Latest piloting roll succeeds,
Harpoon misses. Savage and Hugo reload.
Enemy shoots back.
miss
You closed to 100 feet away this round.
Next round if you close the rest of the way you can board. Either a pilot check or a harpoon hit will do it.
As you catch up with Adril's vessel, he nose dives it into the ground crashing it.
His party then rushes to some ruins to make their stand. You land your vessel and move to confront him.
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As they land and approach, Samhain heals his owl's wounds.
If he has time, he will also cast Strong Jaw on its talons.
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Ablin init
Samhain init you can cast the heals on the way down (or during the early pursuit when you had time). Do you want to cast Strong Jaws on your first action in combat?
Savage charges using blessing of fervor +2.
power attack, charge, blessing of ferfor, CaGM
The soldiers in front of Adril move to form a defensive wall in front of him. Two of them engage Savage.
CaGM kicks in
miss
CaGM kicks in
Adril taunts you "You stupid lackeys of the Decemvirate! Chasing me to another world like hound dogs at their command. You don't realize that I'm going to be saving you all when I and the Shadow Lodge take over. "
Rest are up.
I moved it back.
Was waiting on Samhain to shoot. Savage already attacked.
Savage again goes after those between him and Adril.
power attack, blessing of fervor for an extra attack, CaGM
miss
And the target in front of him falls so he steps 5' south.
The Soldier adjacent tries a shield bash.
CaGM
The one at 10' stabs away.
and Adril continues to taunt.
"You are but foolish pawns that have fallen into my trap. You don't even know who it is you work for, and yet you still slave away. "
PCs up once more.
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Hugo completes his spell, summoning a huge earth elemental 55' from him and within reach of the southern guards.
Hugo will move forward 40' to get closer to Savage and the elemental and speaks an inspiring word on the elemental.
"Abadar will guide you, my rocky friend"
The elemental will swing at the southern guard with two massive arms of sand/soil with 15' reach.
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for
Under the fusillade of bombs Adril goes down, but oddly enough this does not leave a corpse, but rather he melts down into a puddle of goo.
knowledge arcana if you wish to understand this.
Once he goes down and there is no body, the guards all give up.
You realize that this was just a simulacrum of Adril, not the genuine article.
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"So we caught one slime, but the main slime still eludes us. He will run out of time."
Samhain goes to one of the guards. "Where has he gone? Obviously he left you to be pummeled by that one," he says, pointing to Savage, then to Ezrek and Ablin, "and torched by those ones. What loyalties do you have to him? Where has he gone?"
The guards bow down to Ezrek. "You turned our god into a puddle! You must be a greater god!"
You are able to rescue the princess at this point.
The goo does have the star sword.
The remaining guards are genuflecting to Ezrek. They seem to honestly be in awe of him.
They really don't have any useful information. He basically showed up alone, and caused a revolution. Then he ruled as a vicious tyrant.
It’s a simple journey back to Arl with the princess (otherwise, it’s several days of open, frigid desert to return). Either way, once they’re back in the city with the rescued princess, Arl turns out to welcome the PCs back as heroes. Princess Verrish fulfills her brother’s longtime goal of uniting Arl beneath an Akitonian ruler when she assumes the throne as Thurok and puts a new council and cabinet in place. She relinquishes the Starsword to the PCs and declares to the people of Arl that the time has come for them to shrug off the coarse mantle of their superstitious barbarian ways and become a civilized people. Many in Arl grumble about this change and things are neither perfect nor peaceful as the PCs leave, though they are better than the city’s short time under the Beast.
While the PCs enjoy the celebration of their victory over King Adril’s tyranny, Venture-Captain Eliza Petulengro herself comes through the portal, finds the PCs, and gives them dire tidings: Adril Hestram is in the Grand Lodge of Absalom and his assault is underway. If the PCs don’t come with her immediately, the future of the Society may very well be no future at all.
That concludes part 3. GP award for the section is 11892.
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Samhain muses on the return trip to Absalom. "Though I am loathe to admit it, Adril's actions have yielded good fruit. An ally in the Maze for the Society. A secure lodge after the damage from those wurms is shored up. A people united under a better rule." He chuckles to himself. "But for fruit to yield, it needs proper gardening. We are good gardeners, are we not?"
You follow Eliza back to the portal.
The glowing red portal from Akiton to the Maze of the Open Road on distant Golarion rises from the pinnacle of the towering pyramid ahead, as howling, icy winds tear across the red sands, whipping them into an angry, biting torrent. Venture-Captain Eliza Petulengro rushes up the structure, turning back only briefly to ensure that she’s being followed. Reaching the top of the massive structure, she turns to speak, but pauses for a moment to think. Her voice wavers with a twinge of desperation and fear.
“I... we... We will never catch up to Adril if we take the Maze back. He’s already in Skyreach.”
Slowly, her pained expression surrenders to resolve. “I’m going to rift the portal. It’s the only way...”
No questions/comments, so she continues.
“I’m going to attempt to tear a rift into the portal chamber at Skyreach. It’s sort of foyer in the tower’s upper chambers— those reserved only for the use of the Ten and their most trusted aides. It should be the easiest chamber to access, as it doesn’t actually exist in Skyreach. It’s more of a hub connected to several dimensional corridors that run through the Grand Lodge. If and when we arrive, we shall be partially insubstantial. The Decemvirate uses this property to keep their identities obscured from one another when exiting and entering their private chambers. While the Decemvirate can enter and leave the chamber at will, we shall be visitors. In order to enter, each of us needs an envoy. Within the chamber stands a basin containing a small number of special ioun stones called eraminho. These stones act as vessels for the souls of the Society’s most trusted protectors, some even former members of the Decemvirate. By activating these stones, we can connect with the spirits to gain access to the inner chambers. Once inside, we should seek out the faction rooms first, and use them to make contact with whatever allies of the Society we each may have outside the Ten themselves. These rooms are the only neutral rooms within the upper tower, so even if Adril seizes command of Skyreach, the faction rooms will remain somewhat of a blind-spot. After that, we need to get to Shemis and protect her at all costs. All set?"
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Hugo would have offered to teleport the party closer if it would have helped.
"Lady Eliza, while there are other ways to travel quickly, I will trust your judgement. Who may we encounter in Skyreach beyond these ioun stones? And are there friends likely to aid us or foes likely to obstruct us? Adril seems to have been busy recruiting and obviously had access to high level information within the Society. Surely he must know what is planned? How much time would you estimate we will have once we arrive?"
Hugo will listen to her response carefully.
"Forgive me for asking, why is this Shemis person involved?"
Prior to departing, Hugo will cast longstrider, extended magic circle vs evil and freedom of movement upon himself.
"It is normally kept secret, the identity of the Decemvirate, but Shemis is in enough danger that we're breaking that rule. She is one of the Decemvirate. If she is slain, we believe the Shadow Lodge will be able to take over the Pathfinder Society. "
After wrapping up their inquiries, she approaches the portal and sets to work, soon tearing a lightless hole in its undulating, glowing- red surface. A bone-numbing blast of frigid energy shoots from the rift, and all those within 20 feet must make a DC 30 Strength check to resist being pulled into the blackness. An inhuman shrieking emanates from the rift. Eliza tries to yell something to the PCs as she steps into the rift, though her message is wholly unintelligible, overpowered by the shrieking of the void. Seconds later she vanishes into the blackness. The portal leads to Skyreach. PCs who wish to proceed to the next section of the adventure must step through the portal and follow.
After stepping through the portal you find the darkness thins only slightly, ebbing into a deep, blackish- purple twilight. The surrounding space appears without clear definition or form. Distance is difficult to judge, though there appears to be some sort of a perimeter marked by darker, shadowed arches.
Need DC 19 fortitude checks from everyone.
Savage pass
Within the foyer, all occupants appear as medium-sized silhouettes without distinctions of body shape, gender, voice, or even wielded equipment.