"Dunno about thicker..." Angel comments as she gets into position behind Matt. THUNK! "Unless you're talking about their heads."

That bolt landed between the guy's sternum and stomach. It hurt a lot.

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Probing Strike v War2. Hit(31)!
 dmg: 34 and +1 to Angel's next attack v War2

War2 HP: 118 - 34 = 84

When the characters come down the stairs,
read:
Two statues, one badly ruined, stand in this room. Beyond
a pool of brilliant blue water at the far side of the room is
a large alcove that holds a chest. Scattered throughout the
room are more strange humanoids with silver weapons.

"Seems they favor ranged attacks," the mindslicer guesses.

He blasts Matt and Angel with psychic energy then flies over to take cover behind the damaged statue.

Two toddlers peak from around the other staircase's corner. But significantly, they both have glowing eyes and a pair of wings. The one with white, feathered wings shakes a finger at the mindslicer and he feels the weight of divine judgement hanging over him should he attack.

The one with butterfly wings stands out openly as if in defiance. But she laces her hands in front of herself all girly and gives the enemy an innocent stare.

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Offering of Justice on Mindslicer.
 dmg: 29

The other giths get into position.  The statue springs to life!  A ridiculously long tentacle shoots out from it, grabs Rainbow, then pulls her into the rock monster's maw!  It swallows her whole!

"రుచికరమైన." (Primordial: "Tasty" )

"మీరు విందు ఉన్నారు!" Mittens answers! (Primordial: "You're dinner!")

But her blazing javelin misses.  And hits the gith behind the monster!

Maverick takes a look, shoots at the roper, and finds his bolt bounce off the stone monster. But by the time the monster notices, Maverick has already disappeared.

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Fleeting Spirit Strike v Roper. Miss(20)

The first gith warrior takes up position and prepares to charge.

As Matt advances across the stairs, the first Gith able to see him rushes in and lands a hit!

Matt swings back, slightly harder than the Gith had managed.  "That would probably have hurt more, if you weren't expecting your silver sword to do half the work for you." Haha, psychic resist.

Angel winces from the nasty headache. Furious with the mindslicer for taking away some of her toys for a time, Angel rushes down the stairs, takes aim, and although she could shoot him without provoking from the warrior, she chooses to, just to make him suffer as well.

Matt hits the warrior hard for attacking Angel and although Angel is hit, the warrior suffers worse pain!

Angel's crossbow bolt flies true and sinks into the mindslicer's liver! "Your power is annoying, I'll give you that. But I can kill you slower this way, which is fine with me."

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Ongoing 5 dmg
Move: To base of stairs
Standard: Probing Strike v Mindslicer. Hit(35)!
 dmg: 32
Save throw: 10 success!

Angel HP: 85 - 5 - 14 = 66
War1 HP: 103 - 22 = 81
Mindslicer HP: 98 - 32 = 66
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"You'll pay for that!" the Mindslicer hollers.

He blasts Angel's mind, wincing from the pain of Carla's judgement.  He then rushes over behind one of his allies.

Angel laughs. "And you paid for that! Give up already..."

Rainbow phases and walks out of the Roper that ate her, looking completely unharmed before returning to physical form. "If I were mortal, that would have been bad... you bunch sure are mean." she shakes her finger at the roper and gith.

The gith warriors immediately charge her, one missing and the other managing to hit hard enough she poofs! There is no sign of Rainbow.

Carla frowns. On one hand, it is nice Rainbow appearing made those gith show themselves. On the other hand, poor Rainbow constantly getting hurt. She then realizes Rainbow pulled those enemies in close conveniently for a kaboom. Carla's brand new, un-used kaboom.

"Stay." Carla says in a soft tone and a huge pillar of fire erupts to engulf the gith and roper in flames! The pillar remains, showing that if they try to escape, they will get hurt again!

As if baiting them to attack, Carla flutters over the stairs and gently lands in front of them, staring at them through the flames.

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Standard: Summon Rainbow!
Gith charge! Hit(27)! Miss(21)
 dmg: 17, Rainbow poofs!
ACTION POINT! +2 AC and can fly as free action
Pillar of Guardian Flame v War2,3,Roper. Hit(26)! Miss(22) Miss(21) Hit!
 Memory of a thousand Lifetimes: +3
 dmg: 21, if they try to leave or attack, they take 5 dmg

Carla HP: 56 - 11 = 45
War2 HP: 84 - 21 = 63
War3 HP: 118 - 21 = 97
Roper HP: 284 - 21 = 263
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The enemy attacks in spite of the cage of fire, getting burned in the process!  One steps back and telekinetically slams Carla, immobilizing her.  The other slashes at her, but misses.  And the roper grabs her and slams her bloody!

"Carla!" Chrub cries.

She flutters over to Carla and kisses her cheek, healing some of her wounds.  Meanwhile Mittens rushes to be among the enemy, right through the wall of fire!  She then spins around, slashing the enemy with her radiant swords, hacking away the roper's tentacle, enabling Carla to escape!

"I'm gunna have to high-five Rainbow after this.  She's so awesome!"

Maverick lurks and weaves between the enemies, going completely unseen. He even finds when the mindslicer happens to be looking one way and not another and flows over to be behind the mindslicer. The mindslicer feels himself stabbed from behind and several more blades go flying at the enemy, one hitting the roper, the other barely missing the warrior.

But when the mindslicer looks to see who stabbed him, nobody is there.

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Move: To pillar of fire
 Chameleon: Stay hidden while moving. Stealth roll: 48 (Crit)
Move: To be behind Mindslicer
ACTION POINT! (Gain another move action)
Cloud of Steel v Slicer,War3,Roper. Hit(28)! Miss(23) Hit(36)!
 dmg: 13 (+6 v bloodied)
 Sneak Attack: 12
 Secondary attack v Mindslicer's Fort. CRIT(39)!
  Ongoing 10 poison (Save ends)
Minor: Impossible to Catch (Mav is invisible)
Bonus Move from AP: To the north

Mindslicer HP: 37 - 35 = 2 and will die on his turn.
Roper HP: 241 - 13 = 228

The mindslicer screams like an off-panel fatality!  The warrior in front of Matt winces from the sound.

"The hells?"

His swing misses.

  Matt may not be in a good position to see it, but familiarity and higher than average passive perception mean he can recognize the signs of Maverick Murder Mayhem about to ensue.

  By comparison, cracking the kneecap of a gith is rather mundane.  It still satisfying.

Angel hops past the warrior and says, "Oh... Maverick got to you. Byebye, Mindslicer." so she shoots the roper instead, and then gets into flanking with Matt. "Hi, Matt." she says with a smile. She kicks the warrior to distract him for Matt to get a nicer opening.

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Stealth: 27
 Shift 3 to shoot roper as part of attack
Fleeting Spirit Strike v Roper. Hit(39)!
 dmg: 23
 SA dmg: 10
 Shift to flank warrior with Matt.

Roper HP: 228 - 33 = 195

"I'm gunna... urk."

The mindslicer keels over.  One of the warriors flanks Mittens and stabs her in the gut!  She raspberries the enemy and vanishes.

"Man these adventurers are annoying."

The other one slashes Cherub!  She squeaks from the pain and tears up!

"But they make the cutest noises when you stab 'em."

Carla mouths "Thank you" to Cherub before returning the favor. Rainbow reappears next to Carla, the sisters cuddling each other and they both wave at Cherub, causing her wounds to heal up!

---

Standard: Summon Rainbow. Again. XD
Minor: Healing Spirit (Rainbow spends a surge and Carla heals 3d6)
 3d6: 5

Cherub HP: 38 + 16 = 54
Carla HP: 37 + 5 = 42

<primordial>"Nuts.  They poofed the one who speaks Primordial.  Well let's see if these adventurers understand body language."<primordial>

The roper disengages and raises it's tentacles in surrender.  The githyanki look furious.

"Surrender is not an option!"

Mittens phases up from under the floor.

"Dun-nun.  Dun-nun.  Dun-nun."

She holds her radiant sword up then "swims" through the floor, passing between the legs of the gith.  One gets slashed bloody, the other gets disemboweled!

She then sinks below the floor for a moment before popping up again to point and stare in shock.  "Th...  The rock monster thing is surrendering?!"

She passes out, sinking below the floor again.

Maverick reappears and stares at the Roper. "....OK. So Mittens, mind asking this one why it was working for the githyanki?"

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Readied ohmygoshMaverickissobroken "Stunning Strike" for if the Roper attacks.

Cherub nods.  <primordial> "Why are you surrendering?" </primordial>

The roper answers, <primordial> "I was forced to work for these gith.  But now that you're defeating them, I'm no longer beholden to them.  Let me live, and I'll tell you where to find hidden treasure." </primordial>

Cherub looks annoyed.  "It's lying about being forced to work for the Gith."

Matt's opponent takes another failed swing.

"We struck up a bargain.  We fed it our victims in exchange for it guarding this lair for us when we go raiding."

  "Sounds about as expected."  Also sounding about as expected, a Gith's nose breaking.

  You know an enemy encounter has no chance, when your Tank spends the whole fight tanking a random enemy rather than the 'biggest' enemy.

Angel says, "Do they ever tire of saying that?" her tone then turns serious. "This fight's over." THUNKTHUNKTHUNK! With incredible speed and accuracy, Angel downs the one next to her using one arrow, and downs the other gith with a pair of arrows.

She turns her attention to Cherub. "Still... Surrender is surrender and if it helps us somehow, I'm takin' it."

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Biting Volley v War1,War3. Hit(29)! Miss(23)
 dmg: 24
 SA dmg: 12
ACTION POINT Angel gets a free basic ranged attack
Warding Shot v War3. Hit(43)!
 dmg: 24
Basic Ranged Attack v War3. Hit(33)!
 dmg: 15

War1 HP: 25 - 36 = DEAD
War3 HP: 36 - 39 = DEAD

Carla and Rainbow step forward. Rainbow holds her hand up. "...ready for that high-five, Mittens."

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Readied Word of Fiery Condemnation if Roper attacks.