Trevor curses as he gets nailed by the mohrg. He pushes against the undead to get clear of it.
Free, he slips away from the undead, risking being attacked again in order to put the fauchard between him and it.
Trevor hits the Mohrg as it crashed into him.
Aided by Trevor's smiting ability, Rowena interrupts the spell and severely wounds the undead Marquis as he ascends to the ceiling. While still alive, he clearly isn't doing so well.
Trevor breaks free of the grapple due to the Morgh charging him. As Trevor moves away the Mohrg lashes out its tongue.
Minutes
to avoid AoO
Rowena tumbles up and away from the mohrg, using the air walk to somersault through the air after the Marquis.
Planting her feet on solid air, she doubles her fists and takes a massive swing, just coming up short.
The priest takes a short step forward and again raises his ankh high. "Your time is come, by the Everlight's hand!"
Trevor is hit as he tries to move and gets paralyzed in place.
Quintus casts a spell bursting out positive energy, catching all of the undead.
The Mohrg that grappled Trevor is blinded, so when Trevor breaks free it cannot take an AoO on him so he is not Paralyzed.
The Mohrg that grappled Trevor is blinded, so when Trevor breaks free it cannot take an AoO on him so he is not Paralyzed.
Moving to take advantage of the spell, Kelkzar joins Rowena and Trevor by the mohrg and attacks it with his longspear.
Kelkzar moves into the battle with the Mohrgs underneath Rowena and the Marquis, but is unable to connect.
The blinded Morgh tries to clear his vision without success.
The other Mohrg returns its attacks on Kelkzar. It slams into Kelkzar twice and holds him twice as his tongue tries to paralyze him.
*Hit*
*Grappled and Released as a free action*
*Hit*
*Grappled*
*Hit* Fort Save DC 19 or be paralyzed
The Marquis is obviously not happy with how things have progressed so far. He attacks Rowena, including trying to bite her. While the attacks with the sword hit, he is obviously frustrated his bit did not.
*Hit*
*Hit*
- Kelkzar, Quintus, Rauno, Trevor, Rowena, Marquis/Mohrg
AC 23 T 15 FF 18 CMD 30
AC 27 T 17 FF 22 CMD 28
Quintus advances , still holding his ankh, and calls forth a burst of positive energy to attack the mohrgs and their master.
Rowena begins favouring her right leg as her left takes two nasty slices. She snarls at him, saying, "The hunt us over, easy prey!"
Her first attack just misses due to the displacement, but then she gets the measure of the effect and drubs him three times.
Trevor takes one step back to bring his fauchard to bear, knowing well what Kelkzar might be going through, then asking for Iomedae to bring down their foe, he slashes the Mohrg with deadly efficiency.
Trevor's spell aids him in defeating the Mohrg.
Quintus blasts the undead with positive energy.
Will bot Kelkzar in a bit unless he gets a moment to post
Kelkzar shrugs off the paralysis, but fails to break the grip of the mohrg's tongue.
-Posted with Wayfinder
As Rowena continues to pummel the Marquis with Trevor's divine might, she soon does more the the Marquis can take. However as the body falls to the ground, his spirit remains in place. His translucent, ghostly figure fades into view from the damp mist, his face distorted by wrath into a hideous mask. It sreams, " Now I'll never to be allowed back into the Ghostly Court!"
The spirit of the Marquis attacks Rowena
*Miss*
+2 Negative Levels
- Kelkzar, Quintus, Rauno, Trevor, Rowena, Marquis/Mohrg
AC 23 T 15 FF 18 CMD 30
AC 15 T 15 FF 12 CMD 21
Quintus again calls on divine power to blast the undead. "He's become a spectre, Rowena! Beware his touch!"
Quinus's postivie energy scorches the mohrg where it stands removing the threat. The spectre howls in pain as it too takes the full force of Quintus's faith.
"No fair! Stay dead!"
Rowena pummels the spectre, her punches striking as magical.
Not sure if the smite evil still counts here. If not, reduce the above as appropriate.
Trevor can't make sense of the Marquis' rant, nor does he care for the moment. He wills himself upward as he runs in an arc to gain altitude, then strikes at the spectre: "You can't escape Her wrath, Marquis, dead, or dead-dead!!!"
Trevor and Rowena combine to put the Marquis's spirit to its final rest.
Combat Over
A scan of the Marquis equipment by Rowena reveals that he has a cloak, greatsword, ring, lantern, two wands, 4 potions, and course the seal. When Rauno sees the seal, its aura is overwhelming and knocks his concentration off for a moment. He knows that this item is an artifact.
"I think we need to stop for a brief moment and realize something, that those three could easily have walked into a small town at night, and emptied the place. The amount of damage that thing could have done at the surface...not that we should allow selfish pride to overcome us, but we really made short work of those guys. Shall we bring the seal to Icosiel's tomb, or back to the spider? I for one vote for bringing it to the tomb first and seeing what we can see."
"If the deal is that dangerous, maybe Trevor or I should carry it, given how poorly you reacted to Icosiel's doorstep."
"I think I should, Rowena. I have the circlet, after all. I agree that we should take it to the tomb first, if Rauno is willing to wait a little longer."
OK, knowing you have time, Rauno spends a couple minutes identifying the items, and leaving the Seal for Quintus to handle.
The seal is a disc of crystal about a foot in diameter, carved from a single large quartz crystal and polished to a glossy finish. The side facing up has three Vaati runes on it, the same ones that Rauno translated in the room with the black pudding - Pesh, Aaqa, and Icosiol.
Rauno id's the magic items as greatsword +2, cloak of the bat, ring of protection +2, ghoul-light lantern, wand of enervation (14 charges), wand of halt undead (20 charges), potion inflict moderate wounds (4).
A ghoul-light lantern can be commanded to shed its sickly green glow as a move action. Once activated, the glow illuminates a 20-foot radius and provides shadowy illumination out to a 40-foot radius. Living flesh illuminated by ghoul-light feels strangely cold and clammy, while undead within the light feel more energetic. Any living creature within 20 feet of a source of ghoul-light takes a – 1 penalty on Will saves and all Charisma checks (including turn undead checks and all Charisma-based skills).
Undead within 20 feet of a source of ghoul-light gain a + 1 profane bonus on Will saves and Charisma checks. Ghoul-light is treated as bright illumination against creatures with light sensitivity.
All creatures exposed to ghoul-light begin to glow softly themselves with the nasty green light. This glow does not provide additional illumination, but it does affect all creatures within 20 feet of the source as if by faerie fire, thus reducing the effectiveness of invisibility, displacement, and similar effects.
Faint evocation; CL 3rd; Craft Wondrous Item, creator must be a true ghoul; Price 5,000 gp; Weight 2 lb.
Before taking the seal, Quintus formulates a question inside his head, Is this wise?
In the absence of any intuition, Quintus says the names of the three runes--"Pesh. Aaqa. Icosiol."--and picks up the seal.
"I wonder how long the Marquis and the Spider have been at odds. I would say we should make sure what this seal does before anything else."
Quintus picks up the Seal after saying the words. He feels a sense of approval.
On the back side of the seal, there is a depiction of a Wind Duke holding the seal up before a pair of massive black doors while standing on a floating disc of air about the same size as the seal itself.
"Thank you for the help, Rauno. Let's get back to those doors while my spell is still running."
It take a few minutes to get back up to the area with the doors.
The walls and floor of this cave have obviously been partially finished by stone workers. More impressive by far are the massive, fifty-foot-tall doors to the north. These dull black doors are carved with both gigantic and tiny runes, some at eye level and others much larger. The metal of the door seems pristine and freshly forged.