So, first of all, even if everything you said were true, you should contest it at the time - not just post what you want to, and then 2-3 rounds later, hash it out, when there'd be no way to change things w/o rewinding time and wasting several rounds of your fellow players' time. (At this point I would play it forward even if you were right, and if the mistake were sufficiently devastating to the party, increase the Encounter Level, i.e. the XP.) if I hadn't called you out in OOC you'd *still* just be posting along the 'fork' of your own 'what you think should've happened'.<br/><br/>Second, although your intuition is understandable, you are just barely incorrect. The Arc of Lightning spell - the complete text of which I provided - is specifically any-corner-to-any-corner, and Cecily and Randal did not have total cover vs each other. I nearly made a 2nd vertical map similar to the one I provided earlier (the explain the archer arrows) which had Cecily and Randal on it at the time of the AoL, anticipating you might argue this. (The reason I didn't bother is your posts were already so disconnected from everything else that I figured it'd be a waste of time.) Not only am I thinking in 3D, the altitude is precisely why it works. The fact that you said 30' of earth and mention a 90' turn leaves me the impression that you think Randal was on the ground at the time (i.e. the AoL would've had to go through the ground to his feet) - in other words that you're thinking in 2D (except where your own PC is concerned).<br/><br/>The reason I've used both IC and OOC is b/c your posts tend to be so intricately mistaken that it's cumbersome to do it inline in the IC thread - you'll note that for the most part, I give the results/feedback of other players' actions inline in the IC thread only. That, and I figured you might want to reply to my questions/corrections about your posts - and back and forth like that (and like this!) should only be in the OOC thread.   And if you were confused, why didn't ya say so earlier?<br/><br/>Below is the link to the relevant post. Perhaps you'd like to quote the vertical-slice map I provided earlier in OOC to explain the archer attacks, and edit it to include Cecily's and Randal's position at the time of the attack, to better explain your position (so to speak). Since you earlier touted and credited to another DM the same style of ASCII map I've been using, I assume you have no objection to using them.<br/><br/>http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=90902.200 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=90902.200)