Round 9
Round 10
Seeing the drow resistance crumple before them, Jirin does her best to aid Kelkzar and Trevor in defeating the priestess by willing her to be slow and clumsy in avoiding attacks.
Evil Eye on the priestess for -2 AC.
Status hp 42/54, AC 15
Rowena and Trevor both hit the drow priestess, but it seems some magic is resisting some of the blow reducing the damage. . Jirin's hex causes the female drow's defense to weaken.
The female stands up suddenly, faster than you are able to react and hit her with .
She decides to attack and takes it out on Trevor, the morning star arcing with negative energy. As she hits him, a spell goes off, and he feels his muscles stop working. She then follows up with a second blow.
*Hit*
Will DC 18 for half of this damage
*Hit*
*Fail*
- Drow, Rauno, Rowena, Kelkzar, Trevor, Quintus, Jirin
AC 20 T 13 FF 17 CMD 21
AC 25 T 13 FF 25 CMD 25
Rowena starts with a leg sweep.
Flurry trip: flanking, heroism, foretelling, flurry, TWF
Vicious Stomp:
Damage, assuming the hex penalty is not in the stats:
First attack, stunning kick:
Damage: DC 17
Off-hand attack, kick to the weapon (disarm attempt, could provoke an AoO): The Morningstar flies out of the priestess' hand, and Rowena snags it out of the air as it shrinks back to its normal size.
Iterative attack, bring morningstar down on priestess: plus its own bonus.
I'll let you roll its damage.
Not sure if it matters, but Rowena's unarmed strikes count as magic for bypassing DR as long as she has at least one Ki point in her pool (which she does).
Kelkzar mashes his fangs and tusks together over the prospect of a good standup fight and delivers two smashing blows with his falchion before following it with a slicing blow from his fangs.
Trevor doesn't really feel the effect on his muscle, for he reels in pain, knees buckling from the mighty blows the drow lands on him.
Trying to see beyond his smashed nose, he spits a tooth and lifts his axe, asking for Iomedae to grant him the strength to fight.
Feeling some responsiveness in his numb left arm, he pivots the axe's shaft as he steps forward, moving his blade up then down, looking for an opening.
Quintus presses forward to the fallen drow's side and brings his scimitar down on her, but it glances off of her armor .
Rauno begins to use enlarge person on Rowena while she trips and disarm's the drow priestess and uses her own weapon against her.
Kelkzar lands two blows with his weapon and a bite, but the bite barely damages her. Quintus moves forward and the priestess lashes out with her shield and misses and Quintus slashes down with his scimitar leaving a nasty wound.
Finally Trevor takes the full damage from the negative energy which seems to infuriate him as his enlarged axe chops into the priestess leaving a large gaping wound, but the follow up attack lands in the same place, splitting her in two.
Combat Over!
Do you want to press on while you have some of these buffs going or spend the time to go through their loot?
"We need to keep moving. If anyone is still hurt, I'll cure them while Rauno and Jirin look at what the drow had--we might be able to use some of it."
There is the door set into the middle of some iron bars to the south, or the passageway to the west.
"Thanks Quintus! She was mean and tough! Let me drink something then we move!" says Trevor as he wonders at how cruel the drows seem.
He reaches into his bag and gets a potion that he downs without a second thought.
"But which way?" She points at the door with the bars. "That way looks like it might lead to some sort of cells."
"Well, they did say something about protecting a master's chambers, right? I doubt it would be behind bars, so the west passage seems more likely to me," says Jirin. "But, these drow people seem to like that kind of thing, so maybe..."
"If there are cells, there might be captives. The doppelgangers certainly had their share of them. We should at least look there."
As you move over and look through the iron bars. Just inside the iron cage door stand four rotting corpses with large gaping holes in their heads. Beyond them is a chamber full of debris, scraps of cloth, mounds of straw, and pools of filth.
Trevor uses his detect evil and the corpses, while not moving, are detecting as evil.
Quintus peers past the bars at the corpses.
Its hard for Quintus to tell exactly what they are, but it appears that they are zombies
Even though they are not moving, you are pretty sure they are zombies. Now whether or not they are vanilla zombies or some variant is hard to tell without them moving or giving any indication of their abilities.
"I don't think there are any prisoners in there. Let's come back after we finish the rest of the job."
At the sight of the prisoner corpses, Jirin pales and shivers in fright at the thought of possibly having come to such a fate herself.
"Yes, let's...," she rasps, and quickly makes away! from the cells toward the corridor.
Heading down the corridor to the south west, the cavern corridor widens into a small chamber before continuing onward. The floor has been smoothed here, and in the center is a large faintly glowing purple symbol.
You all recognize the symbol on the floor, it matches the one on the greater doppelganger's forehead and on the note from the greater doppelganger's master.
"Nobody step on the glowing purple symbol of doom," Rowena cautions.
"It's just a magical image and harmless... which means that anything under it may be even more dangerous."
Jirin pokes at it with the end of her longbow.
"Or, they just couldn't find a good floor rug that truly set off the decor."
"Want me to scout ahead or shall we continue together?"
Trevor is getting very nervous as they near the sign on the floor. He does his best to stop his armor from rattling, with little success. He nods to Kelkzar's offer with a face that says 'I know! I'm loud...'
"What if there are more doppelgangers here, Kelkzar?"
Assuming you stay together due to doppleganger concerns you press on as a group. As you pass over/around the illusion of the symbol, a explosion of acid goes off coming from the ceiling covering everyone.
With grace worthy of Rowena, Quintus manages to get out from under the worst of the corrosive spray.
"Lovely..."
Reflex:
Rowena instinctively rolls as the acid falls, timing her roll to use Trevor as a shield, and taking no damage herself.
From her position on the floor, she pats Trevor on the bum, saying, "You needed a shower anyway,", then quickly wipes the acid transfer off her hand.
"I think I have soap in my eyes. It stings!" jokes back Trevor, not wanting to show weakness.
It really hurts!
"Owwww! It burns, burns!" Jirin cries out as the acid fell on her despite sanding on the edge of the trap.
Status hp 30/54, AC 15
Kelkzar avoids the worst of it as well
Kelkzar's HPs 57/71
If the party isn't immediately attacked, Quintus begins to heal people.
Quintus burns through another couple of wand charges to get Rauno most of the way back up.
"Thank you, Quintus: you're a gem!" Jirin thanks Quintus for his assistance. She didn't feel fully back to normal, but his efforts certainly helped. Using some of her own power, she felt right as rain.
"So, onwards?" she asked once they'd recovered from the trap.
Status hp 51/54
You continue down the hallway past the illusory marker on the floor. Soon you come into another natural cavern.
Set into the cavern wall of this foreboding chamber are a pair of tall white marble double doors, streaked with veins of a faintly glowing purple mineral. Flanking the doors are a pair of tall ivory columns, each bearing a tentacular symbol burned into their surface.
"Looks like another acid shower is coming..." says Trevor, with a peeved expression.