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"Demons! These foul creatures will not stand against me!"
Kristen will summon a celestial dog as a Standard action, using one of her arcanist reservoir points. Celestial dog stats
The dog appears next to her, and seeing the dretches, runs in to attack. It will smite evil against the blue dretch, allowing it to ignore any DR that dretch has.
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Gilfroy summons Hubert in the room and Hubert approaches the first dretch Gilfroy could see.
The dretch in front of Hubert tries to hit him.
Jaegar takes a look at the dretches and immediately knows what their strengths and weaknesses are: Dretch
He's telling his companions while he's preparing for a fight.
Kristen summons a celestial dog which attacks the flat-footed dretch in the corner right away, but the wounds start to close.
Vrald attacks with his cold iron sword and almost cuts off the dretche's head.
Another dratch starts to act . Surprised by Hubert and the dog appearing next to it, he starts to attack with it's claws.
Gilfroy
Dretch red
Jaegar
Kristen
Dretch green -12HP
Tenderstump
Maeron
Vrald
Dretch blue -3HP
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Maeron raises his longbow, taking a shot at the nearest anathema , remembering fighting such horrific demons during his upbringing in Kyonin.
The druid then gestures for Tenderstump to step into the fray, engaging the same dretch. The treant happily obliges its masters, stepping in and swinging its wooden arms.
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Kristen's summoned dog will attack the blue dretch once more.
(smiting evil, so ignores DR)
Unfortunately the stupid dog misses again.
Kristen will expend a point from her reservoir to increase the level of a magic missile spell, treating it as if she was a 3rd-level caster, which gives her two missiles targeting the blue dretch.
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While Gilfroy continues concentrating to keep Hubert alive, the dretch with the red skin attacks Hubert again.
Jaegar attacks the dretch in front of him with a cold iron arrow, the sight is not so good from behind Hubert.
Kristen's dog bites at the dretch in the corner but it grabs only air. Kristen herself throws two Magic Missiles at the same dretch.
Vrald also attacks the dretch in the corner and cuts it in half.
Gilfroy
Dretch red
Jaegar
Kristen
Tenderstump
Maeron
Vrald
Dretch blue -18HP defeated
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Maeron shoots an arrow at the remaining dretch, piercing his shoulder. The arrow goes through the flesh and the wound closes partly.
Gilfroy sends Hubert out of the room to free some space in the room for the fighters.
The remaining dretch slams his claws at Vrald.
Gilfroy
Dretch red -5 HP
Jaegar
Kristen
Tenderstump
Maeron
Vrald
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Kristen's doggie (which has been less than useful so far) five-foot steps over and bites at the dretch.
(Smite was on the other target, so no bonus damage)
The doggie is useless once more, so Kristen will use up her last point of reservoir for the day to increase the caster level of her last magic missile.
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Between the wreckage of the vaults you find a brooch, a potion, a wand and a gold necklace. The dretches carry nothing.
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Kristen identifies the items:
Brooch of shielding (30 charges)
Potion of enlarge person
Wand of shocking grasp (50 charges)
Once the dretches are defeated, it is safe for Gandros to return home which he wishes to do. He is firmly entrenched in his delusions regardless of what you tell him. He magnanimously grants you anything you want from among the remains of the Emporium basement. If you arrange to have him removed to an asylum, the conditions are little better than his existing home, but he happily christens the place “his new royal palace.” Alternatively, the Almsman is willing to take care of the old man, and help clean up the old Emporium. Venture-Captain Caudron Wallace is more relieved than disappointed that there is no otherworldly portal in the sewers, but mostly self-satisfied that the whole thing was a waste of his time as he predicted.
Forty years ago Gandros Skytower worked in his father’s shop, the Skytower Emporium, in the heart of Augustana, Andoran’s second largest city. Not a noble himself, Gandros’s father Relios catered exclusively to the tastes of the upper class. Although he was mostly known as a dealer in fine furniture and accessories, Relios’s most lucrative trade was in yellowcap mushrooms, a mild hallucinogen popular among the younger nobles.
Local gangs often tried to impose themselves on Relios’s illegal mushroom trade, but his noble clientele helped him keep the gang’s attempts to subsume his business at bay. During the People’s Revolution, Relios lost the protection of the nobles, and a gang called the Steel Wyverns, long thwarted by Relios’s noble connections, burned the Emporium to the ground with Relios and 8-year-old Gandros inside.
Relios wrapped his son in wet blankets and carried him through the fire to the Emporium’s deepest basement vaults. Badly burned and having inhaled too much smoke, Relios pressed a small pouch into his son’s hands and said, “Go to them for help,” and then died there, leaving Gandros to fend for himself. The boy opened his father’s pouch and found a small compass, made from silver and etched with gold accents inside. Little did he know that this was a wayfinder, a remnant of his father’s service to the Pathfinder Society many years before Gandros was born.
Gandros survived initially by using the vault’s varied resources, and as he got older he explored more of Augustana’s underground and sewer systems, aided always by the wayfinder, learning to scavenge and fend for himself and never once traveling to the surface in all these years. Over time, a new building was constructed on top of the ruins of the Skytower Emporium and the mystery of the disappearance of Relios and his son was lost in the sea change of the People’s Revolution.
A few short years after Relios began his existence as a dweller beneath Augustana, a barely literate derelict found an entrance to the vaults from the sewer. Misreading the words “Skytower Emporium” on the door, the old beggar assumed he’d stumbled into the vaults of an Emperor and after hearing Gandros’s story, took to calling the young man “Prince,” assuming he was the son of Augustana’s (non-existent) lost Emperor. By this time, Gandros was hopelessly addicted to the yellowcaps that his father grew in one of the vaults, and happily accepted the delusion that he was the son of long-lost royalty. Furthermore, the symbol etched in the middle of the wayfinder, the only object passed to him by his “royal” father, became in his mind the symbol of their dynasty.
After 40 years, Gandros believes the wildly overgrown yellowcap vault is a portal to another world, where faerie folk ready their armies to return him to his lost glory. In a deluded attempt to bolster his forces, he accidentally called two dretches with a scroll of lesser planar ally that one of his small army of beggars stole for him from the home of a prominent local summoner. Gandros fled in terror, fearing his underground empire lost, conquered by demons sent by his enemies, and for the first time in four decades, walked under the open sky. Recognizing the symbol on the Augustana Pathfinder Lodge from his father’s wayfinder, he assumed he’d found the seat of his father’s dominion and would at long last be raised to his rightful place in the world.