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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 3794388" data-attributes="member: 7006">Rogan realizes a fruitless fight when he sees it... and as he dodges the flailing arms of the girallon, he quickly tumbles out of the way of the creature and tries to move in behind the others.  [sblock=Encounter A3/4 - Temple Grounds: Round 5]Jina has already started acting on Ari's plan as he calls it out, hurrying to move away from the oncoming lizardfolk and hopefully push the girallon and lizards once more into combat rather than being trapped between the two of them.  She moves to the south and siddles up next to Onyx, hoping that the conglomeration of all enemies together will bring the big ape their way.Ari's shout of consolidation seems to be working as members of the party appear to begin converging.  Wanting as little opposition as possible when it comes time to deal with the girallon, he feints with his longsword and then comes up from low on the poison dusk in front of him, catching the lizard in the upper leg.  The creature shrieks in pain but does not fall.  (Attack vs 8 / *hit* 10 damage / hurt)The injured poison dusk weakly swings at Ari, but easily flies wide.  The other one also tries to connect, but the roar of the girllon distracts it just enough that his swing clangs off of Ari's longsword in a beautiful parry.  (Attack vs Ari / *miss* // Attack vs Ari / *miss*)Khalia intention was to heal the Silver Flame cleric... but when she communicates this fact to Horatio, he shouts for her to wait.  Rather than she moving to heal him, he's planning on moving in her direction to avoid the oncoming lizardfolk.  Thus she delays her action.Jango's previous attempt at blinding the girallon was unsuccessful, although the creature is indeed covered from head to toe in glittering golden dust.  With Rogan tumbling out of the way, the elf boy decides to try it again in hopes of getting a perfect shot this time.  And sure enough, the ray of golden powder shoots out from his fingertip and catches the girallon square in the face!  The beast roars in surprise and two of it's four arms goes up to it's eyes.  (Cast Glitterdust Will save DC 14 / girallon Will save [3] + 5 = 8 *failure*)  Jango takes a milisecond to savor the small victory, but then notices the collapsing of the party's formation.  He uses a few seconds to hustle down into the group so as to not be a lone target from the girallon nor the incoming blackscales to the north. With his sight taken from him, the girallon's roar of anger becomes even louder and more violent.  It's head thrashes back and forth as it tries to pinpoint an opponent, and the group can see the beast begin sniffing hard in hopes of catching a scent.  You think he might smell the residul scent of Rogan, because the beasts takes several steps in the group's direction.  (Catching Scent - move action // Half-move [blindness] - move action)Aern takes a quick look behind him and sees the girallon advancing... but makes the quick decision that he can hold out and help Ari just a little while longer.  So he does nothing.Horatio holds his shield above his head and makes a quick prayer.   Even as he finishes, the air above the shield begins to shimmer and the effect cascades down to cover his full form.  However, even with The Flame's blessing, Donovan sees the sense of reconvening, and moves to rejoin the others at his best speed.  He moves southerly, getting in between Ari's battle and one of the huts.Khalia takes this opportunity to move around Horatio as well, then convert her prepared Hold Person spell into a Cure Moderate Wounds.  She reaches out and places her hand on his shoulder, and Donavan feels the warmth of her healing power.  (Cast Cure Moderate Wounds / 17 points healed)This healing is sorely needed, because no sooner does Brother Donovan feel his wounds close, he gets charged by the rampaging blackscales from the north.  The one a step further behind cannot connect, but the one out in front clocks the cleric off the shoulder right above his shield.  (Attack vs Horatio / *miss* // Attack vs Horatio / *hit* 12 damage / lightly hurt)Having moved out of harms way, Rogan now find himself in a new position... where can actually act offensively if he chooses to.  With a poison dusk lizardfolk within an easy step he could help Ari out by eliminating that threat, but perhaps Ari is hoping that the poison dusk lizard will be a good target for the girallon when it finally reaches them?  What to do, what to do?Initiative Order:16 Jina 29/3715 Ari 30/4212 Poison Dusks 8-99 Jango 18/248 Girallon6 Aern 25/256 Horatio 24/3610 Khalia 22/223 Blackscales 1-510 Rogan 13/20Aern / Horatio / Jango / Khalia:  +4 to hit vs girallons (Bless/Insp Cour/Dark Know) // +3 to hit & fear saves (Bless/Insp Cour) / +2 to damage (Insp Cour) Ari / Jina / Rogan:  +3 to hit vs girallons (Bless/Insp Cour/Dark Know) // +2 to hit, damage, fear saves (Insp Cour)<img src="http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/792/round5rf9.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Rogan has a remaining Round 5 action, everyone else can make Round 6s.</blockquote>

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