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R4T15: Altering his stance to listen to untold instincts, it is at this point in Xhanfaerd's career that he discovers that he can't really enter or maintain a stance (at least not this one) while in the awkwardness of a climb. So, he continues climbing, getting to a height of 30', midway between the two tiers.

R4T12: Red screeches horrifically, then throws two rocks at Gelik. One hits him in the chest for 6, but his armor barely stops the second.

R4T10: Tor-ber pulls the Bumble off the wall and brings him around. Despite the Bumble's best efforts, he cannot keep from being thrown off the ziggurat, and he is too big to land on Tier #1. So, Tor-ber proves that .... Bumbles bounce as it hits Tier #1 and then down to the bottom, having taken a total of 12 from the throw, and now prone on the ground.

R4T3: Blue screeches as well and throws two rocks at Gelik, with only one bouncing off the gnome's armor.

End Round 4, Begin Round 5 ...

R5T29: Fronaldo, what do you do? You are standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). Because of the nature in which the Bumble was hauled off the ziggurat, you did not get an AOO against it. It is now prone on the ground at the base of the ziggurat.

Pim on deck, Bumble below ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
POSITIONING: Tor-ber ... Fro... ... Pim .... Aron ... Xhanfaerd.
Fronaldo: 29. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude).
Pim: 22. He is at 20' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22.
Paleflesh: 19. (60:112). Prone on ground, 5' offline to "west". 3 BLEED!!! MISFORTUNE til R5T22!!!
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. 30' altitude, 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2). GRAPPLING bumble, 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R5T29: Fronaldo shakes his head in wonder at Tor-ber’s feat of skill and strength.

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OMG! LOL! I was TOTALLY going to punk you by adjusting to "Fronaldo shakes his head three times" and then in spoilers mention that each head shake was a "word" and you are limited to 3 out-of-turn (or in prep for delay). Well done in beating me to it. LOL!

R5T22: Pim grins as he notices the bumble go bouncing down out of the corner of his peripheral vision, as if his face gleefully says “I told you so, bumble.”

“Now for my dramatic exit,” Pim orates, as he casts spider climb on himself and moves hastily 35 feet straight up the structure away from the bumble. It would have been 40', but it seems that Pim stops mid-climb at the end of it all as he is looking up at two charau-ka in their midst of their shrieking fury looking right down at him. Gelik is 5' vertically above, but 10' laterally from Pim, and he is standing on the air.

R5T19: The bumble takes 3 bleed and stands on its feet woozily.

R5T18: Gelik, you now have a friend up here, as Pim obviously has his spider climb running. He is at the lip of the top of the ziggurat, with two shrieking charau-ka looking down at him (and at you). Pim is 10' from you laterally, with the charau-ka another 5' past that. What do you do?

Aron on deck, Xhanfaerd in the hole, Fronaldo delaying ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
POSITIONING: Tor-ber ... Fro... ... Pim .... Aron ... Xhanfaerd.
Fronaldo: 29. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). DELAYING!!!
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Paleflesh: 19. (57:112). One the ground, 5' offline to "west". 3 BLEED!!! MISFORTUNE til R5T22!!! STAGGERED til R14T22!!!
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. 30' altitude, 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2). GRAPPLING bumble, 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R5T18: Gelik will move another 5' away from the rock chucking simians because obviously, he hadn't moved far enough the first time before speaking. "Ha! Now you are in for it, my furry little beasties! My comrade here brings the strength and brutality needed to deal with you and your ilk! Prepare to end in a most horrific and gruesome manner..." and he continues his glorious oration.

R5T17: Snapping out of his amazement, Fronaldo quickly mixed alchemical components and adds a dash of his own magic to apply a sticky purple goo to his dagger.

R5T16: Aron casts a spell. Just below the first tier, a monstrous green dragon is created, far larger than the Bumble happens to be. It gives a terrifying roar and seems to threaten, even dare, the Bumble.

R5T15: Xhanfaerd, you are mid-climb at 30'. What do you do?

Red on deck, Tor-ber in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Paleflesh: 19. (57:112). One the ground, 5' offline to "west". 3 BLEED!!! MISFORTUNE til R5T22!!! STAGGERED til R14T22!!!
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 29. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. 30' altitude, 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2). GRAPPLING bumble, 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R5T15: Xhanfaerd keeps climbing, trying to find a place where he won't risk getting clawed, and once on stable footing at Tier #2 (40' altitude), he finally takes out his earthbreaker.

R5T12: Red is in a shrieking frenzy, and throws rocks down at Pim. His first rock hits Pim in his lower arm with a light crit for 7, and then another at his back for 6.

R5T10: Tor-ber concentrates while he has a breath, and a shimmering appears briefly around him to say that he has just strengthened his armor. He then does an accelerated climb, moving well to the side and finishing his movement at the top of the ziggurat next to red, who tried to bite at him as he came over the top but overthought it and failed badly.

R5T3: Blue (looming directly over Pim) tries to throw rocks at the gnome, but one misses and the other is deflected by the defending deck.

End Round 5, Begin Round 6 ...

R6T22: Pim, you are climbing and touching the top edge of the ziggurat. What do you do?

Bumble on deck, Gelik in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Paleflesh: 19. (57:112). One the ground, 5' offline to "west". 3 BLEED!!! MISFORTUNE til R5T22!!! STAGGERED til R14T22!!!
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 29. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line. Earthbreaker in hand.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12.
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2), 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R6T22: ”Oooh,” Pim emotes, ”Gelik, I’m feeling like a double curse card celebration!” He jokes, as he pulls a card from his deck, and holds it up to his face. He then uses his fingers to separate two cards apart which were stacked up to look like one. With a panache, he flings only one of cards at the closest Charu-ka (blue, who snaps at Pim with his jaws), which spark with arcane energy before it lacerates the beast for 4 while Pim realizes it is not as easy to do a double attack while still climbing, even with spider climb active.

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Spider climb still requires hands used to climb just like any normal climb, and if you were reading previous notes, you are still "climbing" even if you Climb 0' of distance to go one-handed to do one-handed activities. So you spent a MA to climb, and then a SA to attack with a single card.

R619: Well below that battle, the Bumble bleeds 3, and then staggers off from the ziggurat (40') and into the cover of jungle growth ... likely to die of its bleeding wounds.

R6T18: Gelik, you inspiration doubled Pim's damage on his single card toss, though you aren't sure what he meant by a "double curse card celebration." What do you do?

Fronaldo on deck, Aron in the hole...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 29. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line. Earthbreaker in hand.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12.
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2), 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (26:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R6T18: Gelik continues his inspirational speechifying, holding his position in the air.

R6T17: Fronaldo dismisses the Bumble and turns his attention to attackers above. He climbs quickly to the top of the Ziggurat, but in getting there he realizes he has to drop down to some stairs leading up to the ziggurat and his entire time is spent getting into position.

R6T16: Aron ceases concentrating on the illusion of the green dragon (it is still there). Aron levitates up 20' to be on the level of the ziggurat (but 15' away) and right next to Gelik. She uses her whip and trips red!

R6T15: Xhanfaerd, you are at 40' altitude, 10' offset from what was the original "vertical line" with earthbreaker in hand. What do you do?

Red on deck, Tor-ber in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude, now 10' laterally from Paleflesh. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. Standing on Tier #2 (40' altitude). INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line. Earthbreaker in hand.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (30:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12. PRONE!!!
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. 40' (Tier #2), 5' offset from vertical line.
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (26:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R6T15: Xhanfaerd grumbles as he "sheathes" his earthbreaker to climb the remaining part of the ziggurat. He climbs up 15' so that he is now right near the top of the ziggurat, and Tor-ber is directly above him, and a prone charau-ka (red) is cattie-corner to him.

R6T12: Red gets up, but not before Tor-ber kicks him for 10. It then gnaws ferociously at Tor-ber, nearly getting past his armor.

R6T10: Tor-ber is just fine working with his current insight and then grapples the charau-ka.

R6T3: In its shrieking frenzy, Blue takes out its club and tries to hit Fronaldo, who in turn artfully dodges.

End Round 6, Begin Round 7 ...

R7T22: Pim, the area directly above you has all sorts of bodies, and not an easy place to go. You did see that where Fronaldo went, he seemed to climb "down" and you no longer see him, telling you that if you tried to go that way, you would be heading down as well (and don't know where you can go). So, if you are going to move, your best bet is to move (relative) west to get past Tor-ber to be able to get a safe spot to stand. Meanwhile, as you were last one-handing it, your tossed card returns to your hand, but you (needing a hand free to catch a card), end up dropping the extra card that was in your hand .... which flutters down to the 2nd tier below you. What do you do?

Gelik on deck, Fronaldo in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. He is at 55' altitude. Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 40' altitude, but in air 10' from Tier #2.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (20:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber!
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. GRAPPLING Red!
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (26:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3.

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R7T22: Pim begins to climb down to retrieve his card, but not before nips his hand for 4. He clambers down to Tier #2 and picks up his card.

R7T18: Gelik, what do you do?

Fronaldo on deck, Aron in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
INSPIRE COURAGE (Pim): +2 morale bonus saves vs charm and fear effects, and +2 competence on attack and weapon damage rolls.
Pim: 22. 40' altitude (Tier #2).Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 60' altitude.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (20:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber!
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. GRAPPLING Red!
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (26:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3. AOO used.

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R7T18: Gelik lets loose with a tongue lashing so severe, his ally's ears burn... but the monkeys do not understand Gelik's Taldane (his default, since language wasn't identified), and what could have been sick burns (literally) mean nothing to the shrieking charau-ka. Gelik also stopped his inspirational oration.

R7T17: Fronaldo, what do you do? You are right next to blue charau-ka, and you have your INT poison on your dagger.

Aron on deck, Xhanfaerd in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
Pim: 22. 40' altitude (Tier #2).Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. INT arcanotoxin applied to dagger.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 60' altitude.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (20:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber!
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. GRAPPLING Red!
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (26:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T3. AOO used.

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R7T17: With a flourish, Fronaldo fakes a slash at the creature’s face but instead drops low for a strike at its vitals. Its arm instinctively tries to block, but that just has Fronaldo's dagger sticking right through its lower brachial artery and then pinned into its intercostal muscles and lungs for 32 (+ poison), and the charau-ka instantly drops.

R7T16: Aron casts CLW and touches Gelik for 9 healing. (The green dragon is still down there.)

R7T15: Xhanfaerd, what do you do? You are right near the top of the ziggurat, and Tor-ber is directly above you, and a prone charau-ka (red) is cattie-corner to you.

Red charau-ka on deck, Tor-ber in the hole ...

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Haste for all heroes (except Gelik): +30' base speed, +1 dodge AC, +1 Ref save, +1 attk rolls, +1 extra attack in FAA. til R7T15.
Pim: 22. 40' altitude (Tier #2).Deck has *defending* property til R12T22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18. 55' altitude, 15' distant from tier. Inspire Courage!
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes.
Aron: 16. Levitate. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). She is at 60' altitude.
Xhanfaerd: 15. Tier #2 (40' altitude), 10' offset to east of vertical line.
Charau-ka (red): 12. (20:30). Shrieking frenzy til R7T12. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber!
* Overthink It:Your target's armor and natural armor bonuses are doubled against you for until R8T10.
Tor-ber: 10. GRAPPLING Red!
Charau-ka (blue): 3. (-6:30). DYING!!!

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R7T15: Everyone feels the power of the haste dissipate as its duration lapses. Xhanfaerd goes to the closest place of stable footing in melee range of the charau-ka, taking out his earth-breaker as he goes. He gets around to the side and brings the earth-breaker down on the charau-ka's foot for 18.

R7T12: Red ceases it's shrieking frenzy, and seems a little tuckered by all of his frenetic activity. It fails to escape the grapple.

R7T10: Tor-ber does a super-shake of red, killing it, and then tossing it off the ziggurat.

The same treatment is done for the other dying one.

Combat Ends ...

The party waits for Pim to make it to the top, and Aron gets Gelik's help to "push" her towards the ziggurat while she is also being pulled in by Tor-ber when she sends his whip to him.

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Pim: 22. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Gelik: 18.
Fronaldo: 17. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes.
Aron: 16. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 15.
Tor-ber: 10.

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Fronaldo strolls right up to a spot where he looks south to find charau-ka! But his senses are such that he was aware of them. When they see him, they give a loud shriek of challenge!

Round One Begins ...

R1T24: Gelik, you hear the tell-tale shrieking of a nest of charau-ka that Fronaldo just kicked over.

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Gelik: 24.
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 17.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Red: 11. (30:30).
Brown: 8. (30:30).
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30).
Blue: 3. (30:30).

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R1T24: Why he would ever find himself going towards such hideous sounds, Gelik will never understand. However, he heads north and then west. "My friends! Fear not! We have the strength of training, experience, and wisdom to face down foes of any size or shape..." and he continues.

R1T18: Aron does a double move, drawing her whip as she goes. She passes Gelik, and seeing the way the sun comes in continues until the edge where she has to turn south and then come at the charau-ka from a much-larger opening than the one Fronaldo is standing in front of.

R1T17: Xhanfaerd, what do you do?

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 17.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Red: 11. (30:30).
Brown: 8. (30:30).
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30).
Blue: 3. (30:30).

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R1T17: Readying his mind, Xhanfaerd advances to get closer to the action. He gets right up to Fronaldo, but doesn't see anything.

R1T16: Fronaldo, what do you do? You see four charau-ka. You could stick your hand in and attack red (cover bonus), but would have to squeeze to get in through this way, or move around to where Aron is to enter through the larger break into this chamber.

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Red: 11. (30:30).
Brown: 8. (30:30).
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30).
Blue: 3. (30:30).

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R1T16:

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“There are four Charu-ka in this room. Xhan maybe cover this opening.”

The roguish goblin drops his tool kit and draws his dagger on the move west to Aron’s position, moving in front of her. He draws a second dagger from his bandolier.

R111: Pim, a super-gnome's job is never done. What do you do?

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour.
Red: 10. (30:30).
Brown: 8. (30:30).
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30).
Blue: 3. (30:30).

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R1T11-10.9: Pim, expecting action at any moment is almost relieved with their near silent exploration ends, and the familiar sounds of charau-ka begin. Pim, without much flair, readies a card, which begins his defending property, as is typical for his first action lately. With a quick thought, he decides that he doesn't have visuals on the enemy, so it is best to send in a summon first. He tosses the card in his hand onto the floor in front of him, aiming for the summon to appear where it lands on the strange circular pattern in the room nearest him. Not sure if that circle is dangerous, Pim expects his summon to become attacked if there is a trap. It doesn't appear to be, so Pim shouts, "Go west! Attack apes.

Then he quickly draws two more cardsi (WIS/CHA), and takes a peek at them as their energy automatically transfers over to the hawk summon. Then, Pim walks forward to stand over Fronaldo's dropped tools, and sees the charau-ka to the south. The hawk is heard screeching.

R1T10-8: Red and brown begins their screeching fury, and throws two rocks apiece at Fronaldo.

R1T7: Tor-ber hustles to the northwestern ledge of the tier, dust crumbling from the edge to fall below. "Hey, Pim! Your bird is still in that room!"

R1T4-3: Green and blue then enter their shrieking fury. Green cuts off brown and throws rocks at Fronaldo. Blue throws rocks through the aperture at Pim.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T24: Gelik, you are inspiring courage right now, though your party members are distant and might not be getting the benefits of your brilliant extempore. What do you do?

Aron on deck, Xhanfaerd in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection).
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10.
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8.
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.

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R2T24: Gelik will continue to be inspirational and move closer to those in most need of said inspiration!

R2T18: Aron casts a spell on herself so lots of motes of light float all about her, confusing would be rock-tossers. She then just goes heedlesly in, using brilliant acrobatics to get past the bites of the monkey-men, and grabbing her short sword out as she goes.

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"They seem to prefer throwing over biting or clubbing, so get toe-to-toe with them."

R2T17: Xhanfaerd, what do you do? You'll have to go west and south to get to the charau-ka, as the little opening in the wall isn't enough to squeeze through.

Fronaldo on deck, Pim in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10.
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8.
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.

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R2T17: Weapon in hand, Xhanfaerd moves further toward the apes, making sure to stick to a stance appropriate for the situation. He gets right up to to the first (blue) and konks it upside the head for 26. It's doubt is great, as evinced by the fact that it vomits all over Xhanfaerd with horrible-smelling, breen-brown bile. The one closest to the party (red) likewise retches, projectile vomiting on Fronaldo and Pim.

R2T16: Fronaldo, you are now dripping in exectorated monkey retch (from red). What do you do?

Pim on deck, Dark Hawk in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!!
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8.
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!!

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R2T16: Grimacing in disgust, Fronaldo skips forward between two Charau-ka and his small daggers flash quickly out at both opponents in a dizzying display. Neither are sure whom he is attacking, so red is surprised when Fronaldo's dagger dips low and behind his left knee to cut those tendons for 29 + hampered.

R2T11: Pim, you don't see your dark hawk anywhere. What do you do?

Dark Hawk on deck, Red in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (1:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! HAMPERED til R3T16! BLEED 3!!!
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8.
Tor-ber: 7.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!!

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R2T11: Pim will look into the room and focus on the charau-ka closest to him. He points and begins cursing the monkey with the evil eye.

Noticing that the rooms are not connected, Pim steps carefully away from the doorway to allow the bird some room. He whistles, and says "Full speed to me!" towards the birds direction. He then watches the bird as it travels back the right way, and points towards the charau-ka right in the door way and adds, "Attack that one."

The dark hawk slashes open the throat of the charau-ka with a crit for 6, dropping the little monster.

R2T8: Shrieking brown moves a little and throws rocks at Aron, but its aggression is so frenetic that its guard is lowered.

R2T7: Tor-ber enters his dragon style and enters the semi-opened chamber to then to the far side. He gathers up his energy in a ball of cold and then lashes out at blue with a palm strike to its chest for 10 cold and dropping it. Motes of multi-colored and sparkling snowflakes fall to the ground around Tor-ber before disappearing.

R2T4: Green throws a rock that hits Tor-ber in the chest with a crit for 7, though its follow-up bounces of of the half-orc's psionic protection.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T24: Gelik, you are still inspiring your fellows, but you don't have your eye on the battle. What do you do?

Aron on deck, Xhanfaerd in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (-5:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! HAMPERED til R3T16! BLEED 3+1d4!!! -2 AC til R3T11!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (-7:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! DYING!!!

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R3T24: Gelik, continuing his rousing oration, continues west and south around the corner so that he can see that everyone can see him. I mean, everyone could hear him, but he needs the validation that comes with showing hos impressive his histrionics are.

R3T18: Aron steps south to thrust hard at brown, but that one easily ducks out of the way.

R3T17: Xhanfaerd, what do you do?

Fronaldo on deck, Pim in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (-5:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! HAMPERED til R3T16! BLEED 3+1d4!!! -2 AC til R3T11!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style.
Green: 4. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (-7:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! DYING!!!

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R3T17: His hammer shining with a silvery light as he turns toward the closest charau-ka, Xhanfaerd re-focuses his power, steps forward and slams his earthbreaker into Green's shin for 25. Meanwhile, Tor-ber's wound fully closes.

R3T16: Fronaldo, what do you do?

Pim on deck, Dark Hawk in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (-5:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! HAMPERED til R3T16! BLEED 3+1d4!!! -2 AC til R3T11!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (30:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style.
Green: 4. (3:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (-7:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! DYING!!!

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R3T16: Fronaldo, covered in monkey-man vomit, skips to the south tumbling past one Charau-ka and attacking another with a quick thrust of his dagger to the charau-ka's chest for 14.

R3T11: Pim, what do you do?

Dark Hawk on deck, Brown in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5).
Red: 10. (-5:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! HAMPERED til R3T16! BLEED 3+1d4!!! -2 AC til R3T11!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (16:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style.
Green: 4. (3:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4.
Blue: 3. (-7:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! DYING!!!

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R3T11: Wiping some of the charau-ka lunch off of his face, Pim will walk into the room, and get a look at the nearest living enemy. He will direct the bird in the same manner, telling it to go attack. Meanwhile, he will give the same remaining enemy some sass. "This reminds me of that crazy weekend at the vomitorium!"

His intent glare curses the (green) charau-ka with a debuff to its accuracy.

R3T10.9: The dark hawk flies up a little for a height advantage and screeches as it nips at the charau-ka, biting it in the neck for 6 and dropping the charau-ka.

R3T10: Red has blood squirting and spurting from its fallen form, dousing Tor-ber with its spray.

R3T8: Brown, the last of them, swings and bites valiantly at Fronaldo, but it is not nearly enough.

R3T7: Tor-ber stalks down to the last charau-ka and grapples it!

End Round 3, Begin Round 4 ...

R4T24: Gelik, what do you do?

Aron on deck, Xhanfaerd in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5). 5' above ground.
Red: 10. (-12:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! BLEED 3+1d4!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (16:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style. GRAPPLING Brown.
Green: 4. (-4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. -2 penalty to attacks til R7T11. DYING!!!
Blue: 3. (-8:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. DYING!!!

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R4T24: Gelik, seeing the monkey is well in hand, lends some further inspiring words to help wrap things up.

R4T18: Aron stabs at the grappled monkey-man, but his thrashing about makes him hard to hit.

R4T17: Xhanfaerd, what do you do?

Fronaldo on deck, Pim in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5). 5' above ground.
Red: 10. (-12:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! BLEED 3+1d4!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (16:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style. GRAPPLING Brown.
Green: 4. (-4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. -2 penalty to attacks til R7T11. DYING!!!
Blue: 3. (-8:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. DYING!!!

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R4T17: Taking some time for materialistic self analysis as he advances toward the last one, Xhanfaerd hits the charau-ka, aiming at his harmonic center and doing 16, disabling it! "Is this the last one?"

R4T16: Fronaldo, disabled doesn't mean "down," just barely there. So, Brown - grappled by Tor-ber - is still conscious and screeching.

Pim on deck, Dark Hawk in the hole ...

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +1 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5). 5' above ground.
Red: 10. (-12:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! BLEED 3+1d4!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (0:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style. GRAPPLING Brown.
Green: 4. (-4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. -2 penalty to attacks til R7T11. DYING!!!
Blue: 3. (-8:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. DYING!!!

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R4T16: Fronaldo dispassionately dispatches the dastardly jungle denizen with a pair duet of daggers. But there are times when chemical mixtures (vomit, blood, sweat), the heat and humidity of a jungle, and operating a literally dizzying speeds combine to really confuse a person. Fronaldo's first dagger whizzes past the held opponent. It is only by the strangest chance that as Fronaldo blacks out as he seems to rage that he actually attacks the right target ... eviscerating the goblin in a spray of blood. Unfortunately, the force of the blow and slipperiness of the blood is enough that Fronaldo loses his grip on his dagger!

Combat Ends ...

It is assumed that the party CDGs the charau-ka.

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INSPIRE COURAGE: +2 weapon attack/ damage, +1 saves vs. fear. ZEAL: +2 to attack rolls til R4T17.
Gelik: 24. Inspire Courage!
Aron: 18. Shield of faith (+3 deflection). Entropic shield.
Xhanfaerd: 17. Biokinetic adept active. Silver crane waltz.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 60 minutes. 2 daggers in hand. TWF, RS. CONFUSED til next round!
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 1 hour. Defending property on cards til R11T11.
* Dark Hawk: 10.9. (5:5). 5' above ground.
Red: 10. (-12:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T10. NAUSEATED til R3T17!!! BLEED 3+1d4!!! DYING!!!
Brown: 8. (0:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T8. Suffer -2 penalty to AC til R5T8. GRAPPLED by Tor-ber.
Tor-ber: 7. Dragon Style. GRAPPLING Brown.
Green: 4. (-4:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. -2 penalty to attacks til R7T11. DYING!!!
Blue: 3. (-8:30). Shrieking Fury til R4T4. DYING!!!

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Gelik: 24.
Aron: 18.
Xhanfaerd: 17.
Fronaldo: 16. DEX mutagen will last for 13 minutes.
Pim: 11. Spider climb for 15 minutes.
Tor-ber: 7.

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Xhanfaerd: 24. Heroism (skills not updated) remaining 30 minutes.
Pim: 24.
Tor-ber: 17.
Gelik: 16. Heroism (skills not updated) remaining 30 minutes.
Issilar: 13. Blur, cat's grace and mirror image (3 images) active. Spider climb. Protection from arrows: DR 10 vs. ranged weapons (100 pts. protection).
* Protection from energy [fire] will provide immunity to fire for up to 110 fire damage.
Fronaldo: 12. Held for another 11 rounds.
Zsahtlihill: 12.
Aron: 8.

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R1T24: Xhanfaerd, you are riding high on hero-juice (heroism), and you are the first to be able to respond to Fronaldo's distress signal on your frequency. You are the only Federation Magaambyan arcanist in the quadrant. What do you do?

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Xhanfaerd: 24. Heroism (skills not updated) remaining 30 minutes.
Pim: 23.
Tor-ber: 17.
Gelik: 16. Heroism (skills not updated) remaining 30 minutes.
Issilar: 13. Blur, cat's grace and mirror image (3 images) active. Spider climb. Protection from arrows: DR 10 vs. ranged weapons (100 pts. protection).
* Protection from energy [fire] will provide immunity to fire for up to 110 fire damage.
Fronaldo: 12. Held for another 11 rounds.
Zsahtlihill: 11.
Aron: 8.