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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6779371" data-attributes="member: 6696971">The heavily pocked earth interlaced with thick overgrowth of the killbox serves to keep the abominations within reach of Otthor.  When it becomes obvious that he is going to catch up to them, a few incomprehensible clicks and hisses later and two of them peel back while the third continues toward the inner wall.  When Otthor and his enemies converge, he becomes insubstantial as a wraith, the magic of the Maiden of the Moon imbuing his form.  His enemies attacks easily defeated, he falls into the Bladesong and unleashes a torrent of dazing force magic and a blur of steel.  He reaches out and grasps the fleeing creature and pulls it back toward the engaged melee as if there was no distance between them.  The battle is furious and mortal, perfect bladework and supernatural speed claiming the lives of dozens of abominations as Otthor refuses to acknowledge the burning acid vomiting forth from the swath of enemies that surround him.When Saerie's wintry bargain, never-ending volley of arrows and faithful companions finish their work at the outer wall, the companions sprint to reinforce Otthor's effort near the inner wall.  They're joined by a pair of archers from the battle at the gate.  Saerie acknowledges them both, one of which is Scout Jawari, the heat of their confrontation long diffused given the circumstances.  They rush to Otthor and finish the abominations.  When they climb the ramparts of the inner wall, they can survey the fight to the far north of them.  The twisted basilisks obliterate the inner wall and several giants pour through.  No defenders give pursuit to the interior of Giliad's Rest proper...Spending no words on the tragedy of what that inevitably means, the group sprints to intercept the invaders before they can slay too many innocents.[HR][/HR]Mechanical Stuff[sblock]A generous portion of the killbox areas are difficult terrain.  Otthor expends 1 of his Daily Bladesong recharges.  This lets him shift, ignoring DT, and cuts the distance between he and the enemies pretty much completely.  He uses his Daily Spell Force Volley for a daze + Bladesong-augmented damage + Minor Action Arcane Strike. The Swarm Attack and Caustic Slam whittles away Otthor's HPs, but Enter the Crucible's Resist 10, Second Wind, his considerable defenses, and Dazzlign Sunray (-2 to hit), keeps him upright until Saerie can come and use Communion (she gains temp and Otthor gets HPs equal to his surge) and Iron Resurgence (trigger his surges).Most all of the remaining Encounter Powers are used by the players from Moonstride (insubstantial and shift Otthor), Displacement (forces enemy reroll), Guardian's Counter (lets Otthor and ally shift, Otthor takes attack and MBAs in return), Battle Awareness (counterattack on a hit or enemy shifting).  Saerie uses her suite of attack interrupts (damage and basically ensuring a missed attack + shift away and damage) and snap shot.  Those + Twin Strike + 2 actions by Rawr/round + the zone from Winter's Covenant Blizzard make short work of the minions in the second wave.  The Foulspawn gets a bit of action in with psychic attacks/stunning and augmenting attacks so a few minions get some damage in on Rawr.The players use the Archer Solo's Move Action to move a pair of the Archers to Zone A to help kill the remaining enemies facing Otthor and Saerie.They vanquish the enemies a round before the battle in Zone C is decisively lost.  We go with the mechanics for the Reinforcements! Encounter Power above, to determine how the intercept goes.  However, we use a Group Athletics check at the hard DC to determine how quickly they get there.  Saerie is allowed to use her 2 Healing Surges available under Reinforcements! to get 2 of her Dire Wolf minions into the fight rather than spending them on Rawr or herself.  Saerie, Otthor and one of the three of Rawr and the two Arches pass their Athletics checks.[/sblock][HR][/HR]The good guys intercept the bad guys right before they storm the common hall where the Coldland refugees and Sadia are planning egress after Three Bird's falcons alert them of the disaster at the wall.  I'll put the map up for that final showdown at the OK Corral and detail it, turn by turn, in a follow-up post.</blockquote>

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