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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5457916" data-attributes="member: 16069">H2 Thunderspire LabyrinthEncounter #8 The Devourer.Note this is Encounter #32 for this group of PCsRight then, I tricked the PCs for this encounter, moved them into a small-ish chamber and suddenly Charrak is... lost- as in he's not sure which of the four passages leading from the chamber the PCs should take. I made this out to be part of the Skill Challenge- the PCs had been doing particularly well, one failure and six successes so far (I think- 8 successes needed to complete the challenge).So they thought they were rolling more checks for the Skill Challenge, they weren't, they were rolling Perception checks- and failing.Suddenly...Gloooooooop!Good GuysDirty Biskit, Male Dwarven Fighter 5 (HP61)Kaspard, Female Half-Elf Cleric of Bahamut 5 (HP46)Winstanley Portico, Male Halfling Rogue 5 (HP46)Grey Morlock, Male Human Wizard 5 (HP40)Phrenic, Male Tiefling Warlord 5 (HP49)Bad Guys 400 XP Level 1 Encounter.Gelatinous Cube Level 5 Elite Brute [GC] (HP152)Initiative 31 Winstanley 26 Grey 22 Phrenic 19 Dirty 12 Gelatinous Cube 6 KaspardSurprise Round.An unnoticed Gelatinous Cube, which has in the last few moments sidled up to the PCs, attacks.GC- Blooop, Engulf Dirty; Hit- Grabbed & Ongoing 10 Acid damage.Time to play 4 minutes including setting up of map and minis.End of Turn-Good GuysDirty Biskit, Male Dwarven Fighter 5 (HP61)Kaspard, Female Half-Elf Cleric of Bahamut 5 (HP46)Winstanley Portico, Male Halfling Rogue 5 (HP46)Grey Morlock, Male Human Wizard 5 (HP40)Phrenic, Male Tiefling Warlord 5 (HP49)Bad Guys 1000 XP Level 5 Encounter.Wraith Level 5 Lurker [W] (x3) (HP37) Gelatinous Cube Level 5 Elite Brute [GC] (HP152)Action Points 0 Total 0Daily Powers 0 Total 0Healing Surges 0 Total 02nd Winds 0 Total 0Crits 0 Total 0PCs Ko'd 0 Total 0Comment: Then I told the PCs that the Skill Challenge (at this point) was a charade- the PCs were mostly okay with this- wry smiles, 'got me' grins et al.I said mostly okay with this- Dirty (Dave) was... I think apoplectic is the word I'm searching for- fortunately he had a mouth full of Cube...The other PCs tried (mostly, again) not to laugh.Oh and they hate Gelatinous Cubes- they spent heaven knows how long fighting one in KOTS, they're genuinely scared of them- which is just dandy.</blockquote>

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