Jennix stabs and slashes at one of the undead as they all lurch forward to go after the lore ninja!
"Jennix, step back!" Terflynn commands, drawing a pellet grenade.
Indeed, Miso concurs. We must use the doorway to our advantage!
Miso flurries with ki strike at Red!
"You think so?" Jennix rasps over his shoulder as he looks for a place to move.
Fighting his way backwards, he attacks the blue undead, then steps backward.
As Jennix steps back into range, Terflynn touches him with a spell.
Death Ward
Zack fires into the melee at the nearest undead creature.
Miso lands a pair of hits on the red undead! Jennix then hits the blue one before backing up and letting Terflynn's magic protect him from the draining power of the corpses. Zachary takes down one of the injured creatures but his other shots miss.
Stepping up to guard the entrance, the rotting corpses continue their vicious attack!
Miso deftly dodges the blows of the undead. We must focus our attacks, just as the midday sun focuses its light and warmth.
Miso flurries with ki strike at Green!
He speaks over his shoulder to Terflynn and Zachary. The beaver steps into the flow of the stream and holds its force at bay with its labor. So, too, should we bottleneck our foe within the doorway, using one more step back.
Jennix attacks the green tinged undead.
Miso takes out the middle green undead and Jennix pokes through another and then chops its head off!
Terflynn curses the undead with ill fortune, stealing fate away from it through an invisible arcane agent.
Zack looses a few arrows at the creature in front of him.
Jennix and Zachary are able to dispatch the last undead with little trouble.
Archways lead to the right, left, and forward; the rooms beyond are dark.
"You know, I've not even brought torches. Jennix? Miso?"
The Kellid shakes his head. Only our nightly fire, he says, holding out his campfire bead. I believe we found some tindertwigs a while back, though.
"Well now wait a moment. Let me see..." Terflynn trails off as he rummages in his haversack, not entirely certain what he's searching for. "Ah, here we are. It's called a Wayfinder if I recall. I forgot this was in here." He holds it forth and speaks the command word, light springing from the object like fire. "Would you carry this for us, Miso?"
I would be honored, Miso replies, hooking it onto his belt.
Jennix pulls a wand out of his pack and uses it on himself. "Can't say I brought a light source.....I feel awful. Terflynn, do you what those things did to me?
"Undead can sometimes leech the lifeforce directly from a person's body. My spell will protect you from the worst of it for a few minutes yet, but you will need a skilled healer indeed." the elf witch concludes before pulling a scroll case from his pack. "I have this, but I don't know the magic on the page."
I would be honored, Miso replies, hooking it onto his belt.
I would be honored, Miso replies, hooking it onto his belt.
"Just keep the bad guys visible, and I'll put them down where they belong." Zack comments while continuing to scan the dark room.
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"If we hurry, we might just get through some of this before your affliction returns in full fury." Terflynn says with his usual clinical manner.
After a quick game of eenie-meanie-miney-mo the party takes the left passage and finds pale white mushrooms growing in profusion along the walls of this dark room, popping out of drifts of windblown snow.
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Unfortunately, no one seems to notice some bare spots in the mushrooms which indicate an entirely different sort of creature which comes out of invisibility as Jennix and Miso step into the room!
As the creatures bite, you get a brief transparent image of a mushroom-like creature with a sharp mouth although the image quickly disappears after it is done biting.
Again, the fungi only briefly appear as they bite but then disappear again and are lost from sight!
"Ahh! Something bit me!" Jennix cries out.
Racking his brain, Jennix snaps his fingers. "Phantom fungi! They can stay invisible and like cold. Terflynn! Fire!"
Jennix draws his weapons and attacks in the spot the bite came from.
"Right you are, Jennix! But first, take these!" Terflynn instructs as he holds out two bags of powder, one to Miso and the other to Jennix.
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Zack shoots at one of the invisible creatures.
"Ahh! Something bit me!" Jennix cries out.
Me also, Miso says. Twice.
Miso tries to flurry on blue.
Jennix swings wildly and Terflynn retrieves some powder. Zachary hits one with an arrow and Miso pummels it! Still wriggling, the phantom fungi bite out at the frontliners again!
Their phantom forms then fade into invisibility once again!
Miso flurries flurriously on Blue some more. (Will five-foot to Red if Blue drops.)
Zack continues to shoot over-sized fungi.
Miso takes down the blue mushroom and Zachary brings the red mushroom to its knees stem.
Jennix sends a series of strikes into the space in front of him.
Terflynn, a bit put off by the rejection of his powder offer, focuses on bringing foul luck to the strange creature.
With a deft strike of his katana, Jennix takes down the fungus!
Still looking pale and weak, Jennix glances at Terflynn. "How much longer will your spell last, and more importantly, do you have another?"
Looking around, he points. "Continue around as the sundial goes?"
"No, I'm afraid I do not. We have perhaps another four minutes before my spell expires, so we'd best hurry."
Terflynn detects magic in the area before proceeding.
The rear chamber seems to have been used for a storeroom.
Moving to the last outer room, you see that a tangle of roots and leaves covers the floor of this chamber, dusted with snow and ice that have blown in through the room’s open portals. A large alien flower has taken root in the center of this chamber, seemingly attracted by the arcane energies of the spire and the storms blowing about above the tower's precipice.