AC 16 / T12 / FF14 | HP 28/[28] | F+5 R+6 W+4 (+2 vs fear, +1 vs enchant) | Perc +10 (+2 urban areas) Init +2 (+2 urban areas) Half-Orc Ranger 3
Anyone else have any questions for this lot? If not, I'd say let's escort them out to safety and see if we can't find all the exhibits, ledgers, night staff, etc.
After the three individuals digging around the floor, a collection of pages that could be called a ledger are gathered. Yannis looks through them briefly and stops on the second page. "We have one Taltuma-Matl in the adjacent room. Exhibit 2b, donated by the Keleshi Historical Society. He came shipped in a coffin, so he's most likely still in it." she says as she hand the papers to Kyo.
"Now we get out of here, right? I told them all 'this smells like trouble,' but no! Nobody listens to silly, old Saldak!" Sardak adds from the bard's grip.
Kadarnik responds to his co-corker; "If we turned down every donation that your fat behind wanted to shoo away, we'd be an empty warehouse!" He looks to Harboth and continues, "We done here, then? I'm sure I am."
HP 73/73; Init +6, Perc +11; AC 30, T 18, FF 22, CMD 23; F+6, R+15, W+8,
"I'm done with you. Though before you go, what's the Beasts of Legend exhibit got in it? By which I mean, what's going to come alive and try to eat me in there?"
"No, he would mean the room opposite of that one. You left the Honored Dead exhibit, unless I was cloudy long enough for the management to change the exhibits around." Yannis speaks up. "As for what's it in, I'd recommend looking at the ledger and taking a few guesses. If it's an animal or anything bestial-looking from the Mwangi, it'll likely be there or the basement."
A few of the notable listing are...:
Sorted by unique identifier number, date donated, the donator, and then the item's description
AC17(21* Shield Spell)/Touch14/Flatfoot15/CMD 19 |Init +2| | HP 12/[30] | Fort:+7 ;Ref:+2 ;Wil+3|Percept +6/Sense Motive +5|Magus Pool 3/[3] Male Minkai Human Samurai (sword Saint)/1 (Order of the Dragon) / Bladebound Magus 2 Favoured Class
Kyoshiro looks through the ledger.
And you think this Nigel is over paying? Can you give me some examples on this sheet?
Having listened in to the conversation while helping a little with the papers, Ur looks to Anders and nods towards the door to the honored dead section. He turns and heads back into the room cautiously looking for exhibit 2b.
Saldak sets Lugizar's cloth notes on a desk in the office. He and Kadarnik travel out with Ur to the Honored Dead exhibit.
Folks with Detect Magic up:
The writing on the largest cloth piece radiates enchantment magic, now openly detectable when not folded up in a man's pocket/hand.
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While Saldak is busy being shocked at the scene in the (Un)dead Exhibit, Kadarnik cautiously grabs an improvised club made from a the shattered coffin in the center of the room and makes his way to the hallway door. Upon seeing a clear path out, he nods at whatever Pathfinders are in the room (barring Hiram) and gets the heck out of there followed by an arm-flailing, wailing Saldak.
@Ur: Looking over the existing coffins, you find that the coffin the undead that bit Hiram and paralyzed him is 2b.
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@Kyo "Overpaying? I wouldn't be sure of such things; I'm a scribe, not a historical appraiser. If you want an answer to that, I would reccomend either taking those to a third party who does historical appraising or ask Nigel personally. If he's of his regular mentality, he'll most likely try to brush you off but if the mists have him, he'll be as much of a threat as we were. The Blakros family employment requirements include a 'Mandatory Health Regiment.' The all-paid Iroran Gym membership is nice, but I think I'm quitting the job after this little incident."
HP 73/73; Init +6, Perc +11; AC 30, T 18, FF 22, CMD 23; F+6, R+15, W+8,
Hiram rolls his eyes at the clerks and their warlike ways, then heads out into the hallway, whip and sword still in hand to wait for the others. He opens the door into the Beasts of Legends exhibit and peers in there through the cracked door.
Pending any more questions, Yannis thanks the group and makes her way out behind Hiram. Upon reaching the hallway, she exits the museum.
Hiram peeks through the doorway which sits beneath a large placard that reads “Hunting the Beasts of Legend” in great block letters. This gigantic chamber is relatively free of mist, and darkness is held at bay by braziers of radiant light. Behemoths occupy these halls, great taxidermy nightmares such as a two-headed bear easily taller than an ogre; a great desiccated beetle, its carapace larger than the face of the clock tower of Absalom’s Clockwork Cathedral; a massive specimen of chimera, its jaws open in a mock roar; and an assembled skeleton of a tyrant lizard. The walls here are studded with strange masks, staves, spears, and other implements of long forgotten cultures, most likely used in ritual hunts of the beasts preserved here.
The scarab beetle hangs from the ceiling like an airplane in a real-life historical museum ~40 feet up, its wings outstretched as if it were mid-flight. The ceiling reaches up another 10 feet, though not much of it is visible past the enormous scarab.
HP 73/73; Init +6, Perc +11; AC 30, T 18, FF 22, CMD 23; F+6, R+15, W+8,
Seeing his companions busy, Hiram slips into the Beasts exhibit, moving quietly. Stealth:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
DM:
He heads toward the masks on the wall, selecting the I cannot remember for the life of me how many my Faction wanted, but I select that many best and stowing them carefully in my backpack.
Primal Fire Sorceress 5 (HP 50/37) | AC 13 (16 MA) Touch 12 FF 11 | Saves F +5 R +4 W +5
Use Magic Device 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Chelsea ponders over the scroll she just picked up while the discussion goes on. She reads through it a couple of times, seemingly unable to activate it.
It was "at least 4", and note that this doesn't have to be secret.
Where be all ye whilst Hiram's doing this? Ander and Urthain are in the Honored Dead exhibit room looking at the ghoul's burial device is what I do know.
Urthain starts looking through the coffin searching for any scrolls or tablets with writing. He even rips out the lining of the coffin if necessary, all with a grim look on his face.
1d1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
There is nothing of note left in the coffin, exceptionally so since the body is all cut up with an axe.
Hiram and Harboth is passing by a wall and Harboth hears four of the higher-hanging masks are crumbling quietly and sprouting blackened bat wings! They're 10 feet above your heads.
Inits
Ander:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17
Bads:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Chelsea:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Harboth:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
Hiram:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Kyo:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (14) + 2 = 16
Urthain:1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22
Firstly, though, a surprise round for Harboth and the bads! Harboth is first, followed by the entities bursting free fully!
Primal Fire Sorceress 5 (HP 50/37) | AC 13 (16 MA) Touch 12 FF 11 | Saves F +5 R +4 W +5
Moving into the room, just east of the door and launching a firebolt at the creature.
Chelsea makes her way into the room when the sounds of combat begin.
"This place is a death trap"
She exclaims, upon seeing the flying creatures. She then hurls a bolt of flame at the one in the corner of the room.
Fire Bolt 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7 (PBS, Touch) Damage 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
Following the "shoot first, ask questions later" principle, he then tries to riddle out what the thing is, though it can't be natural.
knowledge(nature):1d20 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 7
The following mass of d4s is NOT Magic Missile, just rolling the number of fails to see how long y'all be Paralyzed. Taking the biggest of the rolls, not stacking them.
You can confirm it is nothing that makes its home in dungeons, nor is it something created from the arcane arts.
For all of our benefit, the order is Urthain, Chelsea, Ander, Harboth, Kyo, Hiram with the blue text ones are paralyzed. The heads are just barely above Harboth's head (melee range, but not ground-level.)
Oh, handedly. Even with the -4 for in-melee. Got some work stuff I really should do, to maybe give Kyo a chance to post his own action. You guys can recommend stuff for him to do, too, since he said he had some business trip stuff recently.
Yeah, he posted about it on Wednesday in the Discussion Thread, so I've been expecting to do. I was actually kinda hoping he'd've failed one of those saves. If you guys WANT him to do something specific, put it to some votes or something. I'm just gonna make him hit stuff with his sword, but will wait for everyone else to post what they're doing first in case he gets some India Computer Time.
NINJA'D BY A RANGER.
Ander's arrow connects and drops the flying head!
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Harboth connects to a different head!
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Kyo holds onto his bow in one hand, draws his katana in the other as part of his 5' step into the room and swings!
Katanaaaa!:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 121d8 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
And misses!
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The 3 remaining heads stay where they are and attack the actual threat (the one with the axe!)
