Cadas takes her AOO, and then full attacks, but then steps back a 5' step, making room for the archon.
The hound archon bounds into the space left by Cadas, whirling its blade with a howl!
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Marcellano presses the assault with his wand.
As the tough ogre stood, Cadas and Adolina smacked it hard. Adolina hits the ogre, and when Cadas steps back, the archon steps into her place and puts the ogre down.
Now that the creatures are dead, a quick scan for magic turns up the ogre hook and the giant sized hide armor. All the other weapons and gear are just normal. Searching the two rooms you find: The lathes, sawhorses, and other tools in this workroom lie in scattered, shattered ruin on the floor. The walls are smeared with gore, in some places forming messy graffiti. This large room is filled with several heavy wooden racks, all bristling with pikes, longswords, and quivers of barbed arrows. The wall where the door once was has been smashed in.
Moving down the hallway, Adolina does her checking of the remaining doors, and finds two more guest rooms, and empty room that once had something in it, you could not tell what but there is nothing there now and finally another lower tower level room with a ladder leading up to the walkway.
I have expended about half the resources granted to me. Cadas warns. Let us proceed quickly while my cast spells are still potent.
Magic Circle 10'
Resist Electricity 20 Communal
Delay Poison Communal
Aura of Doom
Barkskin +3 NA on Adolina
Freedom of Movement on Adolina
”Agreed,” Marcellano murmurs, ”Let’s not dawdle here...”
Having cleared the first floor, and not run into a leader or other high powered foe, you carefully and stealthily as possible head up the stairs to the second floor. Adolina pauses the group, and peeks around the corner, seeing a hallway running south with two sets of double doors, and a single doorway at the end. The hallway also turns to the west at the southern end.
Approaching the first door, she hears two voices speaking in a language that she has come to recognize as giant, but does not yet understand. A female, and a gruff male.
I do not have another silence scroll. I fear that once we start a fight here all the enemies might come at once.
"Can you check around the next corner, and listen at the nearest doors?" Marcellano asks.
After Robin uses his curing wand on her, Adolina moves to the corner and peeks around. The hallway continues to the west and ends in a single door.
Checking the double door on the east side, Adolina hears another female voice speaking in what she is sure is giant. At the single door on the southern wall she hears two male ogre voices.
“I concur,” Marcellano mutters. “If they come out too soon, I can block the hallway as well.”
Righteous Might
Summon Monster V
Summon Monster IV
dispel evil - Personal and bumps her AC by 4 vs evil
Summon Monster III
Resist Energy - 10 minutes per level
bull's strength
spiritual weapon
divine favor, divine favor
enlarge person
infernal healing
protection from evil
Magic Circle 10'- This is +2 Resistance bonus to saves and +2 deflection bonus to AC
Resist Electricity 20 Communal
Delay Poison Communal
Aura of Doom DC 19 Will or shaken, 20' radius
Barkskin +3 NA on Adolina
Freedom of Movement on Adolina
Deciding to continue on, Adolina moves to jam the three furthest doors from the top of the stairs, so to leave an escape route of need be. Quietly as possible she rigs the handles to be stuck, hoping to slow down any response from those rooms. Going back to the first set of double doors; you prepare yourselves, and Adolina swings open the doors. You see an ogre, and a human woman arguing in giant. The walls within this enormous chamber are mounted with dozens of trophy antlers, some taken from stags that must have stood as tall as dire bears. Most of the antlers are draped with bits of rotten flesh, strips of skin, or coils of viscera. To the west, a marble altar has been heaped with the mangled remains of at least a half-dozen dead men and women. A crude image of what might be a three-eyed jackal has been painted in blood on the wall above the altar’s alcove.
Before the door is opened Cadas will cast the following in this order:
resist Energy Fire
divine favor
bull's strength
spiritual weapon
dispel evil
As the doors are opened her aura of doom washes over the ogre.
Magic Circle 10'- This is +2 Resistance bonus to saves and +2 deflection bonus to AC
Resist Electricity 20 Communal
Delay Poison Communal
Aura of Doom DC 19 Will or shaken, 20' radius
Barkskin +3 NA on Adolina
Freedom of Movement on Adolina
Righteous Might
Summon Monster V
Summon Monster IV
Summon Monster III
divine favor,
enlarge person
infernal healing
protection from evil
Seeing the disgusting sight ahead of him, Marcellano's stomach churns. But as Adolina darts in ahead of him and makes room, he sees reason for hope:
It's rare that all of his foes are standing in a straight line with no one else in the way.
His mouth moves almost subconsciously, instinctively, in the words of one of his most recently learned evocations, and a bright blue bolt of lightning sizzles through the air. It darts toward both ogre and woman, striking at the vile symbol painted above the altar!
Marcellano then ducks smartly behind Cadas.
vs DC 18 (roll twice, take worst)
vs DC 19
vs DC 18
vs DC 37 [Out of order, but did not think of hide in plain sight till all the above rolls were taken into account in the narrative]
vs AC 24 Cadas (now AC 23)
Robin casts a spell on the ogre, but the wit's joke falls on deaf ears. He then uses his bardic ability to Inspire greatness on Cadas. Catching the foes flat footed, Adolina steps into the room in the corner, and the creatures do not have time to react to her movement, in fact using her hide in plain sight ability, the creatures don't even know that she is there. Marcellano casts a lightning bolt at the nicely lined up creatures, and even though the female almost shrugged off all of the damage it did do full damage to the ogre and some damage to the female.
The female, shimmers, changes shape and looks a lot like the lamia matriarch that you killed in Magnimar, perhaps her sister. After changing her form she casts a spell on Cadas. Meanwhile the ogre begins to froth at the mouth, rages, steps up to Cadas and swings, hitting the priestess once.
Magic Circle 10'- This is +2 Resistance bonus to saves and +2 deflection bonus to AC
Resist Electricity 20 Communal
Delay Poison Communal
Aura of Doom DC 19 Will or shaken, 20' radius
Barkskin +3 NA on Adolina
Freedom of Movement on Adolina
resist Energy Fire
divine favor
bull's strength
spiritual weapon
dispel evil
Righteous Might
Summon Monster V
Summon Monster IV
Summon Monster III
divine favor,
enlarge person
infernal healing
protection from evil
vs DC 19 Aura of Doom
As the ogre approached Cadas, and was within range of her Aura, it ignored the ill feeling and swung its bane hook.
Cadas steps north 5’ to gain some cover from the doorway and summons a large earth elemental as a standard action.
The elemental appears immediately to the south of Cadas and full attacks the ogre.
"Thanks, Robin!" Marcellano says. Not wanting to move for fear of the ogre's hook, he draws one of his wands and attempts to weaken the monster!
vs DC 16
vs DC 11
vs AC 18 Earth Elemental
vs AC 18 Earth Elemental
vs AC 25 Adolina
Cadas steps back, and summons an elemental, who attacks the ogre and hits it twice. Robin uses his bardic abilities to Inspire Greatness, which affects Adolina and Cadas. He also casts a grease spell hoping to trip the ogre. However the is able to take a step outside the area. Adolina steps out of the shadows and using her slayer abilities, heavily wounds the lamia. Marcellano uses his wand to send a ray of enfeeblement and the ogre is suddenly much weaker.
The ogre, even weaker, manages to hit the elemental both times, one critically, and kills it sending the creature back to its home plane. The lamia, with Adolina in her face, swings her dagger three times, however she is so shaken that she misses ever thrust.