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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinnguard" data-source="post: 9518755" data-attributes="member: 7033886">It ended with a bang.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Literally. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😋" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60b.png" title="Face savoring food    :yum:" data-shortname=":yum:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> Last night my party encountered some Yuan-Ti while in search of a cultist wizard in the tomb of another wizard. There were a couple of Yuan-Ti purebloods, some of the snake-headed Yuan-Ti and one Abomination Yuan-Ti (who was holding a dagger to the cultist wizard's throat). At first my party tried to get the Abomination Yuan-Ti to give us the cultist peacefully, but the latter was only willing to hand the dwarf over for something of equal value. While the party's Empath (homebrewed class) did the negotiations, the party's Rogue/Fighter took a small sack and filled it with gunpowder and a vial of alchemist fire (which he hid by covering them with precious gems). He then took the 'offering' to the Abomination Yuan-Ti and pretended that he was giving himself up to the Yuan-Ti in exchange for the cultist. He was hoping to get close enough to get ahold of the cultist and use his scroll of Dimension Door while the latter took his offering. The encounter almost went pear-shaped if it wasn't for the Empath casting a powerful form of Sanctuary to ensure that the party got out of the room and into the adjoining hallway. They couldn't attack us and we couldn't attack them while the spell was in effect. The Rogue/Fighter was successful in using Dimension Door to teleport away with the cultist just before my character, a Ranger/Rogue, shot and deliberately missed the Abomination Yuan-Ti in order to make it think it was under attack. It tried to avoid the arrows my character sent its' way and while doing so, threw the bag with the gems, gunpowder and alchemist fire onto the ground in the center of the room. Where it detonated. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😋" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60b.png" title="Face savoring food    :yum:" data-shortname=":yum:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />All of the Yuan-Ti in the room received damage from the Rogue/Fighter's improvised bomb. A lot of damage. Lingering fire damage from the alchemist fire, piercing damage from shrapnel (the precious gems) and bludgeoning damage from the explosion itself. All of the pureblood Yuan-Ti died almost instantly from the explosion, leaving just the snake-headed Yuan-Ti and the Abomination Yuan-Ti alive but very hurt. They tried to hurt us, but the Sanctuary spell was still in effect. When the spell dropped the next round, we finished off the rest of the Yuan-Ti, found some treasure and then left the tomb. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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