Addie:
Kev:
Morg:
Addie shares the results of her inspection of the glaive and the rope with her companions.
Morghrim looked down at the glaive in disgust, but after the description of its potency he was reluctant to leave it behind or disdain its use. In this horrible place, he justified to himself, the group would need him to take every edge he could get. In addition... did not Shelyn take the very foulest and vilest of glaives, the Whisperer of Souls, from her brother Dou-Bral, and master it- making it a force of love, beauty and mercy?
His mind was made up. He clasped his hands firmly on the powerful weapon and bore it with him as he followed Valeron's lead.
It's Morghrim's turn today.
So is Morghrim carrying Shelyn's Kiss as well?
"Morghrim, thank you for allowing me the use of your glaive yesterday. In my weakened state, I didn't feel best suited to going toe to toe with our foes. I feel much better today, however, thanks to Valeron. I hope I did your blade honour, though."
Morghrim is impressed with the gesture.
You did well, Kevorin. She could do much worse than to be wielded in your hands today he replied, offering Kevorin his heirloom polearm once again.
No, I don't serve yer bloody dark father, but i'm sure you'll sit happily in my hands knowing ye've got more chance of finding a "worthy wielder" who might be good enough to gut me, than in the cell of a devil trapped and mad on the material plane... Now, stow the attitude, blade! Morghrim growled at the glaive in his hands, apparently responding to some unseen voice.
Kev nods his thanks, but grasps his trusty great axe. "I'm feeling much more like a fight today."
If Valeron was using long term healing, does that mean Kev gets two Strength back? Also, he's still down 11hp, if anybody is doing some final healing either the night before or now.
"Let's not go in there," Addie says, pointing toward the archway leading to the chamber with the void in the center.
"How about the western door?" she suggests.
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The group travels down the hallway, heading toward the hallway leading west. Upon arriving at the hallway, you see a closed wooden door. Morghrim and Kevorin study the door for a few moments and are satisfied that there are no traps of glyphs associated with the door. After the inspection the inquisitor opens the door to reveal a small empty room containing only three wooden doors on the west wall.
The left doorway is decorated with a carving of a book, the central doorway a carving of a glaive, and the right doorway a carving of an unholy symbol bearing a pentagram.
"Interesting..."
Valeron arches an eyebrow as he takes in the three doors.
"I wonder if somehow we'll need to navigate those doors, like a vault or a safe. Wouldn't it be convenient if somehow that devil's glaive was one of the keys?"
And isn't it inconvenient that we don't happen to have anything matching the other two symbols.
"Perhaps those doors merit further inspection?"
"Hmmm... You're right, Valeron. You know, we found that book, Drowned Jabe and His Miserable Brothers and Sisters here in the Knot, and when I mentioned the story during our battle with the lacedons, it made the ghast pause. I still have it here," Addie says, retrieving the book from her magical haversack.
"That other symbol looks like the symbol of Asmodeus. Didn't we find an Asmodean unholy symbol on that island in the excremental's lair?"
"You know, you're right..."
Valeron digs about his belt pouch and pulls out the unholy symbol of Asmodeus while approaching the door with the pentagram carving.
"It can't be coincidence..."
Addie holds the book Drowned Jabe and His Miserable Brothers and Sisters before her and slowly approaches the door bearing the book carving.
Not wanting to open two doors simultaneously unless he had to, Morghrim only approached the door with the glaive carving on it if nothing happened when Addie and Valeron finished their respective movement.
Addie tries the door handle.
Addie quickly casts a spell to reveal magical auras and studies the doorway.
"This doorway radiates strong auras of transmutation and conjuration magic," Addie announces. "The conjuration aura leads me to believe it's some sort of teleporation device - perhaps a way out of the Knot without having to go back through the Lord Mayor's mansion?"
Useless, until our task is completed. Close it fer now.
Morghrim tried his door...
"So as long as we have one of these three objects, we can get out of here, which is good news, but we still haven't found what we're looking for, have we? We did destroy something that was making shadows, but was it making the shadow creatures?"
Valeron will open the last door just to ensure they are all indeed acting as exists from The Knot.
Three of us at least... maybe if we join hands?
Keeping his thoughts to himself, Valeron nods to the others.
"Back to the hallway, then."
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After searching the door you are satisfied that the door is not trapped or locked. Opening the door you see a wooden stairway, its risers carpeted in fine silk and its banisters carved of darkwood, descends into a lake of bubbling filth and olive-green sludge in this cavern. At the far side of the cavern three natural stone steps rise up from the slime to a chamber of worked stone, its floor stained and slathered with strings of dried ooze and mounds of filth. Two alcoves to either side of this part of the chamber hold stone chests.
Surprise Round:
"Wait for the large one to your right to show itself," Addie whispers to Kevorin as she mutters the words to a spell, causing the half-orc to vanish from sight.
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The ceiling is 10 ft above where you currently stand in this chamber, 20 ft high out over the muck.
In response to something the witch saw in the muck, she casts a spell on Kevorin. Shortly afterwards, the half-orc disappears from view.
Initiative Order - Round 0:
Addie - 13+ (acted)
Kevorin - 13 (no action until round 1)
Morghrim - 10
? - 9+
Valeron - 9 (no action until round 1)
? - 1
Gah! Morghrim exclaimed as he spied something in the muck. He stepped forward to the edge of the muck and brought his new Glaive down in a powerful overhead arc, as his armour shimmered with Shelyn's sacred invocations that Morghrim brought to bear with a simple chant and a wave of his hand.
Having not ever seen the statblock, a general description + two bits of information (please just choose or randomise i'm swamped today) would be fine.
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Two horns protrude from its head and just below the massive maw of jagged teeth is a beard, almost certainly teaming with disease.
Senses: Darkvision 120 ft, Scent
Special Defenses:
DR 10/good or silver
Immune: disease, fire, poison
Resist: Acid 10, Cold 10
SR: 16
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Round 0:
Morghrim slashes into the muck, pulling back the blade covered in blood.
Shortly after the inquistor's strike, three creatures that appear to be made of molten flesh rise from the muck and move toward the group.
From the area close to where Morghrim struck a tentacle lashes out at the inquisitor, but the strike fails to land.
Tentacle: - Miss
Initiative Order - Round 1:
Addie - 13+
Kevorin (invisibility) - 13
Morghrim - 10
? - 9+
Valeron - 9
? - 1
Round One:
With a thought, Addie calls upon the latest blessing granted to her by her otherworldly patron, and levitates above the reach of the lemure in front of her.
Kev enters his raging state and slashes at the creature in front of him.
Attack:
And, unaccustomed to being almost at full strength, he over compensates and misses wildly, as well as becoming visible.
Valeron stands, hand on his longsword, his boots feeling like they have glued him to the ground, and awaits the horror likely to be brought on by their adversaries.
Know Planes (lone creature):
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