Bleeding heavily the priestess is on the edge of death.
"No. No. NO I WONT FAIL. MY WORK IS NOT DONE. OH PALLID PRINCESS YOUR SERVANT BESEECHES YOU HELP ME STRIKE THEM DOWN SO I CAN CONTINUE YOUR WORK!"
as she says so her eyes open wide in surprises and her body begins to become covered in pustules and she coughs up some blood and she slumps down apparently dead. Her body is even decomposing very quickly from the bottom up. Her legs are already just bones.
"Get me to a healer! I've gotta have my eyes. I can't ogle at Mai without them!"
"Eh. What's that Crain? Get over here lad. I can see how yer doin health wise yah idiot, but I Kent tell yer deaf, dumb, err blind iffen yah don't speak up."
As you speak a green glow surrounds the body of the dead priestess and it floats up in the air. The body is filling up with power and is beginning to crack and light is coming out of the cracks in the corpses finally the upper body explodes and the high priestess is transformed into something new. What was once a woman now towers as a monstrosity of ectoplasmic flesh, horns, and a tremendous scythe-like claw. Seems her goddesses heard her prayer and answered.
Within the church of the goddess of undeath, few more coveted stations exist than that of the "Daughters of Urgathoa" yet no high priest can bestow the title, and no living worshiper can take the role. Rather, daughters are selected by the god or goddess of death, chosen from the most zealous and accomplished priestesses at the moments of their deaths. Even after their transformations into things of pestilence and dead flesh.
Sargent Drakus wasn't sure what he was seeing, but he was more heavily wounded than he liked. He popped a potion bottle open and slugged down a healing draught.
"Oh boy this don't look good...."
Donagar had just started looking at Crain to see what had happened to the man's eyes.....
Heal check
"I don't think a restoration might fix yah up, I ain't got tha proper spell prepared boyo."
As the transformation happens.....
"Wha tha hell? Crain tha b~!$$ is back up an yah should be glad yah kent see how ugly she has gotten!"
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"YES! My prayer is answered! I was chosen as Urgathoa's daughter! She adopted me! Now you will face our wrath!" she squeals in delight as she attacks once more targeting Donagar.
your go again you can post in any order
Mai hacks at her
"They say you're even uglier now!". Crain swings his falchion at the monster.
PA
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High is good for miss chance
Round 10________________
Wary at this new appearance, Drakus concentrated on just connecting to his target. +Inspired.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
”Bah! Prayers be answered ever’day yer jus delayin yer second death an then we will be done wit yah!”
Donagar feels his prayers answered as well, and holding onto the new energy he decides that he must be up and fighting in order to use it…..
He ducks behind Crain ”Yer tha rager she’s right in front o yah! why not show her wha yer made of! Tha literal blind rage then!”
Drops his restoration spell in order to spontaneously cast
Cure critical wounds upon himself
”I got yer back Crain!”
Gregor attacks once more but misses and continues to inspire the group.
The priestess turned monster winds up a mighty swing and tries to cleave trough the group.
But Gregor manages to stop the blow.
Your go again.
Round 11________________
Drakus concentrated on just connecting to his target. +Inspired.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
Mai swings her Katana at her
At the cleric's urging, Crrain activates his rage. He'd been scared of injuring the others without his vision, but things sounded grim. "Watch out!"
Inspired Raging Power Attack
Damage
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Inspired Raging Power Attack
Damage
Miss chance
"Everone stay behind Crain he's in a rage!"
Donagar cast shield of faith upon Crain
"May tha father's shield protect yer flank whilst tha rage takes offense to tha offensive!"
A hit from drakus and another from Crain wounds her but she is still very much in fighting form.
She tries a cleave once again.
I think that misses Crain he has ac 21-2 for blind and -2 for rage so 17 and plus 3 for shield of faith makes 20.
So if it misses crain it also misses Donagar.
Your go again.
Crain keeps raging and swinging his pole arm. it was time for this creature to die!
Inspired Raging Power Attack
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Inspired Raging Power Attack
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Round 12___________
Drakus concentrated on just connecting to his target. +Inspired.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
for a possible slashing, magic and silver damage.
Mai swings her Katana at her again.
was waiting for Donagar and lost track of how long it had been will skip.
crain missed, Mai hit and drakus hit once.
She attacks once more going for a cleave.
your go again
Donagar takes the hit and realizes that this is the time to get Crain really into the fight.
Donagar casts Heal on Crain....
restoring his sight, and also restoring Hit points.
"Take her out Lad!"
Crain growls as he jumps to attack.
Inspired Raging Power Attack
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Inspired Raging Power Attack
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Damage
"Now it's my turn, b%~~#! You are just as ugly as they said!"
Catching her fully of guard Crain manages to land two devastating strike and she finally goes down. For good this time.
"What? Impossible...I was chosen." she mumbles as she falls.
"See that? Just took me getting my sight back about me, and easy peasy, she's cut right down. Pretty impressive, eh Mai?"
"Yeah, yeah; we err all special, I was chosen, an Mai, an Drakus, we all got choices tah make and consequences fer ths choices."
Gives the corpse an extra whacking.....
Heavy flail
and trips over himself....
mumbles "More tired tha I thought I was...."
"She's so ugly we had ought tah burn tha body in acid till it's gone!"
"Sorry bout waitin tah restore yer vision lad, I only had tha one spell an could not tell which o us was needin it tha most."
...."Side yah needed tha practice in blind fightin!"
Donagar sets to burning more wand of CLW on himself....
"B&+$! got me but good wit tha last attack!"
CLW
CLW
CLW
"Let's try a blindfold next time! But, you're right about that...I wasn't much good at blind fighting. Some practice is probably not a bad idea!"
"Well that is the end of that b*tch."
"I just wish we could have taken her to the interrogators..." Drakus growled. "I just bet she knew a thing or two about this 'bloody veil'".
"Oh I bet she did, but I'd be betting she'd of poisoned or diseased the guards who were going to be interrogating her."
"Well, I don't see any reason to be twiddling our thumbs here. Let's find what evidence we can carry, and strip this place of its valuables before the guard shows up!"
Donagar inspects the woman's body for valuables.
"I still think tha we had best set this ting on fire an burn it till nothing remains, I would hate tah see this one brought back!"
"Anyone else need some healin?"
-+1 vicious scythe
-+1 breastplate
-Cloak of resistance +2
-Periath of wisdom +2
-wand of cure serious wounds with 37 charges
-wand of remove disease with 8 charges
-scroll of dispel magic (divine)
-three blocks of incense of meditation
-several sticks of rare exotic incense (worth 500 gold)
"This gears worth something."
"ken we burn her, err just cut her head off an take it wit us?"
"We could just dump her in one of these vats of acid. I can't see that would do her any good. Assuming it works, we could stay here until she's gone forever."
You have stripped her body of usefull items and tossed it a a fountain of acid so you decide to move on and search the rest of the place.
You eventually find a another lab were you find someone still working on a corpses.
The man is clearly not human you can tell that even from a distance away. He has pale grey skins and long pointed ears as well as red eyes and elongated claws.
He is a nosferatu vampire
He stops working as you approach you can see that behind him are two steel tables on one is Cedric your missing companion and on the other is Ruan the bard that went missing at the manor.
"Well then you must be the source of all that racket I heard earlier. You can relax I have no intention of fighting you. My work has little to do with what the cult over there was doing and I have no love for Urgathoa, the red manthis or the grey maidens and the doctors. I merely agreed to a deal with them. I provided them with a few vampire spawns to use how they wanted and I helped them a bit with their own experiments and they helped me with mine as well as provided me with a lab and some peace and quiet. At least until now. I can see that I will not be able to continue my work here so I would like to make a new deal with you."
The vampire is clearly unafraid of you and you get the feeling he would be a formidable opponent in a fight.
"We're listening. Say your piece, and let's figure things out."
Crain is holding that magical scythe, pondering just how magical it might be against this strange creature.
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"Not sure what we ken work out, it seems likely tha either yer self, yer spawn err yer creations might show themselves in tha city err drag tha unsuspectin charmed err dead back to yer lair. So a deal has got tah protect tha people."
"The deal is simple allow me to have my equipment moved from here unhindered and I will simply leave this city" he says
"If you leave, you will be leaving this city forever, correct? I don't want to see you stomping around here in three months. This is forever now, isn't it?"
"For your lifespan at least" he replies with a grin.
"Look yer wantin a kingdom o tha dead, an this city is full o life, why not find yer own place fer all time, yer own plane err demi-plane, yah seem a patient sort. I wouldn't want tha crown o this place it's not tah mah liken. If yer gonna dream an scheme this is small potatoes, bub."
"Do not misunderstand me I do not plan on spreading my disease any more than is absolutely necessary for my research. Once I find a cure for my condition I will return to being human."
Drakus' eyes focused on the creature, his own vote being thumbs down.
But he waited for the more diplomatic types to weasel what they could out of it first.
anyone else got anything to add?
Mai adds
"I hope you find your cure, but for all you know the cure could be closer then you think and not require research subjects."