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I had actually envisioned this differently. Given the placement of the guards, my thought was to put Viales and Timidity in the AA-4 area and Nirili and Zandorian around W-18 (where you currently have Zandorian). The idea, I thought, at the time was to have the cultists see the guards before they saw us and then we'd close in behind them as they approached the tree.

But, given that Viales intends to hit them with a spell before the cultists get to the tree, this placement is acceptable to me.

Charon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 2:54 pm I am assuming Nirili would wait for Viales to do his thing, essentially delaying her initiative to after he acts?

If this is correct, this will mean we open with a surprise round (a single action) from Viales, then Nirili.

Correct.

Grodech. It's not too late to reposition slightly. If I understand what you're saying, the intention was something along the lines of:
Zandorian: X18
Nirili: Z17
Viales: X15
Timidity: Z13

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More along the lines of:
Zandorian: X18
Nirili: Z17
Viales: Z4
Timidity: AB5

That way there'd be an open gap for them to get through and see the guards possibly before they realized the other 4 were there. But like I said, Viale's plan makes that kind of moot if he's going to fire off a spell when they're 40 ft out from him.

Sorry, things have been a bit hectic.

I'm envisioning the grouping to be a fair bit tighter than the preliminary map.

Viales at V11
Timidity at W10
Nirili at W17
Zandorian at W18

Like this?

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I adjusted Nirili slightly as she's not really behind a tree if she's in W17.

That'll do, laddie. That'll do.

Putting this here for reference.

Need to check Timidity's spells for her turn, I think she would cast something.

Also need to read up on Zandorian's stuff as well, what can be deployed or drank.

Zandorian's stuff is kinda weird. I think with his Swashbuckler's Initiative, he gets another +2 to init since he hasn't used any panache points yet.

Ah yes, good point. I've amended my post

Are we still operating under I'm controlling Zandorian and you are controlling Timidity?

Correct. I merely rolled both for quickness, but feel free to replace my roll with yours

Nope - that's fine. I just wanted to verify.

If you guys can just confirm if you can both see this:

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I can see it fine although it took about 5 seconds to load in.

I had to refresh the page a couple of times, but it finally came up.

Ok. We'll try it for now, but if you continue to have loading problems Grodech I can look for somewhere else.

I've not had chance to look at Timidity's action list yet, this week is big bad deadline for work. I'll post tomorrow once I've ruminated

Regarding the outages. The web provider thinks this was a problem with firewalls that has now hopefully been resolved. Please keep me informed of any other outages or timeouts.

Charon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 05, 2025 4:00 pm Regarding the outages. The web provider thinks this was a problem with firewalls that has now hopefully been resolved. Please keep me informed of any other outages or timeouts.

I hadn't checked over the weekend, so didn't see any issues.

Zandorian is looking worse for wear over there. Timidity can get there in time for a heal burst, even with a double move. Viales only has Stonecall at range, which would do 2d6 bludgeoning damage to C7 if aimed right, but nothing about the mirror images as they remain unaffected.

Another option is Viales could engage C4 to free Nirilli up to move (could use Shocking Grasp).

Yeah, he probably won't last much longer without any healing. I think Viales should worry about taking out that devil 1st though.

We've got a choice here Grodech. Timidity has one level 3 spell left. She could attempt a Dispel Magic on the wizard to remove one of the effects (namely fly), or do a mass heal again. I'm erring towards the heal, but thought I'd open the floor.

Her last heal pretty much got wiped out by that last attack that hit Nirili. If I could just hit this MFer, we'd be in better shape

I'm wishing Nirili hadn't dropped her bow...

The mass heal has a tangible effect, the dispels haven't really worked so far.

Yeah I'm wishing Viales had prepped Magic Missile XD

Heal it is, I'll post shortly