Purple also casts a spell in preparation . As she has no need to go in to attack, she starts shooting.
Bow+RS+DA: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (1) + 10 - 2 = 9
Bow+RS+DA: 1d20 + 10 - 2 ⇒ (13) + 10 - 2 = 21 1d8 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 3 + 4 = 11
Purple looks up at the wall where she shot the gargoyle, to see any reaction.
The Red Hued Gargoyle dives at Purple, while the Pink one dives at Jocasta.
The enemy had landed, and Khaz strode forward. His mace was shaped as the holy symbol of his goddess, looking to be a golden falcon. It glowed as he raised it, filling with the divine favor of the goddess...
Molos casts protection from evil. He casts protection from evil on Jocasta and moves to the rear.
Purple steps back and shoots the gargoyle.
Khaz's mighty Club comes down and nearly ends the Gargoyle in 1 feel blow, Purple dances back and puts 2 solid shots into the red hued creature.
Lorena watches as the gargoyles land and the initial salvo of attacks cracks them both open. Not feeling the need to expend any of her spells, she moves in to try and finish off Khaz's job, though perhaps her strike is a bit too relaxed...
Lorena's spear slides harmlessly off the hardened stone of the Gargoyle, not even leaving a scratch.
The Green Gargoyle leaves its perch and dives at Khaz's back.
Jocasta winces as she does her best to fend off the gargoyle's attack while failing to counterattack.
Molos casts cat's grace on himself and moves 30 feet east.
The red Hued Gargoyle moves in on Purple as the Elf's bow is hurting a lot.
The pink hued Gargoyle continues its assualt on the heavily armored Dwarf.
The Green hued Gargoyle seeing that Khaz is distracted assists it kin on attacking the dwarf.
Khaz felt claws get past his armor. Instinctively he spun around and with a resounding *crack* brought his mace down onto the offending gargoyle. He had confidence that the group would be able to finish off the foes after he shattered their stone hides.
Purple steps away again and keeps losing arrows.
Khaz ends the Gargoyle in front of him as it crumbles to large chunks of stone, Purple looses 3 arrows only 1 hit cutting out large chunks of stone from the creature. Lorena steps back swinging her spear around to fend off the creautres.
Jocasta mutters an incantation as she tries to avoid further strikes while bringing her sword around for a quick slash at the gargoyle that hit her.
Jocasta cuts deeply into the Red hued Gargoyle, her heavy blade cutting it to a crumbling pile of dust as well.
Molos decides to save the spell he was preparing to cast. He loads his crossbow and fires at the remaining gargoyle.
(19/20)
(magical +1 bolts)
Already covered in shards of stone, Khaz swung once more at the surviving gargoyle. His fighting style was as slow and methodical as a mountain, and as unstoppable as an avalanche.
Purple shoots at the remaining gargoyle, if there is something remaining after Khaz tries to resculpt it with his mace.
The combined effort of Khaz and Purple down the final gargoyle, as they crumble to dust the wind sweeps across the clearing scattering the dust to the wind. The Temple lays crumbling along with a small walled off area...
”Good work everyone. It’s providence that brought us together. Now let’s press on, we’ve got people to save.”
"You lead the way." Purple anszwers Khaz, looking out for the next creature to shoot.
"If you are leading us to trouble, please do so quickly. The buffs I provided will only last a few minutes."
With the gargoyle threat gone, Lorena briefly picks up a chunk of stone and examines it before dropping it as it dissolves into dust and following. "Doesn't look good for the priests here", she mutters as she gazes over the decrepit temple.
The way a head leads to an inner court yard from what you can see, to the right is a small garden with some large trees standing strong and green despite the influence of the World Wound just down the cliff face. A set of Double doors can be seen on the Northern face of the Chapel as well.
As Khaz takes his time Purple kicks open the door to the large building on the left.
”Well, there we go. Let me enter first. Hard to shoot arrows with a blade in yer gut. Let me be the one who gets stabbed.”
Purple kicks a door right off the hinges, the wood is rotten and swollen from no care and the elements.
Battle Axe (DC 20 Appraise)
Long Sword (DC 15 Spell Craft)
Daggers, Cold Iron x 3
Longspear, Cold Iron (DC 15 spell craft)
Purple mumbles a word and checks the pile. "Nice weapons. Worth some coins. But can we move on, before the magic buffs wear off?"
”Aye, let’s. I don’t have much hope for the monks here, but there is still a chance our comrades yet live. On we go.”
Purple took up the bow again to be ready to shoot anything that comes up in their path while following Khaz. In this lands, it's better to shoot first and ask questions later. I just have to be careful not to shoot their missing companions.
Khaz walks to the door of the chapel, a set of heavy wooden doors with iconography of Irori upon them. The stained glass windows are smashed out from what you can see above this door, Khaz hesitates at the door a moment knowing that anything could be trapping them or some other magics upon them.
No traps
There are not magics upon the door
D3. Desecrated Chapel
The vaulted ceiling of this massive sanctuary reaches nearly thirty
feet overhead. Smashed stained-glass windows stretch in narrow
bands above the doors. Four angelic statues occupy each corner
of the room, though their faces and wings are cracked and broken
almost beyond recognition. The walls are covered with disturbing
shapes and runes that have been scratched into the stone. An
altar, befouled with grime and filth, sits against the southern wall.
Purple speaks a foreign word again and takes a look over what makes Khaz hesitate.
"The door is safe."
Following Khaz in she wrinkles her nose. "I'll never get used to those bad guys idea of a cozy home."
”Well they’d have to be crazy to do what they do. Once we have cleared this place we will need to clean this filth. This is the true home of the divine, and the state of this place is unforgivable.”
With that he took the lead, continuing their search through the doors to the East.
Jocasta approaches the altar and says, "They hate the world, so they take out their frustrations by defiling it. By destroying anything beautiful, anything that anyone else tries to make." She bows her head a moment, then makes a slow mystic gesture and passes her hand over the altar while chanting arcane syllables. As she waves her hand over the altar it's like it was wiped with a washrag, the detritus and filth pushed away or vaporized into little more than dust.
"Come on, we can clean it up when we're done. There are more important things to do right now." Lorena looks about the chapel for anything that might be hidden under the mess.
Khaz starts to move to the east when the doors to the West open, well one opens and you note that 2 of the others were already open and people or whatever these things are moved out as you moved in.
"Look out!" Lorena calls out as she sees figures coming through the doors. "They don't seem friendly." She casts a spell on herself, radiating an ominous energy through her shadow cloak, then prepares to defend herself.
Lorena knows she knows what these creatures are but the sudden surprise of them bursting in scatters her knowledge.
Red moves right at Jocasta biting at her.
The Orange Ghoul rushes in to the room around the Pews to the south
Molos fires at red before moving 5 feet east.
cat's grace +1 bolt
(/19-20) +1 bolt
"Don't let them touch you! Those are ghouls, they paralyze you!" Purple warns her companions. She shoots the one besides the pews. And as soon as that one goes down, she shoots the one in front of Jocasta.
With the enemy beginning to swarm, Khaz raised his mace and called out a prayer to his goddess.
Purples first arrow misses by a wide mark but his second and third drops the ghoul as he called the creature. Moros takes aim and strikes the Ghoul right on Jocasta leaving a small wound upon the creatures shoulder.
With mace held up high, Khaz charged into the fray!