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The grippli fiend-keepers carefully manipulate the wards to allow the Pathfinders to deliver the killing blow. Parveen shrieks in pain, then laughs maniacally as her soul begins its journey toward reincarnation. The loss of life experienced by the Consortium's allies in the Vanji Prospector's Guild has also soured that relationship, loosening the Aspis foothold in Bloodcove and undermining their prospects in the Kaava Lands even further. Scenario over! Thank you for playing. I'll work on chronicle sheets this weekend and submit reporting to the convention folks. Your faction glyphs indicate that none of you are exchange faction. For those of you who are curious, there was a sub-mission for the exchange:
Exchange Letter: Most Esteemed Associate,
Current events in the Kaava Lands have made it clear that the Aspis Consortium remains a stubborn and persistent danger to both our own operations in the area and the region at large. Given that the Consortium has acquired strong allies in the Vanji Prospector’s Guild, so too must we seek a way to strengthen our own position in the region. As such, I am entrusting you with certain privileges to act as an authorities on our behalf, with control of resources capable of effecting significant change in the region. While the precise details of how to use these resources are not clear to me at present, I trust that your discerning eye can find an appropriate opportunity to either undermine the Consortium’s operations in the region, or to strengthen our ties with existing allies in the region. Do note that these resources are not to be put to use for exploratory purposes, but must be used to either exploit actionable information on the Consortium’s operations or reinforce our position with established allies. In such precarious times, it is unwise to take significant risks on dubious prospects. Bargain wisely, my friend,
Please roll for your boons. Roll a d20. On a result of 19 or 20, roll a d3 to determine which boon you've won.
The Player Boons for PFS 1E are: 1. Traveler of an Unstable Timeline
You may also roll your day job checks. I have PFS numbers for Kelson, Anthys, and Kalia. I need numbers for Marcus and Claudia, please.
Parveen roars as the last of the original set of possessed humanoids is defeated! Purpurrup urges the others in the ritual: "Hurry! We must push before Parveen can possess another of us!" A surge of effort from the grippli causes the asurendra to collapse within the summoning circle. The possessed fiend-keeper falls unconscious--released from Parveen's influence.
Mother Bogwynne arrives with a contingent of the gripplis. She quickly discerns what has happened, and she consults briefly with Purpurrup. She then turns to you Pathfinders: "The Consortium has done their harm, and Parveen will be free if we do not act. The fiend-keepers believe that Parveen’s wards have been interfering with their own rituals and techniques, and it may be possible for a group of fiend-keepers to keep her properly contained if we can replace the damaged wards with new totems to channel her power and disperse her will. The issue we are faced with in this solution is that it requires the efforts of fiend-keepers from several tribes and expensive components. Without some form of outside assistance, any other significant disturbance—such as another Aspis incursion—would unleash Parveen upon us all." Mother Bogwynne’s long tongue darts out in an anxious flicker before she continues. "We have one other option before us, and that is to strike now and kill the monster while we can. If we do this, she will not stay gone forever, though she should reincarnate as a weaker asura. Her rage will know no bounds, but her power will be diminished and we should have quite a few years to prepare for her return. As your Society has prevented her escape on more than one occasion, it falls to you to make the final determination of Parveen’s fate. What shall we do?"
Up by 2? Oh, that totally hits! Red is down. Hm. That would impact the damage done to Tika, also. @Kalia, please take note of the new damage totals below. :)
New Status
THUD! Another of the grippli fiend-keepers falls unconscious! "Groan!" The grippli who fell at the start of round TWO gets up. Purpurrup exclaims: "Beware! Parveen has possessed one of the fiend-keepers!"
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Kalia and Tika, too, continue to act in unison. Red sustains several serious injuries, but remains standing.
Orange and red shift over 5 feet to flank the furious furry feline and each of them full attacks with power attack. , miss!
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Claudia joins the other Pathfinders and attacks red. Though possessed, this humanoid proves too nimble for her attack.
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Kelson moves into the area and boosts his companions' combat effectiveness with magic!
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Anthys knocks purple unconscious with an effective combination of strikes!
Anthys and Marcus shift across the room to aid Kalia.
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You can hear your grippli allies working on their ritual to contain Parveen. There's a THUD! as one of the fiend-keepers falls unconscious.
Purple attempts to retaliate against Anthys. But, the stiff arms controlling the pick aren't nimble enough to tag the drill sergeant.
Blue stumbles forward whilst wiping at the glitter--only succeeding in rubbing it in further.
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A few words are exchanged between the Pathfinders, and they move with purpose--positioning themselves in the room and working to prevent the humanoids from further disrupting the protective wards.
Kelson buffs the party with haste and his inspirational tunes.
Anthys seriously wounds purple.
Marcus moves as though he and Anthys were parts of the same entity.
Kalia and Tika wound red.
Purple is dumbfounded as Claudia casts her spell.
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As they strike the enemy, several members of the party notice their vacant expressions and lack of response to deadly wounds. These humanoids are possessed!
Seeing that you Pathfinders seek to stymie their scheme, orange and red retaliate!
Red.
Orange.
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Let's see... (1) You both expended significant resources in terms of your build and your equipment to achieve this cooperative benefit.(2) The difference in question is only +1. (3) The bonus is untyped. (4) There are two different rings used by two different PCs. This could be interpreted as two different sources. Sure. They stack. :)
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• • • • • • • • All four humanoids each have heavy picks drawn and are using them to chip away at Parveen's few remaining wards.
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The party continues forward.
Area B4. This room terminates in a wall of stone and iron, seemingly newer than the rest of the complex, decorated with glowing runes and symbols. A hole large enough for two humans walking side by side has been hacked through the wall with mining tools, revealing a staircase that spirals down into the darkness beneath the temple. Purpurrup gasps in dismay and says as he surveys the runes: "The stone-and-iron wall along the south side of this room served as one of the layered wards containing Parveen’s power. We must hurry!"
Great stone stairs reach their end well below the surface, terminating in a fifteen-foot-wide corridor whose length suggests a larger structure than what appears above the earth. The western end of the hallway lies choked with rubble from an ancient collapse, while a large, bronze double door marks a likely entrance to the inner reaches of the lower temple. checks:
The party determines from the disturbance of dust on the floor that four humanoid creatures passed through the bronze doors not long ago.
The creators of this temple built towering stone bookshelves into this chamber’s walls. Many of the shelves still stand, although some have collapsed under the weight of years. Each bookshelf is adorned with a carefully crafted frame depicting the sun, stars, and other celestial bodies. Looters have chipped away at the frame, taking what they could from those carvings. Those looters seem to have also stripped the rest of the chamber bare, as the empty shelves seem devoid of any lore that the Ghol-Gani left behind. The northern wall has partially collapsed, though in the large pile of rubble is a single hole large enough for one human- sized creature to fit through at a time. A muted purple light shines from the chamber beyond. (Room C3.)
Room C3. The ceiling of this large chamber rises to a height of at least fifty feet, with carvings along the sloping walls depicting a precise and detailed diagram of Golarion’s constellations in each of the four seasons. A violet light bathes the entire chamber, emanating from a ritual circle at the center of the room surrounded by rubble. A twenty-foot-tall, six-armed creature surrounded by glowing weaponry is trapped within the ritual circle, bound by chains that crackle with white lightning. Purpurrup explains: "Parveen remains aware of her surroundings but cannot break free of her bonds just yet. A circle of magical energy surrounds the bound asurendra, preventing anything from physically interacting with her. However, the imprisonment won’t last much longer unless you can stop the destruction of the prison’s final wards." Pointing at the humanoids in the room, the fiend-keeper continues: "Those four work to undo spells woven centuries ago. Stop them!" Two of the humanoids are working to topple a rune-covered pillar while the other two hack at a statue of a robed cyclops clutching a large tablet. The grippli fiend-keepers immediately move to position themselves to perform their own ritual, hoping to keep Parveen at bay by drawing a portion of her spirit into themselves.
Led by Purpurrup, the gripplis provide four potions of cure serious wounds to the party for the battle ahead. Some of the gripplis then form a defensive perimeter around the temple. Yet more gripplis investigate the damage done by the Aspis Consortium's operation and begin efforts to salvage what wards and ritual seals they can. Six grippli fiend-keepers will accompany the party further into the temple to make sure that Parveen does not escape.
Area B3. This long, wide hall is littered with thousands of smashed and broken relics, idols, icons, and statuary of all kinds. An enormous door, slightly ajar, sits at the end of the hall. Much of this chamber is choked with rubble, which counts as difficult terrain. Despite the general disarray apparent in this area, someone has cleared a path through the rubble leading to the door on the right side of the map.
The gripplis arrive. The party intercedes on the prospectors' behalf, and the gripplis grudgingly release them. Just Joh swears that he will report both the gripplis' mercy and the Society’s assistance to his superiors in the Vanji Prospector's Guild. Just Joh further promises to ensure that neither he nor any other member of the Vanji Prospector’s Guild will bother the grippli tribes around Kaddodi again.
Skill Checks: The grippli are generally nice. The range of consequences that the prospectors face probably does not include the worst possibilities--such as long-term imprisonment or death.
Kalia frowns at the humanoids... Why were you there, when such evil could be released and such harm done? "We weren't trying to release no evil nuthin' We're with the Vanji Prospector’s Guild. The Aspis contracted with our superiors to find salvage and profit from the Ghol-Gan ruins. Not much different from what your group does."
Once the last of the asuras falls, the humanoids emerge from the alcove: "Thank you for rescuing us! Thank you all!" As Anthys moves the bodies, he notices that one of the asuras carries a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with ancient runes. (Linguistics and/or Knowledge Planes to know more about the tablet.) One of the humanoids turns beet red when the tablet is discovered. (Sense motive to know more.) Somebody delivers the killing blow to the asuras. Then, the party hears a series of loud croaks as the grippli tribes arrive to aid you in your final strike against Parveen. Before the arriving grippli enter the room, the apparent leader of the humanoids--a burly human who introduces himself as “Just Joh”--pleads for you Pathfinders to intercede on behalf of himself and the other prospectors, fearing whatever justice might await them at the gripplis' hands.
Marcus moves in unpredictable ways--both protecting his allies and confounding his enemy! Anthys strikes true with a blow that seems to swing the tide of this batlle. The humanoids in the alcove cheer: "Yeah! Show that outsider what for!" Kelson tries to press the advantage, and put the outsider even further off balance. However, before he can cast Glitterdust, she collpses. COMBAT OVER!
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The red asura:
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, miss! (thanks to Marcus)
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As the flames wash over the red asura, the ice in her ear turns to steam and gives her the worst case of ear barotrauma.
I don't think she grabbed it, so no rakes? Kalia and Tika rlease a barrage of attacks that make them seem very much like the asuras--in terms of martial ability. Sadly, many of the strikes fail to damage their target. Kalia does strike, critically, and Tika manages to scratch with her claws. The blue asura smiles back at Kalia. The blue asura laughs heartily at Tika. The blue asura... ..falls over! And then Tika grabs it and rakes to her heart's content like the evil outsider was a catnip toy.
Water runs down the side of the red asura's face as her ear starts to thaw. Her wicked smile deepens as she realizes she may not be staggered for much longer.
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Marcus moves strategically and attempts to aid Kalia Kelson moves and strikes up another tune ♯♫♪
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Anthys mutters something about tactics under his breath. Then he moves forward and attacks--wounding his target. The asura smiles--reveling in the combat--and strikes at all the enemies around her, hitting each of her targets at least once: ,
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Reveling in combat, BOTH of the asuras seem invigorated, and their wounds close slightly.
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The grippli Pathfinder moves to the next asura and gives her a wet willy!!! The asura screams "My ear! You froze my stapes!" The evil outsider is so freaked out by the sensation, that she's staggered for one round. The humanoids in the alcove cheer! The asura glares at them, "Shut up, you!" They taunt her, "What's that? I couldn't hear you." Suffering from the heebie jeebies, and irritated at the humanoids, the asura attempts to retaliate against Claudia, but to no avail!
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Kalia recognizes the type of asuras in this room and moves strategically to strike. Unfortunately, her strikes--though true--are not as damaging as typical. Sorted Initiative Order (BOLD may go)
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As the party opens the door, some of the asuras' face look at you with seething anger. The outsiders also look like they may have been wounded in their combat with the humanoids--though the asuras clearly got the better of the mortals. Sorted Initiative Order (BOLD may go)
Room B2 With regards to furniture/decor, this room is nearly bare, its treasures lost to time and looters. Two cavities have been carved in the southern wall of the room, bare save for stacks of excavating tools and the shattered fragments of ancient skeletons. This room was the source of the sounds of combat.
There are two six-armed women each with three fanged faces on her head. They both wear colorful robes, and their hands wield several exotic weapons. There are also four humanoids here. Two of them drag a wounded ally into one of the alcoves as the fourth seals them all within the alcove using a scroll; a shimmering wall of energy surrounds them.
These animals were victims of the evil; they should not perish due to some ancient foulness.
The snakes groggily revive. Instinctively know that this place is unsafe, and they flee immediately.
Kelson notices that piled just inside the entryway of this room are bags of items taken from within the temple and surrounding area. While most of these items are of little actual value, a suit of Medium-sized armor stands out among the accumulated detritus. While largely identical to the stoneplate crafted by dwarven artisans, this suit of armor mirrors the stonework and detailing of the surrounding buildings and was likely crafted by a cyclops artisan for a favored servant, or perhaps as a gift to an Azlanti ally before the cyclopes fell into violent savagery.
The edges of the manifestation begin to coalesce. The fearsome visage of a fanged woman with six red-glowing eyes appears and emits a loud moan. At the same time, the stone walls in the area take on cyclops visages and echo that moan. The hollow eyes of the cyclopes begin to bleed, and the manifested images chant, "Faith is futile. All will fall just as great Ghol-Gan." As the chanting reaches a crescendo you all feel the evil trying to infest your minds. As it builds: Kelson moves up a delivers positive energy to the nascent manifestation. Claudia continues to show how strong her faith is and how weak the evil is, in comparison. Marcus follows suit with more positive energy. Kelson's blow weakens it enough that Claudia's words cut into it like a battle axe, and Marcus' energy finishes it off. The manifestation howls with rage and frustration. Then, suddenly, it stops.
The sounds of combat continue to echo from elsewhere in the temple.
The door to the south is slightly ajar. The stairs to the east lead into darkness.
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