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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2273215" data-attributes="member: 7280">Mavic's not likely to be particularly concerned with that, since the worst/best outcome for that is that the monsters come out to fight instead of waiting inside to be slaughtered. We're intent on taking a location right? If they're going to run then we still win. If they prep beforehand then we can wait it out. If they make more traps then we can bypass them. Basically the overall strategy doesn't change, and their preparations in the event of a lack of surprise aren't tremendously troubling to someone like Mavic. If it were incredibly important ("Wait till I tell my Master Iuz that you're here!") then Mavic would just seal up the tunnel completely with Fabricate. Or kick a random party member wearing better armor down the hole to slay the thing before it started yammering. It's an unimportant encounter- because there are no giants involved, nor anything remotely suggesting that the thing is anything more than a sentient mobile trap. It's probably more annoying than anything else to Mavic, whose not going to "waste" anything that he'd rather be using on giants and giants' minions on "some dumb elemental". Seriously, given a choice of targets between a couple of runty hill giants in rags and a decent-sized dragon Mavic would probably kill the hill giants first - even if one of the other characters was getting eaten. The dragon would just be a distraction, and obstacle to dispatch after killing the giants so he could get back to the business of killing more giants. Killing giants is how Mavic feels good about himself for being such a jerk, probably the only way besides keeping his strays that he's collected clothed and fed. Yes, he's smart enough to know better. But he's more than a little bit nihilistic too. *shrug* Magic Missiles are easy to justify on just about anything though, so MM is probably what everyone's going to get from Mavic on distractions. That's the reason he's got two wands, he's probably blown through many more MM wands than that too.</blockquote>

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