The Romance of the River Kingdoms

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Is there any chance you could give us another map, Simon, so I can tell how Shakou will want to manuever? She's going to want to focus on the living bandits... chomping on corpses is not a pleasant prospect at all, and something she'd like to avoid doing if she can possibly help it.[/sblock]

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Map attached. Enemies #1 and 2 are the thugs, the rest are headless undead.

Initiative order is now:

Mystal Marr
Shakou
Annika
Growling Ape: Produce Lightning
Three Flowers
Thugs
Undead
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"Oh, you'll so regret this" smiles diminutive sword sage as he strides purposefuly toward opponents, pointing his rapier toward closer living thug.

Even as he makes the statement, he dissolves into mist and dissappears

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Move straight toward thug 1
Use Cloak of deception (improved invisibility for one round) - move 5' per round to maintain the cloak - Mystal should be 4 squares east of his current position after his action moving 1 square per round until I say otherwise (in case I cannot post for some reason) until he reaches thug 1...

Keep in Island of Blades stance granting flanking to any and all allies adjacent to him vs. any enemy adjacent to any of them.
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Shakou sighs at the new thugs.

"You're really trying to get me to eat rotten meat? Don't you men know how to treat a woman?" She growled, before planning to move around the undead to get at the cowardly thugs.

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I'm assuming there is no objects to climb for Shakou to use to position herself more advantageously. In this case, Shakou will move "down" on the map 3 squares, then 3 squares towards the swarm. Ready Action to bite+Grapple if the thugs move within Shakou's attack range. If I am allowed, Shakou will simply claw the undead instead, if one moves adjacent to her.[/sblock]

Annika grimaces and reaches down as deeply as she can into the last dregs of her spiritual energy.

"I can't do this much longer," she says softly, not wanting their foes to hear.

She manages to send another magical attack at one of the living thugs...hoping that without commands, the undead creatures will be less effective.

(Magic Missile...2d4+2...weaving 0 level slots now. She canna take much more of this, captain!!)

Three Flowers strides a few steps forward, positioning himself between the thugs and his spellcasting companions. Striking a pose he levels White Lotus at the closest undead and waits like a statue.

[sblock=ooc]Move couple squares towards the enemy and ready an attack at the first enemy that closes in to striking distance. There's really no reason not to charge but I feel waiting in a statue-like pose is more in character with 3F [/sblock]

Mystal vanishes from sight. The two thugs, having already witnessed him teleporting across the Court, look around quickly for him to reappear. When he doesn't, they edge forwards carefully.

Annika's fiery feather streaks through the pack of headless undead and strikes the left-hand thug right between the eyes with a flash of spiritual fire. The man is flung onto his back and doesn't move. Three Flowers and Shakou move closer and take up positions. Growling Ape calls lightning into his hands.

The undead continue forwards, but the remaining living thug works his way carefully back to the door of their lair, looking out for Mystal as he goes.

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Shakou is used to 'reading' people, and her feline shape enhances her senses. She notices the tiny glance that the second thug gives when his friend is felled by Annika. A glance up and back towards the Tamsa Building. Following that look, she spots a figure at the window of the fourth storey, watching the events below.
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Annika: Magic missile 2d4+2=10 damage. #1 is down.
The rest of the round is just movement. The headless undead don't seem to be hampered in their senses by having no head. They are unarmed except for dangerous looking talons.

Initiative:
Mystal Marr
Shakou
Annika
Growling Ape
Three Flowers
Thug
Undead

@ Theroc: No, no features except for the willow tree and the gully in the centre. Although I like interesting battlegrounds, this isn't one, just an open plaza! It's a good job this gang doesn't seem to have ranged attacks worth a damn....
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AC 15 (T15, FF13), HP 39/39, F +5,R+3,W+6 (Spells: 0:5/5, 1:2/4, 2:3/3)
Ape Form (AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13)

Frustrated that they still have to fight the undead, Ape starts to throws lightnings at them.

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Active: produce lightning.

Attack: 1d20+6 ; 1d6+3 vs touch

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Spells (CL: 3, DC: 13+spell level)
5/Day Level 0: Cure Minor Wounds, Detect Magic, Light, Purify Food and Drink, Read Magic
4/Day Level 1: Produce Lightning, Shillelagh, Summon Nature's Ally I.
3/Day Level 2: Summon Nature's Ally II

Baboon Traits:
AC: 17, Touch: 17, Flat Footed: 13
Fort: +6
Refl: +5
Will: +6
Move: 40', cimb 40'
Init: +4
Listen/Spot: +9
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Mystal maintains his invisibility, but stops and steps back seeing how only living opponent retreats.

OOC: Move 5' to the left. Any opponent that comes adjacent to either three flowers or mystal are flanked