"Only the rarest of fires can hurt me and only few creatures can leave lasting wounds. I will stand to protect you."
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The only thing the dead creatures have are the unholy symbols.
Shear and Enora move forward and the golems keep their march back and forth, moving the grain bags back behind the curtain. Once the 2 cross paths in front of Enora...
FWOOOSH
As soon as the flames begin to issue from Enora's hands, the golems move into a combat pose, however they are immediately overcome by Enora's flame. Rather than having the usual damaging properties (as Reavis noted) the flames seem to cause them to become warped and sluggish.
Shear brings all his attacks upon the golem holding off with his bite, not for lack of viciousness, but worry for chewing into a disease ridden body.
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Karg gives a frustrated growl as he moves up and swings with his falchion trying to stop the golem before it can act..
The attack misses completely as he shouts complaints directed to those behind him.
"I should have expected this. Get the message one morning and next thing I know I'm on the other side of the world being attacked by assassins and I've been here now for almost two months now?"
"Did Bakten really not know who those assassins were from the beginning or was that another thing you didn't tell us?"
Shear continues to trample them. "I don't like enemies in front and behind, I can only protect one-"
Shear is interrupted when a blow comes barreling down on Karg's neck. The eidolon pushes into Karg's space and barely blocks a critical blow and just begins delivering a full onslaught of blows in reprisal.
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"Pay attention to the fight!"
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Shear's bite tears a nasty chunk of bone out of the creature that struck at Karg. As it collapses, a torrent of burning entrails comes jettisoning out of the hole where its head should have been attached!
With the first bite felling his target, Shear's remaining attacks pummel the other golem, which strikes back in kind.
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"I am pay-", is all Karg gets out before taking the brunt the blast of flaming entrails.
Shear takes the blast too, but the flame has not effect on him.
"Alright, maybe I'll pay more attention."
Karg readies another swing but feels his aches and wounds across his body and instead withdraws rather than risk another explosion to himself.
"Like the demons all over again. Find out everything about them beforehand except for the attack that blasts half the party."
Karg pauses a moment before looking at Sharaheen.
"Wait, didn't you fight a dozen of these outside? Did none of those explode?"
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Each of the burlap sacks contain 30 pounds of rice and it appears as though the golems were dumping them into a hopper in the back of the room behind the. The cage off to the side of the room is unlocked. The statue in the center of the room represents Fumeiyoshi, wielding his favored weapon, a Naginata. Oddly enough, Vash notices that the naginata is actually a real weapon and is only painted to look the color of marble so to mesh with the statue.
Enora recognizes the details on the tapestry towards the back as depicting Fumeiyoshi's defeat of Tsukiyo, Prince of the Moon. In the first panel, Fumeiyoshi is shown sundering a piece of his brother's jade armor. Then, the lord of Envy gloats over his fallen brother with the shard of jade held high, while in the final panel, Fumeiyoshi thrusts the shard into an arcane circle here it crumbles into dust, activating a nearby portal in a graveyard.
Vash notices that the torn piece of jade resembles a hare.
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"So you didn't bother looking into the elves that were following you around for a couple lifetimes. Couldn't this gone a lot faster if you and Shiori just talked to each other? The only reason she was hunting down you, Bakten, was to get vengeance against Jujanil."
Karg still is drawn into his complaints as he organizes and catalogs items as he recuperates from the trials of the most recent combat.
"She was the reason why we even came to this mountain in the first place. Maybe if you two had a conversation, this undead would have been dead and buried a hundred years ago."
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Sharaheen responds to Karg "I was very prideful in my previous incarnation, and in a position of power. People in positions of power are often the subjects of surveillance, or assassination, and my former self felt that the situation was stable without prying into such things too deeply. Perhaps though you could also ask yourself why Shiori felt the need to handle her vendetta with me so dishonorably? While the prideful nature of my prior incarnation is not something I aspire to maintain, Shiori certainly plays a roll in the unfortunate misunderstanding which resulting in a lead escaping my grasp for so long."
This device on the landing between the 1st and 2nd floors is a machine for producing rice vinegar. It seems odd to have a device here that makes such vast quantities of vinegar, however you do recall tales of certain undead creatures that need to soak themselves in vinegar after gorging themselves on blood. Specifically, a Penanggalen.
Continuing up to the 2nd floor, you find the vats that store all of this vinegar.
Pipes snake across the floor, feeding a series of fluid-filled vats before connecting to six metallic sarcophagi - three on each side of the chamber. In the chamber's center, a large glass vat rises past a second story balcony. To the south, anchored to the wall are three similar, ten-foot-tall vats. Two sets of stairs curl up the southern arc and provide access to the balcony that looms fifteen feet above.
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"I have asked myself why Shiori decided to opt for waiting centuries, then murder an elderly man. I decided not to ask her on the off chance she decide to add 'kill the half-orc' to her will."
The summoner carefully moves into the room following behind Shear and others with keener senses. He moves to examine the sarcophagi, weapon in hand, to ensure they are still closed.
"What are your plans after we kill the other you? I'm not sure what that candle told you, but we left both places with problems bigger than we could fix."
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The bubbling of the vats and sounds from the furnaces below are fairly noisy in this room. All of the sarcophagii are closed, however 3 of the vats on the east side have tell-tale signs of regular use. You do not see or sense any movement in the room, and nothing appears to be trapped.
"One problem at a time. The problem at hand is certainly a bigger problem than both of those combined... I will confess though, the candle told me nothing I did not already know."
"Do we wish to examine these coffins before we move forward? I see nothing else here. Or do you wish to examine the equipment longer?"
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Hefting the naginata, Lars examines it.
"Well made though I can't tell either what enchantments it holds. I'd suggest making sure this whole room is clear."
After knowing about what type of creature that might be here.
"Is there a way to seal these creatures inside their coffins and perhaps replace it with acid?"