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Albus shrugs while sitting.
If you guys want to play with the food who I am to spoil the fun.
As the "judge" starts to lose his temper Albus joins the proceedings.
By the way, y' honor, this is Wati and here the dead stay below the ground, most of the time anyway... You have legal authorithy among the living whatsoever.
Could use some of those rotten vegetables from before right now. It would make this feels more like the real deal.
The judge appears to be a bloody skeleton, resistant to all damage done without a blunt instrument and any sort of cold.
The skeleton has a clacking laugh.
Look around at my courtroom! I have all the authority I need, given to me by the very gods.
He points at you again.
I have authority because when this city was overrun with criminals, grave robbers, perverts who destroyed the good order ordained by the gods. And I stood against them! I am the greatest judge this city has ever known, Sotenre!
He throws his arms wide, spreading blood all over the room.
I saw the perversion they made of justice. I saw what they were doing to this city, my city! Be grateful, thank Sotenre! For in my return, I return this city to righteousness!
Rameth is immediately confident again, his fear is no more.
religion
But it is a well established theory that Sotenre is he judge premier of ______ a precursor of ______, who is related to _______, and said in the holy book of _______, that Nethys and Pharasma have from the date of ______ full authority over the rulership of Wati until such time that a council of clerics returns it to the former rulership.
Rameth is smug
Lindy have Lucy limber Rameth mutters
You show your ignorance outlander! Religion may be invoked, but religious texts have no place in a court of law in Osirion!
He folds his arms.
Now, you have failed to enter a plea, and have mocked the court. You have only so many minutes for defense! Plea, and be done with it or I shall sentence you to enuculeation!
local
it has nothing to do with religion, this is local laws. Don't be foolish. We have no need to enter a plea because you have not established the validity for the necessity of such a thing.
I am parched. Rameth downs his bull strength
Calin readies his longbow and makes sure his quiver of blunt arrows is free and ready.
He then casts Magic Fang on Tobbs.
Feeling that a fight is about to commence, a toothy cat like grin comes over Tobbs.
As Calin finishes his spell you notice that Tobbs' fangs now have a sparkly Crest White gleam to them.
No, I don't...but you...what is...happen-
You can actually see negative energy start to swirl around the skeleton bailiffs and the judge, as whatever preverse principle controls them breaks down.
No! My justice is needed! These foolish living creatures have transgressed!
Suddenly a massive devil appears in the halls.
He chuckles as the bloody skeleton wails in terror - no longer a powerful jurist but a quivering coward in the face of the devil.
Shadowy hands reach up and grasp the bloody skeleton and seem to drag him through the ground in front of your shocked eyes. His shriek is suddenly not that of an undead abomination but a terrified child being dragged to just punishment. His bailiffs crumble to dust when he disappears.
The devil chuckles at the sound.
He turns to you and gives a polite bow.
Then in a puff of fragrant incense the devil vanishes.
You can hear nothing in the court except the moaning of the man whose mutilation you interrupted and the ringing of a metal circlet Sotenre was wearing on the ground behind his podium.
[ooc]knowledge for who azghaad is?[/o]
Any one want to explain to me what just happened? . Rameth moves to the man who was about to lose his eye.
Calin wanna see if you can help this fellow?
Then to the man What's your name friend. What happened?
The man gasps, needing serious medical help.
I am...Zezemonekh. I am a simple merchant who was trying to get home to my family - I was in my shop late when the dead rose. Sadly I passed by here and was seized by those skeletons for that madman's "judgement."
Azghaad is the legendary first pharaoh of Osirion. He founded the first human empire during the Age of Destiny after Earthfall through sheer power of his will and magic and is rumored to have been buried in a giant pyramid of solid gold: the capstone of which is on an obelisk in Sothis.
Everyone seems to agree he's dead however.
Interestign, that devil was referencing the first empereror or Pharaoh. Lets get you some help Zez.
Rameth uses a wand on him to try to stop some of the bleeding.
While they work. Did the skeleton tell you anything about why he was putting you "on trial"
Disrepect to the law. He was clearly mad, if such a thing can be true of the undead.
As soon as Rameth finishes with the wand, and getting the water hot...you always need hot water, he moves and examines the circlet.
Nice to know that the good judge went to hell after his term of "service" in Wati was over the first time. Somebody disagreed with his idea of justice afterall. Albus says getting up and searching the room.
"I think I should be able to patch you up a bit. You've lost the eye but at least you won't end up like those outside. And with the right eye patch the ladies might think you look dashing!"
"Forgive me for not having faith in your oratory Rameth. Watching that thing get dragged back to hell is probably one of the most satisfying things I will ever see."
Well if you didn't have faith that makes 2 of us!. He shrugs. I tend to rely on logic and when that doesn't work we send in Lindy on the hop and try not to get spattered. Though the kitty cat of your is pretty terrifying on its own!
Albus, you don't find anything worth additional money - just detritus from court proceedings and Sotenre's gavel.
Rameth, the circlet is finely wrought, a delicately engraved silver headband.
The item is magical. Use Identify to determine its properties.
Rameth takes a minute and mixes up an identify extract
Well watta ya know? This is a ______.
They escort the man back to the Mausoleum for more care and so he can tell his story
On their way out Calin scoops up Sotenre's gavel on a whim, and tucks it into his belt.
"This is one heck of a souvenir, can't leave it behind. Besides it's probably got some historical value."
As you turn towards the temple in the afternoon, you come to an intersection where three zombies surrounding a woman. As they turn to attack her however you hear an unholy screech and two terrible amalgams of crocodile and bear lurch out of an alley and tear the zombies apart.
Worse, they knock the poor woman on the ground and you can see she's bleeding. The monsters begin feasting on the zombies and when people try and advance to help the woman bleeding on the ground the monsters snarl at them until they back off.
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"Something tells me that handle animal won't work on these."
Rameth, these monsters ar no undead that you know of. Perhaps they're outsider?
planes
You belive they are Esobok psychopomps - hunters of the undead from the Spire.
They're known to be able to turn invisible when stalking more intelligent undead.
Pharasma's Spire in the Boneyard.
No more so than a smart monkey, and they have been known to kill the living at times. Regardless the woman is currently bleeding to death and no one can save her.
Son of a b%+#!!. Go go gadget init!
Bad guys go first!
The two Esobok sense your hositility and charge hard at you in response.
The first one charges straight at Calin and tries to rend the flesh from his small form but can't quite pin the mobile halfling down.
The second likewise charges at Dwalindor and sinks his jaws in - his magical bone eating deep at the wily dwarf.
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Dwalindor grunts as most of the bite pierces his desert hardened skin (9hp after DR/-). It appears to have grabbed onto one of his arms.
"Stupid alligator-lion things! Now I am MAAADDDDDD!"
A grappled creature is restrained by a creature, trap, or effect. Grappled creatures cannot move and take a –4 penalty to Dexterity. A grappled creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, except those made to grapple or escape a grapple
He rages as he drops his lucern hammer and pulls his waraxe...swinging at the creature.
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You should really work on those combat reflexes Lindy
5 ft to F 7, move action to study the critter then pokey pokey
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"I was wondering, we haven't had anything attack us in far too long.
5ft step to C8.
Calin casts aggressive thundercloud on F9.