Sonny just shakes his head and grins at those hearing a cry, but says nothing.
"Oh dear the humanity. We must help them. Oh my good heart breaks for the souls of those inside..." Xerice says theatrically and grins at the end.
"Well well, that's annoying. Should we truly get in? Maybe if we come back at a better time..." says the professor, looking worried.
Looking at the door Caesare shrugs and offers his hands for Ezechias to move over him, using his body as stepstone.
Seeing the paladin breaking the door makes the prof panic. "Waitwaitwait, what are you DOING? Oh, no. I never should have left my library..."
The gate comes open with a crash as two solid hits of Hope break it down. Inside the fence there is a sudden growling sound, as if of a hound, but ill-made. From the wall that Grine was speaking from a hole has been carved at ground level. A chain disappears inside, staked to a solid peg driven into the ground. A hound emerges from the hole, the chain attached to its collar. It wears a muzzle that prevents it from biting, but it is its appearance that startles you.
It looks to have been made from several different dog-like creatures, all hacked apart and put back together again. Stitches can be seen all over it, and it's clearly a construct. It begins to growl and bark, but the chain keeps it from attacking you unless you try to enter the eastern door; if you go in the northern door, you should be safe.
Xerice laughs at the distraught old professor.
"Not to worry grandpa, if the paladin does things like this it should be all right in the eyes of the law right? He is a paladin after all. Ha ha ha."
Xerice joins the others in going inside and suggests just taking the northern door.
Zanu moves forward, his eyes closed as the golem-hound barks and pulls at the chain to get to him. He finds the door unlocked and opens it to reveal a large warehouse. This chamber occupies a whole side of the building, from the cellar level below up to the roof high above. Seven iron vats, each ten feet across, occupy the majority of the room. Furnaces
fuel the vats at cellar level, while at the ground floor level a series of planks have been laid across the vats to allow passage to a ladder that leads to an iron walkway on the level above. Two ladders also allow access from the planks to the floor below. The air in the chamber is cloying and acidic.
Eight workers move along the planks between the vats and on the floor below. They are heavily scarred and don't look fully human. In fact, you see a claw sticking out from one worker's sleeve and a chitinous plate covers half of another's face.
Walking past the dog and following the Mage shaking his head with eyes wide open. Looking around the workers he whistles . "Mongrelman here, making bleach? Quite uncommon, to see them. Beware your eyes... the bleach could seriously harm them!"
Xerice casts eagle's splendor to increase her charisma.
"If they don't back away, I can clear them away."
She then takes a bit of cloth from her top and covers her mouth and nose with it.
There are a total of 8 mongrelfolk in the room. Of these, five seem to notice you're there and go back to their work. The other three pull short wooden truncheons (clubs) from their belts and begin to move toward you menacingly. "You don't belong here. This is a dangerous place. Bad things can happen here. Best you leave now." Their menacing postures are at stark odds with the somewhat helpful message.
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I will surprise attack them with the stone call spell. Stone call is a 40 foot radius and I'm trying to hit as many as possible within that radius, as I place it in the best position possible.
they take blunt damage stone call and they don't get a saving throw either
As soon as the spell comes into effect, Caesare turns around and yells at the mage:"For Torags sake, are you insane? This are highly dangerous chemicals and you use a spell that might damage the vats, or cause the bleach to occur. And they just for Torags sake do their duty!"
The spell explodes in a shower of blunt stones that rain down on the three belligerents as well as the five non-combatants! Screams erupt as the three who were on the precarious walkways try to keep their footing!
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The middle mongrelman loses his footing and tumbles.. to the floor below and taking damage! He lands with a sick crunch and twitches a few times before going still. The others in the room scream in pain and fear and run toward the NE corner, including the combatants!
Running to the fallen one Caesare drags a potion from his belt pouring it down the fallen victim.
Xerice can't help but let out a giggle. "And here I thought I was the evil one. I hope you don't kill a butcher just because he has a knife in his hands. People might take offense to that."
Caesare drops down the ladder, landing on the ground floor. From here he can see a door in the eastern wall. By the time he gets to the downed mongrel man, he can tell it's too late for the potion: the mongrel man is dead.
Dropping down the ladder and almost spraining an ankle he checks for the fallen mongrels breathing.... finding it gone. Looking at the debris around to the dead mongrel, to the magus his face goes white with rage!
"He is dead! You killed him. An innocent! Do you have anything to say? No make this anything that should change my mood?"
"WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING???!!!! You just attacked INNOCENT people!"
Sonny moves into the room and calls out to Sarenrae "Sarenrae, release your healing power on these so unjustly hurt."
He then calls out to the workers, "Please forgive this idiot's overreaction. We mean you no harm, come out of the room before one of these chemicals harms you." He then moves so they can safely exit the room.
Sonny's healing washes over the mongrel folk, who initially cower before they realize it's helping them. The two with clubs immediately drop them and race toward the ladder to flee the building. The five who were simply working move after them a moment later, but the last stops as he passes Sonny. "You should beware. Grine and Vorkstag... They're dangerous. They are not what they seem. They disguise their true natures. Grine is a.." THUD! The mongrel man pitches forward as a throwing axe hits him from behind! He spits blood as he falls to his knees and tries to crawl to safety!
Initiatives!
Round 1
21 - Augustus and Zanu
20 - Xerice
18 - Ceasare and Sonny
16 - Grine
6 - Ezechias
Augustus looks at the scene with eyes wide open in fear.
Xerice takes out her whip while she moves closer to Grine.
"That's not very nice, he was just about to tell us your secret. Why don't you come down here and tell us yourself?" She says mumbled as her cloth covers her mouth and nose. She lashes out with her whip and coils it around one of Grine's legs. Then she pulls down hard.
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Dropping down the ladder and almost spraining an ankle he checks for the fallen mongrels breathing.... finding it gone. Looking at the debris around to the dead mongrel, to the magus his face goes white with rage!
"He is dead! You killed him. An innocent! Do you have anything to say? No make this anything that should change my mood?"
Before combat Zano speaks. And how do you know they are innocent? They haven't attack us, doesn't mean that have done anything in the past that they are guilty of. Besides there is always a raise dead spell for him.
Augustus comes in the room and imitates the others, wrapping a cloth around his mouth.
Grine is 30 feet east and 15 feet above you, Xerice. There is a ladder near the vats that could be used to climb up to the ledge he's on.
Grine laughs at Xerice's words. "I think not, meddler. I think you're trespassing, assaulted one of my workers and aren't long for this world. But do not fret, no one will ever know what happened to you."
Another throwing axe flies down, this one aimed at Sonny! It barely misses him and lodges in the side of one of the vats of acid...
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Ceasare will drink an extract of enlarge person (round 1) and say to sonny and as a free action use his studied strike on the axe throwwer"Can you safe the axewounded man?"and one of longarm.(round 2)He should now have the reach with his longspear to reach the axe throwert.
Augustus puts back his glasses and looks at Grine straight in the eyes and begins to examine him swiftly, concluding by saying "You punk, I think you had just an awful childhood. You were... beaten and... you have a fear of clowns!"
The prof continues to speak to the axe thrower, revealing his weaknesses.
No, the ledge you are on is five feet wide and 10 feet long, ending in a ladder to the cellar level. He is on another ledge 15 feet up, with a 10 ft gap between the two ledges. Plus he's 20 feet away from that end of the ledge.
Xerice slips down the ladder and moves closer to the ugly gnome and channels dark energies his way.
Round 1
Sonny moves to the fallen mongrelman, "Thank you for the warning! May Sarenrae bless you and heal you."
Round 2
"Fall to your knees and repent evil doer!
Casting Command DC 14 Fall