When asked about the distance, I said that in order to be safe from being spotted, you needed to stay a good distance away. You could move up a lot closer, but would run a significant risk of the hut being spotted by the hawk, camouflaged or not, it's a big dome where one wasn't before.
No one said the group would risk it, so I assumed the safer play.
Apologies, but it will be later today before I can update.
Edited: daishain on 14th Jun, 2018 - 5:00am
At the moment the "Naked" elf, or alias "Green dragon," has only sensed Mari and possibly Zara's presence.
Using its blind sense, Its hard to tell if it knows, exact positions, or identity, of all In the scouting party. Or how far it extends?
Thé pseudodragons blindsense would be no where as powerful as dragon's.
2 minutes is a short time in non-combat time, so I don't think it'll be critical. Even if they bluff and delay the combat until we get there. We couldn't have been any closer without alerting the scout, and stealth was the key for this attempt. It may still work, in the end. By Dai's numbers, we were only 4,000 feet away in the Hut.
The hawk was patrolling a fairly wide area, both entrances included. I stated before that you could get right up on it, but also that the odds of the hut being spotted would be high from that close. Camouflaged or no, it's a big dome where none existed before.
I feel better about it now. It's a really intense situation for the three inside though.
The stealth rolls for Zarra and Mari haven't made this easy. If just one of us had rolled well this would be much easier. It's hard to distract when she is aware of both of us. The dice gods have abandoned us. I guess they are saving all the good rolls for Poljen *wink*.
Edited: Kyrroeth on 14th Jun, 2018 - 2:32pm
20 rounds, since the Dungeon Master had people roll initiative, doesn't sound very short to me and 4,000ft is pretty close to the rough mile (5280ft) reference I tossed out there. They might be able to delay by talking, however, as you say, or she might be likely to take them as prisoners for torture vs an immediate fight to the death. We'll see! Hopefully we'll still at least have Poljen on the team if the remaining party is to fight her. We'll surely need him! I wish I had given Zarra or whoever can use it the teleportation scroll so they could just pop out one turn after touching the mask (Maybe).
Unfortunately the less stealthy group may have to encounter the kobolds, etc. First to really get in there.
We didn't HAVE to summon a big dome, it's just an obsession this particular party has with a particular spell (Or two (See 'Steeds'). We could have all gone into the secret entrance and then waited there behind the illusion while the stealth team went ahead, but oh well. What's done is done.
Have fun being tortured, Mari *wink*.