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Post council, Alzar is approached by all three ambassadors or leaders. The treant wants him to join them in protecting their secret, the elves want him to accompany their trek through the swamp and the humans want him to go to Jo-Lak, learn where they live, and that the fight to them.
Alzar asks for some information. How big is the army? (I’m massively increasing it from the module) it’s 10 Mastodons, with howdahs on top and 5 garls in each howdah, 10 on small rocs, 1 leader on a large roc, and 25 unmounted garls, with 10 sabretooth tiger pets. There is also an advance guard of 10 gnarls and 5 kitty cats.
They will arrive at the forest in 7 days, and it will take 2 days for the elves to pack up and leave. That’s it? Just 100ish bad guys in the army and 15 in the advance party? Yes, that number is confirmed., and 6 days until they even get here? Yes.
By that time, Alzar promised to have cleaned out the army and advance party, both. They grin, but he ignores them and grabs a Crystal Ball. After scouring the area, Alzar heads to OtherSpace and grabs the right items. Then he casts Mount, and gives himself a Griffin to ride, and casts Teleport.
He’s about five miles from the advance guard. This guard is mounted on 10 small rocs with the tigers in the brush. Alzar grabs the skull and bones and sets up a blast area with Skulltrap and Blastbones. It’s right in the way of their tigers. He sets up behind the Tigers, and uses Conjure Earth and Conjure Greater Earth and Invisible Stalker to give himself some strong allies that will remain behind the traps. He chose well, there are hills to both sides so the tigers will have to come over the Skulltraps.
He moves to the Carpet and uses the Griffin as a spare aerial fighter if needed. He flies up and soars toward the bad guys. They see him and move in. He prepares a spell and casts Polymorph Other on a Roc in the front, trying to turn it into a pig and….it works. The Roc falls and both will die. The other 9 begin to swoop down towards him.
Alzar uses he Carpet to pull away, but they are faster than the Carpet. Their fire missiles fly at him, and although they miss (due to his Cloak they hit close enough to still catch him for 11 damage).
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