Temujin shrugs as the fire washes over him. "Weakling..."
He blasts the apprentice who threw the bomb with a gout of fire of his own making. "Let me show you what a real wielder of flame can do!"
Temujin's eyes glow red as flame erupts from the air around the apprentice.
Galter cuts into one of the apprentices! Tobian's ray flies wild and nearly hits what might be an explosive component on a shelf! Temujin finishes off the injured apprentice, allowing Thomson to move and hurt the other!
T:
red: 15 dmg
Ruckus drops the other apprentice!
"What do I do to defeat her?" Flinn asks.
"What else stands between us and her?" Galtar asks.
"Two doors and an alchemical golem," Flinn responds.
"Are you the golem's creator? Will it obey you?"
With the fight over, Zeldones tries to activate his wand of infernal healing.
The mesmerist begins to recover from the bomb damage.
"I am not its creator but I have modified it. It will not harm me nor Anobaith, but has been instructed to guard Verus and Branda ruthlessly against anyone else."
"And this will help defeat Anobaith? Ok...."
Taergan Flinn exits through the door for a few moments. He then returns with the two adventures, ragged and beaten but still mobile and alive. They both look quite confused at this turn of events but upon seeing you their faces dawn in understanding. "You did it! How did you convince Taergan to let us free?"
"Never mind that, he's not listening to that foul daemon right now and that's all for the better!" Verus cuts in. "Right now all I'm concerned about it dealing with her."
And how would you go about doing that? I'd like to hear your suggestion, please.
Galtar nods in agreement. "That is our concern as well. Now that you are safe I believe we can proceed with her defeat. Perhaps you can tell the golem Verus and Branda have been moved to the orchard and to go there and guard them?"
Branda and Verus are ready to fight alongside you, although they are lacking in gear or weapons.
Taergan responds, "But I can walk right past it. How would tricking the golem help me defeat Anobaith?"
"I do not believe you can defeat Anobaith by yourself. We are more than willing to assist you. So if the golem were gone, it would be much easier for us to help you to defeat her."
During the conversation, Zeldones continues to heal himself.
Temujin silently waits for these tall people to be done with their trickery. He toys with his obsidian by turning it into various shapes.
Verus and Branda are at 9/32 and 4/12 HP respectively. It doesn't have full stats so I'm not sure how much ability damage (if any) that they have but they are also old, which is dragging their stats down.[/ooc]
"Come on, you know they're right! Just help us for a little bit longer and we'll get you somewhere safe." Verus begs Flinn. The alchemist considers it for a bit and says, "Give me an hour to shut down the golem."
He then exits through the door with a few tools to work on dismantling the alchemical golem.
Galtar will trance before hand with the the winged serpent, giving him Time to Strike for 1 minute.
Zeldones will use three charges of infernal healing from his wand on the two rescuees.
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Ruckus gives his portion of the weirding watch to Verus, then uses his psychic powers to remove fear in his allies and shield himself from harm.
Once everyone is ready, he suggests Verus activate his watch, and when everyone with a piece is hasted, his face twists in rage and he growls, "Let's kill a f#@$in demon!"
Galtar takes a piece of the weirding watch.
You move past a room featuring empty cells and a deactivated alchemical golem. Taergan points the way to Anobaith's lair.
This dark den is the stuff of nightmares. Foul-smelling incense wafts skull-shaped puffs of smoke into the air. The room’s floor is marked with sinister sigils. A pile of furs and flayed skin acts as a makeshift bed for the room’s lone occupant, who sits demurely with her legs folded under a sheer, white gown marked with unsettling stains. The fiend resembles a classically beautiful woman in form, but her hands and feet are withered and charred, ending in black, skeletal claws. Elegant white scars cover her blue skin, and her grotesquely beautiful face is framed with blackened ram horns. A red eye glares above her brow. A menacing snake slithers out from behind her gown—a hungry, fanged tail. An actual snake, one with blue runes running down its back, slithers nearby.
"Thousands of years ago I left the bleak plane of Abaddon to rush the wills and hopes of humans on Avistan." Anobaith says. "And you think to stop me now? I shant shed a tear at your worthless deaths."
Tobian casts Haste and moves back.
Tobian hastes the party! Ruckus' missiles hit both Anobaith and the snake! He also notes that the missiles hitting the snake nearly knock the life right out of it!
The snake slithers up to Thomson and bites!
but misses.
Anobaith casts a quick spell and catches everyone but Tobian in a cone of foul energy that brings crushing despair down on the party!
She follows this up with a spell aimed at who she determines is the most threatening in melee: Galtar!
Temujin laughs at her pathetic attempt to replicate true despair with her magicks. "Is she even worth my time?" Temujin asks as he blasts her with molten hot magma that geysered up from the crude floor at her.
Mind buoyed by his towering ego, Zeldones shrugs off the mental assault. Then he fixes Anobaith with a bold stare and taps Thomson. "The power of Mileren's Mesmeric Mirror will protect you!" The spiritualist is suddenly surrounded by a pair of illusory duplicates.
Temujin gives a heavy blast to the daemon and Zeldones breaks into her mind!
crushing despair and 1 negative level. Both of which wouldn't affect my attacks this round...so I hope they hit :)
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Ahhh! What the hell is that! C'mon Rage, take that thing down!
The Rage laughs at the demon's magic. "F&*$ you and your f@$*in demon magic! Eat a mind bullet! b*$%#!"
Thomson easily finishes off the snake! Galtar hits Anobaith with his first hit but she dodges his second! Ruckus then tears at her mind!
Frowning as he explains about the creature (read spoiler) Tobian nonetheless uses an
Tobian's blast only chills her.
"You're not a very pretty one." Anobaith comments of Galtar. "I don't think this will help."
Temujin sidesteps and blasts her with magma once more. "You should have given up and gone home, demon."
Tobian moves forward and heals Galtar!
Galtar shifts behind the demon and swings his holy scimitar again!
Thomson misses but Temujin's blast is enough to take down the erodaemon!
Anobaith wears an interesting item: a gorget of living whispers. Crandel’s and Tulles’s equipment are stowed in the cabinet on the east wall. She also wears 2,300 gp in jewelry decorated with four smoky gray soul gems.
PRICE
15,000 GP
SLOT neck CL 9th WEIGHT —
AURA moderate conjuration and enchantment
Once per day as a standard action, the wearer of this collar can speak a suggested course of action. Her words coalesce into a living whisper—a sinuous creature with blue runes lining its back—that appears in a square adjacent to her. The living whisper uses the statistics of a fiendish venomous snake (Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 255, 294), but has an Intelligence score of 3 and can communicate telepathically with the gorget’s wearer. Instead of being poisoned, any creature bitten by the living whisper must succeed at a DC 14 Will save or be affected by a suggestion spell (CL 9th). This suggestion is determined when the living whisper is summoned and affects all creatures bitten by it. Creatures that can read Aklo can read the runes on the living whisper and know what suggestion is carried by its bite. A living whisper lasts for 1 minute or until slain.
Crandel and Tulles take Flinn into their own custody to nurse his mind back to health after the control of the daemon. He admits to working on an elixir or device which would extend the lives of his friends so that they could stay young like him, a half-elf, and remain with him longer. It was this desire, so innocent at first, that led him to follow the daemon.
Back in Cassomir, you are quickly hailed as heroes when the tale of your daemon slaying is told. The city of Cassomir declares Tristeza House devoid of ownership, and offers you right of first refusal on the condition they help manage the monsters and other hazards of the Verduran. All three of them offer their own weirding watches to you as rewards.