Ice storm 5 full rounds
As Jaed moves away, the fire elemental takes a swing at him. Luckily, he's expecting the act and is able to duck under the creatures. As the group makes a hasty retreat, Lily struggles to move backwards slightly casting a golden orb at the elemental, who gives a silent roar and then flails about blindly.
Most of the group manages to stay clear of the advancing web fire, but Finnrick winds up with his foot caught in some web and is unable to retreat and gets burned by the flames.
Still remembering roughly where its oppenent was, the elemental flails in the general direction of Carrakas, but is unable to accurate find the man. It paws at its eyes, finally managing to clear the glitter out of them.
As the fire crawling up his skin intensifies, Carrakas shakes his head a little, clearly feeling the pain of everything together. He growls through the pain, though, ignores the increasing danger of the fire, and lines up another shot with his whip.
Carrakas strikes true once again. The elemental is starting to look rather haggard, but remains standing.
Jaed moves back, away from the flames,
and drinks the potion of cure light wounds that he took before.
Marzela moves back into the web with little difficulty, but when the storm hits her she has to stop. Luckily, as it happens, she has to stop by some of her allies, and she reaches out to heal Jaed.
As Jaed and Marzela do some hasty healing on the rogue, Finnrick and Millsy continue to try to escape the web. Millsy manages to make it all the way out and gives a whine as she sees Finnrick struggling helplessly in the web. Uncertain about what she should do, Lily stays put.
It's just then that the group notices the sleet and snow starting to let up until it vanishes completely. There aren't even puddles of water to mark what had once been going on. Still silently raging, the elemental takes a step back before launching itself against Carrakas again, to no avail.
Barely still on his feet, feeling the accumulated pain of all his wounds, Carrakas grits his teeth and once more draws his energy into him. With a short yell of exertion, he sends his whip soaring in again.
Marzela moves and reaches out to heal Finnrick.
Lily continues to wait where she is, since she can't target the creature with anything anyway.
As long as this thing is a fire elemental Millsy is just trying to get to the other side of the room.
Does he need another to move further away.?
Both cat and half elf attempt to reach the other side of the room
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Feeling his strength partly back, Jaed makes the decision of confronting the elemental again. It's kill or be killed.
He moves forward with difficulty and attacks.
As Finnrick starts to move away, the elemental moves to take a swing at the fleeing druid. Distracted, Carrakas takes another swing at the creature as sweat pours down his face. His blow once more strikes true, and the elemental falls, Quickly shrinking down to its human state once again. Triumphant, but still on fire, Carrakas sways, his wounds almost overcoming him.
Marzela casts Create Water to put out the fire.
Seeing the elemental shrink back down and fall, Carrakas breathes a sigh of relief. He could still feel the fire on him, but he just didn't have the energy to try to put it out. Through the flames and webbing in the room, he could see his companions trying to make their way to him, though they blurred a little bit in his vision. Marzela can help... need to move...
The tiefling slowly began to walk, one step and then another, much more slowly than usual but still making forward progress, before being stopped by the wall of flames. He sways just a little, but just barely manages to stay on his feet.
If Marzela's spell does not put out all the fire Jaed will move back.
If the spell works, he will move forward and, without saying a word, he will kick the elven woman before searching her dead body for any loot.
Marzela moves behind Lily, once more getting trapped in the web in the process, as most of the rest of the group moves to safety outside the web. Lily, however, takes advantage of the opening Marzela had created with her spell, drawing a potion as she moves over to the barely standing Carrakas.
As Carrakas falls unconscious, the flames consuming his body finally go out, allowing Lily to safely feed him a potion of healing. Carrakas' eyes once more flutter open. Meanwhile, Marzela struggles in vain against the webbing.
The group anxious watches and Marzela finally manages to struggle free of the webbing, just in time to avoid being engulfed in flames and make it to safety. The group stands and watches as the remaining of the flames burn away the last of the webbing.
The room now safe, the group goes to inspect the corpse of the Elven woman. In addition to her fine mithral chain shirt and beautiful Elven curve blade , she still has the green agate glowing gently around her neck and the golden scepter at her side. She also has a skillfully woven cloak and an expensive looking ring on her finger. In a small pouch next to her spell components sits her spellbook, a potion of cure serious wounds, and a wand.
Carrakas blinks open his eyes, and grumbles "She's dead, right? We're done? Alright." He shuts his eyes again, and lets out a low sigh, just laying on the ground. "I'm really starting to dislike cultists..."
Marzela casts detect magic and tries to identify the wand, cloak, and ring:
She tells the group what the items are (wand of false life with 8 charges, cloak of resistance +1, and ring of counterspells)
She heals party members:
> Carrakas
> Carrakas
> Jaed
> Finnrick (if needed?) if not, Jaed
> Lily (if needed?) if not, Jaed
She still has one cure serious OR Water Walk, and she saves that in case they are going to leave now (they would need it to get across the river outside again).
So, What do we do with that necklace and scepter, and does anyone know how much time we have till this place floods? I need to rest, but I don't know if we should do it here or leave first... or if we have time for any additional exploration or looting as we leave.
Jaed gives a hand to Carrakas and helps him up. "Welcome to the cultist-hater club."
He thanks Marzela for the heals and after she describes the loot he adds: "She does not have the amulets. There have to be more cultists around. And I still find hard to believe that they came here just for the gold... But we definitely need a rest. And we should be save from the flooding in this room."
Don't forget that we left people behind, and even if this room is above the actual flooding level, are you sure it will be safe from the heat?
"That was rough," says Lily. "I'm glad nobody died!" She pauses, then adds, "Aside from the cultists, I mean. I mean I'm not glad they had to die, but there wasn't really an alternative, I'm just glad we didn't die in the process. I mean... well, you know what I mean."
She blushes slightly, flustered, and draws her cloak tighter around herself.
• Clairaudience/Clairvoyance: At will, the bearer of the jewel of everlasting gold can hear and see what transpires in any part of Xin-Grafar simply by concentrating on the jewel. This power functions similar to the clairaudience/clairvoyance spell but can be used to spy on any location within the city’s confines.
• Continual Flame: At will, the bearer of the jewel of everlasting gold can cause the artifact to burst into harmless ame, as per the continual flame spell.
• Touch of Gold: Once per day, the bearer of the jewel of everlasting gold can touch the artifact to a single inanimate object weighing no more than 1,000 pounds and transmute that object into pure gold. The object retains its basic shape and appearance, but it is now composed of solid gold.
• Elemental Transformation: Once per week, the bearer of the jewel of everlasting gold can transform himself into a Huge fire elemental, as per the elemental body IV spell. The transformation lasts as long as the bearer likes, but she cannot leave the confines of Xin-Grafar while in elemental form. This ability allows the jewel’s bearer to survive the molten-gold floods.
• Summon Wealth: Once per month, the jewel of everlasting gold can summon vast sums of wealth from the Elemental Plane of Earth, in whatever form the bearer wishes. This ability can only create mundane sources of wealth, such as art objects, coins, gems, or even rivers of molten gold—it cannot be used to create items with magical properties.
I just updated my HP Finnrick is at 27/37 and Millsy 5/39
"Unfortunately, that storm caused my spells to be quite ineffective with their long casting times, but that does mean that I have a few spells left if we do want to continue" Finnrick informs the group.
Millsy limps over to Finnick and rubs her head against his leg before laying down and licking her wounds.
"If you do want to use the spell I can likely transform into something to carry us across the river. Though I do detest those forms"
Marzela takes the Mithral Chain shirt, but doesn't put it on yet, waiting to see if anyone objects. She waits to see if anyone picks up any of the rest of the stuff. If not, she gathers it all and stows it in her pack so that they are ready to move on.
"That's a good point, Marzela. I don't know about the heat but leaving without the amulets bugs me. Well, I suppose collecting some chunks of gold on our way out can make up for that." Jaed shrugs and checks the Elven cloak. This may look good on me.
"Ok then, should we head back?"
I just wish we knew how much time we had. The city seems to reset to the non-flooded state after if we want to wait, but I definitely don't want to get caught here when it does flood.
"Let's not push it," says Lily nervously. "I wouldn't want to lose any of you."
This chamber has high, vaulted ceilings, a simple stone floor, and unadorned granite walls. A large, 15-foot-square raised dais occupies the center of the room. In the middle of the dais rests a gray stone block with a grasping hand carved from the same stone rising from the center of the block. The hand is currently empty. The room is almost unbearably hot and entering is much like walking into a furnace.
Examine the dais and the hand more closely:
(and add another 4 if something is hidden)
Do you guys think this is where the scepter came from?
"Could be." Jaed inspects the hand looking for traps.
"Let me try putting it back in the hand," he ask Marzela for the scepter.
Marzela fishes the scepter out of her bag and hands it to Jaed.
Looking around, there do not appear to be any secret doors or traps near the dais, and placing the scepter in the hand doesn't seem to do anything. The heat of the room is starting to get to many of you though.
Marzela tells the whole party what the scepter can do. Then she says
We need to get out of here. Jaed, please use the scepter to see how our friends are doing, and make sure no cultists are around.
She starts back, pausing at the door to make sure everyone is following her.
"I agree, as quickly as we can. It is heating up in here,"
Lily wilts under the tremendous heat. Breathing shallowly, she says, "Can't we just... get out of here? Or use the scepter to reduce the furnace?"
Jaed takes the scepter from Marzela and...
answers to her. "Agree. Give me a moment." He closes his eyes and tries to backtrack through the path they used to get the room, looking for any threats.
Seeing that everyone is following, Marzela opens the door and starts sprinting back to where they left Dusan and Aglanda earlier, trying to get back to a tolerable heat level before everyone melts (figuratively).
Finnrick is interested in the scepter, but having known Jaed for what seems like ages now, completely trusts it in his hands. He follows Marzela out of the room moving quickly as the heat gets closer and closer to being unbearable
Jaed only has a moment to see that Dusan and the cultist appear to be fine and undisturbed before the rest of the group starts sprinting outside and away from the heat. Though you had thought the jewel room was quite hot, soon you are reminded that it's actually quite pleasant compared to the burning heat so close to the channel of molten gold surrounding the tiny island they're on.
Once passed the bridge, the temperature reaches much more tolerable levels. You all then heads back in to where you had stashed your friend and enemy, once again crossing the bridge that used to have the winged golden statues. When you peer inside the building, Dusan leaps up from where he had been crouched, frantically scribbling in a journey, and looks about ready to flee when recognition crosses his face. "I found you again! The darkness did not find you. That is good. Yes. Even though you have not hidden yourselves like I have."
Once inside the abandoned building, Jaed continues scrying back across the path the group used to get to the center of the city. He sees a few patrols and the odd elemental or two roaming about, but nothing stationary or appearing to be waiting specifically for them.
"It would've been hard to hide our large friend," the rogue says pointing to Carrakas with his thumb.
"All looks clear. I think we can get out now but what are we going to do with our hostage?"