As Harald and Zog wound the troll and Zog fells the last cambion, Nemeroff moves up and slices the snake. It tries to retaliate with a word of power, which triggers a quick response from Nemeroff, scraping it further. The magical pain from this wound distracts the snake and disrupts its spell. It hisses angrily at the shadar-kai!

Snake tries a burst 3 attack and would've hit but for Nemeroff's MBA, which hits for 23 hp and gives the snake a -8 penalty to hit, causing it to miss.

Agon is up!

Initiative:
Enemy Women, Troll
Nemeroff 33, Gromley 31, Harald 28, Zog 24
Snake 23
Agon 21 <==

Map: https://docs.google.com/drawin...Q50-wFOAK6P78Lk/edit

   The battlefield had been moving away from Agon, and he found himself a little far from Harald and Nemeroff to come to their aid. But not too far - few things were out of reach of an Arcane Wayfarer.

   "I've got you Harald" he called over the sounds of battle.

Move Action : teleport 4 squares
Standard Action : Hammerfall Step (blast 5) to include Harald and the troll.
   40*(+2 if still he's immobilized) vs Troll (Fortitude)
   Hit : 21 damage and teleport the troll 3 squares down river
   Effect : teleport Harald out of the water
Status : +2 item bonus to AC and Reflex until start of my next turn (amulet)
* 1 benny used

The troll, reeling from the remarkable blasts that have taken him nigh the edge of consciousness, nevertheless retaliates, swinging at the dwarf almost madly. Its several nasty wounds are visibly beginning to close...

Troll rolls a nat 1 attacking Harald. It moves up to get close to Harald.

Nemeroff, Gromley, Harald and Zog are up!

Initiative:
Troll
Nemeroff 33, Gromley 31, Harald 28, Zog 24 <==
Snake 23
Agon 21

Map: https://docs.google.com/drawin...Q50-wFOAK6P78Lk/edit

In reply to EpicOne (msg # 241):

Despite the wounds and the wooziness, suddenly the troll looks at the snake woman. It is filled with rage, wanders into the deep waters, and smashes her in the back of the head. Screaming and ranting incoherently.

(OOC-Using Betrayal on troll. Hitting, and making it move 'down river' as on map. It is still within reach of snake, and it will do a basic melee attack with +12 to hit and on damage.

14:43, Today: Gromley Underhill rolled 42 using 1d20+25 with rolls of 17. Betrayal vs will-Troll, 2 psi pts.

14:46, Today: Gromley Underhill rolled 38 using 2d10+19 with rolls of 10,9. Troll damage vs snake.
14:45, Today: Gromley Underhill rolled 51 using 1d20+35 with rolls of 16. Troll vs snake.

Hits snake. Snake takes 38 damage and is dazed until end of Gromley's next turn. Troll is in deep water...if that makes a difference to it.)
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Zog's eyebrow shoots up. "Well-played, gnome. Assuming that was your doing. Wherever the heck you are."

Zog strides up and, for the first time since the party has met him, his hand ceases crackling with electrical energy.  A small, red ball appears in his palm; with an almost dismissive action he flings this little ball to a spot between the naga and the troll. It explodes in a blast of white-hot flame that lingers as a corona of fire...

Move up to current location
STANDARD: Ignition, hits Fort 43 on troll for 38 hp and Fort 36 on naga for 38 hp, fire damage.  Creates a zone--any creature that enters the zone or finishes its turn there takes 6 fire damage.

14:58, Today: Zog the Faceless rolled 38 using 2d10+31 with rolls of 1,6. Ignition damage.
14:58, Today: Zog the Faceless rolled 43,36 using 1d20+26,1d20+26 with rolls of 17,10. Ignition on troll, snake.

"Move yer arse, Nemmy" yelled Harald as he prepared to charge into action once more.


OOC: Wait attack until I see if Nemmy shifts out of my way.

Nemeroff hears Harald and moves out of the way. He then attacks the snake again and calls an ally to attack it too.

Move: Shift South-West
Standard: Surprise Attack vs. Snake

• Attack: Hit AC 42 for 18 hit points
• Effect: Zog makes a free RBA against Snake
• Zog's RBA vs. Snake hit AC 43 for 48 hit points

Minor: Sustain Tempo

Zog's attack break down:
RBA: +26 attack, 2d12+35
Surprise Attack: +10 attack(CA, Tactical Presence)
Cry Havoc: +2 attack
Lend Might: +1 attack
Lend Strength: +2 damages

EDIT: I have edit my post to sustain the Tempo
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At the fiery burst, the troll falls to the ground and ignites like a pyre, despite the cold in the air.

Troll is dead. Snake-woman is bloodied after all that.

Your move, Harald.
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When Nemeroff, responding to Harald’s call, moves out out of the way, Harald himself moved swiftly up and bashed the snake further into the flaming zone.

Despite his hot blood, the dwarf elected not to follow up.

“Ah’m warm enough thanks, Gromley.”

Move: as per map
Standard: Tide of Iron vs snake
Push snake 1 square

Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 38 using 1d20+28 with rolls of 10. Tide of Iron vs snake.
00:20, Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 31 using 2d10+14 with rolls of 7,10. damage vs snake.00:20,

The much-put-upon naga hisses and sings a pretty song. Harald starts swaying for a moment, momentarily entranced by the song. Nemeroff, not nearly so weak-minded, shifts up and attacks the snake-woman, and gets another attack as it slips into the water and tries to make an escape…

The dazed naga does a close burst 5 that hits Harald and misses Zog & Nemeroff. Harald is dazed (save ends). Nemeroff can shift and make an attack--if he hits, the penalty applies to the attack roll made against Nemeroff, so it would have no effect this round.

The snake takes its action point and moves away, which provokes an OA from Nemeroff. It then swims/takes the current to location on map.

All the PCs are up! Agon gets priority in order of actions as he was technically up next but anyone can post their action--if you aren't Agon, assume you're acting after Agon.

Initiative:
Agon, then the other PCs <==
Snake 23

Map: https://docs.google.com/drawin...Q50-wFOAK6P78Lk/edit



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   The wizard rushed to try and prevent the creature from fleeing, channeling arcane restraints - and hoping they would reach the snake-like creature.

Move Action : Move 6 squares
Standard Action : Entangling Force (burst 1 within 10) with +2 from Combat Advantage (dazed)
   43 vs Reflex
   Hit : 28 force damage. Until the end of my next turn, target is slowed, can't teleport, and provokes OAs when it shifts.
Status : +2 item bonus to AC and Reflex until start of my next turn (amulet)

Suddenly, the snake woman turns about and heads opposite from the direction it ran to. Now it was closer to its foes...

(OOC-16:52, Today: Gromley Underhill rolled 45 using 1d20+27 with rolls of 18. Betrayal vs will, 2 psi points.

Moves to its current position. No one for it to attack.)

Zog stays put and, hand crackling with familiar electricity, blasts the naga again...

STANDARD: Elemental Bolt w/Elemental Escalation, hits Reflex 43 for 50 hp. She has vulnerable 3 to my lightning attacks until EOMNT, if she makes it that long.
No movement or minor or such.

17:31, Today: Zog the Faceless rolled 42,8 using 2d12+35,2d10 with rolls of 1,6,4,4. ElemBolt damage.
17:31, Today: Zog the Faceless rolled 43 using 1d20+28 with rolls of 15. ElemBolt+ElemEsc on snake w/CA.

Harald swayed gently as a hissing melody played through his head.  Vaguely he noticed move away and equally vaguely he knew he should do something about it…if he only knew what!

In the dim recesses of his mind a power called to him – ‘Use me’ it seemed to say.

He wasn’t sure who or what it was but it seemed insistent – so he used it.

“Come awa’ o’er here ye big eejit!"  He yelled waving his axe.

And to his surprise the snake responded.  It slid through the water and onto the land, once more entering the flaming zone adjacent to the dwarf.

Almost absentmindedly he swung his axe, cleaving into the scaly hide.


Come and Get it: vs Will = 33
07:43, Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 48 using 1d20+30 with rolls of 18. Bennie re-roll vs the Naga.
Snake us pulled 2 squares towards Harald and takes 1W damage
(not sure if fire zone is still there or how much damage)


03:12, Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 33 using 1d20+30 with rolls of 3. Come and Get it vs snake.
03:20, Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 18 using 2d10+7 with rolls of 9,2. damage.

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Nemeroff keeps his eyes on the Snake and attack her on every of her moves. Then, he asks Harald to hit her.

Immediate Interrupt(Break the Tempo): MBA vs. Snake
Move: See map
Attack: Hit AC 41 for 25 hit points

OA: MBA vs. Snake
Attack: Miss AC 30

Standard: Commander's Strike vs. Snake
Effect: Harald makes an RBA vs. Snake
Harald's MBA vs. Snake: Hit AC 57(Crit) for 36 hit points(Add any bonus from Harald's weapon here)
Move: None
Minor: Sustain Break the Tempo

Harald's MBA Breakdown
+28 (Harald's Attack Bonus)
+8 (Commander's Strike)
+1 (Lend Might)
Total: +37

2d10+14 (Harald's Damage Bonuses)
+2 (Lend Strength)
Total: 2d10+16

Executing the "pound the snot out of the naga" maneuver expertly, the party combines to drive the life out of the snake woman with a dizzying array of attack as her flight is thwarted by Gromley's mind-trick.

The group finds a few odd things in nest of the naga on the far side, mostly bones of various humanoids and a chest. The party gets the chest open fairly easily and finds that it contains three platinum rings with inset diamonds (worth 7,500 gp each), seven 5000 gp jacinths, three golden monkey statuettes (worth 10,000 gp each), one 5000 gp ruby, three vials of an unidentified liquid that detects as pretty potent magic and 2,500 gp


What do you all do now? You can take a short rest with no difficulty, and you can choose the left or the right passageway to follow after you leave.

The right passageway is a bit trickier to work with as it is covered in 4' deep water.

Map: https://docs.google.com/drawin...Q50-wFOAK6P78Lk/edit

"So which way d'ye fancy, ma bonny lads" asked Harald?  "Ah dinnae fancy yon way" he said, pointing towards the deeper water.  "What aboot that way?" He pointed to the left and waited for an answer,


OOC: Harald does not really need a rest so he is ready to go whenever

   "Good job everyone. Is anyone hurt ?" Agon asked absently, as he peered intently at the vials they had found.

   "Dry is fine by me, Harald" he answered after a short glance both ways. "As long as no one suggests separating and exploring both."

a short rest is enough for Agon

In reply to Agon (msg # 256):

Gromley comes floating out of on his energy platform. He waves, and the chest floats itself onto his platform. "I don't understand why two demons, a troll, and a snake woman would keep all these valuables and not actually USE them. Maybe pick the place up a bit when they expect company." He chuckled.

He glanced down the right passage. "Well, unless we all want to get on my disk-and it will be crowded, we should head to the left..."


(OOC-Checking potions. 17:08, Today: Gromley Underhill rolled 42 using 1d20+24 with rolls of 18. Arcana on potions.)

"I need to rest a bit before we continue." he says.

"The left way works for me." he answers Harald's question.

I'm taking a short rest. Spending one surge to be back to full HP.
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Zog nods his agreement and slumps down by one cold wall.

Yepper, short rest for me, too.

The group moves further into this cave complex. They come up on a room soon. This room has a high, vaulted ceiling, and luminous lichen in the upper reaches illuminate crystalline stalactites, some more than five feet in diameter, hanging from the ceiling. The stalactites seem to catch and hold the light, glowing from within.

Before you and to the left is a cliff that rises about 30 feet along the left wall and 60 feet straight ahead of you, To the right is the lip of a clifftop. From your vantage point at the entrance, you can’t see how far down it goes.

You all hear movement within the room.

Map: https://docs.google.com/drawin...Q50-wFOAK6P78Lk/edit

Anyone with a Passive Perception of 25 has a rough idea of where the enemies are. You can't see any creatures yet, though.

Roll initiative!

Nemeroff stops when he notices some movement. He can't figure where they come from, but he stands ready for anything coming.

11:26, Today: Nemeroff rolled 16 using 1d20+14 with rolls of 2. Initiative.

This include my Warlord initiative bonus.

   As the group stopped, Agon began pointing in several directions, indicating potential threats. "They might have not noticed us yet" he whispered under his breath.

Initiative : 38 (crit), and P.P. 25 to notice the creatures.

"Aye!" whispered Harald, "wi' a bit o' luck we can get the drop on them."

His eyes pierce the gloom to where he notices something amiss.  His shield is held tight and his axe ready to cleave heads from bodies...or any other removable parts!



23:15, Today: Harald Gaptooth rolled 36 using 1d20+20 with rolls of 16. Initiative check inc Nemmy's +2.
Passive Perception 31