Is it resistant to anything?
Magic weapons needed to harm, immune to eletricity and can resist spells and knock away non magical projectiles. SHould we enter?
"Sounds like my kind of fight."
Astra steps into the room, approaching the creature and repeats her greeting in three languages.
Liz will prepare to cast Magic Missile is Astra is attacked.
1. Enemy
2. Everyone
As soon as Astra steps into the room, the air elemental moves up close and sends a barbed tentacle to assault her. Translucent spikes dig into her as the tentacle wraps around her waist.
HP 53/53
AC 16/16/15
Effects:
Hand of Apprentice:7/7,Mage Armor(+4 ac),Resist Energy-Communal(20 points) 16 minutes
Liz casts Magic Missile!
"Hurgh!" Astra gasps when the air tendril wraps around her and digs into her armor and flesh. "Well, this is...*wheeze* fascinating. I've never seen a substance quite like this. Solid...yet not entirely solid. Is there any chance I could get a sample? I would be willing to pay..." she tells the creature while struggling to try to get free.
Chakos will charge the creature and power attack it.
DMG to me
Damage:
Chakos - 8
Astra - 3
Ibuki hits it with a blindness spell.
Syvlara unleashes a flurry of arrows from the doorway. Though her shots are powerful, she cringes as they fly in every direction except where she wanted them.
8BAB +4Dex +1Magic +1Training +1Focus +1Point-Blank -2Rapid -3Deadly
2Str +1Magic +1Training +2Spec +1Point-Blank +6Deadly
Liz's magic missiles unerringly hit the creature in its core. Chakos severs a barbed tentacle with his greataxe. Ibuki's magic is resisted by the mihstu.
Syvlara's arrows fly away from the air elemental, except for one, which stabs into its center.
Wrapping another tentacle around Astra, it tries to keep her from escaping and squeezes.
After the Life Link:
Chakos - 13
Astra - 7
Chakos takes two swings at the creature with power attack.
Crit Confirm for attack 2:
Liz casts her second magic missile spell
Chakos hacks apart the air elemental, freeing Astra from its barbed tendrils. As it falls, its pieces fall to the ground, turn to cloudy mush and then disappear entirely.
Liz starts examining the room.
In which case, as it fell I'd sever the life link and:
30' radius, +2 on self
30' radius, +2 on self
Astra is all healed up, and I have 1 hp of damage.
"Ack, ugh, wheeze", Astra spits and coughs for breath, trying to get some air back into her lungs after the tentacle's unsolicited groping. Once her head has cleared a little, she takes a sample container and tries to rush to get some of the cloudy mush into a vial before it disappears entirely. Whether she manages to act quickly enough or not, she then puts the vial away and looks around the room. "Not the best reception I've ever gotten...though not the worst either. I doubt it was the master of this tower though. A servant of Xoud's perhaps. I wonder what's kept it here this long. I didn't see any arcane wards that would have been containing it here. A verbal contract perhaps, then." She frowns, and shakes her head, turning her mind to searching the room.
"Astra, I wasn't sure if getting strangled was part of your negotiation technique, but you looked like help would not be unwelcome."
"Well, the mihstu didn't seem very receptive to having a civilized conversation, so much as I regret it, it does seem like violence was necessary. I don't know what it is about extradimensional creatures that always makes them think they can take on five-to-one odds. Or more." Pause. "Or less. Or equal." She shrugs. "Perhaps arrogance is some sort of innate trait, a part of their basic psychological makeup in the same way that the survival instinct is in us. Insistence on dying rather than talking is quite the opposite of what I'm used to...I'm more used to people who would rather talk than die. Come to think of it, I'm more used to people who would rather talk than sew, too. Or cook. Or play ball games. Or make those nice little origami cranes that Tien people do -- have you seen those? It's a fascinating little art, actually. Well, calling it an art is doing it a disservice, really, because there are some beautiful mathematical principles at work as well, the cranes often fulfill a number of intricate topological theorems --"
"Origami cranes? What is that? Is it an engineering technique? How large of an object can these cranes lift?"
Miniature cranes? There must indeed be some delicate work there. Just how small are they? I suppose if one can fit into narrow areas it can be very useful and help those with back problems lift things.
"Yes, engineering is indeed involved! It's highly precise work! Usually, they're about this size", Astra says, holding her thumb and index finger wide apart, "so I would say that they can lift, maybe, hmm, what should I say -- about one tea bag's worth? Which would be...I would estimate, two grams? Of course, you can scale it up, but then it wouldn't fit into narrow spaces anymore. I would guess that to be sturdy enough to lift something like a sword, you would have to make a reasonably big one, maybe human-sized? Of course, the structural integrity would depend a lot on the paper stock, too."
Paper? Oh I thought they would be metal or wood. Perhaps make little magical cranes that could pic things up under direction, perfect for getting somethign that has fallen behind the couch.
"Why would you make a small device of paper to lift small things? It seems silly. I had thought better of the Tien."
Amid the dwarven bones you find three gems, a garnet worth 500 gp, a sapphire worth 4500 gp and a pale blue rhomboid ioun stone.
"Yes well, the Tien are a rather unique people. You should see their stories about tentacle monsters."
Tentacle monsters? I read about a kingdom ruled by kraken. Fairly interesting. There are also kingdoms ruled by dragons and a nation of hobgoblins, according to the sources i read. Tian isn´t a country though, it´s a continent larger than Avistan.
Shall we continue exploring the rooms to the east?
Chakos dutifully heads towards F17.
Chakos opens the door.
The tables and shelves in this large laboratory are all coated with a thin greenish slime. One desk is heaped with pages of notes, and a human skeleton dressed in moldy robes lies slumped over it. A large glass tank atop the easternmost table is shattered and shards of glass litter the floor of the room, while a pale green haze floats in the air.
In the center of the room is a huge greenish fog. Spectral ghosts appear as images within the fog, though you can barely make out some kind of humanoid creature standing within walking slowly towards you.
Astra tries to identify the spectral ghosts and humanoid creature.
Astra prepares her sword and shield, but does try to speak out. "We mean you no harm. We only come in search of information." She tries to reach the creature(s) verbally. "Please, let us communicate."
Liz peers at the creature, tyring to understand it.
detect evil
Both the hungry fog and the allip remain silent.
Special defenses and special attacks.
"This time I'm not going to be the first to step inside", Astra says. "The fog is a sort of negative energy creature -- that is why the allip must have gravitated to it. Negative energy heals the undead. I imagine that it must gain life force every second it spends inside that fog."
We could always come back, we don't know if we need to enter this room.
"I have to agree with Liz. Let us close this door, and continue on, saving our strength to fight the master of this tower, rather than allowing all of his minions to weaken us first. After the master is destroyed, we can take our leisure to destroy the minions."
"You're assuming that he won't call all his minions to aid him when we confront him. I'm not sure that's a safe assumption."
I am willing to back up everyone if they want to fight.
"So what is the decision here?"
"Let's confront these things. Chakos, your turn to go in first."
"It usually is."
Chakos charges in and attacks the fog...
DMG to me
Liz casts Magic Missile at the fog
Astra considers buffing the entire group with Good Hope, but decides against it, figuring that maybe it will be more needed later on.
Instead, she moves forward after Chakos, using her ghost touch sword on the fog as well. (Unless the upcoming reply about special defenses makes her reconsider.)