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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9788581" data-attributes="member: 27780">Everyone was present. This was a non-stop action scene, although the perspectives weren't split as I feared, because Zerr decided that as much as the player might want to be involved in the action downstairs, that would require going through a lot of slaadi, he's not a primary fighter and it would make more sense IC for him to concentrate on getting the squishier followers out the window safely and fading away into the crowd. Fortunately, his stealth skills continue to be as effective as ever and the direction he picked to retreat was not the one the shadowdancers took, so he managed to get away and is out of the story for the moment. Back down in the tunnel just above the main vault, the sniper frantically gesticulated to the others to communicate that there was an anti-magic cone trained at the opening, ready to blink off so both beholders could blast away with all their other rays at a moment's notice. To get around that, the githyanki summoned a trio of hill giants and had them leap into the field of view of the eye, knowing that they'd wink out, but as soon as the anti-magic ended, they would reappear and all fall on the beholder, putting it in a no-win dilemma. This was immediately followed by the binder & priestess, who of course did not vanish, but fell past them and attacked, the binder using her wings (which thankfully are not dependent on magic) and the priestess using her whip to grapple one of the beholders castlevania style to slow her fall. The githyanki soon followed with another group of amnizu and the sniper blinked into one of the alcoves surrounding the main vault to unleash some wings of flurry. Vlindarian failed his save and was stunned, the other beholder succeeded and managed to get of one round's worth of eye rays, which disintegrated one amnizu, slowed a second and charmed a third, but the PC's made all their saves and managed to kill them on the second round before it reached their turn again. The giants summoned previously reappeared and fell towards the creatures on the base of the vault: a third beholder, the still half-dead cornugon from earlier and some kobold skeleton minions, but only the kobolds got squashed. The drow summoned a bunch of air elementals and the majority of them headed downwards to fight the remaining two visible enemies. This took a couple more rounds, then they used the decanter of endless water they picked up to create a puddle to drown the cornugon with (no more attempts at mercy here, and suffocation is noted as one of the few damage sources that bypasses regeneration), which took another four.It seemed like they'd hit a brief lull, during which time the air elementals were set to grabbing as much gold as they could. However, while this went on, there were enemies advancing from multiple directions, the other cornugon & four slaadi from behind them and more beholders from the vertical tunnels leading off from the vault. There was also the danger from the mirror of life trapping in one of the alcoves, but the sniper spotted that while floating down the other side of the vault, placing him out of range of its effects, but still close enough to roll to identify, so he could warn the rest of them where it was and not to look. They had less than a minutes peace before the slaadi arrived, (moving faster despite having more distance to travel than the slowly floating beholders) catching the drow from behind. He teleported away to hide behind the mirror, leaving the priestess & binder to do the fighting. (how unchivalrous! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) They managed to down the cornugon and do moderate damage to the slaadi before running out of time, but the priestess did get affected by their power word blind and chaos hammer, putting her at a definite disadvantage. Meanwhile, the air elementals are being placed around the openings to the other tunnels, so if they wink out, the group will know beholders are closing in from those directions. Once again, it looks like the group will probably triumph, but you never know for certain when the enemies are packing this many save or die effects and a few bad rolls could turn everything around. Let's see how messy their getaway is next weekend.</blockquote>

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