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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2785782" data-attributes="member: 35788">END OF ROUND TWO:Yavarin is able to advance up ahead of his current position.Cassient is able to run up to the cloud and follow Ray through the misty cloud.  He is able to make it just behind Ray, but he appears to be laboring more than before he moved.Cassient:[Sblock]OOC: I'll give you all the spellcraft checks you want to claim! <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=":)" />IC: Cassient is able to identify the energy attacks now that he has had some time to process the attack.  It is an arcane strike very unfamiliar to him but something he has heard of - the dreaded Eldritch Blast.  And this particular Eldritch Blast has been modified to take the shape of a spear for an extended strike.  On the flipside, Cassient is completely unable to identify the effect that created the cloud.  Additionally, only after he steps within 5 feet of Ray is he barely able to make out 2 large forms that look like gnolls in the shadowy part of Rays illumination.  The shapes are very vague, and they appear ready to use another arcane effect and move further down the tunnel into the darkness.OOC: Cassient is fatigued by the cloud for the following round.  Please take that into account when choosing his next action.  Sorry!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Also, please avoid using the word "fatigued" when stating the action so as not to ruin the "surprise" if anyone else should pass through the cloud.  Cassient can certainly warn the other players ICly speaking, however!  For Cassient's knowledge, the location of the shadowy forms of the gnolls are at (-70) on the map before they move again, and they are not put on the map because only Ray and Cassient are aware of their location.  However, they will be moving out of Ray's light on their turn in round 3.  But, if Ray continues to move at his pace of double moving - they will be within his full light in Round Three and could be target by magic of medium range of longer from Cassient.  Whew ... that was a lot of info to convey to you! <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=":)" />  I hope it made sense.[/Sblock]Eva is able to continue to run down the tunnel towards the mysterious cloud and the opponents that must be somewhere beyond.  Geeo and Kiera are able to keep up with Eva and her lantern.  They are also about ready to enter the mysterious cloud.ROUND THREE:Before Ray can continue down the tunnel even further, suddenly a swarm of bats appears directly in front of him and ferociously attacks his person.  Hundreds if not thousands of squeeks suddenly fill the tunnel as the diminutive wings flap and beat all around Ray.  Unable to shrug off all the attacks from the multidude of bats, Ray takes some damage.Ray:[Sblock]Ray takes 2 damage from the swarm.  Of course, I am assuming you are familiar with Bat swarms and know that their damaging is wounding in nature until Ray is the subject of a healing spell or a heal skill check.[/Sblock]Another energy bolt forms a mere 30 feet in front of Ray and slices through the air directly at him. This time, Ray is easily able to to avoid the strike, which subsequently narrowly missed Cassient as it sailed past.Cassient:[Sblock]OOC: Just for kicks, I gave Cassient a free Spellcraft check on this energy bolt and Cassient was able to successully determine that this energy bolt was not using the eldritch spear attack.  This one was modified with the frightful blast invocation.  Also - the part about Cassient narrowly missing being attacked wasn't a real roll, just flavor text to make the battle seem more real.  I don't often make players who were not the subject of a magical attack save - just so you know.[/Sblock]Ray, Cassient:[Sblock]Both Ray and Cassient see each of the gnolls complete their attack actions and then move beyond Ray's light radius.[/Sblock]Battlefield Map:[Sblock][Code]|  | (-80)|  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || R| (-40)| C||  ||  ||  ||  ||XX||XX|| E||GK||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||Y | (40)[/Code][/Sblock]</blockquote>

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