Artemus and Hasifar are totally taken by surprise when a floating ball with big teeth and eyestalks drops to the edge of the chimney. But the rest of the group reacts quickly.
"Oh sure. You are always so patient, aren't you? I would have easily killed them at the drop, but no. You can never wait." Horan says sarcasm dripping from his voice.
"Why should I wait? I'm tired of eating fish and picking stray hobos off the street. Besides, that noisy one has it coming." the ball responds in a gruff voice.
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This is a surprise round. Only Tirial, Boruuk, and Knoepf get to act in it. Artemus and Hasifar do not get to act in the surprise round. In a surprise round, each creature only gets to take one standard action (or replace it with a move action or a minor action, plus any free actions).
Artemus and Hasifar are surprised, so they cannot take any actions at all, even free actions like talking, until we get into round one.
Everyone has their weapons / implements already out.
* Tirial
* Boruuk
* Horan
Hasifar
* Beholder
Artemus
* Knoepf
Tirial is up.
The steps to the right that go up 10 feet require 3 squares of movement to ascend. The steps up to the two lower platforms to either side of the main altar platform only go up 5 feet and require 2 squares of movement to ascend.
The green 20x10 rectangle is the chimney. It is 30 feet off of the ground, 20 feet above the altar platform.
The altar is providing Horan with cover. The chimney is providing the Beholder with cover.
The item in front of the altar looks like some type of bucket or something. The PCs cannot see the brown squares to either side of the altar from where they are standing and the blue colored edges of the wall seem to be some type of murals, but you cannot yet make out what is on them from this distance.
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