Valeria take out her Bow
Room is 20' if I remember correctly. Elementals are 15' high.
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HP 43/116- which means I'm riled and I can't take another of those
Ok, just to get my attack in.
Declare ranger focus on the humanoid. Perception to locate square (easy enough since he blasted me from it, check is only 20, and I cannot fail that). He will also declare his inspired moment (+4 to hit, AC, and a few other things which don't really matter at the moment).
deadly aim, many shot, rapid shot, seeking
total damage 144, if DR is present, it applies once
Valeria fires a shot
1:96
3:
4:144
The elemental Corso "diplomatically" gestured toward steps into range and strikes furiously at the fighter. The first punch gets lucky, but the second is easily deflected.(take 15 + the routine save or burn)
Rathis is also attacked. Once again, Corso's presence is instrumental in preventing a second hit. (take 17 + the save)
Valeria's arrow flies true, causing a bit of damage, but not enough to get the bonfire's attention.
Corso will Intimidate the elemental that he is not adj. to, while maintaining focus on the one that he is adj. to.
Did that elemental just laugh? Why yes. I think it did.
Here's the windup, Ferod pulls his hands in close, lifts a leg, and twists sideways as he then lunges his raised foot forward and throws his arm out, and the pitch!
A ball of mud flies from his hand across the room, and splatters across the face of the invisible humanoid.
Might I suggest aiming at the floating ball of mud, while you can...
The humanoid growls and shakes the mud off his face. His eyes lock with Ferod and he casts a spell. Immediately a wall of violet fire springs to life under Ferod's feet, blocking your clear escape route! Just after that, scalding rays of heat burst from his hand. The first misses by inches, but the other two connect on the shoulder and thigh.
The magic of Zayid's bow negates the advantage of the invisibility and the humanoid becomes a flying pincoushin. He doesn't go down, but he can be better for the experience.
Ferod dances hot, hot, hot.
AC 31, touch 18, flat-foot 24 AC boosted from shield spell duration 14 minutes from the first fight
fort +9, ref +11, will +12; CMD 26
HP: 14(84)
I said Corso when it should have been Valeria.
Feeling the burns starting to overcome him, Rathis backs up and, pulling a couple vials from his belt pouch, mixes them together before tossing it at the mud and arrows.
Valeria fires her shots
With his location compromised, the humanoid comes under heavy fire. Within a few seconds a hail of arrows and an explosion send him to the ground. His life-fires flicker weakly, then fade.
Edit: Omar changes targets at the last moment and feathers the as yet unhurt elemental. Not all his shots hit, but several do.
Ferod moves away from the wall of fire. medic!
Pulling out his wand of CLW, he pokes himself.
"Kill it first," Rathis growls, "then we can heal. Otherwise it's just got more time to attack!"
Grimacing, he throws another force bomb into the heart of the elemental, the reagents exploding as they reach the center of the fire.
The elementals stand agape for a moment in shock that these puny meat bags killed their magic casting ally.
The south elemental evaporates in a wave of heat. The last flares up in rage and attacks Corso blindly.
But fails to damage the man through his armored shell.
"This thing is done," he calls out, "even if it doesn't realize it yet."
He tosses his third bomb, hoping to take the thing out before it can do any more harm.
With the threat of two of three enemies dealt with, Corso will turn his attention on the remaining fire elemental.
Valeria fires her shots
The last elemental is overcome with the volume of attacks and bursts with a wave of fire.
The Efreeti's body decays away to ash with shocking speed, leaving behind a spectral version of itself. Where the previous was violent to madness, this is graceful and serene. His expression is deeply regretful. Thank you, brave folk, for freeing me from my phisical prison, and my mental prison of madness. My name is Bebulec, and my time here is short. Please, look for a hidden trove in the north wall behind that pannel just there. He points to one of the many snug fitting panels. It holds a chest of treasure and a key. This key is one of four items needed to activate a teleporter that represents the only access to the inmost vaults and resting place of Bartolomae Adella, the last head of the Daellum branch. From this crypt and the others of this family such capable men and women such as yourselves could garner a small fortune, I'm sure.
From my time locked up here I was able to glean a little from the Crematoriom Caretakers. The items are the key in the chest, a dagger befouled, Thrasillus’s voice, and a sister’s keepsake. What the others are exactly, I cannot say. I only heard of them by their titles and I know that they are all kept within this crypt.
Farewell, Adventurers. Give 'em to the Abyss.
With a sigh of release, he fades from sight.
"I'm going to have to agree, Omar."
"Man, it's weird when ghosts apologize to me. I mean, I get it, I'd apologize to me too if I attacked me, but still...."
Valeria goes to the area the Efreeti pointed to, finds the panel, gets the chest out.
"Looks like 2 items down 2 to go."
Omar easily locates the panel in question. It comes off with a little assistance from Valeria and you remove a small chest. Unfortunately, its locked tight.
"Should we break the lock, or try and pick it?"
The lock is complex, but nothing the skilled hands of Omar bin Zayed can't handle. Inside holds a wand of fireball (CL 10, 18 charges), a tome of clear thought +1, a silver necklace worth 2,250 gp, and an iron key that radiates faint transmutation.
After listening to the descriptions of the items, Corso will ask "Does the dagger have a similar look to it, magic-wise?"
The dagger is identified as magical, but its magic has no function other than enhancing the dagger's combat effectiveness. (+1)
Rathis snorts -- apparently in amusement -- at Corso's remark.
"I can't say I've apologized to too many people I've attacked, though perhaps ..." he trails off, seemingly lost in thought.
"So we have one, maybe two of these items. Let's go find the rest."
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Omar will wait for the wall of fire to expire and lead everyone back outside.
"Ok, how do we want to do this? I'd suggest something systematic. Clockwise or counterclockwise and sweep every building. We're not on a schedule so we can take our time. Everyone still in decent shape? I don't want us getting killed because we didn't stop to rest. "
"We could go from say the north west corner to the North east corner going back and forth as we move south."
"That's fine," says the badly burnt Rathis. "Do we have any healing? If not, I can use my wands."
"I'm fine with that. Let me know when it's safe Omar, and i'll open the door."
You find no traps.
These sepulchers are identical save for their orientation; the doorway to each always faces the center of the necropolis. Rough, black iron gates bar the arched entryways.