The south gallery is separated from the ballroom by the same manner of curtains as the north gallery, and it stretches from the staging area past an open door to the foyer before ending at the door to what you hope are personal chambers, and a smaller hallway that continues to the southwest.
Hildergrim is not spotted as he scouts.
Just east of the doors to the foyer are a couple of tall racks currently being used as a cloak check. Like the north gallery, the south gallery is extremely busy with servant traffic. Given you are led by a 'servant' you move relatively quickly through the bussle around the coat check and even around the door that is your target.
Given that it seems best to try to get to the door, you move around Hildergrim as if he were a servant indeed.
One of the servants spots Hildergrimm and seems to be about to give him some sort of menial task to do when he is distracted by another servant and this allows you to slip into the room, which is surprisingly open.
Hildergrims disguise holds when he bows and ushers you into the newly opened room.
The furniture in this luxurious sitting room is covered by drop-cloths, and buckets of paint sit against walls where erotic murals are in the process of being replaced by a neutral institutional taupe. An enormously tall gilt frame leans against the wall. A door to the east leads to a hallway, while to the southwest a door is propped open by a bucket and displays the half-dissolved inscription, “Where Love Comes to Die.”
Hildergrim closes the door gently and, for now, you are out of sight of the staff and gala guests both.
Flinders keen eyes sweeping over this sitting room reveals a crumpled and roughly folded canvass with a full-length artistic rendition of Zarta in scanty red apparel, along with several other pieces of art apparently considered too lascivious to remain.
The door to what looks like a bedroom is propped open by a bucket that you'd guess is filled with turpentine.
This extravagant bedchamber is dominated by a massive four-poster bed that takes up half the room. Red-varnished wardrobes and vanities complement the black silk sheets on the bed, which appears to be in the process of being dismantled. The walls of the room have been stripped of the portraits that once hung there, faint outlines of the art pieces being all that remain. The exception to this is the eastern wall, which is occupied by an elaborate woodcutting depicting but a single nymph in a seductive pose, garbed in nothing but a necklace bearing an amulet shaped like the Asmodean star.
Hildergrim can see that the Chellish star on the Nymph Woodcarving is a keyhole that would match one of the keys on the key ring you found hanging from the back of the door when you were in the waiting room.
This room seems to be in pristine condition, with little evidence of renovations. The chamber is full of a variety of equipment suggestive of a dungeon or torture chamber. The walls appear to be thickly padded and sustain hooks holding a number of whips, bludgeons, and other instruments of pain. Spaced between large mirrors are several extremely obscene paintings... including a rather blasphemous portrait of Sarenrae in a compromising position with two succubi.
Ruar hears nothing.
Once Hildergrim turns the key in the lock, there are a pair of flashes and two puffs of sulfurous smoke as two tiny winged and horn'ed creatures tear themselves from the far background of the woodcarving, each with a whipping scorpion-like tail lashing back and forth.
The creatures attack.
-Initiatives-
Jaysin
Hildergrim
Ruar
Svetvana
Flinders
Kraang
Creatures
Hildergrim and Ruar, reflexes trained to a peak, go first, Jaysin follows before the creatures strike.
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Hildergrimm would like to take a step into the now open secret room and attack one of them if that is possible. If not he takes a step into another direction and attacks.
Of course where the chelish are there are some creatures of hell or whatever this is here. Take this!
He produces a dagger from his sleeves with astonishing speed and stabs after one of the creatuers.
As Hildergrim takes a 5ft step into the room, both creatures also do the same (but the flying version) try to sting him.
#1
and dmg + Fort DC 13 (dex)
#2
and dmg + Fort DC 13 (dex)
*(if prev. roll hits then use DC 15 and only take the first 1d2 Dex damage but duration will be extended)
Multiple Doses of Poison
Making your initial saving throw against a poison means stacking does not occur—the poison did not affect you and any later doses are treated independently. Likewise, if a poison has been cured or run its course (by you either making the saves or outlasting the poison's duration), stacking does not occur. However, if there is still poison active in you when you are attacked with that type of poison again, and you fail your initial save against the new dose, the doses stack. This has two effects, which last until the poisons run their course.
Increased Duration: Increase the duration of the poison by 1/2 the amount listed in its frequency entry.
Increased DC: Increase the poison's DC by +2.
These increases are cumulative (a third dose adds another 1/2 of the frequency to the duration and +2 to the DC, and so on). When affected by multiple doses of the same poison, you only make one saving throw at this higher DC when required by the frequency, rather than one saving throw against each dose of the poison.
Multiple doses do not alter the Cure condition of the Poison, and meeting that Cure condition ends all doses of the poison.
Both creatures then blink out of sight.
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Svetlnana recognises this game, in the arena they had an event called 'whack-a-gnome' where contestants had to cudgel gnomes and poorly disguised halflings as they protruded their heads from large holes in a stage prop log... a real crowd pleaser.
She readies herself to strike next time they appear.
Attack (Power Attack)
Damage (Silver)
Update: Seems I confused the At-Will ability of the wee beasties as a free action. I've seen them played that way before and fell back on that... and it seems that I was wrong to do so. In this, its a SLA that still requires a standard action to trigger... so, for the moment, both creatures are still visible.
Apologies.
Svetlana steps up and belts one of the critters... HARD. It screams in a small chittering cry of pain.
The silver of the blade almost seems to blacken and sear its way through its flesh... food for thought.
It too slams hard into the creature, causing it to scream.
Round 2
Hildergrim and Ruar, I have Jaysins rolls already.
Hildergrimm flinches as the devils sting him.
Godsdammn you chelish
Knowing he did no damage where he should have brought on the pain badly he retreats, clearing the field for the "master", so he can finally prove himself.
Jaysins attack on the first monster misses but the 2nd hits... but not biting as nearly as deep as you'd think.
As the critters threaten the same space that Hildergrim occupies, they both try to sting him as he leaves the room rapidly in attacks of opportunity.
#1 and dmg with save DC13 vs poison dex.
#2 and dmg with save DC13 vs poison dex. DC15 if the first attack hits and the above save failed...
Attack of Opportunity Rule
On their turn they both turn invisible... flapping sounds indicates that they may have moved.