[OOC] Almost, But Not Quite, Entirely Unlike Tea [Trials of the Young King OOC Thread]

[Blue]

A readied action happens before the action is finished, while it happens. Not after.
She had to delay for the door to get opened. Readying for when D does the action would work because if he chose a target for an offensive effect the new target wouldn't be there to select when he began the action.

Besides, you can only delay your entire turn. She cannot delay, move, delay then standard action.

Edit: Actually...

Readying an Action

You can ready a standard action, a move action, or a free action. To do so, specify the action you will take and the conditions under which you will take it (a character finishes an action).
Then, any time before your next action, you may take the readied action in response to that condition(character finishing an action).
The action occurs just before the action that triggers it (the action itself didn't trigger it, its end did).
If the triggered action is part of another character’s activities, you interrupt the other character (N/A).
Assuming he is still capable of doing so, he continues his actions once you complete your readied action (N/A).
Your initiative result changes. For the rest of the encounter, your initiative result is the count on which you took the readied action, and you act immediately ahead of the character whose action triggered your readied action (N/A).

I'd say that since the trigger is a condition and doesn't have to be an action everything that relates to how it interacts with D's actions is non-applicable. As to where that puts her in the initiative, it does happen before D moves from his position so his turn isn't over.
Mrith's initiative would change to within his turn, before it ends. It would logically be the same initiative and she would either start before him or it is determined by who got the highest Dexterity score.
It is whichever way you'd prefer to handle it, still.

[SpatulaOdoom]

Computer is fubar no posting Till i ret it repared.

[Makenshi]

Sorry for the delay, was waiting on Blue to post for a while before I realised that Nevh Mrith has already acted (yeah, very ditzy considering the debate, but I've not been feeling great of late) and the last few days I've had the mother of all headaches screwing about with me.

Anyway, I was in the middle of updating today when I got confused by Nallaul's actions, Acathala. Where is he moving to? You just say 'north end of the corridor', which I assume is the north-western corner (AB,16), but if that's the case how is he targeting D1 at T,18? Or do you mean he's targetting E1 (in which case Didina will get caught in the area of effect too)?

Could be I'm missing something obvious here. As I said, I'm still not feeling well ¬¬.

~MTWC

[SpatulaOdoom]

Psst, it's not Nevh anymore.

[Makenshi]

See? Told you I'm not thinking straight at the moment. It's incredibly frustrating. I don't think I've ever had a bug/headache/whatever the hell this is that has ever lasted so long and been such a damned annoyance before.

~MTWC

[Blue]

Here's hoping you're not starting a cluster headache of some kind. I pray you'll get better soon!

[Acathala]

Apologies Mak, when I wrote that post, it was on the the mobile, and had no access to maps. I did my actions purely from memory, but I meant to clean that post up later. Nallaul was indeed targetting E2 and had moved to AA16(He also took a step west. The way I counted it, the effect should be just short of Didina. If that is not the case, would targetting the wall behind E2 instead help avoid Didina?

[Makenshi]

Ah, yes, targeting the wall gets around the problem. Expect an update tonight then.

~MTWC

[Makenshi]

Well, this is turning out to be a much tougher fight than I intended. We'd be two down if it wasn't for Mrith's staff, although at least there's only three enemies left now (assuming the Dogai is still around).

~MTWC

[Acathala]

Yeah, I don't think I've contributed much to this battle. Nallaul spent half it moving into position. Poor Misa though.

[Blue]

Where did Mrith feel the Dogai last within her 30-ft radius blindsense? Or smelled it if it has a strong fiendish sent.

[SpatulaOdoom]

Originally Posted by Makenshi

Well, this is turning out to be a much tougher fight than I intended. We'd be two down if it wasn't for Mrith's staff, although at least there's only three enemies left now (assuming the Dogai is still around).

~MTWC

How tough of a fight did you intend?
The clerics should have to be at a minimum 13th level (one of whom survived well over 100 damage), and are CoDZilla, the wizard or sorceror or whatever threw out a maximized Fireburst which makes him likely 15th level minimum since that's effectively an 8th level spell. The Dogai is at least CR11, but seems to have higher attack and saves than a normal assassin devil, so is either buffed or has higher level. And the CR-8 Erinyes aren't super significant, but not totally ineffective either. Plus there were traps to contend with, which usually have their own CR.
So we're looking at about a CR18 encounter when we've already had one big fight with the dracolich and friends, and spent some spell slots and item uses and so forth. The baddies however seem to have plenty of high level spell slots remaining despite whatever they were doing to heal the dragons above.
Note, this isn't a complaint, just explaining why this might seem more skin-of-the-teeth than you might have originally expected. Besides high level fights are often referred to as "rocket tag" since often you're either fine or dead (see destruction spell).

[Makenshi]

Mmmm, good points. This chapter has dragged on so long that I'd forgotten about the dracolich.

Oh, and talking of forgetting, I realised that Didina is still within range of where the Dogai was, so her Telepathy is still good for pinpointing him, or rather, she would have told them that he simply vanished - presumably having either teleported away or to a better position, although not within Didina's range.

~MTWC

[Acathala]

Are the double doors in Nallaul's corridor open?

[Makenshi]

The ones to the north of Rhys' position? Yes.

~MTWC