Than change the attack to the guildmember in black. Sneaky little bastard!
Tlanextic will telepathically ask the charmed slayer to politely leave the city for safety. He flies up and blasts the northwest foe with a scorching ray
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The hound archon appears, flanking one of Epik's foes. It attacks with its greatsword.
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Nowzai draws a wand and blasts the nearest northern foe with force missiles.
The charmed slayer looks about at what's going on with slight consternation and then turns and jogs out the front of the church.
Sam flies around.
Nowzai's archon appears cutting into the slayer immediately. Epik takes the thug down with 3 swift cuts. Nowzai follows up with a volley of magic missiles on the Agent. Tlanextic fires rays of fire from its eyes scorching the agent to the NW.
Dalamus engages the burned Agent as it appears from the shadows, his weapon highly effective against the rogue and gets some solid blows in, the lawful energy ripping at the man's being, severely hurting him.
Ma'puande begins summoning.
Both the agents try to feint their opponents and follow up with a deadly strike.
; likely a success
; success!
; HIT, I think?
+ Fort Save DC17 or die AND Fort Save DC25 or take Strength Damage.
; HIT!
+ Fort Save DC17 or die AND Fort Save DC25 or take Strength Damage.
The remaining slayer continues to engage with their kukris
; HIT!;
Dalamus fails against the Feign and his FF ac is 21
Fort save vs death
Fort save vs strength damage
Dalamus will counter attack the guild member
Attack 1
Damage
Attack 2
Damage
Attack 3
Damage
The hound archon continues fighting alongside Epik, shifting to strike the next foe.
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Nowzai casts another swarm of force missiles at the same target.
Can I assume Sam made it through the windwall before it was cast or could he find a way in through a crack past the windwall?
Can I assume Sam made it through the windwall before it was cast or could he find a way in through a crack past the windwall?
Epik heals himself and attacks the agent.
Sam moves up still invis and gaseous
Wolf 1 appears behind the goon to Epiks NW and attacks him
... Dammit
... Dammit
... Dammit
Wolf 2 appears behind the goon to Dalamus's NW and attacks him
... Dammit
... Dammit
... Dammit
Wolf 3 appears 2 squares to the North of Dalamus and attacks the goon he is near
Smite Evil
Ma'puande then casts Spiritual Weapon and has it attack the goon SE of Epik.
She then takes a 5ft step to the east
Sam floats up and over the wall to the north.
Nowzai's hound archon and Epik combine with the wizard's missiles and Ma'puande's hammer to drop the newly arrived agent.
The wolves and Dalamus drop the other agent.
Given the speed at which the two agents get cut down, the remaining slayer withdraws from the fight and runs back into the next room, shouting a warning once he clears the door.
Dalamus will move up, next to the door, so that he can ambush anyone coming through it.
Epik heals himself as he pursues the remaining slayer into the next room.
Ma'puande will ask Nowzai to drop the Wind Wall
She will then walk up to the charmed man and ask "Please tell us where the other slayers are?"
Nowzai will dispel the wind wall and follow the group. The hound archon moves with Epik after the slayer.
Tlanextic turns invisible and takes watch over the entrance.
The party tears off around the corner to find the Slayer fallen to his knees with a knife in his throat ... gurgling as he dies.
You hear a single maniacal giggle that then trails off ... in 2 different directions, the arcane remnants of two recently cast dimensional doors.
A set of masterwork thieves tools lies spread open on the floor in front of the still closed and locked door to Jenya's private sanctuary.
Epik tries Jenya's door and then turns to Dalamus, "Can you open it?"
Dalamus will open the lock
First he will look for traps
Perception?
Disable Device
Tlanextic, please keep an eye out for Last Laugh circling the building. They fled using magic as we entered.
"Jenya, are you in there?" Nowzai calls.
Sam will scout ahead, he is still in gaseous form and invisible
Ma'puande will add her voice and call out - "Lady Jenya, can you hear us?"
Use the sending spell
Tlanextic gives a telepathic confirmation of assent and flies out of the Temple.
Ma'puande and Nowzai holler at the door but hear nothing.
Dalamus begins working on the door, but finds it magically reinforced and sees why the Last Laugh infiltrators were stymied.
Sam then slips through a crack in gaseous form, recoalescing on the other side.
He finds Jenya seated in a lotus position with the Star of Justice laid across her lap. She appears oblivious to the banging on the door and Sam's entrance.
Sam will look around the room and if nothing looks amiss, he will then cancel his invis and gaseous
Perception -
"Jenya, we are here, the outside room is clear."
"Are you ok? Is there anything, or anyone else we need to be concerned about?"
When Sam appears and speaks, Jenya starts and comes out of her reverie.
With a wave of her hand, Sam hears a visible pop and gets a blast of fresh air and a notable pressure change.
"You came! Thank goodness, I thought I was a goner. The Jester came personally to steal the Star. What an opportunistic bastard."
She bites her lip with worry, "Did everyone else get out?"
"Jenya? Sama'el? Is everything alright?" Nowzai continues knocking at the door.
Sam will open the door.
"Who is the Jester, I don't think we saw any sort of leader outside the doors, there may be more around. What did he look like?"
"The Jester is the guildmaster of the Last Laugh. I did not see him, I only heard him working outside the door to break the lock, so I reinforced it with magic and set myself into a protective sphere. He laughed ... a lot. He is not ... sane."
She waves a hand and dismisses the magic holding the door and Sam unlocks/opens it, allowing the rest of the party to enter.
Epik steps into the room and sighs with relief upon seeing that Jenya is safe. "What was the Jester looking for? He must pay for this sacrilege. Where can we find him?"
"He wanted the Star of Justice, this relic," she indicates the sceptre like thing she's holding, "that I use to commune with Iomedae."
She stands and progresses out to the chapel with you all, "If everyone is out safe, then let us evacuate the city as ..."
The rest of her statement is drowned out by a thundering roar that transitions to a blistering heat radiating from the top of the church ... it catches on fire!
Outside you hear masses of people begin to scream and flee.
What was that? And are you safe? Nowzai asks Tlanextic.
Dalamus will look around quickly and say "We need to leave now!"
Dalamus will run to the door and peak out to see if there is an ambush in waiting and will stop the others if he sees anything.
Perception
Tlanextic's serene reptilian voice cuts through everyone's mind.
Fire rains down from the sky now ... it is difficult to see through all the smoke and haze, but it appears to be a dragon. An extremely large and very angry crimson beast.
Dalamus races out through the front doors, smoke and ash clouding his vision. Heat radiates from everywhere as not only is the roof on fire, and searing embers in the air, but a crack has opened up while the party was in the church and lava is bubbling up out on the street, flowing away from the church and toward the center of the caldera.
He hears a roar of rushing air and feels it pulse and pound against him from above, as if being moved by massive fans ... or wings.
Epik follows behind Dalamus, drawing his great sword and looking up to determine what infernal abomination is above.
Dalamus will look up, and if it is a dragon he will fun back into the doorway of the church for cover and watch to see what the beast is doing.
Dalamus sees the underside of a massive red scaled lizard as it swoops down through the smoke and ash, flames shooting down the street and lighting things on fire. Over the roar of fire and the beat of its wings, the rogue hears it mutter something in a deep rumbling bass before it pivots directly up to disappear in the black clouds of burning ash and ember.
"MAGIC ... I SMELL IT DOWN THERE. TIME TO DIE, MORTALS. WORRY NOT, THOUGH, YOUR POSSESSIONS WILL LIVE ON IN INFAMY IN MY HOARD. YOUR LEGEND AS ANOTHER BURNING DEFEAT AT THE TEETH OF HOOKFACE WILL GO DOWN IN YOUR ANNALS FOREVER MORE"
Initiative
"That dragon is named Hookface and he smells magic. He is coming to destroy us!"
Dalamus will head back in and ask "Does anyone have any healing available?
"We certainly possess enough magical items to draw its attention." Nowzai readies his wand of magic missiles.
Ma'Puande will cast Cure Serious Wounds on Dalamus!
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Ma'puande quickly heals Dalamus as the rest of the party tries to figure out what's going on.
Hookface doesn't become visible, but the beat of his wings shows roughly where he is above the smoke. He circles the block and begins a path coming back toward the party. You hear a tremendous rush of air away from you and you see the smoke that recoils from the buffeting wings, suck upward rapidly in conjunction with that sound.