Zelkin will cast See Invisibility and Magic Circle against Evil upon himself as the party is still close to him.
Bill will try to examine the constructs without being seen, utilizing his natural sneakiness. He places a finger to his lips to indicate silence before creeping forward.
Before going to the fight Sven will cast gravity bow and named bullet
Grouh !
Bill sneaks forward to the place indicated by Auida. Peering around the corner, he instantly recognizes the automatons as stone golems. He knows, well, he knows a lot about such constructs. Sneaking back, Bill is able to inform the party about the golems, indicating that aside from normal construct traits, only adamantine weapons will fully damage them. Further, he explains that stone golems are immune to most types of magic and to makes things more difficult, the golems have the ability to slow their opponent's movements.
Sven starts making preparations as Whitestripe growls softly, obviously impatient to jump into battle.
"These constructs will be immune to my magicks, for the most part. If you'd like, I can throw ol' Stripe here into the fray and the rest of you can take it down. Amenable?" Bill asks, petting the cat.
Seems to me a great plan. Don't you agree my friend.
In a strange way, Sven began to explain to his friend what they will do.
GROUH !
After Sven explanations Whitestripes looked at Bill, its claws ready.
The party makes ready and Bill casts a spell sending Whitestripe flying through the air, claws and teeth out, at a stone golem!
Whitestripe, claws out, bite at the first stone golem ! Happy to tear appart the creature.
Once the first scratch done, Whitestripe continues its attacks.
GRAOUH !
The wizard grins as the cat is launched on to the nearest golem. "Well that was more fun than expected. You lot going to handle this?" Bill asks idly.
Aiuda steps in front of Bill to shield him and mutters, "We'll certainly try."
Zelkin will use his Judgment of Smiting, basking his weapon in a divine light. as well as his Judgment of Justice . Zelkin then moves forward to attack!
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Having no adamantium arrows, Sven lets his friend do the job and his comrades destroying the creatures.
He stands by Bill.
Go ! May Erastil blessing guides your action
Whitestripe sails through the air, then lands on the stone golem, chipping away bits of stone on its initial bite, then subsequent claw.
Bill and Sven stand on the sidelines watching the ensuing melee!
Auida fires four arrows, landing two, and chipping away more stone!
Zellkin rushes into the fray, moving up next to Whitestripe and landing a blow on the golem! Though heavily damaged, the southern golem still moves!
There is a burst of grey light from the southern golem as Whitestripe and Zelkin suddenly feel their movements slowing.
The northern golem moves in and attacks Whitestripe, but finds the wily animal to quick!
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Aiuda continues to lay down cover fire from the back.
Zelkin brushes off the effects of the grey light and proceeds to attack!
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"Good job! You guys are awesome!" Bill encourages Aiuda, Zelkin and Whitestripe. "Cat treats for you all when you're done!"
Whitestripe continues to attack the creatures.
Auida fires a volley of arrows, but only manages to land one. Despite its injuries, the golem still stands.
Zelkin attacks twice, but misses as well!
Bill continues cheer on the party!
Whitestripe attacks three times, but only connects once. Luckily, that is enough to drop the southern golem!
The remaining golem continues to dumbly attack Whitestripe, but can't land a blow on the wily cat!
Zelkin takes a step toward the remaining enemy!
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Aiuda holds on to her last two adamantine-blanched arrows until the others have finished and if the golem is not yet down, she fires.
"You guys are the best!" Bill applauds the fighters. "It's like we don't even need my magical expertise!" he says in a joyous tone.
Attacks my friend, attack !
Says Sven to Whitestripe.
He shoot at the creature to give the opportunity to Aidua to gain an attack
Whitestripe continues to attack the creature with his master's encouragement.
Grouh !
Zelkin attacks the remaining golem, chipping away some stone!
Auida fires two arrows, hitting with one and chipping a bit more stone.
Bill continues his cheering on of the party!
Whitestripe attacks the golem, landing a bite and two claws, but the golem continues to move!
Sven fires a single arrow, but it flies high, missing!
The golem switches targets and attacks Zelkin, landing a single blow against the man!
Zelkin grunts and fights on!
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Without any adamantine-blanched arrows left, Aiuda decides to stash her bow and pull out her kukris so she can wade into battle.
Whitestripe continues his attacks.
Zelkin and Whitestripe gang up on the golem, turning it to rubble!
The golems had no possessions.
Auida leads the way to the northeast, scouting ahead while keeping to the shadows. Approaching a chamber, she sees two ten-foot-wide holes perforate the eastern wall of this area. In one of the hollows, a round steel platform dangles from a pair of iron chains. The other hollow sports similar-looking hoists but no platform, and both sets of chains soar upward before disappearing into the cavern ceiling above.
Bill looks over the chains and decides to pull on them randomly, accepting his fate.
"I think we could use this to go up or down. But are we ready? I think there are still some tunnels to the south we have not explored yet."
Bill finds pulling on the chains does nothing, but operating the levers in the wall will cause the lifts to raise and descend.
Auida points out the there is much to be explored in the mine.
I suppose we can explore the remainder of the tunnels, as Aiuda suggested.
"Hmm... if you insist." Bill says as he flies through the cave, finding some stairs to the east.
Bill heads south from the lift and notes that there are stair leading underneath the ore crusher, as well as an area to the east of the crusher.
"To the east," Aiuda whispers as she leads the way.
To the east then.
Says Sven, following Aidua and helping her finding tracks of any ennemies in the area.
Auida leads the way to the east. The lift cars embedded in the walls of this area consist of long chains of ore carts attacked to a series of pulleys and tracks that push the carts upward. The carts disappear into the ceiling before returning down the other side of the pulley contraption, ready to take more ore from the adjacent conveyor to the surface.
The area here stops and turns to the north. Continuing onward to the north, you find two ten-foot-square holes in the ground that look like crude wells. Buckets of green minerals rise from the holes along a sturdy chain, dump on the adjacent conveyor, then lower down the other side of the chain. In the northeast corner, Auida spots a slanting tunnel leading down.
Might as well continue on.
Bill floats over to the conveyor. "Well, look at this." Bill states as he holds up a ruby the size of Zelkin's fist. "Got a couple more back here too. Lucky us!"
After Bill finds the gems, Zelkin leads the way into the descending tunnel and into another chamber. Two conveyors run the length of this L-shaped mining corridor. Green minerals jut from the walls on all sides. Pairs of chains penetrate two ten-foot holes in the ceilng to the west, lifting buckets of green minerals from the conveyors up into the chamber above.
Within this room, two mutant ogres and five automatons work. The ogres look up as you enter, grab their clubs and yell to the automatons!
Aiuda raises her bow without hesitation and fires at the ogres! Her lithe elven fingers dance back and forth between quiver and bowstring in a smooth practiced motion.
Zelkin moves to engage the closest enemy!
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As a swift action Zelkin casts
Bill watches the pair expertly cleave into the enemies and grins. "Well, don't work too hard!" he yells after them as he takes a few seconds to look over the enemies.
Deciding that he doesn't wish to be caught in a stampede of enemies, Bill reflexively launches Whitestripe at the farthest automaton to draw their attention away from him.
"Go kitty!" he says at the cat flies through the air.
Graouh !
Hiss Whitestripe when Bill sends him over the air towards the farthest automaton.
Auida reacts quickly firing four arrows and landing two on the nearest ogre!
Zelkin moves up an smashes his weapon into the solider! Bolstered with a force spell, the clockwork explodes in a spray of gears, cogs, and pulleys!
Bill casts a spell, telekinetically hurling Whitestripe through the air toward the far ogre. The cat lands on the chest of the ogre, biting it in the neck! As it bites down, pustules on the ogre burst, showering Whitestripe with acidic pus!
Bill recognizes the ogres as the same type as before, and knows they are resistant to spell and all weapons, but cold iron. As seen, they have scidic pustules all over their body and their touch can spread disease.
He also realizes the constructs are clockwork soldiers, though of advanced design. He know only admantine will fully damage them and aside from normal construct traits, they are vulnerable to electricity. They can also latch onto someones weapon with their vise-like grip.
Two clockworks move up and attack Zelkin. One stabs him with a halberd, while the other rips the weapon from the half-elf's hand!
The remaining clockworks move up and attack Whtiestripe, one even managing to land a blow on the neigh invincible cat!
This time, Sven was able to do something against the ogres.
He begins to shoot at the first one