Round 5
Hacker ducks behind the cactus, his words and music soothing Mikara, but failing to upset the dragon.
Mikara is in severe pain from her wounds. With Hacker's help, she recovers from her paralysis long enough to stumble a pace away from the dragon, which gives her room to fire two arrows. One sinks into the beast, and Hacker's shout of encouragement gives her a bit more strength. It also enrages the dragon, who is now bleeding freely. It opens its mouth again and spews acid, covering Mikara and Tristan with the caustic goop. Despite Hacker's aid, Mikara is once again a hair's breadth from collapse.
The same cannot be said for Tristan, however. The fresh bath of acid is too much for him, and he collapses in a heap, the acid eating into his flesh with alarming rapidity. It is clear that if he doesn't get help very, very soon, he will be in Dayna's arms.
Woe, Atreus, and Kathalia encircle the dragon, timing their attacks to perfection. Kathalia strikes first, dazing the huge beast. Atreus plunges his dagger deep into its side, and Woe charges and knocks the beast off its feet.
Dazed and prone, it thrashes violently, missing Woe but wounding Atreus, who feels his legs stiffen into immobility as well.
[sblock=ooc]Last round: Tristan makes his save vs. ongoing acid and immobilized.
Hacker heals Mikara for 8+4=12, and slides her east. Mikara's not bloodied, for the moment. Dissonant strain misses. He saves against the attack penalty.
Mikara takes 5 ongoing acid and 5 ongoing untyped, and becomes bloodied again. She hits once for 7 damage. She heals 4 points from stirring shout. That's the good news; the bad news is that this bloodies the dragon. It immediately recharges and uses its breath weapon. Only Tristan and Mikara are in range;
17 vs. Fort and 16 vs. Fort hits both of them for 5 acid damage.
They're both already taking ongoing acid damage and immobilized, so that bit doesn't matter. Actually, Tristan made his save, so the ongoing acid and immobilization goes back on.
Mikara fails her saves.
Kathalia wild shapes, moves to G10 and readies an attack for when Woe moves adjacent.
Woe delays until after Atreus.
Atreus moves to G12, shrouds the dragon once, and readies an attack. (I know you said you wanted to hit first and then shroud, but you can only ready a standard action. You didn't say that you were readying the attack, but your attack bonus includes CA, which you don't have unless you've readied for when Woe flanks. And without CA, you miss.)
Woe circles south and charges with knockdown assault. This causes Kathalia and Atreus' readied actions to fire, before Woe's attack lands. (Doesn't matter this time, but might in the future.)
Kathalia hits with Predator's flurry, for 8 damage, and the dragon is dazed TENT (Kathalia). Kathalia shifts away.
Atreus doesn't take an OA, since the dragon is now dazed. He hits for 25 damage.
Woe's knockdown charge lands now, for 5 damage, and knocks the dragon prone.
Tristan takes 5 ongoing acid and 5 ongoing untyped damage, and falls unconscious at -7. No second wind, sorry. You owe me another save against ongoing acid and immobilized for this round. If you fail that save, and don't get any healing this round, at the beginning of your next turn you'll drop to -17, and then you won't have to worry about those pesky death saves.
Wow, that round twisted my brain a bit.
The dragon
fails to recharge. It uses slicing fury to attack Woe and Atreus;
23 vs. AC hits Atreus for 13 damage, and Atreus is immobilized and takes 5 ongoing untyped damage (se both).
18 vs. AC misses Woe.
I waffled a bit on this, but I'm going to go ahead and rule that slicing fury (make a claw attack against one target and a tail lash attack against another target) consists of two separate attacks, each with one target, that Woe's mark and combat challenge apply to the attack against Atreus. It still hits, but Woe gets a BMA.
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Status:
- Atreus 29/39 hp, 9/9 surges, 5 ong and immobilized (se both)
- Woe 46/46 hp, 9/11 surges
- Mikara 7/34 hp, 4/7 surges, 5 ong acid and immobilized (se both), -2 to attacks (se), 5 ong and immobilized (se both), bloodied
- Dragon 168 damage, mikara's quarry, enemies heal 4 when hitting, bloodied, dazed TENT (Kathalia), 1 shroud, prone
- Kathalia 36/36 hp, 7/9 surges, fleet pursuit, wild shaped
- Hacker 36/36 hp, 6/9 surges
- Tristan -7/34 hp, 8/9 surges, 5 ong acid and immobilized (se both), -2 to attacks (se), 5 ong and immobilized (se both), dying
Resources Used:
- Kathalia: Fires of Life, Fleet pursuit
- Atreus: AP
- Mikara: AP, Hunter's Bear Trap, Evasive Strike, Elven Accuracy, Cut and Run
- Hacker: AP, Concerted effort, Stirring Shout, majestic word x1, dissonant strain.
- Tristan: AP, Luckblade, 1 daily magic item power
- dragon: APx2, frightful presence
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[sblock=enemy stats]Dragon: HP 260, AC 23, Fort 22, Ref 21, Will 21. BMA +10 vs. AC, 1d8+5 damage and the target is immobilized and takes 5 ongoing damage (save ends both)
Aura of Terror: enemies within 5 take -2 on saving throws.
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The hill near T30 is low, only 5' higher at the top than at the bottom. It could theoretically give cover or possibly improved cover in the right circumstances.
The cactus takes up all of the square that its trunk is in; it can be used for cover or improved cover like any tree.
The rock in M5-N7 is about 3 feet high, and can provide cover.
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