Faith considers how long the whirling blades spell might last.
"We should prepare ourselves," Faith agrees.
It takes about fifteen minutes for Raviaza's wall of blades to shatter and disappear from reality, giving the group plenty of time to heal and recover. Tulip slowly shrinks from huge to her normal large self. Once the barrier is gone the group is able to move forward into a hallway were several pieces of dry, translucent snakeskin litter the floor. As you move through, you see a number of larger, intact snakeskins which lie piled in alcoves behind the eight columns supporting the thirty-foot-high ceiling. A set of adamantine doors seal the north end of the hall.
Luckily for the group, there don't seem to be any that are currently functional.
The adamantine doors open into an irregularly shaped chamber. The adamantine gates on the far side are just ever so slightly ajar, inviting the party to plunge ahead.
The hissing sibilants of a ritual echo through the ajar gates and the solid stone beneath your feet shakes for just a moment.
First to Pakshee, "I would never turn down offered spells," to the others, "Why don't you choose? I will be happy with whatever is left. ... ... Juliver? Why don't you take the carpet with Pakshee? I think the added maneuverability to the two of you could be a big benefit. And my staying nearby is getting less and less likely." a look to Faith and Pakshee, "You two okay with that?" Áine draws a wand and twirls it between her fingers, with a slight smile to Tulip and Zane, "Hey big girl, you wanna go mega-chomp size again? It'll only last 7 minutes, but probably worth it if the space remains as large as it has been. ... and I got a handful more of 'em if we end up needing 'em down the road."
Chameleon Stride, Greater 5 mins - or more likely until
Áine moves 10' away
Life Bubble 10hrs 10 creatures
Negate Aroma 1hr 8 creatures
Pack Empathy 15hrs 5 creatures
Quieting Weapons 60mins 2 weapons - assuming this one is not being used except on Áine's bow, unless someone else says something
Aspect of the Falcon recast outside the ritual door: 1min
Barkskin 5hrs on herself and Juliver
Bear's Endurance recast outside the ritual door: 3mins on herself and Juliver (if she doesn't have a Belt)
Darkvision Greater, 7hrs
Enshroud Thoughts, recast at the Blade Barrier: 30mins
Freedom of Movement 150mins
Gravity Bow recast outside the ritual door: 1mins
Perceive Cues 5hrs
Rite of Bodily Purity 24hrs
Visualization of the Body 24hrs
Chameleon Stride, Greater 5 mins cast at the ritual room
"Yeah, I think the old girl wouldn't mind being bigger. As for the named bullets, I wouldn't mind half of them. Don't know what kind of creature they should be for... I'm not especially good at that sort of thing."
A huge serpent’s skull of bleached, fossilized stone sits within this vast cavern, mounted upon a two-tiered stone dais surrounded by golden cauldrons lit with purple fire. Rubble and debris litter the cavern floor in several areas, providing evidence of rockfalls from the ceiling overhead. Cracks and crevices lead to a gaping hole in the floor of the cavern to the east. To the northwest, a narrow slope rises to a ledge providing access to a pair of tunnels in the cavern wall, while an elevated stone portico lies along the wall to the southwest, topped with an arched roof held aloft by two golden columns bearing engravings of serpents. A gate of adamantine stands within the portico, carved with the likeness of a viper’s head staring outward, its curved fangs joining to make handles for the doors.
As you open the adamantine doors, Vyr-Azul's hatful hiss fills your head. "Kill them, Khestath. We will not allow them to prevent our lord's return." Even as he telepathically commands the swole bodyguard, the priest moves to place himself before the ancient giant serpent's skull, a final barrier to the god's remains.
So, in terms of buffs, I'm factoring in for Zaine:
Destructive Attacks from Faith
Named Bullet x2 from Pakshee (1 undead, 1 monstrous humanoid)
Heroism from Pakshee
for Tulip:
Destructive Attacks from Faith
Bull's Strength from Faith
Animal Growth from Aine
Freedom of Movement from Pakshee
"We'll get that zombie snake out of the way," Zaine announces. Then, quieter for Tulip: "Sorry about how that's gonna taste, girl. Hopefully god is a little more toothsome."
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Total: +2 attack, +8 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +5 attack, +1d6+12 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +27 (4d6+43 plus grab)
Initiative Zaine
Initiative Tulip
"All right, you big dead monster, let's make you more dead."
Zaine snaps a shot off at the snake in his way. The gunshot booms and rolls like thunder and the puff of gunpowder smells like a raincloud.
confirm
Note: if the confirm roll beats the snake's CMD, it's knocked down. If snakes can be knocked down.
Tulip charges the zombie snake, chomping the writhing body.
grab
"Thank you Faith and Pakshee." Áine says, gratefully accepting their magical gifts, then adds as she turns away with a feral smile, "Let's go hunt some snakes!"
Áine uses the stone corner to remain mostly out of sight of Ydersius High Priest while sending a quick barrage of deadly arrows exploding straight into the overly muscled serpentfolk bodyguard. The shots are well places and the Faith powered Destructive force powerful enough to send blood, bone, and sinew raining back in the direction of the dais and huge skull. "Vildeis, Desna & Milani send their regards." she quips, before backing another 5' along the wall back towards the adamantine doors and theoretically out of sight of Vyr-Azul.
Faith takes a deep breath. "The evil in this room is a miasma. Let us clear the air."
Faith moves along with Sasha, attempting to flank one of the great serpentine beasts.
On the ancient altar with the impossibly large serpent's skull the serpentfolk priest rises into the air, quietly observing the far off battlefield and incanting.
The carpet bearing Juliver and Pakshee moves up, still in the cover of the stone walls but so that they will be able to move about the field to their best use. "Ohff. That is a nasty undead." She flickers her rapier in the direction of undead snake, "Its body actively dries out the air around it to keep it functional and I've heard that it can channel out the negative energy that keeps it animated."
Áine uses the stone corner to remain mostly out of sight of Ydersius High Priest while sending a quick barrage of deadly arrows exploding straight into the overly muscled serpentfolk bodyguard. The shots are well places and the Faith powered Destructive force powerful enough to send blood, bone, and sinew raining back in the direction of the dais and huge skull. "Vildeis, Desna & Milani send their regards." she quips, before backing another 5' along the wall back towards the adamantine doors and theoretically out of sight of Vyr-Azul.
"All right, you big dead monster, let's make you more dead."
Zaine snaps a shot off at the snake in his way. The gunshot booms and rolls like thunder and the puff of gunpowder smells like a raincloud. The bullet breaks the snakes body almost in half the front part falling momentarily to the group before it rises with a fluttering dry snakeskin sound.
The remaining half of the giant snake slithers forward with unnatural speed, its dry hissing hitting a cresendo as it ends in the entrance way, its body pulsing with black, decaying energy.
Tulip charges the zombie snake, chomping the writhing body. Her teeth make the worst noise as she breaks through the brittle, desicatted skin and hold fast.
Pakshee carefully, defensively, casts a spells touching both the carpet and Juliver, moving the pair out of the range of the undead's bite and aura.
Faith moves along with Sasha, attempting to flank one of the great serpentine beasts.
Sasha indeed takes advantage of the flanking provided by Faith, her sword cutting into the grappled undead.
"Oh, now that is just not good." Áine glares at what is left of the undead, negative energy conducting snake. "Do you know how much moisturizing it's going to take to get my skin and hair back in shape? Hope you guys don't mind, but I've got to get rid of that thing." she glances in the direction of the stone dais, "I think Big White is playing Hide and go Seek until we get closer and Yell-in-your-Brain is on observation duty, but I'm sure he's getting ready to do something nasty, so watch yourselves when you're out in the open there."
Positive meets negative to truly explosive results, and what is left of the undead thing in Tulip's jaws crumbles away as Vildeis destructive energy courses over and through it burning the remaining husk to blackened ash.
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm (monstrous humanoid)
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Total: +5 attack, +11 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +8 attack, +1d6+15 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +30 (4d6+46 plus grab)
DC 26 Fort saves
Zaine
Tulip
DC 24 Will saves
Zaine
Tulip Ride check
Zaine takes careful aim at the grappled snake and fires. Once again, the musket booms and rolls like thunder.
confirm crit
Tulip shakes her captured prey.
Tulip rushes the serpent man on the dais.
(that's a run, or a double move, or however is the quickest way to get there.)
"Let us also watch each other," Faith says, the tone in his voice somber even as he is grinning from ear to ear, the smile as great as the evil in front.
Faith strikes with Eroeme. "The better to destroy you with," he says.
Faith's first strike against the undead creepily hollow undead snake is massive tearing a huge chunk from the dry scales.
The priest motions towards the group in the entrance and two fiendishly-powered tyrannosaurus that dwarf Tulip even in her current up-sized form. The pair charge forward but the room is large.
"That isn't fair he is summoning more minions!"
Positive meets negative to truly explosive results, and what is left of the undead thing in Tulip's jaws crumbles away as Vildeis destructive energy courses over and through it burning the remaining husk to blackened ash.
Since the summoned t-rexes are outside of 40', Zaine will spend 1 grit for Deadeye and keep the same roll previously.
Reduce all to hit rolls by 1 (no point blank shot) and all damage rolls by 18 (no point blank shot, no challenge). He does still have that 20, though.
Tulip will then charge one of the rexes, so she actually gets a +5 to her attack roll, which would mean to add 1 to what you see. No challenge, so drop her damage by 8.
Here's her new grab roll
Faith's skin, somehow, remains supple.
Faith will continue to move with Sasha, preserving flanking wherever possible.
With the Hollow Serpent destroyed, Zaine turns his gun on one of the newly created tyrannosaurus. It takes him a moment to focus on the gargantuan target but when he fires the bullet hits the dinosaur center section and leaves a gargantuan hole. The dinosaur falls to the ground before dissipating into sulphuric smoke.
Tulip rushes the other dinosaur, jumping just at the end and thoroughly grappling the much larger animal.
Pakshee relaxes noticeably when she see the hollow serpent fall and she keeps a hand on the carpet, ready to command it to go where her spells are needed.
Faith will continue to move with Sasha, preserving flanking wherever possible.
Seeing the second tyrannosaurus well in Tulip's teeth, Sasha starts heading directly for the serpentfolk priest on the dais.
The larger t-rex turns his jaw and tries to grab the painfully annoying smaller creature on his back. He fails... spectacularly.
On the dias, the enormous albino constrictor slithers out on hand to keep the surface dwellers from getting too close to his master.
The priest coldly surveys the temple room. Power flows from him but there is no visual clue.
Faith looks toward the priest on the dais, then looks at the carpet, and does a double-take. "Eroeme, show me truly," he requests.
Faith takes off into the air, heading for the empty space in front of the carpet. "Unhand them and hand me instead," he admonishes the nothing.
Faith swings Eroeme at nothing.
Áine gaze flicks quickly back and forth between the High Priest and the mammoth Tyrannosaur that Tulip has by the neck, finally settles on the serpentfolk on the dais. "On the off chance I might actually disrupt a spell i can't tell you're casting..." she says, and sends a flight of arrows winging in his direction.
Despite the distance, several of Áine's arrows sink home, eliciting a surprised hiss of pain and displeasure as feathered shafts sprout from his scaled body. One might have even penetrated a lung. Maybe even pissing him off enough to take his concentration off of Juliver and Pakshee.
"Phew. Glad that rex wasn't real," Zaine mutters to Tulip.
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm (monstrous humanoid)
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Total: +5 attack, +11 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +8 attack, +1d6+15 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +30 (4d6+46 plus grab)
Zaine carefully aims at the grappled t-rex and fires. Once again, the crack of thunder rolls through the room.
confirm critical
[ooc]If Zaine killed it...
Tulip charges headlong toward the high priest.
Saves
Zaine uses chosen destiny.
Tulip gets a ride check
Despite the distance, two of Áine's arrows look to be flying true.
However, as the priest moves to avoid some of the arrows, his body duplicates and the phantom images protect his true self. Four of the phantasmal images are destroyed by the flurry of arrows, leaving three of the priest in mid-air. Maybe the attack will piss him off enough to take his concentration off of Juliver and Pakshee.
Zaine carefully aims at the grappled t-rex and fires. Once again, the crack of thunder rolls through the room. Even before the creature falls limp to the ground from the massive bullet hole in its skull, its body starts to dissolve leaving the horrible sulphuric smell in Tulip's jaws.
Tulip charges headlong toward the high priest. There is a slight pause as Tulip has to fight through an unseen barrier, but both rider and dinosaur push through.
Pakshee curses the nothingness grappling her, to no currently noticeable effect.
Faith looks toward the priest on the dais, then looks at the carpet, and does a double-take. "Eroeme, show me truly," he requests.
Faith takes off into the air, heading for the empty space in front of the carpet. "Unhand them and hand me instead," he admonishes the nothing.
Faith swings Eroeme at nothing. He hits nothing.
There is a slight rush of air that give Faith model runway hair for just a moment.
Sasha moves through the unseen repulsive force almost as if it were not there.
The albino constrictor shifts a bit, her hiss resounding off the huge cavern walls.
The priest motions towards the mounted cavalier and a ghostly replica of the constrictor appears around Tulip, its coils moving to crush the rider.
Pakshee and Juliver continue to struggle, futilely, against nothing.
Zaine will save
Zaine shrugs off the attack and crouches low in the saddle, digging his heels into Tulip's flank.
"You're mine, you snake-headed son of a b@~#~!" Zaine shouts at the priest.
Tulip runs at the snake priest.
Faith continues to strike at the nothing which is clearly there (perhaps?).
"Time to hunt snakes." Áine remarks, and disappears from the field of battle.
No arrows fly from Aine. In fact where there was Aine there is now nothing.
Zaine shrugs off the attack and crouches low in the saddle, digging his heels into Tulip's flank.
"You're mine, you snake-headed son of a b!+$+!" Zaine shouts at the priest.
Tulip runs at the snake priest.
Pakshee curses the nothingness grappling Juliver, to no currently noticeable effect.
Faith continues to strike at the nothing which is clearly there (perhaps?). After a brief moment, a now-free Pakshee starts to smack at the nothing holding Juliver.
Sasha runs up, catching up with Tulip.
The coils of the constrictor slip forward just a bit, enough to allow the snakes powerful jaw to snap at Tulip. The coils slide harmlessly from the dinosaur's feathers.
The priest moves effortlessly through air, rising to 30-feet above the ground and keeping his large reptilian friend between him and the advancing surface dwellers. He points a finger at the mounted pair. His dry hiss reverberates through everyone's head. "Burn."
Juliver still struggles against nothing.
Áine casts Bloody Arrows, burns a point of speed to move up 70' to the next blue "X".
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm (monstrous humanoid)
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Total: +5 attack, +11 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +8 attack, +1d6+15 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +30 (4d6+46 plus grab)
Ride check for Tulip's save
Zaine shifts his weight and Tulip responds, avoiding the worst of the fire.
"My turn," Zaine says, taking careful aim. When he fires, the musket booms like thunder.
Confirm crit
Tulip snaps at the snake.
grab
Faith presses his attack against the lessened nothing. "Desist existence; cease," he says to the nothing that isn't there.
Áine remains one with the nothing.
Zaine shifts his weight and Tulip responds, avoiding the worst of the fire.
"My turn," Zaine says, taking careful aim. When he fires, the musket booms like thunder. The priest's defense do what they are supposed to do, blown away by the bullet and reducing the damage taken by the priest - who is bloodied by the magical critical.
Tulip snaps at the snake but her teeth skitter over magically hardened scales.
Faith presses his attack against the lessened nothing. "Desist existence; cease," he says to the nothing that isn't there. And the nothing is no more.
With both herself and Juliver free, Paskhee grabs Faith and maneuvers the carpet closer to the serpent priest.
Juliver is repulsed by the priest's spell and is forced from the flying carpet as it goes through the area of effect.
Sasha's blade bite into the serpent's scales, breaking through some of them.
Even frustrated that her coils continue so slid uselessly against Tulip, the constrictor's jaw snaps down on Tulip twice.
Vyr-Azul's cold mental voice, "That really will not do." He stares at the gunslinger. "Defend me."
From outside the barrier, Juliver shouts encouragement, continuing to try to push through the barrier.
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm (monstrous humanoid)
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Total: +5 attack, +11 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +8 attack, +1d6+15 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +30 (4d6+46 plus grab)
"How about instead I shoot you again?" says Zaine. He takes careful aim and fires. Yet again, thunder reverberates around the room.
confirm
A frustrated Tulip bites into the snake.
grab
Faith hovers off the carpet and is repulsed along with Juliver.
"You're a product of your environment? You were raised by wolf-snakes?" Faith shrugs. "Best defense I can give for you."
Faith frowns as he is unable to enter the circle. He drops his head for a moment, and an elf-like archer appears on the ground underneath Faith.
"That priest is an enemy of all, would you mind destroying him?" Then Faith remembers who he's talking to, and repeats it in his almost-not-broken Infernal.
The archer nods, and replicates itself. Now there are six.
"Of course, after ... yeah."
Áine appears, still just outside of her 1st range increment and releases another salvo of arrows. Unfortunately, none have quite the devastating explosive destructive impact she was hoping for. They do tear through his body causing wounds that continue to bleed.
Vyr-Azul's cold mental voice, "That really will not do." He stares at the gunslinger. "Defend me."
Áine's eyes shift to Zaine for a half beat while the fingers of her right hand finger the clasp of a pouch at her belt a little worriedly. She chooses to remain on task and see how this plays out.
Although most of the group is not ground, you can see stones skitter across the cavern floor as the room is wracked by a massive earthquake.
Áine appears, still just outside of her 1st range increment and releases another salvo of arrows. Unfortunately, none have quite the devastating explosive destructive impact she was hoping for. They do tear through his body causing wounds that continue to bleed.
"How about instead I shoot you again?" says Zaine. He takes careful aim and fires. Yet again, thunder reverberates around the room. Between the quick arrows from Aine and the bullets that are not disrupted by the blur effect the priest has, the damage pummels Vyr-Azul's body into bloody pulp.
A frustrated Tulip barley bites into the snake, thanks to the snakes reduced natural armor.
Faith hovers off the carpet and is repulsed along with Juliver.
"You're a product of your environment? You were raised by wolf-snakes?" Faith shrugs. "Best defense I can give for you."
Faith frowns as he is unable to enter the circle. He drops his head for a moment, and an elf-like archer appears on the ground underneath Faith.
"That priest is an enemy of all, would you mind destroying him?" Then Faith remembers who he's talking to, and repeats it in his almost-not-broken Infernal.
The archer nods, and replicates itself. Now there are six.
"Of course, after ... yeah."
With his death the repulsion field falls.
And the ground shakes.
Zaine's mods
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Named bullet: Auto critical threat, +34 damage on a confirm (monstrous humanoid)
Heroism: +2 morale to attacks, saves, skill checks
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Total: +5 attack, +11 damage
Tulip's mods:
Destructive Attacks: +8 damage
Bull's Strength: +4 STR
Animal Growth: +8 STR, -2 DEX, +4 CON, -1 to hit, damage goes up by 1 die, +1 AC
Bardic: +3 attack, +3 damage
Freedom of Movement: Move normally despite impediments
Total: +8 attack, +1d6+15 damage, +26 HP, +1 AC
Tulip's current baseline attack: bite +30 (4d6+46 plus grab)
Zaine turns his attention on the giant snake, putting a bullet into its coils.
Tulip snaps at the big snake again.
grab
"That's ominous," Faith says. "Eroeme, show me true -- anything going on here that I can't see?"
"Since the priest is dead, maybe you could shoot the snake?" Faith asks his battle companion.
Faith moves to the snake and attacks it directly, as well.
Áine scans the surroundings as the rumbling continues. She holds
As the tremors continue to reverberate through the massive cavern, small stones skitter across the acid pocked scars in the stone lining the edge of a 60-ft diameter chasm that falls away to unimaginable darkness.
Zaine turns his attention on the giant snake, putting a bullet into its coils.
Tulip snaps at the big snake again breaking the bones of the serpent's neck just behind the massive head. The creature's body shrinks in death, leaving a sizable but not impossibly large constrictor.
"That's ominous," Faith says. "Eroeme, show me true -- anything going on here that I can't see?" Faith's true sight does not reveal anything that isn't apparent to everyone else.
With the combatant's dead, the azata's attention turns to the dark chasm. "The stones there are imbued with poison and evil." He follows as Faith moves closer to his companions.
Áine scans the surroundings as the rumbling continues. With the constrictor dead, Aine casts Blessing of the Salamander on Tulip, with a "Sorry I didn't get this up earlier, but since I don't know what's going on maybe it'll be of use and might salve the burn a little." Then a glance at Pakshee and the Azata, "unless you'd rather just heal her, of course." she smiles a little self deprecating smile at her spell that likely came along a bit too late to be of much use and deferring to the more accomplished casters.
Pakshee moves up on the carpet, laying a healing spell on Tulip - since Faith is uninjured.
"Would you like a 3rd level or lower spell back?" Áine asks of her surrounding allies, "I can expend my magics to bring back yours if you think it might be useful in whatever is coming up." she pauses, then points out the wisps of vapor coming up from the cracks at the edges of the chasm. "I have a handful of Blessing of the Salamander left in one of the wands I gave to Juliver, but they'll only last for 5 rounds, so might or might not even last until whenever this gets started.." she sounds like she might be doubting herself.
Perception
Zaine appears too fascinated in Tulip's new slimy appearance to notice much of anything.
"Hey, Faith? Did we actually stop the god-summoning? Because it doesn't seem like we actually stopped it."
Áine nods in apparent concurrence, "Yeah. I don't know. Does it feel to you like we're still in combat rounds, 'cause it kind of still does to me. Hope you guys don't mind, but I'm gonna disappear again until we're more sure of what's going on. Let me know if you want any of the spells I've offered." she looks over at the two women on the flying carpet, "Hey, Pakshee 'n Juliver, you two okay? I'm lookin' to head towards the chasm to see if maybe I can see anything that makes sense."
"Something bad is coming," Faith agrees. "If it's not the evil God, it's still something bad."
"Can you heal our feathered friend?" Faith asks his battle companion, indicating Tulip.
It walks over and lays a hand, briefly, on Tulip,
Juliver, looking a little shaken still from the massive repulsion effect, nod at Aine. "Be careful."
Pakshee nod as she sees Tulip healing up, then looks around to see if anyone else needs some help.
Sasha walks over to Zaine. Looks at the destroyed body of the priest, "That is pretty impressive."
The azata remains.
Sasha walks over to Zaine. Looks at the destroyed body of the priest, "That is pretty impressive."
"I mean... he was," Zaine says. Then he frowns. "Anyone else think that rumbling sounds a little too much like a heartbeat?"
"Or the movement of something large with two feet."
Faith pauses for a moment. "Did the snake god have feet? Probably a heartbeat of evil."
Faith grins.
"Yes." Áine replies, maybe a little flatly, before heading towards the chasm, "and the vapor coming from the chasm appears to be getting thicker." While everyone is around, she casts Feather Step, Mass on herself, Tulip, Sasha and Faith then heads towards the edge of the chasm to see what she can see.
Faith nods to the azata, and it touches Tulip again.
Then Faith joins Áine to stare into the abyss.
Just as Aine gets to the edge of the chasm (giving the healers one more round of salving wounds), the vapor intensifies, misting the area around, heralding the heavy tread on something large.
"A snake with feet ... and a heart," he proclaims.