Combat!
[sblock=ooc]Again trying something a little different. The entire combat for this encounter will be in this post, separated per round in sblocks. I'll update the descriptive text probably in a paragraph below the particular round's block.
Spellcasters: include a caster level check with your invisible castle rolls, please.[/sblock]
[sblock=Surprise Round]
21 Uulark: destroys kobold zombies
18 Friadoc: attacks with his sling (hit, 1 damage)
17 Rogash: fires an arrow (natural 1=miss)
15 Talishia: casts
seeking ray (hit (SR 8+6=fail), no damage)
12 Tanith: attacks with crossbow (9+5=miss)
12 Shaimon Hu'u: fires an arrow (17+7=hit, 11 damage)
[/sblock]Uulark displays his holy symbol and makes his proclamation of faith. The small zombies trip over each other as they retreat to the far corner of the room. The power of his faith is too strong though, and they are eventually overtaken by it and brought to their final rest.
A volley of projectiles fly through the opening toward the chaos beast, but only Shai's and Friadoc's manage to do any damage.
Talishia's bolt of magical energy finds its way to the beast, encircling it in an impressive light show. The spell quickly fizzles out, however, and the creature seems none the worse for wear.
[sblock=Round 1]
21 Uulark: casts
searing light (hit (CL 9, fail), no damage)
18 Friadoc

fort vs. AoO: 8+6=14); attacks with nanchaku (hit, 4 damage)
17 Rogash: quickly fires two arrows (miss; hit, 7 damage)
15 Talishia: casts
seeking ray and uses her
veil of storms (hit, 31 damage)
12 Tanith: fires her crossbow (miss)
12 Shaimon Hu'u:fires an arrow (miss)
10 Rokelsh: attacks with greatsword (hit, 27 damage)
8 chaos beast: AoO vs. Friadoc (hit, 5 damage)
2 Caerwyn: attacks with greatsword (hit, 16 damage)
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Uulark casts another spell, but in contrast to his last attempt this one seems to have no effect.
Friadoc attempts to tumble past the creature, but gets caught by one of it's grotesque appendages that seems to melt back into it's body. Friadoc, shocked that the mean-looking thing didn't hurt nearly as bas as it appears it would,thwacks it with his magical nanchaku for a healthy blow.
Talishia lights up the room again as the wraps the ugly beast in her magical energy. A high-pitched sqeal erupts from the thing as the electricity does it's work.
Cearwyn hacks at the beast with his greatsword as the thing's scream die, but suddenly another guttural roar comes from the stairs behind the group, and a huge, shaggy-looking man bounds from the steps and lands two huge blows to the already dead chaos beast. As the men finish their routines with their respective greatswords, the creature, an amorphous mass of flesh in life, is left in a stagnate pile of goo. Larger chunks of the creatures flesh lie in dismembered heaps close by.
The pieces seem to remain motionless as the room goes quiet.
[sblock=PC Status]
Uulark:
30/30
Friadoc:
27/32
Rogash:
39/39
Talishia:
28/28
Tanith:
23/23
Shaimon Hu'u:
36/36
Rokelsh:
37/37
Caerwyn:
51/51
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