Mushu's wand darts out and taps Ayako, healing her scorch marks
Ayako is still stuck looking at wolf tail and so heals Iolana
Iolana doesn't get out of the way of the fire. Almost before the pain registers Ayako heals it. "Thank you. You want a ride?" If Ayako says yes, she'll grab her hand and teleport into the room.
That would be nice, but I can'tsee a thing besides a wall of fur.
Tyrandro wonders "I thought you'd like being shielded from the mean women with the sharp swords."
He is not really happy that the casters are out of sight now, but as there are plenty of Gray Maidens he simply shoots them instead. But before he deactivates his boots and acts on the magic Ayako provided.
Fluffy bites the other maiden.
Are 63 points of damage enough to keep her dead?
Somehow the giant dog dodges out of harm from the fire completely.
Tyrandro sends the Maiden by the door spinning and Tunstall takes her down for good.
Sebastian steps to the left and eviscerates the next Gray Maiden, killing her twice over again.
Zenobia casts a spell of protection on Kordaitra. The acid injures her but her wounds heal faster than she is hurt.
Iolana teleports Ayako and Mushu into the room and Ayako and her pig heal Ayako and Iolana's wounds.
Kordaitra stands patiently in the acid, waiting for her time.
The two remaining Gray Maidens drop their bows and draw longswords to attack Sebastian. They still have no luck hitting.
Fluffy moves into the room, pushing Sebastian a bit. Then he bites the next maiden.
Tyrandro steps closer and shoots what's left.
Ayako waves her hand and the grinding of stone fills the air as the floor rises up and arches over the pit, sealing those inside it to suffer burning doom.
Tyrandro takes down another Gray Maiden and Tunstall bites the last one and yanks it to the ground.
Sebastian stabs the hell out of the last Maiden on the floor, leaving her nothing more than a bloody puddle.
You can't see what Zenobia is doing in the pit from where any of you are standing but you hear a sickly wet noise.
Iolana's does not want to stand near the edge of the pit, so she holds. Ayako seals the top of the pit with her wall of stone.
You see and hear nothing on Kordaitra's turn.
At the end of the round, the southern door bursts open and four more regular Gray Maiden's led by an elven Gray Maiden wielding a flaming sword charge forth.
"They seem to have an endless supply of those Gray Maidens." Tyrandro states and turns his attention to the new arrivals. Not being impressed by the abilities of the standards maidens, he shoots at the gal with the flaming sword.
"Fluffy, block the door."
Fluffy moves to one of the doors.
Iolana, the stone wall should keep us from falling into the pit so we can aid Tyrando.
Ayako hustles over to help Tyrando, using her blessing to increase her limp to something resembling a normal run.
How hurt are you, Tyrando?
"Tis but a scratch." Tyrandro replies.
Tyrandro manages to get two hits on the newcomer. She just snarls more angrily.
Sebastian, like Tunstall moves up to the cage and holds action to attack.
Iolana senses her spell has ended and the banging continues underneath the wall.
The woman with the flaming sword charges forward, double moving, but can't get past either Sebastian or Tunstall blocking the doors. The chooses to confront Sebastian over the wolf. Sebastian stabs her once when she gets up close.
Iolana holds to cast a spell on anyone who might escape the pit.
Kordaitra carves through the wall of stone with her sword and her and Zenobia are cast out of the opening. However, Zenobia now looks much different than before. Zenobia's body lays motionless on the ground and floating above it is Zenobia's head with coils of viscera and entrails dangling from her throat.
Iolana fires her held spell at Zenobia's head as it appears. One ray of cold hits it but the cold doesn't seem to hurt her that much.
One Gray Maiden moves up to attack Sebastian and the other three move to attack Tunstall. Tunstall also tries to bite at the Maiden when she opens the door, but she steps back to dodge. One Gray Maiden gets a hit in and slashes Tunstall.
With his prefered Target Back Tyrandro shoots the head. "Iolana, you might want to get out of there."
Tunstall is happy to have some of those maidens play whack the dog with him. But to challenge them a bit he bites.
Mushu scampers up to Fluffy and taps him with the wand
Ayako looks behind her at the sound of breaking rock. Tyrando, they are out of the pit.
Ayako uses Fervor to give her a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves, and raises another Wall of Stone to delay the escapes from the pit.
Zenobia's head doesn't get another chance to act; Tyrandro plunges three more arrows into her skull and it explodes like a ripe pumpkin.
Sebastian fences with the elven Gray Maiden and scores two more hits. It doesn't look like she can take much more punishment but then she gets to attack back.
Tisharue's flaming longsword cleaves into Sebastian twice. Sebastian isn't looking good after the attack either.
Iolana summons a field of black tentacles that immediately engulf the Gray Maiden leader, holding her fast.
However, the tentacles don't hold her for long. She breaks free and quickly moves out of the area.
Sebastian blocks all of the Gray Maiden's attacks. But Tunstall isn't able to. He gets hit three times; one of those attacks hits something vital.
Iolana fires a set of Scorching Rays at Kordaitra.
Tyrandro is pleased that the first of the higher ranking women - why are they all women?[/i] - and continues with his approach. Which also should take some pressure from Sebastian.
Now fluffy changes tactics.
Ayako hustles over to Sebastion, still keeping her +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves and casts Cure Critical Wounds on him
Mushu taps Fluffy with the wand again
Tyrandro continues to mow down everything he aims at. His first arrow kills the Gray Maiden elf and two more badly wound the Gray Maiden next to her.
Sebastian stabs the remaining Gray Maiden in front of him twice in the chest; the second stab right through her heart.
Iolana hits Kordaitra with three cold rays. Kordaitra scowls, "I will make sure you suffer, meddlesome mage!"
Ayako heals Sebastian and Mushu heals Tunstall.
Kordaitra turns on her heels and flees through the western door. She climbs through the tentacles before they can grab her again.
The three remaining Maidens all continue to attack Tunstall but in his defensive stance, he is untouchable.
Tyrandro sighs, as another one escapes. But the black tentacles forbid a chase. So he shoots more maidens.
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Iolana pouts. "She called me meddlesome, and then she ran out of the room. That's two powerful people who have left the battlefield. I really don't want to deal with them again, but I'm not following." Iolana moves into the other room.
She fires five magic missiles at the furthest away Maiden.
I think we can storm the castle at this point and give her highness a proper spanking Ayako looks at the remaining maidens. You are better off surrendering
It takes three arrows to kill one Maiden, and Tyrandro hits the next Maiden in line with the fourth shot.
Sebastian steps of the still warm dead body and stabs the next Maiden by Tunstall killing her.
Iolana's magic missiles hit the last Gray Maiden but isn't enough to kill her yet.
Ayako heals Sebastian and he is looking much better.
The last Gray Maiden doesn't know when to give up and continues the fight. She attacks Tunstall again unsuccessfully.
You hear Kordaitra continue to run further away. There is no sign of her from where you are.
"Wow. The plan of hitting them hard works quite well." Tyrandro states as the last of the maidens is down.
There is one runaway Maiden, shall we pursue? If let alone she might reproduce and make more.
"Let's check if those here had something useful on them first."
"Once we're done, these black tentacles are gone hopefully, so we actually can pursue her." Tyrandro suggests.
"I agree let's follow her."
Very well, let us pursue
Iolana dismisses her tentacles and you give chase through the back door. The door leads to a hallway that forks off into three directions each ending at a door. The door to the north is ajar. Inside is a bedroom.
This bedroom’s decor reveals little about its occupant, other than that it must be a clean, well-ordered, militaristic person with little interest in decor. The monochromatic furniture is blocky and functional, and only the large landscape painting of Korvosa, presented in lovely colors, brings any personality to the chamber at all.
Searching the room, you can find the false documents that Boule had delivered to Kordaitra on her desk. There are also three keys in the desk: two look like prison cell keys (to different areas) and one to something else.
Fluffy searches the maidens for something edible and is disappointed to find nothing. Then he follows the ladies, in hopes they lead him where the 'gras' is greener.
Tyrandro fills up his supply of arrows and grabs a few vials with healing-potions. As he has no clue about magic properties of the stuff, he only grabs the flaming sword, puts it into it's sheath and bags it.
Then he too follows into the room and looks around. "Oh, a secret door." He checks it for traps first and pushes it open if there are none.
Tyrandro opens the secret door, which leads to a small pantry-like closet. A mysterious gaseous cloud floats harmlessly out of the room overhead. Inside the room is a stock of treasure.
These items include a cherrywood coffer with velvet-lined compartments (the coffer itself is worth 500 gp) containing four potions of cure serious wounds, three potions of remove disease, six potions of lesser restoration, and three potions of gaseous form. In addition, there are 2 doses of dust of disappearance, a wand of cure critical wounds (40 charges), a scroll of break enchantment, a scroll of heal, a scroll of limited wish, a scroll of resurrection, two candles of truth, and 3 doses of stone salve, all kept in a bag of holding (type IV).
Fluffy growls at the cloud. He recognizes the smell.
This is..quite the find, but what is that cloud?
Iolana stands in the doorway, and looks at the cloud. "There's nothing harmless in this place. It must be something."
Ayako identifies the cloud as a gaseous form.
Now that you look at it more carefully, it does look vaguely feminine although translucent and misty. It continues to slowly float out of the room and past you. However, its speed is slow enough that you could easily keep pace if you wanted to.
Tyrandro shoots at it. Mostly for a lack or other things he could do with it.
Ayako casts Dispel Magic on it. Perhaps we can capture her for useful information
Good to note that while Tyrandro's arrow passes through her incorporeal body, the cloud does react as if it hurt her.
When Ayako successfully dispels the effect, Kordaitra's body becomes solid again and she falls from the ceiling to land on all fours on the ground.
Fluffy! Fetch!
"Grab her. We'll see what she can tell us." Iolana moves up in position to tackle her if she moves from the floor.
Fluffy does as told.
Tyrandro has his bow ready in case the woman tries something funny.
We can secure her in the torture room