Alathea grabs the backpack and dons the scale mail armor +1.
Sounds like a good idea to use detect thoughts. The Beastmaster is still alive barely although you'll have to stabilize him or he's going to bleed out. The others unfortunately are dead and you won't get anything from the Sea Cats.
Stabilize - Heal check .
Alathea will stabilize the dying creature and then read its thoughts to map the quickest way to the area where the goods of the group are stored.
Forcing her way into the thoughts of the creature you catch onto a vision of him going through the door at the west end of this junction and walking into what appears to be a treasure room where a number of Toa start tossing various item into a haphazard pile. In addition you see a number of small winged creatures flying around in the room.
Alathea relays that information to the group along with a description of the winged creatures, "Any idea what they are Terevalis?
Know planes
Gabriel nods and leads the group toward the treasure room if everyone is ready.
Mephits, small elemental creatures from the elemental planes, often summoned as servants, guardians and/or lakeys. Pretty weak but have some dangerous breath weapons.
The Black Robe will inform his companions about what he thinks the creatures might be. I am assuming water mephits, from the Elemental Plane of Water. It would make sense being where we are and who holds sway here. They are little beasts with a breath weapon.
Alathea grabs any simple weapon the foes may have been carrying, with no spells she will need it
So your characters head off to the Western Door and it opens to someone who holds a ring. You enter a dry room with a dirt floor to dry yourself off but before you lies a door made of solid stone and looks reinforced against assault. However it has a keyhole and with the key ring you took from the Beastmaster you can see one of them seems to be the right size and shape for the door. Opening it you step inside the treasure chamber are see that there is a HUGE amount of steel coin and gems in a massive pile with your magical gear piled on top. What you don't see though is the Tear of Mishakal, The Shard of Light and Huma's Dragonlance. Unfortunately the Water Mephit Guardians were ready for you. The fight takes a few rounds and each of them unleash their breath weapons and Acid Arrows at least once on all of before you're able to kill them.
All of you take damage, save DC 13 for 1/2 damage from the breath weapons
In addition of you take damage from acid arrows (no save as its a ranged touch attack). You can decide who will be willing to take the damage but you can't allocate to Yap as he keeps a low profile.
Once the Mephits are delt with you find yourself at the pile of treasure. All of you get your gear back including your holy symbols but sans the 3 Artifacts which you expect were probably taken by the leaders for further use. In addition you find the following.
A massive pile of treasure worth 75,000 Steel Pieces. This is a mix of gems, jewelry and other mixed currency. This Treasure was likely from the hulls of sunken ships seeing its condition.
10 Fiery Burst arrows +1
A lesser Silent Spell metamagic Rod with Red Robe Mage markings
5 Potions of Water Breathing
5 Potions of Good Hope
1 Potion of rage
2 Potions of Barkskin
1 Wand of Shatter with 50 Charges
1 Wand of Cats Grace with 30 Charges
1 Necklace of Cats Grace
So what do you do now?
Gabriel takes the brunt of the attack as the acid arrows hit him.
Took 21, Healed 29: 8 point gain puts him at full.
Gabriel rummages about finding his gear. As he picks up the sword he speaks to it.
"Good to have you again old friend." He then takes time putting on his armor as the others gather their gear and look through the treasure.
"The artifacts, where would they have taken them? I would imagine they will be with whoever is in charge here. Ready when the rest of you are."
The Black Robe will claim the metamagic rod.
Athola quickly collects all her items plus the extra arrows. Giving a curse that the shard is not present. At least now we are better off with our gear. Now to get those artifacts.
Jor nonchalantly throws his mundane weapons away as he approaches the pile and grabs his greatsword, sliding his fingers across the sharp end and smiles "Now this I would call a weapon" as he give couple practise swings.
Gearing up and letting the weight set on his body, Jor turns to others as he thinks for a moment "Well, what should be our next objective? Getting out of here is my number one thing and maybe some mayhem along the way"
Perhaps Zivilyn's blessings for healing are in order? inquires the Black Robe as he takes the wands as well.
Alathea dives out of the way of danger against the Mephits. Reflex save . Or tries to, slipping on treasure hoard she loses her balance and tales the full blast from the breath weapon.
Once the group finishes the battle she drops the weapon she wielded to little skill.
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Alathea finds her Medallion of Faith and places it around her neck, she feels the warmth of Zivilyn wash over her and his wisdom infuse her.
"Terevalis, do we have a bag of magical holding? That steel could be useful in creating items that could benefit us in the future".
Alathea eyes the Necklace, "Does anyone mind if I take this item?"
Once Alathea secures her wand she turns to the group, "Now, who needs their wounds mended before we move on?"
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Ok Terevalis, you probably can't fit the entire treasure pile into your bag, however you can make an Appraise check to take the gems and jewelry over the loose coinage which will give you more money for less carrying.
As for Yap, he's already digging into the treasure chuckling evilly as he starts stuffing his bag of holding full of loot.
"TREASURE TREASURE! MONEY MONEY MONEY!" he yells out in his draconic tongue.
appraise
Alathea heals Jor -
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"I believe we are ready to go yes?"
Ok casting locate object Alathea finds out that the Mahkwahb Sorceress, or at least her amulet is not currently within the 800 FT radius of the spell. Likey she's not within this building and as you have no clue what infrastructure exists outside this structure. So good news, the Sorceress is not nearby, bad news she is not around so you can't yet find her.
We must be careful that we are not overwhelmed by numbers of kuo-tou, there are also ysdra, magic using under water ogres present, in addition to the Dargonesti
"It seems the Sorceress is outside of the building itself. Where the Artifacts of power are I do not know, I doubt my magic will allow me to locate them. We must search for them first, then a way out..."
However is leader of this band of dark elves perhaps will have these items. says the Black Robe. We should not tarry here.
"Then let us track them down then, but how? We can continue to search room by room. Soon I would suspect an organized assault against us."
This is why I have been hesitant to use some of my more powerful magics. The dark elves here might have potent casters among them.
"I suspect that this level, if it can be called such, is not where we need to be. Perhaps we find stairs up or down..."
Well I say the most value treasure would be stored the furthest from the edge of building. So perhaps go down first.
Alright, you pack as much treasure as you can hold which is roughly 50,000 Steel Worth of the more expensive and valuable stuff. Beyond that there is just too much random coinage of copper, silver and gold to shove inside a bag of holding Of course Yap took 15,000 of that into his bag of holding so you're going to have to negotiate with him or he'll be keeping that for his "Share".
However the question is what you're doing next. You can use the hatch to go down, check out more rooms and halls on this floor, go up to the next level or swim all the way to the top of the shaft, which looks like it goes into an air-filled chamber.
"I say we head down first. After all isn't down the equivalent of up in terms of the surface world versus the sea?"
Either way that we decide to do, we need to get moving.
Ok so you head out of the area, back into the central chamber and open up the hatch in the floor. Sinking down in there you find yourself in what looks to be a temple. The chamber is a rounded room is roughly 30 feet in diameter. The room has numerous carvings scraped into the coral written in a language you don't understand and a dias that leads up to an altar as well as a statue that has the appearance of a Dragon Turtle, carved out of a slab of Yellow Ivory. You feel a strong presence of evil in this room as it is unhallowed. There also seems to be some other warding spells that prevent certain spells from working in here. The only exit to this room is a large set of double doors to the south. It appears that there once was some Toa in this room but they probably responded to the alert and were among those who were in the central chamber. What do you do now?
Alathea will bless herself with Meditative Touch and begin to search the room for, if not their own Artifacts, then at least something of interest of value in this place.
She will cast Comprehend Languages on herself to read the script upon the walls written in the strange language.
Perception
Once her search is done, Alathea will then use her Remote Viewing to see what is on the other side of the double doors.
The script on the walls are written in Aquan. Basically they are prayers to the Dragon Turtle but also a means of creating a ward against invisibility, concealment and other similar effects and illusions thus preventing anyone from moving through this room without being revealed for what they are.
As for opening the door, its easy enough to do so. Opening it you find yourself looking out into what appears to be a garden of Coral. Looking up, it seems you're inside a large central pillar and above you the citadel stands, held aloft by a maze of coral that reaches out ahead. However standing guard outside is another force of Toa, consisting of 6 Toa and 8 dolphins that have an evil red glow in their eyes. They turn and look toward the door and they yell out in their Aquan tongue and aim their spears at you while the dolphins look menacingly at you. What do you do?
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