The damaged statue continues to swing at Rozimus...
"Ha! Can't touch this again!", the rogue teases as he nimbly dodges the blade.
Jostrum fires another trio of arrows, but only two strike this time, causing some minor damage to the statue.
The crack in Elindriel's blade deepens as her strike cripples the statue.
"Party time, baby!", Rozimus shouts excitedly as he steps to the side opposite Elindriel and dives his sword towards the statue.
However, his excitement takes a toll on his accuracy and he misses quite embarrassingly.
Init Order Bold = up!
Jostrum
Julian
Elindriel
Rozimus
Ki/Sty
Miss Dominique
C2 (29 damage)
And Julian easily finishes off the damaged statue!
"Yeah, you guys are good at least.". Rozimus pauses in reflection before shaking his head. "Odd, don't remember them here before."
"Alright, so yeah, "continues Rozimus, "we went just a bit farther ahead and that's when big blue thing came charging at us!"
The party gets into position and with a nod, Julian opens the door.
The west wall of this corridor features three narrow window slits overlooking an enormous chamber below. An elaborate rack of against the east wall contains a number of vertical slots stuffed with scroll tubes.
Another door appears opposite of you.
Map updated.
@Elindriel: Rozimus aids you in your investigation and neither one of you spot any traps.
On the scroll rack, though, a total of 8 scrolls are magical!
There's a scroll of wall of stone, three scrolls of summon monster IV, two scrolls of summon monster III, and two scrolls of tongues
@Elindriel: Nothing catches your eye among the other scrolls. It appears that this was occasionally used as a viewing room of combats in the chamber and what notes you can find are scrawled in ancient Azlanti... perhaps bets or comments about those participating?
With everyone prepared (and a thorough examination results in no traps on the door) Maul pushes the door open.
The sweeping ceiling of this spacious gallery allows for a huge display of framed painting upon the south wall, each of which sports a different monster looking down on a raised platform at the center of the room. The platform supports a simple table covered with an open book and numerous burning candles of various colors and lengths.
A broken frame lies in the corner, with the scratched image of a rearing blue lizard.
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Elindriel peers into the corner. "Well, that's odd." She walks over and examines a ruined painting of a rearing blue lizard in a broken frame. "I wonder if this was as a result of us killing the behir, or if someone did this in frustration at our actions."
She casts a quick cantrip and scans the room for magical auras.
As Elindriel walks into the room and looks at the fallen painting, she sees 8 others along the wall: a large blue humanoid; a winged lion with a spiked tail; a gaunt red humanoid with demonic features and red ooze coating its thin frame; a four-armed, white-haired gorilla; a humongous dinosaur with a head that could swallow Ki AND Sty whole; a three headed creature that seems to made up of goat, red dragon, and lion; a fiery-red humanoid from the deserts, and a gigantic man from the frozen tundra.
Before she can do anything else, though, the sound of torn canvas can be heard and a three headed creature that seems to be made up of goat, red dragon and lion appears in the center of the room, howling out!
A high pitched laugh can be heard from in front of the now torn painting!
That is a chimera, a dangerous creature that can use all of its heads to strike out at those nearby as well as blast out deadly breath based on the dragon head that is on it! Luckily, it doesn't bear any special resistances or defenses.
The dragon head on the creature immediately sees the half-elf, steps forward and looms out a huge gout of fire that shoots out in a cone!
Elindriel is severely burnt by the blast!
Init Order: Bold = up!
Chimera
Elindriel
Julian
Jostrum
Ki/Sty
Rozimus
Miss Dominique
As the creature moves up to attack Elindriel, another painting is audibly ripped and a huge carnivorous dinosaur appears in the room, nearly butting into the chimera!
A high pitched laugh can be heard in front of the now torn 5th painting
That there, is an allosaurus... while not capable of swallowing things whole, it can still grab onto things with its mouth. The allosaurs moves rapidly, being capable of deadly bites and leaping with its large talons if it can get a running charge first!
The chimera moves up and tries to savagely bite Elindriel!
The lion's maw bites hard into Elindriel, leaving her critically wounded!
The dinosaur, moves towards Julian and tries to bite him through the doorway as well as lashing out with both of its fore claws, moving incredibly nimbly for its size.
While one of the claws misses Julian, the other lands as well as the creature actually managing to grab onto the strong man and hold him in place!
Init Order: Bold = up!
Chimera/Allosaurus
Elindriel (41 damage)
Julian (32 damage, grappled)
Jostrum
Ki/Sty
Rozimus
Miss Dominique
"Gaaaaaah!", Rozimus yells out! "This is jus' what happened last time! Things came out and started chasing us!"
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Jostrum's widen with alarm as creatures begin appearing in the room. "Try to use this hall as a bottleneck!" He cries as he raises his bow. Cocking his head, he says. "I hear something! Laughing from in front of the fifth painting! Can anyone see invisible things?"
Jostrum them flicks his wrist, producing a wand and taps it to his bow. After he moves behind Ki, giving the rider room to work.
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Miss Dominique listens
She then uses a move action to channel and heal
She then casts Invisibility Purge and takes a 5 foot step forward.
I had to reread the section for this after your comment just to make sure I wasn't screwing something up. However, these aren't summoned creatures, but 'bound' ones. And it happens that damaging a painting ends the binding. So I do need to remember about the other benefits for Elindriel now that she's in the Circle of Protection (bonus to saves and AC), but not being normal summoned creatures, they can still touch you all night long.
Eww.
As Julian prepares his bow, Julian strikes back at the allosaurus, landing only a single claw against the dinosaur! Ki's lance, though, causes horrific damage to the beast, which still fights despite the now gaping wound.
Rozimus holds back, wondering what to do to help 'Lady' and nearly panicking when Miss Dominique hits the area with a wave of positive energy before making another incantation, causing Elindriel AND a tiny winged demon with green skin and ram horns appears in front of the newly damaged painting, still laughing at the party.
That's a quasit! A tiny demon that's often a servant. They can turn invisible at will, have a modicrum of fast healing, and typical demonic resistances and damage reduction (cold iron or good beasting it).
The little demon, unaware of its visibility, moves towards another painting...
and giggles as it cuts into the painting of the red man, who now appears in the room!
Efreeti, or fire genie, are evil, calculating beings. They have several powerful spell-like abilities, including the ability to enlarge themselves or others, invisibility, scorching ray at will, and generating extreme heat with their strikes. Once per day, they can even grant wishes, turn into gas, or create powerful images that constantly remain.
However, things immediately take an interesting twist as the chimera lunges itself towards the demon and the efreeti slashes at the allosaurus who then immediately bites back at the genie!
The demon is torn apart like a dog with a chew toy, its tiny body sundered into many little bits.
The allosaurus gets the better of the smaller efreeti, who is now stuck in the creature's jaws!
Init Order: Bold = up!
Chimera/Allosaurus (60 damage, grappled)/Efreeti (34 damage, grappled)
Elindriel (25 damage)
Julian (16 damage)
Jostrum
Ki/Sty
Rozimus
Miss Dominique
"Huh.", is all Rozimus can say as the large monsters and enemies turn on each other.
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Ki pokes at the dinosaur again with his damaged lance, hoping to take advantage of its distracted state from grappling the Efreeti.
before backing up for a full change next round he calls out to the Efreeti. Noble Djin, do not fear. We shall help you vanquish these common foes. After which we will gladly help you escape this place of imprisonment and torment.
Distracted by holding the large djinn in its mouth, the allosaurus is pricked by Ki's lance!
Init Order: Bold = up!
Chimera/Allosaurus (6\9 damage, grappled)/Efreeti (34 damage, grappled)
Elindriel (25 damage)
Julian (16 damage)
Jostrum
Ki/Sty
Rozimus
Miss Dominique
With little effort, the efreeti is now released from the allosaurus' hungry grasp, some of the bite wound already partially healed.
In your head, you hear the following in a booming voice that almost bears the heat of an intense fire despite the non-physical means of communication.
"You and your little friend dare to court favor from the mighty Ignatius?"