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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7318199" data-attributes="member: 6777052">It was about this time that the Land of Nod initiated its second line of defence: The Perimeter of......... Halibut.The devilishly-cunning minds of the Mages of Nod had devised a cunning defence against creatures who passed though the outer defences still awake. It was a huge Zone of Polymorph that covered the sea around the shores of Nod, for a distance of half a league. Any creature entering it had to make a DC30 Wisdom save or be polymorphed into a flatfish, which would then fall asleep and lie dozing on the seabed. It took a prodigeous amount of arcane energy to set it up with dozens of mages working tirelessly for months but after many setbacks, they finally succeeded. The island was safe from invaders. Or so they thought.But they didn't test it on krakens because the fish sellers in the market square didn't have any, although they did promise they would be getting some in next week. You see, in the small print for Kraken (MM197) the Freedom of Movement feature specifies that magical effects can't reduce its speed and a sleeping flatfish is slower than a kraken so it can't be polymorphed into one.The duty mage in the lookout tower on Watching Head was suddenly aware of this shortcoming when Penelope hove into view and didn't turn into a flatfish. He twiddled the offical piece of copper wire and sent an urgent Message to his commander who reprimanded him for being drunk on duty because it is well known that krakens are mythical.Jeli, however, had no such immunity. She turned into a flatfish and started sliding down Penelope's tentacle to go flop into the sea. But Penelope made a sudden Insight check and, realising what was happening, gave Jeli a moderately gentle slap, enought to reduce a flatfish to 0hp and end the polymorph effect. Jeli blinked and wondered why she was suddenly swimming around in a wet dress with a headache. "No time to explain!" telepathed Penelope, "Get out your bow and start shooting at that mage in the tower!"It was a short but unequal combat. What exactly happened was ...</blockquote>

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