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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 4908093" data-attributes="member: 79945">[sblock=OOC]Sorry again for the delay - been super busy.[/sblock]The howling grows louder and a pack of hounds comes into view, loping up the road from the south.  But the howling echoes from jaws that gape loosely, with tongues lolling out like dead worms.  The dogs' flesh is stretched taught over their bones, their eyes sunken back in their sockets, and the stench of the grave rolls off them.  They are clearly dead.<img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/kb5eli.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Driving the hounds before him is their master: a skeletal warforged made of black steel.  The symbol on its forehead has been defaced, hacked out of recognition with deep gouges.  The warforged hunter stares eagerly forward up the trail as his hounds lower their rotting snouts to the earth in a mockery of tracking.<img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/314qbmt.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Flashes of oily light slide through the air around the pack, blue, purple and green.  You can make out a swarm of strange pulsating gasbags, like floating jellyfish, which dart around the dogs' heads, tendrils lashing.  One of them settles on a hound's back, grasping at it with its suckers, but a minute later it lets go and rises into the air again, unable to draw blood from the dead flesh.  Another tries to fasten to the warforged but can grasp nothing but smooth metal.  Its tendrils writhe in frustration.<img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/124zudx.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[sblock=Dungeoneering 10]The floating creatures are Fell Taints, strange, aberrant predators that kill by inflicting madness, feeding on the thoughts and emotions they steal from their foes.[/sblock][sblock=Dungeoneering 15]The alien fell taints are only partially real. Although some aspect of them exists in the world, the rest is formed by the minds of those who view them.Fell taints can live indefinitely without eating. They simply go dormant until a prospective meal comes near.[/sblock]The warforged concentrates on the trail it is following, ignoring the creatures trailing it in turn.  Suddenly it spots Blade standing brazenly by the road ahead.  It throws up a hand and the hounds lurch to a halt.  Both hunter and hounds stand unnaturally still, staring towards Blade.  The cloud of alien jellyfish circle slowly, occasionally brushing ineffectually against a hound.[sblock=Status]Dextyr uses Song of Rest and Tonk spends 2 Healing Surges, for 6+4 each.  (No point in using Majestic Word because he'd still need 2 surges to get to full.)  That means Dextyr's 1 surge puts him at full (you forgot your own Song of Rest!)I'll put Tonk at G17, just south of Lilf, and Tristan next to him at F17.  Blade's at H18, not hidden, and Dextyr's at - uh, I dunno, G15, midway between the two groups, I guess.  (Also, I'm gonna treat Dextyr's Bluff roll as his Stealth - he counts as hidden until somebody notices he's not dead.)Lilf has spent a healing surge during the break, so he's down to 17 damage taken (still bloodied), and also recharged his Stone Rain power.The enemies roll <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2225949/" target="_blank">19 initiative</a> (using the roll for their leader, the Warforged).  Actually, I rolled separately for Lilf before I remembered we were using Mal Malenkirk style initiative, and got <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2225933/" target="_blank">22</a>, which is conveniently in the same block.  So Mikara goes first, then Lilf, then the Warforged and his crew, then everyone else (including Mikara) in whatever order they post.Remember, trees and the brown square (fallen logs) are difficult terrain.Mikara's turn!Mikara (24/24 hp, Stealth 27)Lilf Proudfoot at G18 (17 damage, immobilized)Warforged Hunter at (0 damage)Rotting Hound 1 (0 damage)Rotting Hound 2 (0 damage)Rotting Hound 3 (0 damage)Rotting Hound 4 (0 damage)Fell Taint 1 (0 damage)Fell Taint 2 (0 damage)Fell Taint 3 (0 damage)Fell Taint 4 (0 damage)Tonk (24/24 hp, Stealth 23)Tristan (24/28 hp, Stealth 16)Dextyr (28/28 hp, prone, Stealth 11)Blade (25/29 hp)[/sblock]<img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/30rmcfc.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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