Shozole will double move in, having aborted his sneaky plans due to bear-related decisions.
Boris tries to grapple the bat-thing, but can find purchase!
Garen moves closer to the fight!
Emraeal moves in and starts his song!
Shozole moves in as well!
Maffei follow her companions into the room!
The creature slashes Boris once with its falchion!
"O! What are you seeking,
And where are you making?
The f%@@*&s are reeking,
The bannocks are baking!
O! tril-lil-lil-lolly
the valley is jolly,
ha! ha!"
Emraeal continues his chant and moves in to slash at the creature.
(+2 against dragons)
Garen throws himself into the way of the falchion, bravely taking the slash meant for the bear before paying back the creature in kind.
Shozole will move up (likely provoking) and try to help the bead's next offensive venture!
Emraeal keeps up his song and attacks, but misses the creature!
Garen bravely throws himself into the path of the falchion, taking the hit mightily, then returns the favor, slashing the creature!
Shozole starts trying to distract the creature!
Boris grabs again and this time, just manages to grab the creature!
The creature tries to break free from the bearman, but is unable!
Maffei moves up and attacks the creature!
Unfortunately she misses!
Garen keeps swinging Flametongue.
"O! Will you be staying,
Or will you be flying?
Your ponies are straying!
The daylight is dying!"
Emraeal continues his song as he lashes out at the creature!
(+2 against dragons)
Garen slices into the creature with his flaming sword!
Boris begins to crack its ribs as he constrict his arms around the creature!
Emraeal stabs and injures the creature, while maintaining his song!
Maffei stabs twice and manges to strike once!
Shozole will move up for a flanking position and study the creature as a Favored Target.
Shozole flanks and studies!
The grioth works itself into a frenzy, slashing and biting.
Flametongue!
Shozole cheats at wrasslin and goes for the chair stabs with his dagger.
Boris continues to crush the creature.
Garen swings, but misses!
Shozole stabs the creature in the nethers!
Maffei manages to stab the creature once.
The thing stands, but just barely!
Emraeal keeps up his raging chant as he slashes at the monster!
(+2 against dragons)
Emraeal swings, but just misses the grioth.
The creature turns and bites the bearman once more!
[ooc]Party up!
"I've heard bear is not very tasty."
(+2 against dragons)
"No. Bear is okay. Yes. Tabasco. Spicy and stringy. Yes." Shozole notes as he stabs into the creature.
Garen throws his shield in front of Boris before swinging Flametongue again.
Emraeal misses the creature again, but Shozole and Garen strike the creature, ceasing its motions.
Boris then breaks the limp form for good measure!
Searching the body, you find it wore a breastplate and wielded a +1 Cruel Voidglass Falchion.
Emraeal heals himself and offers to heal some of Boris' wounds as well.
He takes a moment to search the room thoroughly before suggesting the party keep moving.
Garen will finish healing the bear and himself. "We should find another minion."
Healing your wounds, the party checks the north and west chambers, but finds nothing of interest. Taking the spiral stairs in the northwest corner, the party find yourselves in what used to be a library.
Tall bookcases fill this impressive chamber. The elaborate fresco on the ceiling depicts devotees of Irori in meditation. Wisps of incense wind through the scene like a fanciful ribbon of smoke.
Looking around, the party does not notice anything unusual.
After spending some time combing through the library, Shozole spots a secret door in the southwest corner of the room. Going through the secret door, the party wends north around the library and back south to a secreted area. The iron door to this chamber is covered in complex sigils and runes painted in delicate black lacquer—a message repeated over and over in several languages, including Common: “Beware! Dark Oblivion Lies Within!”
The lock to this door is very complex, beyond Shozole's capability. The party needs a key!
Turning back to head back to another part of the monastery, the party notices a secret door that they missed earlier. Opening the door reveals a recessed mesh of iron gridwork crisscrosses the northern end of this room. Hundreds of tiny blue runes have been painted inside of each of the small squares formed by the grid pattern. A long-dead figure lies slumped against the wall to the northeast. Also in the room is a very angry looking creature. Dull, red eyes, grasping claws, and leathery wings give a demonic aspect to this creature's smoky form.
Shozole will move study the creature and fire off a bolt if they do anything magic-y!
"Beware! Dark Oblivion Lies Within!? I don't know if we want to go in then. . . but I suppose we must, right?"
Shozole studies the creature and readies to take a pot shot!
The creature moves forward to attack and the kobold puts a bolt into it!
The thing tries to take a bite out of Emraeal, but misses!
"Ho now! Stand down, foe!"
Em pulls out his sword and slashes at the creature!
(+2 against dragons)
Garen takes a swing at the creature.
Before the creature can even react, the party descends upon it, tearing it to smoky shreds.
Searching the room, the party finds something.
"Yes! A thing! Much useful. King Shozole likes. Yes." Shozole marvels at the thing.
As you look at the "thing" found on the long dead figure slumped in the corner, you realize that the "thing" is scrolls. A scroll of cure critical wounds, a scroll of flame strike, a scroll of protection from energy, and a scroll of summon monster V, to be exact.
"Well, that. . . smoky thing. . . didn't last long. What else is in this chamber? What is this big grating in the floor?"
Garen will examine the grating.
Emraeal recognizes the the grating has runes onscibed on it and that it performs some function in holding back summoned creatures.
Moving on, the party descends to the first floor and explores the northern part of the monastery. You find yourselves in what appears to have been the temple to Irori. A blue mosaic dominates the floor of this chamber. The ceiling rises to several domes twenty-five feet above. A large marble statue of a robed man with hair braided in a loop and worn like a necklace looks down on the chamber serenely from the east.
Moving east in this room, you enter a smaller chamber. This dusty chamber’s walls are painted with fading frescoes of monks engaged in acts of acrobatic prowess. At the room’s eastern corner is a high-backed stone chair. In the chair sits a figure wrapped head to toe in moldering linen strips.
As you approach, the figure looks up with dead eyes and holds up a hand for you to halt.
"Who are you?"