Stefan casts Disrupt Undead and fires a bolt of positive energy into a nearby wall in the hopes that the haunt maybe part of the room, but it does not appear to affect the chains.
The priest winces in pain and begins to cough. He attempts to mask his face, but you can clearly see he's coughing up some blood as well. "Now, nothing to be concerned about! We'll have you all set up in no time, no time at all!" He says with a bloody smile, and now you notice his body beginning to flicker like a poor constructed illusion.
Growing concerned, Teilaenthis tries to stand and looks about himself more closely. "This isn't right... What is going on here? Where is my Earthrbeaker? What is your name?"
"Sit back down, you're going to ruin everything!" The priest demands, as blood now pours out of his nose and mouth. In a matter of seconds, his body quickly becomes more insubstantial until it is completely incorporeal.
"No more!" A disembodied female voice calls out and the priest is yanked with invisible force out of the room.
You then wake up back in the furnace room, surrounded by your compatriots.
* * *
The spectral chains that bound Teilaenthis dissolve into the air and the tiefling occultist returns to consciousness.
Watching as the chains dissolve, Tara throws herself at the now conscious teifling in relief. She gives him an almost bone crushing hug as she begins to shake. "By the gods, Tiel! I-i thought we were going to lose you." she sobs out, for the first time looking like a lost teenage girl. She releases Teil from the embrace only to continue blubbering and shaking while she fingers her worn book of prayers.
"Oh, thank the gods! I thought you might have been lost!"
Nodding wearily to Drace, Teil says "Alright, lets move... the sooner we are done with this place the better."
"Several of us are injured. If we have time and you are willing, my services as a physician are at your disposal."
Examining another door, Drace discovers an abandoned and quite unused privy.
I'm glad you're still with us, Teil...Let's hope we won't find anything more dangerous, you nearly lost your live.
Doctor, I think several of us could use your assistance.
"Hmm... Perhaps it would be best if we returned to the ruins of the infirmary. I'm relatively sure that we have dispelled the ghost that had been haunting that room, at least for now."
The doctor then begins treating Teil...
He then works on Drace...
He then turns his medical attention to Tara...
After a few hours of Dr. Von Herzog's ministrations in which you are mercifully unaccosted by supernatural denizens of Harrowstone, Teilaenthis, Drace, and Tara feel much better. It's now sometime in the early afternoon.
Maybe we could finish to explore the right wing of the prison first, then go to the right ring?
Vivian moves towards the southern door
Stefan nods at Vivian's assessment.
The redhead looks for any traps, on her way to the door and on the door too.
Better safe than sorry, as my mom says. I don't want to escape ghosts and spooky things only to fall prey from a mechanical trap I could have avoided.
Tara sits silently as Stefan administers first aid. She nods numbly in thanks to the good doctor as the group prepares to move on. As Vivian ensures that the path is clear, Tara clutches at her wooden holy symbol with wide eyes.
Teilaenthis quaffs a potion of cure light before continuing on.
While Teilaenthis quaffs one of the healing potions, Vivian examines the southern door of the furnace room for a couple of minutes but finds no traps nor hears anything behind it.
With no objections voiced by the rest of the party, Drace opens the door and proceeds inside.
The northeast wall of this room has partially fallen, revealing the dark, murky waters of the pond outside. Moldering training dummies and other similar equipment hint that this room may have once been a training area for the guards. In the northeast part of the room, the floor around a dark, jagged hole is surrounded by black scorch marks.
As the group filters into the room, hateful shrieks ring out from the pit and three flaming skulls fly out of it, glowering malevolently at the living.
Initiative (Round 1)
Teilaenthis [2 dmg + 1 Con Damage] <= Up
Stefan <= Up
Tara [2 dmg] <= Up
Vivian [1 dmg] <= Up
Sentir [2 dmg] <= Up
Drace <= Up
3 Flaming Skulls
Flaming skulls?!?...
"More spirits of the unquiet dead!"
Stefan casts disrupt undead at the nearest flying skull.
Dr. Von Herzog casts a bolt of positive energy at one of the flaming skulls, but with his allies in the way he misses his mark.
Vivian sends a spiral to another skull
Holding her dagger out in front of her, Tara takes a defensive stance, hoping to not get struck by the floating skulls.
Vivian also casts Disrupt Undead and fires a beam of positive energy over Drace's shoulder, hitting the closest flaming skull and sending smoldering bone fragments off to fall into the pit underneath it.
Drace steps up to the same flaming skull and shatters it with his scimitar.
Tara draws her dagger and places herself into a defensive position to avoid any potential attacks.
Glad to have something to swing at, Teil swings his Earthbreaker at a flaming skull head.
Teilaenthis steps forward and shatters another flaming skull with his earthbreaker.
With the battle apparently well in hand, Sentir waits patiently in the back for the others to finish off the tiny undead.
The last flaming skull screeches and flies into Teilaenthis' personal space. If he does not destroy it first, the skull tries to slam itself into him, but the occultist's armor protects him from the flames.
Initiative (Round 2)
Teilaenthis [2 dmg + 1 Con Damage] <= Up
Stefan <= Up
Tara [2 dmg] <= Up
Vivian [1 dmg] <= Up
Sentir [2 dmg] <= Up
Drace <= Up
Flaming Skull
Swinging away again with his earth breaker...
Teilaenthis easily destroys the last flaming skull as it approaches within 5 feet of him.
Looking over the jagged, scorched edges of the pit, it's difficult to ascertain how deep it drops thanks to the darkness below. Climbing over the edges might be a bit difficult, but once you're past the entrance, the rough stone and timber looks stable enough to make your way down if so inclined.
"I would hesitate before going down there... although there could be a clue as to what may have happened in this room."
The doctor casts a spell, causing his eyes to glow with a faint bluish light. He then looks over the edge into the darkness.
Peering over the edge off the small opening, Tara strains her eyesight but is unable to see the bottom. "This hole is very deep. My enhanced sight cannot see the bottom, and there is no telling how long we will need to climb." Trailing a finger through the dirt of the room, the young cleric frowns heavily at the situation.
Stefan spots no magical auras down the hole, but with her darkvision Tara sees that the pit only extends down for 20 feet with what appears to be a body of water at the bottom.
Teil looks down into the pit. "A well?"
He then says, "Let see if we can get this place cleared out."
He leads the group to the southeastern area not yet explored.
Teil leads the group to a door off on one of the more western hallways and proceeds to open the door.
Teilaenthis leads the group back to the west side of the prison and moves into an unexplored room. This particular chamber is in a shambles—old wooden benches lie in ruins along the walls, while rusty chains and bits of rotten rope lie scattered on the floor.
You suddenly hear a faint sobbing and the clanking rattle of chains, while at the same time you begin to experience a sensation of hopelessness and the strange feeling of heavy manacles clamping over your wrists.
The slender redhead rubs her wrists, as if she was trying to desperatly get rid of something.
She doesn't seem aware that she is crying softly
The sensations afflicting Vivian fade just as quickly as they formed, but as her emotional balance is restored, a set of manacles emerges out of the piles of chains, seemingly out of its own volition. It then flies up into the air and appears to be moving towards the group!
Initiative (Round 1)
Vivian [1 dmg] <= Up
Tara [2 dmg] <= Up
Drace [2 dmg] <= Up
Teilaenthis [2 dmg + 1 Con Damage] <= Up
Manacles
Sentir
Stefan
Vivian moves to the side, and uses her brain first, trying to figure what their opponent is.
Probably another restless dead, but maybe not.
Vivian recognizes the pair of manacles as another animated object. It has all the basic strengths and weaknesses as other constructs, its metal composition is difficult to damage with weapons unless they are constructed from adamantine, it's vulnerable to cold damage, and it can quickly grapple opponents if it hits them with its slam attack.
After realizing all of this, the redhead draws her sling and hits it with a bullet, but the projectile just bounces off without doing any damage.
Damnit. Use cold magical attacks, or powerful blows. It's an animated object, like the scythe we fought earlier.
Nodding at Vivian, Teileanthis grips his huge hammer as arcane energy ripples along this shaft towards the head. He then utters an arcane phrase, causing further arcane energy to flow along his weapon.
Tara points her dagger at the object, as she lets out a quick prayer. "Lady of Graves, please let our aim be true and strengthen our hearts against this foe!" As she calls out to her goddess, a faint glowing light emerges, raising the moral of the group.