The Romance of the River Kingdoms

"Just say when, tigress." comes whisper from nowhere.

Only Three Flowers in his pose gets the feeling little swordsage is somewhere under his feet.

The undead stagger closer, the group poised for action. Growling Ape hurls a streak of lightning at the headless horror closest to him, slamming the creature in the chest but not slowing its advance. Closer they come, then they are upon you.

Two shamble towards Three Flowers. From nowhere, Mystal's rapier skewers one of them through the chest. It shudders on the blade for a moment and then drops to the floor inert. The salsham'ai still cannot be seen. Three Flowers lands a solid blow across the chest with White Lotus, a perfect Hawk Swoops Upon The Dove, his tutors would be proud. If this was a living person they would be dead by now, but opening the torso of these creatures seems to do little to slow it down.

Two stagger towards Shakou. The tigress strikes with her claw, severing dead sinew and muscle in a leg, but again these foes seem unaffected by damage that would stop a living creature.

But perhaps the damage has affected them, or perhaps the lack of a head hampers their perception. Although they flail with filth-encrusted talons, not a single one of the dead creatures hits.

Meanwhile, the living thug has retreated back inside the building. The watcher on the fourth floor still remains at the window.

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Good rolls for everyone this round.

Growling Ape: Throw Lightning 18=6=24, hit for 1d6+3=5 damage to #4

Mystal Mar; Cloak of Deception as Swift action, Focus as Move Action, rapier attack. Focussed Strike Concentration 20+8=28, gives +2d6. Attack 17+5=22, hit for 1d4-1+2d6=9 total. Undead (#3) down.

Shakou: Readied claw attack against first undead (#8), 20+0=20, hit (no critical, they're undead). Damage 1d3+3=6 vs. #8

Three Flowers: readied attack 19+7=26, hit (again, no critical). Damage 1d8+2=8 vs. #6

Undead all miss.
#6 claw attack on Three Flowers
#4 claw attack on Growling Ape
#5 and #8 claw attack on Shakou
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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)

Using the lightning in his hand, Ape strikes the nearest undead.

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Active: produce lightning (2 remaining).

Attack: 1d20+5 ; 1d6+3 vs touch against 4

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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 steps forward and attacks closest zombie (#6) maintaining his focus.

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5' step, focused attack vs. #6 with flanking from 3Flowers

Island of Blades: All allies adjacent to Mystal and enemy are flanking even if enemy is not adjacent to Mystal.
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Shakou dislikes being next to two walking corpses at once, and is sorely wishing she had a living opponent. Rotting flesh is not something either her human or tiger palette preferred. She stalked to the side of one, so that she only had one to worry about, for now... and the struck!

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5' step so that only #8 is adjacent to Shakou, and she will attack with as many claw attacks as possible that does not require her to bite the undead.[/sblock]

Mystal steps, focuses and strikes. Another of the headless walking corpses drops as if by itself. The briefest of flcikers betrays the salsham'ai's presence before he vanishes from plain sight again.

Growling Ape punches out with his lightning-wreathed fists, slamming one hand into another of the undead. Lightning darts over the creature, it shudders under the onslaught then drops to its knees and keels onto the floor, inert.

Shakou sidesteps away from her opponents, batting with her forepaws but the stance is awkward for her and she fails to touch her opponents.

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Mystal: focussed strike Concentration 9+8=17, gives +1d6 damage. Attack 10=5=15, hits for 1d4-1+1d6=5 damage, undead #6 is down.

Shakou: 2 claw attacks 9+0=9, miss and 7+0=7, miss.

Growling Ape: lighting touch attack 6+5=11, hit for 1d6+3=5 damage. #4 is down.

Next up:

Annika
Three Flowers
Remaining undead (#5, #7 and #8)
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Mystal reappears 1 round after the attack. He needs full round action to recover it hence if he attacks it's duration runs out after next round so, first attack he would be invisible. On this attack I think he would be invisible for full round duration, but maybe I'm influenced by 4e End of Turn definition...anyhow, he's visible now until he takes full round to dissapear again...

Three Flowers follows his attack with a dance of death towards the next target.

[sblock=ooc]attack on #7[/sblock]

With a grimace of effort, Annika again weaves the last ergs of her essence into a pair of magical "feathers" that strike with spiritual force against the undead!

(Weaving 2 0 level slots into a 1st level slot and casting Magic Missile again. I need a wand or something. 2d4+2)

Shakou grimaced as she attempted to strike the zombie, her aim thrown off due to her distaste at touching rotten flesh. However, she realized she HAD to stop these zombies before they do anything else distastful.

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Shakou will attempt to 5' step each round to keep the one zombie away while she attacks(2 claws) the one she's injured, until it goes down.[/sblock]