This spacious room has entrances in the southern and eastern walls. The aged remains of dressers, a large bed, and a divan lie in ruins. The husk of large hornet’s nest, gray, papery, and devoid of life, occupies one corner of the ceiling.
The spaces in the northeast and northwest corners appear to be closets. Their wooden doors have all but fallen off their hinges, and heaps of disintegrated fabric mingle on the floor. Between the closets stands a single lacquered dresser covered in dust.
However, as you enter the doors at M3/4 the doors J/K 7 open and you hear an ungodly screech from across the balcony.
The creature that has emerged from one of the other rooms is a blackened, bat-winged fiend’s head. Tentacles dangle from chin and scalp, and its fanged mouth hangs agape.
DM Only
Knowledge?
Rameth drinks his shield extract and moves 10 feet directly north
Albus moves to the headless body and casts detect magic. He also retrieves the incripted ring from its dead hand. Maybe somebody would pay ramsom for that one.
I was thinking that for all its nice painted walls this place is pretty much empty of big game loot. Now I know why, somebody have being here before recently, that body is from a an "explorer" like us.
And yea, I dont like what something did to its head either.
Incoming!
Albus moves past Dwalindor to make form a line of defense and readies an attack.
Rameth looted it of anything it had
The floating head swoops in and bites at Dwalindor viciously.
The jaws manage to clamp down and grind deep into Dwalindor. Worse, the slavering jaws drip some fluid into the bite that burns terrible.
Knowledge (planes)
Azubah invokes the power of Aroden to enhance his weapon against the monstrous head and closes next to Dwalindor.
The monster is a vargouille: a particularly nasty extraplanar beast.
The monster has three things that you can recall about it.
First, the monster's bite is poisonous, and the poison is based on negative energy that prevents wounds caused by the bite from healing naturally should the poison take hold.
Second, a vargouille can emit an ear-piercing shriek that inspires paralysis on nearby creatures and people.
Third, the kiss of a vargouille can drive a man mad and cause him to die and rise as a vargouille in less than a day.
We are back at the top of the order.
Albus steps north to Dwalindor's side and attacks the thing using his arcane strike.
The extremely precise and damaging magical attack causes tremendous damage to the vargouille and it shrieks as it struggles to maintain it's altitude.
DM Only
Dwalindor's hammer blow strikes the crown of the monster's head and knocks it down onto the packed and of the courtyard where it bounces a few times before rolling to a stop.
However as soon as his attack comes a second vargouille bursts out of the second door to the west.
ah shoot, didn't see we were updated
Rameth moves into the main room and takes his enlarge person Extract. I should be around N8
DMPC for Azubah:
Azubah readies his attack, intoning a prayer to Aroden to guide his hand against this unholy enemy.
The new vargouille flies towards you and lets out an unholy screech as it closes, the wave of sound crashing against you and you can feel magic clutching at your limbs to prevent you from moving.
DMPC Azubah: Azubah shrugs off the magical attack and steps to M8 to smash the Vargouille, but misses his first attack.
Rameth takes a step to the north and attacks over his compatriots heads
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Dwalindor's hammer slams hard into the head knocking it off its flight path momentarily.
Albus steps to Azubah's side swinging his blade multiple times at the creature.
Azubah sprints toward the demon-head and swings at it as well.
Attack
Damage
Azubah's mace slaps into the head with a meaty thunk, intercepting the head as it reels back from Dwalindor's hammer strike.
Albus shrugs off the shriek and slams his blade hard into the vargouille, which explodes when he channels arcane power into it.
As soon as the vargouille's bits scatter across you, you hear a voice echoing in your head.
Why? Why do you have to keep ruining everything?!
The doors to the southeast open violently while you see a small rat scurry through the doors.
For those that fail the Will Save:
The rat is definitely the source of the telepathic voice, and it can open doors. This is no ordinary rat.
For those that beat the will save:
The rat is an illusion, something else is loose upstairs.
There is no rat, it is something else. Rameth hisses and move to door J12 and throws it open.
But...but...but... I can see it, its right there! Such power!
Most of the contents of this room have fallen apart or otherwise been reduced to dust from the dry desert air. A foul, cloying smell fills the room.
You see two rats now, scurrying through tiny holes in the walls into the adjoining rooms.
Rameth quickly makes his way to the southern room and kicks those doors open
Will save
"The rats, they are experimenting on us! They are the most intelligent life form on Golarion*. The whole world is their laboratory!"
*Dispute exists about the intelligence of rats vs dolphins.
In this next room, a large lacquered desk, now in poor condition, sits in the center of this room. Bookcases stand along the eastern and southwestern walls, sagging as if ready to collapse at any moment. Their shelves have fallen out, and the piles of dust at their bases are all that remains of books and scrolls that failed to survive the long years.
The lacquered wooden frames of what might once have been divans stretch along the north and south walls, but their upholstery has disintegrated. A single door in the western wall is the room’s only exit.