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I ignored Goeth's action since it was too far out of sequence. Goeth, you'll need to post a new action when your turn comes. Which is soon, now.
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Despite the illusionary flames roaring around her, Kama'zer is able to spot a tongue of real fire moving towards the stairs. She manages to put it out before the stage entrance is blocked off.
Suddenly, from above the stage, a sibilant voice hisses,
"No, no, mortal child! Leave the fires alone! Let them burn!" She looks up just in time to see an imp appear in a puff of smoke, diving for her head. She ducks out of the way and it pulls up and hovers over her.
Solon surges to his feat, invigorated by the potion, and levels his sword at the beetle. It steps towards him involuntarily, caught in his holy challenge. Solon and the monstrous insect surge towards each other at the same time, each hoping to strike first, when suddenly Soldier's axe spins through the air just between them and embeds itself in the rear wall with a solid THUNK. Both combatants are forced to dive out of the way, ruining their attacks. The beetle uses the distraction to edge around Solon towards the stage, away from Goeth, while Soldier follows up by running towards the wall beneath Mri'Thas. Unfortunately he doesn't have enough momentum to start up it.
Inside, Ts'iri backs off from the two beetles and blasts at the nearest, sending a large chunk of its shell flying and revealing oozing, mottled red-black flesh beneath. Just then, the gnome sticks its head around the corner, takes in the situation, and cackles.
"No escape for you!", it yells, and suddenly, somehow, the voice is coming from behind her. She risks a glance over her shoulder to see the dark-robed gnome standing there, smiling eerily. She looks back to the corner, expecting to see it in both places but it is gone.
"Now, my pets!" the gnome calls from its new position blocking the exit.
"Just like we practiced! The FIRE-ing line, a heh-heh-heh!"
The beetle in front of Ts'iri opens its mandibles and the glow inside its throat begins building, brighter and brighter. While it prepares the attack, the beetle behind it crawls up over top of its shell to lunges forward to bite at Ts'iri, in a weird parody of a military load-and-fire tactic. The bite draws blood, and its partner follows up with a mighty blast aimed to engulf the entire hall - but the scrabbling feet have knocked it off balance, and it aims its fire straight up over Ts'iri's head.
"That's not how we practiced!" complains the gnome.
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Kama'zer moves to O10 and puts out the fire in N10.
Solon stands, marks Beetle 3, and misses it with Holy Strike.
Ts'iri shifts to K20 and hits Beetle 2 for 14 damage, bloodying it. Her concealment wears off.
Soldier misses Beetle 3 with a handaxe, overriding Solon's mark, and moves to Q12. His Athletics roll of 14 isn't enough to start climbing the wall.
The gnome's Illusory Terrain
does not recharge. It moves to G20, and then uses a second move action to Fey Step to L20.
Beetle 2 delays its action to go after Beetle 4.
Beetle 3's Fire Spray
does not recharge (link says Beetle 2 by accident). It bites Solon,
just missing with a 17 due to Soldier's mark, and then shifts to F9.
Beetle 4's Fire Spray
also fails to recharge. It moves to J20, flanking Ts'iri, and bites her,
hitting with a 22 for 7. (Link says 20, but I forgot to add +2 for Combat Advantage.)
Beetle 2 uses Fire Spray on Beetle 4, Ts'iri and the Gnome. It
misses all 3 with 10, 14, and 8. Oh, if only it had combat advantage too!
The Imp flies to O10 and attacks Kama'zer,
missing with a 12 despite having combat advantage. This makes it visible.
The big double doors at Q3/R4, and the doors at B5, F14, N20 and U12 are open. The door at H18 is destroyed. The rest are closed. Soldier's handaxe is stuck in the wall at C8.
Callen's turn!
26 -
M - Mri'Thas (
28/35 hp)
23 -
K - Kama'zer (
18/31 hp, slowed (save ends))
11 -
T - Ts'iri (
19/35 hp)
9 -
S - Solon (
17/25 hp)
9 -
W - Soldier (
25/36 hp)
9 -
A - Arsonist (
11 damage, concealment due to Heat Haze, used Illusory Terrain and Fey Step)
8 - B1 - Beetle 1 (36 damage, cursed by Goeth, marked with Divine Challenge by Solon, used Fire Spray)
8 -
B3 - Beetle 3 (
0 damage, used Fire Spray, marked by Soldier, )
8 -
B4 - Beetle 4 (
0 damage, concealment due to Heat Haze, used Fire Spray)
8 -
B2 - Beetle 2 (
23 damage, concealment due to Heat Haze, used Fire Spray)
8 - B5 - Beetle 5 (39 damage, used Fire Spray, prone and immobilized until end of next turn, provokes an OA from Soldier if it shifts before the start of Kama'zer's next turn)
8 - B6 - Beetle 6 (36 damage)
8 - B7 - Beetle 7 (38 damage, used Fire Spray)
8 - B8 - Beetle 8 (32 damage, used Fire Spray)
28 -
I1 - Imp 1 (
26 damage)
28 - I2 - Imp 2 (44 damage, used Tail Sting)
7 -
C - Callen (
28/28 hp)
5 -
G - Goeth (
24/34 hp + 1 thp)
4 -
R - Galinndan (
29/29 hp)
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