If it is possible, I would like to show them we are more experienced than them and more suited for this mission.
So they must let us search for the prophecy and deal with their Captain.
If needed, I could make a intimidate check with the story of how we killed the demon in less than one round :P
I was keeping Discern Lies up in case they respond to the request to share their stories. If that's going to wind up being irrelevant I'll try another tact.
Embla interjects, "I don't know about. . . " and Graukur interrupts with a squawk, "What! What are we waiting for? More Grand Lodge scum!"
Sorry, they're out to take out anyone not allied with the Shadow Lodge. They're not going to let any non-Shadow Lodge people talk to their Captain. This was Season 2 after all.
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
Nice to see something other then demons for a chance..too bad they are trying to kill us again...
Ceric summons forth a large ball of churning water while using his rod and sends the ball gushing through the room
(casting aquas orb, using a charge of my lesser metamagic rod, dazing. I can move it 6 squares so summoning it on the table I should be able to move it over all 3 of them)
DC21 reflex save for all of them or take non lethal damage:2d6 ⇒ (2, 5) = 7 If any damage is taken dazed for 3 rounds and make another DC21 reflex save or get sucked into the ball (becoming entangled and gaining cover, having to make a new DC21 reflex save again each round to be tossed out to an adjacent square or take 2d6 damage again)moving along with it. I'll stop the ball so that it's NE to Devko
Rovald Ref:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 Embla Ref:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18 damage:2d6 ⇒ (4, 6) = 10 So Rovald falls out of the orb but Embla is still inside. Either way, they are still dazed so Gregor, Devko, and Ceric can take their actions as well.
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
After Ezrek has taking his turn (don't want to accidentally provide any enemy with cover)Ceric will cast Acid splash at Graukur
To hit touch Ac Graukur:1d20 + 6 - 4 - 4 ⇒ (8) + 6 - 4 - 4 = 6 cover and into melee.
and then with a flick of his wrist Ceric sends the ball of churning water spinning around he room again.
Should be able to target any enemy not inside it at the moment (So Graukur and Rovald - since Embla took damage from being inside the orb, dazed reset to 3 rounds again, she also will start drowing..but that's most likely not relevant).
DC21 reflex save for all of them or take non lethal damage: 2d6 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6 If any damage is taken dazed for 3 rounds and make another DC21 reflex save or get sucked into the ball (becoming entangled and gaining cover, having to make a new DC21 reflex save again each round to be tossed out to an adjacent square or take 2d6 non lethal damage again)moving along with it. I'll stop the ball so that it's NE of Devko
AC28(38)/T18(22)/F23(33)/CMD32(38)||HP202[136]|F:+15(18);R:+17(21);W+11|Percept. +23(+31 trapspotter)|Init.+5(+9) Human Alchemist (Cryptbreaker) 16
Ezrek lifts five feet into the air and tosses some bombs at Embla (unless I'm reading wrong. EF has Rovald in the orb, but Ceric said Embla is in the orb. Ez will target whichever is not in the orb.
"Big mistake...." Gregor remarks as he steps forward five feet. Calling for his weapon to be a bane against the Tengu, he pummels Graukur with his morningstar.
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
Ceric will ready to move the aquas orb over Graukur if he does anything funny.
"Devko,Gregor..can you please make sure these "nice" people are properly relieved of any dangerous items they have on them they could use to hurt us with at the moment."
Gregor checks to see if any of the shadow agents have rope of their own before utilizing his own resources to secure the prisoners. "It's not that I don't trust you, but...well let's be honest. I don't trust you."
The party ties up the complicit Shadow Lodge agents. Graukur tells you that they were not lying; they came here to recover a prophecy and their Captain is in the basement now. He is the only other one who came with them.
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
To just the party Ceric says: "What do we want to do with them? I am against leaving them untied to come after us, but if we leave them tied-up here...there are a lot of demons around...."
Ceric then nods at Ezrek. " Let's go down and see what's going on there"
The safe house’s cellar has withstood the horrors of the Abyssal invasion better than the rest of the building, and so have the few remaining relics and adventuring supplies stored within it. Various crates, shelves, and barrels hold relatively well-preserved adventuring gear, weapons, scrolls, and books. Rows of stone shelves cut into the south wall stand strangely empty, however, though traces in the dust on the shelves indicate that a large number of bound volumes were recently removed.
DC 8 Survival:
You can clearly follow tracks leading to and ending at the northern wall.
DC 20 Perception:
On the north wall you find a small hidden pressure plate in the stone that clearly opens the secret door nearby.
DC 25 Perception:
An investigation of the shelves shelves reveals a small crack between a low shelf and the wall in which a narrow chapbook fell years ago. The book contains none of the prophecy itself, but rather a journal kept by the nursemaid who tended the sick and demented oracle whose mad writings once filled the wall. It reveals that the prophet’s name was Alathra Binzet and that she was rumored to be over a 150 years old when she began prophesying, transcribing her visions in her native Hallit but in a hand unlike her own.
"And look here…this book must have fallen in this crack behind the shelves. Looks like a journal of some sort about a 150 year old prophet; although it was apparently written by the woman who cared for her and not the prophet herself."
AC28(38)/T18(22)/F23(33)/CMD32(38)||HP202[136]|F:+15(18);R:+17(21);W+11|Percept. +23(+31 trapspotter)|Init.+5(+9) Human Alchemist (Cryptbreaker) 16
Ezrek nods to the secret door and the pressure plate. "Everyone ready? Oh, by the way, I have a rod that extends spells. I tried to use it with my extracts, but it failed to work. If any would like to use it, your welcome to it."
Following through the secret door leads you through a 5-foot-wide tunnel of packed earth that runs for nearly a mile at a slight incline in a northwestern direction. (So Devko's images have faded by this point)
The tunnel gets gradually wider until it stretches almost 15 feet across, and finally emerges onto a blasted plain of dust and gravel through a nondescript 10-foot-wide hole in the ground far from sight or earshot of Storasta. The landscape here is beyond desolate—former farmland blasted into oblivion by the horrors of the Abyss. Nothing grows here now, and the area is a flat wasteland that stretches to the horizon. Now the thirsty ground is cracked, with molten rivulets flowing deep beneath the surface and casting a haunting glow upon the terrain. A persistent chittering rises and falls from no particular direction.
A young man runs ahead of you, followed by three babau demons; the group turns to face off with you when they notice your pursuit.
"Let's try this on for size..." Mumbling a few words Gregor draws his longspear and asks Abadar to make it a bane against demons. He then asks for Protection from Evil to ready himself against the upcoming demonic onslaught.
He looked like he was fleeing you with the demons protecting him, but they turned to face you when they saw you catching up.
Devko creates several images of himself while Ceric hastes the party. Gregor prepares himself for the battle ahead.
Ceric remembers that these are babau demons; they have DR/cold iron or good, are immune to electricity and poison, and have resistances to acid, cold, fire, and spells. Like most demons, they can greater teleport at will. They have sneak attack and a protective slime (that probably can't break the hardness of your weapons at this point). They are currently wielding longspears.
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Two of the demons teleport to either side of the party. The other then moves up and stabs at Gregor!
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
spellcraft check:1d20 + 19 ⇒ (12) + 19 = 31
Ceric regonizes the spell being cast as a chain lightning and as an immediate action puts up an emergency force sphere.
Emergency force sphere:
School evocation [force]; Level sorcerer/wizard 4
CASTING
Casting Time 1 immediate action
Components V
EFFECT
Range 5 ft.
Effect 5-ft.-radius hemisphere of force centered on you
Duration 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw None; Spell Resistance no
DESCRIPTION
As wall of force, except you create a hemispherical dome of force with hardness 20 and a number of hit points equal to 10 per caster level. The bottom edge of the dome forms a relatively watertight space if you are standing on a reasonably flat surface. The dome shape means that falling debris (such as rocks from a collapsing ceiling) tend to tumble to the side and pile up around the base of the dome. If you make a DC 20 Craft (stonemasonry), Knowledge (engineering), or Profession (architect or engineer) check, the debris is stable enough that it retains its dome-like configuration when the spell ends, otherwise it collapses.
Normally this spell is used to buy time for dealing with avalanches, floods, and rock-slides, though it is also handy in dealing with ambushes.
As I understand it, I've just put up a wall of force around myself and Ezrek before it could hit us (can't get the others in there). It will damage the wall (80-47 hps=33 hps left for the wall, not sure if hardness works against lightning damage, if it does it will have 20 hps more. I think it will still arc through to Devko and Gregor
Male Elf Hps 57/57 (+0 temps) AC 14 (17) touch 12 FF 12 (15) CMD 14 Fort +5 Ref +5 Will +7 Init +4 Perc. +0 Sense motive +0 lvl 11 Elf Conjurer
Spells active:
Mage armor, Ablative barrier,
Ceric looks at Ezrek
"I'm fine inside here..but it seems a bit unfair to let Devko and Gregor do all the fighting on their own. Give the word and I'll get us out of this so we can join them"
Readying Dimensional steps to move myself and Ezrek 40ft to the west so that we'll be 20 ft away from Caggigar and Ezrek can unload his bombs on something that doesn't seem to be a demon.
Ceric protects himself and the alchemist from the lightning before it hits. He then pulls Ezrek along with him as he dimensionally steps around the demons.
Ref:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Ezrek then hurls four explosives at the Shadow Lodge leader, catching him on fire!
Initiative:
1. Devko, Ceric, and Gregor
2. Caggigar and demons
3. Ezrek
"Two can play at that game!" As Gregor address the demon a series of explosions envelope the caster at the far end of the room. Realizing he is at a strategic disadvantage where he stands Gregor Dimension Hops to greet the lone demon to the north. "Peek-a-boo!" Gregor thrusts his demon-baned longspear at the vile creature in the hopes of sending it back to the fiery hells from whence it came.
