"The dolls, they're made to be guardians... they watch the boarders to ensure no one enters... or leaves the realm without permission. The houses, that is suppose to be theirs."
"Which means I can guess what that ghost is lingering around here for," Freyr adds, his voice grim. "I suggest we do the girl a favor and free her while we have the chance."
"So it is meant to alert someone that we are passing, or is it dangerous in of itself?"
The doll sits and, for the moment at least, the ghost is quiet and unseen. The wind blows and snow slowly beings to fill your past footprints.
"Can you break these things to free the trapped spirits?"
The thought of how these things were made was more than a little creepy in Kloera's opinion. Trapping a spirit inside of the doll? She wasn't even sure how that would work but she was pretty sure she was happier not knowing!
Kleora turned her gaze from the doll to her companions and said, "I guess we can break it and see if that works. If not maybe we should break it some more?"
"I don't know the workings of it," Freyr admits. "Men rarely learn the ways of magic in our homeland. But I've seen them along the border while on patrol duty. I wouldn't wish the fate of being trapped in one of these on anyone." Freyr grips his sword and steps forward, ready for the doll to react as he approaches it.
"If you break what the soul is bonded to you free the soul." Frjya explained with a shake of her head."The poor child..."
"So we just break the doll and it releases the child's soul trapped within?"
"Not this one..." Frjya said. "This one has a jewel as the focus... remove the jewel and the doll no longer function." She went on to explained. However it did seem as though speaking of this was... unsettling. "If the jewel is broken the child's soul is released. That said, if kept it would be easier to resurrect the child."
Wind blows and no one takes any sort of action other then discussion.
Deciding she was done waiting on the others to act Kleora began to make her way boldly up to the doll. When she reached it she reached out to grab it and try to pull the jewel free from it. While destroying it would be the best option she wasn't so harsh as to consign the child's soul within to whatever might be awaiting them without a chance to live the rest of their life out.
Taya watches Kleora approach the doll.
As Kleora moves forward her sharp eyes notice that it quickly casts a spell and rises though a hole in the roof of the hut for twenty feet making it about 25 feet above the ground.
This casting of the spell takes place only as you reach for the doll.
It is hard to make out a look from an animated doll but you think there is unbridled rage behind its eyes.
As it flies a high pitched laugh comes from it unmoving, porcelain, mouth.
The snows is still deep enough to cause movement issues.
Bold may act
[u] Round 1 [/u]
Thora Petska (Guardian Doll}
Tayanalla, Freyr, Kleora, Fryja, Neji
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 13/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status: Hold Person
Tayanalla HP: 14/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22 DC13 Will
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
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Taya throws a dart at the doll
Freyr curses softly as Kleora steps ahead of him and the doll finally reacts, flying into the air and out of reach. He drops his blade to the ground and draws his bow, taking aim and trying to get an arrow in the flying doll. Unfortunately, the unexpected movement and quick draw through his aim off and the arrow merely sticks in the wooden ceiling of the hut.
Kleora was startled when the doll took off and floated up in the air. "Fine, you want to play that game do you?' She pulled out her crossbow, aimed, and pulled the trigger.
"I'm sorry..." Frjya said before her eye gleamed. One could easily get the feeling that Frjya did not want to attack this doll.
Tayanalla connects with a dart thrown at the levitating doll but it appears to have no effect at all. Freyr curses and fires an arrow that does not come close to hitting the doll. Likewise Kleor cannot connect with her crossbow.
Frjya apologies before using her innate magics to make the doll easier to hit.
[ooc[ Neji, you still with us? [/ooc]
Bold may act
[u] Round 1 [/u]
Thora Petska (Guardian Doll}
Tayanalla, Freyr, Kleora, Fryja, Neji
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 13/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status: Hold Person
Tayanalla HP: 14/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22 DC13 Will
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
________________________________Thora Petska (Guardian Doll} HP: ?/? AC: 16/15/13 | -2 AC | DR5/magic | +25ft from ground
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Neji fires off a bolt form her light crossbow but it appears to no damage to the flying porcelain doll.
The doll containing Thora's warped beyond hope soul fixes its eyes on Freyr and he can fell magic attempt to invade his brain.
If she thinks it takes hold she simply says. "Why would you attack your friend? You should get your companions to just go home?"
Bold may act
[u] Round 2 [/u]
Thora Petska (Guardian Doll}
Tayanalla, Freyr, Kleora, Fryja, Neji
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 13/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status: Hold Person
Tayanalla HP: 14/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22 DC13 Will
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
________________________________Thora Petska (Guardian Doll} HP: ?/? AC: 16/15/13 | -2 AC | DR5/magic | +25ft from ground
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"Flying magic dolls...." Taya mutters.
She uses her magic to splash it with acid.
(touch attack)
Freyr clicks his tongue. "I don't think I have a choice in going home," he mutters. "Not when my sister is insistent on going back." He raises his bow and takes aim for a second shot.
Kleora moved a little closer to the doll getting just within range of her spells. She decided to take a chance when she reached the needed distance and lanced out with her mind at the soul within the doll hoping she could affect it. She hoped that by sending an intense burst of information into it she could weaken it.
Tayanalla's acid finally does some damage to the floating doll while Freyr's arrow simply bounces off. Kleora is by far the most effective of the combatabts and her mental attack causes the doll the scream in pain.
Bold may act
[u] Round 2 [/u]
Thora Petska (Guardian Doll}
Tayanalla, Freyr, Kleora, Fryja, Neji
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 13/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status: Hold Person
Tayanalla HP: 14/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22 DC13 Will
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
________________________________Thora Petska (Guardian Doll} HP: 12/22 AC: 16/15/13 | -2 AC | DR5/magic | +25ft from ground
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"I'm sorry..." Fryja mutters again, small tears had began to form upon her cheeks, freezing from the weather around her... or maybe the weather she herself was making, for in her hand ice and snow began to form itself into a ball.
However her aim was greatly off, and the snowball simply smashes against the cabin wall.
"I had forgotten that these are so hard to harm without magic," Freyr grumbles under his breath as he prepares another arrow.
Frjya launches a ball of ice and snow that manages to come nowhere near the intended target, it does snap a limb off a tree so clearly it would have done substantial damage to the doll.
"Your sorry! Your sorry! I have a purpose, guard the way, what would you have given done.... nothing!"
The ghost appears again and simply whispers two words. "Be quiet."
The doll, still in the air, casts another spell at the party.
With a gesture an area of chilled are and falling front decendes on Freyer and Tanyalla. The frosty air does not seem to dissipate quickly.
Frostfall
The area of this spell is covered in chilling frost, dealing 2d6 points of cold damage to all creatures within it. Creatures that the spell initially damages must succeed at a Fortitude save or become staggered for 1 round. The area remains chilled for the spell’s duration. Any creature that starts your turn within the spell’s area takes 1d6 points of cold damage (Fortitude saving throw for half) but does not become staggered even on a failed saving throw.
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 09/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Tayanalla HP: 10/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
________________________________Thora Petska (Guardian Doll} HP: 12/22 AC: 16/15/13 | -2 AC | DR5/magic | +25ft from ground
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Taya avoids the worst of the cold spell, but has never seen its like before. She responds with another splash of acid.
(touch attack)
Freyr feels the unnatural cold cut straight through his cloak and he shifts aside to get a better angle on the doll. He raises his bow and fires again, but the arrow doesn't find it's mark.
Tayanalla's acid goes wide as does Freyr's arrow.
Bold may act
Round 3
Thora Petska (Guardian Doll}
Tayanalla, Freyr, Kleora, Fryja, Neji
Day 3 - 1:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 09/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Tayanalla HP: 10/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
________________________________Thora Petska (Guardian Doll} HP: 12/22 AC: 16/15/13 | -2 AC | DR5/magic | +25ft from ground
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Realizing just how effective her spell was before Kleora once more lanced out with her mind to overload the soul within the doll and try to bring it down.
Kleor reaches out again with her mind and the porcelain dolls head cracks and splinters as the gem goes dim and in crashes into the hit below. The ghost, well haunt to be more precise, will not appear again in the ice.
A serach of the area reveals the only item of value is the gem, now just an inert sapphire worth 600gp.
200xp each
The path continues, in front of you, thought the snow.
Freyr steps forward and picks up the small blue stone. "Sister, can you check this? The girl... I think she's gone, but you know how poor I can be with the arcane." He offers the sapphire to Fryja with a solemn look.
Frjya remains silent as she took the stone from her brother, taking it and handling it with such care almost as if she was scared her simply touching it would shatter it. Once it was in hand hand however she looked it over, using her own magic to try and detect any magic within the gem.
The soul is indeed released with the defeat of the doll. Twisted beyond recognition in the creation all you can hope is that she has found peace. If not you may see her again.
Frjya closed her eyes and shook her head. "Gone... find rest dear child. Where no one will harm you ever again." She said softly as she held to stone close to her heart. Then she handed it back, "Do with it what you will, tis but a stone now."
Further searching of the area yields one additional surprise. Stuck to the leg of the hut is a wand of CLW with 15 charges. It is possible this wand will vanish if Neji reappears.
"That wand will prove useful."
"Which way does the trail lead from here?" Taya asks.
"Behind the hut." Frjya said. "Huts always guard the way... it is the point of them after all." She added.
Bad GM left out some XP. 200 XP each for the haunt.
The path continues on shortly after leaving the hunt it heads back to the south east after having been south west to this point. Still you know it is the trael that you have been following.
The snow still makes movement more laborious then would be ideal but you trudge on. You travel for some time until Tayanalla notices the sound of movement in the fir trees to the south. Nothing can be seen but something large and maybe white was clearly there.
what do you do next?
Day 3 - 2:30pm
23 Degrees
12” Snow -[u] Stat Tracker [/u]
Global Combat Condition: Difficult Terrain |Freyr HP: 09/13 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Tayanalla HP: 10/14 - AC: 17/13/14 Status: AC: 22
Kleora HP: 10/10 - AC: 12/10/12 Status:
Frjya HP: 7/7 - AC: 16/14/12 Status:
Neji HP: 10/10 - AC: 14/13/14 Status:
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Taya holds up a hand to warn and quiet the others.
"Hisst .... over there in the trees. Something was watching us."
"More trouble? Fantastic." Freyr readies his sword and looks in the direction Taya indicates.
"Something big and white ... what do trolls look like, maybe it's him." Taya says as she readies her rapier.
Things seem to calm down and you continue on for about one hundred yards before spotting some large animal tracks in the snow. Freyr immediately recognizes them as the same as the tracks he saw before, the giant weasel.
Kleora, you notice that the large white shape is tracking you though the trees as well, quietly keeping pace with the party.
Kleora felt sorry for the child's soul but it was over with now. As they prepared to move on she tooke her normal spot in the group and proceeded to trudge through the deep snow. As they went she happened to notice something...strange out of the corner of her eye and realized they were being followed. Very quietly she said, "Something white pacing us to the north." She carefully observed it from the corner of her eye, "I think it's that giant weasel we heard about."
"Agreed," Freyr says as he notices more animal tracks in the snow. At least the unnatural snowfall made tracking much easier. "It's only an animal, unless the fey have recruited more beasts with their powers. I suggest we don't bother it unless it attacks. It's in unfamiliar land and likely frightened. No point in picking a fight."