"Er... I was just peeling an apple, see? But no worries, I'll do that once we're on our way back home.
But anyway, seems like you're struggling to move that idol. While I'm not terribly strong myself, now that my connection to Justin's been severed, I can call up some extraplanar aid. It'll only last a minute at a time, and I can do it only a handful of times, it should be enough to get the thing downstairs. I'm not sure how a pony can pull the thing, but at least he can push it, right?"
That giant mural in the back. The stone mural. There are two red eyes, staring out of it.
The eyes seem to be part of the stonework. They blink, and appear somewhere else on the mural.
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Setsuna takes out her Chronicle and starts looking up anything with glowing red eyes, watching through stone.
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"I do not know what that is, but I'm going to mess it up!"
Setsuna then starts punching and kicking the relief.
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Realizing that this isn't going to work, she decides to use a greater force than her fists: Gravity. She now tries to rip the mural of the wall.
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As Araklifest sees the red eyes manifest in the murals he wonders what they are. With amazement he looks at the monk too who seems to go berserk against the murals. Although Araklifest thought monks could not go berserk, he has the distinct feeling he witnesses such an outstanding happening now.
Strangely enough, you figure Setsuna might actually have the right approach.
It looks like some kind of spirit is trapped in the mural, and its not a friendly one. Destroying the mural will break the magic bonds keeping the spirit here.
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Araklifest realises that destroying the murals might be the best solution. He is not very eager to do so, as he destroys such a blast of information, but the destroying of he spirit has first priority. Realising that his rapier is quite useless for this goal he runs down to the dwarven smith: "Loan me one of your hammers, please, we need it to destroy a malevolent spirit that hinders all who are there, including your mistress!"
With the hammer he returns and starts to destroy murals methodologically.
With the ifluence of the priestess gone, the Dwarf downstairs is more then happy to lend you a few tools, and join in in the smashing of the mural.
It takes a while, but with group effort the mural is broken. The smoky form flys out and screeches loudly before fading into smoke, never to reappear.
With the cult and its influence broken, you can return the idol to the
Pathfinder Society in Absalom, where the chroniclers and sages study its planar powers and the heritage of the archdevil Moloch. The Qadiran sandstorms recede, the fire creatures that have already wandered through the portal disperse, and the cult quiets in Qadira once more.