Hearing Call make a reasonable suggestion, Hemket heads back to where she is standing to wait. "Might want to call the pooch back Hadjii. "
"There's an invisible target on the tower." Logos says, fingering a chakram. "To fling or not fling?"
"Well I can't see him, or I'd shoot. Can't really help you there. Seems like a long way for a toss. "
Hadjii the semi-wolf will give a quick whistle to stop the buffed-up she-wolf, and call out in wolf-ese:
"Stay there, Sheeba! Just wait for a minute!"
then he'll start a full-round conjuration, swapping his prepared Call Lightning for Summon Nature's Ally III, planning to bring forth 1d3+2 small air elemental scouts next round.
The invisible man continues to watch the group ducking behind the wall.. There is no other apparent activity..
"Whatever, then just decide already, do you want to go now or later?? I strongly suggest later."
Logos shrugs. "Not that far, I can hit a target at that range fairly easy, up to 4 times that range without too much trouble. Beyond that, it's hit or miss..." He chuckles. "We can wait, I still think going in via the tower will bypass most of their defenses."
Hadjii finishes his conjuring, and small elementals appear: he speaks to them in Auran-ese:
"Please fly over that structure, my friends, and count the number of creatures you see. Take note of creatures that are larger or smaller than the size of my friends here..."
he motions to the party;
"...and in particular let me know if there are creatures bigger than my wolf companion over there..."
he indicates Sheeba;
"...and if you are attacked, please feel free to defend yourselves, of course!"
The elemental s take off at top speed, separating to get a better look at the whole place.. They report back in a few rounds..
"All see 1 very big lizard in yard.. Big than puppy.."
"What color is this great lizard, my friends? Also, does it have wings?"
"Dirt.. It looks like dirt.. Big wing.."
"Whatever. Let's freaking go already." Calla casts Mirror Image and then draws a scroll and casts Fly on Logos, good for 8 minutes. Then 5 Callas move with the others.
Calla will spend three Mythic points to grant everyone Resist Energy 30 against cold, lightning and acid. She gets ready to move with the group in formation. Logos up front with Sheeba, Hadjii providing aerial support, Maruis at the center of their pyramid and Calla and Hemket at the back. "Let's put those spells to good use. We don't stop until we have cleaned this place!"
Calla and Hemket (and maybe Marius) will start the battle with ranged attacks, damaging the winged monster as soon it shows itself up.
The arcanist will start with a Magic Missile spell, and if the thing comes flying up high, she will cast fly on Logos.
Logos looks at Calla, and growls under his breath. "Let's wait, don't be hasty... let's go now, go go go... And they call me Mad..."
He shakes his head, and takes off at a full run, straight line for the wall, his running speed being much higher than the flight speed. When he hits the wally, he runs up the wall of the tower.
Calla does not get offended, but rather defends her actions. "I'm a woman, I allowed to change my mind every other second."
to the elementals, in Auran:
"Please fly as quickly as you can to the top of that tower, and attack anything that appears there..."
the small elementals can move 400' by using the Run option.
calling to Sheeba, in wolf-ese:
"Move up and look over that wall, Sheeba -- then duck so you are not seen!"
Sheeba moves up and spider-climbs up the wall, just looking over for a moment, then ducking her head down and instinctively planning her move for next round.
Hadjii turns into an air elemental, and moves 50' west and 50' up. For his standard action, he'll use a Mythic Point to cast Animal Growth on Sheeba.
Hemket once again resumes moving towards the wall. As he cannot see a target, there's nothing else to be done.
Once he gets to the wall he will climb to the top and engage the big lizard thingy inside assuming it is hostile.
Within a matter of seconds the group descends on the outpost.. Logos see's the man move below into the tower.. The elementals get up there in time to see the trap door to the lower parts close.. Logos flies up above the wall and see's..
"A placid pond sits in the center of the courtyard, surrounded by several lush green palm trees and piles of bleached bones. Sunwarmed sand fills the rest of the courtyard. In the northwest corner, a stretch of blue-and-white striped canvas casts a patch of shade over a couple of wooden chairs beneath it. A rectangular building sits in the northeast corner, and a circular tower rises over the southeast corner."
Everyone else moves up to climb the wall.. Sheeba is up and over and see's the same thing as Logos.. There no obvious targets atm.. With spider climb up the rest of the group is over the wall moments later.
Sheeba sniffs a nearby fire hydrant -- it needs to be a huge fire hydrant (since Sheeba is currently huge)...
after giving folks a moment to peer into the water, the Hadj will use a Mythic Point to cast <Heavy Water> on it -- just on principle...
and he'll advise the party:
"I have made it very difficult to move into the water -- just in case! I recommend not diving in: this means you Logos!"
The water looks even more heavy than normal.. Hadjii notices the sand east of the water has been disturbed recently..
"Note taken. Now, let's not waste time!" She points to the tower and its door.
Only Hadjii has noticed the anomaly..
"I think there has been something moving in the sand recently, those may be track over there..."
maintaining 50' altitude, Hadjii will fly to where he can look straight down into the (now murky) pool:
and he'll call out what he sees.
Logos looks around outside the oasis...
As Hadjii moves over for a closer look at the water the sand stirs and out burst a large winged creature! It immediately breathes on the group! At the same time the door to the tower flies open but nothing is seen except for Logos..
The serpent looks like:
This sleek dragon has scales mottled in desert colors, lacks forelimbs, and sports massive wings on its lissome back.
A pair of creatures emerge.. This muscular giant has crimson skin, smoldering eyes, and small black horns. Smoke rises in curls from its flesh. Both carry flaming falchions..
Init Order:
Marius
Calla
Dont worry abt it for now..
Hemket
Hadjii
Logos
Dragon
Sheeba
Round 1
Marius and Calla are up.. Cant see anything past 5' though..
brilliant
"Ow! What the nine hells was that?"
He will then back away from the big critter until he can see for some distance.
Marius informs the group of the abilities of the creatures and then uses a mythic point to recast Haste on the group.
Calla reminds everyone that they have Resistance Lightning 30.
This is a desert drake, although not a normal one, it has resist elec, immune to paralysis and sleep, no slas.. Has a Breath weapon and powerful bite. This one has spell resistance as well..
Marius and Calla are still up..
Calla avoids most of the breath weapon, having only a few bruises that do not overcome her magic vigor, yet. She uses her supernatural speed granted by Marius and comes out of the smoke through the north, ending up behind some cover from the palm tree. From there she tests the creature's Spell Resistance with a Magic Missile.
"Maaaaaaagic Missile!"
Calla's missiles best the beast's resistance to magic..
-16
Logos see's the large red men quicken a spell and then charge him and Hemket.. Coming visible as they attack.. THe spells are scorching rays which cannot bypass the fire resist you have..
hit
hit
you soak the fire damage so im not rolling it..
same
Hemket
Hadjii
Logos
Dragon
Sheeba
are up!
Is the dust cloud still up so I can't see? I kind of need to know where it is, assuming it is still up since I backed out of it last round (which was hard to do since I didn't know the extent on the map).
Forgot about the dust cloud.. Its still up yes.. Black circle on the map now..
Cant find Hemket with movement to still attack so disregard..
still hits Logos..
I forgot the squares were 10' as well so Sheeba and Marius were not hit by the breath weapon..
OK, assumimg he double moved last round, he would still be slightly in the cloud and moving out of the back of it this round to where he can get a single shot at the drake.
studied target, deadly aim, haste
not optimistic about that shot.
misses anyways.
Total concealment negates AOOs. Partial does not.
If that is targeted on me, I don't see why I'm subject to any. Last round I backed up (and they had no idea where I was by the end of my movement). At the start of this round, I was in front of the wolf after bumping into it. Then this round I moved north to get clear of the dust cloud and took a single shot.
All good..
The arrow hits and does damage..
-35
Logos rages and attacks.
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Logos tears into the Efreet with claw and horn.. 1st claw hits but no confirm, 2nd claw misses, gore hits and confirms.. Its not intimidated though.. It is just barely left standing though..
-95
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