Hammer (Ithea, Moore)

[Anastasia]

Chain lightning rips through the sharks as your forces line up. Soldiers move to intercept and hold while fire support peppers the oversized predators. The golems take one side of them, weathering the attacks with barely a hit at all. Ysgardian warriors and lillend move to hold the line, trading blows as ranged attacks decimate the sharks. It is chaos, Ithea only getting pieces of it as she shouts orders and Moore prepares himself.

A Ysgardian warrior thrusting his blade into a shark's skull, only to lose most of his side at the same time, a bite for a stab that leaves both floating and dead. A lillend clubbing a shark back with a harp, followed by a blast of multicolored lights. A barrage of magic missiles striking one shark through the eyes, the wet pop of its rotting retinas somehow carrying over the battlefield din. Both Moore and Ithea can see the images, struggling against the line. Your lines are holding well despite a few losses, the sharks being ravaged far faster than they're ravaging. You'd estimate the sharks are down to about 50% strength.

Ithea and Moore, you can give orders and/or take actions here.

[Merc]

With the chaos that's going on, Ithea doesn't dare fire another chain lightning. Instead she also dives into the skirmish slashing away with her glaive while giving advice to those nearest her and occasionally shouting at others to watch an opening they have before a shark can get to them. Hopefully that way she can minimize losses.

[Nephrite]

Moore throws inspiration to his allies, bolstering their ability and prowess!

Inspire Courage, +12

Notes for myself:

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8 Nonlethal damage, -1 level 6 Cleric spell, -1 bardic music use.

[Anastasia]

The battle is joined once more. Ithea travels to the front lines, taking the sharks directly on.

> roll 1d20+35 vs Ithea's AC
<Kobot> Kotono rolled 1d20+35 vs Ithea's AC --> [ 1d20=3 ]{38}

Amid the chaos one comes at her, mouth opened wide enough to swallow her whole. But Ithea's too fast, Moore's bardsong uging her on. She dodges and severs the shark's side as the battle rages. Your lines are holding with a few more losses - you see a lillend swallowed whole, her blood floating in globs as it leaks from the shark's maw. But the ranged support is winning the day, finishing off wounded sharks that your lines met and held long enough to make them targets. With the size of the sharks, that makes them easy targets indeed, minimizing friendly fire.

Soon enough the last shark floats in the void, slain.

Free act.

[Merc]

"Good job everyone! Everyone that can heal, help out the injured! We'll pause for a little while before continuing on. If you think you're too injured to continue and think it better to turn back rather than continue, let the healers know so they do enough healing so you can get safely back!"

Moore, you have that song that makes healing more effective?

[Nephrite]

Yes.

[Merc]

"Moore, do you have that song some bards do for improving healing? If so, can you use it to help speed up our downtime?" she also asks of the pixie.

[Nephrite]

"Of course." Moore nods and flies over to help with that!

If it actually makes a difference, it's a +35 bonus.

[Anastasia]

Warriors heal up as best they can, restoring most. Arrel flies over, "Losses are light," he informs Ithea, "Our forces have not suffered meaningful losses." A glance at Moore, "Our healing is extending farther than estimated as well."

[Merc]

"Good. Do we know how Jaela's forces progressing? Any word of trouble on their end?" Ithea also asks. She hadn't paid attention to see if Crystal had made her way back yet.

[Anastasia]

Crystal has indeed returned. She approaches when looked at, "Everything's under control right now," she reports, "Jaela's forces have a chaos surge contained."

[Merc]

"Hrm...alright. Is there any need to adjust our progress, Crystal? Should we hurry or slow down at all to maintain pace with them? I do want to deal with this Adversary's forces, particularly his captured anarch slaads before they can become a dangerous distraction for them, and they're trying to stop anyone doing what their group is doing," Ithea asks the paladin pixie before glancing over the forces, checking to see if they're about good to continue.

[Anastasia]

From here, Jaela's group looks to have it together.

"I think not," Crystal remarks, "Our forces are in good order still." She looks over as well, "If needed, we can siphon reinforcements from Jaela's group."

[Merc]

Ithea raises an eyebrow. "We didn't really take that many losses. Or do you think the Adversary's forces might require a larger force?" she asks, willing to listen to Crystal's reasoning if she does feel it necessary.

[Anastasia]

"No," Crystal explains with a slight frown, "I mean as an option if we begin taking serious losses."