The javelin clatters in the corner and falls with no clear effect. The chanting continues unabated.
Catarya looks around at where the javelin went, trying to spot something.
"Yah, I hear it, over tere!"
She murmurs a quick prayer to Pharasma, and presents her holy symbol... and a bolt of light bursts in the spot where the voice is coming from!
There is a shriek of pain and the feeling of a spell sputtering out, then a long stream of what can only be curses in some language you can't understand.
A few seconds later the chanting starts again!
[dice=perception DC 25]It's now in the near left corner![/spoiler]
Zadira stops scooping. She moves over (if needed) to within 15 feet of where she knows the creature is, and casts Burning Hands.
(reflex DC 15 for half)
Zadira explains to the whole room exactly where the caster is, telling them which stone he or she is standing on if possible, to help them aim.
There is another curse and more sounds of a fumbled spell!
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This may be a very stupid idea, but can I go to the square Zadira indicated and attempt to grapple an invisible thing?
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Grelthe moves to the square Zadira indicated and attempts to grapple the invisible chanter...
She stumbles around awkwardly in her armor trying to hug the air. The air doesn't hug back.
Grethle Hugs the air, and, while it doesn't hug back, it does *squish*. It's like hugging the world's largest, soggiest booger.
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"Mebbe tis will let us see it..." says Catarya.
Catarya concentrates for a moment, and holds out her holy symbol. A large volume of water appears above the "object" that Grelthe is holding, and drops down with a splash.
Catarya steps forward into the room.
The profile reveals a small, winged creature grasped firmy in Grethle's embrace. Seconds later, after a few choice curses you cant understand, the little thing rears back it's head...
Very nearly bites Grethle! It's invisibility drops and you get a view of what you're handling. It resembles a cherub or imp, but it's so covered in diseaseed pustules and ooze that to looks like a half melted candle!
Yes, everyone not in the grapple gets a +2 to hit those in the grapple.
Zadira attacks the ... um, really gross demony cherub thing.
(likely a miss)
(just in case)
Kayla stays as silent and out of sight as best she can, slipping into a position to strike.
Once she sees an opening she unleashes her deadly shuriken.
Zadira misses, but Kayla barely pulls off a hit, and the creature screams again! It tries to gnaw on Grethle's neck!
But misses again!
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Grelthe can only stand being that close to it for so long, after it tries snapping at her again she lets go and gives it a little kick to push it away. Then she will call down the power of Kurgess to smite the evil disgusting beastie and backs up while drawing a javelin and tosses it .
Zadira attacks the evil cherub thing again.
Grelthe and zadira finally put the disgusting little thing to rest. It slumps against the wall with a javelin, arrow, and shuriken protruding from it's little body.
As she retrieves her javelins, she comments "That might have been a bit overkill, but that thing was foul. I am glad we didn't have opportunity to see what it would have been able to do against us."
Foul indeed. I was thinking about burning it to stop it from spreading the foulness, but on this level it seem pointless, and honestly I have no idea if the smoke itself would kill people with how foul it is. We need to find the source of this evil and put an end to it.
The party makes it's way through the rest of the level killing several lesser monsters and zombies. Of note: all the zombies are missing their left hands...
You explore everything besides the main chamber of the complex and encounter several fetid pools like the first. They all seem to be flowing from said main chamber.
You also discover that Remove Disease is basically the only way this filth is going away, and, as the one hour mark passes, the ones who carry the filth feel a renewed assault on their systems.
The last chamber of the room comes none too quickly. You have learned that his place was once a place of healing and grace for the island here, but the healers, over many generations, grew too prideful. In their arrogance, they decided to summon a demon of pestilence and attack Disease more directly. They succeeded. And were immediately overrun.
The Fountain of Pestilence formed here when the Healers attempted to use summoning spells to directly attack a powerful demon of disease.
Their lack of experience, and the fact that they challenged a being far beyond their capability to control, caused a horrible counterattack from the demon, which is responsible for the slaughter evident throughout this level of the dungeons.
This huge room reeks with the smell of rot and disease, an overwhelming miasma that rises from a huge central pool of pus and filth. At the middle of the pool, the horrid liquids fountain upward to a height of five feet. Five large rivulets of the fluid trickle away from the fountain, threading their way across the floor to disappear down corridors or through gaps in the walls.
The room itself was obviously once used as a temple: a huge alcove in the northern part of the room contains a ten-foot-tall statue of a benevolent-looking figure wearing white-painted robes. However, the statue is splashed with blood and filth, and a grisly necklace made of human hands has been draped around the statue’s neck like some sort of psychopathic offering. All of these are left hands: the ones that are missing from all the plague zombies the party has encountered.
The Fountain of Pestilence is similar to the smaller pools that the party may have encountered already on this level, but it is probably much more potent.
As you enter the room, four small blobs start forming in the filth...
To Zadira earlier: "Agreed. Let us continue on and find the source of the filth."
Grelthe will do her best to avoid melee with the blobs if possible, but would rather sacrifice herself to the filth than her companions.
The javelin misses and disappears into the pool!
Kayla looks to retrieve her shuriken but looks a little afraid to touch it.
eventually she daintily picks it out of the body, with a nasty looking face. she turns to Zadira, do you want to carry this? or can you clean it?
Kayla's eys go wide as the blobs start to form, I never learned how to kill these. she mumbles. immediately she looks for a place to hide.
Kayla slips up behind the statue as it's the only cover around.
Earlier: Zadira nods to Kayla and cleans her shuriken, and liberally cleans anything else that people want with prestidigitation.
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Oh, gross says Zadira, trying not to be sick.
She picks her way over to the corrupted statue and starts cleaning it with prestidigitation. She also cuts the gross left-hand necklace off of it, hoping that cleaning the statue will get the god of this place to ... return, or fight back, or something.
Zadira takes a move action to go to the statue, and then shoots at a blob.
The forms in the pool bubble up, then form themselves into four of the little puss and filth demons you saw before! They rush you!
Two dive on Grelthe and two on Zadira! Grethle easily defends herself, but Zadira takes a nasty bite!
- 5 bite and 5 acid damage
Behind the new threats, the pool bubbles and froths as more forms begin to coalesce. These are larger than the first.
Zadira takes a 5 foot step back and blasts the filth demons with Burning Hands.
All but one of the things avoid the majority of the flame, but they all seem to take the little damage that they do get very well. Their moist, putrid bodies just bake a little in the heat and bits of dried crap slough off them, leaving little discernible damage.
I draw my magic mace and attempt to hit the one in front of Zadira with power attack:
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Grelthe smacks the thing, but it doesn't fall. Her mace impacts it's squishy form and it's body ripples with the impact like congealed sewer refuse.
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Kayla slip forward quietly, and blending in with the shadows.
her hand on her blade ready to draw as she examines her target.
"What a diskusting place! I don' like tis at all."
When the blobs start to form into creatures, Catarya presses her hand over her face for a moment, and her spiral tattoo flashes.
She then leaps over the creatures and comes up from behind, and slashes at the nearest creature with her magic dagger.
Catarya stumbles through the horde...
and barely avoids getting bitten herself! She then completely eviscerates one of the little monsters and it falls to the ground in a puddle of filth.
The others renew their attacks!
Grelthe and Catarya keep their nasty bites away, but Zadira gets followed and bitten again!
The blobs in the pool are approaching normal human proportions!
Zadira casts Spider Climb on herself.
The subject can climb and travel on vertical surfaces or even traverse ceilings as well as a spider does. The affected creature must have its hands free to climb in this manner. The subject gains a climb speed of 20 feet and a +8 racial bonus on Climb skill checks; furthermore, it need not make Climb checks to traverse a vertical or horizontal surface (even upside down). A spider climbing creature retains its Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) while climbing, and opponents get no special bonus to their attacks against it. It cannot, however, use the run action while climbing.
Kayla slips up even closer maintaining her silence and sneakiness
Once in position, she strikes (flanking with Grelthe)
...but Zadira gets followed and bitten again!
catarya damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5
Kayla comes out of nowhere and murderates one of the monsters!