Emraeal moves up to the window and examines it for a few moments before working out how to close it.
Emraeal notice three squares on the floor with arcan symbols. He deduces that using a force effect spell while standing in the square, will amplify the spell, making it fairly easy to destroy the window.
"Can any conjure pure force to use against the window?" Emraeal looks to Boris and confirms, "magical force."
"Fine then, I'll take care of it." Emraeal summons a memory of an ancient poem to kent a spell he rarely casts.
Emraeal's missiles streak toward the window, exploding on it. Cracks begin racing along the surface of the mirror and moments later it implodes! Leaving the wall behind it visible.
Leaving the Dark Window, the party resumes finishing the exploration of the monestary.
You find yourselves in an atrium. A wooden veranda runs around the edges of this atrium. A large planter, overgrown with various shrubberies and plants, grows in the center of the area under the open sky. In the room, staring at the sky is a large snake-like creature with a woman's face. As you enter, she turns with a look of shock on her face and says. "Oh! Pardon me, but have you heard word from Szangi? He’s not emerged from his lair since his last visit to that little human village, and I worry for the dear!”
Emraeal seems a bit surprised to see the serpent lady not attacking on them sight but responds in stride, "Hello, my name is Emraeal Briskfury and these are my companions Garen, Boris, and Shozole. Who is this Szangi? I do not think we have met him or know of him. But we will help if we can."
The creature stares at Emraeal, mouth agape. When inquires about the name, she gets an expression of shame and horror. “No! I mean Mighty Aeteperax! Don’t tell him I said that!”
Emraeal's eyebrows raise at the creature's misstep. "Oh, we won't. Tell us more about your friend Aeteperax though."
"Aeteperax is all of our friends....wait...who are you?!" The creature asks, becoming suspicious.
"King Shozole, conquerer of the Greenscales. Yes. Found people dissenters who like not being acid-filled. Yes."
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Shozole, king of Liars, lets out a squeak as he moves forward to position himself into a future flanking position for the front line.
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Shozole darts to a flanking postion!
The naga tries to cast a spell, but it fizzles as she concentrates on not being attacked!
Garen swings, but he hits the floor with flametongue as his combat ability has waned all of a sudden.
"Remember, lads, the tale of Jubilex and his pet monkey. . . "
Garen swings and misses with his flaming sword!
Emraeal begins his ragin' song!
Boris punches the snake lady hard...really hard!
The shae joins the fight, cutting the creature once!
Shozole studies the naga and attacks, but his aim is off!
The creature concentrates harder and casts a spell causing her form to waver and she appears two feet to the side.
The King, unable to line up a more effective attack, continues to provide flanks and tries to help his loyal bear subject!
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Boris puts two massive fists into the snake lady, punishing her scaly body. She looks barely able to hold herself up.
Emraeal imbues his sword with magical energy and keeps up his raging song while attacking with his longsword!
Garen swings again with flametongue.
Garen and Emraeal both miss with their strikes!
Maffei manages to land one blow, sinking her blade deep and the naga goes down!
On the naga's body, you find she is wearing a necklace of adaptation.
Checking the room next to this one, you find it was the abbot's bedchamber. In a dusty corner, you find a buffering cap.
Searching the first floor, you find a scroll of marionette possession in an assembly hall, but the rest of the floor proves empty.
Searching the second, where you are now, you end up battling some water elementals and grioths, but they do not provide much of a challenge.
At last, you descend to the basement level. Wandering the halls, you enter a large chamber. Three fifteen-foot-diameter platforms lie in this room, each
rising three feet high. In the center of each platform, a globeshaped
container of murky liquid sits in the embrace of an octopus-shaped brass cradle. Each globe is about two feet across—the two westernmost globes are intact, and a dark, indistinct mass floats in the center of each. The eastern globe has been shattered, and a large stain has spread out around it on the floor. Along the wall near the eastern door sits a tiny wooden cabinet with a message scribbled on its front. A similar one sits beside the western door.
As you enter the mass in the central globe begins to thrash around in its globe.
"Curious. What are these creatures?"
Emraeal detect magic in the room.
Emraeal sees Boris fly into a rage over the globe and calls out "Boris! What are you doing?! What are they?!"
Boris rushes forth and breaks open the center globe. Inside is a brain-shaped mass of quivering ooze, with two long tentacles!
Maffei moves up and fires a shadowy, scorching ray at the creature, hitting it!
Shozole will move to wherever the nearest line-of-sight place is and fire at the no-vitals grossness!
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"Garen, protect him! Something's has a hold of Boris' mind!"
Em will move 30' around the first platform and take up a defensive stance.
Garen will move forward and cast a spell on Boris, hoping to free the bear's mind.
Shozole moves up and fires a bolt that flies wide!
Emraeal shouts, moves, and goes on the defensive!
Garen moves up and casts a spell on the bearman!
Boris shakes his head and breaks free of the domination!
The shae moves up and stabs the brain!
Maffei and Boris begin to hear a discordant buzzing emanating from the brain and Garen hears it too as the creature flies over Maffei and attacks her!
The creature slams the shae with its two tentacles! A little bit of light fades from Maffei's eyes and she looks dazed as the creature's tentacles pulsate on her.
Garen draws Flametongue and swings it!
