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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3627893" data-attributes="member: 11146">Hesitating a moment as his grease spell is countered, and realizing that the enemy spellcaster must be of greater strength that he himself is, Rowan chants low words of arcane power.  Casting one of his newly learned spells, the halfling begins his magical summoning, knowing that very soon the kuo-toans would learn to respect his power.Bat swarm to appear at the start of Rowan's turn next round.Deciding to finish off his first target, that he may all the more easily get to the remaining kuo-toas, Gerak swings his warhammer around in a downward stroke toward KT2's chest.  The warhammer crunches through slime and skin into bone, bludgeoning the frog-man for 6 points of damage.   Finding the kuo-toa still prone but alive at his feet, Gerak stands his ground and prepares for a second blow.***********************************Start of Round 4***********************************Reloading her light crossbow and darting across the room to take up a position beside Yssal next to the staircase, Arden narrows her aim on the robed kuo-toan hanging back.  With the masonry dust now mostly settled, the gnome fixes on the kuo-toan priest's position and readies a shot should the priest begin to cast a spell.Load + move 10 feet = this round's available actions.  I'll keep the readied in shot in mind, but it will need to sit until next round on Arden's turn.Fully in the throes of battlelust, Phud steps on KT1, squishing the downed and dying creature.  Crushed beneath Phud's hulking 6' 10" and 340-lb frame, KT1 becomes little more than a mural of blood and innards pressed into the flagstone floor.  The half-orc eagerly swings his scimitar at KT3.  The tip of the kuo-toan blade catches KT3's banded mail on the neck and slices the creature open from shoulderblade to hip in a cruel arc, slashing KT3 for 11 points of damage.  The injured KT3 snarls at Phud, its black-pooled eyes brimming with pain and rage.  As Phud moves past Gerak, the first glob of fire flung by Wyleck sputters and extinguishes on the floor of the hallway.Finding the floor no longer greased, KT2 and KT4 begin to haul themselves up from prone.  Phud and Gerak, however, have been waiting for just such an opportunity.  Though Phud does not see KT2 lumber to its feet directly behind him, the half-orc bouncer does spy KT4 getting up out of the corner of his eye.  Lashing out with the scimitar with speed amazing for one so large, Phud strikes KT4 for 11 points of damage.  A deep wound opens on the kuo-toa's forearm and blood soon spills to the floor, where it mingles with the ichor of KT1.  Not one to let a downed foe gain the advantage, Gerak lashes out in kind.  Bringing the full brunt of his warhammer to bear on the skull of KT2, Gerak hears and feels the satisfying shattering of bone as his hammer brains KT2 for 9 points of damage.  KT2 goes down hard and lies still at the dwarf's booted feet.Now standing erect and wary of the combat prowess so obviously possessed by Gerak and Phud, KT4 firms its grip on its polearm and moves backward 10 feet to stand in front of the robed kuo-toan priest.  KT3 hisses at Phud and swings its longsword but misses the half-orc.  Still hissing at Phud, KT3 scrabbles down the pile of stone rubble and retreats five feet.  Having reformed their military formation with the spearman in the rear and the swordman out front, the kuo-toas prepare for another onslaught.  The red-robed priest standing behind the duo reaches out and casts a spell; the cleric touches KT4 on the back and some of KT4's wounds heal.Rowan is casting a summoning spell.  Still need to hear from Gerak for the round.Initiative:Arden 15Phud 15Kuo-toan guards 14Wyleck 8Rowan 7Gerak 3</blockquote>

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