(Please see discussion for my post there.)
Lucious prepares himself he sees Inga take aim with her bow and warn the beetles.
Jinath tries to strike the cat-sized beetle in front of him but misses and sees that the beetle is about to jump forward. Although Jinath sees that the attack could also miss he is surprised to see an arrow hitting the beetle and throwing it off balance so its attack misses him completely.
Nyloth is not so lucky as the beetle in front of him wants to protect its eggs and viciously bites into is leg and rips out part of the flesh.
(Confirmed crit->11 damage/Nyloth, 4 damage/Beetle A)
(Nyloth it is your turn in the surprise round. After that all others can take their action in round 1 - first post is the first action happening in game)
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Hadega Scrimsworth curls her lip in disgust at the sight of the creatures. She jabs a gnarled finger at her compatriots.
"I have no idea what these hideous things are, nor do I care. YOU, keep your back straight. It will not do to faint in front of company! You, yes YOU, don't simply stand there, stalactite-gazing, have at them! Now everyone, I will only say this once: mind your posture! Slouched backs have caused the downfall of many an adventurer and you will NOT fall from grace on a Scrimsworth's watch. No! Let us clear a path through these insipid things while carrying the dignity of our station!"
To emphasize this, she draws her short sword.
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"Nyloth!"
Very upset that these creatures would attack her blind companion, and bolstered by Hadega's words, Inga shoots another arrow at the beetle she already wounded, before moving to the side, to open room for others to move around in.
"By Erastil! Die, you Evil Beetle!"
Maybe guided by her Faith, the arrow seems to fly true and deeply pierce the scarab's carapace.
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Inga's anger and Hadega's words make the arrow so aggressive that the beetle explodes!
#A: Dead
#B: Full HP
Nyloth: -11 HP
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Round 0 - Surprise
Nyloth: Go
Round 1
Inga: Hit
Hadega: Inspire
Jinath: Go
Lucious: Go
Meux: Go
Beetle A:
Beetle B:
Nyloth:
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During his surprise round action, Nyloth will enter his Blinded Blade Style.
"Damn that hurt! Guess I should have been paying more attention."
vs DC 20
"I can tell there were two beetles, although one doesn't seem very active anymore.
Spirits, guide me!"
Free action enter Spirit Dance with the Champion. 5ft step towards Beetle B and Kick.
Nyloth suddenly comes alive and although you know that he is blind he hits the beetle with a strength that hurls it two meters into the air and when the beetle lands ... it does not move anymore.
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Nyloth ends his spirit dance now that combat is over.
"My thanks Edwin Coldshore. Please return to your rest." he says in almost prayer like fashion.
"Ah, now where did I put that wand..." he says as he pats down his pockets.
"Aha, here it is!"
Will take that channel instead if the cleric wants to use it.
"Anyone else need some healing? I don't sense that anyone else was wounded, but it's a little difficult to smell anything other than beetle guts currently."
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Meux shuffles up to Nyloth and takes a look at his leg'
"Hmmmm....although the wound seemed to, in no way, lessen your offensive prowess, I would be remiss if I let this go totally unattended!
He grasps his iron holy symbol,
"Somewhere between the fury of the fiery volcano and the vicious rime of it's snow-capped crest lies the place of serendipitous healing. I grant this to you!"
You suddenly see something between the eggs. It looks like a scroll.
"My dear friend, it seems you are destined to aid the Korvosan cause! If it is indeed the Delirium’s Tangle you seek, historical documents point to an elf named Abysiel Greensummer constructing the complex, but being lost before its completion. The elves mourn their dead deeply, and if Korvosa can returns Abysiel’s body to his extended family it can only strengthen their commitment to our cause and prove to Cheliax that we are an asset although we are not a colony anymore! Should you find his body, recover it and bring it immediately to the Chelish embassy and send regards from Queen Domina.
And if this elven artifact you uncover is, in fact, Izryen’s hourglass, ensure that its background is adequately vague. Our illustrious House Thrune may have played a hand in providing it to the Tangle’s mastermind several centuries ago, and any evidence that links Cheliax to it, however tenuous, would be embarrassing."
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"Fantastic work everyone" Hadega says. "Now let us be off."
She starts to move but her eyes catch something wedged between the eggs. Careful not to get her shoes dirty, she bends down and picks it out of the nest.
"Look at this," she says to the others. "A scroll, an old letter." She hands it off once she is done reading it and thinks about the contents.
How old is this letter? Who are these people mentioned?
How old is this letter? Who are these people mentioned?
Domina came from the Chelaxian line of the Arabasti family. She was a worshipper of the Malebranche Malacoda and brought with her a closer connection to the new diabolism that was now so prevalent in Cheliax. Queen Domina greatly improved trade relations with places like Egorian, and many prominent Chelish trading houses opened branches in Korvosa during this period. Queen Domina used the money raised by this new prosperity to build; she erected many famous Korvosan buildings like the Pantheon of Many, the Temple of Asmodeus, Domina's Wall, and, away from the city, Citadel Vraid, which brought the Hellknight Order of the Nail to Varisia in 4682 AR.
Queen Domina's reign is now looked back on by most residents of Korvosa as a golden age not since repeated.
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Infernal Cheliax remains, without a doubt, one of the most powerful nations on Golarion and it continues to maintain naval control over the profitable Inner Sea. Nevertheless, as important as the nation may be at the current time, it pales in comparison to its former Imperial glories. Today, in the eyes of most external observers in other parts of the Inner Sea, Cheliax suffers from extreme diabolism and a tyranny which prevent it from truly achieving its full potential. Internal observers, including the new nobility of Cheliax, firmly believe that Asmodeus and Hell serve Cheliax and assist in maintaining the power necessary for Cheliax to assume its rightful role among the leading nations of the Inner Sea.
Since the Thrune Ascendancy of 4640 AR, Cheliax has been ruled by House Thrune along with a new configuration of noble houses made up of those willing to follow the philosophy of Diabolism. Much of the power of House Thrune was gained through the initial bargain struck between Abrogail Thrune and the rulers of Hell although rumors abound that additional pacts have been made since that time in the quest for still greater power. Currently Queen Abrogail II rules Cheliax.
You all continue walking and the natural caverns suddenly give way to worked stone and metal fixtures. Dangling glass balls flicker and cast a weak, greenish glow across the chamber. Ahead, a series of greentiled, wide, terraced stairs slope up to an imposing bronze door, partly torn from its hinges. The stairs bear hundreds of symbols that seem to warp and flicker.
The reek of decay, along with a pungent, acidic smell fills the chamber. Heaps of bones and garbage are scattered about the room. On both sides of the bronze doors, numerous small idols sit in niches and nooks. Their clumsy design clearly contrasts the delicate swoops and strokes of the walls and door.
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Seeing the state of the 'Tangle's entrance leaves Hadega breathless. For a moment, her face screws up in a potent scowl, then she remembers company is about and relaxes her cheek muscles enough, into the correct configuration of acceptable decorum.
"This is unconscionable! To think Elven ruins like this be heaped upon by whatever claims it to eat on, to die on it. Abhorrent!"
The hint of a scowl still on her face, she whispers ancient magic into her hands and a magical flame blooms outward from her palms. She flicks her long fingers and the light maneuvers into the room so the party can get a better view.
You are just about to exit the small tunnel when you hear a monstrous shriek. And Jinath sees a being with a club in mid-air as it is jumping from the high ceiling to hit him. Skin pale as a slug’s belly, eyes huge and bulging, but its shape is hideously humanoid.
MORLOCK
Morlock - CR 2
CE Medium monstrous humanoid
Init +8; Senses darkvision 120 ft., scent; Perception +2
Expert Climber (Ex)
A morlock can cling to cave walls and even ceilings as long as the surface has hand- and footholds. In effect, a morlock is treated as constantly being under a nonmagical version of the spell spider climb, save that it cannot cling to smooth surfaces. This ability doubles the normal +8 racial bonus to Climb checks normally afforded creatures with a climb speed to a +16 racial bonus.
Leap Attack (Ex)
As a standard action, a morlock may make a single attack during a jump. It can make this attack at any point along the course of the leap—the start, the end, or while in mid-air. While jumping, a morlock does not provoke attacks of opportunity for leaving a threatened square.
DEFENSE
AC 15
hp 22
sneak attack +1d6
If injured severely, a morlock attempts to flee.
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INITIATIVE round 0: Suprise
1. Morlock
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INITIATIVE round 1:
1. Morlock
2. All PCs
Round 0: SURPRISE
Everybody is completely surprised when the Morlock is in mid-air and attacks Jinath with his club that lands on his breast but obviously also hits a very weak point in the armor. Jinath falls to the ground unconscious.
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INITIATIVE round 1:
1. Morlock:
The Morlock steps over to Nyloth and as Nyloth did not have the chance to react the Morlock is able to hit him with his club but the bite attack misses Nyloth.
2. All PCs: GO!
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Battle:
#Morlock: Full HP
#Jinath: -2/12 HP
#Nyloth: 12/18 HP
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Hadega unclips her whip from her belt, scowling deeper at the creature than at the bones. She begins to “inspire” her fellows once again, shouting amidst the cavern, ”Look! Look at this hunched creature. A morlock. Is this how you want to end up, crawling across cave walls with absolutely no manners? You will if you don’t STRAIGHTEN THAT POSTURE! Look at it. This creature didn’t even announce itself to visitors. Leaping in and attacking. What horrid manners!”
Hadega unclips her whip from her belt, scowling deeper at the creature than at the bones. She begins to “inspire” her fellows once again, shouting amidst the cavern, ”Look! Look at this hunched creature. A morlock. Is this how you want to end up, crawling across cave walls with absolutely no manners? You will if you don’t STRAIGHTEN THAT POSTURE! Look at it. This creature didn’t even announce itself to visitors. Leaping in and attacking. What horrid manners!”
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Swift action to enter Blinded Blade Style. Free action to channel the Champion. Move action to draw Elven Curved Blade. Standard to attack.
A spirit appears over the shoulder of Nyloth as he draws his Elven Curve Blade, the spirit seemingly help him draw and hold it.
"I may be blind, but Milos Blackwell here can see just fine."
crit threat
Only seconds after the appearance of the ugly Morlock and his attacks Nyloth is able to hit the beast with such might and precision that even a sighted fighter could not have done it better.
You see a fine cut that halves the Morlock and after a couple of seconds his body splits and falls to the dirty floor.
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Battle:
#Morlock: Dead
#Jinath: -2/12 HP stabilized
#Nyloth: 12/18 HP
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”Princes glory Nyloth!!!”, Lucious praises,”I don’t claim to be a veteran of many battles, but I doubt many trained soldiers could land a blow so perfect; pity you didn’t see it.”
Looking to Meux,”perhaps another blessing is in order? Perhaps a focus on the fiery volcano eh? Invoke the eruption of your healing? It seems both our glorious shields could use it.” he says looking at the injured and unconscious friends.
To Hadega, ”poor lad, didn’t have his back straight I’m sure, would’ve obsorbed the blow a wee bit better had he followed your advice”
Nyloth and Hadega see something glued to the wall near the location where the Morlock attacked. It looks like a bundle with a scroll and three potions.
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Ending the spirit dance.
"My thanks Milos, you must have been a powerful warrior in life. I may not have been able to see the blow, but I could definitely feel the cleanness of the cut, it was marvelous. Shame that we have to kill most creatures we face though. Allow me to put his spirit to rest."
He then mutters a prayer for the fallen creature before smelling out the hidden potions.
"These all taste like minor healing potions. Lets get them to Jinath, quickly."
After the battle you all see the room with greasy remains. Around 20 small bone and basalt idols crowd the floor around the doors. Though crude, they are nonetheless not worthless to an academic or collector you would believe.
Animal carcasses and insect carapaces litter the area.
You verify that some of the remains are humanoid, many having been slaughtered within the past month.
Hadega and Nyloth find a masterwork rapier and dagger set made from alchemical silver near one of the sacrificed humanoid bodies. They also find a wand.
Wand of water breathing with 2 charges remaining.
When you look deeper beyond the constructed gates you are sure that they lead into the deepest part of the maze complex that makes up the bulk of Delirium’s Tangle.
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To Hadega, "Poor lad, didn’t have his back straight I’m sure, would’ve obsorbed the blow a wee bit better had he followed your advice”
"You," Hadega says, jabbing a finger toward Lucious, "Are quite right! If his posture was up, chin high, he would've seen such a creature."
She claps her hands. "Well done everyone. Now remember, chin high, back straight. We can instill decorum in everything we do. We are Pathfinders, not stable hands!"
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In the room Hadega surveys the scene. She says, not deigning to sift through the corpses, "It seems as though the morlock has been doing its horrid work for some time. Some of these are recent. No sign of a minotaur though."
Her eyes keen even in her old age, she picks up the rapier. Intending to show off the decorum she speaks so highly of she shows it to the others. "Would that I had a fine instrument as this! May I please take this?"
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Looking to Meux,”perhaps another blessing is in order? Perhaps a focus on the fiery volcano eh? Invoke the eruption of your healing? It seems both our glorious shields could use it.” he says looking at the injured and unconscious friends.
Meux turns to Lucious
"It seems Nyloth has everything well in hand!"
Meux shuffles up to Nyloth,
"Dear sir, your prowess in healing our allies is only eclipsed by your ability to dispatch our enemies...I concede to the better man. When you require my services, I trust you will let me know-most likely ten to fifteen minutes prior, as you most likely are able to better time as well."
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Hadega wrinkles her nose at the mercurial feelings coming from the maze's entrance. Who would've thought I would be here, staring at such a sight in my old age?
She looks over at Inga and places a hand on her shoulder, and for a brief moment, the stern visage drops away as she gives the halfling a reassuring, grandmotherly squeeze. "Not to worry, dear. We will find a way through."
"Jinath!" she says then, and the strict demeanor returns. "If you would be so kind to lead us on. Remember, chin up, eyes alert, and stride with an air of authority! Nyloth can take over when you get tired. Let us go and find this 'Minotaur Prince' and solve an ancient mystery in the process. Onward!"
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mmmh there is a dark power inside.... curious
”nonsense, Inga. The light cannot exist without the dark. The illusion that they are separate and not two parts to the whole is a fallacy, wouldn’t you agree?” he says absentmindedly as he stares at the entrance.
Snapping out of his stare he agrees with Hadega,”yes indeed that sounds like a grand plan. Jinath! Lead the way my boy.”