The Crux of the Matter

[Knight Otu]

(Are the enemies spaced in a way that Ashnar could catch several in a burning hands spell without catching his companions?)

 

[Erekose13]

Tenebrynn casts Ashnar's Sparkstrike against the enemies hoping that it'll have more effect than Ashnar's own casting.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: @Ashnar--used to be so, but then the allies all moved specifically back to collapse the groupings into a muddled mess)

*Tenebrynn fires an Ashnar's Sparkstrike with significantly more panache--perhaps this little girl form is good luck. Whatever the case, her primary target is the same target he always picks, but she still manages to finish off the one Vanitri and the others have been attacking the most, as it is consumed in the flames--perhaps the first secondary (and maybe including primary) victim to die of Ashnar's Sparkstrike in the history of ENWorld.*

(OOC: 4 to primary, 2 to others. One dies.)

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Oh, and I forgot--)

*Rinaldo's assailant attacks twice, and with a stroke of luck, it would have hit with the flanking help, but Tenebrynn's Sparkstrike saves Rinaldo's life, as the attack misses barely due to a deflection that Rinaldo only barely made with the flanking gone.*

(OOC: Ashnar/Hogarth)

 

[Knight Otu]

(I seem to remember that Causticus of M-Series fame drowned after dropping unconcious from sparkstrike damage.)

[sblock=Spells prepared](Save DC 13 + spell level, or 14+ spell level for Evocation spells; 4+1/4+1/3+1/2+1):0 - acid splash, detect magic*, flare*|x3;
1st - Ashnar's sparkstrikex2*|, burning hands*, mage armor, shocking grasp*;
2nd - flaming sphere x2, scorching ray x2*|
3rd - Fireball x2*|, Ray of Exhaustion[/sblock]
Becoming increasingly annoyed at his own magic, Ashnar casts his second sparkstrike at the opponents.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Alright, that was a death that happened after Sparkstrike, but this is probably the first death where Sparkstrike killed it)

*Ashnar's Sparkstrike is not dodged this time by its primary target, so it causes minor damage to some of the remaining enemies.*

(OOC: Rolled a 2 again, so 2 to primary, 1 to secondary who failed, 0 to secondary who made its save)

 

[Velmont]

Hogarth move and place himself next to the wounded target (and if possible, next to no one else) and swing his mace on the creature.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Attack: 19, Damage: 5[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Hogarth's strike manages to barely collapse Tenebrynn's target, which crumbles into a fine dust, its animating force spent, and scatters back into the timestream.*

(OOC: Bront, when you mentioned iteratives, you forgot that Vanitri was slowed, and you made me forget too--I'm going to reappropriate your hit this turn to go back and finish off the one that I thought Tenebrynn had killed with Sparkstrike.*

*Vanitri can't find a good flank, so he just attacks, finishing off the injured creature and sending it back into the gulf between polarised regions of spacetime.*

(OOC: 6 Damage, okay NOW two of the four are dead.

Rinaldo again--you killed the one that goes before him)

 

[Velmont]

Rinaldo move in position to attack a creature but to be sure not to be bracketed again. He continue to swing his rapier in a fashion more to attract the monster attention than to really kill them.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Attack: 7, but still using +5/-5 with combat expertise...[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Vanitri's foe slams into him twice, and he is able to resist the insidious effects, though he still hurts badly.*

(OOC: Vanitri takes 17 Damage and saves twice, though in one case rolling exactly enough to save!

Tenebrynn's turn, then the other enemy, then Ashnar/Hogarth/Vanitri)