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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8145703" data-attributes="member: 7019027">Yes, it was a mindflayer. Its not a super-duper strong encounter for a level 7 party but it was actually quite potent. Round 1The Cleric went first and cast Spirit Guardians and Spiritual Weapons but then the Mindflayer went next and used Mindblast which actually stunned everyone except the wizard, including the Paladin, Cleric, and Rogue. The Wizard tried to Dispel Magic the Cleric so he could recover but he didn't realize it wasn't a spell and couldn't be dispelled. I lent him a bone for another action but he said screw it and casted fireball which did damage but not enough. The rogue recovered but couldn't act yet and the Paladin remained stunned. Round 2The Cleric recovered too but couldn't do anything either. The mindflayer used his tentacles on the Paladin and the Paladin failed that intelligence save. The Rogue missed his shortbow attack on the mindflayer. The Wizard realizes to use Hypnotic Pattern even though it can't be positioned not to hit the Paladin or Rogue too. Mindflayer easily saves the DC 15 Wis save with their +6 and advantage, bummed Wizard. Paladin also saves just for the record. Round 3Cleric casts Bless on the Paladin and I think the Rogue and himself. He uses his BA to Spiritual Weapon since that wasn't broken from the stun. Mindflayer uses Extract Brains and crits. (I actually realized re-reading the action that they didn't have to overkill for instadeath but I guess it didn't matter since the Paladin with a max HP of 53 had roughly 20 HP left, the Mindayer does 80-something damage and insta-kills her. The Rogue lands his shortbow but the ally is dead so no sneak attack. The Wizard retries HypnoPat since its a longshot but would stop the madness. Mindflayer succeeds. Round 4 Cleric drops bless to do his Spirit Guardians thing and does decent damage to the Mindflayer. Mindflayer uses Mindblast again and actually downs the Rogue while stunning the Cleric. Wizard is out of 3rd-level slots so he casts Magic Missile. Round 5Cleric fails 2nd save and Mindflayer Tentacles the Cleric and downs him. Wizard pops a healing potion on the rogue. Rogue sees they're losing and flees. At this point, I saw the Wizard was about to flee too and I decided that the Mindflayer would rendezvous with their colony via Planeshift. They don't return for the cleric, though, and they failed their 3 saves.</blockquote>

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