Alright then lets make it happen. Last time someone did the the fastball special it was both of their athletics combined so with us we can do it from 2 squares away with essentially no chance of failure. Though I will of course roll a two on my grapple check.

I have a through the roof acrobatics check, so if you guys fail, I'll do a flying dropkick on that motherfuckers.

Alright then it's now officially a WCW tag team match with an unconscious ref.

Hang on, I'll get a chair.

I still have two encounter powers with 4 push each so if you guys wanna go for a pit slam I can certainly get him over the hole. Nothing I have knocks enemies prone though, so you guys would have to take care of that and/or come up with some mid air suplex.

Deni and Wvlf will have to whip that up for you if we're going to do it this turn. Though I see no reason we couldn't do it twice in a row.

Unless pangs willing to let us redact our current turns to replace them with something more awesome.

Nah, just push him in the pit I think but delay until after my go so my attack still hits (If you don't mind of course). Someone can still jump in with an elbow drop or we can save that for next round.

There's still time for that elbow drop.

If I delay until after Beefi's turn I'll be directly before the gargoyle, so it would just climb right back out of the pit on its turn. You sure you don't want to elbow drop it?

Edit: Also what the hell, that's three 1 damage rolls in a row now.

I went for the elbow drop rather than throwing Slim since he'd already taken a turn and missed his attack, thought it'd be a bit cheeky to redact that. If he jumps out again, I'm sure GFZ or Uxig can throw Slim far enough or he's as strong as Beefi isn't he so throw one of the others.

Ok fair warning I'm not really up to this degree of math and if I can't figure it out within the next day or so I'm just going to answer with my middle finger and charge the cave.

On a totally unrelated note a new healer may be required shortly.

This is why we keep Shin around. He's a mathamagician.

What do you figure the chances are that the cave is filled with 35 minions?

Also I'm coming up with 1/138 as being the chances but I'm roughly 43% sure I fucked up somewhere along the way.

Even if it's 35 minions, they'll murder you. Minions die quick, but do full damage.

I originally thought it might be some permutation of Bertrand's Box, but the numbers don't line up.

Fair enough I'm basically support/off striker with piss poor ac so I would undoubtedly die quickly. But! and maybe this is just me getting too into it but I think that's what Uxig would do. You know being a tiny maladjusted gnome eating lizard barbarian and all.

Then again maybe I'm just being an enormous dipshit. It's always good to leave these things open to interpretation.

The way I see the math is: 10/35 x 25/34.

250/1190.

.21008

21%.

But Shin will probably come in and tell me I'm stupid.

10 Xivorts, 25 Imps so the chances of the first thing out being a Xivort is 10/35. The chances of the second thing coming out being an Imp, given that the first was a Xivort is 10/35 * 25/34 = so close to 21% it might as well be exact.

So yeah, Deni was spot on.

Chanic, laying them out in a star of David will get you 8 triangles, two big ones and six round the outside. Not sure if that's the best answer mind you but it seems to me to be a good place to start.

Not sure about the other one. I can get eight rows max after a couple of tries:

I hate these kind of spacial awareness things, anyone here autistic?

Ok, I can get nine. File attached...

I think if I burn my daily that grants regeneration that combined with getting 8 temp hp each time I kill something is going to make this go pretty smoothly if a little slow.

Do not worry though the math you guys did on my behalf will be put to a good use.

I figured out the tree puzzle without too much trouble. A 3x3 grid gives you 8 liines - you just need to turn two of those lines into Xs and you're golden.

I don't get it.

... i can't think of any better hints, other than that you only need to move two trees. they're the same trees you moved for your 9 line solution, just put elsewhere.

if you want me to post the solution, i will, but that's no fun at all.

I'm sure Wvlf can fight his way out if need be, don't ruin it for the party until we ask. To be fair, I've given it no more than five minutes thought but I do suck at these kind of puzzles. Give me some maths I can solve with a spreadsheet any day of the week.

Thanks for the Star of David suggestion, Shin, but I'm pretty sure in this particular puzzle you are supposed to treat each rod as a side of a whole triangle. I've seen it before as an exercise to think in 3D.

If Pang says my assumptions are off, your solution is probably the answer.

Wvlf, I have an answer if you want it, although I can't take any credit for it.