A week since my last post, and still nothing from Karl. I'm going to stop waiting, and assume that all able-bodied PCs (and former PCs) follow Babette's lead and use whatever force they can.
Babette (19) fires her magic missiles. The lizard is visibly wounded, but not down.
Karl (19) moves 15' closer, draws his shortbow and fires at arrow at the same lizard. His shot just misses, landing in the swamp.
Vindala (17) wades into the bog to get a little farther from the lizards. She can see that it gets quite deep, but as long as she stays around the edges it's not a problem for her.
Wading through the shallow part is half speed, and is not strenuous; through the deep part, one quarter speed. I'm assuming Vindala is sticking to the shallow part. If she goes NE, she can move 20' even while disabled.
Oskar (13) without a ranged weapon, runs in as fast as his dwarven legs can handle.
"Keep it up Vindala, I'm coming for you".
Razengrul (9) also fires an arrow; it goes rather wide, to the left. She moves up slowly.
Lerrin (9) has his sling ready. His bullet does manage to hit the lizard's body, but does not seem to hurt it.
Dianna (8) is now close enough to attack with her spiked chain. But she stumbles as she swings it, and misses wildly.
Round 6:
The lizards (24) generate another shock, doing 18 points of damage to Dianna, who fails her save.
Dianna is now dead. Vindala has fortunately gotten out of the range of the shock. Having realized they bumped up against someone they were trying to avoid, they turn to the west and move on that way -- closer to Karl, as it turns out, but farther from the rest of you.
What do you all do next?
Here's the map.
Light blue is shallow bog.
Dark blue is deep bog. An uncoloured 'x' is either shalow bog or none of you have gotten close enough to tell how deep it is.
Code:
xxxxx...x..xxxxxxxx
.xxxx.x.x.xxxxxx.xx
..xxx.x...x.[color=lightblue]x[/color][color=darkblue]xxxx[/color][color=lightblue]x[/color].
.x..xxx..xxx.[color=lightblue]x[/color][color=darkblue]xxx[/color][color=lightblue]V[/color].
..xxxxx...[color=lightblue]xxxx[/color][color=darkblue]xxx[/color][color=lightblue]x[/color].
.xxxxxxx...xx..xx..
.x.xxx.x..xxx.x..x.
.xx.x......[color=lightblue]xs[/color]s.....
.xxx........x......
x..[color=lightblue]xKx[/color]....x.x.x....
xx..x.x...x..x.....
[color=lightblue]xxxxx[/color].....x......[color=lightblue]O[/color].
xxxx......x..[color=lightblue]xB[/color]..xx
xx.x....x.x...Rx..x
x.xx....x.....L..[color=lightblue]xx[/color]
xxx..........x.x.[color=lightblue]x[/color].
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