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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 4450230" data-attributes="member: 78">The group of heroes (and possibly others) is nearing the heart of the Lost Swamp (so called because of the ancient city lost as the swamp appeared, not because someone has misplaced the swamp).  It's been rough journey in a hostile environment.  You've had to deal with the uncomfortable wetness, lack of maps, stirge swarms, magical crocodiles, etc while dodging patrols and reinforcements.  The group has managed to make this far without being detected - your best estimates have you within a day of reaching your goal. .  But it looks like you'll have to fight the rest of the way...You see a number of plant monsters in your path, along a pair of attractive eladrin women who are attempting to hide.  Erdric's keen senses detect another humanoid lurking in the weeds off to the side in ambush.  The terrain is uneven and forested, with disgusting, slimey water collecting in lower areas while the hills remain merely muddy."Turn back intruders, lest you incur the wrath of the Mothers and the Master," one of the eladrin women calls, in a cheerful tone at odds with the threatening words.Encounter 1: Kill All Enemies.  Roll for initiative![sblock=Initiative]Remember that Torment provides a +4 bonus to initiative because of his feat.  IIRC, PC initiative bonuses are as follows:Narbel: +10Starwinds: +12Glib: +12Dalamar's Paladin: +11 (without any feat or item bonuses that may apply)Tharos: Ini 36Feygrove Choker:      Ini: 26        Stealth: 24Eladrin x2     Ini: 22    Stealth: 23Shambling Mound     Ini: 20    Battle Briar x2     Ini: 18    Erdric                  Ini: 17Reed                    Ini: 17     Stormrage Shambler  Ini: 13    Torment                 Ini: 12[/sblock]Map Key[sblock]Brown: normal terrainBright Green squares: trees.  You can't move through them.  Can provide cover.  I only noted the ground level footprint of the tree; let me know if you want to do some climbing around in the branches or something.  I'm most likely inclined to be generous, if you have the skills to pull it off.Olive Green: opaque water/muck, (mostly?) shallow.  Difficult terrain without some waterwalk stuff or something. Green Grass: foiliage/undergrowth.  Difficult terrain.  Provides concealment to creatures in/behind it.If a square has water in it on a diagonal, then you can ignore the water.  For movement directions and so forth, North is arbitrarily declared to be the top of the map, as usual.Yellowed areas are part of the Battlebriar's Aura.  They are difficult terrain and PCs starting their turns inside the aura take 5 damage.[/sblock]Monster Knowledge:[sblock]Nature= 27Battle Briar: This a creature of bark and thorns.[sblock]Large natural animate (plantGrasping Thorns aura: damage and difficult terrain nearbyThreatening ReachClaw: Reach 2, pull 1, damageThorn Burst: close burst attack with slow[/sblock]Shambling Mound:This a lump of decomposing plant matter with a few vines stuck in that somehow moves.[sblock]Large natural animate (plant) Tendril: physical damage with reach.Enveloping Attack: 2 attacks, and can eat you if both hit (save ends).Lightning Affinity: heal when damaged by lightning[/sblock]Stormrage Shambler: Like an ordinary shambling mound, but visibly charged with lightning.  This is the Shambling Mound with the Red border.[sblock]Large natural animate (plant)Lightning Aura: damage to nearby creaturesTendrils: impact+lightning damage on hit.  More when bloodied.  Reach 2.Double Attack: make two tendril attacksLightning Blast: Encounter: lighting damage in blastLightning Affinity: Heals 10 when hit by lightning[/sblock]Arcana=27Feygrove Choker: a humanoid with extra long arms[sblock]Medium fey humanoid Tentacle Claw: Reach 3, damage, grabChoke: choke grabbed targetsBody Shield: attacks can hit grabbed victim, not versus grabbed targetsChameleon Hide: can gain concealment when not grabbingVine Fetter: vines ensnare enemies[/sblock]Dryad.  [sblock]Tree Stride.  Teleport 8 from plant to plantDeceptive Veil: disguise as human, elf or eladrinClaw: does more damage when only 1 enemy is nearby[/sblock]Briar Witch Dryad[sblock] Thorn boon:  nearby allied plants do more damage in meleeCurse of Thorns: enemies moving or being moved nearby take damage per squareTree Stride: teleport from plant to plantBriar Cage: a thrown thorn that hits a creature does damage and goes into an entangling mass of thornsClaw: does some sucky damage in meleeThorny Body: it hurts to grab a creature made of briars, stupidDeceptive Veil: but sometimes it looks cute and not made of thorns.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> [/sblock][/sblock]</blockquote>

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