Zoltan can't quite figure out what the two items do. He senses moderate conjuration, divination, and evocation from the dagger and faint abjuration from the cloak.
Mira concentrates further on the items... ...and discovers absolutely nothing.
Lenna tries to identify the items.
Lenna feels on the cusp of figuring out the cloak.
With guidance from Mira, Lenna identifies the cloak.
You all gather around the blade conferring. Mira casts guidance on everyone. Sunreturn tests the balance carefully in his tough, woody hand. Zoltan pricks his finger on the tip. Observing all of this, Lenna concludes with a shudder that it is a heartripper blade.
You also notice that the north, south, east, and west walls in this chamber are all covered in many, many roughly scratched glyphs. Some seem to be of mountains, others of trees, some of various parts of the kobold, others of eggs or rats. The statue in the center of the room stands much taller than any kobold you've ever seen at 10 feet in height with the stone-carved skulls of humanoids lying at its feet.
"Kurtulmak. Kobold god of traps and poisons. Be careful."
Sunreturn peers at the glyphs and scratches, trying to ascertain meaning.
"Yeah, that is why I am standing all the way back."
Lenna shuffles back at least 10 ft behind the party.
"Look at how they got the jump on us last time. We should prep. Some of us should at least have one scroll out before we move forward. What I am saying is that I got some scrolls in my trusty pack that I don't mind sharing with you all and let you use them. They make fights a whole easier like the fight before the last one."
"Good idea, Lenna. I could summon beasts and send them in first to scout. Quick and sharp-eyed ones so less likely to get hurt. Mira should get long arm."
Mira nods in agreement. She speaks softly, but her voice sounds clearly in your ears. "I've got some scrolls as well. And one of you should take this cloak, it will protect against spells and traps and such." She holds out the kobold's cloak to the others. "I like the beasty idea, Sunreturn. I'll be ready when something goes wrong. If! I mean if." She gives the room one last scan for traps or magic. Then she stands at the ready.
Mira doesn't detect any magic but she does notice a row of pressure plates.
Zoltan activates his levitation, rising to the ceiling, and moves along it avoiding the floor traps.
"I will wear the cloak then, Mira. And I will try to leap over thos plates."
Sunreturn moves to the furthest east of the room and then runs towards the plates, aiming to leap over them.
A smoky figure appears at the base of the statue as Sunreturn jumps somewhat clumsily over the pressure plates. It is the hazy figure of a kobold. Dread creeps through you. Sunreturn quakes in fear at the apparition (1 round frightened: bummer that you failed the save by 1).
"Kurtulmak has you now!"
The lizards around the statue begin aggregating into roiling masses and moving toward you.
This is a poltergeist. Nonmagical weapons will not hurt it and magical damage only does half damage to it but it is damaged by holy water.
It can fly and throw objects with the power of its mind. It cannot move more than 120 feet from the place it is bound to.
Zoltan sees the mass of lizards, and thinks out loud, "That's something you don't see everyday."
Taking an alchemist's fire from his pouch, he drops it onto the most concentrated mass he can find.
(+50% for swarm?)
Zoltan annihilates the nearest swarm.
You realize these lizards are so small and numerous that weapons will not affect them but area damage, like Zoltan's fire, will do extra damage.
Shaking off the shivers of dread, Mira sprints straight for the apparition. She transforms as she moves, growing horns just in time to stab at the hazy form.
Liz, meanwhile, follows the others in hopping the pressure plates along the floor. She glares at the smaller lizards swarming around them, giving her most menacing growl.
Then she sees the amazing destruction caused by Zoltan's fire, and her eyes light up. She looks up at him hopefully, extending a claw.
Mira tears into the apparition, drawing an unearthly screech from it. It flits back into its invisible state as it seems to float away.
Mira tears into the apparition, drawing an unearthly screech from it. It flits back into its invisible state as it seems to float away.
The writhing mass of lizards decides it would rather go after someone besides Liz.
A longspear grows out of seemingly nowhere and then falls into Sunreturn's hands. He advances towards the kobolds.
Sunreturn blinks, moves and casts entangle on the nearest swarm of lizards.
The swarms move to attack Mira and Sunreturn (2 damage) but both keep their focus on the battle at hand. One swarm is entangled in many minuscule grasping vines. Out of nowhere, a chunk of rubble approximately the size of Lenna hurls upwards into the air at Zoltan but misses him and shatters against the ceiling.
Anyone know whether or not the bites from a swarm allow DR? It makes sense that they would.
Damage reduction sufficient to reduce a swarm attack's damage to 0, being incorporeal, or other special abilities usually give a creature immunity (or at least resistance) to damage from a swarm.
Mira lunges in fury after the vanishing form, thrashing and flailing in all directions.
Mira flails very seriously but doesn't contact anything.
Lenna mutters s spell and disappears. She then moves into the room.
Sunreturn attempts to help indirectly.
Zoltan looks shocked by the sudden attack, but can only split his focus so many ways. He throws his other alchemist's fire at the swarm of lizards.
+50%
+50%
Zoltan's fire destroys another swarm of lizards in fiery death.
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Sunreturn frowns slowly, then begins walking forward and casting again, waves of positive energy sweeping out from him.
A screech of pain erupts from the room and you briefly see the poltergeist until it fades away into smoke, destoryed by Sunny's light.
The swarms converge on Sunny and Mira.
The entangled swarm bursts free from the many tiny vines grasping it and moves toward the fighters on land. But it seems the ghost organized the creatures somehow. One of the swarms dissolves into aimless lizards who scatter and go their separate ways.