HP 22/58 | Wizard 7 | AC 16/15/13 CMD 18 | F +8, R +6, Wl +8 | perception +1 |
the Craft!:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30
"Ay, there's magic to deceive and magic to ward, and a strange arcane mark besides. I suppose this is where those folks marked their hands, although I'd have some doubts about sticking my hand in one of those things!"
Sindar braves the northern statue face and places his hand inside. The mouth closes on it immediately, nearly causing the steadfast adventurer to jump. Dulled pain courses through the wizard as he feels the sensation of a hot knife carefully slicing his hand in intricate patterns. A few seconds later, the mouth opens up again, a blue sigil now glowing on his hand.
DC 18 Kn: Arcana or History:
Your preparations before returning to Thornkeep included looking over some tomes about Nhur Athemon: the sigil is that of one of his apprentices, Togarin.
Male Nagaji (6.0A) Sorc 4/ Ninja 3 | HP 47/47; AC 19;TCH 14; FF 15; F +6; R +10; W+5; CMB +3; CMD 17; INIT +10;
Consumables:
Spells: 1st 8/8 2nd 0/4 ; Acidic Ray 3/8; Ki 0/8 | Wands: CLW 42/50; MM 43/50; Mage Armor 45/50; Shield 48/50; Less Rest 50/50 | Rods: Less Pierce 3/3
Knowledge Arcana:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Kylar grabs Sindar's hand and inspects the sigil. I do not recognize thisss. Kylar waits to see what happens to Varian before he puts his hand in the yellow mouth.
Varian tempts fate as well; his aasimar hand is clamped down and several seconds of pain ensue as the oracle feels his skin being pulled from the inside into a strange design.
When it ends, Varian finds a red-colored rune glowing on his hand.
DC 18 Kn: Arcana or History:
The rune is the symbol of Daegros, one of Nhur Athemon's apprentices, a skilled conjurist.
Anything else? Otherwise, there is a door to the left and stairs that go up on either side of the wall with the faces.
"A cursed knife! They could have used simple bloody magic, bastards!" The wizard shakes his hand gingerly.
"Um... I think the Blue Sigil is for Togarin, and the red for Daegros. They were mentioned in some of the correspondence upstairs - apprentices for Nhur Athemon."
"Let me guess, that yellow sigil was for the third apprentice. Door first before we take the stairs. I can ward us against evil, but that requires that we stay close together."
I have magic circle vs evil, but that requires that you stay within 10 feet of the recipient, which I prefer to be myself...
Just before Kylar opens the door Deaglan casts magic circle against evil (on self) and uses his wand of divine favor. Once the door is opened he steps into the room, adamantine longhammer in hand.
Dozens of life-sized statues of noble warriors garbed in fluted ceremonial armor line the walls of this enormous chamber. A pattern of nested rectangles marks the smooth stone floor. Stone walls stretch up forty feet to wide slabs in the ceiling that bathe the whole chamber in bright light. Huge double doors mark the north and south walls. Along the west wall, twenty feet above the floor, a massive panel of clear glass holds back three columns of roiling yellow smoke in an alcove overlooking the room.
"I have a bad feeling about that yellow smoke... I could levitate up there and stone shape the surrounding stone to cover the glass so breakage of it won't fill this chamber with smoke if you think that might be a good idea... I just suspect it is part of a trap..."
perception to spot trap and trigger for it:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (14) + 14 = 28
disable for easier way to disable the trap if there is one:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (15) + 13 = 28
"Well, perhaps it isn't a trap.. . the glass seems too thick to break easily. Maybe we don't have to worry about it... " He shrugs and readies to move further on into the chamber.
Male Nagaji (6.0A) Sorc 4/ Ninja 3 | HP 47/47; AC 19;TCH 14; FF 15; F +6; R +10; W+5; CMB +3; CMD 17; INIT +10;
Consumables:
Spells: 1st 8/8 2nd 0/4 ; Acidic Ray 3/8; Ki 0/8 | Wands: CLW 42/50; MM 43/50; Mage Armor 45/50; Shield 48/50; Less Rest 50/50 | Rods: Less Pierce 3/3
Kylar moves a little closer and tries to detect any sign of magic from the mist or glass. What is itssss purpossse though? Didn't the scared man mention something about some mist?
@Kylar: You detect magic throughout the room; it seems to be coming from the glass, the area underneath and above the glass, the floor, and the statues along the walls. It's a mix of illusion, conjuration, and transmutation magic.
@Sindar: Oddly, the mist itself doesn't seem magical to you; although perhaps it is generated by magic or controlled by magic.
As the party enters the room, looking over the statues and giving the glass a bit of a wide berth. Moving inside, the party warily makes their way around the room.
The door behind immediately closes with a loud thud and the audible sound of a deadbolt clicking is heard.
The yellow smoke roils and seethes as it slowly begins to take on the image of a giant face. The smoky image seems to look forth from its vantage point behind the glass inset into the wall, scowling hatefully. It speaks in a raspy, disgusted voice. "Foolish apprentices," it spits, "how I should have predicted your betrayal at my most critical moment. Seek to escape into some unwritten time, eh? By now you must have realized your ioun stone array has failed. You now stand marooned in time, living a day, an hour, a single moment stretched into an infinity over countless centuries yet to dawn—one final lesson in obedience from your very, very disappointed master. It does my heart proud to know that your last, eternal moments will see you hunted like animals. Farewell, my faithless friends. Test all I have taught you against the blades of Azlant!"
The room begins changing as the rectangles of the floor of the floor lift up and rotate diagonally at various heights. Worse, three of the statues turn their heads to the party and step out of their alcoves, stone swords now drawn.
So if you look on the map, the floor is made up of 4 layers of rectangles. Moving between one rectangle and another counts as difficult terrain. I marked each rectangle in dotted black lines to aid you noticing it.
DC 18 Kn: Arcana:
Despite the Azlanti designs, these seem to act like caryatid columns. They resist all weapon damage and can potentially damage weapons that strike them. Worse, any weapon damaged by a caryatid column is automatically broken. Finally, they are immune to almost all magics that allow spell resistance, other than those that directly affect stone.
HP 22/58 | Wizard 7 | AC 16/15/13 CMD 18 | F +8, R +6, Wl +8 | perception +1 |
1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20
"Damned! Caryatid columns! Mind your blades, they can shatter 'em if they aren't made of starmetal!" Sindar shouts. "And most evocation magic's lost on em too. Use conjuration, if ya' can, or things that'll effect stone."
Kylar aims the bolt of acid underneath the armpit of the statue, the acid dissolving several key pieces of stone that eats away at much of its chest. It still stands defiantly, though.
"Am I glad I have just the cure for this..." Deaglan replies as he hefts his adamantine longhammer. He steps south and readies himself for when the first statue comes within range.
Sindar barely melts a statue while Deaglan prepare to smash the next statue that approaches. Deaglan quickly smashes a statue into pieces, a vibration ringing through his weapon, but holding true.
The wounded statue moves towards Varian and strikes at him before he can react!
So that spell is going to be weird on the column. It isn't listed as a specialty spell against the creature and the spell doesn't list SR, but most spells like this will offer some sort of save.
The spell has a range of touch, so I will need a Touch attack against the column. If it hits, the creature gets a Fort save to resist for a reduced slam and a penalty to attack rolls. If it passes, then it'll get a flat 30% miss chance due to moving parts having issues.
Kylar melts away much of the blue statue's form; it still stands and in far better shape than the red statue which is barely holding to its misshapen form.
@Varian: That will not be a 5' step, but a move action to back that way. That means you'll provoke an AoO and won't be able to cast lead blades, unless it is a swift action now to create your weapon (thought it was move, but may be quicker now due to your level). Still want to do that or do something else?
