Night Below E-mail Turn, 22 January, 2001

 

Situation: The drow are in retreat.  The party is trying to mop them up and get moving to the bioship.

 

Events by initiative order:

 

Seeing the drow in general retreat Katrina quickly readies her bow.  She pulls out a +2 arrow, takes careful aim at drow 4, and lets the shaft fly.  The arrow flies over the drow’s head.

 

Drow 9 frowns.  First the fiasco at the family compound, now this.  Time to start thinking about saving his own skin.  He cast Expeditious Retreat on himself, then moves toward an exit, making it about 50’ from a doorway.

 

With the threat of the huge spider gone, K’harn moves over next to Ari to guard her mistress.

 

Ari, meanwhile, has another drow in her sights.  Calling upon the wrath of her deity once again she calls flame down on drow 4.  Ari easily overcomes the drow’s inherent resistance to magic and the flames claim yet another Aswadain life.

 

Amber yells for Shadow to use the potion she had given her, then calls for the party to hurry to the bioship.  She calls on Seekur to stay close and cover the party’s retreat.

 

Castinar watches drow 9 move away.  Seeing that he isn’t moving that quickly (yet) he tries to give the others a chance to take him out before he escapes.  He casts Faerie Fire on the drow.  He pulls the energy for the spell into himself and then sends it at the drow.  He sees the magic flash around the drow, then slide off him like oil off water.  The spell fizzles away without effect.

 

Drow 8 cringes as Ari incinerates another of his guards.  He picks up the pace, running toward one of the exits.  He watches with a touch of envy as drow 7 darts through one of the doorways towards freedom.

 

Matar sheaths his katana and pulls his bow out, looking around for a target.  He growls in frustration when he sees no drow left standing.  "Head for the boat – they may bring others back!" he shouts.

 

Shadow is frustrated too.  She knows through Hunter that Castinar can see two invisible drow, but she doesn’t know where they are. 

 

Diana is frustrated as well.  She suspects the spell casters are still out there, so she casts See Invisibility.  Like Castinar, she sees the two drow moving towards the exits.  She also moves towards the bioship.

 

While the others talk about moving towards the ship, Thengal does so, supporting Narlan as he moves towards safety.

 

End of Round

 

OOC Comments:

 

OK, I guess we’ve got one more round to go.  Only Castinar and Diana are aware of where the two drow are.  I’d like to knock the next round out quickly as well, since I’ve already got much of the next few scenes written.

 

A few reminders on your posts.  When you pass a spell give me all of the spell parameters, including damage and the difficulty class.  When you move don’t tell me full move or half move, tell me where your character moves to by grid coordinate. 

 

So, intentions for the last round?  (It will be the last round since you guys are either going to kill the drow or they are going to get away.)

 

Oh, and note on the map I’ve pushed everything back so you can see correct ranges now.  The exits are the small boxes at A5 and A17.  The party is about 200’ north-east of the dock where the bioship is.

 

Saif