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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2894837" data-attributes="member: 63">Last night was the first session. I was introduced to the PCs in a gladiatorial arena in the Underdark (part of the Forgotten Realms adventure 'City of the Spider Queen'), where I was being sent to fight a giant fiendish elephant while a crowd of giants, ogres, and demons watched and cheered.Though I had most of my gear, I'd been ball-gagged with adamantine and spidersilk to make sure I couldn't talk and teleport away. However, Abrupt Jaunt is a spell-like ability, so after a few rounds of running and fighting defensively against a massive frikkin' elephant, I spotted the rest of the group watching behind a portcullis, and I ran over and jaunted through the portcullis. The party began trying to help me get free because they knew a fight was about to start (which they were okay with, because that's why they came in the first place).The enraged giant king ordered his demons to teleport after us and attack while he mobilized his other giants. What followed was a *groan* four-hour combat. The sorceress was improved invisible, flying, and shooting off some sort of improved 6th level magic missile spell. The druid summoned a greater earth elemental. The fighter with his dual-wielded bastard swords spent far too long trying to kill one Vrock that kept recasting mirror image.And I, once I finally got ungagged, was raring to go. Then two rounds in, I fail a save against Hezrou stench and have to stagger around to the cleric. Then I get surrounded by ogres with reach so I can't whirlwind them. I manage to slow down the approach of the leader by acid fogging him, which gives us three rounds as he sloshes through the solid vapors, but I'm still dealing practically no damage. Because I didn't get a chance to buff before the fight, I didn't actually have a magic weapon (normally I cast greater magic weapon with an extend spell rod, and I just own an adamantine greatsword), so damage reduction sucked for me.Then the giant king gets out of the fog and casts destruction on our druid, which she survives. On my round, I swift dimension leap, and full attack, dumping a 6th level spell slot into Arcane Strike. He ignores me and instead casts horrid wilting, nearly killing half the party. On my round, I wraithstrike and dump another 6th level spell slot into Arcane Strike, power attack for full, and hit for 150-odd damage before his DR applies. Then I activate my contingent blink.On his turn, he turns and swings four times, missing twice because my AC was awesome (go Combat Expertise when you're making touch attacks; my AC was 31, and my attack bonus was +9/+4/-1 against somebody who had a touch AC of 8), and once because of blink. The one hit I do take nearly floors me.I'm all ready to kill him on my next turn. But the other fighter finally gives up on fighting the vrock, and he just charges and kills the giant king in one hit.We manage to mop up the rest. I got to use Whirlwind Attack to kill all the vrock's images, but then it teleported away. So yeah, in the actual combat, the only creatures I killed were some mook dretches. But it was fun.</blockquote>

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