Grergof casts veil of Positive Energy and bright Blade of Victory on Himself. He also drinks the Shild extract.
Maybe also a Pro evil to stop any mental control?
When all the spells are done he looks at the others.
Ready?
If everyone else is ready he steps to the door, takes a moment to cast divine Favor and then pushes the door open.
Darius casts protection from evil communal on the group.
Abomentolor refreshes the haste on everyone before the door is opened.
Darius casts angelic aspect and holy sword on himself.
The interior of this great, forty-foot-high cathedral shimmers with a nauseating pale green light. The room seems even larger for the lack of furnishings, save for a few crumbling pews and four immense pillars. To the north, a pair of towering wood-and-metal doors lie closed—it is from the edges of these looming doors that the foul green light emanates, as it seems to leak out along the walls in writhing streams. Twisted bodies of strange not-quite-humanoid forms lie strewn about the north end of the room, and a strangely disturbing wind seems to pulse in the very air.
A person in black full plate turns as the door opens, two of those pesky crab like quippoliths are in the room, and four disfigured humanoids.
Abomentolor throws a quickened fireball into the room and then grabs Grergof and Darius to put them in front of the black knight with a dimension door.
HP 109/110
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/19 with Mutagen)
Saves F13/R13/W9 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:
Special effects:Heroism(+2 attack/skills/saves) Level drain(-2 attack, skills,Saves),See invisible (150 minutes),Countless Eyes (15 hours) Protection from Electricity(Electric) 58 points,Communal Stoneskin DC 10/adamantine 150 points on everyone,Freedom Of Movement (150 minutes) on Varsk,Death Ward,Barkskin +5(Darius),Haste(15 rounds)
Bombs:15/21
Spugnoir splashes Darius with a +5 Barkskin before he is blipped away.
Spugnoir misses the big beefy guys to keep the sharp objects away from him and has his golem block the door and then starts cutting loose with holy bombs at the nearest crab demon(Looks like crab, talks like people)
The golem chucks a bomb at the same target
Electricity
Abomentolor's fireball has some effect, but the creatures are fast and not as easily ended. Spugnoir and his golem with the beanie hat dispatch the first crab with a barrage of explosions.
The deformed creatures step up and attack.
The green light is hurtful and pains most of the group.
"Ouch."
Grergof takes the damage from the Mist the gate but ignores all the weapon attacks as they all just bounce off his armor.
You should not have corrupted this abbey....
Sarenray guide my hand to bring justice to this creature! Grergof says as he focuses his divine energy on the knight before him.
Then he opens up with his flail smacking the creature around his head.
Haste Attack
After saving the world from the catastrophe of some undead bringing the Whispering Tyrant back, those wannabe doom bringers look more like a nuisance than a serious threat. At least if you brought Sarenrae's judge and executioner of bad character along.
With the right tool, all protection this cleric of whatever foul deity has laid on himself is worthless. Every hit of the adamantine wrecking ball swages the armor and crushes the man within. This first assault takes Ardathanatus down.
As Ardathanatus loses consciousness, the light flickering along the walls and from the Doomsday Door itself suddenly turns black. An instant later, the door is flung open, the portal to Sekatar-Seraktis momentarily established to an extent even greater than Ardathanatus could have hoped. The portal opens directly upon the baleful presence of the Polymorph Plague Yamasoth himself.
Tentacles reach out through the portal and attack. One of them grabs Ardathanatus and starts dragging him to the portal. The horrific presence of the darkness you look into is bone chilling.
The last sinspawn closes up to Abomentolor and attacks him.
Darius is unaffected by everything thrown at him and decides that this annoying crab has to go. He casts destruction on it.
"Don't let Evil Andy get away! We need the shard!"
Abomentolor throws another quickened fireball at the ugly creatures to the south and himself.
Then he takes his time to cast another fireball, which covers all monsters, but excludes his companions.
Two sinspawn succumb to the flames. For one the damage from the tentacles also brought them close enough to fall in the fire. The crab is also badly burned. But it is not affected by Darius attempt to kill it.
HP 107/110
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/19 with Mutagen)
Saves F13/R13/W9 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:
Special effects:Heroism(+2 attack/skills/saves) Level drain(-2 attack, skills,Saves),See invisible (150 minutes),Countless Eyes (15 hours) Protection from Electricity(Electric) 58 points,Communal Stoneskin DC 10/adamantine 150 points on everyone,Freedom Of Movement (150 minutes) on Varsk,Death Ward,Barkskin +5(Darius),Haste(15 rounds)
Bombs:15/21
The loons! I can hear the loons!
The golem keeps bombing Sinspawn
Eletricity
Bob's bomb kills the last sinspawn.
I don't have a good way to get the Black Knight away from the Tenticles except. I suppose I might be able to hold him, but we may need a teleport.....
Hearing his's companions/s concern Grergof steps up and proceeds to try to Pull Evil Andy from the grip of the tenticles...
Grergof pull the black knight free from the tentacle and away from the door. The crab from hell (or the abyss to be precise) tries it's magic on Grergof.
The tentacles keep lashing out at everyone around.
The tentacles rip the crab apart. The try the same with Darius, but he is in better shape and resists the attempt.
"I second the proposal to leave." A visibly bruised Darius comments.
"Grab Grergof" Abomentolor commands Darius, Grabs Grergof himself and speaks the word.
All reappear in the room, behind Spugnoir and the golem.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
What is that! Grergof says as he releases the body and then steps to the doorway, keeping himself between the party and the tentacles as he decides if he needs to slam the door shut.
It transforms intelligent souls into monsters and seeks destruction of worlds.
The tentacles flail around the room and grab what they can. The bodies of the sinspawn and the crabs are dragged into the doomsday door before it slams shut again.
Sarenrae preserve us, I know this tentacles! It’s a demon lord itself…. The Polymorph Plague!
We need to lock these doors and make it so these keys can never be found!
He turns Arkon’s and looks at Abomentolor in shock.
What have you gotten us involved in?
It all goes into the bucket!
Abomentolor shrugs. "If you know that thing, you know more than I do."
"Besides - Undead lord, demon lord - potato, potAto."
Not Quite... Yamasoth would eat the Whispering Tyrant for lunch, and that doesn't even count all his creations, which could well swarm over the world like a second Worldwound.
That doorway is BAD news.
He looks at the knight they brought out.
Is he dead? Does he have the shard on him?
might +4 (Str, Con), cloak of resistance +2, doomsday key,
headband of inspired wisdom +2, Shard of Envy, spell
component pouch, unholy symbol of Yamasoth, diamond
dust (worth 750 gp)
"Wait, wasn't that door supposed to open to that Groetus guy?" Abomentolor inquires while searching the corpse.
going through all of evil Andy's belongings the gnome finds the shard. Without touching it, he points "There it is.".
"For now it seems to be closed so the end of the world seems delayed once more." Darius tries to be the calm part in this interesting situation.
"But it wouldn't hurt to find out how to make it stay that way." Darius.
Spugnoir manages to recover. Perhaps multiple walls of stone in front of the door.
Can you relock the door?
Pretty sure I can. Spugnoir does so.
Spugnoir walks into the cursed room and tries locking the door with the special key. But he finds it is already locked.
How is Evil Andy?
"He smells like bacon. I think he is toast." Abomentolor comments.
"He is dead." Darius tells after taking a short look on the guy.
I think Varsk overdid it a little with the smiting. Maybe ask for a blessing that knocks them out.
"Nah, you did good." Abomentolor encourages Grergof. "Once we're done with stripping evil Andy of his goods I'll disintegrate the remains. There is no 'dead enough' for guys like him who want to bring on the end of the world."
I wonder if that armor could be any color but black…. That might be a nice upgrade to go with my flail…
How did you carry there shards before? Are the dangerous to touch?
"It depends. Sometimes we had the ioun stone beforehand then there is no danger. As we don't have that, there is a fair chance, that you make an ass of yourself."
"I didn't pay attention what shard we got now. Every shard is associated with a cardinal sin. For example with the shard of lust, we'd all have to be careful that the new owner wouldn't try humping us like a horny dog."
"As you know what is coming, you'll only have to get past the time until we get the stone from Sheila Heidmarch. So it's mostly embarrassing. Others are not so lucky. Everyone we wrought the shards from went crazy one way or the other." Abomentolor explains.
"I'm not afraid to touch it, or carry it. Just until now everyone got one shard. And I'm not embarrassing myself for someone else to get the shard later."
The golem could carry them if they become a problem.
Back home to Magnimar then? No doubt we can tell the ex-prisoners here and then those at the city can come and help.
If it is just embarrassment, I can carry it back.
Let’s collect all the loot, lock the door and be ready to teleport before I grab the shard so this has the shortest time of effecting me.
Curse: The owner covets the success, wealth, and appearance of all other creatures, and becomes sickened whenever she is within 30 feet of any creature of the same race or character class as herself. Physical contact with such a creature nauseates the owner for 2d6 rounds if she fails a DC 20 Fortitude save.
After looting, locking the doors, turning evil Andy to dust and saying goodbye to the mummy, Abomentolor casts dimension door to bring the group to Gwenhwyfar, who then teleports all back to Magnimar. Into the pavillon in the midst of the tiny lake in Sheila Heidmarsh's private park.
Well, usually I would like to freshen up some, but I figure we best get this over with. Spugnoir heads to Sheila's house.
After knocking on the door and waiting for a while Margaret opens. "I assume you want to see Mrs. Heidmarch? I'll ask her if she has time. Please come in and take a seat over there."
She points to a group of settees in an alcove of the foyer.
Once everyone is in, she closes the door and leaves to contact Mrs. Heidmarch.
Darius slumps on the comfy settee. "Good to finally sit down."
Which shard did she have?