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Peck will attempt to find something to put out the flame in front of him.
"Guys!! This new tactic means we get hurt and they don't even have to close with us. We either need to charge them or figure out a better way of getting rid of their fire...maybe put out their camp fires!!"
If Peck does not see anything immediately, he will head back down stairs.
Luminos extinguishes the flames in the dinning room barricade.
Jules arrows seem to drop one figure behind the rocks. They start moving the fires and do not attack this turn.
Suddenly, a tremendous glass breaking sound happens into the great hall. You turn only to see how some masked saboteurs jump into the room. They are holding bombs in their hands and move very quickly, they throw the bombs before you can even react.
One of the bombs lands over Peck's head with an explosion of fire like hell. The ashes hit ass well Aiko whom is protected by his resistance to the fire.
The green saboteurs does same throwing a bomb towards Akiichi. The bomb explodes directly in front of him enveloping him in fire.
Fast as few the red armored saboteur throws another bomb at Peck before he can react, and hides behind the chimney.
The bomb explodes again over his head turning all squares around into a small hell of fire.
The radius of the flames are extra large and past over the resistant Aiko hitting also Jules.
The one with the green scarf retrieves some materials, mixes them and throws them at Akiichi.
The thing explodes also above his head, although the heat produced only damages him sparingly.
You hear a metallic sound hitting the stairs, and a small can goes down the stairs and ends up in the middle of the entrance corridor, between Jules, Peck and Aiko.
Akiichi charges over the saboteur bombing him and slashes out a terrible blow that almost brings his arm out.
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Aikio sqawks happily as the flames surround her. Her feathers grow red, as she pulls the flames from Peck onto her like a cloak. She then moves around the bard and onto the steps. Knowing only that the device on the floor came down the steps she releases a jet of flame up the stairs.
Reflex DC 14 for half & avoid catching on fire.
Aikio brings Peck flames into himself soothing the burning pain of the gnome. She then go upstairs and launches a jet that engulfs the saboteur there in flames.
He barely avoids the flames that just burn him superficially.
Luminos throws the alchemist fire to the red armored saboteur that jumps avoiding the direct hit. The flask explodes on landing behind him slightly burning the guy.
Understanding that Aikio is invulnerable to the flames over her, the yellow armored saboteur mix different components and throws at him.
The bomb hits the wall behind and doesn't explode, saving Aikio from whatever kind of surprise was reserved for her.
This time Akiichi also avoids most of the fire.
The saboteur with the green scarf steps back and throws another bomb over Akiichi.
The explosion is big and renders the samurai into flames again.
And yet again Akiichi dodges most of the explosion. The splash damage does not burn in any way to Luminos.
Seeing the fire of the bomb is not useful against the demon, the red armored mix other components and throws them at him before turning around the chimney.
The explosion also hits Akiichi.
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Effect: All in the splash take 8 fire damage; direct hit takes another 1d6 fire next round unless they spend a full round action.
Swift Action: Retrieve alchemist fire from belt pouch
Luminos dashes into the alcove retrieving an alchemist flash from his haversack and another from his pouch. He tosses one at the red saboteur who turns just in time as the concoction explodes directly in his face, coating the whole front of his face and body. Luminos grins evilly while holding another alchemist fire in his other hand.
Jules kicks on the can that the higher floor saboteur has thrown. It lands next to the red fellow.
The red saboteur throws a frost bomb at Aikio.
The yellow one makes same moving first behind the stairs revenging from the previous fire jet.
Both bombs lands over the tengu on the stairs.
Seen himself cornered, the green saboteur retrieves two canes and with a stupid grin, drops them to the floor on his place.
The cans are in fact fuse granades.
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Free: 5' adjust
Swift: prehensile tail to draw another alch fire
Full Attack:
Effect: 3+8+8=19 total fire damage to red
Luminos's eyes go wide as he points to the bombs at the green saboteur's feet, "Those are going to explode!!"
His tail retrieves an extra alchemist fire, and he then takes a step towards the red, burning saboteur. "Better you then me" states Luminos before he tosses both alchemist fires at the feet of the burning saboteur, engulfing him in an inferno.
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Aikio sees the canister next to the red saboteur. "Here's hoping!" she shouts and unleashes a jet of flame at the man hitting the canister in the process. She then douses the flames around her.
Moving the front door Aikio picks up the last remaining fire at the front door as a cloak and douses it.
DC 15 for 1/2 & avoid catching fire.
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The saboteur is fast and Jules both attacks hit into the air.
Peck continues healing himself.
Aikio's fire jet engulfs the red saboteur, and the grenade in the floor explodes with a thundering noise hitting the attacker back an adding to the fire surrounding him.
When the fire goes off, there is nothing remaining on the place others than carbonized bones and furniture.
One of the grenades under the green scarf saboteur also explodes at that very same moment.
The other granade is taken by the second one exploding at the same time.
Jules moves swift and evades the whole flames protecting herself behind the small wall of the stairs.
Akiichi though is only able to partially dodge some of the second flames. The saboteur jumps over the stairs avoiding partially the damage, but he falls unconcious over the stairs due to the accumulated wounds in his body.
Hearing the death shouts of his companions the remaining saboteur seems to decide a clear way of action, because instead of explosions, you hear the noise of someone running on the floor over your heads, then you see him through the window as he jumps to the waters cliff below.
Even you feel you have defeated this menace, the fire is still at the house, and you hear shouts from outside.
Some of you barely on foot, trying to recover your breath and with your cloths half-toren by the explosions and fire, you see how after a minute of silence more troops approach the limit of the house.
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The ringing in Luminos's ears finally clear and he jumps into action. His tail retrieves a potion of cure light wounds from his pouch and he force feeds the adjacent, unconscious samurai.
"I have a few more that I found on the previous combatants. Can someone search the saboteur in the corner? Any maybe search ... where did the other one go?? Also, we need to put out those fires! I guess I'm more suited to that than some of the others."
Luminos drops another potion of cure light wounds into the samurai's hands before heading over to the conflagration in the center of the house and patting out the flames with his cloak.
Jules registers the corpses and finds 6 smokestick, 8 daggers (6 with giant wasp venom applied), 2 fuse grenades, 2 haramaki and 2 thieves’ tools.
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"Put those grenade thingamajigs by the door or the top of the stairs. I think I can trigger them from a safe distance." Aikio offers. "and lets stack all those villains somewhere out of the way." The tengu continues to put any remaining fires to rest.
Then she thinks better of it and almost wishes she hadn't set the catapult to fire. "Perhaps would can do both. Is it dishonorable to burn these corpse?"
Aikio calls down those steps, "Captain Amara-Li? Is everything going alright down there?"
Luminos puts the fire inside the house, while Jules helps with the one in the stairs.
Some fires propagate in the second floor and downstairs.
The silence outside the house is suddenly broken by an enormous explosion, a fireball destroys the barricade in the dinner room!
Another fireball just follows up breaking the kitchen barricade! The walls carbonized and some fires are started by the intense fire.
Aikio sees through the door the two sorcerers that just launched the attack, all the other troops seem to have retreated far from the house. Next to them are at least another four sorcerers ready to launch more fireball attacks and turn the area into the damn hell, one looking directly to Aikio in the entrance with his hand pointing towards her.
When Aikio approaches the entrance, she sees a fireball coming over her. She has the time to just retreat a bit when the ball explodes over her, the flames engulfing the tengu. Fortunately for her her fire resistance is enough to protect her at this distance.
There are heard at least five other explosions around the house. The temperature inside raises as the barricades explodes or are reduced to ashes by the fire and heat.
Suddenly, a seagull flies in through one of the destroyed cliff windows landing between Akiichi and Jules. It flaps its wings to shake of the rain. It has a note attached to its leg.
Akiichi and Jules take the note and read it. It seems to come from Amara Li requesting your immediate help: “The enemy has found us, and we need your immediate aid. Follow our path to find us!”
The fire is spreading!
As you go through the secret door behind the fireplace, you start descending into a lava tube that snakes its way through part of the island. In most places the lava tube has a 15-foot-wide circular profile that is easily traversed thanks to the ropey stone floor, which provides plenty of traction. With no side branches, the tunnel is easy to navigate, and you seem to have no difficulty reaching the place where Amara Li and Tsuneo should be performing his calling to the Kirin ally.
As you descend through the tunnel tube, you suddenly realize of certain troops like the ones you defeated at the house. They both seem surprised!
Only Jules reacts fast enough to act before them!
As the enemy have no bows, Jules starts delaying waiting for them, but she is surprised instead of coming close range and attack with their greatclub, they start doing other things from far away.
The red troop starts levitating on place 5' over the floor and starts casting a spell.
The blue armored one casts another spell over Akiichi.
The guy says to him "This is very dangerous place, we will defend it for you, but you should go away now! Convince your friends to do so!"
The samurai turns to you, the rest of the party, and looks like he is going to try what he was told to do.
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Luminos sidesteps the samurai and tosses a stink bomb at the flying caster. The bomb connects exploding in a mixture of fire and noxious chemicals burning and nauseating the enemies.
Effects: 11 fire damage on Blue, DC 18 reflex save for half damage
Effects: Stinking Cloud, DC 18 fort save for Red and Blue or nauseated
Need a concentration check for Red to not lose his spell