Level Up 2 - Finished

[the worst]

I'm happy to take a bit more time to work through it all; NK15 and inspir in particular appear to have some really good ideas about how to run this encounter tho and I'm not a strategy master.

[the worst]

@ferno let's see if inspir agrees with my reverse-take of his original plan. If so, sounds good.

[Formerfish]

I'm happy to take a bit more time to work through it all; NK15 and inspir in particular appear to have some really good ideas about how to run this encounter tho and I'm not a strategy master.

Even the best generals have good senior leaders.

[Gamma Emerald]

I can silence if Cerb hasn't volunteered yet

[Not Known 15]

He has first strike, so if we want the kill on Delta we should be silencing Szyme asap imo. For the purposes of taking one out I think it's best to assume the worst, that he'll be firing a heal on Delta right away to keep it out of sudden death range.

My suggestion would be silence on szyme, tornado on Delta + Alpha. Re-assess from there; if the delta tornado was sub 3 damage (his defence roll is 1d3) it might be worth a second tornado. Otherwise we could safely push it down to low hp.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Yeah you are wrong. Szyme has absolutely no first strike. They have haste; they can act twice per round. But they do not have quick strike(which would allow them to act before us).

[the worst]

He has first strike, so if we want the kill on Delta we should be silencing Szyme asap imo. For the purposes of taking one out I think it's best to assume the worst, that he'll be firing a heal on Delta right away to keep it out of sudden death range.

My suggestion would be silence on szyme, tornado on Delta + Alpha. Re-assess from there; if the delta tornado was sub 3 damage (his defence roll is 1d3) it might be worth a second tornado. Otherwise we could safely push it down to low hp.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Yeah you are wrong. Szyme has absolutely no first strike. They have haste; they can act twice per round. But they do not have quick strike(which would allow them to act before us).

double check for me? been a long day so my brain may be melted. Way I'm reading it he has first strike tho.

[Inferno390]

Yes he has first strike, but that just allows him to act once before we got to act at the beginning of the game.
He also has an ability which negates our initiative though.

[Not Known 15]

He has first strike, so if we want the kill on Delta we should be silencing Szyme asap imo. For the purposes of taking one out I think it's best to assume the worst, that he'll be firing a heal on Delta right away to keep it out of sudden death range.

My suggestion would be silence on szyme, tornado on Delta + Alpha. Re-assess from there; if the delta tornado was sub 3 damage (his defence roll is 1d3) it might be worth a second tornado. Otherwise we could safely push it down to low hp.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Yeah you are wrong. Szyme has absolutely no first strike. They have haste; they can act twice per round. But they do not have quick strike(which would allow them to act before us).

double check for me? been a long day so my brain may be melted. Way I'm reading it he has first strike tho.

Yeah he does...
sorry.
BUT
it isn't Quick Strike.
First Strike only acts at the beginning of the battle.

[the worst]

AHA sweet. That's much less scary than I was thinking.

[Not Known 15]

Consequently... we don't need to silence. The Cultist will likely get a heal past it anyways.

[Not Known 15]

We don't have endless mana. Repeatedly using 1MP to prevent a heal is not a good allocation of resources.

[Not Known 15]

At least not if we are speaking of a fixed hp heal, and not a full HP heal.

[inspiratieloos]

@ferno let's see if inspir agrees with my reverse-take of his original plan. If so, sounds good.

Mostly yeah, though I think Not Known is right about silence not being worth it.

I think start with two double slashes on Delta, if we roll high we can continue and kill it, if not then we can switch to just tornados for stunning. Basically hedge for both plans.

[the worst]

Alright let's do this.

Double slash delta

Original Roll String: 2d4

2 4-Sided Dice: (3, 4) = 7

Original Roll String: 2d4-2

2 4-Sided Dice: (4, 2)-2 = 4

[the worst]

One more double slash on delta, please. Then we can evaluate where we're at again.

We still have a couple of days til the next update so no harm taking our time

[Gamma Emerald]

Double slash Delta

Original Roll String: 2d4

2 4-Sided Dice: (4, 4) = 8

Original Roll String: 2d4-2

2 4-Sided Dice: (2, 3)-2 = 3

[inspiratieloos]

Okay that's 17 damage minus 1d3 for defence, maybe use David's hit? He'd need to roll a 3 on 1d6-1 for a guaranteed kill

Alternatively another double slash immediately, which would almost certainly be enough.

[the worst]

Maybe speed slashes? Good opportunity for lower levels maybe?

[Formerfish]

Im around

[the worst]

I reckon speed slash delta.
Roll your attack die (1d8) minus 2.

It doesn't count for our cap of 4 player actions. but it might get us the kill.

[Formerfish]

Speed slash delta

Original Roll String: 1d8-2

1 8-Sided Dice: (3)-2 = 1

[the worst]

And that'll do it. Nice one fishy.

[the worst]

Alpha has a 1/3 stun res, Beta has a 1/6 stun res. Szyme has his cc reduction skill.

I'm probably kinda agreeing now that Szyme has dropped his big heal (not enough mana for a res), silencing him won't be as effective as it would be if he had a deeper mana pool. Good pickup that he has no way to restore his mana that we can see.

Do we just tornado alpha/beta and hope luck is on our side? Perhaps have David prepare a poison attack.

[the worst]

And that makes 4/1 actions. Any subsequent actions are void. Also, I should take this opportunity to note that silencing counts as a crowd control status affliction. To be specific, as of right now, Silenced, Stunned, and Bound count as crowd control afflictions. Scared notably counts as a mental status affliction rather than crowd control.

Just quoting this clarifying point in case someone other than me missed it.
Guess we aren't silencing szyme.

[the worst]

I'd very much like to annihilate alpha next, I think. Beta is easier to cc and alpha's offensive spells could be problematic later when we're on lower hp (lookin at that chain lightning and literally "kill" spell)