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Karu looks kindly at Kynrac and bows his head. "Thank you for your aid! We shall share a kale smoothie once we are back to the Lodge!" he says proudly before moving to inspect the door opened by Faldoc.
Karu stands in the entrance and gazes into the darkness, scowling at what he sees.
"There is something... trapped in some sort of column that seems to be causing the darkness." Karu tells Faldoc as he shudders from the unnatural chill. "It does not seem that Adril is in this room, however." he adds.
"Let's move on. I care not to deal with the trappings of the Decimvirate without extensive knowledge." Karu reasons as he looks around.
The purplish room to the west looks to be a good starting point and he moves into the long room and up to the door, pulling it open to check the contents.
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5 This room is entirely lightless. Those with darkvision can see, at the center, a massive, metal-framed cylinder filled with strange black liquid. A plaque upon its base reads “The Orvian.” The strange liquid within the cylinder seems to devour any light and gives off an eerie chill.
Well what do we have here
...+2 if I need spellcraft
Looks to be a cylinder filled with a strange black liquid, It's called The orvian, anyone heard of it?
I would suggest we move along
Mark will send an eyeball around the perimeter, having it return when it can go no further
Karu opens the door to reveal a small display room lined with iron stands displaying massive scrimshaw tusks from great woolly mastodons, each engraved with thousands of tiny pictographs. Canvases displayed about the room depict artistic renderings of the pictographs along with their conceptual meanings. These translations tell the histories of various tribes living in the Realm of the Mammoth Lords.
Markavious's magical eyes zip along the long hallway.
After a bit of study, Markavious believes the substance is 'black blood' as mysterious fluid found in the Darklands. Ingesting it gives the drinker enhanced power over necromancy but has dangerous side effects.
#11 After a short hallway, the room opens into small gallery that displays an impressive collection of Tian art. Upon shelves lining the room rest dozens of handblown glass baubles, each hiding a tiny etching of a bucolic scene within. Above the baubles, stylized brush and ink paintings hang upon the walls, depicting carp and dragons amid rolling waves and wind-whipped mountains. Wooden stands about the room display a menagerie of small ivory carvings, including a pair of foo dogs, several unusual dragons, a bear, a fisherman, a cluster of rats, and an osprey. The eyes of the osprey seem to follow the party as they pass through the gallery.
An arch to the north opens to a curved passage. To the east, a small antechamber houses a curved staircase rises up into darkness.
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"One second... that bird is looking at us." Karu remarks quietly as Faldoc insists on moving onward.
Noticing the osprey's eyes following him, Karu boldly moves to inspect the ivory carving. He hefts the bird into his hands if he is able and casts Detect Magic on it, as well as the other statues, trying to see if these items are magical in nature and possibly dangerous.
After a bit of study, Karu believes the figure is a figurine of wondrous power. This one appears to be quite unique.
The figurine animates with a chirp and takes to the air. It flies north until it disappears out of sight.
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"Oh... Well that was disappointing." remarks Karu, envisioning a large bird of prey perched on his shoulder for the final confrontation with Adril. As the bird takes its leave of the Decimvirate's sanctum, he waves at it. "Good luck on doing whatever it is you are doing, bird!"
Smiling, he turns to Faldoc. "Alright, let's press on with your idea Faldoc!" he says in encouragement to the archer. He exeunts the room to the south and head to the east, finding a door. "Steel yourselves, men!" he says confidently as he opens the door, shield at the ready.
There's a noticeable change in the air as Karu opens the door. This is the displaced ambassador's chamber Eliza mentioned.
The room is well-furnished, with sofas and plush chairs lining the walls. A shelf holds ledgers with an array of names and dates, presumably signed by visitors. Some of the names have numbers referencing journals or notes supposedly filed elsewhere within the chamber. One half of a small, rough-cut geode rests on a brass stand. To the west, a small antechamber houses a curved staircase rises up into darkness.
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Karu, looking for the device to contact the Society, spies the geode. "Anyone have thoughts on how to use a rock to contact the Society?" he asks as he picks it up and looks it over with Detect Magic.
I hope this is it and not something else in this room... he thinks to himself, imagining the embarrassment. Surreptitiously, he looks around the room to see if there is anything else of note.
Karu spots assorted stationary and writing quills but nothing else of interest.
After a bit of study Markavious believes operating the geode is as simple as touching the geode, concentrating on an individual, and speaking a message.
There's no reply but Markavious believes his message has been delivered.
The party ascends the stairs into a hall that displays architectural artifacts recovered from the ruined islands of lost Azlant, far to the west. Renderings of strange designs hang as backdrops behind scale models of various structures. Excerpts from Pathfinder journals document the post-Starfall migration and cultural progression of the survivors of Azlant’s destruction.
The pair of large clockwork creatures standing guard here immediately move to attack the party!
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...I don't know which one is relevant
1. The order of their saves in order from highest to lowest. (e.g. Fort - Will - Ref)
2. Elemental resistances and immunities
3. Special attacks
4. Special defenses
5. Do they have combat reflexes or any other ability that will let them make attacks of opportunity.
Mark casts Haste on the group remaining invisible
Markavious recognizes these creatures as clockwork golems. They're somewhat fragile and dim-witted, are immune to magic, can grab/grind foes, and convert themselves into a wall of grinding gears.
Faldoc's arrows tear through one of them, badly damaging the construct.
The further construct steps forward and slams into Atum. It grabs hold of the Monolith and pulls him into the grinding gears within its torso.
The other construct squeezes into the room and then unfolds itself into a wall of crushing gears.
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If not I will see if Atum escapes if he can't I will cast Liberating Command on Atum
If it can reach me then back I go and will cast Liberating Command on Atum if he cannot free himself.
If Atum escapes Mark will hold or back away depending on if he can get hit or not
Yeah Options
Kynrac's adamantine-tipped arrows finish off the first construct and then make quick work of the unfolded one. When they're destroyed the clockworks explode sending dangerous shrapnel across the room.
The granite walls of this narrow chamber are mounted with metal plates supporting huge iron gears, all turning slowly, churning an array of chains, belts, cogs, and other devices. The west section of the chamber opens into a wider, clover-shaped chamber to the south, its walls armored in bronze and copper plates. Copper nozzles protrude from between the plates, dripping black grease. The grease stains the floor beneath in pools of scintillating rainbow.
There doesn't look to be anything of interest or value here.
Moving on, Karu/Atum open the double doors.
#17 Dozens of artistically displayed chunks of twisted, unidentifiable metal, embossed with alien symbols, decorate this chamber. Maps placed near individual chunks denote the locations and specific years in which the items were discovered. The north wall has two alcoves. On the floor in front of the eastern arch lies a metal door, apparently blown off its hinges. Numerous spatters of blood crisscross the floor.
Markavious see three invisible figures waiting in ambush: a greasy half-elf dressed in furs, a stunningly attractive elven woman gripping a short sword, and a brawny Taldan woman armed with a bow. Even with his see invisibility spell, their forms are blurred and difficult to focus on.
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Karu easily avoids the clockwork explosions as they harmlessly clatter about. "Are you all ok? " he asks as they are beset by more trouble father into the sanctum.
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Markavious hits the room with Dispel Magic: Greater going for the 20' area dispel hopefully getting all three and excluding us of course if not get at least the two closest to our group
...oh yeah
Markavious feels his spell take hold and the elven woman's form is no longer blurred (though she's still invisible).
The brawny woman levels her bow and prepares to fire.
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Kynrac calls upon his extraordinary talents of sight to gaze upon their enemies.
Seeing their enemies, he does his best to warn his companions of the three enemies hiding from them.
"One enemy around the left corner, another along the right wall, and a last one at the back, to the right!" he calls out, pointing the latter with his charred finger. Then the oracle takes off, rising above his companions to be out of reach.