In the Jotens - Multiple Fronts - So many front - what is next?
Late Afternoon Starday, 8th day of Planting, 597
3rd day since leaving Loftwick
Qleceec (AC 1, HP 38[+9=47]/63) SH:21
Androgost (AC -6, HP 59/65, Armor 23/26)
Nah Olos (AC 4, HP 43/53)
Siouxsie (AC 2, HP 37/48)
Garrant (AC 8, HP 35/50)
Hex (AC 5, HP 14/27)
Raffi (AC -1, HP 21/21, Armor 8/8)
Boff (AC 5, HP 61/61)
Franny (AC 4, HP 26/26)
The winds continue to grow in strength moving a clockwise manner around Siouxsie. The winds have reached 15 MPH and the gas cloud is significantly weakened and moving screen left.
Moving generally from north to south this time. Franny is controlling Boff and her horse and is 30' off the map directly north of Hex. Boff is attempting to sneak through the woods attempting to get behind Yellow3.
(And yes, getting off the horse, giving the reins and sneaking 40+ feet is a full move.
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Similarly, Raffi is sneaking down the other side hoping to get a back-stab (butt stab) on the lion/dragon hybrid (Blue D).
Hex manages to cast a
Color Spray spell. He has some difficulty adjusting to not being able to hear, but gets the spell off. The
Color Spray knocks unconscious Blue 2 and Blue 3, but does not seem to affect the lion/dragon hybrid creature.
Siouxsie also has trouble, but manages to cast her
Entangle spell. It has the chance to Entangle five creatures (4 Shtelke and Boff!)
This will require another saving throw vs. Spells for Boff, this one will be at a +1 bonus. Yellow3 and Yellow6 are completely
UNaffected, Yellow4 will get 1/2 move as the vines try and stop her and Yellow5 is trapped at this time.
For the record, I am assuming that Siouxsie is not mounted. I cannot find mention of it otherwise the horse would have bolted at the roar last round so I am going with that.
Garrant casts a
Lightning Bolt to appear just in front of his riding horses head to attempt to kill the multi-headed dragon/lion hybrid. Garrant horse will not like that and bucks. Garrant will need to make a Riding Roll with a -4 penalty to either stay on the horse or gracefully be off it. If that fails or no riding prof. then a 5d6 DEX check to stay on the horse. The two headed creature takes the full damage of the lightning bolt. The LB burns a hole through the middle of the gas cloud.
Nah Olos takes a full two-handed swing but does not connect. Qleceec and Androgost are both a little more successful each landing two blows (including a Critical for Qleceec) and killing Red5 and Red4 respectively.
That takes it to Shtelke side of things.
The lion/dragon hybrid that let out the large roar, it tries to jump on and eat Hex. The creature attempts a claw/claw/bite attack hitting with a claw and the bite. Hex's armor, absorbs the first 8 points of damage, but then the illusion of his plate mail is dispelled. In addition, Hex takes 21-8 = 13 points of real damage. Hex is not a happy camper!
Yellow 3, Yellow 4 and Yellow 6 all exit the Entangle and try to eat Siouxsie (as in claw/claw/bite). Yellow 5 is trapped.
Please note that Yellow 4 was at 1/2 move in the Entangle, but only had to move 5 feet to get out. The Shtelke (Yellow 3) hits with a bite and claw, but the other two (Yellow 4 and Yellow 6) come up empty. Siouxsie takes 7 points of damage.
Blue 6 sees Raffi sneaking and flies over to attack the halfling thief. Raffi being a fast little creature under that illusionary plate mail avoids all of the attacks, but he does have the problem of seeing it face-to-face.
Garrant is in a bad place, his horse is not doing well and Yellow1 and Yellow2 for some reason both attack the scared horse

And with some karma, the one Critically hits the horse doing 9 points of damage, but the other completely misses -(including a fumble with no effect) - The horse is still alive!
And the two-headed hybrid roars from both heads and tries to claw / claw / bite / bite Garrant for give it that LB. Some how the hybrid only gets one hit in and that blinks out the Garrant's last mirror image.
The remaining Shtelke in HTH with the three fighters, seem to have resolve and continue to try to attack the trio. Red1 attacking Qleceec lands a serious claw and bite attack for 8 points of damage. Androgost with his seeming invulnerable armor takes no damage. Nah Olos has a tough round taking a claw from Red7 and a claw and bite from Red8 for a total of 10 HP damage.
And then to top it off the reinforcements that Garrant warned were coming finally appear. There are 5 more Shtelke and one more of the hybrids (like the one that is attacking Hex). They are able to move onto the board (the pink forces), but cannot attack this round. One moves to help kill Garrant, two more on Qleceec, the hybrid move to eat Nah Olos and two more Shtelke swing around the Entangle to do some more damage.
Will the reinforcements ever stop?
That takes it to the adventures turn again.

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