The Cleric attacking with his Sword via the urging of the young lady!

Othewise, still pondering!

It occurs to me that I never responded to these posts here, which seems odd. I know I read over them a while ago, but for some reason never made comment. So, time to correct that...

Kaelyn;

I dig your plan, but its unfeasible for two reasons; firstly, Silence is not available to Druids. Its a spell of the Guardian sphere, to which a Druid does not have access. Hammer, however, playing a cleric of Dareen, does have that spell available, so that can be a potential plan for down the road.

And secondly... Silence 15' is a second level priest spell, which is currently beyond your capabilities anyhow

Now, as far as arrangements go, the closest bandit to the captives is about fifteen feet away from them, but does have his back turned. That said, several of the others are facing in that general direction, so without somebody who can proficiently sneak around that could be tough. However, the closest of them to the captives is thirty feet, give or take, so you do have a chance of gaining ground before they could react.

Duncan;

Looking forward to seeing what Bailox can hand out here. Given your progression of weapons, I assume that he is okay with dropping one to draw another if the situation calls for it? If you'd rather sheath them and move on, that takes a bit more time, but let me know and those shall be his motions.

For everybody but Brundel....

Let's get those posts in so I can update this bad Larry!

if I'm reading it right.. a 3rd level priest does have access to 2nd level spells.

You read correctly. A third level priest does. Second level does not

From what I read, looks like Tek is itching to proceed with another UpDate!

So I just started writing my post and came up with a strategy for my character that I went ahead and posted, instead of drawing things out here in the Q/A

Tek, you are correct; Bailox will drop each weapon to grab the next as needed. Will pick em back up when we loot after combat.

EDIT: Have thrown together one final post for Bailox before combat begins. Didn't specify a target due to initiative rolls. Just make Bailox's target the best target of opportunity when his turn in the initiative order comes up.

I will be going out of town on Thursday and returning sometime on Monday, so even though I am taking my laptop with me, there is no guarantee that I will have either internet connection or the free time to do any posting!

Will update tomorrow after work, with or without a post from Salvator. Time to get down to the nitty gritty.

Update is about 3/4 done, but its 0300 and I'm noticing it getting sloppy now. Will be completed tomorrow

have you noticed we run the same schedule for updates and somehow the same mindframe for doing them.. I knew talking on skype last night we both werent gonna get ours done... was so anywhere but where we should have been to write lol. Oh well. today's a new day.

Also, Tower of Doom has to happen tonight or potentially not at all this weekend. Working the Hump Relief shift this week, which has brutal rest periods in between the working days.

First combat has begun. Off to an interesting start, I'd say. Not a terrific start, but you guys already freed the captives and took down two opponents, so that's a touch better than I'd anticipated. Status block on page one of the Q/A has been updated accordingly.

Its been a while since I've run a combat, so if you like this formatting of step-by-step, let me know. If not, I'll try to come up with a slightly more condensed way of doing this. Opinions will go a long way.

Enjoyed reading the UpDate the way you chose to do your posting!

Couldn't agree more, Tek. The way you're doing it works just fine for me. Great update!

Ok, so as for where we go from here, there's no way Bailox would run from a fight. So, if anyone with healing spells might be able to give Bailox a Band-Aid, it would be much appreciated. Bailox is the sort that will fight to the death, if it comes to that, but I'd rather not have to roll up a new character-hehe.

I will toss up a post that won't add anything new, just the combat from Bailox's point of view. So when next you update, Tek, just continue Bailox's fight, unless the gnoll runs away or something, and any support from companions will be awesome.

Hope that Post is sufficient, because I have to go out of town again Friday and I have my own games to UpDate before I leave town again!