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Roland - smacks the Priest, waking him up.
Graktul - Cleaves GREEN in half.
Gnickygnack - ?
Armenain - Swings and misses, quite badly and shamefully for an orc.
Hekran - ?
Glok - ?
Neerduwyl - Buffs her friend with a good hex.
COMBAT ROUND 3======================
Roland
Graktul -8hp
Gnickygnack
The Armenian Man
Hekran (Lucky Presence)
Glok (Divine Favor)
Neerduwyl
Priest -8
BLUE - Asleep
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Gnickygnack - Threatens the Priest, who isn't amused
Hekran - Acid splash attack misses
Glok - Moves forward, ready to strike again
COMBAT ROUND 4======================
Roland
Graktul -11hp
Gnickygnack
The Armenian Man
Hekran (Lucky Presence)
Glok (Divine Favor)
Neerduwyl
Priest -8
BLUE - Asleep
Blue keeps on sleeping.
PRIEST - Having only one realistic target, he swings at Graktul with his dagger...
Finding a serious weakspot, Graktul stabbed in the side, blood going everywhere.
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Staggering a little under the blow from the priest Graktul takes a strong grip on his flail before throwing his body into another blow against the priest.
Feeling the solid blow connect Graktul gnashes his teeth in the priest's face while shouting as the priest falls.
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The Armenian Man gets a harsh frown on his face when Graktul starts bleeding out. "This started out fun, you know. But now you're hurting my friends." he says, circling around behind the priest, cornering the man.
"You've been found out, you're literally surrounded, and you're not going to win." He brings his scythe up above his head with fury on his face.
"Stand down or die!"
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With your combined arms you are easily able to take down the priest. And, with a sleeping guard, he proves to be no contest for your group. COMBAT OVER
With Folloch Teag defeated and the mesmeric baton drained, the people of Allenstead quickly regain their senses. While some still suffer from moments of amnesia, all are grateful to your group. As a parting gift, they give you 300 gold for their assistance.
NEW SLIDE HANDOUT - 11
Accompanying her notebook entry, Ulisha filled the next several pages with crude maps, complex equations, and further notes. She apparently returned to the Pathfinder’s cave mentioned in her previous entry. By observing the angle of the ridgeline and her current position, she was able to calculate the crash site’s probable location.
The last page on the matter includes a detailed map into Numeria with various landmarks and a destination. An addendum written in recent ink warns, “Tread lightly. Numeria remains a mystery to the rest of the world. Those who stay too long draw unwanted attention.”
Numeria is a brutal land where only the strongest survive. It was shaped by an astronomical event known as the Rain of Stars, when a large meteor exploded in the sky and rained down upon the land.
The Kellids that call Numeria home often scavenge the fallout from the Rain of Stars for a rare metal known as
Numerian Steel. Scholars call the substance adamantine, and it is famed for its durability and ability to cut through the hardest materials as though they were cloth. When alloyed with iron, it is less durable and much less valuable.
Some say that the object that fell during the Rain of Stars
was not a meteor at all, but in fact a massive ship carrying advanced
technology and creatures from other worlds. The local population views this technology with suspicion and prefers to reclaim then
often destroy any such finds they come across.
Once you leave, you find Ulisha’s map is straightforward and easy to follow. The journey north is an easy one. The Numerian border is unguarded and they can easily slip across.
Place your marker in the marked location on SLIDE 12, then we will continue
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"Don't worry, my people came more from the Sarksosis region, so I don't expect to find anyone with a grudge against me." Hekran says, lighting up a pipe, "But the Kellids that do live in Numeria, they spend their time, harvesting the metal from the asteroid. Some call it Numerian steel, some call it adamantine, I call it trouble. Adamantine will cut through pretty much anything as easy as a scythe through wheat."
"Now, I ain't sure if I truck with this kind of rumor and speculation, but there's people a-sayin' twern't no meteor but..." Hekran pauses as he tries to think of the right analogy, "Like a kind of ship, but one that sailed through the stars rather than the sea. That the ship carried strange creatures and, well, some weird clockwork-like things beyond our reckonin'. Course, if this is true, the locals keep it under wraps, destroying anything they come across."
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The trees become sparse as the PCs climb into the Numerian foothills. A series of switchbacks rises to a low summit. The view is phenomenal at the crest of this hill, where Ulisha’s map indicates a crash site. Vast plains extend to the north, where clouds gather on the horizon. To the south, the Sellen River cuts a definitive border between the River Kingdoms and Numeria.
The escape pod that crashed here embedded itself deeply into the side of the hill. Over time, the hill has eroded, covering the vessel in layers of dirt.
You notice that the soil along the slope of the hill here is looser than it should be, as if a recent rockslide had covered it.
It only takes a few minutes of digging to uncover a solid metal surface buried below. The escape pod is ovoid, just over 10 feet in length and 5 feet in diameter at its widest point.
The metal is strange and unfamiliar but you identify it as an alloy of iron and adamantine.
DC 20 STR check to open....
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With Graktul and Hekran, you are (just barely) able to open up the crashed pod...
The inside of the wreck is cramped. A single chair made out of the same strange metal faces the hatch, dozens of straps hang inside the device, and an array of levers and buttons lines the interior on one side. Several dozen palm-sized metallic discs and an unadorned silvery bracer lie scattered across the interior.
The disks are Numerian "Silverdisks", a form of currency. There are 35 in the pod, worth 10gp each.
The silver bracelet is an even greater prize, as it dampens the kinetic energy of any objects moving toward the wearer. Mechanically, this grants the wearer 15 temporary hit points, but due to damage the bracelet sustained, there is no way to recharge these temporary hit points. Further, after maintaining this field for 24 hours, the bracelet permanently runs out of energy.
As you descend the summit and work their way down the switchbacks, the Kellids step out from the surrounding brush and block the path.
“Stop there,” demands a Kellid woman who hefts a massive blade. “You’re are not from here, and those things are not yours. Give us the silverdisks, all the gold you have, and anything else you found there. Then you may live.”
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The Armenian Man smiles, widely. "The place we come from... it has nothing to do with who we are or what we take? Your right is not greater than ours... and we have the possessor's right. The strongest right."
"Do you wish to challenge that?" He stares at her with a look that somehow exudes both delighted amusement and deadly seriousness simultaneously.