Mock vines cling to the walls and hang from the fifty-foot-high domed ceiling, and huts of grass are strewn about the open area. At the center of this sprawling chamber, a miniature replica of a traditional Mwangi ziggurat rises out of the mist to a height of nearly twenty feet. At the top of the ziggurat, a rail-thin elven gentleman is strapped to an altar, his bare chest painted with strange sigils and monkey paw-shaped blots of paint.
Before you you see nearly 20 apes, baboons, and other monkeys reveling here, snarling, spitting, and cavorting madly about the ziggurat. As you are noticed at the door, a terrifying howl shatters the revelry and the primates scatter into the mists around the edges of the room. There, they continue to bang on the floors and walls with scattered objects; slowly the noise coalesces into an ominous rhythm: THUMP ... THUMP ... THUMP ... THUMP ...
From behind the ziggurat emerges their champion, an enormous silverbacked gorilla.
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Wuliem moves into the room (N32).
He reaches into a pocket, producing a bomb!.
He then tosses it at the beast!
School transmutation; Level alchemist 1
CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
EFFECT
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 round/level
This content was created for the Pathfinder rules by Paizo Publishing LLC and is part of the Pathfinder RPG product line.
DESCRIPTION
Upon drinking an extract created with this formula, you make a significant change to your magical reserve that modifies the nature of all bombs you create and throw during this extract’s duration. This effect on your magical reserve has no effect on any discoveries that you use to modify your bombs, but you can only have one admixture effect (formula with the word “bomb admixture” in its title) active at a time. If you drink another bomb admixture, the effects of the former bomb admixture end and the new one becomes active.
When you throw bombs, they can only hit a direct target; they do not splash. However, the bomb deals its base damage plus double your Intelligence modifier instead of just its base damage plus your Intelligence modifier.
This may get a bit...hairy!
The great ape moves towards you, growling and thumping his chest!
As it comes just into range, Herman screams silently and the ape winces visibly, throwing it great paws up around its ears!
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Jani will be behind Storn and touch him to apply the Enlarge as soon as he is clear of the door.
A humanoid creature whose size increases to Large has a space of 10 feet and a natural reach of 10 feet. This spell does not change the target's speed.
If insufficient room is available for the desired growth, the creature attains the maximum possible size and may make a Strength check (using its increased Strength) to burst any enclosures in the process. If it fails, it is constrained without harm by the materials enclosing it—the spell cannot be used to crush a creature by increasing its size.
All equipment worn or carried by a creature is similarly enlarged by the spell. Melee weapons affected by this spell deal more damage (see Table: Tiny and Large Weapon Damage). Other magical properties are not affected by this spell. Any enlarged item that leaves an enlarged creature's possession (including a projectile or thrown weapon) instantly returns to its normal size. This means that thrown and projectile weapons deal their normal damage. Magical properties of enlarged items are not increased by this spell.
Jani will use Evil Eye on the gorilla to make him easier to hit (-2 to AC, DC 14)
Jules rushes ahead and leaves herself open for an attack by the creature's long arms, but, for some reason, the attack doesn't come. She presses her own attacks, though, with a rapier thrush, stabbing the creature through the thigh!
Jules cast an evil eye on the fierce primate.
Storn, adjusting to his new sudden new size, though welcome, proves to be a challenge as the cleric swings his greatsword high above the ape's head.
Wuliem's bomb flies just by the large beast, causing a small but especially intense explosion else where in the room, briefly lighting the room red.
Wuliem gets to where he is going, though it is a strange (and fascinating) experience moving around the edges of the room, where the simians are busy rhythmically banging on the floors and walls with hands and feet and all manner museum exhibits. Fortunately, though, they show you no overt hostility.
Despite the sharp pain in his leg from Jule's rapier, the great beast turns to Storn, his largest opponent, but doesn't act for some reason.
The beast roars as it thumps Storn's mighty chest with one paw, missing with the other.
You feel you have been cursed. Take –2 penalty to attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks.
In addition your skin takes on a rough, wooden appearance.
Herman tries another ear-piercing scream, but it is not obvious if it had an effect on the beast.
Storn, now use to his size, swings the giant greatsword around and downs the gorilla, who falls with a last growl and a thud! There is, indeed, blood to satisfy the thirsty "Lord in Iron." All of the simians go silent for a moment...
Boom Boom lobs a bomb at the downed ape and it hits, but, curiously, it seems as if something absorbed all of the fire damage, leaving the ape unscathed (although still bleeding out).
The ziggurat proves relatively easy to climb, though it is 20 feet tall and extremely steep-sided, and the mists still swirl into enraged simian faces, full of teeth and silently screaming, trying to distract you however they may.
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With a huge thump, the gorilla collapses to the ground, followed by the shock of Wuliem's explosive. Standing a good ten feet tall, Storn towers over his companions and the cavorting monkeys. He places a foot on the gorilla, and throws back his head, bellowing a laugh to the heavens.
"BBAAHHH HA HA HA HA HA! Where's your God now, Monkey-Men?! TREMBLE BEFORE STOOORN!!" He then looks over to see people climbing the ziggurat and Herman singing that weird song. "Oh alright."
With that Storn heads over to climb the edge of the ziggurat, taking several steps at a time.
The melodious chanting - somehow here possible - of the distinguished bard instantly snap the elvish prisoner out of his madness, and you see the now-familiar, angry vapors fume out the mouth and nose, rejoining their brethren.
"Where ... where am I? How did I get up here? Please, someone release me!" says the now-sane man. "My name is Nigel Aldain. I am the curator of this museum. Oh gods, the mists are still here!"
As the few moments of Herman's chant come to a close, a large, dead tree appears on the east side of the ziggurat.
Boom Boom looks at the tree, which appears to all examinations to be a normal, dead tree of a type common to tropical areas, like the Mwangi Expanse, if oddly positioned here, just standing up on the flagstone floor, leaning a bit against the ziggurant with its few branches.
Nigel climbs down wearily from the ziggurat and begins to profusely thank each of you for saving him, but looks warily at the lingering mists. "Have all of the idols been found and destroyed? Of the three, I believe only the one was complete..."
Looking around the room, Jules does not see any of the idols. (A longer, closer inspection by everyone also reveals no idols.)
Jules carefully examines the tree, but doesn't learn anything new. There is nothing under it but intact flagstone, so there are a few exposed roots along with a few dead branches.
"I'm afraid I don't know quite what to tell you, as I was rather not myself until just moments ago. I last remember taking the three idols to storage when the mists arose and I was carried away by these beasts. Have you found any of the idols, or did you see any when you entered this room?"
"Yes, there were three..."