Filbert stares transfixed as Heinrich falls to the ground and the 'good Dr' turns to attack them.Shaking his head he simply flings his arms out at the creature, as if trying to push it away.
If the Dr continues forward Filbert backs SW towards the corner.
Filbert's haunts send several small coins hurtling towards Dr Losandro at lethal speeds. They impact with a meaty thuck, but she barely notices and continues walking towards you! Filbert wisely backs away into the corner!
Lizzie on the other hand waits patiently, mace in hand, for Dr Losandro to come closer!
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii <----- WE ARE HERE
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege LosandroSpoiler:Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Luxina Tenebris, Crystal Delphi are up.
The cloud wasn't the kind of thing Momijii wanted to fight. It was hard to determine how to fight it, would her fists even touch it? She decided that, in the end, there was no choice but to try. She shifted to her fighting stance and charged at the cloud, hoping that she could actually connect with it and do some damage.
<--- OOPS
With a great deal of courage, considering what happened to Heinrich, Momijii rushes Dr Losandro. She had too much momentum not to hit, but she too fell down like a sack of potatoes, overcome by stuff of dreams!
Luxina's shot went wide, unnerved by her companions dropping like flies.
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconcious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi <----- WE ARE HERE
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconcious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Spoiler:Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Crystal Delphi is up.
Crystal takes a steady aim and feathers Dr Losandro, who does't even seem to notice the arrow jutting from her torso! She wisely retreats through the door.
For her part, the battered, bruised and freely bleeding Dr Losandro shambles towards Lizzie and Luxina but doesn't quite make it...
Filbert Springbit <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconcious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconcious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Spoiler:Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconscious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconscious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Filbert Springbit, Lizzie "beads" Tamar', Luxina Tenebris and Crystal Delphi are up.
Luxina shakes her head and fires her crossbow.
"Bah! Useless!"
Then drops the crossbow on the floor.
"Stay out of those mists! Split up as much as you can!"
She then moves over towards where Momiji and Heinrich are, taking careful consideration not to step into the cloud of mists.
"Over here, you big rainbow fountain!"
Lizzie takes in her breath, and holds it, her cheeks bulging slightly like a hamster.
She readies a strike.
Got to wake Heinrich and Momijii up
Filbert looks around and gathering bits and pieces of the debris surrounding him he flings them towards the creature shambling towards Lizzie and Luxina. Missing widely.
Then he moves along the southern wall as Luxina moves across the northern side.
Filbert sends small bits of fallen masonry flying, but misses as does Luxina! Mace in hand, Lizzie calmly awaits Dr Losandro...
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar' Readied action
Momijii Unconcious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi <----- WE ARE HERE
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconcious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Spoiler:Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconscious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Filbert Springbit
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Momijii Unconscious
Luxina Tenebris
Crystal Delphi
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Unconscious
Dr Eliege Losandro
Crystal Delphi is up.
At this range, Crystal can hardly miss. With a twang-thwack another arrow sprouts from Dr Losandro's torso.
Dr Losandro shambles towards Lizzie who brains her with the mace. The poor tormented doctor falls in a heap on the floor.
The horrific fate of Dr Losandro proves all too much for Crystal. Realizing she isn't cut out for this life, she decides to return to the chapel where she can help the survivors recover.
(Ugh...can't reach her head..i'm too short)
Luxina approaches slowly, waiting to see if the mists coming from Losandro's mouth stops.
She then procedes to wake up Heinrich and Momiji from their troubled sleep before walking over to collect her crossbow.
"I wonder what the heck has happened to her. That's definitely not something a shapeshifter would do."
With her death the multi-coloured mists stop issuing from the mouth of Dr Losandro, and both Momijii and Heinrich are woken up by Filbert and Luxina. It seems during their breif state of catatonia they had further unsettling dreams.
In Administrator Losandro’s office you find a number of interesting and
modestly valuable curios, the most valuable being a brain-shaped sculpted wooden box, bookends depicting twin screaming and crying figures, and a brass sculpture of an Osirian pyramid. Each of the three items is worth 50 gold pieces.
pounds and is worth 100 gp.
2 doses of opium, a scroll of fox’s cunning, two scrolls of remove paralysis. A candle DC 21. A tin containing incense DC 19, a rabbit's foot on a thin silver chain DC 20, a braided leather cord holding two fox's feet DC 16.
Oathday: Another unexpected call from Count Lowls. These have become so common and Lowls’s focus is so singular that they no longer leave me apprehensive. He requested to see me after his visit with Zandalus, though. He claims to have a theoretical solution for the poor man’s condition. I don’t know what the count and my prized patient have been discussing and Lowls again refused to share but I doubt that lordly amateur psychologist has truly hit upon anything of worth. Regardless, I’d be a fool not to humor my liege.
Starday: Lowls’s ”solution” was not at all what I expected. I have no clue where he turned it up, but on his most recent visit he brought along a copy of Valhadis’s The Chain of Nights, a near-legendary collection of psycho-arcane studies and treatments focused on dreaming. While I abhor arcane tampering, if there’s a permanent solution to Zandalus’s nightmares, it could be here. Lowls allowed me to study the text for the duration of his visit, but staunchly refused to leave it in my possession.
Moonday: Lowls has made me an offer: his copy of The Chain of Nights. All I must do in return is accept a handful of new patients [i]former associates of his that have suffered some unprecedented manner of group amnesia. I might accept this as charity on the count’s behalf, but he insists that I keep no record of their committal. The terms make me suspicious, but I can learn more of these curious strangers once they’re in my care. If it means the possibility of a cure for Zandalus and others, I welcome the bargain.
Toilday: The Chain of Nights is a marvel. It will take years of study to unravel all its possibilities, but already I’ve discovered a process by which chronic dreams might be drawn forth and disposed of like so much psychic gristle. Tomorrow our experiment begins.
[spoiler=Kn:Local DC 10 Haserton Lowls and Count Lowls are both names that refer to Count Haserton Pragmus Lowls IV, ruler of the County of Versex in Ustalav.[/spoiler]
Luxina stows away her crossbow and looks through the room, not looking on the body at all, still a little apprehensive about the strange occurences that happened to DR. Losandro.
When she finds the locked drawer on the desk she immediately retrieves her tools to open up locks and begins to work.
"There's some handy things in here, medicine and such. Maybe if we can't use it, the survivors would be glad to have them. Hey, what are these?"
Luxina inspects the items that don't have a clear description or give away to it.
Lizzie is somewhat upset.
"Poor woman...her look was of agony, and we had to fight her down like that."
She shuts the late doctor's eyes if they were still open.
After helping Momijii to wake the others Filbert wanders a bit around the room, taking some time to further study the painting by Zandalus, trying to put things together... eventually making it around to looking on top of her desk, standing in her chair, reading her notes there...
"You guys might want to have a look at this, some Lowls' guy was working with the Dr and it mentions a deal about taking some of his associates, that had amnesia in return for a book..."
Agrippa wakes and looks around Ah! Well. The mist was a soporific it seems. Best that the good Doctor were dispatched right off. That was an error on my part.
Agrippa takes a look at...everything
Yes. This makes sense. We must be the amnesiacs referred to in the notes. This book. The Chain of Nights. This is what caused this...event.
Agrippa spots the three tomes and puts them in his satchel, he also grabs the Doctor's keyring.
These bear further study...
"We're said to be, have been rather, people who have worked with this count?"
Lizzie shakes her head.
"Sounds shady to me."
Agrippa isn't quite sure what the rabbit foot does, beyond it's some minor warding charm.
The fox feet are a lesser talisman of healing power and a lesser talisman of warrior’s courage.
"Those sound strong, nice find Lux, So how do we find the Count?"
Filbert looks around, with the Dr down did that affect the fog surrounding the building?
After the identifying part of the room, Luxina carefully motions over to Losandro's body and searches it for any more useful things.
"Well, we've got keys over here. More than we might have needed in here. Best take them with us. That group does sound like it could be us, though I don't recall meeting a Count."
After that she stands up and brushes herself off quickly.
"So where to now? There's a door in the back here."
Luxina moves towards it and feels if it's open or not.
She'll try the keys of the ring one by one.
Momijii awoke with a start once the doctor died, a gurgled scream in her throat for a moment before she realized where she was. She took a few moments to collect her breath once more and calm her racing heart after the harrowing ordeal of that dream. She lloked at Luxina when she asked about where to go next and simply replied, "Somewhere we haven't been?"
Luxina finds one of the keys unlocks the door which leads onto a corridor. There are deep cracks evident in the walls and the room to the south east has collapsed. Still standing is personal effects storage to the north, the records room to the south west and an unlabeled door at the end of the corridor.
"We should check the personal effects room it might lead up to something belonging to us, as well as the records room, outside of Zandalus's file what are we looking for in there?"
"Which will be, with a little luck, nothing too troubling."
You find the door ajar and it opens with a slight squeak to reveal a large dusty storage room whose racks are cluttered with boxes and sprawling collections of hapazard junk. Many boxes and their contents have toppled and been strewn around the room.
Agrippa inspects the new room
Someone has been through here... Agrippa says
"And we're not alone in here. Two things are lurking behind those boxes."
<--- Spotted them
<--- Sorry you can't make this roll
<--- Spotted them too
Three dirty looking men in tattered yellow robes are waiting for you, armed with crowbars and saps!
Three lurking Apostles in Orpiment attack!
Initiative rolls:
COMBAT ORDER: Surprise round
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Didn't spot them.
Momijii <----- WE ARE HERE
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar' Didn't spot them.
Filbert Springbit
Apostles in Orpiment
Momijii, Luxina Tenebris and Filbert Springbit are up.
Momijii finally found that they were up against something she could recognize, cultists. She shifted her stance and, now ready for combat, stepped up to the closest ambusher. She was ready to turn the hunters into the hunted. She delivered a one-two combination, her first strike hitting hard and making her foe stumble back causing her to be unsure if the second blow would actually hit.
Momijii's firs blow lands so solidly (landing with a solid OOOF!) it rocks the cultist back several steps, causing her follow up to hit only air.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Didn't spot them
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris <----- WE ARE HERE
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Filbert Springbit Didn't spot them
Apostles in Orpiment
Luxina Tenebris and Filbert Springbit are up.
From his lower vantage point Filbert spots the three men advancing on them with weapons in hand. "Hey watch out! we got trouble!"
While he can't see any of them clearly through Lizzie, an idea catches his eye. Aiming for the bookshelf between the two men directly in front of them, Filbert lets loose with a blast. Hoping to shower the two men distracting them from their task.
Various bits of junk whip forwards with great force, some of them smash into the the bookshelf causing mayhem however one large hob-nail boot smacks a cultist in the temple leaving a nasty cut and bruise!
<--- HIT
<--- MISS
<--- HIT, NO CRIT
The cultist Momijii attacked recovers his composure and runs screaming incoherently at Momijii and she feels the sudden burn of his crowbar across her shoulder!
A pair of cultists descend on Lizzie, she easily parries the first one's sloppy lunge, but this leaves her open to the second one who lands a painful blow to her side!
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa <----- WE ARE HERE
Momijii
Luxina Tenebris
Lizzie "beads" Tamar'
Filbert Springbit
Apostles in Orpiment
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Momijii, Luxina Tenebris, Lizzie "beads" Tamar' and Filbert Springbit are up.
"Hey two on one isn't fair!" Filbert complains as the two would be ambushers attack Lizzie. Aiming once more at green he tries to even her odds.
As the shot goes wide Filbert studies the bookshelf beside him for a b
place to cross through to the aisle
if there's a place Filbert will pass through to the next aisle
Lizzie swings her mace at green in return.
"Have it your way."
Luxina steps up besides Lizzie and Momiji, drawing her club and whacking at green.
Agrippa moves forward, drawing his rapier and attempting to distract the cultists in yellow robes from hitting Lizzie
+1 to sense if they are insane (they prolly are)