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Max lets out a bellowing laugh and then moments later his shoulders sag amd he goes to one knee catching his breath and wincing at the acrid taste of golem breath. If there are any stray Pathfinders about, he stands tall again and exhorts them to take up arms and FIGHT! in the way only a 13' man with a giant katana-like sword can.
He looks at the golem, seeing if he can spot anything unusual about it.
About a minute later, he's returned to normal size, shaking his head after a heady draught of divine battle prowess.
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"Don't mind me...." Gaevus murmurs as he guzzles down the remaining three Potions of Cure Moderate Wounds that he'd "liberated" from the party.
Fully reinvigorated by the potions , Gaevus points with his scimitar. "Shall we head towards the Mausoleum then? Beware the traps there, it's easy to get your fingers caught...."
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A dull hum emanates from Skyreach as the ground trembles, trees sway, and glass shatters. A moment later, most of Skyreach’s northwest tower tears free from the keep; however, rather than crash to the ground, a visible aura holds the structure aloft and causes it to float above the Grand Lodge. Even the shower of stone blocks floats, swirling around the airborne tower in a nimbus of speeding debris.
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It takes you another 20 minutes to fight back through the chaos that has erupted across the grounds and increased with those gawking at the now detached tower, wondering how it is suspended in place. You arrive at the enormous, columned stone structure that is both temple and fortress. Two wings flank an open courtyard. The imposing structure is adjacent to a thick copse of trees.
Shattered statues and religious sculptures pertaining to death and the afterlife are strewn about the courtyard. Destruction has rained upon what was only recently re-built by the Society. Stone doors to the east seem to be barred closed. The bodies of two caretakers are slumped to the sides of the western double doors.
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"Oh, let me see!" exclaims Genta, hurrying over to examine the body of the nearest one and beckoning the wolverine to follow. "If they got killed because we wasted too much time arguing with that dwarf, I swear to Calistria..."
Genta examines the body to see what killed it, half-expecting it to jump up and attack her at any moment.
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Both of the men wake up after Genta's healing, though the second appears to be very woozy.
The first one says, "Thank you. I thought we were done for. There were two teams of them. Aspis by the look of it. They ambushed us."
He quickly assesses his status, "Stole my keys. Must have gone inside. Still have these though."
He pulls two potions and two silvered vials from inside his cloak. "Lesser restoration, in case you need it, and an alchemical item that will make your weapon like adamantine. Sort of like a silversheen. Won't hurt things that are really hard though."
"There's a cache of emergency supplies in a closet by the dissection room. You're welcome to them, if you can secure the building."
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"No no no wait! I have a plan! Close the door, Gaevus! We'll get in another way!" Genta says through message. She pushes her way out of the fog, telling the wolverine to follow, but she moves away from the other door. Instead, she goes for the nearest non-fogged piece of wall.
"I wasn't sure what I was going to use this spell for... sneaking in somewhere we weren't supposed to go, maybe." Genta admits. "Anyway. They've got our number if we go in through the main door, it's full of solid fog. So instead, I'll make a new entrance. Riiight... here!" And Genta casts passwall on the wall directly in front of her.
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The wall opens in front of Genta as dim light from the frosted windows and the opening show a line of steel tables, lab equipment (medical and alchemical), and barrels of wash water. The area seems to be separated from the whole of the Mausoleum by a wall of bars. A door through the bars is barely visible to the south of the new opening.
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Gaevus goes along with the plan, closing the doors and starting to move out of the dense fog.
From the other side of the opening, Genta hears, "There's someone here! They're not coming through the door now!"
Another voice yells out, "Get out of the hallway! I'll stop them wherever they are!".
She hears the sound of spell casting as a violet wall of fire appears in the hallway outside the bars, shedding more light into the room.
Initiative
Yitza: Go
Ksarress: Go
Max: Go
Fetch: Go
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"Ugh, that fog IS actually thicker than pea soup... And now it's going to be burned pea soup. Blech!"
She sneezes, but then starts singing to inspire the party.
"Fog's rollin' in off the East River bank
Like a shroud it covers Bleeker Street
Fills the alleys where men sleep
Hides the shepherd from the sheep
Voices leaking from a sad cafe
Smiling faces try to understand
I saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand
On Bleeker Street..."
Idly, she wonders where Bleeker Street is... but shrugs, because it is a good song.
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Max frowns as he sees Gaevus open the door and soupy fog abruptly invades his personal space. He back-pedals until he's clear and sees most everyone off to the left with a new hole in the wall. He double-moves over that way , then through the passwall and by Kssaress, and sees the wall of violet fire before them
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Gaevus blunders through the remainder of the fog and ends up next to his allies. Clearing his throat, he asks, "Well, what do we do now? Those bars seem to be protecting us from that random wall of fire.... Do we have any way around this wall? Genta, can you or Renyrd do your magicky magic again?"
Gaevus prepares himself mentally in order to better regain panache.
Afterwards, he looks at the bars, wondering if he might be able to squeeze through them....
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Genta lets a few people in front, then ducks into the passageway she created. "Oh, great. Who designed this place?"
"Come on, through here! It's only a little fire," says Genta, reassuringly. She opens the door wide so that her friends can go through.
"Come on, this way! Cut the bars open if you need to!" she suggests to Max and Ksarress. "I'll get rid of the fire the moment you're about to step into it probably!" She doesn't want to dispel it too soon, for fear of another battlefield control spell being flung at them.