Teric enters the room and sees two stirges flying along the southern wall. He points his hands at then and says, "Burn!" Fire shoots from his fingers towards the deadly bloodsuckers.
Cast Burning Hands at the two to Teric's left. Burning Hands:5d4 ⇒ (3, 1, 1, 3, 1) = 9 Reflex save DC 17 for half damage
Special attacks! It can attach itself to a person, like a mosquito, this does con dmg, and possible disease.
Xavian, Going to have to play by the book here, assuming you had to make a move action to draw a dagger, you can only make one attack as two requires a full round action
HP is 5, so half burning hands would kill easy.
Half the stirge party are immediately taken out by quick thinking of the pathfinders, including a fiery attack, a quick dagger throw, and a swing of a blade.
Feamle Human (Ulfen) Init +2, Perception +8 AC 21 (T12 FF 19) HP 26/26 CMD 18 CMB +6 BAB +3 WIL +4 (+2 vs. Mind affecting) FORT +6 REF +5
While it's beneath the honor of a princess to fight petty creatures such as these Brunhilde decides that before getting sucked on she will squash them flat and does just that leaving an ugly splat on the wall.
Brunhilde and Navoreal quick to the front lines, expose themselves to the last two stirges, and as much as they try to swing these ones away, before they could, they are latched on and start sucking their blood.
The pathfinders resolve the encounter swiftly and quickly, overkilling the last two Stirges, leaving lots of blood everywhere. Moving forward without skipping a beat, the pathfinders enter a shrine of sorts. Swirling patterns line the walls of this small shrine. A small placard on the ground reads, “Those who perish fulfill life’s duty.” On the floor of the shrine, lies a little trinket.
Beyond the shrine a small gate blocks the path into a narrow walkway, 5 ft wide and approximately 60ft long, a faded sign cautions you to "keep out" but the rest of the sign is illegible. The padlock holding the gate closed is visibly rusted and would likely fall apart with a tug.
Kn. Religion DC10:
This is a shrine to Pharasma, but to trinket on the floor is one that of Shizuru.
Kn. Engineering DC15:
The gate and the narrow path is not part of the original tome structure. The corridor was narrowed after completion of the original structure.
Yup that's con damage from the Stirges earlier. Just making sure you guys have that in mind so that you apply the necessary modifiers.
Shizuru is the Tian-Min goddess of the sun, honor, ancestors, and swordplay. As she holds swordplay in her portfolio, Shizuru is also the patron of samurai and other noble and honourable swordsmen and women. Think of her as the Minkai equivalent of Sarenrae.
Teric reads the placard. "Well, I for one do not plan on dying. At least not just yet. I have far too many favors to call in first!" He laughs, and then casts a protective spell. A shimmer appears around his body.
"Odd that a Tian goddess' trinket is here. We should probably take it with us." He picks up the trinket.
Male Halfling Unchained Rogue (Bandit Knife Master) [5.0] | HP 38/38 | AC 20 T 15 FF 16 | F +5 R +10 W +3 (+2 vs morale bonus charm/fear, +2 fear) | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +10 | Perc +10 | Acro +14 DD/EA +12 Stealth +16 Climb/Ling +6 | Diplo/Intim +9
I'm sure that's real interesting and all, but it seems like we only have one place to go. Xavian will look around for other exits other things of interests while the party discusses various religions.
How I thought it works is since you guys are at Con 12, and now con 11, you lose that +1 bonus to fortitude and constitution skill checks.
There are no other exits within the perimeter, but Xavian notes something down the hallway and pays a keen eye on to it.
Xavian or Perception DC25:
There is some kind of mechanical trap embedded halfway down the hallway, anyone who touches the floor or walls within that 5 ft square triggers the trap.
HP 51/51 | AC 21 | T 16 | FF 15 | CMD 21 | Fort +6 | Ref +8 | Will +6 | Init +8 | Perc +9
Con drain does work that way.. No matter what your con score is you have to get 2 con damage to give you negatives.. Damage and Drain work differently. Unless they changed it that is.
Male Halfling Unchained Rogue (Bandit Knife Master) [5.0] | HP 38/38 | AC 20 T 15 FF 16 | F +5 R +10 W +3 (+2 vs morale bonus charm/fear, +2 fear) | CMB +3 CMD 16 | Init +10 | Perc +10 | Acro +14 DD/EA +12 Stealth +16 Climb/Ling +6 | Diplo/Intim +9
Hold on now, as much as I'd like to get this over with I think we'd better do something out that mechanical trap embedded halfway down the hallway. Xavian will see if he can disarm the troublesome thing.
The Halfling carefully tinkers with the trap, successfully taking it apart, making the hallway safe for passage without worries. The hallway leads directly through a another room. The room is an armory of sorts, but all the weapons hanging on the walls are falling apart with aging, making them all useless to your cause. The room has an eerie presences as it's decorated with statues of creatures, gargoyles, golems, and elementals, and one demon. Surrounding the room lie some paintings of warriors, a Paladin, a Knight, a Cleric, and a Cavalier. The state of the room suggest this place has been abandoned for way too long.
Perception DC10:
A small bag lies behind one of the statues.
Perception DC37:
The gargoyle statue in front of the bag, is not a statue.
Kn. History,local,religion, Perform DC15:
Something jogs your memory as you remember an old Tien folk tale, The moral of the tale is that even in the brightest light, a demon always casts a shadow. It is best, then, that the shadow be cast upon those with the honor and valor to withstand it.
Going to update map shortly, but make sure you appropriately move your characters on the map based on what you do.
"Even in the brightest light, a demon always casts a shadow. It is best, then, that the shadow be cast upon those with the honor and valor to withstand it..."
Perking up a bit, he points to one of the statues.
I've put a note which statue is the demon statue on the map. Also to note, the only light source in the room is coming from you folks, so you can think about what that means regards to the "shadow".
Assuming you do. Also, believe no one has tried to get the bag so far.
The light cast from the party does nothing as the shadow falls onto the paladin.
Those who pass the kn check:
The light seems right but, You recall the tale regards a specific light source, a "holy" source. You note that the golem statue's hands, appears to be holding something, but it's not anymore. The golem statue is the one directly in line with the paladin painting and the demon statue.
As the Light from the lantern befalls the demon statue and cast it's shadow onto the paladin, a whisper of sorts can heard throughout the crypt. However none of you feel alarmed by it, more so calmed, as if it was a divination effect of sorts.
Kn. Dungeoneering DC15 for 1 question for the creature,I've updated the map based on your actions.
As Xavian approaches to grab the bag, little does he realise, nor anyone else, that the gargoyle statue closest to him starts moving, as he bends down the gargoyle lashes out and takes a claw at him. Before Xavian can react, the creature unleashes a fury of attacks. Fortunately not all his attacks make contact with the quick feet halfling.
No one passed the perception for surprise round, and the gargoyle acted first on round 1
SR, Zaroslav DC10:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12Didn't make touch AC though SR, Alexander DC10:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21 In future, when you cast a spell, do make a Spell Resistance check DC10.
fortitude:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
The arcane casters in the group immediately react by hurling some cold pain at the Gargoyle. The gargoyle in his nimbleness manages to slightly avoid the chill touch, but as he does he does not see a snowball heading straight for his face. It proves to be effective as the gargoyle feels weaker after the effects of the spells, although, it looks like he may have resisted some of it. Resist cold
Feamle Human (Ulfen) Init +2, Perception +8 AC 21 (T12 FF 19) HP 26/26 CMD 18 CMB +6 BAB +3 WIL +4 (+2 vs. Mind affecting) FORT +6 REF +5
5 foot step to flank with Navoreal. Begin raging as a free attack. Attack with shield. Succesfull attack procks a DC 26 Bull Rush attempt. Succesful Bull Rush procs a swift action Armor Spikes attack thanks to spiked destroyer. If Bull Rush attempt beats CMD by more than 5 the gargoyle is bushed back 10 feet into the pillar and knocked prone as described in Shield Slam. Brunhilde will use her remaining movement to follow the gargoyles movement.
Like an Ulfen war barge Brunhilde rushes forward with her shield and bashes into the Stone man with full force sending the gargoyle and plenty of pebbles flying.
If i'm correct, Brunhilde your shield is magical hence bypass the DR.
Navoreal and Brunhilde decide some quick thinking to get into an good position to attack the creature. Brunhilde's shield proves to be a good source of attack as it hurts the creature badly, but the spikes from her armor does nothing at all to pierce through the gargoyle's thick stony skin. The creature is then push backed and falls down.
