Bedlam feels the door to the Temple of Orcus warm at his touch... his stone-cunning eyes pass over the carved torments of the damned one last time before he shoves the portal wide open!
Inside, the first thing he notices is a four-sided staircase that rises over a pool of molten lava. The second thing is the odd floorplan, as the room is in the shape of a hexagram.
The party, peering past Bedlam, is not at all surprised to see evil-looking cultist folk like you've been fighting for a while. Three lurk in each corner of the star. They chant a song to the Big Bad One: Orcus!
A little more shocking is the shrieking, feathery demon, one that towers over the humanoids in the room.
The only light is the dull red glow of the lava (and whatever you brought), but it should suffice for the battle that is about to begin.
Battle music with apologies for extreme nerdiness... but Utena is legit!
Bedlam grins as the first thing he notices is a four-sided staircase that rises over a pool of molten lava.
Ye boys be go'n fer un swim! Ye didn't be eat'n nutt'n first? Be lucky den dat we be 'ere ta stop ye!
The dwarfhulk looks at the the shrieking, feathery demon, one that towers over the humanoids in the room. He blows him a kiss...
Dat un be fer me!
The laughing dwarf looks crazed and excited at the same time!
Vermin Repellent
Antiplague
Antitoxin
Alchemical grease
Deodorizing Agent
Scent cloak
Enlarge extract, See Invisible extract, Haste extract, Focus chew, ale, rum, and some mouthwash.
As Bedlam opens the door, Anzath has two items in hand. One is a golden bead. The second is a potion.
An infinity of moments seem to pass in the instant before Lolly, Tragershen, and Terapin spring into action...
The dwarf seems to be setting up a game of Lords of Waterdeep....
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Terapin's deceptively quick little brain takes in the scene between the feet of his companions in an instant, and his invisible eyes widen when they scan across the pool of molten lava in the middle of the room.
"Oh hell the f*** yes" he breathes to himself, too quietly even for his companions to hear.
He takes two quick steps forward to come parallel with Aurora (and within range of the stairs) and then, with a tap of the nose and a twirling of the fingers, Terapin calls up from the center of the earth (or the oerth or the toril or the nirn or the thedas or wherever we are) and directly into the magma pool in the center of the room his good friend and confidant, and undoubtedly one of the worst influences among his diverse friend group, LeVar The Lava Lover, a Magma Mephit of the very worst kind, not seen on the material plane since that outdoor barbecue Terapin went to last summer where they didn't have enough charcoal.
The mephit blinks and looks around himself, slowly realizing that he's not in fire-hell anymore and has been invited back onto the surface world by someone with a pass. "Oh hell the f*** yes" he gurgles to himself, and opens his mouth, sampling the lava. Fairly rank stuff, all things considered. Probably not a party with people Terapin likes, then. Fortunately, it looks like he's in a good spot to lighten the mood with some pranks, like by pulling stuck up folks into the pool while they've still got their nice clothes on. Terapin always gets a kick out of that one.
Bedlam smiles warmly at the gnome!
LeVar drops into the lava pool, where he simmers in silence.
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Tragershen will use his pearl of power, 1st to recall mage armor, and then cast it on himself.
He’ll cast unseen servant, ignite a sunrod and hand it to it, and order it ”Stay close to me.”
He’ll apply salve of slipperiness, vermin repellent and alchemical grease.
He’ll take stillgut, antitoxin, antiplague, and elixir of vision.
He’ll cast message on Terapin.
He’ll cast on himself from scrolls: see invisible (CL3), [i]bulls strength (CL3), and fly (CL5),
He’ll cast invisibility on himself.
As Bedlam positions himself to push open the door, he’ll take a potion of entropic shield (CL1)
He strides into the room after the others (yes, walking, even though he has fly active), staff in hand and casting haste on the entire group.
Git yer arse moving, barbarian!
Free Action=Rage (19 rounds/day) (Ex) +4 Str, +4 Con, +2 to Will saves, -2 to AC when enraged.
Move Action=Hasted Stride 65' to get on far side on Vrock and draw Greatsword.
Standard Action=
Feeling suddenly Dwarfish, Lolly rushes forward through the fell gate, filled with rage! But a spell lashes into his mind and soul:
Lolly suddenly feels very dull and reckless.
...not that it matters particularly much for his current plans, but it will cut him off from some of his clerical magic. He rushes ahead regardless of the curse.
The vrock demon, though, has incredible reflexes and snaps at him as he dives around the beast with his sword:
CHOMP goes the demon!
Lolly whirls around and slices mightily! He's a little disappointed by the results, though--the vrock seems like it's a long, long way from finished.
The eastern priest squad springs into action first, probably because they are lurking so close to the door.
Seeing Lolly engage the demon, they hurry to support their foul friend with the best of their fell magic.
The acolytes start by sending magical spells at the jolly warrior. They then move forward and spread out.
Hold Person at the jolly warrior:
Even in his unwise state, Lolly easily shakes off the magic.
The lead priest throws a second curse at Lolly:
Lolly feels much of his mighty Constitution drain away...
Tragershen, too, feels his wisdom levels crashing to the floor.
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Bedlam watches with glee as the barbarian rushes into the chamber to confront the demon!
Kick 'is arse, barbarian! You kin do it...wat da f@+% be wrong wit yee! Be dat yer brains runn'n out yer noise?
The startled dwarf then also watches with glee Tragershan rushing into the chamber, casting spells and being the wizard!
Well played, wizard! Be feel'n faster and...wat da f+!@ be wrong wit ye now! Be dat brains com'n frum yer ears!
The--intelligent--alchemist then begins putting 2 and 6 together!
Stupid cultist! Be need'n ta drown dem!
Bedlam then takes out an alchemical weapon and tosses in between the 3 nearest cultists!
Thunderstone
Dere be sumting wrong wit da room! Making folks piss dem brains out da oralfices!
Bedlam begins to roar with laughter at the foolishness of it all! The Thunderstone explodes in his face (along with 2 of the cultist)!
One of the acolytes says "WHAAAAT?" in response to Bedlam's profanity.
Me be need'n da soap?
The whole temple radiates evil energy, btw.
The cult squad from the southwest moves next, again brutally unleashing an array of very dangerous spells on the party...
Hold Person:
Tragershen goes rigid.
The priest casts Bestow Curse on Bedlam:
Suddenly, Bedlam's Will Save rushes off to join Tragershen and Lolly's, hiding in the basement somewhere as his Wisdom is cursed away.
Too being da fair; me wisdom not dat high un da first place!
The dwarf roars with laughter!
Aurora takes a deep breath and moves up to the doorway, coming up behind Bedlam. She lofts her holy symbol and utters prayer to Nethys, eyes narrowed over the inhabitants of the room.
"Hold fast and hold true. Remember why we are here.
The fell curse of the temple attacks Aurora, too:
...unlike her companions (and Bedlam, who was exempt), Aurora barely manages to escape the curse!
Her prayer fills the near side of the room, boosting everyone but Lolly and suppressing the nearby cultists.
Speaking of cultists (and demons)...
The next squad of cultists moves in from the north.
They, predictably and dangerously, unleash their strongest spells on the party.
Our heroes shake off the extremely dangerous magic.
The priest then launches a curse at Aurora:
Aurora continues to fend of spells and curses, the coils of evil magic fended off by flashes of the white and black protection of Nethys!
The vrock looks down at Lolly... steps away from him... and vanishes.
The vrock nopes out to Room 2 just beyond the dormitory using its teleport power.
...not sure why my posts are out of order but yeah, ANZATH MAY ACT!
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...not sure why my posts are out of order but yeah, ANZATH MAY ACT!
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^Wisdom damage, my friends, is not a victimless crime.
Anzath hastily moves to just in the doorframe, behind Aurora, stopping when she sees the cultists beginning to crowd the area. She hurls the golden bead past her comrades to catch as many of the cultists she can in a fireball.
Disregard this post... this forum.
Anzath's fireball burns three acolytes into charred cinders--unrevivable, all-the-way-dead. The priest and the remaining acolyte look pretty shaky on their legs after the scorching...
The priest in the far eastern corner of the star grins and blows a kiss at Anzath.
Tam steps into the room.
The curse of the temple meets her at the door:
Her wisdom drains away...
She yelps with dismay at how far Lolly's gone. She shoots an arrow into the charred priest, hoping to knock him down.
He hits the bricks hard, bleeding out and nearly done...
The last priests and squad acolytes all jump into motion.
The northeast squad moves down and in before launching their magic at the party:
Tam goes rigid like Tragershen.
Yet another curse is hurled at Aurora's head:
At peace within the raging storm of black magic, Aurora stands like a lighthouse in a storm at sea!
Meanwhile, across the map, Lolly confronts a squad on his own. The underpriests, typically, lead with Hold Person:
The final priest doesn't want to throw yet another curse on Lolly. Instead, he blows a kiss at the jolly warrior and steps forward, albeit keeping behind his screen of acolytes...
The final two acolytes delay their action so they can act alongside their priest.
At first Lolygert frowns when the demon disappears, muttering, "Unsporting sod!"
Still, he had cultists to chop into little pieces, so he decided to make lemonade...or rather cult-ade? Chuckling to himself, he set upon the nearest cultist...
His sword takes on a glow mirroring the lava behind him, a glowering , baleful red. As he brings it around, red electricity arcs and sizzles along the blade. A tattoo high on his chest also bursts into red light, casting Lolygert's face in brief , terrifying red-tinged shadow.
Lolly's foe grimaces as he collapses, parted neatly through the middle...
LaVar notices that the northwest pair of cultists are close enough to his jacuzzi to splash them, and so he does so, using his breath weapon to engulf the two in a cone of fire!
damage to the two cultists in the northeast (DC 13 con save for half.)
He cackles to himself and ducks back under the surface of the lava.
Terapin, meanwhile, is very concerned about that big bird looking fellow that he can't see anymore, who's probably a demon and, thus, is probably not good for burning. Instead, he's going to call his old friends the Lantern Archons, with a bonus to damage from Evolved Summon.
of the piercing lights flash into existence in the hallway between Terapin and his friends and streak out into the room, taking up roughly equidistant positions in a wide circle around the lava pool so that their glow reaches into the base of every point in the room, and wasting no time in filling the space with glittering beams of holy light, attempt to sear away what's left of the cultists that Anzath singed.
The light rays! (vs touch AC)
Terapin frowns. Where's that bird?
"PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW" fills the room as the archons unleash holy terror on the cultists. Four of the rays strike home. One quickly scrubs the wounded acolyte. The three rays find their targets on the west side of the room, trying to follow up on Anzath's fireball.
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The west priest moves up and channels negative energy, a burst of blackness radiating out and lashing the party--incidentally, it also snuffs any acolytes in the area who may have been clinging to life. It also hits his counterpart to the southwest.
The damage is mostly resisted, but Tam feels its effects very sharply.
Bedlam closes his eyes, spins around in a circle and tosses a Bomb at a group of cultists closest to them!
/x2)20' 13/13
The dark god Orcus gives Bedlam's bomb enough of a shove that the bomb lands at the feet of the cultists instead of on their heads.
The Priest is entangled and scorched, but the acolyte gets off relatively easy.
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