IQ: 302/22
Euphorixia: 84/
Mount: 275/
Alathos bows, then uppercuts the Queen of the Moon like it's the last thing he's ever going to do. His magically endowed fist barrels through several layers of supernatural and divine protection to connect with her jaw. The Queen isn't stunned as you hoped, but she is far from fully prepared. Their guide, Euphorixia, stands shocked as the party leaps into action! One the floor of the room a huge beast like the ones the succubi outside were riding stirs...
Mixing a special powder into her spell components, Eden wastes no time in throwing her strongest transmutation spell on the Queen.
The succubus barely knows what hit her. One minute she is preparing to rain unholy fire down on your collective heads, the next she's getting stoned.
Seeing that the succubus has been taken out of the equation, Salrann turns her ire on the evil creature on the floor.
Then she'll move over into the bedroom area and plans to grab ahold of the stony succubus on her next round.
"Smash her to pieces and throw them in a volcano? Alathos does have an adamantine sword," Eden suggests as she readies another spell. "We'll have to depetrify her later to get the key, but I don't think succubi can survive decapitation."
Unlike it's master, the beast (not Dragon) in the pit shakes off the spell.
You change her back! The other succubus screeches at Eden as she stumbles back.
The beast down low rises toward you, curling up the fourty feet that seperates you and the ground.
"Why should I?" Eden asks with a grin.
Salrann will curl herself around the other succubus.
plus plus venom
plus plus venom
She is thusly grapples and grievously injured.
Euphorixia: 84/47
Mount: 275
The Succubus tries to wriggle free of salrann, but she just isn't as powerful or skilled as the snake lady.
The mount of Ms. Stony (whos arm Alathos is gleefully chopping off) finally makes itself known and sweeps a deadly sharp talon across Alathos, catching him by his armor!
Salrann will flurry, first maintaining her grapple to deal automatic unarmed damage
then using Rapid Grappler to pin,
then attacking twice with her bite
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I really need to stop spacing out, Eden grumbles in her mind. Truthfully, she had withheld action because her allies had seemed to have everything under control. However, recalling the near disaster with the space gorillas, the elf decides to stop fighting with one arm behind her back.
"FRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM M!!!!!!! Eden cries out in Elven as she sees the silver-tongued Inquisitor get grappled.
Eden then focuses another Flesh to Stone on the Lunar Queen's mount.
If the target is bound, grappled, or otherwise restrained, he may make an Escape Artist check to escape as an immediate action. He gains a competence bonus on this check equal to twice your caster level (maximum +20). This spell has no effect if the target could not get free by using the Escape Artist skill (for example, if he were under the effects of a hold person spell or paralyzed by Strength damage).
Only one of Chu'ko's attacks makes contact as the beast flies by. Eden screams like braveheart. Alathos, in a moment of magically fueled martial genius, pulls off the impossible. No one quite sees how, but he slips free and tumbles to the walkway. The monster reaches out and slashes him on his way down, but can't re-establish the grip. The attack sends Alathos spinning, but another perfectly timed flip and twist brings him to the walkway on his feet and a hand. The beast screams and banks, but it's less than perfect maneuverability prevents an immediate counter attack.
Party up!
Salrann, seeing another creature that can grapple to an amazing degree, drops the weaker succubus as a free action, then casts communal air walk on herself and climbs into the air toward the beastie. She will end her movement just out of its reach.
Worried that the remaining succubus might escape to warn the rest of their enemies, Eden throws another Polymorph Any Object at Euphorixia.
The creature screams yet again as Eden turns her second sentient being of the day to stone!
The rod (and to arm to which it is attached) is easily detached.
"Alathos, would you mind slashing their heads to pieces? Chu'ko, if you still have that Portal Hole, then we can take the remains with us for volcanic disposal. I could unpetrify the rod right now, but that would burn my last Polymorph Any Object for the day."
"Agreed... I've been trying to keep it to myself to keep our russse going, but I can't ssstand to see a creature as regal as a gold dragon held in sssuch a way."
You turn back the way you came and notice that the exit is now blocked by a wall of multi-colored energy. Eden correctly knows this to be a Prismatic Wall.
Careful examination reveals the presence of arcane residue that can only point to a Contingency type setup. It was probably linked to the Queen or an item of hers and activated when she was attacked.
"Perhaps we should rest first; I'm running a bit low on firepower. As usual, I have a Mage's Mansion prepared. Afterward, I could just Dimension Door or Teleport us past it. If that fails, then we can just cut the Queen's head off and destone her corpse. In a way, this wall works to our advantage; it should keep a lot from coming in."
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"I fear that if the contingency is to seal us in that something horrid is coming for us, perhaps you should take the stone head and place it seperately into a bag of holding, and I shall keep the remainder of her in the portable hole and if worse comes to worse we can throw them together."
"That is a contingency!"
"Hmm... You might be onto something. Let's look over the room then. Regardless, I will have the Mage's Mansion deployed just in case. We will be safe in there from anything short of a deity."
After casting Mage's Mansion and Heightened Awareness, Eden takes a studied look around the room to see if any of Chu'ko's concerns are warranted.
"Yes... perhapssss there is a way to remove it." Salrann looks around the room very carefully, taking several minutes.
There appears to be no way of disabling the wall without magical interference.
The silk- canopied bed is surrounded by six 2-foot-tall statues of various humanoids. These are mindbane figurines, which allow Izmiara to activate programmed sleeper agents throughout Golarion from the comfort of her bed.
On the western balcony stands a horrid mass of radiant flesh, gore, and metal. The angel Szeria was acting as a scout for a celestial army and was trapped by the queen; her lacerated body is now the center of an art piece in Izmiara's intimate chamber. Perhaps most gruesome of all are the rusted hooks pulling her eyelids back, locking her permanent, glass eyed gaze upon the Insatiable Queen's bed; the angel's final sight was one of her enemy's vile acts of intimacy and debasement.
The southwestern balcony holds a 4-foot square frame of adamantine around a section of the lunar glass wall polished to an impossible sheen-a mirror of life trapping which is part of the wall and cannot be moved. Currently, the mirror is inactive.
Trapped within the mirror presently are the party's kidnapped man, Marcus , a cornugon named Scathscar, and the remaining kidnapped individuals mentioned by the masked Decemvirate member at the adventure's start: Obenna Sirara, Garrin Levoye, Zembe Utomo, and Osprey.
On the now-stone queen you discern +4 unrighteous full plate, +2 heavy steel shield, Iron Lash (see below), belt of physical perfection +4, helm of abhorrent charisma +2 (as headband of alluring charisma except a profane bonus), ring of freedom of movement
A gift from Nocticula designating her chosen acolytes, Iron Lash is a powerful weaponin the hands of one dedicated to doing the demon lord's will.
IRON LASH
Aura strong necromancy; CL 15th
Slot none; Price 90,335 gp; Weight 6 lbs.
DESCRIPTION
Th is +2 cold iron bastard sword becomes a +2 unholy cold iron bastard sword in the hands of an antipaladin sworn to the demon lord Nocticula. In the hands of a good creature, Iron Lash bestows one permanent negative level as though it were unholy while granting none of the associated benefits of the unholy special ability.
Once per day, the wielder of this sword can cast finger of death with a range of 6o feet, dealing 150 points of damage on a successful hit. If the target succeeds at a DC 20 Fortitude saving throw, the attack in stead deals 3d6+15 points of damage. This is a death effect.
"We sssshould free those prisoners. Perhaps they can help us with removing that wall..."
After resting for the night and stuffing an angel corpse and (most of) a demon statue into their extradimentional grab bag of horrors, the party teleports beyond the wall of deadly color into the hall beyond. You face a choice. Do you proceed directly to the pad that (should) carry you into the vampire coven above, or do you take one of the routes to the left or right?
Salrann will advance in the front, assumedly along with Alathos, since we are the main melee-ers.
After Dimension Dooring the group past the Prismatic Wall, Eden uses her Ring of Invisibility to vanish from sight.