Allegra prays to Torag for the smoke from his Forge and belches it forth, covering the great beast in its noxious fumes. Then she steps forward and swings at it furiously.
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Haste attack 3 will crit due to Improved Crit/Bless Weapon, as long as it hits.
Semore watches in absolute awe (and a bit of fear) as Allegra swiss cheeses the Beastie!
He turns back to look at Theo.
I have a little pee coming out of me!
Theo just nods.
Mara backed up and tried to coat the horror with Twinkling stardust, all the while maintaining her chant.
Dervak is most impressed with Allegra's attacks.
He recovers from the Awesome Blow, then moves up and strikes at the beast.
Semore seems to be having trouble, he violently thrusts his spear at the horror but can’t thrust deep enough to do any lasting harm. Ci Ci’s green beam of destruction bores a thin hole in its flesh, but what’s not readily apparent is the hole goes straight through it’s massive bulk. The smoke belched by Allegra dissipates completely as it approaches it’s skin, it remains unaffected. Allegra encounters similar problems as Dervak but finally manages to cut through its hide, the beast’s accumulated wounds is enough to cause it to slam into the bridge below it, destroying the otherwise sturdy structure.
"The Denizen of Leng, Weiralai warned me of your treachery. She knows you're here, will she come, I wonder?."
Theophilus wonders exactly what the Beastie meant by this...
Dervak barely has time to register CiCi's spell annihilating the massive beast before Theophilus speaks. The Leng slaver's name clearly puts the warrior on edge.
"Weiralai?? Where is that fiend?"
Dervak looks around.
With her name intoned three times Weiralai teleports into the room. Her form has been twisted so much that she can no longer conceal her horrific visage under loose clothing. Her horns have also grown to a prodigious size. She threatens you, "I will not allow you to stop He Who Shall Not Be Named from drawing Golarion into Carcosa. I will relish killing you."
The animated rotting corpse of a moon-beast interposes itself between you and Weiralai.
Semore looks at Theophilus with a not so amused expression on his handsome, scarred, acidic face.
You must be f!@$ing kidding me!
Theo just shrugs; making a shooing gesture to the Babau.
I hate you!
Semore then proceeds to tiptoe across the bridge toward the nice Lady.
I swear to the f$&%ing Abyss that you end up in my area of concern one day!
The demon then sighs, as he gets right next to Her!
Theo seems nonplussed at these remarks. He instead decides to Retribution Hex the nice Lady. He does float a bit closer also.
To keep a better eye on my pets.
Theo Cackles.
"Diasporatum!" Ci Ci intones, pointing at the armored figure that has suddenly appeared.
Dervak glares at his nemesis.
"Brought a bodyguard, did you?"
Dervak moves up and swings at the rotting moon-beast corpse.
Mara prayed and called out, "Daddy, coat them in sticky mud!" Then she resumed her chant, maintaining Dervak's good fortune.
Semore gets up close and personal and a moon-beast body checks it for daring to get close. The moon-beast's pale skin sizzles from the acid, neither look particular fazed by the exchange.
The denizen of Leng nimbly dodges Ci Ci's diasporatum ray, but it wasn't enough until the beam bends slightly when it gets near Weiralai.
Dervak carves up a familiar looking moon-beast zombie, but losing rotting flesh does little to slow it down.
Mara slings mud and she easily covers the zombie in thick coats of it but it doesn't appear to slow it down at all. Weiralai swats the bulk of it away.
Allegra strides up to the moon beast and swings her axe at its hide.
Weiralai commands her undead minion while pointing at Dervak, ”Kill him.”
As the beast goes to attack, an earthquake rocks the area momentarily throwing everyone off balance for a split second.
Weiralai spits venom, ”As worthless as you were in life.” She utters a foul prayer and the area between you and the denizen of Leng explodes with whirling and dancing black daggers. The zombie is utterly destroyed by the spell.
Allegra cries out to Iomedae to smite her foe, and she leaps into the blades and beyond, looping around her enemy in an attempt to avoid reprisal. Then she strikes out.
Mara flew up between Allegra and Dervak. It looked like it would be tricky to teleport Dervak into a clear space beyond, the Blade Barrier, so she opted to move Allegra instead.
Theophilus nods to Semore. The babau sighs.
Theo frowns; sadly disappointed in his minion.
The Witch decides to Fortune Hex Dervak.
He Cackles.
"Immolatus!" Ci Ci intones, and calls down a column of flame , centered just between the two creatures, but without catching her companions in it.
Weiralai is knocked into the blade barrier by Allegra but she acrobatically springs back towards the servant of the Godclaw. Drops of sickly black blood drip from Weiralai’s back. Ci Ci then calls down divine retribution against the woman. Again Weiralai dodges the worst of it and then resists a good part more.
Dervak swings his falchion through the blade barrier at Weiralai.
"Anybody know how to make her stay dead this time?"
As there seemed to be enough room, Mara instead teleported Dervak beyond the Blade Barrier.
Dervak strikes at Weiralai grievously wounding the awful slaver.
She whirls around as Dervak teleports and squares up against him without pausing. She says without fear, ”Don’t think that form can fool me, even if you’ve rid yourself of your curse and changed your form. You will never be rid of me.” She stabs Dervak and he feels his luck starting to run dry.
A scrap of leather loose from her armor moves of its own volition and a symbol shines bright yellow light before exploding in Dervak’s face.
Theophilus watches the mean Lady striking out a bunch of times with her rapier at Dervak.
She hit you a couple of times. Do you need to tap out? You look a bit peeked.
The Witch smiles at his friend,. He winks at the mean Lady.
He Cackles for his joke!
Semore thinks he is going to do whatever he wants; but, Theo snaps his fingers at him.
I hate you.
Mara tried to dispel Weiralai's magical protections, "Stop hounding us, you miserable creature!"
”Diasporatum!” Ci Ci intones, targeting Weiralai.
"Maybe not, demon. But I will try. Not much else I can do, is there?"
Dervak powers through the curse and retaliates.
A sadistic grin crosses Weiralai's face as she's cut down for the second time, "This won't be the last time you see me." Her body melts away leaving only the things she carried.
The Forbidden Name: 11,175 Studded leather armor with yellow ribbons spilling from each of the joinds, 3/day a character with cleric domains with the rune domain can use her blast rune domain power to mark one of the ribbons rather than a square. Such blast runes last until the next time the cleric prepares spells and cannot benefit from other domain abilities such as spell rune. As a swift action while wearing this armor, the cleric can cause one of the ribbons to lash out and touch an adjacent creature, triggering the blast rune as if the target had entered the warded square. When marking a ribbon with a blast rune, the cleric can instead expend two daily uses of The Forbidden Name’s ability to also apply the benefits of another Rune domain (or subdomain) power such as spell rune or warding rune to the blast rune.
Alternatively, any wearer can expend two daily uses when casting glyph of warding or explosive runes—or three uses when casting greater glyph of warding—on a ribbon to treat it much like a blast rune. As a swift action while wearing the armor, she can trigger the glyph as though she had stepped on it; however, she takes half damage from the effect on a failed Reflex saving throw or no damage if successful.
Dervak ends his rage and dismisses Monstrous Physique II, returning to his normal form.
At first he stands around staring blankly for a few seconds, before dismissing the spell.
"We need a Resurrection spell to restore Kaklatath, right? It might be possible to get a scroll of that spell in a big city. So maybe someone Teleports somewhere to get it.
Or, I don't know, the genie in the ring might be able to acquire the scroll for us. I don't know what the genie can do. We can also explore the city above."
Theophilus looks about the place, shrugs, and points at the Blade Barrier.
Semore groans.
Theo then looks to Dervak.
You seem a bit distracted, my friend. Gummy baby?
I can Teleport us. Or the Genie thing does sound interestingly easy....
Theo then looks to Dervak.
You seem a bit distracted, my friend. Gummy baby?
He then turns a disappointed frown at Semore.
Keep trying; you need the practice.
Semore flips Theo the bird.
It seems that the babau can't get it up today....
Ci Ci calls upon her power, and attempts to break the curse placed on Dervak.
"Sunderhexen!" she intones.
Mara examined Dervak and told him, "I fear that Weiralai has cursed you. I can deal with that, but I'll need to rest and regain spells first."
Ci Ci feels the magic shudder, and tries again to break the spell. She summons her power to hammer at the curse one more.
”Sunderhexen!”
Dervak waits while CiCi casts her spell.
After her first attempt, he just stares blankly for about twenty seconds.
He finally manages to say, "I'm sorry, I don't think that worked."
She tries again.
This time, Dervak can say without any hesitation, "I feel good."
He paces a bit. He takes his sword and swings it with a flourish, then sheaths it.
"Thank you, Cerise. Your magical prowess proved stronger than that of Weiralai, and you have saved me."
"Theophilus, what is a gummy baby? Is it some sort of condition I might have been born with? I imagine that like most babies I was kind of wet and gooey at first. I never thought to ask my foster father if I was 'gummy'. But I guess before I had teeth I only had gums."
Dervak tries hard to follow the witch's words, although this at times proves a fruitless endeavor.
The White Rabbit is seen wearing a strange outfit with a long dragging multi-colored scarf, digging into a pocket, and producing a small bit of candy.
He offers it it Dervak.
Theo watches.
Apologies, my friend, Dervak. It is called a Jelly Baby apparently.
The White Rabbit nods.
"Jelly baby?"
Still confused, Dervak thanks the rabbit and eats the candy.
"So what is our plan now?"
Theophilus looks hard at Dervak. The White Rabbit also pointing at him.
Excuse us, my good friend, Dervak, but it appears that you may have been scratched a bit?
The Witch offers his Wand of Cure Lights Wounds.
He looks closely at the others. The White Rabbit is seen wearing an Inspector's outfit; complete with magnifying glass.
Once satisfied, they then reply to Dervak's inquiry.
So, we need to study the Book. We need to follow Lowls into the Chaos Planet, that has a weird name, but it escapes me at the moment. We should most likely rest, read, study, prepare our last will and testaments', and have a good shave!
The White Rabbit is seen wearing a barber's outfit now.
Theophilus prepares a chair, his reading spectacles, his pipe, a nice antique lamp, and The Book.
The White Rabbit is seen reading over his shoulders, wearing a scholar outfit.
And reads, and reads, and reads, and reads....
Would it kill someone to get some coffee?
Geir’s translation of the vile Necronomicon is a staggering 888 pages in length, each individual page is astonishingly thin but somehow does not allow for any bleedthrough of text. Even though Theo is fluent in the language of death, it is difficult to read and understand. But the Hatter, with White Rabbit’s help, muddles through. As Theo reads, the already loose threads of his mind fray even further as he comes to understand the alien contents.
Theo knows what he must be done to follow Lowls, within Neruzavin are three Star Stelae, each of these he must activated and attuned to those who wish to travel to Carcosa.
School conjuration (teleportation); Level 3
Casting Time 30 minutes
Components V, S, SC (up to 4)
Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) DC 28, 1 success; Knowledge (dungeoneering) DC 25, 1 success; Spellcraft DC 28, 1 success
Range touch
Target one Star Stela
Duration 12 hours/character level of the primary caster
Saving Throw none; SR no
EFFECT
The primary caster uses the Star Stela to call to distant worlds and entities, attuning the stone to those energies and subjecting all creatures within 60 feet to those distant entities’ spying eyes for the ritual’s duration. Once active, a stela’s flattened face glows softly with several yellow, eldritch runes. This ritual has no other effect on its own, but it is an important preliminary step in preparing and performing the path to the black star occult ritual.
Once each of the three Star Stelae are attuned then the Path to the Black Stars must be opened,
School conjuration (teleportation); Level 6
Casting Time 60 minutes
Components V, S, F (the Necronomicon and three attuned
Star Stelae), SC (up to 4)
Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) DC 40, 3 successes; (dungeoneering) DC 40, 2 successes; Knowledge (nobility) DC 40, 1 success
Range touch
Target primary caster, secondary casters, and up to one creature per character level of the primary caster
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates; SR no
EFFECT
The casters draw and stand within a ritual circle, tracing eldritch symbols within the air to attune their current location to Carcosa’s cosmic coordinates. Upon this ritual’s completion, the carved runes on each of the focus stelae glow with eldritch power and shine beams of energy toward the primary caster. These beams cast a circle of sickly yellow light in a 100-foot radius around the caster and teleport all of the targets to a random destination on the distant world that holds Carcosa. Performing this ritual in the same place always transports the targets to the same region of Carcosa.
Theo may also now study each of the 10 chapters of the Necronomicon in further detail, without the need for translation.
Pages 66–131: These pages consist of the book’s original introduction, and contain a detailed accounting of Alhazred’s wanderings through the deserts of the strange planet far off in the universe, Earth.
Pages 132–257: This section contains information on contacting and interacting with various creatures of the Elder Mythos.
Pages 258–493: The largest and most formidable section of the Necronomicon focuses primarily on the Elder Mythos.
Pages 494–591: A densely written section on magic follows the pages on the Elder Mythos.
Pages 592–641: This highly detailed and extensively illustrated section focuses on the nature of the similarities between humanity and the deep ones.
Pages 642–721: This section of the book switches from a more physical examination of the human condition to a mental one, focusing particularly on methods of transfering the mind of one body to another.
Pages 722–799: Formulae for contacting many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods can be found in this section.
Pages 800–863: This section contains information on the Dreamlands, as well as methods to travel to and from that realm.
Pages 864–888: The final section of the Necronomicon notes that, despite this book’s length, more secrets remain untold throughout the universe. Rather than attempt to catalog them all within the remaining pages, the book instead presents information on how the reader can manipulate time and space.
Theophilus seems to be a bit less Charismatic, wise (although to be fair; that was never really a thing), and a bit excited!
I shall need another 8 hours of study; or more, but, I think that I got it.
He smiles.
The White Rabbit is seen wearing a baby diaper and sucking in a pacifier!
Dervak notices that something is a bit off about Theophilus and, for a change, doesn't chalk it up to the witch's dizzying intellect.
Theo's eyes dart around erratically, and he seems less aware of his surroundings.
Nothing good can come from that book. But it is necessary.
Edit: Dervak will sleep while Theophilus reads - although taking watches just in case something goes wrong.
The time spent researching and resting are eerily quiet.
You realize that you’re standing at the shore of a crystal clear lake. Clear enough that you might as well be staring into the sky. Nothing grows within the lake, no fish or seaweed, and you can see clearly to the bottom, where something stirs. It calls to your mind through invisible filaments, tugging you towards the lake, you can’t help but walk forward, helplessly forced to drown yourself.
Ci Ci sits bolt upright, gasping for breath. "Drowning! I was drowning...in a lake!"
She takes a few moments to calm herself, then tries to reach for her power, and break whatever has a hold on her soul.
"Sunderhexen!" she intones.
Allegra wakes up gasping for air in a cold sweat. She looks to Ci Ci, in a similar state. "I think...it's clear....where these dreams...are coming from...now."
She leans back and catches her breath. "I'd kill the dammed beast for a good night's sleep at this point. Saving the world is gravy."