Braelex frowns, trying to see what is going on ahead. Is it some kind of illusion? Surely a trick. There's no way they could have gotten here ahead of us.
Aidons elemental moves forward and Fulmen and Braelex try to suss the situation, but neither notice anything untoward. It seems that Natalya and Clarence are who they appear to be.
Vuloo releases his spell but the Varisian girl pushes through it and fires off her spell.
Lockerbie screams and rushes down the hall on all fours to close on the crossbowman.
Relan shakes off the attempted compulsion and closes to attack.
"Natalya, why are doing this? You're a Pathfinder. You have honor. We saved you and this is how you repay us? If someone is coercing you we can help."
Fulmen will take a defensive stance as he tries to reason with Natalya.
Spells
Level 0: 4/4
Create Water
Detect Magic
Know Direction
Stabilize
Storm Burst: 4/6
Level 1: 3/4
Cure Light Wounds 2/2
Shillelagh 1/2
Darts: 12
Goodberry: 7
Round 2
Vuloo will cast another hold person spell on Natalya.
Braelex will hold and see how the situation unfolds.
Relan shakes off the spell and smacks Natalya hard across the chin with the flat of his blade causing her to stumble a moment ... she looks about to go down and then shakes her head a moment staring, "Relan?" She asks confusedly before her eyes cloud over and she returns to a placid look, a bruise forming on her jaw.
Clarence reloads quickly and fires another crossbow bolt at the fast approaching ghoul sending him crashing to the floor unmoving.
Andel hangs in the back, "What's going on ... what are we doing?!" just as a loud pop appears in the midst of the group. At the same time, one of the small creatures appears in the middle of the hallway to the west carrying a small crossbow
Vuloo casts another spell that Natalyas ignores yet again.
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N: (19)
L: 23
A: 6
C: 0
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Fort Save -
The elemental is underground and being underground he would need to save?
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I don't speak Terran, is there any way to stop the elemental from just attacking things it sees as a threat?
Aidon struggles with communicating with his elemental, and while the elemental doesn't understand it senses no over hostility from Natalya and Aidon's confused messaging leaves it sitting where it is.
Braelex and Vuloo take the brunt of the spell and stand holding their heads, shell shocked for a moment.
Natalya casts a spell defensively at Relan and the haft of his weapon becomes slick with an oily like substance. ;
Relax looks saddened by the caster's action. He 5' steps as well and this time his power attack is with the sharp side of the blade.
Relan tightens his grip on his weapon and cuts Natalya down. She hits the floor unconscious but stable
Fulmen is stunned
Spells
Level 0: 4/4
Create Water
Detect Magic
Know Direction
Stabilize
Storm Burst: 4/6
Level 1: 3/4
Cure Light Wounds 2/2
Shillelagh 1/2
Darts: 12
Goodberry: 7
Shaking off her ringing ears, Braelex moves up quickly and fires her crossbow as soon as she spots the derro.
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The elemental glides over to the derro ... and the soon to be named "Derro Bane" makes a bluish paste of this one as well.
With the derros death, Clarence stumbles and drops his crossbow falling to his knees and holding his head.
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Braelex will scan the chamber for more threats.
If it seems clear, she will move to check on "Natalya" (and try to determine if it is actually her).
Relan moves to the woman he just cut down and after making sure she is alright disarms her, including any obvious spell components. I am sorry my lady. he says to the unconscious form. But I can take no chances until I understand what is at play here. He will take a moment to make sure she is not wearing a disguise too.
Natalya isn't wearing a disguise. As far as you can tell, both she and Clarence are who they appear to be. Relan removes Natalya's crossbow, shortsword and spell component pouch.
Looking to the west a curved hallway stretches left and right stone cell doors set along the wall. Each has small iron barred windows. Two of the doors are open. A quick review of the room turns up that two of the other cells are occupied. One appears to be a Tower Girl you fought a couple days ago and the other is a raving human man, bits of the blue fungus falling from his mouth which is full of blue-stained teeth.
Clarence is blubbering into his beard, bits of three day old food mixing with spittle and snot.
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Can we get some healing for Natalya? There is much to sort out and I think she will be able to help us do that if we bring her around. My first strike at her was non-lethal so any healing should be doubly efficient.
Vuloo will cast cure light wounds on Natalya in an attempt to revive her.
Vuloo will cast a second CLW:
Vuloo s second spell brings Natalya around completely, curing her of all signs of Relans strikes other than rent clothing.
She awakes with a start, "W..w..where am I?" she stammers out, and then slowly realizes where she is.
"Relan, Bralex, Aidon ... what is going on?"
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Vuloo helps Natalya to her feet. "You're in the dungeons beneath the Crow. I believe you were under the influence of the derro. What's the last thing you remember? We will escort you back to safety on the surface."
"I, ah, remember leaving the manor and then I recall being on a metal table tasting something horrible ... the rest is ... fog."
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"Why bring you both here?" Braelex asks with suspicion in her voice.
"Bring who where? Where are we? Who else are you talking about?" Natalya looks confused.
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Vuloo rubs his chin, "It sounds like you may have been poisoned. I too am curious why you would have been brought here. I suspect the answers we seek lie deeper in the dungeon - perhaps with the derro. I suggest that we continue, if you don't mind accompanying us Natalya."
Vuloo will quickly listen for any signs of the derro before moving forward.
Braelex frowns.
You attacked us Natalya. We found you here guarding this area and working with the Derro. I had to hit you pretty hard to knock some sense into you. For that I am sorry. I prey there will be no lasting damage.
Aidon stands around like a deer in the headlights, he has no idea what is going on or why his friends would attack him, he looks like he is about to cry
"Uh, yes, could you tell me where here is? What dungeon are we in? And what's wrong with Clarence?" She still looks confused, absent-mindedly running her hand over the now closed wound where Relan struck her.
Vuloo will reiterate, "As I said, we're in the dungeons beneath the Crow. We don't know what happened to you or Clarence. We will protect you but we need to keep moving. Are you able to proceed?"
"Ah ... yes, I think so."
Braelex eyes the blue fungus the prisoners were force fed. "Fulmen, any clue what this blue fungus is?"
"We can't be dragging around the whole gang. Leave 'em here with a guard, or escort them to the surface?" She frowns at the thought of backtracking... again.
"Braelex, I'm afraid my knowledge is limited on such matters."
"We can't leave Clarence and the other prisonsers here in such a condition. If they can walk we can take them with us. Tie a rope to them and tug them along."
Vuloo checks to see if the cell doors are locked, "The blue toothed raver is a liability - I say we leave him in there for now. I'm willing to release the other three on their own recognizance. They can freely travel with us or return on their own."
"Let's backtrack to the larger room where we fought the derro and follow the southwest door."
Braelex nods and reloads her crossbow.
Do you know these other prisoners Natalya?
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