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"I will take climb down then, yes?" Toshi asks, already knowing the likely answer of "Yes," pending any non-Amira fliers smuggling him down via carrying him.
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The party drops down the shaft, Toshi drawing on his inner ninja to scale the slick tube.
Arriving at the bottom, the party is greeted by six skum warriors and what appears to be a skum leader.
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Glaurung casts a spell and a fireball explodes over the head of the skum leader. The leader flinches and ducks, avoiding much of the damage.
The skum fighters glance from their leader, to the flying party and back, not sure how to handle such an enemy.
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Amira flies within 50 feet of the leader and tries to steal the Holy Symbol while she's flat-footed!
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Sebastian fires an arrow and hits the leader with an arrow!
Samhain answres by putting his own arrow into the leader, while Buho pecks at the aimless skum!
Amira moves in and casts a spell, stealing the leader's holy symbol!
The leader curses, casts a spell not requiring his symbol and moves toward Amira.
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Glaurung sends two fiery rays into two different skum!
The skum continues to mill about, not quite sure how to deal with flying foes!
Seeing a traget that just pecked him, one skum lunges at the owl with his trident, but misses the moving target.
Sebastian put another arrow into the leader! The creature croaks in pain and anger, but stands firm.
Samhain puts another arrow in the leader and he goes down!
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Amira will delay, happy shutting down the caster, will delay until anyone is hurt more than they are right now.
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Amira looks to the Skum and speaks in whatever language she might think relevant that she knows.
"You can surrender at any time, you know."
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After a few minutes worth of arrows and spells, the party quickly puts down the remaining skum fighters. As you do so, Amira begins feeling an unnatural urge to hurt herself, though she resists the feeling, she thinks it originates from the black stone she picked up earlier.
Searching the cavern temple, the party finds the leader carried potions of cure serious wounds (2), +2 bone breastplate (bones stitched over hardened animal leather; as +2 hide armor), phylactery of faithfulness, and a +2 war razor.
At a stalactite altar, Eiastor Wyrn’s corpse is currently chained to the altar, his wrists and ankles slashed open and his eyes and mouth sewn shut.
The party finds a variety of ceremonial items within a font in front of the altar. The ceremonial items include an obsidian ceremonial dagger with a gold hilt (248 gp), a dark, red-veined marble chalice with a platinum filigree of abyssal runes (437 gp), and a necklace of gold and platinum plated shark’s teeth (308 gp). The font holds 4 bloodstones (60 gp), 3 pieces of black coral (110 gp), 6 pink pearls (80 gp each), 4 white pearls (140 gp each), white opal (800 gp), a blood garnet (1,000 gp), and 400 gp from a variety of nations, some long extinct.
Beneath a statue of Sifkesh, in some natural stone basins, the party finds a thousand pounds of black stones, similar to the one Samhain found and Amira carries.
After gathering the everything and resting, the party manages to make several trips up to the surface, bringing out Wyrn's body and the thousand pounds of demon tainted stones.
Returning to the waystation, Osprey is waiting wit a grin on his face. "So how did the Mwangi treat you? Did you find all that we were searching for?" Upon seeing the the sheer tonnage of demon-linked stones, Osprey says. "It is a good thing you brought all these back. In the wrong hands, the could cause great harm." With that he removes a scroll from his pocket and moments later you find yourselves standing in Absalom.
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"Honestly, I don't care. We're finally back to civilization." Amira states, shuffling off. "If you'll excuse me. I assume you won't burst into a pillar of light stepping into the bank, Mr. Jai-Rue. Simply return the gloves to the front desk. I'll leave a message with the secretary." She gives a general nod to everyone else, "Good day."
Amira fly-shuffles off to the Bank, awaiting a huge backlog of patients. Meanwhile, Toshi's chair is returned to the storage closet.
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Amira pauses to respond, "No, thank you. Wrestling with a half-naked demon woman was nothing more than a reminder to cast Freedom of Movement more liberally."
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"It was more than haff. I have good notes, rike asked." Toshi notes, trying to find an image he printed of the scene using the Autonomous Cartographer.
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Amira turns away, clearly embarrassed by the sketch. "Misuse of borrowed property! Insubordination! Possession of inappropriate materials while on billable hours! Twenty, no, thirty demotions! You'll be lucky to ever see another chair ever again!"
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"But this is better than rife back on farm," Toshi whispers to the Paladin while Amira momentarily looks back to demote him another 5 ranks for ignoring a superior. "Back on rice farm, we had onry work and never time for relaxing chairs. Here, it is opportunity to work for. Opportunity I have achieved and can again. Besides," he grins, holding up the paper, "Goka does not have thing like this."
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