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Jani rushes past the others into the room, and gasps as they see the creature.
"It's a vermelek demon! Vulnerable to positive energy, resistant to magic and most energies, probably weak to cold iron!"
"However, nothing is immune to bad luck! "
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The vermlek Dakang moves strangely (as you have seen another nightmare creature do) and suddenly there are appear to be two of it! It then pauses for a moment and the room fills with a deadly aura, seeking and draining the life energy from Jani, Turan, and Wuliem!
Turan summons just enough will to resist the worst of it, but is still drained.
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Jani seems to lose the preternatural assurance that generally guides their actions. The red glow of their eyes flickers, and they murmur, "Mother... no... what..." before blinking and coming to their senses.
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Hagan thinks of all the misery this horrid being had caused to this community, and felt keenly Erastil's righteous rage. He moved in and focused his god's ire as he gripped his axe.
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Quite unexpectedly, the demon seems completely unfazed by Herman's silent scream.
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Wincing in obvious pain, Wuliem takes a 5' step closer to the foul beast!
Wuliem gulps down the other extract in his hand.
School transmutation; Level alchemist 1
CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
EFFECT
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 round/level
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.
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Then Wuliem tosses the vial in his other hand at the demon!
Price 50 gp; Weight 1 lb.
DESCRIPTION
Harvested and concentrated from the remains of slain ghasts, this foul-smelling powder is kept in tightly sealed flasks. It is thrown as a splash weapon and the flask breaks on impact, releasing noxious dust. The target is nauseated for 1 round and sickened for 3 rounds after that. A successful DC 12 Fortitude save prevents the nauseated condition, but not the sickened condition. Creatures within 5 feet of where the flask hits are sickened for 1 round. This is a poison effect.
Hagan's arrow flies true, propelled by divine might, and hit the real Dakang, piercing the dead flesh of the human disguise and thick hide of the demon.
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Jani coughs and makes a hex sign with their fingers, picturing Hagan's arrows piercing its bloated body.
The androgynous tiefling ducks back and retreats to the corridor, drawing a wand from their belt as they move.
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Jani attempts to hex the demon with a glance of an evil eye before retreating.
Storn draws and loads his crossbow.
Turan, having slung his three-section staff, draws his powerful composite longbow and fires at the demon, hitting the real one in the gut.
Dakang gestures and gurgles an intonation, pointing a dead-fleshy finger at Hagan!
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Hagan trembles before the sight of the unholy monstrosity that is Dakang. Suddenly his strength fails him and he must flee.
"This horror is beyond us! We must run!"
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Wuliem, having just downed his extract, pulls his materials out.
He smiles--wickedly--as he hurls a Frost bomb at Dakang!
Wuliem then applies the alchemical item to his dagger.
At 2nd level, a grenadier can infuse a weapon or piece of ammunition with a single harmful alchemical liquid or powder, such as alchemist’s fire or sneezing powder, as a move action. This action consumes the alchemical item, but transfers its effect to the weapon in question.
The alchemical item takes full effect on the next creature struck by the weapon, but does not splash, spread, or otherwise affect additional targets. Any extra damage added is treated like bonus dice of damage, and is not doubled on a critical hit. The alchemical treatment causes no harm to the weapon treated, and wears off 1 minute after application if no blow is struck. At 6th level, a grenadier can use her alchemical weapon ability as a swift action. At 15th level, this ability becomes a free action.
This ability replaces poison resistance.
Hagan is overcome by the fear spell, if not fear itself, and runs from the room, overcome.
Herman sends a cacophony of sharp sounds flying towards the demon Dakang and he or it is unable to dodge them, but the piercing notes seems blunted by the beings supernatural essence.
Wuliem aims at the creature but chooses the wrong target, obliterating merely an image.
Storn moves into the room, fires and misses terribly, perhaps because of his great rage at both the demon and the blasted contraption in his hand.
Jani restores some of the life drained from their body.
Turan fires another cold iron arrow with his strong bow, but misses.
Dakang moves weirdly and creates another mirror to replace the one destroyed, then casts a spell to undue the blessing of Gorum.
Hagan moves through the next door, then stops, panting and shaking.
Storn hits the real demon Dakang, grazing one of the five jaws with his bolt.
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"Friend Storn! Channel Positive energy, as if it were undead!"
Jani bravely takes out their crossbow and loads a cold iron bolt into it.
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Turan hit the demon on the ceiling, piercing the worm and causing great convulsions.
Wuliem then throws his frost bomb and it goes down the creature's gullet, exploding and causing horrendous damage, frozen chunks of worm flying out of the beast's maw. The demon then, though still stuck to the ceiling, falls limp, writhing and dying, 20 feet up, bleeding gore in wide sprays to the ground below.
Herman's small bolt is now able to shoot and stick in the creature, adding a small insult to injury.
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Hagan walks in feeling shamed.
"My friends. I am deeply sorry for my cowardice. His evil magic overwhelmed my bravery. I shall make it up to you, somehow."
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Searching the room, you find Dakang’s quarterstaff is crafted of fine metals and exhibits exquisite craftsmanship, especially in its elegant representation of the Spiral of Korada.
You also find some of the texts that were missing from the library , each carefully and extensively marked with notes, you can see from a quick perusal, on how the true faith of Korada can be circumvented to pay homage to the demon lord Sifkesh, demon lord of heresy and suicide.
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Hagan notes the importance of the texts.
"We need to show the people here these books. They may have been mislead, but their faith was genuine. They deserve to know of the true Korada and his ways."
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The aasimar are still cowed, and are now very contrite about, well, everything. More than anything they are mentally stunned, as are all of the devotees as the truths about Dakang and about his worship - something that is all they have know, done, and devoted themselves to their entire lives - has been revealed to not only a lie, but a five-mawed demonic lie.
Di Duang, your guide, says, bowing deeply, that, "We will be forever grateful for leading us to the right path, and will spend our lives from now unraveling Korada’s teachings from Dakang’s perversions."
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"I feel like I'm forgetting something."
He then snaps his fingers. "Oh, right."
Hagan then turned to Storn. "I believe I promised to punch you."
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Di Duang, speaking for everyone, emphasizes, "You are welcome to stay as long as you want, and the Pathfinder Society will always be welcome back here."
Epilogue
The body of Wei, the halfling patriarch is soon found, not having been on a walk but having hung himself in the kitchen, where no one normally went and where the party had not visited. Previously, bodies were wrapped in a white sheet and delivered to Dakang, whom they thought performed a private ritual to “celestially transcend” the dead, but now the devotees decide to bury the body in the nearby field.