Solon's first attack knocks the beetle onto its back; his second strike skewers it through the thorax. It spasms and flails its limbs, gushing ichor - eventually the spasming stops.
Soldier gets a grip on the wall and heaves himself to the top, metal fingers gouging out handholds in the wall. The entire roof shakes as he lumbers across it and lowers himself to the ground on the far side with a loud THUMP.
"That's it, time to get out of here," mutters the gnome. It reaches behind it and, as if throwing a ball, tosses a glob of fire over Ts'iri's head towards Callen. The flame bursts before reaching him, in front of his face, and drives him a step backwards around the corner. Then it levels both hands at Ts'iri and sends a jet of flame towards her; she flattens back against the wall and it lightly scorches the beetle behind her instead.
"How could the flame let me down?" it whines, and spins on its heal to run out the door. In the alley outside it pauses to look left and right, sees Soldier coming, and darts off in the opposite direction.
The beetle next to Ts'iri bites at her, but she easily wards it off. The other, confused by the gnome's flight, scuttles back and forth trying to get past, and then turns and skitters up the corridor in the opposite direction. When it rounds the corner it lunges at Callen, but he backpedals quickly and it misses.
Even as the arsonist flees, the tongues of flame at the front of the theater begin to leap higher. Finally the stage itself begins to burn in several places - it won't be long now before the whole building goes up.
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Solon kills Beetle 3. This gives Goeth 1 temp hp from Warlock's Curse - so, no effect, since temp hp don't stack and he already has 1.
Soldier uses two moves total to climb the wall, cross to P17, and then climb down to O17.
The arsonist's Illusory Terrain
recharges. It casts Startling Glamor at Callen with a minor action,
hitting with a 25 and sliding him 1 square to G18. Then he casts Burning Bolt at Ts'iri,
missing with a 10, and moves to O21. All three of these actions provoke OA's from Ts'iri, but of course she can only take 1.
Beetle 4's Fire Spray
recharges. It bites at Ts'iri,
missing, unsurprisingly.
Beetle 2's Fire Spray
does not recharge. It moves to G19 and bites at Callen,
missing with a 14. It's no longer in the heat haze.
The fire spreads to
G11, I11, J8, K11, M8 and M9. Fine, NOW you start to get dangerous!
The big double doors at Q3/R4, and the doors at B5, F14, N20 and U12 are open. The door at H18 is destroyed. The rest are closed. Soldier's handaxe is stuck in the wall at C8.
Ts'iri has an OA on the gnome, and then it's Callen's turn.
26 -
M - Mri'Thas (
28/35 hp)
23 -
K - Kama'zer (
18/31 hp)
11 -
T - Ts'iri (
27/35 hp, +4 to all defenses until next turn)
9 -
S - Solon (
17/25 hp)
9 -
W - Soldier (
25/36 hp)
9 -
A - Arsonist (
11 damage, concealment due to Heat Haze, used Fey Step, cursed by Ts'iri)
8 - B1 - Beetle 1 (36 damage, cursed by Goeth, marked with Divine Challenge by Solon, used Fire Spray)
8 - B3 - Beetle 3 (0 damage, used Fire Spray, marked by Soldier, cursed by Goeth)
8 -
B4 - Beetle 4 (
0 damage, concealment due to Heat Haze, used Fire Spray)
8 -
B2 - Beetle 2 (
23 damage, used Fire Spray)
8 - B5 - Beetle 5 (39 damage, used Fire Spray, prone and immobilized until end of next turn, provokes an OA from Soldier if it shifts before the start of Kama'zer's next turn)
8 - B6 - Beetle 6 (36 damage)
8 - B7 - Beetle 7 (38 damage, used Fire Spray)
8 - B8 - Beetle 8 (32 damage, used Fire Spray)
28 - I1 - Imp 1 (48 damage)
28 - I2 - Imp 2 (44 damage, used Tail Sting)
7 -
C - Callen (
28/28 hp)
5 -
G - Goeth (
24/34 hp + 1 thp)
4 -
R - Galinndan (
29/29 hp)
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I want to reach O17)
, infact if he causes enough noises maybe the gnome disengages from Ts'iri.
