i would presume another fireball/arc, but its apparent that not all of the fire did as much damage as it was supposed to. the treant is scorched and did take a lot of damage from the attack, but not all.
Yup, more fire for the tree.
Well, my favorite magic doesn't even work on trees, so what do you expect? Like seriously, the only thing that might help is I can entangle him in vines. He's a TREE. That's like his life. Ugh. Whatever. entangle!
Temperance casts Entangle, trying to put it far enough behind the treant to leave him 5-10 feet from the edge of the effect.
[r1]: [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo]
[r2]: [19:edwin], [19: forsythe], [17: piety], [17: ash], [14: jurak],
the treant moves up 15 ft. and slam's edwin's weapon into the rubble of masonry around the ground. [sunder]
[+1 cutlass = one handed blade: 12 hardness, 15hp. the treant does double damage to objects. he destroys your cutlass, and deals 1 hp of damage to Edwin. ]
pfff. go ahead entangle the tree.
i'm slow. double move.
[r2]: [19:edwin], [19: forsythe], [17: piety], [17: ash], [14: jurak], [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo]
[force mace attacks again ]
i'll try to sound burst the tree. and move up a bit.
not stunned, but the tree takes a total 12 damage. and i move up 30 ft.
[r2]: [19:edwin], [17: piety], [14: jurak], [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo]
[r3]: [19: forsythe], [17: ash],
Holy s#~%! He just destroyed your sword. I can think of no worse thing to do to a swashbuckler.
Yea, only DC 16 on that entangle, so he isn't caught in it.
Edwin looks kind of astounded well. that is ... ok then. I think I'm done here.
retreat to someone who looks like they have a sword I can use...
[r2]: [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo]
[r3]: [19: forsythe], [17: ash], [19:edwin], [17: piety (delay) ], [14: jurak],
i'll whail on him, with the longarm i shouldn't provoke moving up to reach him.
27 dmg.
smite good to try and get an AC bonus, and then move up toe to root with the tree, and power attack the f**~er.
AC 25, 15, 24
force misses,
whip deals just 3 damage.
misses. ok.
mwk composite longbow (+4 str pull), quiver (20 arrows), dagger, longsword, mwk falchion, 3 flasks of alchemist fire,
take the falchion, its slashing. the dagger you can finesse and is slashing . the falchion you can't finesse.
+10 (1d4+3/19-20)
piety & temperance want to act again before jurak goes?
he seems on his last legs. pretty abused and burnt up.
I will keep burning this tree until there is no tree left.
that should do it
With that he crashes to the rocky forested floor. his twigs snapping, the fire starting to spread better after his passing.
That sucks about your sword Edwin. I'll prepare Make Whole tomorrow and see if I can repair it.
Yea, good job Tempy. You totally f&$&ed that one up by letting the kindling over there summon help. I wonder who this "she" is that's coming to kill us.
Hey, I just wanted to understand what we were dealing with. I didn't know the jerk had some magic tree spell to autosummon his allies. Why didn't you tell me treants could do that?
Because they can't? He was obviously special. Probably a druid-tree or some crap.
Uh huh. Well you should've given me a chance to question him and learn more about this ally. Now we just know he has an ally, we don't know s&+~ about this "her" and so it's going to be hard to predict/plan for what bad thing is coming our way.
Erm. Well, I was hoping to interrupt him, but I was too slow. He insta-summoned. What can we do about that? Either way, let's search the tree corpse and see if he was carrying anything interesting. Barring that, I guess we'll just have to be ready for crazy s!#% and you'll have to improvise some great lie.
Maybe we can do something to make it look like we've defeated these bad guys and they'll just leave? Tree boy is toast, so no toting him out to throw them off.
examining his body, you find that melded or carved to his trunk there's a bit of wood that looks like brass, or possibly his tree grew over it, a holy symbol to Mitra in the form of the light bringer revering him for the sun. It radiates some magic, but seems to be growing fainter.
Detect magic, then spellcraft:
This is magical, it's fading. Seems adjuration-y. Probably a holy symbol or something, maybe he was a cleric not a druid.
Detect magic, then spellcraft:
Um, I would think of all people YOU would recognize a spell effect meant to protect a target from fire damage. It's a permanent resist energy spell tied to this holy symbol thing. It's fading now because it wouldn't persist past his death. That's why he was so hard to burn.
It doesn't explain why he was able to cast a fancy "call my allies immediately" spell.
puzzling on that one, you can probably figure out that treants have Treespeech, allowing them continual speak with plants he probably talked to the trees around him, that are playing telephone and talking to other trees to convey his message.
Well. Lets start exploring I guess.
Yup. Let's explore the crap out of this place.
Oh. That's how that works? I don't think I read that far into whatever book that was where I learned about Treants. I think it was "Flora Knowledge for the Aspiring Adventurer". Honestly, it was pretty boring. Just pages and pages and pages about stupid plants and what they did and what kind of sunlight and temperature they needed and how you could use them to remedy this or that condition because why would you use magic when you could rub random plant goo all over your junk and blah blah blah. I just skimmed through the ones that could kill me and then burned the book b/c wtfboring.
You walk up a wide set of stairs a hundred feet, after clambering over the debris at the base of the Horn. You cautiously ascended the stairs, leaving you at this landing. Ahead you see six arrowslits on both the east and west walls. Forty feet into the passage a solid stone half-wall rises from the ground, which could easily conceal two men.
Cool, a new place to explore! Meatshi---Leo, can you run up there hon and make sure everything's clear?
Dabu Dabu, Zug Zug.
The hall seems clear. Leo jogs forward, ducking down a bit at the low wall. Since he already makes a lot of noise moving at full speed in full plate. He whispers back over message :
I see three doors, and the hall splits off left up ahead.
you wait and observe a bit, and then Ash gets impatient and runs up to him.
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:: let me just check the halls and see if we find anything ::
This large courtyard is empty, silent, and dark. A fountain still flows with clear water in the otherwise dank and moldy yard. The centerpiece of the fountain resembles the form of Charon on his skiff, ferrying souls to the underworld. The rest of the courtyard is littered with moss and lichen on the stone, dusty webs, and looks pretty uninhabited.
Beyond the courtyard, it looks like it opens up into a massive open hall with vaulted ceilings. Past the ornate archway, six huge columns support the palacial room. Every surface carved in baroque scenes of daemons and their humanoid allies marching together.
A large stone throne decorated with scenes of daemonic victory over angels sits on a dais.
an empty chamber. a metal rod stil crosses the lip, indicating that some kind of curtain once separated this from the main chamber.
an empty chamber. the open archway covered by a ragged silk tapestry, so soiled its difficult to make out the great white horse skull that adorns it surrounded by a ring of jagged daemonic iconography that loosely translates "All must ride with the horsemen
Thank you Ash, you prove to be useful as always. Let's do the 3 rooms in the hallway going left to right and then the many rooms in the courtyard, going right to left.
This chamber looks like it once stored the weapons and armor of the guards of the temple. Now its empty, holding little more than a few broken racks. A door leads back around, likely to some of the arrow slits seen in the longer corridor.
Broken glassware and alchemical equipment litter the floor, papers, vials, jars, most smashed. On the far side of the room, lying on a stone slab in the center of the chamber is a metal man. a former alchemical golem. its braincase smashed. You recognize that though its damaged, it may yet be repaired.
an image of the Alchemical Golem it strikes you that animating it and having a servant would be great. If you had more servants, you could even take over this place, and post guards, sentries and the like throughout the temple.
The room lies in shambles, what might have once been a desk has moldered after being splintered into pieces. Two doors lead out of the chamber.
- the eye - it single glass lens has been shattered. its possible a make whole would suffice
- the brain - a brain from a propperly attuned race is needed (human, dwarven, elven, half-orc, or half-elven), a craft (alchemy) 20 check is required to install the brain.
- the heart cog - it mithril heart cog is missing, likely ransacked. the schematics detail it. 500gp worth of mithril would be enough material, a Craft smith 20 check is required.
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the reservoir- it needs a new glass reservoir where the four primal agents can mingle and power the golem. it lies broken and shattered, scattered , a make whole will not suffice. Ash finds a spare one among the smashed remains and can replace it. - the reagent of fire - 10 doses of alchemist fire
- the reagent of ice - 10 doses of alchemist's ice
- the reagent of acid - 10 doses of a potent acid
- the reagent of electricity - a large supply of lightning elemental essence
Ash, try to control yourself in here...so much wonderful alchemy to play with...
- "Laedrissa the Beautiful who believed she need not honor her promises to us"
- "Markhan the Golden, the draconic protector of Losewyn. He slept then and now he sleeps forever"
- "Kallister Feign, an illusionist too clever to keep his head."
- "Lazarus M. Who mourns for you now?"
- "King Croc, 23 feet snout to tail, delicious on a spit"
- “Iris of Ghastenhall, dead from a broken heart and a poison dagger.”
- “The Great Serpent of Korokunga, slain for its venom”
- “Lord Jurys Hallifax called the Just hid in his castle and hope we had forgotten. We hadn’t.”
- “Snorri Five-Axe died on a sixth.”
- “The ears of Lord Kelerrian. If only he had sense enough to listen.”
- “Chief Gorgun Sakkathet, invincible in battle, careless in choosing his cup bearer.”
- “Ergun Nigma, The third scion left in the House of the House Hyrhul, second greatest swordsman in the land, the first to die.”