Denario double moves down the stairs.
Turaltakes a step away from the maiden and channels another round, trying to keep up with all the damage being taken.
Majenko continues to aid Mavor.
While Denario moves down the stairs and Majenko continues to aid Mavor, Tural heals every ally within range with another channel.
The gray maiden cuts Mavor again, but her second attack is dodged. She turns to look at Tural, and curses beneath her breath.
Round 7:
~
Mavor 3/51HP (+2 on next attack roll; readied aid from Majenko)
Allyph 35/35HP
Quorthos 39/45HP
Baer 37/43HP
Round 8:
Green Maiden (Asleep)
Denario 46/51HP
Majenko 15/15HP
Tural 17/39HP
Yellow Physician -13HP (Down)
Red Maiden -44HP
Yellow Maiden -83HP (Down)
Red Physician -23HP (Down)
Blue Physician -20HP (Down)
Mavor 3/51HP
Allyph 35/35HP
Quorthos 39/45HP
Baer 37/43HP
Denario double moves to the west side of the room, hoping it will get him a better aim, as his friends stand between him and the maiden.
Tural looks around himself and sees that only Mavor is at the end of his breath. He lets a sigh of relief that most of the combat is over.
"It's over, surrender your weapon."
He says to the maiden.
Now that the gray maiden is flanked between him and Tural, Mavor sees his chance and seizes it.
"My turn!"
Round 7, Init 3
Baer attacks again.
to hit; (magic)
damage. (magic)
to hit; (magic)
damage. (magic)
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+4[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Quorthos waits until Mavor attacks, slashes at the red Maiden, then dimensional slides back up to the catwalk to deal with the sleeping one.
Arcane pool: 2/7 left
Allyph double moves up to the others, coming to a stop just behind Tural.
Majenko continues to aid Mavor in his attacks.
Baer heals a bit, while Tural takes damage for her.
--- The present: ---
Denario double moves to the west of the room, hoping for a better aim.
Tural declares it's over, and channels once more to heal his comrades.
Mavor sees his chance and seizes it. He hits the gray maiden with a powerful swing of his greataxe, wounding her badly. Her breathing intensifies, but the maiden's not yet going down.
Baer attacks the maiden twice, but without success.
Quorthos slashes at the gray maiden, but his attack's deflected. He then dimensional slides up to the sleeping maiden.
Allyph double moves up to the others, coming to a stop just behind Tural.
Majenko continues to aid Mavor in his attacks.
"It's NOT over!" the gray maiden yells at Tural. She turns back to face Mavor, swinging her sword at him with all her strength. The blade cuts deep into Mavor, and the maiden cuts him a second time with an upward swing. Mavor goes down.
Majenko avoids falling prone with Mavor, and lands on his paws.
The gray maiden then takes a 5-foot step at Tural. "You're next!"
Round 8:
~
Mavor -7/51HP (Down)
Allyph 35/35HP
Quorthos 45/45HP
Baer 43/43HP
Round 9:
Green Maiden (Asleep)
Denario 51/51HP
Majenko 15/15HP
Tural 26/39HP
Yellow Physician -13HP (Down)
Red Maiden -75HP
Yellow Maiden -83HP (Down)
Red Physician -23HP (Down)
Blue Physician -20HP (Down)
Mavor -7/51HP (Down)
Allyph 35/35HP
Quorthos 45/45HP
Baer 43/43HP
"Well, that wasn't very nice," Quorthos quips. If the maiden is still up on his turn, he casts shocking grasp, dimensional slides down to flanking position, and zaps her with it.
Round 8, Init 3
Baer keeps on beating with her stupid staff.
to hit; (magic)
damage. (magic)
to hit; (magic)
damage. (magic)
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+4[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Having nothing else to heal Mavor at the moment Tural concentrates on a spell. A bolt of lightning appears out of the ceiling and crashes down on top of the maiden.
"As I said, it's over."
Seeing the maiden go down he relaxes.
"What shall we do with the sleeping maiden? Can someone bind her?"
He moves over to Mavor and starts poking him with the wand he still holds in his hand.
Mavor wakes up again, feeling sore all over and stumbles back on his feet.
"Thanks for the healing. I had hoped that blow of mine would incapacitate her."
"Are all of them down? Maybe there are still some in the building but these are all knocked out?"
"No problem."
He replies to Mavor.
"I can't keep going like this though. If there are more maidens in this building some of us might die. Keeping up with the damage they deal is near to impossible for a single person."
He refreshes everyone's life link.
"What we could try, if I give everyone fortune and keep chanting we could bring them down a lot quicker. I will use the cure wand on myself when needed and do some other spells if I have the time and space. Risky part is if I am not able to keep up with your wounds like last battle."
The last he says whilst looking a bit ashamed at Mavor.
If the Maiden goes down, Quorthos will bolt upstairs and put manacles on the sleeping maiden, and gag her with her cloak.
Once things have settled down, he answers Tural. "I'm tired, too, but I don't think we can stop now. Devaulus needs to be captured now, or he'll become impossible to find after this attack. I say we keep going, and do what we need to do to make sure no one dies."
He thinks for a moment. "I can create darkness, which would allow several of us to have an advantage over the humans," he notes. "Might give us the edge we need to take less damage if they're all fighting blind."
Baer nods, agreeing with Quorthos.
"I still have more fight left in me. How much bigger could this building be? There can't be too many between us and the doctor."
"I agree, 2 bodyguards, if any.
I think we took the brunt of his staff here."
Before anyone else gets to do something Baer uses her staff to knock the maiden's shield aside, after which she finally sees an opening and gives the warrior a good whack on her head. The maiden drops to the floor.
Quorthos successfully gags the sleeping maiden and puts her some manacles on her.
"The physicians I fought both tried to get to the elevator in the room next to the stairs," Allyph says. "Maybe that's the fastest way to get to Devaulus?"
"There's one other room left on this floor, which I think we should check before we move on. Just to make sure there aren't any physicians hiding there."
"Denario, did the stair just go up, or down as well?" Quorthos wonders. "I'm not worried about the other room here - if there was anyone there, they're either long gone or stone deaf."
"I could only get up the stairs, i saw no way down."
Baer goes over to the doors(?-shaded area of first floor) and readies to go in when others are ready.
"Remind me that this staff is better than I think," Baer grunts, knowing that she'll have to do better next combat than she did that combat.
Baer looks in the other room.
Mavor sidles up close to Baer and readies his greataxe as she investigates the next room.
"Ready when you are Baer."
Before everyone sets off again Tural starts chanting and casts fortune on everyone. Between chants he speaks.
"Everyone has life link again and now also fortune."
He taps Baer on the shoulder and she feels strength fill her body.
Whilst casting everything Tural seems to grow larger and seems to look fiercer until he looks like a full fledged veteran, scars covering his body and arms the size of trees.
"Anyone who wants to grow larger?"
He asks in a deep booming voice. He keeps his wand ready for the next part.
- Chant (Ex): A shaman can chant as a move action. Any creature that is within 30 feet that is under the effects of the shaman's charm, evil eye, fortune, fury, or misfortune hex has that effect's duration extended by 1 round. A shaman cannot select both this hex and the witch's cackle hex.
- Fortune (Su): The shaman grants a creature within 30 feet a bit of good luck for 1 round. The target can call upon this good luck once per round, allowing it to reroll any ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, taking the better result. The target creature must to decide to use this ability before the first roll is made. At 8th and 16th levels, the duration of this hex increases by 1 round. Once a creature has benefited from the fortune hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/b/bull-s-strength
"Mavor, do you want the special spell on your weapon?"
.
"Aye, I won't say no to any bonuses in battle. You take what you can get right?"
Denario puts the temporary enchantment on Mavor's weapon.
"There you go. Woe to the one you discharge it on."
"OK, let's go. If there are more Maidens up there, I will drain their strength so they don't hit as hard. I'm going to try and go straight for Devaulus."
Quorthos pauses. "If this doesn't go so well..." He trails off, then just nods with a tight-lipped smile.
You pull the leather curtain to the northwestern room aside and enter a loading bay. The scent of exotic wood and sawdust fills this maze of barrels and crates. A spider web of ropes and pulleys crisscrosses the ceiling, one thick cable suspending a net of barrels suspended nearly twenty feet from the splinter-scattered floor below. Three great wooden doors dominate the northern wall, while leather flaps lead to the south and east.
In the southwest corner of the bay stand a number of empty cages and crates for transporting animals, many bearing the names and origins of the exotic creatures once held within, names like “Three Breaths Viper—Mwangi,” “Emperor Cobra (Eggs)—Vudra,” and “Rat Monkey—S. Island.”
Baer checks out the curtained room for baddies, then slowly follows Quorthos up the stairs. She gives the boy plenty of space to go first, however.
She also uses her Pearl to recall her shield spell.
"Let us know when you want us to follow, boy," Baer grunts, anxious to move on.
Tural bends down to fit through the doorway. He follows the group into the room and edges out again.
"We are here for the fellow, not for loot. Let us move on."
He says with his deep voice. Holding his wand ready he follows after Baer.
Denario follows after, still looking back briefly, to see if nobody came at them from behind as they moved.
At the top of the stairs, Quorthos casts his last invisibility spell, then waits to see what he sees.
Quorthos sneaks up the stairs and opens the door to the next floor. The rough functionality of the warehouse below gives way to beige tile and a white hall on this more officious-looking floor. A door engraved with images of rampant gazelles stands to the south, their once fine teak bearing obvious scores and gapping chips from rough use. The lift's shaft is located in the northeastern corner of this room.
Seeing what Quorthos has run up against, Baer moves up to support the scout.
"Probably behind these doors," Baer says, recasting Shield.
When others are ready and in position, Baer will open the doors.
Mavor hurries up the stairs and waits behind Baer greataxe in hand and ready for action.
"Ready when you are. If he's behind those doors, he'll wish he wasn't."
Tural, who keeps chanting in his loud booming voice, trails at the end of the group.
"Ready when you are."
He says before picking up the chanting again after a brief respite.
Allyph gives herself another tap with her wand of shield.
"Alright then..."
Rows of white-sheeted beds line the walls of the next room. Each is occupied, every bed bearing a patient restrained by leather straps that bind the figure to the sturdy metal frame. At the room’s center stretch simple wooden worktables, each covered in fluid-filled beakers, intricate glass tubes, small burners, and other alchemical instruments. Two queen's physicians are sitting at the table, while a third is injecting something into one of the patients' arm.
"You're not supposed to be here!" one of the physicians at the table yells at you, stating the obvious. He and his colleague jump up from their seats.
Round 1:
Quorthos
Blue Physician
Denario
Tural
Majenko
Mavor
Allyph
Baer
Red Physician
Yellow Physician
Quorthos, still invisible, dimensional slides to the far doorway to make sure no one gets past him. He then summons celestial eagles to attack the doctors.
Green Eagle on Blue doctor:
Pink Eagle on Red doctor:
EDIT: Not sure if there is a benefit to attacking them while seated; if so please add that.
Quorthos dimensional slides to the other end of the room and summons two eagles, which both wound the physicians standing next to the table.
"Bloody hell!" one of the physicians yells as he draws his club, with which he knocks the eagle that attacked him out.
Round 1:
Quorthos
Blue Physician -1HP
Denario
Tural
Majenko
Mavor
Allyph
Baer
Red Physician -5HP
Yellow Physician