Round 4
Vuloo will cast his last hold person on the now visible derro.
Aidons glitterdust explodes in the air highlighting the floating derro. She closes her eyes just in time to avoid being blinded then flinches away as Relans strike bangs off her magical arcane shield just preventing her from harm.
She shouts in anger floating higher in the air, stopping at the vaulted ceiling 15 feet up.
She then flashes her hand and an explosion of sonic force hits Braelex and radiates outward.
Vuloo casts a paralyzing spell, pushing hard through the derro's innate resistance and freezing her mid scream.
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Fulmen attempts to stabilize
Braelex flinches from the sonic burst, but continues to assault the derro with her fire bombs.
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"Beware!" Braelex calls out, pointing at the stealthy derro.
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Aidon Perception -
Amiculus Perception -
Amiculus will 5' and attack the spider on Fulmen
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Damage -
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Braelex, Aidon, Relan, Magister Khrysm, Vuloo, Amiculus, Fulmen, Andel, Caedimus, Shriezyx
Amiculus moves in next one of the spiders and swings away, missing badly.
Andel doesn't see the derro behind him so fires again at the spider skipping an arrow off it's armored shell.
The derro fires a crossbow bolt at Vuloo out of a repeating crossbow, but still misses the stunned oracle.
The eastern shriezyx spies the shard in the belt of the magister derro and a throaty growl comes from its maw as it climbs the wall and heads across the ceiling to get close to her.
The other shriezyx turns on Amiculus, tearing into the eidolon
Braelex hits the paralyzed magister with yet another bomb, the splash damage hitting the spider causing it to skitter and skreech as it catches fire and turns to a crips falling from the ceiling and hitting the ground in an explosion of charred insect
; HIT; + DC 16 Fort Save or take Str damage
; HIT;
; HIT;
; HIT;
; HIT;
1 16
2 58
K 45
C
Fulmen: -4
Huh, lemme double check why. Thought you were good already ... have you been able to see it before?
Hmm, I'm getting not authorized ... weird. Let me see if I can figure out whatsup.
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Relan, still covered in webs steps back and disarms the dero of the shard he is holding. If he can disarm the item into the square between them he will use his move action to pick it up.
Gotta think in squares ... Three squares away vertically same as 3 squares away horizontally
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Relan bursts free of the webs as the magister pulls her self along 10 feet to the south and then throws a bomb down on the party, screaming to them as she does so,
; HIT!; acid to Braelex; 7 splash damage to Vuloo and Andel, DC 16 reflex for half for the splash damage.
Andel turns and strums a chord, blowing a cone of shards at the sneaking derro.
Fulmen bleeds out
The shriezyx steps to the southwest and attacks Vuloo striking with a couple claws.
; miss
; HIT!;
HIT!; ; fail;
; miss
; miss
1 16
K 45
C 8
Fulmen: -5
Frustrated that he cannot reach the Derro in the air Relan moves to attack the spider.
Vuloo takes a five foot step backwards and fights defensively. He will cast misfortune on the the spider as an immediate action if the spider scores another hit.
Aidon cries out as Amiculus is shredded and dissipates back to his home realm
Taking deep labored breaths he summons more eagles to attack the spider
Eagles -
Eagle 1
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Eagle 2
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Eagle 3
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Braelex grimly hurls another grenade at the paralyzed derro.
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Braelex throws another on target bomb, crushing the vulnerable derro who can no longer leap out of the way. Fire rains all down around her companions but missed them all. Near her, Aidon, keeps his connection to the home plane of celestial eagles alive and summons more that eagerly and immediately attack the spider scoring a couple blows. Relan, grumbling stalks over and follows up with a vicious stab to the creature's abdomen, causing it to screech and wheel about.
Vuloo moves into a defensive posture.
Fulmen bleeds out
Andel and the derro go into hand-to-hand combat but not before Andel gets off another chord of shards. The derro gouges Andel deeply with vicious telling blows from his poisoned blade.
The spider steps inside Relan's guard and true to his form, continues to carve through the party causing serious damage to the warrior from several blows.
; success can move next round
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; HIT!; CRIT!;
; fail, takes Str damage
; HIT!; CRIT!;
; HIT!; ; + make a DC 14 Fort Save or take Str Damage
; miss
; HIT!;
; HIT!;
; HIT!;
1 40
K 59
C 18
Fulmen: -6/31
Andel: 21/31 (2 Str damage)
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Round 7
Vuloo moves to Fulmen and heals him.
Still breathing heavily and focusing on the spider Aidon summons an earth elemental to attack
Eagle 1
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Eagle 2
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Eagle 3
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
The Earth Elemental will power attack
To Hit -
Damage -
Confirm Crit -
Total Damage -
Relan will step back to flank with the now standing Fulman and attack, fighting defensively with Combat Expertise
Fulmen throws a thunderstone at the flying critter
Spells
Level 0: 4/4
Create Water
Detect Magic
Know Direction
Stabilize
Storm Burst: 4/6
Level 1: 3/4
Cure Light Wounds 2/2
Shillelagh 1/2
Darts: 12
Goodberry: 7
Thunderstones: 5-1=4
Braelex turns her attention to the spider-thing tearing up her companions, firing her crossbow into the fray. The crossbow misfires, sending the shattered pieces of the bolt in all directions.
Fulmen throws a thunderstone at the flying critter
[dice=Range Atk]1d20 + 5
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Braelex curses as she misfires her crossbow, Aidon wincing as he summons yet more companions, the stress of maintaining his connection wearing on him.
The floor explodes next to the spider and a chunk of flagstone arcs out and smashes the spider causing it to stumble as the elemental roars to life. Relan ends its life, pinning it to the floor with his ranseur.
The floating derro finds her willpower to move and pulls herself along the ceiling until she's above the door. She looks down, noticing the glitterdust is expiring and smiles, swallowing a vial of something and disappears.
Fulmen throws his thunderstone and where the derro was last seen the explosion reverberating throughout the chamber.
Andel and the derro on the ground square off, thrusting and parrying but neither scoring a hit.
Braelex growls, hurling one of her last fire bombs in the direction of the shard carrier.
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Braelex's aim continues to be uncannily true and this time when the bomb explodes in the air, the derro becomes visible instantly, collapsing and floating to the ground to land prone.
Between Andel, Relan, and the elemental, the remaining derro is quickly dispatched.
A quick search of the bodies uncovers 2 potions of cure moderate wounds, 2 empty potion bottles, small masterwork leather armor, 4 vials of acid, 2 does of spider poison, 1 masterwork aklys, 1 repeating light crossbow, 1 short sword, 1 magical headband and 1 key ring ....
... and of course, lying on the ground next to her is the adamantine shard, similar in shape to the one you currently have. Yet, it has no ioun stone affixed to it, just an empty slot.
Wounded and breathing hard Relan approaches the shard they fought so hard to win. He removes a cracked pale blue rhomboid ioun stone from his way finder and without touching the shard drops the stone onto the empty slot. Assuming the stone stays in place he will pick up the shard.
The stone wavers a bit, but then affixes to the shard. The shard doesn't completely absorb the stone as the Shard of Pride did, and the cracks are still visible in the black adamantine, mirroring where the cracks in the ioun stone are.
Relan picks up the Shard ...
Avarice washes through your body .. almost crushing any charitable nature you have. You immediately have the desire to possess wealth and the trappings of wealth. You find yourself appraising and assessing what you're wearing and finding yourself lacking, you are embarrassed and somewhat ill. .
You also are loathe to part with anything you own, and knowing that if you did so, it would cause you severe mental anguish ... until you feel something slide in over this though and mask it as if it is no longer yours.
You find yourself able to perceive time quicker. As long as you possess the shard you gain a +2 insight bonus to transumation spell saves, a +1 insight bonus on attack rolls and the ability to use haste as a spell-like ability 1/day.
In the last round of combat Vuloo heals both Relan and Fulmen 5 hp. He then casts his remaining healing on himself and channels to heal the group.
He looks with some envy as Relan picks up the shard, "Guard that artifact carefully my friend ... and be wary of the power of Thassilon."
Relan almost visibly reels as he picks up the stone and immediately assesses his dress and appearance. His face pales and he turns a shade of red in apparent embarrassment in his personal attire. I seem to have not properly regarded my wardrobe and have only now seen that this is true. he says to no one and everyone. I should dress as more befitting my station, and will in the future. he says, now talking to himself.
His wounds are mostly healed Relan busies himself with the loot. [b]He holds up the magical headband appraising it for a moment before adding it to the general loot.
Braelex eyes Relan skeptically, giving the shard a meaningful glance. "We now have two. Sheila said they would guide us to a third."
Andel is furiously drawing and taking notes as he walks around the star shaped pedestal in the middle of the room.
"Fascinating ... simply amazing. Vuloo, come look at this. I think this may be an attempt by Azlanist to capture all the benefits of all the shards. I wonder what the Runelords' relationships were really like in those final days if she was developing something like this."
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This large room is set up as a crude alchemical lab—planks laid over barrels and crates serve as tables, but the alchemical gear set up on these crude tables appears to be quite high quality.
The equipment on the table constitutes a masterwork alchemist’s lab.
In the back is what appears to be the derro magister's personal chambers—in addition to a large mound of cushions and blankets, she keeps her supply of a bluish substance in vials (3 doses). Also here are several bags of coins. In all, this area contains 232 gp, 1,423 sp, 2,100 cp, a magical lens, a magical scarab, and a wand of spiritual weapon (11 charges).
There are several mind-altering substances in a chest near the bed. Within are 3 doses of id moss, 2 doses of striped toadstool, 10 doses of flayleaf, 8 doses of pesh, an elixir of love, and an elixir of truth.
The corridor splits and ends in two equally sized square rooms—a bedroom to the northeast and some sort of abattoir to the southwest.
To reach the lab, you fight your way past a group of darkmantle, hooded octopus-like creatures that drop down from the ceiling.
The derro's injection spear, you picked up earlier, it's loaded with some sort of moldy extract. His lab contains equipment primarily for distilling the inherent qualities of bodily fluids. A strange device, that looks like a fanged box with a crank sits amid the components along with 7 more vials of whatever is in the injection spear.
This exotic two-handed weapon allows the user to inject targets with liquid on a hit. The spear’s reservoir can hold up to 5 doses of a single fluid—a single dose is automatically injected when the spear hits a target. A non-proficient user can wield an injection spear as a standard spear but cannot trigger the injection. An injection spear is otherwise identical to a normal spear, save that it cannot be thrown, weighs 8 pounds, cannot be used to brace, and costs 60 gp.
This twenty-foot-square domed chamber contains a jury-rigged pair of low operating tables, complete with leather straps at both ends to hold the patients down.
You put down a carrion golem to get to the room, a horrible construct of medium size made of rotting carcasses.
Not much treasure here other than surgical tools which if sold would go for 200gp.
This staircase spirals down into the rock before it opens up in the top of a massive cavern of blackness. The echo and a dropped rock let you know that the stairs end 100s of feet above the ground. Looks like this may have been how the derro got up here from the Darklands given the magister's ability to levitate ....
Vuloo eagerly studies the star shaped pedestal with Andel, "With the dungeons beneath Crow safe, I would like to lead a return expedition to catelogue all of the Thassilon relics and art work. We can all publish as co-authors. This is our chance to substantially add to the Thassilon body of knowledge."
He turns back to the others, "Are we ready to return to the Pathfinder Lodge?"
Vuloo requests the wand.
[b]I am ready.[/b ]Relan says as he considers how he might wear the surgical tools.
Fulmen casts CWL x2 on himself
Now at 31/32 hps
Any loot that is heavy and bulky can be put in my Handy Haversack
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The party gathers up their loot, the Shard of Greed and drags Andel away from the Sihedron Shrine. Ensuring all the prisoners are free on the way out, the successful Pathfinders slowly and seriously climb and then descend out of the Crow and row back to shore.
As dusk sets, you arrive back at Heidmarch manor and have to wait for a while as Sheila and Canayven are off at a dinner party. You wash up, relax and try not to look at Relan askance, given this is now the second time he's entered this domicile under the curse of a Shard of Power.
Sheila returns and immediately rushes in to greet you, resplendent in a fabulous blue gown and bedecked in an array of fine jewelry.
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