The GM has given the party sufficient time to address the situation, and so now...<strong>HE SHALL PROCEED!</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/a2/51/4ba251c496f8fef16e0de11a62c79f78.png)</div><br/>Milena shot a crossbow bolt into the air.  Its intent was not to hit, but to inform the party precisely of what lurked within this gallery.  And she did.  Milena saw precisely that thing that had destroyed the scouting party.  To see it was to loathe it  It looked like a floating mollusk.  Its alien frame was such that one could not easily discern if it had eyes.  One could look upon it and guess at their location, but they would be wrong.<br/><br/>The creature descended slowly, dramatically, lingeringly, upon its new would-be hosts.<br/><br/>But before anything could be done to it, Shara, the Bog Druid, summoned a host of stirges to assail the alien creature.<br/><br/>The stirges all manage to latch on to the Lunarma, as its touch AC is 11.  Since this is something of a surprise round, the creature will not be entitled to an AOC.  However:<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">A lunarma’s carapace is covered in jagged barbs. Any creature that grapples a lunarma or attacks it with unarmed strikes or natural weapons takes 1d4 points of damage from the vicious barbs. Using a reach weapon does not endanger the attacker this way.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So, here are the damage rolls agains 3, 3, 4, 2.<br/><br/>We shall enter into initiative.  We shall consider the the stirges to have ex-sanguinted the creature at the very beginning of round 2 (which is a compromise in order for Shara to perform her summon during the "surprise" action).<br/><br/>As such, we will now roll initiative.<br/><br/>THE LUNARMA ROLLS a NATURAL 20 (25 total).<br/><br/>... And its mate, the second Lunarma rolls a 10 (15 total).<br/><br/><hr/><br/>An otherworldly howl emerges from a tunnel not so far away.  The creature hitherto responds in kind.