an extra plus 5 for being threatened by the giant ants.
vs glitterdust DC 16
Jolistinia throws off the enchantment, but is unable to shake off the blindness and attempts to run away from the creatures in a random direction hoping to get away from the giant ants and procoking AoOs from both ants. She runs towards I37.
AOO's-
Bite #1
Damage #1
CMB to grapple if bite hit #1
Bite #2
Damage #2
CMB to grapple if bite hit #2
Bite #2 Crit?
Round 4 Action-
Both ant's maintain the grapples, biting further chunks out of the Elf.
Confident his minions have the Elf skewered, Curnach hurls a second fire bolt to finish off the last zombie that narrowly misses setting Krenn's hair on fire.
Jerin draws out his wand of Lightning Bolts and fires one right through her mid-section.
Jerin draws out his wand of Lightning Bolts and fires one right through her mid-section.
vs DC 14
The crazed Elf manages to dodge most of the blast, but the hit manages to force her to her knees.
"Surrender..." she manages to blurt out before falling to the floor unconcious and bleeding out.
The zombie tries to strike at Krenn with it's closed fists to slam into him but completely misses, striking the armour and not harming Krenn.
Jerin readies an action to fire another lightning bolt if she does anything other than surrender, cast, move, etc. and waits for Krenn to finish the Zombie and secure the prisoner.
Arianna will approach the woman and tearing a strip of cloth from her dress, attempts to bind her wounds.
Heal check:
Stanching the flow of blood, Arianna calls to Curnach "Call off your pets, she seems to be the only one living who can tell us what happened here and what happened to Ruan"
It shall be as you say Arianna- but i'll find another use for them...
Curnach has the ants release the Elf as a free action and they move down the stairs to attack the other zombies. Curnach seems content for Krenn to finish off the last zombie while he keeps a vigil on the stairs, watching his pets attack then dissipate.
Ant 1 Round 1 of 2
Ant 1 Round 2 of 2
Ant 2 Round 1 of 2
Ant 2 Round 2 of 2
Krenn's Round 3 Action
attack
damage
Krenn's final Strike destroys the Zombie, carving it right in half above the waist and leaving behind a dead body.
You all notice that the bodies on the floor appear to all belong to musicians. The chairs to the east are where they were most likely sitting. All the bodies have their masks still on.
There are still doors up here. Two north of the room and another near some closed windows.
The Giant Ants are tearing into the undead and the zombies are powerful and no matter if the zombies attacks land or not, they merely bounce off the powerful hide of the ants before the ants dissappear. Two undead, that were dancing together are now marching on their way to head upstairs.
Krenn's Round 3 Action
attack 1d20+11
damage 1d10+4
Krenn's final Strike destroys the Zombie, carving it right in half above the waist and leaving behind a dead body.
You all notice that the bodies on the floor appear to all belong to musicians. The chairs to the east are where they were most likely sitting. All the bodies have their masks still on.
There are still doors up here. Two north of the room and another near some closed windows.
The Giant Ants are tearing into the undead and the zombies are powerful and no matter if the zombies attacks land or not, they merely bounce off the powerful hide of the ants before the ants dissappear. Two undead, that were dancing together are now marching on their way to head upstairs.
VS Touch
Fire Damage
VS Touch
Fire Damage
Seeing Curnach go to the door to support the ants, Krenn will start searching the area for any sign of what might have happened to the missing brother, or in general for anything of value/interest.
Perception 1d20+8
Curnach, let me know if any zombies get close and I'll cover the door.
You find that the bodies are those of muscians, however none of them appear to match the description of the missing brother and his instrument isn't anywhere to be seen.
Various peices of art hanging on the wall, all being painted over with stick figures made of blood. One a explicit stick figures of a man and a woman together, woman with pointed ears whilst another simply has a heart symbol with a arrow through it with two names in the centre with a "+" between them. The names are "Rolthy" and "Jol". The art is probably ruined due to these blood marks spoiling them. One was a portrait of the lady of the manor now covered with the heart shape. There's even a real human heart stuck to the portrait with a crossbow bolt keeping it in place.
The bodies have been rotting for sometime, even the ones now coming up the stairs appear to have been rotting for sometime.
There are two more doors up here that you havn't been in. The door between the one you all entered from and the one of the far right appears to be lavishly decorated and spoiled by the markings of blood saying:
"Lover's Nest" and another blood marked heart on the door.
One of the figures having being burnt by Curnach's flame, ruining the outfit even more than it was. The other undead also have the same crossbow bolts through their bodies and they appear to be covered in some kind of disease just like the others.
Jerin will launch a salvo of magic missles at any remaining zombies to speed up their final demise.
Jerin will launch a salvo of magic missles at any remaining zombies to speed up their final demise.
The zombie already burnt badly from Curnach falls under the power of the magic missiles slamming into the undead with force and knocking it back down the stairs whilst the last one, wearing a dress appears to be still walking up the stairs.
The elf is laying, having bled out bbut stabalised by Arianna.
2 potions of invisibility
2 potions of remove disease
wand of cat's grace (10 charges)
4 smoke bombs
+1 Glamered Studded Leather Armour (was in the fourm of a beautiful ball gown, but can be changed to what the owner wants)
+1 light crossbow
3 screaming bolts
30 bolts
masterwork dagger
2 alchemist's fire
flint and steel
manacles
sealing wax
20 sewing needles
150 gp in stolen jewelry.
Do we want to try and charm her to get her to tell us what we need or just beat it out of her? This horrible thing doesn't deserve our pity, is she engineered this massacre, she should suffer!
We need to find the boy and Rolth's location.
"She is obviously quite insane, so I don't beleive that physical violence will yield much in the way of information. Given that she is in love with that body-snatching fiend, Rolth, I don't believe that even the threat of violence will do the trick. I think that a Charm Person might be our best recourse. Since that is your specialty, my dear Jerin, I'll leave it up to you"
Jerin will launch a salvo of magic missles at any remaining zombies to speed up their final demise.
The zombie already burnt badly from Curnach falls under the power of the magic missiles slamming into the undead with force and knocking it back down the stairs whilst the last one, wearing a dress appears to be still walking up the stairs.
The elf is laying, having bled out bbut stabalised by Arianna.
2 potions of invisibility
2 potions of remove disease
wand of cat's grace (10 charges)
4 smoke bombs
+1 Glamered Studded Leather Armour (was in the fourm of a beautiful ball gown, but can be changed to what the owner wants)
+1 light crossbow
3 screaming bolts
30 bolts
masterwork dagger
2 alchemist's fire
flint and steel
manacles
sealing wax
20 sewing needles
150 gp in stolen jewelry.
You also find a black leather book that appears as if it was once plain, but now has blood on the cover with Rolthy written on it. There are spells inside that will require research to find out what spells are there. Where there should be blank pages are more crude and child-like drawings of a pointy-eared woman and a human man together, with many romantic annotations of the beauty of being one of the undead. Also of how Rolth promised to furfill her wish of being turned into one of the undead. Maybe even visit Geb.
We should finish searching the house for any other clues as to the boys whereabouts and then get her conscious so I can charm then question her.
What about forcing her accept the spell? I would hate to waste it, but I guess you can try as well if needed...
When we get around to it it will be a
Dividing ourselves is not a good idea- there may be greater dangers than the Elf here. I don't imagine this will take long- lets wait for Jerin to get any information he can.
Curnach forcefeeds the unconcious Elf goodberries, one by one, until she regains conciousness.
The elf becomes concious and looks around at you all. Four against one don't appear to be good odds so she doesn't attempt to grab any weapons and then gets hit by Jerin's spell.
She starts smirking up in Jerin's direction
"You like my creations? I made sure to decorate the entire manor with beutiful undead." she smiles and remains focused on Jerin, ignoring everyone else.
Yes my pretty, I am afraid that I was so overwhelmed by this pagentry that I forgot to ask you your name?
assumes she answers...he continues, So Tell me all about how this wonderful creation of yours came about my dear and start from the beginning, now don't leave out any details or I will be so upset with you my beautiful Jolistina!
Follow-up questions if the story dosn't get what Jerin needs,
So my dear, where is Rolth staying these days? We have so much in common you know. We both didn't fit in to the academy...I so want to meet him and talk about our shared experiences.
On the boy, What happened to Raun the ocarina player? I was upset that he wasn't here so I could do horrible things to him myself.
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"Jolistina Superio, elf and aspiring undead." she smirks and laughs as she mentions this "Oh? Well Rolthy sent me here to kill several of the rich bastards who were scheduled to attend the party here, but everyone else were just bonus points!" she again giggles as she says this. "I dressed up and snuck in here, shooting my disease infected bolts at the bastards, watching them run and scream, oh it was so fun! Rolthy's new employer wanted them dead, but I don't know who or why, before you ask, silly rabbit."
At the question about where Rolth is she tilts her hear.
"Rolthy has been pushed around by this new employer. He, or she..." she grits her teeth as the possibility of it being a woman unfuriates her "Has kept him locked up in the some hidden laboratory in the city. Keeping him locked up my poor Rolthy has barely been able to speak to me, so I stole one of his spell books to keep for a keepsake after he came and visited me the day after everyone died."
"Ocarina?" she seems confused into you explain it to her "Oh! The handsome Varisian with the weird wind instrument! Rolthy was so happy when I gave him the wrapped up Varisian to experiment on. He was so happy we got to use the main bedroom and he gave me two scrolls of animate dead, which I used to make this beautiful display" she seems really happy when talking about Rolth in this light, but then the smile fades "He had to leave as he had two women with him. They were heavily armoured and carried the young man off to somewhere. These woman had red-plumed helms" You recognise these helms and description as being that of the Gray Maidens.
How was Rolth supposed to get in touch with you next? I am sure he is anxious to see you again!
I don't suppose you have any idea where they were taking the boy do you?
How was Rolth supposed to get in touch with you next? I am sure he is anxious to see you again!
I don't suppose you have any idea where they were taking the boy do you?
She shrugs and shakes her head.
"where Rolthy is, maybe. If i knew where he was I'd be there right now. He said he'd return, but didn't say when. His work is getting him plenty of pay and spells. Some group who love undead like us." you see that she's quite sad being seporated from Rolth.
To the group, Not good news about the boy...we should probably talk to Croft about this. If the maidens are in league with Rolth and whomever this "benefactor" is, we might be able to have them follow some Maidens to wherever this location is, they should stick out like a sore thumb.
Agreed. There may be more survivors here though- and even if not, these abominations of flesh must be destroyed. Curnach lifts his club and beats the Elf back into unconciousness, unless someone stops him.
WHACK!
STABILISE
Jerin looks on with no small amount of satisfaction...Lets finish the search and beout of this place.
Jolistina is knocked out and the spell now is dispelled due to the offensive action, but she's unable to act as she's already unconcious.
There are two rooms still up here, one the obvious master bedroom and on the ground floor you can see hallways possibly leading into many other rooms. There is a light eminating from the groundfloor from possibly a fireplace in the room north with no doors blocking off the room.
Krenn, lead the way my friend.
Before setting off with the others, Arianna will take the manacles and thread them through the stairway bannister shackling Jolistina's wrists.
"Just in case she has a harder head than we thought"
As you open the door, inside the room appears to be a lavishly decorated room, perfect place for those of high society to sleep, however now it smells terrible.
Two female figures are in this room, one dressed in a attractive gown and in the position of a lady-in-waiting as the other is one you recognise as the once elegant and beautiful Lady Olauren Carowyn as her picture depicted her, only now she is covered in rotting and festering diseased flesh. Her elaborate, powdered wig now brushing against the ceiling. She is dressed as a Galtan Queen with a sprawling pearl-studded gown flowing around her as the other undead is dressed as a Quadiran princess. Just like everyone else their bodies are rotted terribly with bolts through their bodies. The Zombies don't appear to have noticed you all yet.
Round 1
Group Initiative:
Curnach Daveck:
Jerinthian Kos:
Arianna Rothschild:
Krenn Whetstone:
Zombies:
Order:
Curnach Daveck
Krenn Whetstone
Jerinthian Kos
Zombies (not acting this round)
Arianna Rothschild
Round 1-
Curnach hurls a fire bolt at the zombie in A35.
Fire Bolt VS FF Touch (10 or less I imagine).
Fire Damage
Jerin can't do much against undead and he doesn't want to waste Bolt charges so he delays until further notice...
Jerin can't do much against undead and he doesn't want to waste Bolt charges so he delays until further notice...
Move to B34 and two handed power attack on the zombie in A34.
To hit 1d20+9
Damage 1d20+12AC is currently only 21 due to stowed shield.
The once beautiful Lady Olauren Carowyn who was killed in cold-blood by a disturbed elf and then raised again in the mockery of like is put to Krenn's blade, slicing off her head as the corrupted body was still leering into the mirror.
The Mockery of her once great and noble life has now ended, but her lady in waiting is still standing.
Still delaying...
Still delaying...
Not waiting for you, as stated on the order, Zombies are on a delay this round. So Arianna's Turn.
Arianna will begin to sing to Inspire courage (+2) in her comapnions and herself.