SUCCESS
SUCCESS
Both guards evade the magus's spells.
Ivy still lies unconscious in the corner. The wolf still huddles in a state of panic in the other corner.
The guard who dropped his rapier steps back and pulls his bow. The other steps away from the flaming sphere. Both shoot arrows at Jenny!
MISS
MISS
But both miss. Meanwhile, the toad reappears next to the wolf, causing it to yelp in fear!
Round II Summary
Ivy: stabilizes
Baddies: wolf runs, rest attack
Teenoch: disappears
Khakil: sings and misses
Cott: summons, burning disarm
Trifle: flaming sphere, flare
Round III Update
Ivy: stable
Baddies: shoot and miss
Teenoch: reappears
Khakil: CURRENT
Cott:
Trifle:
wolf 1 round
top 0
mid 0
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Jenny is commanded to attack the agent to the east, and she dashes across the room, attempting to jump onto the table to reach him.
She slashes at the man who just shot at her.
He orders his summoned earth elemental to attack the guard to the north as well and it surges forward, slamming at the Aspis agent.
Cott moves into the room past Khakil, around the table and the flaming sphere, and swings at the guard to the north.
Khakil's swing is dodged by the guard, as is Jenny's and Cott's. The elemental finds its mark, however, and the guard clings dearly to consciousness.
SUCCESS Still the guard evades the burning sponge-orb!
SUCCESS And still does the other guard resist Trifle's flash!
At the sight of the toad, the wolf flees with all possible speed out the door . The guards, meanwhile, step back once more and fire another volley of arrows.
MISS
HIT DMG 3 to Cott
One arrow catches the druid in the thumb. That's gotta hurt!
Khakil is up.
Round III Summary
Ivy: stable
Baddies: shoot and miss
Teenoch: reappears
Khakil: sing and miss
Cott: ATTAAAAACK!
Trifle: sphere and flare
Round IV Update
Ivy: stable
Baddies: shoot
Teenoch: disappears again
Khakil: CURRENT
Cott:
Trifle:
Wolf 0 rounds
Top 15
Bot 0
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Khakil strikes at the wolf as it runs past.
He sheaths his sword as he turns to face the Aspis. He mumbles a quick incantation and a wave of Grease erupts for the pair, splashing against the wall. DC15
His performance comes to an end, but it's effects linger in the hearts of his companions for 12 more seconds.
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Everybody to connect with the wolf, leaving it unconscious by the time it passes Jenny, but its momentum carries it onward past Trifle -- who kills it outright.
FAIL
FAIL
Both Aspis fall to Khakil's blubber!
Cott is up.
Round IV Update
Ivy: stable
Baddies: shoot
Teenoch: disappears again
Khakil: grease, ends performance
Cott: CURRENT
Trifle:
Top 15
Bot 0
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Cott, intending to finish the fight quickly, moves 15 feet east and swings with his club at the eastern aspis agent.
Cott commands his summoned elemental to attack the prone foe as well, and the animated pile of stone moves immeadiately to Cott's left, rises up to slam into the battered man.
Finally Jenny is commanded to attack the western foe. She hops off of the table to the north west, and lashes out at the fallen foe.
That just about does it. Out of initiative.
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The elemental vanishes, leaving only a few scattered pebbles behind. Cott praises Jenny, and moves to assist Ivy. He searches her pockets for her wand of Cure light wounds, and after locating it, uses it once to revive her.
Having awoken his traveling companion, he sets to looting the corpses of the recently fallen foes, while checking to see if any of them are still breathing and are capable of being interrogated.
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Khakil checks to see that Ivy is once again conscious before running over to the caged man. He checks for injury.
Failing to tell the man apart from the floor itself, he shouts out.
"Besnik! Is that you?"
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These guards are carrying identical material to the ones you encountered before, although one of them has a key ring. By the time you get back to them, they're all dead.
Khakil is not sure if the caged man is a human or an elephant, let alone what his injuries might be. He is asleep at the moment.
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Cott grabs the keys and fits them each into the lock until one finally turns. He enters the cell and appraises the prisoner's physical appearance, and state of health.
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The prisoner is rather malnourished and has been poorly treated. Still alive though.
"Nnggh. Huh? Wha--?"
"Name's Besnik, bronze agent. Wrongf'lly 'ccused. Who the bloody 'ell are you?"
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"Bronze agent of the consortium hmm? What did you do to get locked up here by your friends then? Wrongfully accused of what exactly? "
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Khakil humors Besnik's excuse but still listens for a tone of insincerity in his voice.
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"They accused me of bein' somebody I'm not. This's some kin' o' trick, in't it?"
Khakil thinks that this is, in fact, Besnik.
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"Besnik! We're Pathfinders like you! Stop the act and join us that we might leave this place."
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"No no no, this's a trick! I'm not a Pathfinder, I swear! Just let me out!" You've gotta convince HIM that YOU are Pathfinders.
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Khakil holds out his wayfinder so that Besnik can clearly see it.
"Man, have you ever had to deal with Janera? Did you hear what she's been up to now? She's ridiculous: pray you never run into any minotaur when she's around!
Listen, Besnik. Farabellus sent us her to clear out the Aspis and find out how they are using portals to get to and from this plane. We're here to claim the temple for the society's personal study. He mentioned that a mousy looking fellow named Besnik preceeded us, but that you were probably dead, so there was no point for an extraction mission. Luckily that is not the case."
Khakil extends to him a trails ration from his bag.
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"Now get your shit together man. We're heading deeper into the temple to clear out the remaining consortium members. If you're interested in giving them back a bit of what you got, come along. We could use another sword arm.
If you're not up to the job, the path back out of the temple is clear behind us, but you'd have to make your own way. We can't spare a member of our party to escort you. And you'd have to hope that your way home is still open. I don't know how long our personalized return orbs persist. If yours has faded while you've been imprisoned you'll have a hell of a time getting out of here.
So. Which is it going to be Besnik? Some good old fashioned revenge and finishing the job you came here for, or running home with your tail between your legs? "
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Besnik is VERY skeptical, but warms up to you once he gets a look at the mess you've made of the room. As planar essences persist indefinitely and he's barely able to walk, he opts to wander a mile into the desert to find his essence and return to Absalom.
You now find yourself in any empty "prison" with a pile of corpses. The floor of each cell, as well as the floor of the main room, is marked with a strange runic circle of unusual design.
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Cott uses his own wand of CLW twice more, once on Jenny and then again on himself.
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Khakil is mystified.
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Cott casts guidance on himself before he makes an examination of room, then does so again as eyes the markings and tries to recall what he knows about Spellcrafting.
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Cott comes up with a loose flagstone, under which he finds a forgotten scroll of dimensional anchor and a scroll of magic circle against chaos. He also notices that the bars of the cages are oddly cold to the touch.
The circles (and the bars) are designed for summoning and holding extraplanar creatures.
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Khakil searches the rest of the room to find any remaining useful items.
"Teenoch, what should we expect in the rooms through the hallway to the west? "
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The toads pops back into sight by the doorway. "East, you mean? The southern passage contains priests' cells, invaded by the nasty scum. The northern passage leads to Areshkagal's glorious Undershrine!"
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"Yes, east... sorry I was caught in a slight stupor from these runes. Let's go clear the scum out, then! Is everyone ready? "
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"No time like the present. Teenoch, anything to tell us about this summoning chamber before we continue on? Could we conjure up some help here? Do we need to worry about extraplanar creatures appearing at our backs?""
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The toad literally frowns at you. "No."
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Khakil makes eye contact with Cott for but a moment.
"Well, let's get to clearing, if no one objects."
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The hallway to the south leads to a number of small bedchambers, each with a bunkbed, two trunks, and a chamber pot, as well as an open foul-smelling pit at the end of the hall.