Round 3 Con't
6 Ugnoth : Nearly croaks, but clings desperately to life
5 Damvorak : (in K21), misses Asar twice (once due to loss of Ugnoth's performance)
4 Ramli :
Round 4
24 Alaric : Snoozes
21 Sad Rock : Advances to K23, misses
13 Asar :
Ugnoth's performance comes to a halting end while Damvorak and Sad Rock close in on the final skeleton. The skeleton's chainmail appears to be very finely crafted and absorbs most of the swings of both the half-orc and oread, who seem slightly distracted at the lack of oration from Ugnoth.
Still Up: Ramli
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Round 3 Con't
4 Ramli : 5ft back, misses with disrupt undead
Round 4
24 Alaric : Snoozes
21 Sad Rock : Advances to K23, misses
13 Asar : Hits or misses Sad Rock for 14 damage (depending on shield, which I think is sadly stowed)
6 Ugnoth : Stable at -9
5 Damvorak :
4 Ramli :
Round 5
24 Alaric :
21 Sad Rock :
Ramli's arcane ray goes wide as he just can't seem to time when and where to launch it into the melee
Asar glances to his left and seeing the large swathe of grease, chuckles at how it seems to provide him some sort of defense against his two adversaries wielding bludgeoning weapons.
"Perhaps you will serve me better in undeath than you seem to in life... "
The blue-eyed skeleton turns towards Sad and eyes him with curiosity.
"You... you seem to be just the sort of monster I need..."
Asar slashes at Sad Rock, working to slay him so that he can be reborn an even greater monster .
Now Up: Everyone!
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Round 4, Initiative 5, Location: K20->L21
Weapon Equipped = Staff
Conditions = None
Hand of the Acolyte = 2/6
Resistant Touch = 6/6
Channel Energy = 2/3
Ferocity (Act 1 round at below 0hp)(1/1)
Spells
Cantrips DC 13: Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First Level DC 14: Identify, Command, Remove Fear
Watching his allies drop like flies to this horrendous creature, Damvorak tries to focus his fire in a tighter arc.
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He then 5' steps to the right (to L21) to prepare for flank if Sad Rock survives.
Damvorak's quarterstaff connects through Asar's defenses for a telling blow.
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Round 4 Con't
5 Damvorak : 5ft to L21, hits Asar for 10 damage
4 Ramli : Rays Asar for 2 damage
Round 5
24 Alaric : Snoozes
21 Sad Rock : Smashes Asar for 12 damage
13 Asar (-24): Slashes at Damvorak for 13 damage
6 Ugnoth : Stable at -9
5 Damvorak :
4 Ramli :
Round 6
24 Alaric : Snoozes
21 Sad Rock :
Asar's skull-like visage scowls as he pulls his longsword away, seeing little damage done to the oread thanks to his woody yet rocky flesh.
"Yes, monster! Rage! Feel your hate growing! Give yourself over... it is the only way you can save your friends!"
To punctuate his offer, the skeleton turns to Damvorak, perhaps a mixture of concern over the half-orc's repeated attacks with a blunt weapon along with his divine orientations.
Asar slashes a wide gash into Damvorak and cackles again.
"Yes! Smell the blood, MONSTER! Smell and revel in it!"
Now Up: Everyone (who is conscious of course)
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Round 5, Initiative 5, Location: L21->M21
Weapon Equipped = Staff
Conditions = None
Hand of the Acolyte = 2/6
Resistant Touch = 6/6
Channel Energy = 2/3
Ferocity (Act 1 round at below 0hp)(1/1)
Spells
Cantrips DC 13: Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First Level DC 14: Identify, Command, Remove Fear
Amazed he’s still standing, Damvorak swings again in desperation as he 5’ steps into flank. Like the truly desperate, he swings wide and outside.
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Round 5 Con't
5 Damvorak : 5ft to M21, swings and misses
4 Ramli : Disrupt ray goes wide
Round 6
24 Alaric : Snoozes
21 Sad Rock : Swings and misses
13 Asar (-24): Slashes at Damvorak again, for another 13 damage
6 Ugnoth : Stable at -9
5 Damvorak :
4 Ramli :
Round 7
24 Alaric : Snoozing
21 Sad Rock :
As Damvorak steps into a flank, Asar keeps his burning blue eyes focused intently on the cleric. He sidesteps both swings before slashing his longsword across the half-orc. The wound bites deep .
Furious that his enemy still stands, he taunts Damvorak as well.
"Half-orc! You too are a monster! Any human would have fallen with that blow!"
He leers back over his shoulder at Sad Rock.
"Kneel monsters before the mighty Asar! I shall build a new army and sack Kassen as I should've decades ago!"
Now Up: Damvorak, Ramli, Sad Rock
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Round 6, Initiative 5, Location: M21
Weapon Equipped = Staff
Conditions = None
Hand of the Acolyte = 2/6
Resistant Touch = 6/6
Channel Energy = 1/3
Ferocity (Act 1 round at below 0hp)(0/1)
Spells
Cantrips DC 13: Create Water, Detect Magic, Light, Stabilize
First Level DC 14: Identify, Command, Remove Fear
Growling under his breath, Damvorak utilizes his beastly-orcish nature to continue to act as he steps back and channels energy to heal everyone, including himself, before he drops prone to the ground, unconscious - but not bleeding.
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"Back off, Rock, so I can have a clear shot!" Ramli calls to his last standing companion.
Assuming the faithful Packminder does so , Ramli unfurls the scroll and quickly reads the words of arcane power, directing the resulting scorching ray toward the skeleton.
"You're the only monster here!" Ramli taunts the creature, "so burn!"
Damvorak, taking a step back, channels the holy healing of Nethys one last time before he collapses. The healing is weak, but it is enough to stablize the half-orc after his last effort.
Ramli, scroll in hand, shouts to Sad Rock and delays for a second.
Sad Rock, voice booming, brings his club down hard into the skeleton, setting his skull teetering.
"No, rock-man. Embrace your des--"
WHOOSH
Brilliant light fills the chamber as a bolt of scorching fire shoots from Ramli's outstretched hand and sends the skeleton's skull thirty feet into the rear of the chamber where it rolls around on the ground wreathed in flame.
Asar's voice fades into nothingness as the flames die down on the skull.
"-- tiiiiiny...."
Dimira, the woman at the rear of the cave springs to her feet and rushes towards Ramli, throwing both of her arms around the man's neck.
"You! You saved me! You're a hero!"
Her arms still wrapped around Ramli, she looks towards Sad Rock and blushes slightly.
"And you, you're not.. what he said.. you're a hero, too!"
Asar's next swing... which doesn't come to pass... at Ramli...!
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Burly end-boss!
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Sad Rock, seeing Ramli nearly attacked by the crazed woman, raises his club to smite her, but decides that Ramli deserves a bit of love and lets the woman at him.
He pulls out his wand of CLW and goes to work.
Uglynot:
healing
healing
healing
Damnvrock:
healing
healing
healing
All-a-wreck:
healing
healing
healing
Kassen's sarcophagus is open, and the lid is lying next to it. His body is intact, save for the broken links of a chain that lie around his neck - perhaps remnants of a medallion he once wore that had been torn from his body.
Kassen is dressed in magnificent full plate and his longsword is finely detailed and held cluthed against his chest.
As you step up and glance at his body, a ghostly apparition shimmers into view.
"Heroes, I am Ekat Kassan. I want to thank you for all that you have done and for defeating the risen form of my long ago enemy, Asar Vergas..."
Kassen's ghost floats over and looks down upon the scorched skull that was both his longtime ally and enemy.
"Asar and I were once adventuring companions long ago and we did come into quite a bit of treasure in our day and age. After I retired, years passed but he felt cheated in some way as if I had denied him something and came to attack the town that I founded that bears my name still to this very day. It is in his defeat those decades ago that the spirit of cooperation was born and the ritual of lighting the Everflame began."
Kassen floats back over to his sarcophagus.
"I do not know why bandits came to the Crypt of the Everflame recently, but they stole the two amulets that both myself and Asar wore in life. These two pieces were two of the three keys to a great treasure that we never claimed ..."
The ghost appears to lean down into his sarcophagus and as he does so, several items that apparently were once Kassen's float and land at your feet.
"I doubt that Asar can rise yet again, and for that deed, you have my thanks and my offer of these small tokens as a reward."
A bag of holding (type I), a +1 bashing shield, an elemental gem (water), and one scale from his armor for each PC.
"These scales will protect you some day in the future in a time of great need..."
His ghostly form begins to flicker and fade from sight along with his ghostly voice.
"Fare thee well, heroes... You are definitely heroes and not mons..."
With things settling down and the promise that her brother Roldare is upstairs and well Dimira takes Ramli by the hand and leads him towards one of the side crypts.
Here, the light is dim and Ramli prepares himself to receive possibly a future reward...
Dimira stops and gestures towards the ground and some rubble.
"Here, this is where Asar was buried. This was his sarcophagus."
As Ramli glances down, he can recognize the shattered remains that once interred the skeleton, along with the corpse of a masked man nearby.
"He... that is, Asar. Kept bragging how he choked the life from this man as he rose into unlife."
Ramli kneels and investigates the gray-robed man in the iron mask.
This is a mask of a follower of the cult of Razmir
Ramli also discovers a backpack near the man's body.
First a note that reads: The amulets are entombed with Kassen and Asar.
And then these items: wand of magic missile (CL 3rd, 22 charges), bracers of armor +1, a horn of fog, 354 gp in newly minted coins, and a spellbook that contains the following spells: cause fear, enlarge person, expeditious retreat, false life, levitate, mage armor, magic
missile, ray of enfeeblement, and all wizard cantrips.
Sheepishly, Dimira kicks a foot, smiles, and makes an inquiry to the magus as he explores the side crypt.
"Well... do you see anything that piques your interest here?"
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Damvorak struggles to his feet with the help of his staff. He channels once more to help the group save their resources.
He then casts CLW on himself
He offers to cure someone else if any one needs it.
He picks through the assorted gear and watches, with humor, as Ramli chats with the young lady.
"I don't know how teenagers were supposed to survive this. What a crazy village." he grins, happy at his own survival - a very near thing.
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"Oh, yes. It was glorious. Rock was ... well, a rock, vs. the beast, before my magics could finally fell it."
Sad Rock offers a rare smile in return. He is happy for the victory and for the job well done, but wishes he could have saved the frogs from death. Surely, given time, Sad could have toad them to go away.
"Good job, too, Rum-knee. You good Packminder like Sad Rock. All good Packminders..." ...well, *almost* all...
Sad offers a hand to help Alaric off the ground.
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Ugh...this whole being stabbed and slashed thing is rough...thank you Sad, Ramli and Damvorack. I see you defeated that undead abomination?
Ugnoth stands and helps everyone gather the final things needed.
"Thanks Ugnoth, but it was Sad Rock and Ramli at the end. I didn't make it all the way either." he rubs his chest trying to scratch at the sore muscles that remain of his injuries.