Dayd merely scratches his head, the events of the combat a blur to him. Giving up with a shrug he'll follow after Raamanti.
Pyron will cast the +1 temp. hp cameo on everyone again, which lasts for a minute. "I don't know any healing spells at this time, sadly."
Gaius will nod in thanks at the offering of the potion as the slash marks fade away to nothing.
He moves alongside Daud, content to let the eidolon take point.
Tolenn holds Gaius' arm as he raises the potion to his lips, Wait, allow me..."
Grasping his shoulders, he feels a tingling beginning where her hands touched him then slowly moving down his body to where he was injured.
Finished, she smiles at Gaius, then goes and picks up her scimitar, placing it at her side, keeping her flail in hand for the moment, following the eilodon into the next room....
Tolenn firmly grasps Gaius' shoulders, and proceeds to use her holy powers to heal his wounds from the terrible constructs. The group ready, Raamanti takes his point position once again, opening the door to the next area.
Wooden tables here are stacked with vials, beakers, and other alchemical gear, although the southern one is heaped with broken vials and leans awkwardly on a hastily repaired leg. Three large cauldrons sit against the east wall, one of them upended. Its foul, rancid contents of rendered fats have spilled over the floor.
Another of the white-haired little men stands near one of the tables, and his eyes go wide at the sight of your party. He stammers and sputters, seeming as though he is unsure of what to do in this situation.
To the north lies a small door, no more than four feet in height. To the south lies a full-sized door down a short hallway, and a passage leads further to the east.
Drawing his cleaver Daud will move around behind the little man, waiting to see what the others wanted to first.
Grimly, Raamanti strides forwards. Knowing what debate raged earlier but believing that expediency is best for now, the eidolon strikes the creature firmly with his hammer.
Tolenn firmly grasps Gaius' shoulders, and proceeds to use her holy powers to heal his wounds from the terrible constructs. .
Gaius lightly grabs Tolenn's wrist before she pulls her hand away, and smiles broadly into her scarred face, before releasing her.
Grimly, Raamanti strides forwards. Knowing what debate raged earlier but believing that expediency is best for now, the eidolon strikes the creature firmly with his hammer.
[dice=Lucerne hammer, power attack ]1d20 + 7 - 1
[Dice=Damage, power attack ]1d12 + 6 +3
Raamanti strides into the room, and seconds later another little man lays flattened on the floor, a nice, large bump already sprouting from the fellow's head.
Giving a shrug at seeing the man drop Daud will ease himself as he goes about searching the new room.
Pyron shrugs his shoulders and then casts his cantrip on everyone again.
As Pyron starts his spells, Gaius looks at him with interest, then looks to the others for their opinion.
Can we take a moment to discuss what the hell happened to you back there? Granted, I couldn't move, but I could still here you laughing like a lunatic while our lives were in jeopardy. Just what did you find so funny about those creatures?
"We just looked that sorry I suppose." Daud chuckles from across the room.
Well, I was hexing the enemies. I was causing them to be easier for you to hit and more difficult for them to hit you. Why else do you think the combat ended so quickly?
"..."
Well, I was hexing the enemies. I was causing them to be easier for you to hit and more difficult for them to hit you. Why else do you think the combat ended so quickly?
Yes, a few more seconds of your insane laughter and I'd have done my best to get killed too.
Gaius claps Pyron on the shoulder, then waits for Daud to see if he can identify anything useful.
If only you had turned around and saw how I was looking at them too, though it wouldn't affect you if you had looked at me. I was giving them the evil eye, but really I was just hexing their mind. Which is important to note. I can't do it against something that has no brain, like the undead.
Raamanti continues to the room to the south, Hammer drawn and paying special heed for any approaching danger.
Tolenn's eyebrow raises a bit at Pyron's explanation, "That's good to know, Pyron. Now we won't seek to commit you to an asylum, thinking you've broken your mind." she says dryly, then turns a follows Raamanti.
"Spent some time in an Asylum back home once. Dreadful place. Jackets were comfy though."
Raamanti sees no danger, but as he approaches the door, he sees that it has been boarded over. Shrugging, the eidolon gets to work, ripping the boards from their place until all have been removed. He opens the door.
This room, once a pantry, is in shambles. Broken crates and shelves lie strewn about the place, with the foodstuffs, firewood, and other supplies they once contained scattered across the floor.
Standing in the middle of the room is a hideous creature that appears to be made out of mis-matched body parts (think an uglier Frankenstein). The creature clutches an arm that bears Shoanti tribal tattoos. The beast starts to charge at the group!
Initiative:
Round 1: Tolenn, Raamanti, Zart, Creature, Pyron, Gaius, Wednesday
Round 1
"We've found our golem, Zart!" Tolenn cries, dropping her flail and pulling her scimitar from it's sash.
Leaping forward, she engages the unholy construction....
Prior to the new room, Pyron would have done his cantrip giving everyone a temp. hit point for a minute.
Raamanti steps forwards and swings his mighty hammer at the strange flesh golem.
Zart searches his mind for anything he knows about this apparent flesh golem.
Realizing that his regular magics will be ineffective against this creature, Zart produces his wand of shield and enhances his eidolon's defensive capabilities.
"Tolenn, I do not believe this to be our Shoanti," says Zart, casting a critical eye over the creature, "He's only holding that arm, it's not a part of him. I also doubt that our necromancer would board up his prized creation. Perhaps this was something he tried afterwards - or perhaps beforehand. Maybe it went wrong somehow, like those bone snakes earlier. Let's hope it isn't at full strength!"
Tolenn dashes into the room, excited to find another piece of their missing Shoanti boy. She slashes with her scimitar, the blade leaving a bloody trail across the thing's stomach.
Raamanti steps forward, bringing the hammer down with a mighty blow. The broad head of the hammer connects with the creature's skull, and causes the entire top of the head to collapse inward, the thing quite disturbing to look at afterwards. Nevertheless, it remains on its feet.
Zart studies the creature, realizing that piercing weapons would likely have little effect against the patchwork creature. He casts a spell upon Raamanti to protect him from the creature's likely attack.
The creature instead attacks Tolenn, bringing both fists up and trying to slam them down into the paladin. The thing connects with Tolenn's helm, shaking her up a bit.
Summary:
Tolenn - 7 damage
Creature - 31 damage
Initiative:
Round 1: Tolenn, Raamanti, Zart, Creature, Pyron, Gaius, Wednesday
Round 2: Tolenn, Raamanti, Zart, Creature, Pyron, Gaius, Wednesday
While Zart sits back and waits for an opportunity to use his skills, Raamanti swings past Tolenn to strike another hammer blow against the creature .
"MY MASTER WISHES FOR ME TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU SHOULD NOT USE PIERCING WEAPONS AGAINST THIS CREATURE. SAVE YOUR SPEARS AND ARROWS FOR ANOTHER TIME!" thunders the eidolon, just barely loud enough to be heard.
Letting out a snarl as the creature clobbers Tolenn, Daud drops all gambles of which weapon to use and instead draws the cruel blade he began this trip with as he shuffles past Raamanti.
Squeezing into the room though doesn't leave him the best oppurtunity to set up an attack alas.
Pyron moves ten feet and seeing its head bashed inside its body, he realizes a will attack probably wouldn't work. So, he uses his hand that has the buckler attached to grab his wand of acid splash. Does acid affect it?
Tolenn shakes her head to reseat her helm, turned a bit by the creatures blow. Re-grouping, she waits...then strikes...
"Acid should be fine, so long as it is conjured and not something that spell resistance can overcome," says Zart, remembering golems' usual immunities, "But that assumes this is like a regular golem - when clearly it is not."
Gaius joins the others, slashing his blade at the patchwork monster.
So, sending acid out of this wand should work.
As the hideous golem goes down, Raamanti quickly searches the formerly boarded up room.
Regardless of what he finds, he will start heading onwards, out the corridor to the right (taking the rightmost option if turns present themselves).
"Well, I guess we should head onwards," says Zart, taking a cursory peek around, "Looks like Rolth has been experimenting quite a bit with corpse pieces. I wonder why he specifically wanted a Shoanti - or perhaps it was just coincidence. Given the situation in town, though, I doubt that anything that could start a war is coincidence. I for one would love to be able to question Rolth and find out exactly who sold him the Shoanti's body and if he knows why."
Zart turns to the others, "But after more of this, you may have noticed my stance on these little white-haired creatures has changed somewhat. I still want them to face Korvosan justice, but it is crucial that they not warn their master... on the off chance he doesn't know we're coming already."
With that little speech over, Zart casts resistance on everyone, finishing with Raamanti and another shield spell just as they exit the last room.
Helping Raamanti search the room Daud will then collect the Shoanti arm and place it in a bag.
Raamanti and Wednesday search the room, but it is thoroughly destroyed. It used to be a fully-stocked alchemist's lab, by the look of it, but everything has been broken, busted, bent, or spilled.
The only thing of value is the severed Shoanti arm, to join the legs you've already collected.
This foul-smelling cavern is bordered on three sides by ten-foot-deep pits. It is from these pits that the rancid smell of excrement and decay fills the air—each pit contains a few heaps of moldy straw, a wooden trough of filthy water, a few rotting body parts, and a couple still living prisoners.
A huge man, possibly part ogre, stands in the middle of the room, wearing a stupid grin. "Cabbagehead beat you up good, Rolth give me shinies!" He advances, fists raised.
Initiative:
Round 1: Tolenn, Gaius, Pyron, Cabbagehead, Wednesday, Raamanti, Zart
Gaius moves to engage the creature before he can strike, slapping it on the nose with the flat of his blade.
Silence, oaf! Your master is as good as dead!
Pyron moves to behind Raamanti. He looks at the creature and does a hex versus will -2 to attack. (1 or 5 turns), no cackling.