Shohiraj carefully adjusts her armor, exposing a portion of her back while making sure to retain modesty.
"Just make it quick. And light if possible- I'd rather a whack from you or R than Zurnzal's muscle."
"Oh.... I'm the very soul of gentleness..." says Thestils before lashing at her 2 companions with something akin glee.
Thestil strikes Shohiraj's back drawing blood Slapping the bloodied barbs against the door causes it to slide open revealing a spiral staircase downward.
The stairs lead to a hallway with 10 ft. ceilings. The entirety of the passage is made of dull clean metal. Rows of orbs are embedded in the upper edges of the walls casting a green light through the hallway. The hallway comes to a dead end at a storage closet to the west, but stretches to a metallic door without obvious handle in the east.
More importantly you see three human guards standing with warhammers at the ready as if expecting your arrival. From around a corner on the far side of the room you hear the familiar voice of Joliryn the halfling, "It was not my house you wanted to explore, but this facility has been useful to my friends in the Kornholm Agenda. You didn't think I'd just let you waltz in did you?"
The three guards reposition themselves closer to the door looking menacingly at Zurnzal, Shohiraj, and Eramay as if challenging them to enter.
Initiative Round 1
Guards
Thestil: Go
Joliryn
Shohiraj
Falth
Zurnzal
Rataji
Eramay
Joliryn steps from behind the corner yells an incantation and glitterdust centered just below Rataji and Zurnzal, hitting everyone except maybe Thestil.
Initiative Round 1
Guards
Thestil: Go
Joliryn
Shohiraj: Go
Falth: Go
Zurnzal: Go
Rataji: Go
Eramay: Go
Thestil laughs:"Two can play this game, traitor!"
Try as they might to avoid it, both guards end up blinded with glitter in their eyes.
"That was not a smart move, traitor," Eramay sneers at Joliryn, shaking the burst of glitter out of her eyes. She pulls out a scroll of bull's strength, reads it, and 5-foot steps forward.
Half-ready, Eramay finds herself flying towards the halfing. Better make the most of this, she thinks, and tries to time a strike with her scimitar.
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Shohiraj turns the corner only to immediately catch a face full of sparkles from her one-time ally. Just managing to blink it off, she smiles as a counter spell from Thestil has better effect on the pair of guards in front of her.
"Not even for old time's sake Jo? We've already made one regrettable op - you're just doing another right now."
Sap in hand, she slides by a blinded guard to deliver a Bewildering blow to the side of his head.
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Zurnzal is struck by glitter and retreats temporarily.
Eramay reads a scroll of bull's strength.
Rataji hurls Eramay at Joliryn, who ducks under the strong swing.
Falth, unphased by the glitter, moves from behind the cover of Rataji and looses two arrows at G2, the first striking in the arm and the second in the chest.
Eramay notices a ruby on the wall next to her light up firing a ray that strikes her.
G1 swings wildly at Shohiraj, connecting on a lucky swing.
G2 steps back, says, "Take out their legs!" and rubs the glitter from his eyes.
G3 moves to defend Shohiraj from Eramay, striking her on the shoulder.
Initiative
Thestil: Go
Thestil moves near the guard fighting with Shohirai and takes a stab at him with her bladed belt...
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Thestil strikes true and the guard falters, barely maintaining his feet.
Joliryn imbues her blade with eldritch power, before casting defensively causing her kukri to crackle with electricity, which she uses to slice into Eramay, nicking her armor on a second attempt.
Initiative Round 2
Shohiraj: Go
Falth: Go
Zurnzal: Go
Rataji: Go
Eramay: Go
"Your usefulness to the Consortium has come to an end, traitor," Eramay sneers, the hairs on her neck still stinging with static. "Your life is forfeit," she adds, pointing the tip of her scimitar down to the halfling before making two quick slices at her.
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She has -2 to AC against the rest of the enemies.
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Thestil steps away from the injured guard who's become the focus of her companions efforta attacking the one stepping near them instead...
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The first of Zurnzal's punches knocks out G1 and he swings the second into the gut of G2.
The force of Rataji's magic missiles send Joliryn tumbling backwards unconscious.
Despite swinging around the corner, Shohiraj connects 2 solid blows on G3, who was focused solely on Eramay, dropping him instantly.
Falth shoots into the room, his arrow sinking into G2.
G2 takes a step forward and swings his hammer at Shohiraj, mistiming the attempt due to that last arrow, before Thestil steps up and slices his neck with her belt.
Wrathful ring of spell storing: The ring acts as a minor ring of spell storing, but it is further enchanted to allow the wearer can apply the Empower Spell metamagic feat to one stored spell by only increasing the effective spell level by 1, not 2. The wearer does not need to have the Empower Spell feat to use this property. The ring currently contains fireball (CL 7th, DC 17).
In addition to finding the loot and some evidence on this laboratory's activities on Joliryn, you find that the room contains several unknown creatures kept preserved in fluid as well as several logbooks that describe sundry bizarre fauna, pieces of creatures, chemicals, and other supplies brought into the facility. These records go into little detail but suggest the lab has been in operation for at least 5 years. They also mention that the facility’s name is Slumbersun.
As the last guard drops, Shohiraj begins quickly and methodically patting down the fallen figures and stripping them of useful tools. Weighing a curative potion in her hand, the rogue looks at Eramay. "You need this? Nice slicing, but looks like you got a prick yourself."
The Taldan woman also lifts and feels the weight of kukri in her hand. "Good balance, quick flicks. Anyone mind I grab this for a backup?"
The gear sorted, Shohiraj tries to make sense of the papers and logs scattered about. "So, this place keeps getting more and more pleasant. 'Slumbersun' - eclipse scheme maybe? 'D be right up Nidal's alley. Five years tho...the Consortium's leak's a bit bigger than they realize. R, Faith, Thestil: you recognize any of these creatures?" She nods towards the preserved specimens in the room at this last question.
"Much appreciated," Eramay replies, accepting and consuming the potion. "No doubt they know we're here," she adds, pinning her silver badge proudly to her leather overcoat. "Let's make sure they don't live long enough to forget it."
The creatures are unbelievable amalgamations, but you may be able to identify more about them You may be able to find more importance in the texts here
As you continue onward, the obvious route that leads more deeply into the complex is blocked by a thick blast door. The only alternative leads south into an artificial, forested habitat where the contain alien species for experimentation. A metal inscription etched above the door reads Bretheda Dome 3.
Blue-hued light emanates from the domed ceiling at the center of this two-story, artificial environment. Broad metal grates make a perimeter about the room about ten feet above the lush habitat below. Paths cross between strange shrubs and low trees, and vines cling to the walls and dangle in clumps across parts of the ceiling. At the center of the room stands a small metal pavilion. Behind the thick glass in the southern corners of the room lie small laboratories filled with bookshelves, dissection tables, and workbenches. In each room, 3 researchers stand burning, shredding, and pouring acid on documents and specimens that would be of great interest to your patron.
Initiative Round 1
Shohiraj: Go
Eramay: Go
Zurnzal: Go
Rataji: Go
Thestil: Go
Falth: Go
As they continue on, Shohiraj with a nice new cloak , The thief looks uneasy as they emerge into a strange tropical display.
Glad their platform is high above the green floor, the thief enters the room, only to notice several men and women frantically trying to destroy the records they're there to find.
Oh no you don't! Not today. Shohiraj thinks as she rushes towards the nearest room, drawing out the halfling's kukri to mathc the sap in her other hand.
"Stop, now." She says as she reaches the glass barroer, unsure if her words even carry to the trio. "There's this," a nod towards the sap, [/b]"if you do. This,"[/b] the kukri, "Only needs to come up if I have to break in there."
"There are lizards on the ground floor. Ignore them! Get into the labs!"
"Stop right there, you scum! If you do we may show some mercy..." says Thestil advancing on the miscreants...
You move forward into the room. Thestil makes the researchers pause momentarily, before they laugh off someone whose only threatening weapon is a belt. Falth lobs a shot at the opposing laboratory, which lodges into the now heavily cracked glass.
Initiative
Zurnzal: Go
Before Zurnzal goes, both he and Rataji feel something probing into their minds attempting to confuse them.
You all become acutely aware of the presence of S (an emaciated quadruped with a mouth full of jagged teeth and a cluster of bald, mewling offspring clinging to its back) behind the metal structure.
Initiative Round 1
Zurnzal: Go
Initiative Round 2
Shohiraj: Go
Eramay: Go
Zurnzal: Go
Rataji: Go
Thestil: Go
Falth: Go
"Destroy one more document and your lives are forfeit!" Eramay shouts towards the closest lab, a small part of her wondering if they can even hear her through the glass.
Shrugging, she moves further towards the far lab.
"You'll hear me in a second, and then I'll make you'll wish you were listening," she mutters under her breath. she shouts to Falth, much more audibly.
Zurnzal connects a solid blow to V4.
V1 takes a bite out of Eramay's cloak as she goes past, but she is unscathed.
Falth steps a bit closer and fires an arrow into the side of the creature that just tried to bite Eramay. He then fires a second arrow into the far glass pane shattering it and causing the researchers to flee.
Shohiraj winces at the shrieking cry before lashing out for two quick blows against the glass.
She then shifts slightly towards Eramay, ready to move in and flank the strange lizard.
Shohiraj heavily cracks the glass, but it does not break.
Initiative Round 2
Rataji: Go
Thestil: Go
S
Zurnzal: Go