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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zurai" data-source="post: 3974826" data-attributes="member: 52324">DM's Note: I'm NPCing Erin for this round of combat. I know you're online, Shayuri, but as you'll quickly see it's not going to matter much anyway.The creature menacing Erin lands ungracefully, but somersaults to its feet quickly enough to avoid Alistia's wild swings with her fighting stick (Attack misses). Erin backpedals away from the creature before it has a chance to attack her again, however (5' step away from the thing).Ignoring Enko's entreaties to not hurt the little menace in front of him, Growl bites hard at the back of its neck, and an audible crunch reverberates around the camp, accompanied by a shriek cut mercifully short (Attack hits for 4 wound damage; thing fails fort save and begins dying).Meanwhile, Thane nimbly disengages from the dark spirit attacking him and fires an arrow on the run, nailing the thing through its shoulder and spinning it around in a circle, causing Cleyra's arrow to miss cleanly (Thane moves; thing takes AOO and misses. Thane hits for 8 damage; thing takes wound damage but passes its fort save to avoid being stunned. Cleyra rolls another natural 1 to attack, automatically missing).Ryon, realizing his companions are at risk, draws his new knife and charges the monster trying vainly to gut Artemisia. The little creature doesn't even notice him coming, so intently is it attacking the huntress, and Ryon's knife impales it from behind. Immediately, it lets out an ear-splitting wail of pure agony and screams, "Szas Fhel! Szas FHEL!" (Ryon's charge hits for 12 damage due to creature weakness. Thing passes fort save to avoid being stunned, barely). All three remaining creatures turn and begin to run away, gibbering, "Szas Fhel!" to themselves over and over (Things 2, 3, and 4 execute Withdraw actions on their turns, provoking no AoOs).As soon as the creatures pass the edge of the illumination provided by the firelight, the darkness seems to swallow them, and you can no longer hear their gibbering. Indeed, one of them was cut off mid-word; it's as if they vanished into thin air. Artemisia, however, doesn't seem to be affected as she nocks an arrow and lets loose. A moment later, one of the things reappears about twenty feet from where it disappeared - but with Artemisia's arrow sticking out from its back. It wails and shudders, then falls still. [sblock=Ryon]You noticed that the wound you caused with the odd knife acted as if it was caused instead by a burning brand; the flesh blackened and sizzled, and a trail of smoke emitted from the wound for the entire time the blade was in contact with the thing's flesh.[/sblock][sblock=Combat Status, End Of Combat]Thing 1: stable but unconsciousThing 2: fleeingThing 3: disabledThing 4: fleeing, fatiguedCleyra: 9/9 12/12Erin: 5/6 14/14Enko: 10/10 14/14Artemisia: victoriousAlistia: 5/5 12/12Ryon: 10/10 14/14Growl: 16/16 15/15Thane: 6/9 12/12[/sblock][sblock=Experience]100 xp each for defeating 4 CR 1/2 creatures.[/sblock][sblock=Side Note OOC]I had set 4 different "win conditions" for this fight. You all managed to achieve all 4 on the same round  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> For the record, the conditions were: kill one thing, drop two things to less than 1/2 wound points, deal wound damage to 3 things, or score a hit with the steel shortsword.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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