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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6779398" data-attributes="member: 11146">Solace rolled into the quaggoth, which seemed too surprised to bother with an attempt to claw her, but she missed piercing the creature's shaggy hide.  The downward slope of the ledge gave a forward momentum to Solace's roll she hadn't anticipated.  Solace found she couldn't stop her body from crashing through the bannister, leaving a gaping hole in her wake.  She caught herself before falling off the ledge into the webs below--or worse, a hundred foot drop to the chasm floor.  Nimble fingers clung to the lip of the stone ledge.  The quaggoth looked down and started to lunge to attack.  Its movement spurred Solace to action.  She kicked out with her feet and legs as hard as she could, and flipped herself back onto the ledge, coming to rest behind the shaggy beast.  From her new position, Solace could make out next to nothing in the dark, but memory told her she was close to the area where the guards took prisoners each day to dump the chamber pots of the ledge into the pool of water on the chasm floor.  By the overwhelming sickly sweet stench of musk, Solace could tell she was very near the cell where the drow kept quaggoths imprisoned.  And, if that was the case, then the northernmost guard post was also near at hand.  She wasn't sure how many guards normally stood watch here, but recalled that the post was small enough that it couldn't possibly hold more than three.Down below the ledge in the webbing, the giant spider quivered with anticipation, then crept forward on silent feet, heading directly for Topsy and Turvy, neither of whom appeared to notice the spider stalking them.  The pair of deep gnomes hadn't budged since lighting on the webbing; instead, they were engrossed in an argument about which direction to head now that they'd attained freedom.  Topsy pointed south.  Turvy gestured down.  The spider crept closer.  It closed with a finishing leap, springing at Topsy and <a href="http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=106441" target="_blank">stinging the small gnome,</a> dealing 6 points of damage.  Turvy's eyes went wild with fear as Topsy turned green and keeled over sideways, falling through the webbing all the very long way to the chasm bed.  A small thud echoed through the pit, announcing Topsy's probable demise.  Turvy howled in outrage.[ooc]Solace's attack on the quaggoth missed.  She used an inspiration to ignore the rule on moving through a square occupied by a foe, and cinematically (heh) flipped herself then moved into grid square AA13.  The quaggoth already used its reaction this round to make an OA on Kago, so it was unable to take one against Solace.  Brinn's up to bat, [MENTION=6799753]lowkey13[/MENTION].[/ooc]<img src="http://i64.tinypic.com/f3byj6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Credit for the map background: Wizards of the Coast    Cartography: Jared BlandoInitiative: <s>K'nyr 18</s> Drow Guard (X18) 18 Kago 15 Solace 14 Giant Spider (X16) 14 Brinn 9 Quaggoth (AA17) 9 --already took an OA for Rd 2 Raza 6 Kamael 3 NPC Prisoners 1[GM]   <s>K'nyr</s> dead Drow Guard (Z18) 9/13 Quaggoth (AA17) __/__ Giant Spider (X16) __/__ Derendil (AC18) 12/45 Ront (AD19) 4/15 <s>Eldeth</s> dead Buppido (AF20) 12/13 Jimjar (AC21) 6/27 <s>Sarith</s> dead Shuushar (AF19) 15/18 Stool (AC21) 3/7 <s>Topsy</s> dead  Turvy (Y16)  4/33[/gm]</blockquote>

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