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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6753621" data-attributes="member: 11146">SURPRISE ACTIONSSpec, having spied the bits of rough grout, quietly extracted his 100' length of rope of the arachnea, and commenced stuffing the rope into the misjoined ceiling panel.  The ceiling was ten feet high, which Spec overcame by using the edge of his shield to push the rope into place.  The rope was sticky and held in place where it touched the stone ceiling, but as he worked it became clear to Spec that the rope wouldn't provide enough of a barrier to prevent the ceiling panel from being moved from above.  The rope would, however, jiggle or go taut--providing advance warning--if someone were to try such a maneuver.  The rope was plenty long.  Spec could wind the rope about the panel and still have plenty left to use a lead through which he could perhaps detect a tremor were someone to attempt to shove the panel to the side.Colden watched Spec but saw nothing encroaching on the party's space.  For his part, Fulgrim readied one of his new spells but otherwise tried to keep an eye on the party's flank.  Like Colden, Fulgrim saw nothing.Guran flicked a handaxe at Orc 2.  The blade sank silently into the back of Orc 2's neck, immediately toppling and killing the orc.  The other three orcs in the room looked confusedly at their fallen comrade.  The spider seized the moment and chomped down on Orc1 for 6 points of damage.[ooc]Will pause here to give [MENTION=24609]Strahd_Von_Zarovich[/MENTION] an opportunity to declare an action while the other side is still surprised.  [MENTION=95059]Forged Fury[/MENTION], what spell is Fulgrim readying (or was that just fluff)?  Regarding whether Guran gets advantage, [MENTION=61026]tuxgeo[/MENTION], perhaps it would be simpler if you state what you'd like Guran to attempt (ie: "I want to try to sneak attack Orc 2 with my handaxe.  Do I have advantage or is the spider maybe the orc's enemy?"), and I'll adjudicate from there.  I agree Guran would have advantage because he is an unseen attacker.  Here, however, it doesn't matter whether Guran has advantage not only because of Guran's critical but also because the spider has another enemy (the orcs) within 5' of it; sneak attack damage therefore applies.  Guran deals a total of 30 points of damage to Orc2.[/ooc]<img src="http://i65.tinypic.com/11h3vcm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[gm]Spider 16/20*Orc 1 8/16*Orc2 Really, really deadOrc 3 13/13Orc4 17/17X  If I told you I'd have to kill youX  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  *Previously injured prior to party's arrival[/gm][sblock=DM]INITIATIVE:Spec 21Colden 19Fulgrim 10Guran 9Roscoe ?[/sblock]</blockquote>

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