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As Drahak's flight path approaches the rat, a Small (well, larger than him but smaller than Vael) hidden humanoid fuzzes into the far edge of his blindsense, along with enough of a whiff of the man playing possum to provide his Arcanist with adequate information to identify his species. Something rather more dramatic happens as Lorelei's familiar approaches the odd eagle. With an owl's eyes...that's a goose. A shockingly well-disguised goose, provided you never see it from above, with a little wooden eagle beak and fake claws-someone put way too much time into this. Especially since all that just goes flying off when the painted goose becomes a painted boggle, and the random, perverse urge to laugh becomes obvious...but not irresistible. I rolled Will for everyone in secret and EVERYONE passed. "WE'RE MADE!! Cheese it, dimwicks! They ain't fooled!" The little goatman's panic is mildly funny, though. Especially since his cry goes completely unheeded; the only visible enemy doesn't break character, and anyone hiding stays so. There's an awkward moment of silence.

“Nothing too notable. C.O. is Captain Snapp Silvers, kobold not much older than me. Sensible sort; not the tightest disciplinarian, but not this permissive.” Talia detects no traps…no physical traps. The man laying by the guttering cook fire, seemingly just barely clinging to life with terrible wounds, has faked the heck out of those wounds. The act is impeccable, the makeup is merely very good; not good enough to fool a foxes nose. There is a scent of blood throughout, but it’s in no way concentrated on the man playing possum…or, more likely, gazelle. Perception 17 This lying liar smells very strongly of the nearby river, with an oddly enticing undertone of sweetness and spice. Knowledge (nature) 25 The skilled deception combine with the scent makes you mostly sure that the faker is an encantado, a shapeshifting fey with the true form resembling a pink river dolphin and many mindbending powers.

Dwik clears his throat after catching his breath. “I brought rope, plenty of it. Never not a use for it. Not much for slitting unconscious throats, myself, so let’s just haul his ass to the outpost and they can stuff him in a locked room.” Prince shrugs in indifference to the moral issue, then shrugs the bound bogeyman onto one shoulder as if he were a sack of cotton candy. “If we have to fight again before we get there, I’ll drop him.” You don’t. Without incident, you reach the outpost, a ramshackle thing with a half-assed palisade and a watchtower that blends in a bit too well with the old, mostly dead trees around it. The place is so naturally shoddy that it takes a few seconds, and Dwik cursing under his breath as he heightens his guard, to notice that the gate on the palisade is wide open, and no one is challenging your approach.

A bass rumble of pain resonates through the clearing, and, the uncanny inverse of a beetle's anatomy, wings fold out from the outside of the vast shell. Dirt flies outward as gravity cries in confused agony, feeling the house sized turtle ascend. Talia was correct; it's flight is clumsy and would be no use in battle. Clumsy, however, is not actually a synonym for slow. In a straight line, it can and does haul shell, though not so fast it should have disappeared as quickly as it did... Perception or Spellcraft 20 Something cast Invisibility on it once it was at full speed; you can still hear wingbeats. The remaining boogeyman forgoes any dignity it might have had and desperately scrambles for the bushes, practically leaping with the force of Levi's reflexive punch…to no avail, as the flaming scales leave it landing on it’s de-hatted head, ass over teakettle and unmoving.

Levi AoO Levi AoO Damage

Drake Snapper Will vs Baleful Glare DC20 Fail! -2 to most non-attack rolls, including saves. Drake Snapper Ref vs Arcane Torrent DC23 Fail! Full 13 damage, for a total of 96 dealt to the big guy this round so far.

...with a mess of quick, sequential effects. James' web stops the fleeing mount and rider long enough for Levi's blow to straight-up implode the half-rotten pachyderm skull. The collapsing mount throws its rider into the web, just in time for a one-two punch of fire and caustic gas to remove both the web and the top layer of skin from all involved. The fireball, in particular, has unintended consequences. The fire visibly deforms around a monstrous head, and a watery roar shakes the clearing. An...oddly small but stingingly potent burst of acid washes over one elephant and the Dridsrest duo. Prince dodges the worst of it, and hares off to a flanking position with an arrow nocked. Dwik lives up to his family name and runs from the cloud, bellowing a stirring Draconic chantInspire Courage +2 as soon as it's safe to open his mouth, clarion clear in spite of his burns. The back part of the standing elephant is mostly dissolved, an inadvertent demonstration of the difference in potency in the two otherwise similar breath weapons.   (Also Niiza was in the cloud, but all the happens to her is a bad smell.)   The massive source of the second breath fades into view. It's...well, it's not just a green dragon. Under the dirt, it's green and it's definitely dragon-like, but it's not a Green Dragon.   Knowlege(Arcana or Nature) This is a particularly large specimen of a Giant Snapping turtle, that is also half green dragon. Almost forgotten, the bogeyman that fire and acid freed from the web, speaks to Niiza in a carrying stage-whisper.   "CaN't TRusT tHose DeMOns! She's GoinG fOr THe SNaKe, I suggest you AttACk hEr!"   What's she's actually doing is taunting the big turtle, but battle is chaotic. The arrow sticking out of a crest on the turtle's head and Dwik being healed by Jandra have their windups lost to fog of war. OOCDC20 Will for Niiza, make a vaguely in-character attack on Ash if fail.  

Eidolon Slam Slam Damage Drake Snapper Will vs DC25 Misses all! Taunting Turtle goes into effect!

Prince Arrow Prince Arrow Damage Jandra CSW on Dwik Hit!

Acid Breath Damage Prince Reflex DC25 Dwik Reflex DC25 Elephant Reflex DC25 The reveal! Prince saves, takes 19 damage, everyone else in that 30ft cone takes 39...except Niiza, since she's immune to acid.

Bogeyman Reflex DC20 Bogeyman Reflex DC15 Elephant Reflex DC20 Elephant Reflex DC15 ??? Reflex DC20 !?!?! Reflex DC20   Base damage on that fireball is 17, as is, funnily enough, the acid breath. Nothing has evasion. Okay, everything but the hidden things are taking 16 damage. High-Ref hidden thing takes 8, low-ref thing takes 17.  

Exactly what it says in the topic.

The battle with the Sporecloud continues… I do not want to repost the whole thread, guys. Actual post-ya know what, I’m not gonna say anything else about it, no more jynxing.