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[Lillipad]

Alright, before we go getting excited for death and despair, let's do a headcount. Who can show up for a session tonight on short notice?(as in, right now potentially)

[ragnarok97071]

I'm here.

[Grek]

Here now.

[Weirdsound]

Here, but I'm working on a turn for my other game tonight and will be multitasking a bit.

[Lillipad]

Well, we've got the server up for people. All pogwork is done, so feel free to join.

[Lillipad]

Well, that was an exciting episode of Magia Ball Z.
The logs should be a fun read for anyone keeping up with those whenever they come up. And remember children, Magia does not like to be contained. If you water down a mission, do not poke at it with sticks. For you shall call the wrath of Magia.

[ragnarok97071]

[Dwarmin]

...pfff. <_<

I get here so late the servers closed. And somebody died'd. Hoping to catch the after party at least...

Speaking of, what happend? Did you guys remember to use the stuff I bought?

[Lillipad]

They didn't fight anything that they'd need it for. They were only fighting like 5 enemies, and two of them were weak healers. What caused the death was Francis CritFailing an aggro spell. So all the enemies targeted her. And then Grek missed the one shot that could save her.

[Weirdsound]

That and they were under instructions not to burn what they were ordered to farm. And the spell wasn't an aggro. That was just the crit fail effect.

[Dwarmin]

Yargh.

So, was the mission a total loss or what? Two in a row, now?

[Lillipad]

Well, last mission you guys at least killed something. Here, they barely even managed to knock out an enemy. The only reason it wasn't more deaths was because I gave the wrong AC when an enemy took out half of Vort's health, so he ended up missing, and Vort got retroactively healed.

[Dwarmin]

Man.

What are we doing wrong?

Aside from me having the worst attendance ever and letting the party down. <_<

[Grek]

More honest assessment of what happened:
We had four mages, levels 5, 4, 3 and 1 (Seriously, LeiLei is still level one, near as I can tell.) fighting two Green Mandrakes and four Orange Mandrakes.

Each Orange Mandrake is nominally a Level 5 monster, and has a number of stats and powers roughly on par with what a level 5 mage would get through character progression. Their big nasty power is that they have At-Will Vine Strangle, which A] if successful, removes 66% of your hp per turn, and B] requires a DC 15 check to end. Or an opposed check vs 4d6 for someone else to end it.

Each Green Mandrake is nominally a Level 4, but has stats roughly on par with a level 3 mage made through the character progression rules. Their big nasty powers are Heal Plant Creature, which heals an adjacent plant creature for 40 hp, and Re-position Allies, which allows every single ally within 20 hexes to teleport to anywhere within 20 hexes of the caster. Including the nasty melee brusiers teleporting adjacent to the fragile back row mages.

Even if we had full numbers (which we did not), at best we'd be at a combined level of about 24 against their combined level of 26. In actuality, we were combined level 13 vs their 26.

So, no. There wasn't any way we could have won that one and I'm not sure why the GMs thought we could.

[Criptfeind]

Man. Sounds rough. :/ Sorta makes me reminiscent of when magia was so hilariously unbalanced that nothing really mattered. Sounds like the tightening up of the game is leading it into the rough area of "tight but does not fit" that lies between "so lose it is fine" and "tight and fits well"