>>192264Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Looks like a fun fight.
>move silently, hideWe can't possibly all roll that without at least one member of the herd failing the check, unless it's a single luck roll.
How's this, Posey will roll a luck check, with a little bit of bloodletting for food fortune. If the result is above whatever GM determined the DC to be, the enemies are sufficiently distracted by the flare allowing our herd to simply walk past them. If the check fails, then cowabunga it is, and we fight through the encounter as intended. A simple diceroll to advance the plot.
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Posey slowly walks across the side of the herd, inspecting each creature like a piece of meat, making sure to gaze at any creature not already under her spell.
"Alright, you landlubbers. We have ourselves our conundrum here. The enemy forces have an elite troup in the way of our path. If we are lucky, we may be able to move past them. If we are unlucky... You will need to fight for your lives. Consider it a trial run, to test if you have what it takes to earn your place aboard the Kostroma and leave this desolate rock alive. Everypony pulls their weight in our crew."
She eyes the New Mareland airponies
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hostages, however, will trot in the rear, abd should consider themselves exempt. You are worth little to us dead."
She majestically trots back to the front of the herd, and mutters a short prayer to the Bloated Goat
"Oh bloated pale master of herds, guide this pitiful flock to through the mists, so that we may reach our true battle and spill even greater blood in our fury."
Posey draws her sword, and levitates it to her 'wrist' (do ponies have wrists?) and slashes a deep cut, stifling a moan at the exquisite pain of the silvered blade reaving through her impure flesh, the wound sizzling as it drips with icor.
Damage (Posey starts the encounter with this much less HP)
[1d8+5 = (3+5) = 8]Luck roll
[1d20+2 = (13+2) = 15]