How's this for initiative: everyone in the party rolled 18 or above except Malikar, who rolls a 3 (which still beats the foe, who also rolled a 3).
Krug's crossbow bolt sails between the beast and Verakka, as does Morden's arrow, once he backs up to avoid the creature's reach.
Dyrnas hits the creature with three magic missles (11 damage). The creature uses his long arms to swipe at Titus as the cleric casts spikes, but misses. Titus steps forward to protect Verakka. The enemy does not appear to be undead, but Titus can't be sure. Fallon cures Verakka using his dorje.
Finally, Malikar steps up beside the beast with flashing shortswords. He chides himself as the first misses, but the other two attacks hit (21 damage).
The creature responds with a strike at Malikar before fading from view.
I just realized that a body adjustment targets self, which means Fallon can't use his dorje to heal other people from this point on.