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*plink*
*doink*
Tam misses again.
Tam takes the opportunity to take a shot at one of the hill giants. Why not? They're blind for the moment anyway.
Tam starts making weird, slow gestures that leave bright contrails in the air.
Tam drops greater invisibility on Mouser once more in anticipation of more stabby violence.
"Why do we need to activate it if it's evil?"
Tam shoulders his crossbow, saunters up to the fallen troll, and deploys an acid splash cantrip.
Tam idly fires a crossbow bolt at the troll, but he doesn't really try that hard as he figures that the team has it handled.
Tam slams a bolt of shadowy illusion into one of the other ogres to slow it down.
"If you want," says Tam.
"Everyone ready or do we need some last-minute preparations before I cast the spell?" asks Tam.
"Up to nine minutes, if we don't screw anything up," replies the gnome. "So we'll have to hustle, but we will be able to see each other. Everyone will need to stay fairly close to me, but at least we won't trip over one another's feet."
"Also, as bad as the smell is, that might help disguise us from guard hounds or giants with an unusually keen sense of smell," says Tam. "Plus the noise of the cart-wheels can cover for the sound of our footsteps." He nods to Mouser. "Smart thinking."
"I can use group invisibility again, assuming none of the giants have especially keen hearing or vision," suggests Tam.
"Too large for me to just turn the bodies invisible," says Tam. "Honestly I'm a bit stumped. It seems like we want to get to the head of the leadership so that this army will fall apart, but I don't know the best way to do that."
"Someone wanna murder these guys... ?"
"Looks like Volstus already has his army," says Tam. "This is... bad."
"I wonder what's brought so many giants together in the first place?" muses Tam. "A central strong leader? A story or myth that's brought them all here, now? A magical artifact exerting influence on them?"
"Glad it worked," whispers Tam. "But, uh, now that we're here... where do we go next?"
Tam squints, strokes his goatee, and thinks. "I could try another rainbow pattern on the giants," says Tam. "Might keep a few of them occupied, and the others would of course try to figure out what's going on. Unfortunately I don't really have a spell to create a specific image or distraction."
"Can your big hammer smash the gate down?"
"Can try for the shift change, or I can drop an invisibility sphere and we can go in now and try to catch them immediately," says Tam. "We have no idea how they're organized in terms of alarm response and reinforcements."
"Hit it while you can!" Knowing that the rainbow pattern will last a short time without further concentration, Tam next fires off a phantasmal killer at the retreating cat.
As soon as Tam sees the cats starting to circle and wander, he releases his rainbow pattern spell. Shimmering lights like a moving aurora flash into existence and slowly continue to move away, enticing the cats further from the barricade and closer to the group.
"I can cast a rainbow pattern out by the tigers and then make it move to come out to an ambush spot. Any tiger hypnotized by it will follow it. It'll be visible to other guards, though—can't do much about that."
"Hmm. A fortification. One might even call it a hill giant steading," says Tam after Mouser reports back. "How do we want to do this? If we can get up onto the ridgeline, we might be able to ambush the ettin and hill giant, perhaps we can take them out quietly without alerting the fort."
Pause button!
Tam beams another flash of blinding illusory light into the cyclops.
Was outta town over the weekend, got second vax shot, now dealing with the low-grade side effects, sorry for being scatterbrained.
Since the cyclops seems to favor a ranged weapon, Tam decides to return the favor with a brief blast of intense illusionary light.
"I suspect the manticore will hate everyone equally, but we could see if it at least claws up the giants a bit if we cut it loose," says Tam.
Tam moves out of the cloud and tries to regain his composure. "Well that went well enough, I think," he says, "aside from all of the gagging and retching."
Tam gags, retches, and loses his concentration on his spell.
Tam continues concentrating on his rainbow pattern.
"Hmm. Firbolg and ogres. Right." Tam wiggles his fingers and throws down a rainbow pattern to hypnotize the ogres.
Tam says, "I could definitely use a nap and a sandwich. Maybe we'll learn more about this building as we search it further. For now let's just find a safe place to rest."
"Whew." "Balmir I think you're gonna need some new trousers."
Tam mutters imprecations about mindless creatures and unleashes another salvo of gloomblind bolts.
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