"What do you mean?" Tauriell asks back. "Something special about this room, or the general problem caused by the shard?"
"I agree with him. Still no one to burn. What is wrong with this place? Abomentolor complains. "I was promised a medusa." He opens the door to the next room.
Jimmy fiddles with his headdress while following the others
This huge room is a large open central chamber surrounded by an ambulatory, creating a sort of indoor arcade with numerous five-foot-wide arches providing access into the center. In the central chamber, which sits under a vaulted twenty-foot-high ceiling supported by wooden timbers, twenty-one ornate chairs stand in solemn ring, their backs against the walls of the arcade between each of the arches. On the high back of each chair is the beautifully sculpted holy symbol of one of the major deities of Golarion. An immense dark fireplace looms to the west.
A obviously undead bugbear sits in Urgathoa’s chair in idle contemplation, and his bodyguards, three mummies - simply stand in the surrounding arcade, ready to do their job if needed.
The undead are not the fastest.
As he will probably only get one go at his preferred spell he takes his time to make it count.
After a mighty blast, only a badly burnt undead bugbear is left sitting in the chair. The mummies go up in flames and only sand and ashes remain where they were standing.
With the sitting bugbear only the head sticks out over the chairs, but that it enough for Tauriell to have something to shoot at.
The bugbear now looks like it's falling apart any moment.
Gwenhwyfar looks at Jimmy. "Are you taking care of this?" she asks, as she has nothing in her magic repertoire that would fit.
Jimmy charges in at the bugbear.
The bugbear gets up to face the intruders with a sigh. Jimmy and the Bugbear meet halfway, which does not end well for the undead. He is impaled on the ranseur and by that destroyed.
Tauriell glances over the bugbear's equipment. Followed by a casting of detect magic and a closer inspection of the stuff. "Looks like he didn't like elves. How unsurprising." she tells as she bags the arrows. She puts the headband on without comment and tells Jimmy "It's a magic full plate, but you already have a better one. The axe is an evil tool, but valueable. It steals life on a good hit."
"That's a lot of chairs." Abomentolor assesses. "Which one is the chief chair?" he inquires.
"Do chairs have hierarchical structures?" Jimmy asks tongue in cheek
"That depends on whom you ask." Tauriell replies. "Feel like opening another door?"
"Why not." Abomentolor tells, as there seems to be nothing else of interest in this room. He waits for everyone to get ready and opens the door.
This room is a sort of enclosed bridge suspended over the cliff and shore. The east and west walls are decorated with magnificent stained-glass windows depicting wonderful landscapes of the Outer Planes and of the home of the gods of Golarion.
In the center of the room stand two vulture like creatures, but the size of a horse.
One of the Vrocks lets out a stunning screech .
Abomentolor tries his usual tactics - burning everything to the ground - but with no effect at all on the vrocks. "What the..." he stutters dumbfounded.
Tauriell is stunned by the screech.
Gwenhwyfar is stunned too.
The second vrock uses telekinesis on Abomentolor, to throw him through the window.
Abomentolor resists the attempt and glares at the monster, thinking hard, what he could do to them.
Jimmy pushes through the force trying to freeze him in place.
He levels his weapon, and charges the nearest Vrock, willing it's destruction. As he runs past Gwen he looks at her with concern in his eyes, becoming even more determined to slay the beasts.
The Vrock claws and bites at Jimmy.
Abomentolor casts protection from evil on the whole group. "Stupid birds. Do you know something about them? Tauriell isn't as talkative as she used to be. Shitty spell resistance."
The other vrock claws at the gnome. But Abomentolor is more lucky than Jimmy was, as the vrock hits only with one claw and one talon.
Jimmy bellows a mighty roar and swings, stabs and slices.
The vrock Jimmy attacks is utterly destroyed. Gwenhwyfar and Tauriell wake from their microsleep.
Gwenhwyfar calls for backup.
For a lack of better options, Tauriell gets out her wand and taps Jimmy with it.
The vrock steps back and casts mirror image. Suddenly there are 6 vrocks in front of the group.
Out of nowhere appear two small fox-like humanoids. They surround the vrock together with Jimmy and start clawing and biting at the Vrock.
Gwenhwyfar takes out her dusty sling and shoots a pebble at the vrock.
Tauriell picks up her bow and shoots. She knows she can't really hurt the vrock, but mirror images she can kill.
The foxes pop three of the images. Tauriell accidentally hits the real vrock. Gwenhwyfar's pebble damages a window.
Abomentolor shoots some rays at the vrock. Two at the images and one to no effect at the real vrock.
Jimmy turns to the second beast, attempting to slay it.
Jimmy swings his ranseur at the remaining vrock cutting it to pieces.
Gwenhwyfar rushes forward and gives Jimmy a hug. "You saved us, my hero!" she tells.
"Hrmpf!" Abomentolor voices grumpily.
"From the looks of it we're running into a dead end soon." Tauriell tells, while looking out through the windows. "Shall we move on while out two new friends are here?"
"That's not a bad idea. Would you please?" Gwenhwyfar asks the two agathions.
The two agathions do as told and open the door to the next room. This room is finely tiled with ceramic and glass and smells of pleasant floral aromas. A large, circular stone bath rises from the floor in the middle. Of the three stained-glass windows in the room, the ones on the west and the east walls are flanked by large clay vases under copper pipes that descend from the ceiling. The air is pleasantly warm, no doubt heated by the steaming waters in the bath.
Not so much matching the interor are the hill giant and the redcap that are standing there.
"They, burn, don't they?" Abomentolor asks, but shoots another fireball anywhere, as he knows that at least the giant does.
To the side stands a statue of an elf that looks suspiciously like Koriah.
They both are badly burned and don't look well.
Tauriell moves into the room and decides she like the redcap less than the giant and shoots it.
The redcap heels over.
Jimmy charges the Giant
The giant is also no match for the attack of Jimmy.
You hear some spoken words and then out of nowhere appears a beautiful woman with a few not so beautiful features. Like her hair, which consists entirely of thin snakes. And the eyes that glow green.