[OOC] Return to the Rusty Rat

[DM Surranó]

Okay a couple of things before I look like committing PK on purpose...
I would slay an inactive PC especially if it saves the rest of the party, yes. But not without the consent of the player-- or repeated lack of response from the player-- and we are not at that point yet with MiB. I will try to contact him one more time.
The fact that the dice favoured the opponent didn't help the party. Giant made contact twice but Lugar failed.
Murkatos aimed well, hitting twice but one did not affect Cloak and it saved against the other one.
Finally, after some ridiculous attack rolls earlier it made two out of three attacks count.

What I would like to ask you to comment on is whether you can see this as the best the party can do (like, could Giant have an AOO on the hand as it failed to grasp at Maul's leg?) or whether I abused or even forgot some of the game mechanics.
Merri used up two magic missiles. I have no info on the total list of spells she memorised but whenever I play a wizard I don't memorise more than two of the same spell. The old character sheet is lost on Plothook and the new sheet doesn't contain her spells (guess MiB never got that far in updating Merri's sheet.

A bit of a spoiler but you probably figured it out already...

1. Cloak can pass through solid objects. Thus, unhindered by difficult terrain and can take five foot step out of / into stone as well.
2. It has blind fight feat so didn't have to guess on Merri's location even though she had total concealment against the attacker and the attack did not fail the 50% miss chance either.
3. As a side note the creature has a fly spead in addition to walk speed but it doesn't make sense if you pass solid objects anyway-- it's like your walk is same is your flight isn't it? so I used the lower of the two which is still pretty fast.
4. The "-2 to everything" Giant suffered was actually caused by negative levels. Merri now has two hits or 4 negative levels. Considering she's multiclass (Ftr 2 / Wiz 5) she lost most of her spells even if we consider her Ftr 1 / Wiz 2 now.