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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffwik" data-source="post: 612550" data-attributes="member: 9739">Event Three: The Obligatory Misunderstanding Fight    Kirkara is, as is habit, sneaking sixty feet or so ahead of Atarax and Foleful.  From this vantage, she gets the drop on Kriggle, Plikt, and Krup, who are wandering through the Hellmouth looking for someone to punish for killing their village.  She doesn’t know what to make of three kobolds, one mounted on a giant lizard and wearing plate mail, so she signals for Foleful and Atarax to come up.  They do so, but get spotted.    Picture it, then: an eighty-degree slope forty feet long.  At the top, the winding tunnel through which Krikara, Atarax, and Foleful came.  At the bottom, a wide chamber with several exits, and the kobolds.  “Hello!” calls down Atarax.Kriggle pulls out his lance, points it up at the interlopers, and shouts for them to face the wrath of Kurtlemak.  His voice is squeaky and echoes in his helmet.    Foleful interprets this as an attack on him and his secular humanoidist beliefs, and fires a bolt of conjuring straight at Kriggle’s helmet.  This has the side effect of conjuring an earth-elemental stirge, which latches onto Kriggle’s exposed throat and distracts him.    Krikara moves to sneak-attack.  Atarax tries to talk, some more, calm everyone down, maybe get charming but the pesky kobolds make their Will saves.  They fire crossbows at Foleful, who summons a fire-elemental dire ape in their midst.    The stirge dealt with, Kriggle charges up the slope and Foleful, stabbing him with his little kobold lance.  Due to the extreme steepness of the slope, however, it’s not a “charge” so much as a “climb laboriously up and then poke,” and Foleful reacts by sending his ape to swat at Krup, and summoning up a heap of sandbags to hide behind.    Atarax tries his words, again, suggests they all calm down, but those darn Will saves…    Krikara moves in under cover of darkness and sneak-attacks Plikt, while the ape swats at Krup some more.  Kriggle ("Surrender to Kurtlemak!") pokes at Foleful again, who steps back and casts some defensive magic.  Atarax decides to go for a different spell, and blinds Kriggle with glitterdust.  Blinded, Kriggle is easily taken prisoner, and Krikara shoots Plikt again, then binds his wounds.  As for the dire ape and Krup… well, there’s not much of Krup left.    And of course it all turns out to have been a misunderstanding: Atarax didn’t kill everyone in Kriggle’s tribe, Kriggle isn’t a witch-hunter sent to kill Foleful for his secular humanoidism, and Foleful didn’t summon a dire ape that ate one of Kriggle’s friends.  Actually, that last one is in fact the case, but boys will be boys.  Everyone gets kind of sheepish, except for Atarax, who has nothing to be sheepish about, and Krikara, who probably couldn’t be sheepish if she tried.</blockquote>

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