Update:

Bear and I are already attempting to streamline and bring down the level of effort of a burdensome task to something less time consuming.

So far we have mapped out attacking and all attributes and skils in excel. Now it has become a spaghetti factory of links and formulas that are made confusing the moment they're completed. The lack of one key function makes this especially difficult, namely looking up where a variable or cell is used. It may be a thing but we don't know that trick.

The addition of color coading and automatic calculations have promise but...

Consider feats like Sentinel and Alice's reflection and opportunity attacks and compound that with summons and half a dozen enemies each with their own unique rules and what happens is, these are not automatable in our understanding yet and so it requires a long list of actions and reactions to list and group and color and categorize and most importantly remember for every monster and character and feat.

This is what makes how we're doing it especially difficult for me, since you all depend on me to remember all this where usually the characters keep track of their own abilities.

More work is needed, clearly.

Yulya is not unhappy too shift the burden of decisionmaking to Alice.
Fine let us proceed this way then. Be careful!

The sound of a loose stone falling catches your attention, but it's hard to tell direction as the sound echoes through the tunnels.

Where did that sound come from? Did you hear that Ashley?
Yulya retreats 15ft SW tl Ashley and hands Alice the Ring of Dark Shadows as well as GUIDANCE with a tap. She tries to make as little noise as possible and holds this position nervously looking around as always.

yeah midsummer and christmas season. people drink a lot - stuff happens

Ashley zones out, bored out of her mind.

Alice rolls her eyes
We'd be a lot faster and it would be a lot less boring if you used your truesight and the summons a scouts instead carrying and talking them to sleep! Whatever, I'll do it! Send the expendable alien in front. Somebody has to do it!
Yulya I wanna borrow your stealth ring for that!

Cat looks at the East tunnel with unease
Nyaa I don't like that look at the shoring and the floor Nya! We should go North or turn back Nya!

Alice agrees.
Yeah that looks like the main shopping avenue here. We shouldn't waltz into the middle. Let's take the dug out tunnel to bypass the sketchy tunnel east. I'll scout ahead in dim light, You follow up with a lamp behind me!



Alice uses stealth to explore the dug out tunnel. She picks up the glowing rock and tosses it back to the main tunnel. In near darkness she advances further East along the tunnel wall while carefully searching the area.

Alice takes out her 10ft pole, extends a 10ft pseudopod and prods the tunnel floor 20ft SE to see if anything in the dug tunnel reacts. Then she stays slightly behind the others as rear guard wherever they move next.

The ground is a bit dusty, but otherwise solid stone.

Yulya carefully continues moving 5ft NE and peeks across the corner to search the area for traps and enemies. Once more she casts GUIDANCE on herself for that.

[Perception 1d20+5+1d4=23]

Yulya is almost sure that nothing is out of the ordinary.

Ashley zones out, bored out of her mind.

Cat inspects the Southern end of the tunnel and the mine cart. Then she moves 15ft NE and peeks across the corner into the tunnel.

The mine cart is nearly pristine, as if it was made and placed but never used, but sat for 200 years, only a very fine layer of undisturbed dust is seen.

To the East is shoring that looks damage by the sands of time, it has fallen but the rubble had been cleaned up long ago. You can see past it but the path is sketchy to traverse and partially blocked by crossing shoring obviously placed to stabilize the walls. Though the tunnel hasn't collapsed in hundreds of years, this would be a great place to test the integrity of the rock, as in, proceed through that at your own peril.

To the north you find a main tunnel, These tracks have very little dust on them as if they were used recently, within a year or two.

The deadly quiet haunts you.

"Blah blah blah..." Ashley addresses Mr. B as if he's been talking too much and she's tired of his incessant chatter then chuckles to herself. He stares back blankly at her, likely asleep with his eyes open.

The sound of a loose stone falling catches your attention, but it's hard to tell direction as the sound echoes through the tunnels.

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