Cathedral of Wrath - Round 2 Results

Poot casts a sleep spell into the space where Erylium's boasts are coming from, but the little demon does not succumb to his magic.

Sasha reacts first to the newest threat and dashes across the room to stab at the infernal spider, stabbing it through one of its legs. Seoni whirls around and begins the incantations and hand gestures needed to cast Burning Hands. The spider lunges at her again while she weaves her spell, but she avoids the bite and lets loose a sheet of magical flames that engulfs the vermin ( and narrowly misses Sasha ). To every one's horror, however, the creature dips down to avoid the brunt of the flames and it seems completely unhurt by the attack.

Gerund charges back up the length on the cathedral to aid his companions, but the spider deflects his sword swing with an upraised limb. Truly this monstrous vermin has been summoned from the pits of the abyss!

Yola, still on the raised platform at the back of the room, has been trying to pinpoint Erylium's voice hovering over the fountain. She pulls a javelin from her back, taps a step forward, and lets fly to where she thinks the demon is, but connects with nothing, the projectile slashing into the water below. Yola must have come close to her mark though, for Erylium yelps in surprise, then begins chanting another spell.

There is another burst of brimstone and a blood red centipede, at least five feet long, materializes behind Seoni. It immediately starts to crawl up her leg and sinks its mandibles into her calf. Seoni cries out in pain and disgust, turning to shake the monster off before it can inject its venom, but as she does so, the spider lunges at her yet again, sinking its fangs into her back and this time she feels its potent venom running through her veins. Seoni's legs threaten to give out beneath her.

Sasha inflicts 4 HP on the spider, but couldn't get into a position for a sneak attack, so no bleed damage. ( incidentally, Brett did post, but the post got gobbled by the Blogspot Fairies). Poot and Yola had no luck targeting Erylium, who summoned another fiendish giant insect then shut her yip - you have no clue as to where she is hiding in the room now. The giant bug brigade is worked over Seoni pretty badly this turn. She takes 5 more HP and loses 3 points of STR ( 6 HP left, Str down to 7).

Poot, please lead us off for round three with your action at the end of round two.

A note about Attacks of Opportunity: If you are in a square threatened by an opponent and choose to move out of that square, the opponent gets to make a free attack on you. Likewise if you take a non attack action while in a threatened square, like drinking a potion, switching weapons, or casting a spell ( like Seoni did, granting the spider a free attack, which it missed). You can avoid AoOs by taking a 5 foot step instead of a full move, or in the case of spellcasting, cast defensively, in which case you make a spellcraft check ( DC=15+level of spell). Sucees means spell works and no AoO, failure means spell fizzles, but still no AoO.

So looking at the map now, we see that Gerund, Sasha and Seoni are all threatened by the spider. Gerund can take a 5'step over to the centipede without the spider getting an AoO, but Sasha would have to make a regular move to get to the same spot, thus provoking an AoO. Note that these rules work both ways: If the centipede wanted to break away from Seoni and charge Yola, Seoni would get an AoO. Also not that you may only make 1 AoO in any given round, no matter how may times you are provoked.