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With a stylish spin Pandora rolls out of the cold effect area staying unharmed by the quick outburst of spells.
As an immediate reaction Pandora raises her voice commanding "Jump jump and fly Tortuga!" casting gallant inspiration on the dwarf monk.
When her time to act arrives Pandora drops concentration in the door illusion, the thing totally disappearing from sight, and she immediately starts singing an inspiring song.
She then steps back and casts a spell causing her body to duplicate in multiple copies of herself.
Naur deduces the door is false and lobs a frostball out into the street.
AHHHHHHHHHGGGGG!
All three of the people in the street appear to take the full brunt of the damage and fall to the street. The two humans are not moving at all.
Tortuga and Pandora both evade the freezing breath. The monk tries a leaping kick but slips, only to be rescued by the quick thinking bard.
While two of the kicks miss, two others are enough to break its eye and smash the robot orb's metal shell. Wires and gears fly as the monk completes his leaping arc.
Powerinnnggggg downnnnnnn.....
=== Round 2 (continued) ====
33-Naur ,27-Tortuga
23-S (uncon)
22-Kai, 21-Roc , 20+Imbroglio <==== Go
20-N
10-Pandora
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Again using the bar as ladt minute cover, Kai shakes his head at such wanton destruction wreathed here by the League, though he expected little else. Deciding that the mage needed to be not allowed to attack again the Magus quickly chants, running his fingers across the blade of the Maiden's Kiss to bring it alive with crackling electricity. Kai then deftly leaps atop the bar and then doves past the enemy mage to block his exit.
For and
Kai jumps over the bar in a graceful leap. However as he does so, he provokes an attack from the other man's whip.
Not so fast! I see you practice the same arts...
AOO for
vs CMD
miss 1-20
Kai is slashed by the techno-whip before he lands a devastating slash on the blurred leader.
Roc rushes up and slashes the man, provoking another lashing with the whip.
You want some of this too? Come to Neddrick!
AOO for
miss 1-20
But Roc lands the harder blow. The man's confidence seems to waiver a bit. As he ponders the situation, with Vinnie's convincing, he suddenly transforms from active combatant to a bored spectator.
Why am I even here? What an utter waste of my talents!
He lowers his humming whip for a moment, his eyes staring into the distance.
=== Round 3 ====
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Pandora keeps her song going but dashes forward up to the badly injured Roc while drawing her bow. She places her soft hand over the fighter's back and says just few magical words casting a healing spell on him.
With a twist in her song, Pandora further inspires his ally to finish his action.
Pandora heals the injured dwarf with a touch while singing to the party.
Naur drops some stuff and calls down a burst upon the bored leader.
He gasps Ouch! Now what? Hey Siliana, who turned out the lights? Siliana? Anyone?
Ok, you got me. I surrender!!!
Roc ignores the blind man's surrender and easily beats him to death.
Ingret returns to the charred remains of her bar once the fighting stops.
Aye, that was Neddrick Istavarti. He was one of the League's top operatives. Thank you for your assistance. Although, I am not sure what I will do with this place now. Not sure patrons will come back to me tavern. she sighs with a grumble.
I fear this won't be the last we hear from the Technic League and suggest you all high-tail it out of the city as soon as possible. The League will be searching for you now. And what you carry.
Examining outside, you find an unconscious half-orc female dressed in black robes. There are also two human males, both dead lying in the street.
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"Quickly get all those inside. We must earn some time while we plan for our escape and people laying in the street does not help us at all" says the woman while helping moving people.
She also profits to peek if they have anything of use, casting a detect magic to help on the task.
"Thanks for the book Ingret. You can come with us if you fear reprisal. Otherwise I suggest you look for some friends help and hide for some weeks while things calm down" she looks then at the others "Let's check what the book says and move on to our new destination"
Pandora will offer herself to heal others a bit more.
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Kai flips himself up and looks to his flesh for a stinging burn mark with a sigh putting out the odd flames n his clothing. Sheathing his blade, he helps his companions out in the search, not before casting a Hex upon himself and flicking his wrist, causing a wand of blackened demon bone to fall into his open hand. With a tap, his wounds begin to close.
"Ingret, are you and the boy injured? I can heal wounds if you need them. Also my friends, if you wish to interrogate anyone but need them breathing I can help there too. That was quite the experience! The man's whip seemed to bypass my armour!"
Ingret replies to Pandora, then Kai.
Agreed. I will seek asylum with my friend Brissa Klygvauther at the Cathedral of the Lawgiver. I should be safe there, even from the League.
We are both uninjured, but appreciate the help.
As you search the bodies and pull everyone into the bar to avoid night patrols, you find the orc woman still unconscious (and the blinded leader if Roc has mercy on him) but the other two men are dead.
These two dead men have the marks of body servants—slaves in all but name. Undoubtedly some of the same the alchemist Vel mentioned to watch for in his note to you earlier.
Neither of you were able to see them during combat due to lack of LoS due to walls (and the illusionary door, although that was not really a factor in this case). Both took massive non-lethal damage...enough to kill them outright.
You are able to quickly search them while applying whatever healing. What are you doing with the two unconscious officers and two dead thralls?
According to the Jor Family Journal (see slide#2), the ruin where the Sky Key component lies is a short journey from Chesed—no more than a few days’ travel on foot.
Detecting magic indicates a number of items on the leaders.
Leader: potions of cure moderate wounds (2), scroll of levitate, scrolls of lightning bolt (2); Other Gear +2 studded leather, timeworn monowhipTG, mwk light crossbow with 10 bolts, amulet of natural armor +1, cloak of resistance +1, ring of protection +1,
Orcish Sorceress: potion of cure serious wounds, wand of acid arrow; Other Gear masterwork greataxe, amulet of natural armor +1, cloak of resistance +1, headband of alluring charisma +2, ring of protection +1, signet ring, diamond dust (worth 500 gp),
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The two dead out in the street had the markings of slaves. They likely served no purpose other than to serve as shields for their masters. As they died fulfilling their duty, even if it was a duty they had no choice in, they should be honored accordingly. I'd like to secure them on my ship so that they can be buried with the honors they deserve, something they won't get in this nation.
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"Imbroglio, you can drink the potions now, I can finish healing you afterwards" Pandora approaches the equipment and picks up any scroll or wand not wanted by anyone else. She also picks up the whip, assuming no one else can use it and one of the two natural armor amulets if no melee can make use of it.
"All good, let's pick the slaves bodies to Tortuga's ship and move on." he looks to Tortuga "Can your ship provide us a quick escape of the city? It may likely drop us in an advanced position to travel to the ruins"
The shallow ravine known locally as the Silver Trough lies three days southwest of Chessed, according to the instructions laid out in Ingret’s journal.
It is evening now, and you figure you had best be gone soon, as the explosions have started to draw a crowd outside.
Assuming you leave the League officers tied up, Ingret can get you a rowboat to get back across to your ship across the bay. You seem to have escaped any immediate pursuit in the dark of night by sailing down the coast.
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Once you anchor the ship and disembark, you set out on foot.
The shallow ravine known locally as the Silver Trough lies three days southwest of Chessed, and by following the instructions laid out in Ingret’s journal, you reach the landmark with no difficulty.
The walls of the ravine are flecked with slivers of silvery metal—all that remains of a starship piece that fragmented and melted during the crash, showering the area in molten shrapnel.
The journal’s map points to a crash site surrounded by gnarled trees only a mile from the ravine’s entrance, and there is a break in the trees to the south.
Like a rotting gourd, a rounded metal ruin lies atop a low rise. In numerous places its surface is punctured—sometimes buckled inward as though something had struck it from the outside, and other times flared out as though something within had violently escaped. A ring of gnarled trees grows around the site, as if it were an oasis in the deserted wasteland of Sovereign’s Reach.
The two dwarves take point in advancing on a very odd looking building or craft.
Tortuga senses something within the broken, curved walls ahead. Some sort of security devices recessed within the curved metal wall and ceiling ahead (as indicated in two spots).
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With a quick prayer over the two fallen slaves, Kai helps Tortuga smuggle them out of the city so that at least their burial could be seen to. WHilst searching the bodies, Kai takes the whip from the Technic league Magus and some of the diamond dust for his own.
"A shame for any lives lost but especially those who had little choice in their lives' paths. Naur You should be more careful when you indiscriminately annihilate a city street."
The next day, clad back in his guise as a heavily tanned Kellid tribal warrior with dark tattoos. Using some of the pilfered diamond dust, he casts a spell turning his rock briefly to stone, before his illusion covers it up.
"Last time I saw things like those, they could be fooled by invisibility. With the little crystal's help I should be able to disable them."
The walls of the ravine are flecked with slivers of silvery metal—all that remains of a starship piece that fragmented and melted during the crash, showering the area in molten shrapnel. You deduce the metal’s origins is comprised almost entirely of glaucite, an alloy of iron and adamantine used to build much of the strange ship.
How long does the tablet provide technologist per use/per day?
Kai casts a few spells while Naur studies. The magus then goes to the locations indicated by Tortuga and is able to disable the recessed turrets, first the one easily and then barely the other before they take any noticable action.
The devices seem to stop functioning for awhile after Kai tampers with them a bit.