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[Lateral]

(1d20+14)[34]
(1d6+7)[12]

[Lateral]

(1d20+14)[16]

Hey, what do you know. It died.

[Jeff the Green]

ID: (1d20+22)[27] KD: (1d20+22)[33] So +4/+4

[Lateral]

They're celestial eagles.

[Lateral]

Crap, I forgot, there were supposed to be two more summons inside the pyrotechnics cloud, that you guys couldn't see, but I forgot about them when the cloud stopped existing. Probably won't change your move, but it's important.

[Jeff the Green]

Yeah, unless they're balors or something, 'Teia will still be targeting the ooze.

BTW, since 'Teia is going first this round, it might be a good idea to adjudicate her attacks before the others choose their actions so that if she dropped it they can focus on knocking off the summons.

[Lateral]

Lix, which attacks to which eagle? You can kill only one of them- whichever one takes two arrows.

[Lix Lorn]

The first and the third to one target, the second attack to the other eagle. Forgot to say in the post, but had thought about it xD

[Lateral]

North eagle or south eagle?

[Lix Lorn]

Uh. South.

[Postmodernist]

So we've killed the oozes, yeah? What's left? Should we expect a map update?

[Jeff the Green]

There's still an eagle and two other summons, I think.

[Lateral]

Originally Posted by Postmodernist

So we've killed the oozes, yeah? What's left? Should we expect a map update?

Given that the only enemies left have very obvious positions (two Huge north and south of Ek'ann, and one eagle north of 'Teia) and that by the end of this round, I think that most of them will be dead, I think I'm just going to wait for this round to end and use that time to work on the next map area.

[Jeff the Green]

Guessing those two other summoned creatures are outsiders. Knowledge (the planes) to identify: (1d20+17)[21]. Same if undead, elemental, aberration, or ooze;+5 if magical beasts; +7 if animal, giant, fey, monstrous humanoid, vermin, or plant.

[Lateral]

They're fiendish vipers.

[Lateral]

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[Postmodernist]

So the last thing is just a giant celestial eagle? Easy to drop, I imagine. We should have kept the summoning ooze alive as an infinite monster/XP machine.

[Lateral]

Originally Posted by Postmodernist

So the last thing is just a giant celestial eagle? Easy to drop, I imagine. We should have kept the summoning ooze alive as an infinite monster/XP machine.

It's got a HD cap per day. More importantly, summons do not provide XP.

Also, then I would have had it summon a balor and see what you guys would do about that.

[Jeff the Green]

Hey, Lateral, it would help if you'd label what the rolls are for and what exactly the monsters are doing. It makes it almost impossible to use immediate actions like Wall of Blades without knowing what each attack does.

Wall of Blades on the more damaging of the two attacks: (1d20+15)[25]

Edit: Here's an example of how I do it.

[Lateral]

Originally Posted by Jeff the Green

Hey, Lateral, it would help if you'd label what the rolls are for and what exactly the monsters are doing.

I do that on purpose, in order to make sure you guys don't know exactly which monsters put out what amounts of damage at what attack bonus.

It makes it almost impossible to use immediate actions like Wall of Blades without knowing what each attack does.

I can specify the damage for each individual attack rather than adding them up, if you'd prefer. Your Wall of Blades prevents four damage, so you take only three damage. Again, this is after your DR.

[Jeff the Green]

Originally Posted by Lateral

I do that on purpose, in order to make sure you guys don't know exactly which monsters put out what amounts of damage at what attack bonus.

Except that's something we should be able to know. We can tell how skilled or clumsy a combatant is and how much an individual wound hurts us, and we can recognize a bull rush or a trip or other combat maneuvers. Moreover, a lot of abilities assume you have that knowledge and are essentially useless without it.

[Lateral]

Originally Posted by Jeff the Green

Except that's something we should be able to know. We can tell how skilled or clumsy a combatant is and how much an individual wound hurts us, and we can recognize a bull rush or a trip or other combat maneuvers. Moreover, a lot of abilities assume you have that knowledge and are essentially useless without it.

Hmm, I suppose you're right. Okay, I'll specify from now on unless it's something your characters shouldn't know about.

[Lateral]

And here's its save:
(1d20+5)[17]

(It seems silly to use that, though, considering that Deep Slumber has a one-round casting time. Why not let someone else just kill it?)

[Jeff the Green]

It does? *checks* It does.

I'll let someone just whack it, then, if that's okay.

[Lateral]

Cool with me.

In fact, to save time, I'll just have Arapim do it.

[Postmodernist]

Originally Posted by Lateral

It's got a HD cap per day. More importantly, summons do not provide XP.

Also, then I would have had it summon a balor and see what you guys would do about that.

I was being facetious. As for the balor, I say we go for diplomacy rolls and make friends.

Originally Posted by Lateral

Hmm, I suppose you're right. Okay, I'll specify from now on unless it's something your characters shouldn't know about.

I approve of this development enormously.

[Lateral]

This is Arapim, jumping to reach the eagle which just so happens to be 15 feet up. Jump DC 28.

(1d20+16)[26]

Edit: Tch, no go. Postmodernist, wanna take a swing?

[Postmodernist]

Ek'ann can charge it, since Arapim seems to have missed the DC.

[Postmodernist]

So let's check out the loot. Usual procedure should be something like Arapim searches, we get a detect magic going, etc. We may need to figure out our plans for identification, etc.

What's the general loot stash look like, Lateral?

[Jeff the Green]

So, what do you mean "in a net"? I imagined it hanging from the ceiling, but I just realized that's probably not justified.