Zephra moves to flank the incorporeal wraith and slices at it with her temporarily magical greatdagger.
Timona will let her performance linger and uses the wand to cure Ortensia.
Wielding the axe,Ortensia hurried up to the wraith and flanked it with Zephra as she slashed away with her dagger.
Bolstered by both the strumming of the banjo and the touch of the healing from the wand,she hacked away at the wraith.
Both Ortensia and Zephra damage the Lopper but it is still there.
The Lopper attacks Zephra
incorporeal touch (1d20 = 11 + 7 ) = 18 Damage 6 Negative energy and 1 point of bleed.
Zephra your action.
Zephra's holy weapon balm continues to damage The Lopper unless it makes a Reflex save of DC 10.
Zephra activates her Repose blessing, touching the incorporeal murderer with a loud rebuke.
Timona lets her song linger for the last round and shakes her wand to try and heal Ortensia a bit more than before with an enhanced healing.
Zephra the Lopper reels back slightly as balm and is then staggered by your follow up attack.
Ortensia back to you.
Ortensia pressed her assault,chopping at the Lopper's back.
With a standard action, Timona will start playing the banjo again to inspire courage. "Oh god are you still hurt?"
Ortensia your blow bites deep into the Lopper.
He responds by trying to attack you.
Incorporeal touch (1d20 = 20, confirmation 7+7 = 14 not confirmed.
Damage 3 points negative energy and 1 point of bleed.
Zephra over to you.
Zephra's balm continues to damage The Lopper unless he makes a Reflex save of DC 10.
She steps away from the flank and retrieves the second holy weapon balm from her pack, applying it to her greatdagger.
As a swift action, she lays hands on herself.
Lopper
Reflex save (1d20 = 13 + 7) = 20 pass.
Timona your action.
Timona will let the strings of her banjo and song linger and use the wand again on Ortensia.
The bleeding from the Lopper's touch ceased and the damage from his negative energy healed. Ortensia nodded curtly to Timona as she set back to hacking away at the undead menace.
Ortensia you deal a mighty blow to the Lopper, he is still there but looking very much the worse for wear.
The Lopper retaliates by attacking you.
Incorporeal touch (1d20 = 11 +7) = 18
Damage 3 negative energy and 3 bleed.
Zephra back to you.
With a mighty yell, Zephra steps up behind the incorporeal creature and swings her doctored greatdagger at it with both hands.
With your blow, Zephra the Lopper gives a great shriek and is no more, his spirit again suppressed by Vesorianna.
There is something glinting at the bottom of the oubliette.
GM note - 4 down, 1 to go
Timona casts detect magic in that direction.
There are 2 magical auras coming from the oubliette, it is about 30 feet down.
"There is magic down there, I should go get it." Timona gleefully says to her party. She seems to be forgetting about the horrors going on here.
Panting, Zephra nods to Timona and carefully looks over Ortensia to see how she's doing.
Timona, you need to make a Climb check to get down there.
Timona will look to the others for instructions. Her thoughts feel empty but she is excited.
"Do you think you can climb down there, Timona?" Zephra says with a note of concern. "I don't see any more creatures down there." She shudders. "With Pharasma's blessing I think we banished that evil thing."
"Oh sure, I can try. Let's see, how do you do this." She pushes her banjo to her back side, being held by a strap. She begins to climb down.
Timona, you fall into the oubliette, fortunately you land in water, take 10 points of damage. At the bottom of the oubliette lies the body of a human male along with 30 feet of old rope. There is among the remains 120gp,a broken masterwork heavy crossbow, a masterwork longsword, a ring of keys and finally a mace and a stone which both show up as magical.
"Ouch my bones." Timona quickly grabs everything, does a quick look around and grabs the rope and throws it up to the top. "Catch this rope." She tries to climb back up.
Timona, after a few minutes you manage to climb out of the pit (taking 10)
Where to next?
Zephra makes sure they have looked in all the rooms in this part of the prison before suggesting they try the only direction from the crossroads they haven't taken.
Timona will grab the magical items and try to identify them.
Gm note - No you haven't found the warden's badge.
Timona the mace is a +1 heavy mace
The stone is a stone of alarm.
"This mace is very nice, does anyone want to use it? Oh this is interesting, this stone cube will screech out an alarm if you attach it to an item and someone touches that item. We could use this to secure a door if we are in a room with it closed." She giggles.
Timona will also use the wand to cure herself and offer to cure anyone else if they need it.
Wand CLW
Zephra will accept the mace, in case they need to fight any more incorporeal enemies.
Ortensia,bleeding and looking noticeably haggard,slumps against the wall cluthing the bloodstained handax. She quivered in a mix of anxiety,pain,and adrenaline.
...I have very much decided I am not fond of combat. But I am quite adequate at it.
GM note- the handaxe is no longer cursed.
Gm note - Moving the action on a bit.
This guardroom contains a single large table with two chairs astride it and a single sagging cot pushed up against the eastern wall. Several battered cabinets line the northern wall, with a few arrows and bits of chainmail lying scattered on the floor nearby, yet the most eerie sight are the three fractured skulls sitting on the table next to a heavy hammer. It looks as if someone has arranged the fragments of the skulls in some sort of pattern, as if an attempt had been made to construct a fourth skull from the broken fragments of the trio on the table. The leathery body of a long-dead dwarf, his wiry red hair and beard still strangely vibrant in death, lies slumped on the ground behind the table.
What do you want to do?
Zephra wonders whether this is a haunt, looking around carefully. She uses her Knowledge minor blessing (equivalent of Knowledge Religion roll of 22).
Timona would also like to knowledge.
Zephra you realise that this is haunt, made up of two parts. Timona you realise that the skulls bear the mark of the Mosswater Marauder.
It shall be a repeat of what we went through with the Lopper and the Splatterman. We have to use his hammer. Are any of you willing to wield it or shall I risk its curse?
Ortensia tossed the masterwork bloodstained ax back into her satchel,flexing her aching hands from gripping it so hard.
She observed the room and its contents,not bothering to take out her journal. She would commit it to memory and record it later.
Zephra you realise that due to the unusual nature of the haunt, you would need to reduce it to 0 hp and then Vesorianna can stop it manifesting.
"My goddess tells me that we can attack the haunted-ness directly. I'll try to hurt it that way while you try the hammer, okay?"
Zephra touches the ghostly presence with her blessed hands.
Zephra you damage the haunt slightly.
Initiative order
Timona 22
Zephra 14
Ortensia 13
Mosswater Marauder 10
Timona your action.
Timona only knows banjo, so banjo it is. Inspire courage!
Zephra over to you.