Savage, still not able to either fly, or figure out why his kidney is still visible, continues to hide behind the pillar.
Last, lonely Behir gets scared now that all its buddies are dead and flies back to the gate and tries to claw it's way back in. The crowd starts booing loudly.
Kol Voss gets back up after the latest channel and shouts his challenge to Adril, declaring that they must fight the Right of Ascension for control of the Starsword. At this challenge, the crowd slowly quiets as those who didn’t hear the challenge begin asking what’s happening. Adril ignores this, but the crowd begins to shout at him in Azlanti, demanding to know when he will oblige Kol Voss and fight for control of the “tribe”
Adril shouts his refusal, and the crowd that so recently supported the new King Adril immediately turns violent and begins shouting in Azlanti for the death of the Beast. Even the princess, chained to the floor beside him, shouts that he’s a coward. Adril is initially angry, but when the crowd begins to climb into his luxury box, he quickly unchains the princess and flees, shouting defiance over his shoulder at Kol Voss and the PCs.
Once Adril flees, the crowd manages to destroy the device powering the Pactmaster force field and Kol and the PCs are free to pursue the rogue venture-captain. Adril has quite a lead on the PCs though, so as they chase after him through the maze of hallways beneath the arena’s stands, they hear a huge, booming roar. Once they reach the outside, they see an airship—essentially a large sailing vessel similar to those on Golarion, but with leathery wings and stabilizers—sailing quickly up away from a nearby skydock trailing a cloud of thick black smoke. Dozens of citizens of Arl lay dead across the skydock and several other airships are burning. One ship, however, seems intact, and Kol Voss suggests everyone board the ship immediately and pursue Adril. Should the PCs express doubt, Kol shouts, “The Beast has my sister! If you are cowards, you can stay. I am not. I shall fight him in the clouds if I have to!” and with that he races across the skydock, a handful of his men following him.
Hugo will follow after Ezrek, joining the ship and grand chase.
If given a round to heal aboard ship, Hugo will channel once more to get Samhain and Savage closer to fighting shape...and Kol if he is still hurt. If more than one round, he will dig out a wand to top them off.
You have plenty of time to heal once you are on the ship.
I'll just assume everyone boards to move things along.
Kol Voss and his people know how to steer the ship, so they instruct you to stay out of the way. Kol himself and all but two of his men head down to the engine room to activate the artifact that powers the ship while his two loyal soldiers stay on the bridge to captain and steer. Once the vessel is airborne and quickly pursuing Adril, it becomes clear that the rogue venture-captain’s vessel took some damage in its escape as it moves a bit slower than Kol’s ship and leads a trail of black smoke that seems to pour from several cracks near the airship’s rear stabilizing wing.
Adril’s solution to escape Kol Voss is to pilot his ship higher and higher. As you ascend, the air grows thinner and much colder, bottoming out at 10o F once the ships reach what seems to be their maximum altitude. Kol’s men manage to push their vessel just a bit higher than Adril’s airship, and at the moment it seems as though you will soon leap across to Adril’s ship, Kol’s airship leans hard to starboard and begins to rapidly descend. Kol’s men scream in alarm,
Azlanti:
"Someone has sabotaged the engines!"
If you don’t speak Azlanti, the two men pantomime not being able to steer and the ship crashing.
Elf 63517-2 NPC Venture-Captain of the Lodge in Bellis, Verduran Forest
Samhain bounds with the others toward the airship dock, nimbly dodging any obstacles that are come across.
As the ship goes higher, he bundles his robes tighter around him. Anyone with an Endure Elements to spare?
Samhain looks at the men, wondering at their pantomime. "Can't steer? Crash? What the hell is going on down there?" He rallies the team together. "What the hell is Kol up to down there? Shall we head below?"
AC28(38)/T18(22)/F23(33)/CMD32(38)||HP202[136]|F:+15(18);R:+17(21);W+11|Percept. +23(+31 trapspotter)|Init.+5(+9) Human Alchemist (Cryptbreaker) 16
Ezrek speaks Azlanti.
Ezrek translates what the crew says, as he quickly mixes a couple element enduring extracts. Have an open slot and a couple level 1 boro beads to replenish the extract. Who needs them? Ezrek's ioun stone resonates endure elements.
The engine room is a gory mess. Kol, and his aides are all dead on the deck. The room is dominated by a large, diamond-shaped crystal in the center of the room. A bright red glow dims and winks out just as you arrive.
In the north end of the chamber, you notice there are six critters of some sort invisible.
perception DC 25:
The big crystal is likely the power source for the ship as it appears to have plenty of connections running from it to other parts of the engine room. It seems to have been shut down.
perception DC 30:
There is another invisible being at the south end of the chamber.
Elf 63517-2 NPC Venture-Captain of the Lodge in Bellis, Verduran Forest
Perception:1d20 + 25 ⇒ (15) + 25 = 40
Samhain points his bow at the south end of the chamber, shouting "Show yourselves this instant!" He also relays that there are half a dozen invisible creatures to the north and one to the south.
I am assuming Savage will charge the caster and Albin will bomb the zombies. Since Albin has been posting recently, we can leave that to him. Also, I was not keeping track of hp and bombs remaining etc.
"RAARHGH!"
power attack, rage, CaGM
to hit:1d20 + 20 ⇒ (18) + 20 = 38damage:2d6 + 28 ⇒ (3, 2) + 28 = 33 and he slashes her across the torso, drawing copious blood.
The zombies that remain move to attack.
Sorry if I didn't mention it before, but the obstructions on the map aren't actually there as I had to use a different deck than the one for the engine room since the idiotic map included where all the invisible people were.
Two zombies attack Hugo.
to hit:2d20 ⇒ (1, 9) = 10 miss, hit damage:1d6 + 7 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 7 + (4) = 17 4 is cold damage
two zombies attack Samhain.
to hit:2d20 ⇒ (10, 6) = 16 hit, miss damage:1d6 + 7 + 1d6 ⇒ (6) + 7 + (2) = 15 2 is cold damage
