Anok and Medda both look relieved at Kamishah's declaration.
Round 1
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok
Red
Medda
Edwin
Ylania moves up the stairs far enough to see the creature and fires at it. She hits, but the arrow does no damage to the creature!
Round 1
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok
Red
Medda
Edwin
Kamishah misses with his flail.
Kioshi starts casting his spell.
Meux moves and unleashes a cone of fire!
The creature doesn’t even flinch as the flames wash over it! It took no damage.
Round 1
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok
Red
Medda
Edwin
Sea's arrow misses the creature.
The arrow sticks into the cushion of one of the chairs. It looks undamaged.
Anok steps up to a flanking position with Kamishah. "Die foul creature!" he screams as he attacks.
The attack barely scratches the creature.
The red menace turns and attacks Anok.
The claws tear into Anok, and he falls to the floor from the damage!
Medda casts a spell.
She then gets out a wand.
Round 1 & 2
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok Unconscious
Red -1
Medda
Edwin
Sek’s silver arrow hits and does full damage!
Round 1 & 2
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok Unconscious
Red -8
Medda
Edwin
Kioshi’s spell completes and Kamisha takes up a lot more space than he did just a moment ago. His flail hits the creature!
Edwin fails to hit.
Ylania takes an arrow from Sek’s quiver and fires, but it misses.
Round 2:
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok Unconscious
Red -12
Medda
Edwin
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Meux stamps his foot,
"You insolent fiend...how dare you suppose yourself immune to the power of Yamatsumi!"
The gnome clenches his fists and closes them together,
"I Call upon The Mountain Lord to manifest his divine might into the physical armament of his faithful warriors!"
A tetsubo of divine force manifests before Meux and begins circling him.
He moves around the pillar, closer to Anok in case he must attend to him.
Meux creates a weapon made of pure force, then moves over to Anok.
Anok appears stable.
Red attacks Kamishah!
Medda moves up and uses her wand on Anok.
Anok opens his eyes and sees the situation.
Round 2 & 3:
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok -9 prone
Red -12
Medda
Edwin
Kamishah hits hard, managing to hurt the creature.
Sek’s arrow hits and does full damage.
Round 2 & 3:
Sek
Kioshi
Ylania
Kamishah
Meux
Anok -9 prone
Red -23
Medda
Edwin
Meux hits with the weapon!
The fiend is destroy!
Medda is thankful for your help in destroying the foul creature. Anok next to her. He still seems constantly angry, but at least that anger is not directed at any of you.
Everyone leaves the museum to find Ambrus Valsin so that Medda can make her plea.
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Meux screeches in victory, pumping is fists in the air,
"YESSSSSSSSS! Witness the power of Yamatsumi!"
He proceeds to engage in a strange victory dance consisting of an alternating hopping back and forth on both feet while thrusting his
pointed index fingers at the ground in a similar alternating unison.
After a few moments he composes himself and confirms with Medda,
"Am I to understand that cure spells and positive energy work desirably with phantoms as they do corporeal beings?"
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The crowd of guards, onlookers, and concerned citizens outside the Blakros Museum quiets as Venture-Captain Ambrus Valsin approaches a woman clad in furs exiting the museum. “My Pathfinder agents tell me that you are Medda of the Twinhorn following, is that correct?”
“Yes, I speak for the following.” Medda glares at Nigel Aldain, “I have come to reclaim what is rightfully ours. His agents stole our most sacred relic after we refused to sell it. We have traveled through dangerous lands to claim it back, and still he refused—”
“My agents claim they bought it,” Nigel protests. “I’m not going to just give it to you because you stomp into my office demanding priceless artifacts.”
Valsin interjects, “Nigel, let us listen to her story and decide how to proceed. Medda, tell us about this relic. Why is it so important to you?”
Medda takes a deep breath. “Over 900 years ago, a powerful warrior named Ivvora came into our camp. She spoke of an angel named Vildeis who guided her hunt for a great dark evil she called Eshimka. Several of our scouts had recently disappeared, later found ripped into pieces. The elders insisted that we help banish this evil and ensure the safety of our following. They laid a trap for the evil spirit, luring it to our sacred standing stones on the winter solstice. There, Ivvora and the great dark evil, Eshimka, fought a mighty battle that raged for hours. Just as the night was darkest, Ivvora dealt Eshimka a telling blow, digging her dagger deep into its flesh. The creature tried to escape, but it only snapped off the blade and then collapsed on the center stone. The elders finished their ritual and destroyed it completely.
“Ivvora rested with us for the winter before departing to eradicate more evil from the world, but not before leaving us the hilt of her weapon.” Medda withdraws a bundle of bloody cloth from her bag, then unwraps it to reveal a small hilt with a bloody fragment of black metal. “She told us to bring the hilt back to the standing stones every year at the winter solstice to keep evil away. We’ve had to travel for so long to retrieve the hilt, I’m afraid we won’t make it back in time for the solstice. Please, let me leave now.”
Ambrus Valsin contemplates Medda’s story for a moment, then nods, his brow furrowed. “Nigel, you should send for the Blakros agents who ‘obtained’ the hilt and hear what they have to say. Medda, I’m going to send as many Pathfinder agents as you deem necessary to travel with you and your following. I want to ensure we return this relic to its proper place.” Nigel starts to protest, but Valsin cuts him off. “Nigel, you wanted my help; you are getting it. I’m helping you fix a mistake your agents made. As for your museum,” Valsin takes a moment to survey the heavily damaged museum, ”I’m told most of the damage was done by your own security, not Medda and her following.
“Pathfinders, prepare to head north to the Realm of the Mammoth Lords.”
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“My Pathfinder allies, thank you for bringing us much needed support,” says Medda, the Twinhorn following’s spiritual leader. She stands beside Anok, her phantom and constant companion. “After the orc ambush sapped our supplies and strength, we pushed north to our winter home. We are only hours away from the stone circle and our encampment—if we are going to make it there by midnight, we need to press on. Once there, we will use Ivvora’s hilt to perform our time-honored ritual and keep evil from our lands.” Medda produces the small hilt of a broken weapon with only a fragment of its black metal blade remaining. “Let us move. There are dangers in these ancient woods: orc raiders, bears that topple trees, and worse. Stay in groups and don’t get lost.”
As the Kellids and Pathfinders reach the top of the hill next to the Twinhorn encampment, they notice splashes of blood and the occasional corpse dotting the landscape. Medda raises her voice, calling, “My brethren, our families are under attack! Secure the camp and drive back any who oppose you. Pathfinder allies, join us in defense of our home!” The landscape opens into a burned hillside where blackened trees stand like lifeless sentinels. A crude blockade shields the entrance to a natural cavern.
Skeletons are the animated bones of the dead, brought to unlife through foul magic. While most skeletons are mindless automatons, they still possess an evil cunning imparted to them by their animating force—a cunning that allows them to wield weapons and wear armor.
For every 5 that you beat the DC, you may ask for one piece of information from this list.
Zombies are the animated corpses of dead creatures, forced into foul unlife via necromantic magic. These undead are slow and tough, and will attack until destroyed, having no regard for their own safety.
For every 5 that you beat the DC, you may ask for one piece of information from this list.
Round 1
Sek
Blue Skeleton
Meux
Yellow Zombie
Green Skeleton
Orange Skeleton
Purple Zombie
Ylania
Kioshi
Red Zombie
Kamishah
Edwin
Medda and Ambrus Valsin discuss long into the night how the Society might help the Twinhorn following. By the morning they have concluded that while teleportation magic might take the Kellids and Pathfinders as far as Lastwall, Medda insists that Ivvora’s hilt has lost some of its spiritual strength since being stolen. She believes the only way to restore its power is to walk the same path that Ivvora took into the Twinhorn’s land after the Shining Crusade—and that path leads straight through the Hold of Belkzen, an unforgiving land controlled by orcs!
Society mages gather to transport small groups at a time to Lastwall, and from there, the convoy of Kellids, Pathfinders, and supply wagons set off north. For all their brutal reputation, the orcs have become somewhat more welcoming of caravans at the urging of Grask Uldeth, one of the strongest orc chieftains and the ruler of the de facto capital Urgir. Those who stop at the Table of Ralock can purchase safe passage in the form of special tokens from tribal representatives. It remains to be seen whether the Path nders can secure enough.
You have made it through Belkzen and are almost at the Twinhorns Camp.
Skeletons DR 5/Bludgeoning
Sek hits the skeleton.
The Skeleton whips it’s head around and sees you, it starts hustling towards your group!
Round 1
Sek
Blue Skeleton -3
Meux
Yellow Zombie
Green Skeleton
Orange Skeleton
Purple Zombie
Ylania
Kioshi
Red Zombie
Kamishah
Edwin