..I would have rather have liked it if George attacked the Fire Elemental near me instead of the Earth Elemental. Sariel would have been able to deal with it so we wouldn't have to deal with it's difficult terrain.

>>634
It's still possible to get around the difficult terrain without going out of your way to do so.

>>635
well, point being, that unless the fire or ice things were neutralized (which we can't really afford to right now) We have to sort of funnel ourselves through the space between the ice and fire through the earth difficult terrain.

Is that fire elemental hiding in the blind spot in front of us? It doesn't create any light around it?

>>636
Ah, I didn't notice that part.

>>637
We don't have line of sight to it anymore.

>>637
It's not that it's dark, it's just the wall is plain blocking your line-of-sight to it. If you mean the eastern fire minion, that is.

>>640
Yeah, logically that's what I thought George would do too, but..

>>641
Well, the little bit of extra difficult terrain is annoying, but aside from that, it's not much different. Bern can hit the fire elemental with Thunder Bear's Warding, or you can try and RBA it on your turn, and navigating carefully leaves only 1 square of difficult terrain to reach the other end.

>>642
Using an encounter power on a single minion, though...

>>643
Well, that's so she doesn't have to move her spirit companion near enough to it. Anyway, the damage resistance it provides could prove useful against Sureiya's ongoing fire damage, and anyone else who moves through the fire next to Bern's spirit companion (it would reduce the fire damage from 5 to 2).

One question.
Imagine that bastard fire elemental is preparing a charge (from the distance he was I believe he can't but for this example let's say he does)
Sariel is preparing an attack to that fire elemental.
Let's say I double move to 44-M. What would happen to my move if I triggered the fire elemental charge?

>>645
Depending on the fire minion's path, it would make it to M-46 at the most before it triggered Sariel's readied action, which would have to be resolved before its charge could finish.

I see, then you can actually trigger to triggered actions. I wonder if monsters would understand such a thing~

Unlimited Rolling 1's on Save works.

>>649
I could make a heal check on my turn if nothing else threatens us before then.

inb4 on fire throughout boss fight.

You know, I am also still on fire~

I was tempted to make a comment about Stop, Drop, and Roll to get rid of the fire if it actually helped, and that it would be hilarious to see half the party go prone and roll around.

>>654
The same idea, huh.

Oooo, I can finally reveal "that."

>>657
Trust me, I have wanted to see that evil thing from a long time ago.
also
>healthy girl.jpg

... shit just got real

>tons more save effects
I know what Feat I'm getting next level.

>>666
Resilient focus?

>>666
>not realizing my post was 666
FFFFFFFFFFF

Hmmm, rolling the saving throw for Bernkastel was silly given that it's her turn now anyway. Oh well, I guess she'll be happy anyway since it succeeded.

>>670
The dice roller sometimes likes to screw with us, so it's nice when something important works.

All that advancement and repositioning wasted...

>>686
Dwarves have it somewhat rough with their slow speed no matter what kind of armor they're wearing, which makes it hard to get into the fray quickly--but other defenders still wish they were dwarves whenever they face forced movement and prone conditions.

>>686
I'm timing my strike for the moment it reduces it's aura again, if I can reach over there in time.

>>687
I'm more upset that everything elites, solos, and controllers use against me targets my reflex defense, and all the effects they use disable my movement.

>>689
Well, THAT attack was against your Fortitude (it was a 19 on the attack roll). I would say a good majority of the attacks that induce forced movement and the prone condition are against Fortitude.

>>690
...Huh.

The thing about disruptive strike there is... technically, you probably should be able to use it, but it's a "No Action" attack so I didn't even think about it. On the one hand, it makes sense as the sort of thing you wouldn't be able to respond to since the attack roll is mostly just for convenience more than actually the elemental making an attack, but I can't find anything in the books specifically about how "No Action" attacks are handled, so... I'll have to think about how I want to handle that kind of thing in the future, sorry about this time.

>>703
It's alright, in the end is your own judgement what decide.

I have to go to class very soon so I probably won't have time for an update, but expect one much later tonight.

alright~

By the way, you don't need to wait on an update to post if you already take into account Michael's new position~

>>711
George isn't here, though.

One quick reminder: that last encounter marks the 2nd you've done without an extended rest, so it's a milestone. Everyone gets an action point.

Allow me to explain what's coming up. What follows is a skill challenge--but not like the skill challenges you've faced so far. You won't step into the next room, see a puzzle, get a list of skills and DCs to make, and start making a bunch of checks in initiative order.

Rather, this will be a more RP-intensive encounter--I've titled it "Exploring the Cavern." I won't be drawing maps, I'll just be describing the areas you enter via text. You'll be moving through the cavern, examining things, and generally finding out what's going on down here. At times, I'll ask you to make some checks--there could be both primary checks (which directly contribute to the success/failure rate of the skill challenge), or secondary checks, which provide bonuses to the primary checks.

Success in the skill challenge means you have enough lucky breaks to find something useful, some boon. Failure means you could stumble into some sort of deadly trap, or combat. Good luck!

>>746
A text adventure?

>>746

Sounds fun, ne~

>>746
What Astaroth said. This next one sounds interesting though, nice to not always have it just turn into combat encounters~

Also, should we make a new OOC thread soon?

>>746
Here's a GM view of the main "maze" area of the last encounter. As you can see, there were various obstacles along each path.

>>747
I suppose it's similar to that. I think of it like the classic dungeon-crawling that is part of DnD, besides the combat.

>>750
>Hidden version of me in the wall
O:

>>751
That's just the petrified token. Sometimes I move things out of player view rather than delete them.

>>752
I see, haha. Still was a nice little thing to notice~

>>750
A non-combat encounter sounds like a refreshing change of pace, not to mention quite fun. Not to mention it finally gives us a chance to, well, roleplay. I'm rather looking forward to it.

>>754
New thread.