The Library of Last Resort is your last chance to find the resting place of Dragotha's phylactery. But you aren't the only people looking for it.
Loot Sheet.
GM Notes.
AC 20, touch 12, flat-footed 18 // Fort +7, Ref +7, Will +8 // CMD 18 // Init +2 // Perception +1
Wow, rereading that last post Rodrigo sounds like an idiot. (~_~)* Too late to edit. His point is essentially intended to be, we should go after them right now, or we should leave this place right now. Either way we should do something quickly.
Two braziers in the northeast and southeast corners are in this rectangular room, but, curiously, neither is lit. A simple altar of stone sits in the middle of the east wall, facing a large set of stone double doors to the west. On the altar is a scroll, which glows with an unnatural green light. A writhing green beam of light emanates out of these scrolls to strike the doors to the west, bathing them in the same green glow.
Astraden instinctively feels a force pressing on her. Farrukh, moving up beside her, can feel it too. It makes him feel slightly off, while Astraden is left outright nauseous. This room is under an effect totally antithetical to life and laughter. The air is dead, almost canned—breathable, but stagnant, as though the same air has been kept within the same chamber for years and years.
The mohrg appears fully mended, its tongue flicking dangerously. The last spawn crouches beside it. Oddly, though before the mohrgs appeared to be directing the spawn, now the former seems to be following the latter's lead. This may have something to do with the third entity: a middle-aged tiefling with a flaccid and misshapen figure. His fiendish ancestry is evident in the unnaturally green, almost fluorescent color of his eyes, his twitching tail, the vestigial horns on his brow, and his hoofed feet.
He cocks his head as if hearing something, craning his neck to see around Carina.
"Hm. Hm." He nods, catching Carina's eye. "Cousin, is that you?"
Taking advantage of Astraden's blessing, Tanith hikes through the air up above the enemies and the rest of the party. High enough to avoid AoOs. Hopefully over the green death ray too.
He rears back with his poleaxe to strike the lumpy tiefling. "She's no cousin of yours ugly. Call off your pets and surrender. Now!"
Tanith suddenly feels extremely uneasy as he enters the area, his unfailing bravado almost...failing him for a moment. Something in his head keeps screaming at him to get out, get out, it's not safe here, we shouldn't be here. Nonetheless, he forces his way through to hover above the tiefling.
Tanith opens his mouth and speaks. No sound comes out.
The tiefling's head tilts to the other side as he looks up at Tanith. He smiles slightly, despite his clear surprise at the burly warpriest's speed.
Sorry, revision. Working out complicated sphere stuff which the map abstraction renders somewhat abstract.
Spoiler:
As Tanith draws near, he encounters yet another annoyance.
Namely, the fact that he can't move. Not forward, anyways. At about a ten-foot mark from his target, any attempt to step forward encounters some sort of barrier he can't bring himself to move into. His bardiche passes through fine, but he's just barely too far to reach the tiefling.
Apologies. Tanith being ten feet up and this diagonal threw me for a moment. He can stand in that square, but he's aware that there is some sort of barrier keeping him from reaching the good tiefling.
Tempted to NPC Eben if he hasn't posted in about two hours, just because this combat is going to get slow if we wait more than 24 hours for every action. My current assumption for "WWED?" is begin Dirge of Doom for the move action and and reveal secret doppelganger identity by stabbing Astraden for the standard. Thoughts?
You had six rounds. Should be enough to get aid on everyone, assuming Rodrigo thought of it quickly.
It's not your turn yet, though, so those touch attacks will wait a bit. By the way, two of your archons aren't actually in range to fire right now. Light rays can only go up to 30 feet.
If that beats Farrukh's CMD, he is grappled. Also, if that beat shis touch AC, he must make a DC 21 Fortitude save or piss off his player substantially.
Astraden sheathes her rapier and flings a little silver dust in a circle around herself, saying, "Branite nas od požara ubija kako!" An aura of violet light, about twenty feet in diameter, flickers to life around her; she steps back as it does so.
Round 1: Sheathe rapier (move action), cast magic circle against law (standard action), and five-foot step (no action). Disguise self lasts 687 rounds, Turn Undead lasts 1 round, air walk lasts 794 rounds, bear's endurance lasts 75 rounds, bull's strength lasts 76 rounds, shield of faith lasts 77 rounds, and magic circle against law lasts 800 rounds.
It's my domain slot, so I don't have much choice. I could start casting nondetection on Farrukh if he wants to shell out 50 gold every 8 hours. Otherwise I'm going to stick to something that has a chance of being useful. I didn't know anything about the undead's alignments but the way KC was describing what Tanith and I (chaotic-aligned priests of chaotic gods) felt and what a lawful creature felt gave me the impression that the tiefling had cast something to harm chaotic creatures, so I reasoned that the tiefling himself is lawful. As it is, the mohrg and spawn are not benefiting from the spell, but you are.
Does the spell fail if summoned creatures are in the radius? From my reading they don't even have to move out - they just can't enter it. If Rodrigo does not want them to have to move back I won't cast it.
Nonetheless, the bomb—landing at Farrukh's feat—badly burns all three fighters, and the spawn collapses.
Farrukh takes 10 damage, as do the undead.
Round 1: Tiefling
"Hm. This isn't the sort of reunion we had in mind. Carina, the way we know we are cousins is that we have already been speaking to you rather frequently of late." The tiefling raises a jade unholy symbol towards Tanith. "Or one of you, anyways. She's very talkative."
Tanith feels a horrendous pain within him. Suddenly, worms erupt from his arm, chewing and gnawing from within.
You must make a Fortitude save every round, DC 21.
Failure:
Failure means you take 1d6 ⇒ 6 damage and 2 points of Dexterity damage, and you are staggered for 1 round. If you succeed, you are sickened for 1 round and take no damage. Regardless, you must continue saving every round.
Eben notices that his dirge of doom appears to be having no effect within the area. It also seems, now that he looks, like Tanith is having difficulty speaking in there.
Blessed Fortitude has been useful for the first time ever!
Tanith is surprised to see the worms appear on his forearm but ignores them and powers through the pain they bring. The tiefling's spell was a distraction - the kind that wouldn't work on a mighty champion of Kord. Still unable to edge closer to his opponent, the big man shifts his grip and lunges through the invisible barrier with his trusty poleaxe.
Fervor: Divine Favor, action point for lunge, rage, and full attack.
As an action that requires two hands, are you sure you can two-weapon fight in a grapple? Looking it up now.
Astraden, could you clarify what spell you're asking Carina about? The worm one?
Astraden:
This spell seems similar to fleshworm infestation, though enhanced in some way to render it much more versatile. Fleshworm infestation usually requires the caster to touch the target, while the tiefling seemed to conjure the worms from within Tanith. The spell improvement may have something to do with the tiefling's worship.
You sense something foul drawing near. With a start, you realize that the wraith must have returned. And considering how strong this sense is, you reason it's very close.
