Daghop would have had to make a second roll again - ill omen lasts for two rounds. Vuloo fires again on the lead boggard. Attack: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (3) + 5 + 1 - 4 = 5 Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 4
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Aidon attempts to slow Relan down, instead he trips himself and sprawls painfully on his back wheezing.
Flee you fools! Can you not see the threat?!? Relan goes running by.
The barbarian boggard leader is lost in a wave of stony arms and bodies and doesn't come up out of it.
You glance around the corner from where the frogs and chieftan came from ...
The floor of this cavern is muddy and damp. Moisture runs from the walls and drips from the ceiling to gather in pools on the ground. To the south, a carving of a multiheaded frog looms between two smaller passageways. A pair of pottery jars caked with sticky orange fluid sit on a niche below this carving—more of this stuff is smeared over the walls and floor of both the smaller southern passageways.
Andel walks up to examine the sticky orange fluid.
"Levelle, do you have any idea what this orange fluid is?"
Levelle shoulders her bow and moves to look at the jars with Andel. As the elf looks at it she mutters to herself and shakes her head, I can't say with any certainty. A number of substances come to mind with the coloration but not this consistency. I'm sorry.
Braelex shrugs.
Eventually the irrational fear fades and Relan sheepishly makes his way back to the group.
Seeing the jugs in the chief's cavern Relan wonders what they might contain.
Hey, I recognize this stuff. Its valuable to an alchemists. Maybe worth 50 gold per jar. A jar can be smashed on the ground to lull all solifugids within a 60-foot spread into a state of lethargy for a few hours And a jar can be used to coat a path of ground to make it so that any solifugid resists crossing for days.
Braelex ponders. "I'll make a wild guess that soligufids are commonly encountered in these parts."
Levelle offers a crooked smile at the alchemist, Wonderful. Well what now?
Aidon is still laying on the ground huffing and puffing when Relan comes back, huffing and puffing
"I almost had you." he says with a grin, holding out his hand for help up
Relan helps the summoner up with a smile and nods. A little more practice and you'll be there. Lets have two different people carry those jars. I am now officially worried about swarms.
Levelle reaches out and grabs one gesturing to Braelex to grab the other, Seems to me we ladies are the best throwers in the group I would wager. Levelle looks back at Relan and the others, Glad to see you got that out of your system. Quite a bit of value sitting around here. Should we split it up and carry it? I have a magic bag if we want to worry about it later...
Braelex takes the jar and nods, "Now, does anyone know what a sogulifid is?"
Its an arachnid, similar to a scorpion or spider. No Webs though.
Vuloo frowns, "The southern passages are covered with the orange goo, which means the frogs may have been warding against sogulifids. The southern passages appear to be the only exits. Be ready to use those jars."
Vuloo peers down both passages, "Are we ready to proceed?"
Braelex reloads her crossbow and nods, "Alright then, let's go."
The two southern tunnels converge on each other and then curve back around to the northwest, travelling for some distance before they open into a cave. The party follows the elementals to the edge of the small entrance.
The intersection of four tunnels forms a sizable cave here. The domed ceiling rises to a height of twenty feet, while near the center of this cave stands a monument made of polished black basalt, seven-sided with the same great rune carved on each face. The top portion of the monument has broken away, revealing what appears to be a hollow space within in the shape of a female figure. An astounding number of strange albino insectoid creatures, each the size of a man’s finger, scuttle and scurry along the walls. Three giant ones, the size of a man, crouch upon the basalt wreckage.
Vuloo whispers, "Now may be a good time to apply the jars."
"Or we could just send in my elementals to destroy them, I am not sure how long that stuff will last but I would hate to have to come back through here later, maybe tired and have to deal with them then. We still have some time before my friends have to go home, lets use them"
Can they hurt swarms though? That stuff will last an hour at least, if it works at all...
"Well I think thinking more those 3 giant looking things on the statue, they can hurt those for sure." Aidon pats one of the earth elementals, "as for swarms, I can always bring up a couple of magma elementals, the lesser known cousin of my earth elementals here, or Braelex can fire bomb them to death."
Aidon shrugs and adds, "Or we could use the jar and hope we are not needing to come through here after the hour has passed, while being chased by something "
Send them in but be ready. Relan takes a step or two back.
Aidon looks to everyone else, "We ok with this plan?"
Levelle un-shoulders her bow and nods at the summoner.
Aidon giggles like a school girl, happy that anyone thinks his plan is good, lowers his voice down a few octaves and says to his elementals, "Alright boys, once more unto the breach dear friends, once more"
DEFENSE
AC 17, touch 10, flat-footed 17 (–1 Dex, +7 natural, +1 size)
hp 17 (2d10+2)
Fort +4[6], Ref –1, Will +3
Immune elemental traits
OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft., burrow 20 ft., earth glide
Melee slam +6[+8] (1d6+4) [1d6+6]
Special Attacks earth mastery
STATISTICS
Str 16[20], Dex 8, Con 13[17], Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 11
Base Atk +2; CMB +4; CMD 13
Feats Improved Bull RushB, Power Attack
Skills Appraise +1, Climb +7, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +1, Knowledge (planes) +1, Perception +4, Stealth +7
Languages Terran
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The elementals charge in, three of them getting strikes in on the lethargic giant solufiguds before they start moving.
Before the giant creatures are able to retaliate however, the tiny fingerlings sized ones swarm together into a massive pile of angry arachnids and shred the elementals leaving four of them in a pile of rocks.
"So, we use the grenades now?" Braelex chuckles.
Vuloo steps backwards with a look of concern, "Yes, let's use the grenades."
Braelex snorts and shakes her head, then hurls the pot at the swarm-beast.
Braelex hucks the pot of orange goo into the center of the swarm. It shatters spraying the flourescent sticky fluid in and around the room.
The swarm dissipates immediately, the individual creatures just falling off the remaining elementals. Two of the larger ones settle back down, but one shreds two more elementals before it too collapses into a slumber.
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Levelle nods at the others then checks the ground of the area, pointing as she speaks, Week-old reptilian prints leading out the NE passage. Fairly recent booted prints headed out the NW passage. The SE passage appears to not have been used any time recently.
Vuloo rubs his chin, "Well, the booted prints must be the gray maidens. They should lead us to the Lady's Light. Let's head northwest."
Pole arm at the ready and quite thankful for the alchemical they had found Relan begins to move in the northwast direction.
Braelex eyes the south east exit curiously, but nods with Vuloo's suggestion and stays on the mission.
... and it might be a froghemoth.
You finish checking the room and make your decision to depart by the NW passage. As you pass by the stone, you notice the the hollow in the middle (like a mold) is of a beautiful woman wrapped in wings.
You follow the cavern some 5 or 6 hundred yards when the rough cave walls give way to a chamber of worked stone, with walls made of blue-veined white marble. The ceiling is supported by columns masterfully sculpted to depict voluptuous warrior women wielding two-headed guisarmes, with each column unique and strikingly detailed. At the center of the room, a ten-foot-square shaft leads down into the darkness below.
Vuloo raises an eyebrow, "The mold is of a succubus. Interesting."
Vuloo peers down into the darkness of the shaft, listening for any echoes.
Relan looks closely at the mold before adding Interesting indeed. This mold was broken many months ago, although the stone was mined at least centuries before that. What has been released down here? Vuloo can you tell us about a succubus and how it might be fought?
Levelle shifts uncomfortably at the mention of the mold's pattern, such creatures were foreign to her and typically viewed as foul mirrors to her reverence to nature. The hunter listens intently however, interested in both Relan's comments and his question.
The elf cannot help but slowly approach the hole in the center of the room, Anyone have a light they want to throw down?
As Vuloo and Levelle move forward, a swirl of black and purple smoke wrap around the columns in the corners of the room and the finely sculpted double-headed guisarme wielding women suddenly animate and step down from their platforms. Soundlessly, they move to engage!
The constructs are caryatid columns, relatively inexpensive constructs used to guard items or areas, normally hidden amongst non magical versions of themselves. As all constructs, they are minorly resistant to weapon damage. They are magically hardened and can damage weapons that strike them
Sensing the inconsistencies in the statues, Vuloo casts sanctuary on himself before they can begin moving.
"Caryatid Columns," Braelex calls in warning. "They will wreck your weapons, so only use ones you were planning to throw away!"
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