Wembly's second lion lays into the galvo once more, however it still stands.
Gronk races across the gang plank rips into the hob goblin.
The goblin takes a step back and throws two bombs down at his feet, one right after, directing the blasts strait forward, engulfing Gronk in fire.
The one buccaneer takes a step away and fire a bolt at ariana, but it goes wide.
The other two drop their crossbows and pull out scimitars. They both strike at Gronk and one connects.
Initiative(Bold may Act)
Seltyiel(16 damage), Orophin and Ariana(21 damage)
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Saint Germaine,Gronk(58 damage),Wembly
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Ariana looks at the creature, and then at the other enemies across the way. She decides in an instant that Saint Germaine, and Wembly's tigers can handle the creature for a moment.
She moves across the plank to one of the scimitar wielding buccaneers, and swings with all her power at the one dressed in red.
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Orophin's ghostly glaive continues to attack the bomber
Meanwhile Orophin himself pauses. He reaches out, feels the life in the sea all around. From each nearby fish he borrows a small bit of its life force. From the birds overhead too. Even from the algae. He borrows them, pulls them into himself, and then releases it outward, making sure to exclude the pirates and their affiliated attackers.
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Seltyiel snarls as the fire burns his flesh. He advances on the freebooters, leaping across the gangplank to the enemy ship. As he approaches the pirates, he summons his arcane power, channelling the power into his blade making the already crackling scimitar glow with electrical surge. He swings at the pirate toward the fore of the ship.
The excitement of battle, combined with being burned, breaks Seltyiel's concentration, and the spell fizzles as the makes his attack. He grits his teeth and readies himself for another attack.
Ariana takes out another pirate with the overhand chop.
Orophin's ghost blade deals another blow to the hobgoblin, while she focus healing energy into her companions.
Seltyiel moves into melee, but is too distracted to do anything.
The galvo tries to fight off the celestial cat, but is not as lucky as before.
Initiative(Bold May Act)
Saint Germaine,Gronk(43 damage),Wembly
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Seltyiel(1 damage), Orophin and Ariana(6 damage)
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Maintaining his knightly stance as he steps to the opposite side of the strange creature as the heavenly lion, Saint Germain swings his large blade twice more with downward chops. The first misses by a mile as the ship shifts in the sea, but he is able to recover well for the second.
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Gronk rips the Hobgoblin to shreds.
Seeing the hobgoblin downed, the buccaneer drop theirs swords. And the galvo withdraws back into the waters.
One of the bucanneers drops to his knees, begging forgiveness. We give up. We were merely following orders. With Golgatak slain, we do not wish to fight.If you want, we can tell you where the key is to Faroon's treasure hold is.
Captain Benarry returns at this point from the other ship. Where is Faroon.
The sailor, visibly shaken begins to speak,She left ahead of us, about an hour ago. We were to keep you busy while she heads to the gloomspires.
One of Benarry's men brings a journal to her. After skimming the most recent page. This is bad. It appears that Faroon as kidnapped and interrogated a pathfinder. Not just any agent though, the contact I use to communicate with the society. Faroon now has maps and details of the gloomspires.
"The situation has changed a bit,” Captain Benarry says, eyeing her crew as they begin making necessary repairs. “I originally intended to join you for this trip into the tomb. But with the Pixie taking on water and all of this other damage—not to mention the time it will take to thoroughly search the Black Whispe —I’m going to ask you to venture into the tomb on your own.
“Your primary goal is the same: explore Hrethnar’s Throne. I want every inch of the third level of Old Sevenfingers’s tomb thoroughly mapped and documented.” Benarry pauses for a moment, and then lowers her voice. “Feristal Faroon’s involvement certainly throws a goose in the rigging. I know you’re not hired killers, but she and her team must be taken out. She knows too much and this tomb holds some dangerous secrets. If she ever decided to sell her secrets to our enemies, the Society could suffer greatly and everything we’ve worked for here would be for naught.
“Also, find out how Faroon gained access to the tomb. There are only two ways I know of to secure access: wait for the solstice, or use the Orb of Stars, which I have right here. As you can see,” she says, gesturing to the spires as they shift into different positions again, “the Gloomspires are still moving. If Faroon has indeed reached the tomb already, she and her team have somehow figured out a way to reach them safely and accurately, even when the damned things shift. Faroon’s smart—a lot smarter than me— so I’m thinking she’s uncovered a secret way to reach the spires that we don’t know about. I want that information.”
You may need this. Benarry then hands the PC's the Orb of Stars, Also take these, She then hands each of you a packet of what looks like moss, it should help when you get to the Oblivion Shaft. Keeps you from feeling the ill effects of negative energy it contains
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The lion ignores the fleeing eel beast. Wembly considers dispelling it before unless their destination is close (7min duration).
Captain, how far is it to the 'spires and what is the plan to deliver us to them, and more importantly to return us? I am sure we will solve the riddles within. Thanks for the Orb, that will be handy. Can I see it? No, ok, better than one of you carry it. Can I look at it at least?
Wembly tries to take a peek at the Orb, but then turns back to the Captain.
Oblivion Shaft? Really? That sounds interesting. How would anyone having ever been there remember that was it was? Or did someone just happen to have some of this moss with them? Anyway, we will rescue our agent and the plans, I am positive!
He stops and smiles, looking around for others to agree.
"No the Grinning Pixie is not going anyway, I will let you use Old Flotsam. It should take you an hour to get there from where we are at." Her face goes stern at the mention of Faroon. "Feristal Faroon, I use to run with her a time ago. Faroon holds a grudge against me about a heist we ran a while ago. Things did not go the way she wanted to.
"As for her crew, all I know is she used to have a body guard, a troll named Roortha." He hands you the floating vessel Old Flotsam, "Make sure I get this back."
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The PC's depart the wreckage of the two ships. While they travel the try to remember the gloomspires.
Knowledge (arcana) or Knowledge (history): To recall the knowledge about the gloomspires.
[spoiler=30+] A humanoid race of powerful sorcerers called the Makers constructed the Gloomspires during the Age of Serpents. The Makers are believed to have fled to Golarion to escape enslavement in a nightmarish realm.
Knowledge (arcana), Knowledge (history), or Knowledge (local): To recall information about Sempet Sevenfingers.
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The PC's get to the perimeter of the islands and activate the Orb of Stars as instructed by Captain Benarry. The Spires slow to a halt.
Upon reaching the base of the spire, the PCs must ascend the narrow, winding stairs that twist around it. Nearly two-thirds of the way up the stairs, the PCs discover a breach in the wall leading into one of the tomb’s chambers.
PCs who examine the breach can make
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Ariana is amazed at what she remembers of the Gloomspires since her last visit. "The Gloomspires are an ancient field of massive stone columns that rise from the Arcadian Ocean. The Gloomspires are hollow and contain many chambers and passages, all of which are believed to be cursed, monster-infested, or both. Many of the Gloomspires have been explored, and some have even been claimed and repurposed by other beings. Of these, Sevenfingers’s tomb is the most well known.
As she climbs the stairs with the the others Ariana notices the break in the wall. "It was created by intentional brute force and was not the result of an earthquake or other natural effect. This may be the entrance point of Faroon and her pirates."
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Setlyiel gives the surrendering parties a nasty glare . In the old days, he likely would have executed them on the spot, but sighs as he upholds his promise to the Society. He dissipates the magical energy from his blade then removes a wand using it's curative magic on himself.
"Thank you Ariana, but I have come prepared."
"Lead the way Gronk, I am ready to meet these pirates and extend my personal regards."
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Wembly disembarks with the others. Once on dry ground he will summon Whiskers with a glow of the green gem on his forehead, the large green cat shows up.
The gnome climbs aboard the cat.
I told you it would not be long for you, Whiskers. You only missed a pirate boarding party and some giant eel blob monster.
Now we are chasing another pirate and a captive.
He casts mage armor on himself and the cat.
Ready
The group emerges on the other side of the gap into a dimly lit chamber, the light coming from wall mounted braziers. Long gouges mar the walls, floor, and ceiling, and several piles of rubble and broken stonework litter the floor. A heavy black curtain cordons off the far southwest corner of the chamber. The area within 15 feet of the hole to the spire’s exterior (shaded on the map) is eerily quiet, muting in noise with in it.
Moving over beyond the curtain, a doorway leads to another room. A yawning pit full of crackling black energy dominates the southwestern corner of this otherwise empty chamber.
You believe this to be the Oblivion Shaft
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"I agree. It was intentional. But, I wonder, despite what it seems, if it was not something making it's way out?"
Moving into the room, Saint Germain takes a few moments to take as accurate notes of the area as he can in his journal, a habit he had become accustom to early on when he first saw one of his earliest quests heavily edited in that seasons Chronicles, while taking a few moments to search around the room.
Some one recalls the captain telling you that you have to chew the moss. As for the shaft, the captain did not know too much about it, just that it was full of negative energy.
As for the falling or floating some one will just have to figure that part out.
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Chewing on his weed as well like one might a cheekfull of tobaco, Saint Germain takes out a pair of ropes and ties them together, then looks around for a rock. Using his Shining Wayfinder to first scan the shaft for evil, he casts Light on the rock, and lowers it down into the shaft, trying to see just how far down it goes, and also if there are any pathways down there.
(Have Darkvision 60 ft, but can go 95ft with the ropes and Light).
The rope descends down into the darkness. Soon even passed Saint Germaine's vision.
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Before pulling it back up, he will find another pebble and cast Light on it, sending it down to try to gage just how deep the shaft is, how much further it falls beyond the rope, just to add a note to his journal for now.
"Well then, shall we try this other door?"
If no one has any other ideas, the knight will make his way towards the only other exit from this room, his sword out and ready, but also offering light for the others.
The second pebble drops into the shaft. A second or two later you hear a tiny clack as it hits another hard surface. You guess it is a few hundred feet down.
Saint Germain moves to other door, finding it to be jammed by an unnatural force.
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"I have a solution, but it will take a minute."
He pulls a scroll of fly, chews his moss, and tells the gnome and the magus to climb on..
"If someone else can fly then we can get this done. I have another scroll if absolutely necessary though."
He then carries them to the bottom, returning to get the rest of the crew after.. That is if there isn't an ambush at the bottom..
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Wembly calls out in glee
That will work. I can cast fly on Ariana if she is willing to carry me down. I can do so for someone else burly as well. But two is all I can cast for today.
Using the scroll and 2 cast fly spells on the 3 strongest, probably all 6 can get down I'd hope.
Wembly starts chewing on the moss.
Wembly gulps hard. "Not the most tasty meal, but as master Ignizi Dinnelletter used to say, 'We must find a way to succeed!' "