<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/de/80/99de80dd4fb18a5a2b5229f5fe73ae72.jpg)</div><strong>Part 2: <br/>The Crypt of the Everflame (First Floor)</strong><br/><br/><strong>Area 1</strong>--<span class="bbc_u"><strong>REVISED ON 4/7/2019</strong></span><br/><br/>We are in a large chamber that's lit by the daylight pouring forth from the doors Serana opened.<br/><br/><strong>Clean Up!</strong><br/><br/>Serana lets off a bolt from her trusty crossbow.  Had it been a biped humanoid, the bolt would have struck the creature truly in the heart.  But here, the bolt enters through a gap in the skeleton's ribcage and out the other, doing no damage.<br/><br/>Emerald's old action:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Emerald, you enter the battle.  The spot you chose makes strategic sense--but was it prudent?  Because you are casting in melee, or because you are performing a ranged attack in melee, the skeleton will take an attack of opportunity against you.  As you begin to cast your spell, the creature hits you with an attack of 13.  With its broken scimitar, it does 6 damage.  If I am reading your character sheet correctly, you're currently at five hit points.  If that's so, you're at -1.  If you're still alive, however, you must roll a concentration check of 16.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Emerald's new action:<br/><br/>Emerald, since you moved 25 feet, you never entered into the skeleton's threatened square.  Therefore, it never takes an attack of opportunity against you.  Your cantrip blows Skeleton #3 up, scattering its bones throughout the room.<br/><br/>Iona, you drop your masterwork shortsword, ball up your fist, and wail at the skeleton just to the south of you.  Since you are performing an unarmed attack, the skeleton gets an attack of opportunity against you.  As you negotiate your way past his blade, the skeleton takes another giant swipe at you, but you take one step to the left, and then just LEVEL the skeleton with a PHENOMENAL punch that sends its jaw flying.  Skeleton #5 is now dead.  Or more dead than usual.<br/><br/>Ria, I do not understand your action.  Do you intend to move into a flanking position, even though you will incur an attack of opportunity?  Does your attack depend on your success of flanking?  In other words, are you adding your flanking bonus?<br/><br/>Bell's old action:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Bell, you cannot go for #6, but you may go for #3.  Evidently, you destroy the undead creature with your shadowy weapon, scattering its bones into the room and showering your friends with bone dust.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Bell's new action means that she charges for #6 instead of #3, since I've retroactively ruled that Emerald never incurred an attack of opportunity.<br/><br/>This is the old map:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">(https://i.imgur.com/Zo4CR7C.jpg)</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong>End of Combat</strong><br/><br/>And with that, the party manages to efficiently destroy the group of skeletons.  Everyone is entitled to 135xp after having defeated the skeleton horde.  What do you do now?<br/><br/>