Rhen stabs out at the blackened Festrog a head of him.
"Ye undead are statin' ta piss me off." Rhen swears as his blade flicks out.
Another festrog for the dangerous dwarf.
Ziera, Rhen
Niu,Ranok ✔
festrogs
Niu withdraws from combat up and away. Landing on the edge of the pit, he looks for a crevice that will hold the grappling hook.
Frowning at Ziera, unable to piece together what happened, Ranok continues to fight for his life. Heading to the nearest festrog, he takes a mighty swing.
Ranok removes the yellow festrog from combat. The two remaining festrogs withdraw.
DC Fort 15
Rhen and Ranok each take 1 con damage.
Round 23 Changing Pit
Rhen 35/61(65), Ziera 32/(66) 72, Ranok 13/61(85), Niu 29/42
Niu, Rhen, Ranok, Ziera ✔
festrogs
Ziera will attempt to climb out
Niu anchors the rope, and activates his hair .
Climb DC with rope is 10.
Ranok also makes his way to the rope.
if there's any more, I'll get them with my bow. I've got to get out of this hole.
Ranok, give me a knowledge religion check. You are beginning to wonder why the pit was draining your life force.
You highly suspect negative energy. The problem is what is the source? You know some evil creatures can conjure it and use it as a weapon against the living. It is normally located on the negative energy plane. Could there be a portal of some sort? Just a strong suspicion and gut feeling that this is negative energy. You cannot come up with a known source that is powerful enough to affect the dead 10s of miles away and this particular pit. It makes no sense.
Rhen steps forward keeping the undead off his fleeing companions.
"I'll be holdin' em off ye." Rhen says.
He be takin' em down.
The last remaining frestrog lines up for a charge.
Fort DC 15
Rhen takes 1 damage to his con.
Round 24 Changing Pit
Rhen 35/47(65), Ziera 32/(66) 72, Ranok 13/61(85), Niu 29/42
Niu, Rhen, Ranok, Ziera ✔
festrog
Ziera is gonna try to climb out again.
Laying down on the edge of the put, and reaching down with his hair, Niu grabs on to Ziera's hands as she attempts to climb, pulling her to the top.
"Ranok, Rhen has things under control. If needed, I can blast the thing with a wand, your bow isn't needed. Start healing yourself with that Lesser Restoration wand
Niu's hair pulls Zira from the pit.
Niu, Ziera
Rhen, Ranok,✔
festrog
Ranok will indeed crawl into a corner and spam his wand... So to speak.
Rhen slowly and methodically moves to the final undead, seeing the final one all alone Rhen's blade thirsts for more. "Ye picked the wrong Dwarf ta bite at." ichor drips off the short sword.
Rhen dispatches the last festrog.
DC Fort 15
Round 25 Changing Pit
Rhen 35/47(65), Ziera 32/(66) 72, Ranok 13/61(85), Niu 29/42
Niu, Rhen, Ranok, Ziera ✔
Rhen easily climbs out of the pit. End initiative.
Niu sprinkles some healing sand on himself, then moves around healing the others with his wand.
Yes.
Ziera will sigh and look at the others.
"Something was up to the pit"
"Maybe once we have cleared the facility, we can find a way to sanctify the pit and end the danger."
Ziera's breast plate is covered in blood from the up close dagger to the heart kills. While being covered in blood is nothing new to Ziera, the blood of innocents on her is a first. As her adrenalin from the fight starts to subside, she looks down and notices it.
Something was up to the pit"
Knowledge Religion, please.
She'll try to wipe it off as she looks at it and violently tries to wipe it clean squeaking vigorously.
You highly suspect negative energy. The problem is what is the source? You know some evil creatures can conjure it and use it as a weapon against the living. It is normally located on the negative energy plane. Could there be a portal of some sort? Just a strong suspicion and gut feeling that this is negative energy. You cannot come up with a known source that is powerful enough to affect the dead 10s of miles away and this particular pit. It makes no sense.
"Calm down, Zeira. I'm healing you as fast as I can."
"Something is channeling negative energy into that pit...Ziera, you liked those two innocent people..." Ranok says with little to no malice in his tone as he hits himself with the Restoration route a few more times before looking to Rhen.
Ranok will move to Rhen to pick him up a bit as well as things digress.
Ziera doesn't say anything just looks at her hands and lets the tears flow from her face as she slowly sinks further into the ground, seeking the cool cold embrace of the earth.
"Do you have some other injury, Zeira? I didn't think the battle went quite that badly."
"Lass ye ok?" Rhen moves to Ziera taking her hand and squatting down beside her. "Ye did what ye had ta, I could o' done it fer ya. Ye keep that glaive o' yers high and we will avenge them folks." Rhen says cleaning the ichor from his blade with a scrap of clothing before tossing it away.
"But they were still alive Rhen, ALIVE!" She says her voice a little softer then turns hard and harsh. "We could have saved them! Got them out got them free. I wasn't strong enough to get them out faster. Not like Ranok." she then begins to wail broken. NOt her first defeat, but definitely a defeat done by something out of her control making her have to do somethign she never thought she would have to do.
After she laments a bit more, her face wet with tears and blood she sniffles and wipes more blood and now dirt on her usually prestine face."The Pit is connected to the negative energy plane..which was the cause of the undead and the change. We will have to find out what and see if we can stop it" She says as she gets to her feet.
Niu looks at the pit again, but shrugs. "I certainly don't dispute that. It was draining your life and converting those poor people into undead abominations.
Fortunately, the pit no longer has any fuel.... At least, I hope it no longer has any fuel. Maybe we should remove the bodies from the pit?"
Peering at the corpses suspiciously, he watches to see any sign of movement. "Probably not. Usually, the victim has to die as a result of the energy drain, right?"
Returning to the group, he looks them over. "Anyone else need healing? I don't have much magic left, but we should do our best to try to find the source of this negative energy."
As Ranok begins to understand the fate of the two 'survivors', he walks over to Ziera and plants a meaty hand on her shoulder.
"We can't save them all Ziera. By Ashava's whirling lights, I know. We just save the ones we can." He runs his thumb along the hashmarks carved into his belt as he leaves her.
Walking over to Niu, he says, "I have a wand we can use for healing. Thought I would let the magic from the other wand kick in first.
"Better. Who's next?"
"We need to finish this place off and wipe it from existence. I'm tired of it."
Ziera gets up slowly and walks over to Ranok."I could use both healing and some of that revitalizer." She says somberly as she looks at the pit, not at Ranok.
Fix her con and I am willing to say everyone is totally recovered. Timing of con and healing is waved over. Rhen is still sickened, iirc.
for Ziera
"Well, the monster in charge of these monsters still knows we are here. Everyone ready to move on?"
restoration: 1d4 ⇒ 1 for Ziera
Okay everyone is topped out except Ziera is -1 to con. No need to burn a zap for that imo. No penalty at -1.