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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5118361" data-attributes="member: 19675">The sessions that followed the one I started this thread off with proved to be at least as hilarious.2 sessions ago, the party's "honest merchant"- on point- managed to fail his save vs a Charm leveled at him by a Vrock, spending the combat trying to convince us that that one was our buddy...while another partymember failed HIS save vs a Charm by one of the Vrocks behind us.  Truly it was a mess.However, it was merely a foreshadowing of THIS week's session.  2 players were absent (along with their Monk and Fighter).The "merchant," again taking point, and poked his head around a corner...and immediately failed a save vs a BEHOLDER'S Charm, then tried to convince us to come along peaceably...except that one guy had seen the rays strike him, so was on guard.The party's barbarian got to the corner, and- ignoring the "merchant"- charged a beholder (there were 2) while Raging.  He got in a good shot while shrugging off everything the critter threw at him...until the beast disintegrated the floor beneath him.Then one of our Monks followed up by grappling the "merchant" and bringing him down to the ground while the party's mage kept trying to dispel the charm with his wand of Dispel Magic.  My Geomancer followed that by rounding the corner and charging the other beholder...not that I had a decent weapon- I just wanted to get the SOB engaged in melee while the rest of the party closed.  It was critical, since, as far as we could see, the barbarian was disintegrated.A Fighter followed me closely, also engaging the 2nd beholder.  THAT SOB Charmed the mage!Since the mage had a whole bunch of "major artillery" spells, there really wasn't much he could do with his magic to slow us down...so he polymorphed into the shape of a female elf caster with whom we'd had some battles before, but who had escaped our wrath.  He figured this shape would present "a distraction."The Monk & "Merchant" continued to grapple.The beholder the barbarian was after decided to flee and started flying up an escape tunnel.  The other one gave my Geomancer a nearly fatal wound before being felled by...no...EXPLODED by the Fighter standing next to me.  However, due to some magical effect of which we were not aware, that guy was in the grips of his own berserker frenzy, and flew off after the fleeing beholder while my guy was lying on the ground in a pool of his own sap.  (Thank goodness for the Geomancer Drift ability that slows wound damage.)  Since the beholder and the fighter had the same fly speed, he was NOT going to catch him...but in his blood-frenzy, he didn't care!The barbarian turned and saw the "elf" and charged.  He nearly one-shotted the mage, who then let his polymorph drop in order to save his life.  Only the shouts of the Monk saved his life.The barbarian's rage ended, so he collapsed.  The mage flew after the the beholder and fighter, only to be hit by an anti-magic ray that knocked them both out of the air.  The mage caught the unconscious fighter and dragged him back to the party.The Monk, in the meantime, had released the "Merchant" and went to stabilize my PC (who was 1/2 a HP away from death...).  No sooner had he done that than the charmed "Merchant" sapped him from behind, then Webbed him to my unconscious body.The exhausted barbarian, leaning against the wall, merely sat and laughed.One of the best and most entertaining combats I've ever had the privilege of being part of.</blockquote>

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