Huge Fire elementals cause havoc

[Zlorf]

These guys are tough, they burst out of the building, so the PC's decide to attack them. With combat reflex they got one attack each, plus crit, they hammered the parties Goliath on thier go, who then died of fire damage. The rest of the party ran away. I even had problems trying to sort out how the city guard would cause enough damage to the elementals, they would kill most of the guards. Zarn could use his cone of cold, but they would just come up to him and pound him to. Eventually with enough reinforcements, and maybe some spellcaster that can do cold damage..but i could see 1/2 the city on fire, unless some really powerful city folk came to the rescue.

The elementals are gated can they be forced back into the gate?

Cheers
Z

[Shai'tan]

The elementals were tough, nearly killed two of my players characters. If the Last Laugh did use a gate spell I'm guessing it wouldn't last long enough for the PC's to force the elementals back into (only 1rnd/lvl). Also I'm not sure how you could force an elemental back, bull rush may work but the character would take fire damage.

Zarn helped my players out with a cone of cold. The other problem was putting the fires out. The hardcover suggests that Zarn uses multiple cones of cold, but in his stats block he can only use this 1/day. I almost the whole town guard and PC's carrying water to the fires to put them out.