we popped in. Can we get a clarification, GM Variel? We may need to retcon the personnel delivery...

Door? Aren't we attacking the tower above us? Are you planning to hit the barracks instead?

Duardlara, briefly invisible, says "Yes, do what you will. I will create an exit shortly."

I’m fine with that. Do we know where to start looking? We’re not waiting for me again, are we?

"I will enhance Jethro's eyesight and mine to take better advantage of the range of our bows. I have prepared three dimensional hops for tonight. The first to a tower - under you say? which one? And the second to our ultimate goal, which is what, the vampires? And a third to escape. When we arrive, I can tell you I will be unable to do anything right away due to the stress of the transition. My plan is to arrive, recover, and leave, so if you intend to stay longer, I need to know."

Buffs
Greater darkvision on Jethro and I, which will last for hours and has a range of 120'.
EDIT: She casts shield and fly on herself.
When we are ready to leave, she will cast vanish so she cannot be targeted easily while she's focused on transport.

Thinking it out
First round of vanish, cast dimension door, end of turn
Second round of vanish, action to be determined
Third round of vanish, cast dimension door, end of turn
Fourth round of vanish, action to be determined
Fifth round of vanish, action to be determined

Sorry, I didn’t get back to my character sheet to get available spells corrected for the latest plan. As for range, anything in the camp is within her range from the hut, so that’s no problem. I was thinking there wasn’t much we could do from the base of the tower. Perhaps using a fireball on the adjacent tower and then hop away?

I will post buffs tomorrow. Has anyone identified a specific spotlight tower? And are you wanting to be teleported directly into the tower or under it?

I have haste.

Excellent.

@Sigurd: I will modify my spell selection, then, thank you.

Sadly, I do not have haste nor do I have heroism. I can cover darkvision for longer range for hours assuming no dispel magic is employed. I hate for you to completely nerf your style.

Keep your spell selections, I will pre-buff and transport and hopefully get some sneak attacks in so I'm useful.

OK, it sounds like I need to prepare darkvision for Sigurd, Vasily, Jethro, myself, and Titian. Everyone. Does anyone have access to Communal Darkvision? My opportunities to learn new spells have been sparse, but I might put that on my next level up choices.

EDIT
I don't have the darkvision spell, which is 3rd level. I only have greater darkvision, which is 4th level and has longer range. I have a total of 7 slots of 4th level or higher and I plan on three of them being dimension door and I'd like to prepare some greater invisibility, but I can forgo those if I must. But someone will have to go without darkvision or we will have to rock with a single 'get out of jail free' card. Thoughts?

Fireball in the tower sounds like a start. I have a lot of range and decent stealth to try to do it solo and rejoin the group. Still not clear on how many darkvision spells I need to prepare.

”Possibly, but they are well-positioned. They can cover each other quite well. However, we have had success once we were within the camp at avoiding detection long enough for a strike or two. I could prepare enough teleportation to jump in, jump across, and jump back out.”

”I would like very much to sabotage a tower, I confess.”

Duardlara shakes her head. ”We’ll be seen - the spotlights reveal people hidden with my spells. And my teleportation is more efficient so long as I can identify the destination sufficiently. Landing inside a hut would hide the tell-take visual display, a valuable tactic.”

Duardlara can cast Greater Darkvision. Very expensive in spell slots, but we have other casters. How many would we need?