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[sulldawga]

Themon says, Wait as long as you can before pulling the rugs down!

[shaidar]

Atticus stands ready to pull down the screen once he thinks they have reached the top of the stairs.

[Dicey]

Dirk readies a rock.

[thirdkingdom]

Round One

With a magician's flourish, Atticus whips the tapestries away from the opening, revealing two of the shambling moss creatures, who immediately recoil. Flailing about, the pair emit a high-pitched, ululating scream. None of the adventurers have ever heard moss in agony, but had they, these creatures are making that exact sound. Wisps of smoke, as if they are being burnt, begin to rise from their bodies.

That is the surprise round. Each creature takes : 2d4 7 points of damage. Actions for Round One? I'll also need an initiative roll from y'all. I rolled a : 1d6 1

[kalstone]

Tiarsus

Tiarsus and Mogor both fire crossbows.

Crossbow to hit: [1d20+1]=20+1=21, Damage [1d6]=5

Mogor: Crossbow to hit [1d20+1]=16+1=17, Damage [1d6]=5

[BaltoBruiser]

Brooku

Draws his sword and will engage any of the mossmen once his companions' missile volley is finished.

Initiative:

Sword to hit: [1d20+1]=10+1=11; damage [1d8+1]=3+1=4

[VonAlric]

Beykoyun

Initiative: [1d6]=1

Not the world's greatest there. Beykoyun steps up and quickly thrusts with his sword. Sword: Hit [1d20]=16; Damage [1d8]=3

[shaidar]

Atticus strikes at the closest creature with his longsword:

Initiative: [1d6+1]=1+1=2

Long Sword: [1d20]=14;[1d8]=6

[Dicey]

Surprise Round

Quick on the draw, Dirk throws a fist sized stone at the surprised moss monster.

Surprise round rock throw: 1d20 7

Round One

Initiative Round 1 mossnsters: 1d6 3

Dirk follows up with another another hurled stone.

First round rock throw: 1d20 8

[sulldawga]

Themon looses a crossbow bolt at the closest enemy. The missile sinks deep into its smoking body.

Shambling Mound attack rd. 1: 1d20+2 21 1d6 3

[thirdkingdom]

Round One

The combined might of the adventurers, in addition to whatever magical properties the light possesses, fells the lead moss monster. There are others behind it, but they do not advance, and, if fact, seem to hesitate, if that is something that moss monsters can do.

They lose their action for Round One. Actions for Round Two?

[sulldawga]

Themon shoots another bolt into the body mass of the next closest monster.

Shamb Mound rd 2 attack: 1d20+2 18 1d6 6

[shaidar]

Atticus

Not wanting to move over the body to engage, Atticus switches to his spear and attacks the closest monster :

Spear: [1d20]=19;[1d6]=6

[kalstone]

Tiarsus

Tiarsus and Mogor fire their crossbows.

Crossbow to hit: [1d20+1]=11+1=12, damage: [1d6]=5
Mogor Crossbow to hit: [1d20+1]=4+1=5, damage: [1d6]=6

[VonAlric]

Beykoyun

Beykoyun lets the missile fire deal with the creatures and waits for any of them to advance.

[Dicey]

Dirk threw another rock. He kept hitting the ceiling.

Round 2 rock throw: 1d20 5

[thirdkingdom]

Sorry for the delayed post; I had a rough week last week. The tl;dr of this battle is that you guys did something very clever, and the combat is basically over in that they will not purposefully advance into the light, and also don't move quickly enough to avoid taking enough damage that they are destroyed.

The Battle of the Moss-men

Smoke rises from the forms before the party, and a smell akin to burning vegetation fills the room. The adventurers lash out with blade and bow, and find their foe slain not by a judicious application of violence -- although it does not seem to hurt in this instance -- but by whatever force or dweomer is causing these creatures to self-immolate. Those of a clerical bent find their minds drawn to the application of holy water upon the undead, in that it has a similar effect to the light in the chamber; these moss-men appear to have animated themselves from corpses. Could they, in fact, be undead?

[sulldawga]

Themon pokes through the corpses of the moss-men to see if anything interesting remains.

[BaltoBruiser]

Brooku

Assists the wizard with checking out the corpses.

[shaidar]

Atticus

Not wanting to touch the things if it can be avoided, he offers to use his spear for some initial poking of the 'corpses'.