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Mutagen (+4 Dex; +2 Nat Armor; -2 Wis; 50 minutes)
Alter Self (to become a lizardfolk for 5 minutes)
Anticipate Peril (for 5 minutes or until discharged)
False Life (for 5 hours or until discharged)
Heightened Awareness (for 50 minutes or until discharged - used when meet Shyael)
Tûrak didn't have time to react against the mimic, Rilas takes care of it before the half-orc could act. "Nice work", he greets him.
Once inside the crypt, the alchemist makes a quickly comment "are we in abyss?"
Tûrak is very apprehensive at this moment. "Look, the purple spiked creature in the pictures is a kalavakus demon. It is not good. Is this really a cathedral dedicated to this 'Laktharis'? Is it really a god or a damned demon?", now he isn't liking what he see.
Then, he turns to Valais: "to where now?"
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We are in the Worldwound an Abyss' touched region.
As for Laktharis, it could be... I know ancient Sarkorian used to sometime worship outsiders, demon or angel.
But if what you say is true, that this figure is in fact Laktaris and it's a demon then I fear that Laktaris is twisted god...
Albert stay behind, waiting for his comrade to destroy or trigger the trap.
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Once Savage sees Rilas take the Mimic down he stops changing and goes back to just his scaly skin. He then cast a few spells before moving on.
He then Transforms himself into a Styracosaurus
for 8 hours
He will also take lead in party
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"The trap doesn't behave mechanically ergo its operation isn't one I can suppress the operation of without setting it off first," Diri remarks. "However, we can likely have the wolf or a dinosaur crawl into the pit and simply walk across its back affording us passage safely without considerable endangerment."
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"I speak Hallit," the tengu offers. "It starts 'servants shall...' but we need to remove this flesh to see the rest of it." A spark of flame appears when the wizard snaps her feathered fingers. "Burning it away OK with everyone?"
, no heal, ,
Unless someone objects Aiko will flame blast a 20 ft. section of the flesh-covered wall.
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It actually seems to be normal flesh, just not enough fire. The arrow however seems to do a lot of the trick, though the powers of the righteousness within have no effect.
Between both the flames and the arrow, the fleshy covering, something halfway between "webbing" and a fungal wall is mostly gone, and another single arrow (or fire application) is enough to remove it. As it is hit, however, it seems to react violently to such stimuli, and the small pustules and boils erupt, sending a spray of acidic necrosis across the room. Only Wilson and <the bird-dinosaur mini> are close enough to be caught in it's rain, (hit twice each).
Afterwards, it crumbles to dust, allowing you to examine the etching hidden beneath with ease.
It Reads: Servants shall grovel at the master's feet.
"Only the Penitent Man shall Pass!"
While he's the size of a small horse, Winston deftly dodges the acidic pus that sprays from the wall.
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Crawling through, or rather under the trap seems to do the trick, leading you directly into the intersection. A black marble statue stands at the intersection. It is a hulking humanoid with elephantine feet and large razor-sharp horns covering its body. Spiky script carved into the plinth compounds the sinister nature of the figure.
“The righteous will fall on their own swords to protect their honor. Only the humble will be left, serving their masters and living long lives.”
As she gazes at the statue, Valais winces slightly and raises a hand to the demonic half of her face. “This must be . Here’s our proof that we are in the right place. I was thinking that we should .” Valais’s eyes widen slightly as she continues, “No, we should not turn left. . What I’m trying to say is that we should look around carefully before proceeding .” Valais raises her voice, “Before proceeding in whichever direction you choose. The demons have never been this insistent before. We must be close to our destination.”
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Aikio talks to the small elemental by her side responding to words that sound more like the hissing of flames. It is more comfortable for the tengu than the listening to the conversation of the Venture Captain.
"Barring any other information, left works as well as right for me." She pulls her exotic blade from the red robes & lies it at humbly at the statue's feet. "Unless someone gas a better idea to the riddle?"
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"Captain Durant and her fragmented personality are beginning to come in conflict with themselves which judging by her mannerisms is an uniquely occurring event," Diri states, her flat voice softer in volume but not in tone. She points a finger to the right, "the primary voice in her autoconversation seems to favor the passageway to the right but my confidence interval lacks the depth and rigor of a good argument towards either hypothesis."
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Albert turns to Valais Are you alright Valais ? Is that true what Diri says ? You begin to loose control with the part which is not yours ?
Can we help ?
Then he turns to his comrades
I have no idea. Left or right a demon is pure chaos. If he knows we know. He will try to deceive us, I vote for Left.
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"Careful now, each path is trapped. The left with some sort of symbol spell and the right with an attack spell"
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Incomplete information makes for poor analysis.
"I concur with Rilas that the low-variance option to the right is more predictable therefore preferential to the high-variance option travelling left presents," Diri offers. "While certainly an improbable solution I can also attempt to excise the spell effect completely with considerable risk of triggering whichever outcome we are planning to avoid."
Diri will cast dispel magic on the right trap.
. . 4th—blessing of fervor[APG] (DC 18), freedom of movement, wall of fire[D]
. . 3rd—create food and water,
. . 2nd—burning hands[D] (DC 15), consecrate, lesser restoration (2), sound burst (DC 16)
. . 1st—
. . 0 (at will)—detect magic, read magic, spark[APG] (DC 14), stabilize
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The path tot he right seems to hold powerful divine spell, you believe "blade barrier", but while the trap occupies the majority of the pathway, it is actually cunningly set to not be triggered until someone has crossed a certain threshold somewhere into the area.
Whats odd is that you see a small tendril of magical energy, leading back to the statue itself, like there is some sort of synergy or connection between the two. It's unclear just what that is, but in doing so you do spot a small hidden compartment at the base of the statue itself.
Inside you find a set of manacles, but they also glow as Aikio looks upon them, indicating some sort of magical property.
Additionally, there is also a magical (+1) Flail, but as soon as she sees it, Valais makes her way over and tries to grab it, but finds it is somehow stuck in place. The statue comes to life, for just a moment, it's raised arm dropping to strike her. Aikio sees a sudden pulse of magic in that small tendril that leads to both of the trapped areas in both hallways. Valias grabs her face, backing off wounded and surprised. "I don't understand. I knew to grab the weapon just like I knew to find my way here."
Destroying the statue, either trying to topple it with sheer strength or by pounding it with a blunt weapon just might release the weapon, and Diri suspects may also bypass one, if not both of the traps here, but, it's risky, as the statue seems to attack back.
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"If the statue could be displaced the linked arcane mechanisms may be disrupted enough to alter the operation of either trap but that would require the combined force of as many as seven gnomes or two gnomes with the combined strength of three gnomes apiece joined by a third gnome of average strength," she remarks, matter-of-factly, looking to size up who the strongest in the group is. "Also it will try to kill us."