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Giovanni, seeing a melee with little opportunity to join, delays.
Once again, the shadowy hound snaps out at Agon, once again sinking its fangs into his flesh .
The ranger drops to the ground , but any risk of death is quickly resolves as Kildrek's healing washes over him a second later .
Round 4 Con't
6 Hound : Bites Agon for 8
5 Kildrek : Channels for 5
Round 5
20 Giovanni :
20 Agon (9 dmg) :
9 Finn :
8 Nazgul :
7 Nemrok :
6 Hound (9 dmg):
Now Up: Giovanni, Agon, Finn, Nazgul, Nemrok
Nazgul and Giovanni, frustrated the hound has survived thus far, bring around large swings and fell the greyish heast. It let's out a final yelp before collapsing.
This room, both in the Material and the Shadow Plane appears to be used for little more than storage. You can tell the Blakros side holds cleaning supplies, old or damaged exhibits, and other miscellany.
The Shadow side holds little more than the shadow mastiff, its tethering chain and an old sad bowl with a partially chewed bone.
Giovanni seeks to save some face after fleeing the last fight by striding across the hall and opening the next door. Everyone else hastens to catch up and provide him assistance in case there are more hostile shadow-men waiting within.
Dozens of mannequins dominate this room, each decorated in the trappings of distant Tian Xia. Ceremonial armor of samurai from Minkai and the silk gowns of courtly ladies catch the eye, but the delicate tea sets in long glass display cases seems out of place next to the strange shadowy figures leaning against the fan-decorated walls. Humanoid bodies encased in ice stand scattered throughout the room, and a glaze of dark rime covers the floor.
The floor of the cold storage room is covered in frost, and is dangerously slippery. The PCs can move at full speed with a DC 5 Acrobatics check, or at half speed with no skill check. Any PC who fails this Acrobatics check cannot move that round. Any PC who fails the Acrobatics check by 5 or more falls prone.
Just before Kildrek can step in, Nemrok holds up a hand and ascertains the room's auras.
He isn't surprised when he detect the entirety of the room possesses a lingering aura of transmutation magic.
He continues scanning and realizes even the hall he is standing within possesses a conjuration aura which makes sense giving the current duality of the museum's interior sharing space between two planes.
Perception
* SPOTS IT
Initiative
As Kildren and Giovanni slowly move in , a shape darts out from under a bookcase to their right. As it slithers, the light of Giovanni's cantrip can be seen reflecting off its metallic skin.
Despite its small size, Giovanni's elvish eyes spot it just before it can strike Kildrek.
Surprise Round
14 Giovanni :
13 Cobra :
Round 1
17 Nazgul :
14 Giovanni :
13 Cobra :
9 Agon :
7 Finn :
3 Nemrok :
2 Kildrek :
Now Up: Giovanni (surprise round!)
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Giovanni's morningstar thuds into the snakelike construct, powered by a wide arc, but seems to do little damage to the tiny metallic serpent
Hissing, the snake ignores Giovanni and sinks its fangs into the dwarf with much more flesh exposed .
Surprise Round
14 Giovanni : Connects but seems to do no damage
13 Cobra : Bites Kildrek for 7
Round 1
17 Nazgul :
14 Giovanni :
13 Cobra :
9 Agon :
7 Finn :
3 Nemrok :
2 Kildrek :
Now Up: Nazgul, Giovanni
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Naz runs into the room and tosses a tanglefoot bag at the metal snake ...
A tanglefoot bag is a small sack filled with tar, resin, and other sticky substances. When you throw a tanglefoot bag at a creature (as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet), the bag comes apart and goo bursts out, entangling the target and then becoming tough and resilient upon exposure to air. An entangled creature takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls and a –4 penalty to Dexterity and must make a DC 15 Reflex save or be glued to the floor, unable to move. Even on a successful save, it can move only at half speed. Huge or larger creatures are unaffected by a tanglefoot bag. A flying creature is not stuck to the floor, but it must make a DC 15 Reflex save or be unable to fly (assuming it uses its wings to fly) and fall to the ground. A tanglefoot bag does not function underwater.
A creature that is glued to the floor (or unable to fly) can break free by making a DC 17 Strength check or by dealing 15 points of damage to the goo with a slashing weapon. A creature trying to scrape goo off itself, or another creature assisting, does not need to make an attack roll; hitting the goo is automatic, after which the creature that hit makes a damage roll to see how much of the goo was scraped off. Once free, the creature can move (including flying) at half speed. If the entangled creature attempts to cast a spell, it must make a concentration check with a DC of 15 + the spell's level or be unable to cast the spell. The goo becomes brittle and fragile after 2d4 rounds, cracking apart and losing its effectiveness. An application of universal solvent to a stuck creature dissolves the alchemical goo immediately.
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Nazul's bag envelops the tiny metal snake in goo while Giovanni manages a second swing, this time smashing the midsection of the construct.
The snake hisses in response, snapping at Giovanni, but doing little again his heavy armor while entangled in the gooey mess.
Round 1
17 Nazgul : Tanglefoot bag hits cobra
14 Giovanni : Smashes cobra for 7
13 Cobra (entangled, 7 dmg) : Snaps at Giovanni and misses
9 Agon :
7 Finn :
3 Nemrok :
2 Kildrek :
Round 2
17 Nazgul :
14 Giovanni :
Now Up: Everyone!
Nemrok identifies the snakelike construct, knowing it's resistant to magic, but not immune to it. As he grabs his wand, he observes as Giovanni and Agon both have trouble striking the nimble metal serpent, but Nazgzul boldly strides in and with a single swing from his oversized sword, he mashes the creature into tiny bits.
With the room's guardian dispatched, you are able to cautiously enter the room while navigating the slippery ice.
While examining the frozen human forms in this cold storage room, you find a grisly display of partially dissected humanoids and half-completed biological experiments from the Material Plane.
Each specimen is frozen in several inches of hard ice. Many have a rictus of pain and fear solidified on their cold, blue faces, and all of them have an identical black rune branded onto their foreheads.
Continuing to search among the Tien relics here, you discover a handful of items in usable condition - a suit of masterwork parade armor in the samurai style, an orc double axe with blades shaped like strange dragons’ heads, and a masterwork composite shortbow used by the mounted archers of the eastern steppes.
Additionally, a white wooden stick, some sort of wand, hangs on a hook here. Nemrok is able to recognize it as also radiating a magic aura.
There is also another door on the far side of the room.
With the current room secure, the group forms up at the door at the far end and Giovanni opens it .
A few desks, three locked chests, and a locked standing cabinet are here along a wall facing the West Exhibit Hall made of smoky glass. Fading in and out of vision, the shadowy form of a slablike table holding an unconscious, vivisected human man, his chest rising slowly with each breath, is superimposed over the southernmost desk. Medical implements and alchemical devices are spread across nearly every surface, some more substantial in form than others.
The man, drugged and unconscious, lays splayed on the operating table, his lower torso dissected and his skin held open and taught with large clamps. His forehead sports a dark rune tattoo that seems to suck light toward it.
Kildrek moves in along with Finn and his wand. Nazgul follows, ready to lend his massive sword in case there is danger.
Giovanni holds back some, trusting his friends to have the matter well in hand. Nemrok, trusting his magic missile should anything pop up also stands back with Agon.
Noone recognizes the fetchling woman, some fifteen feet up in the room's far corner, until it's too late. Shimmering into view she appears, with malice on her face as she hurls a flask at Kildrek and company, appearing to have worked to time her effort when they passed nearby.
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Initiative
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In halting common, the shadowy grey-skinned woman hisses.
"Begone fools! Your intrusion in the Wightir House will not be tolerated!"
She then hurls a second acidic bomb, this one targeted for Finn. It crashes into him before splashing onto Kildrek and Nazgul .
Surprise Round
27 Fetchling: Hurls bomb at Kildrek hitting for 8 (splashing for 4 or 2)
Round 1
27 Fetchling: Hurls bomb at Finn hitting for 7 (splashing for 4 or 2)
23 Nazgul :
20 Giovanni :
16 Nemrok :
15 Agon :
6 Finn :
3 Kildrek :
Now Up: Everyone!