Stealth
"Attention, the tomb giant attacks have energy drain. We are entering what seems a shrine to Urgathoa the god of physical excess, disease and the undead." Leira's statements are not very stealthy, but perhaps the undead do not notice.
Unfortunately the inhabitants of the room notice Gallant and Leira.
Block 1: Leira
Block 2: Onenphexia and tomb giant
Block 3: Zavier, Dolgrym and Sid
Block 4: Zombie
So Leira your action
Leira climbs to a height of 5 feet over the ground while she says words of obscure magic, bringing the shadows around to gather in a point below the tomb giant feet with a shadow conjuration spell to create a spiked pit.
The tomb giant manages to avoid the pit.
The cyclops casts a spell and levitates into the air.
The tomb giant throws a rock at Leira
Sid flys closer to the group.
"You read my mind."
Sid casts a persistent create pit using his rod. Ref 20 roll twice and take the lower.
Climb DC of 25
Gallant moves up and forward 5t and attacks the creature repeatedly.
The tomb giant falls into the pit.
Gallant tears into the zombie, completely destroying it.
Dolgrym flies over the pit the tomb giant has fallen in, dropping two fire seeds as he does so.
Fire Seed 1 damage. Reflex DC 22 for half.
Fire seed 2 damage. Reflex DC 22 for half.
If Zavier can fly or air walk to the cyclops he will do that and grapple the cyclops. Otherwise he will move closer and throw a javelin.
"Are you Skirkatla? Your training plans are over, and you will pay for the assault to Trunau!" Leira rushes forward raising her falchion over her head and walking in the air to reach the levitating cyclops with a vital strike!
[i]The tomb giant yells as the fire seeds strike him.
Zavier moves across and tries to grapple the cyclops but fails.
Leira slashes at the cyclops but misses.
The cyclops tries to touch Leira
The tomb giant tries to climb out of the pit.
Zavier tries to grab onto the cyclops, if it works he will try and force the cyclops down to the floor.
If that works he will smack the giant on the head as a Rapid Grapple action
As the cyclops reaches for Leira her skin becomes black while she shouts in terrible pain and wrinkles like a raisin "Aaaaah!"
Despite her terrible wounds, Leira steps to the side to offer a flank to Zavier "Your power does not scare me Skirkatla! Trunau will prevail!"
Gallant flaps his heavy stone wing and move to help Zavier and Leira.
Sid hold his position in case something comes up.
Dolgrym flies, pulling his hammer, landing to grant flanking to whoever wasn’t flanking (if that was the case). He was ready to start bashing away next round.
Leira deals the cyclops a mighty blow, this is then followed up by Zavier grappled it and slamming it into a wall.
Sid is delaying.
The cyclops tries to break out of the grapple.
The tomb giant tries to climb out of the pit.
Uncaring for her own health, Leira fights back the cyclops with all her strength "Why are you training giants? Answer monster!!!"
The cyclops responds
"Because my mistress commands it."
The next moment Leira deals it a mighty blow.
Zavier grins as the cyclops almost is able to break out of his grapple, but Zavier was just able to maintain it. This was the kind of test of strength he lived for.
Zavier tries to end the evil undead giant as fast as he can. SMacking it on the head with one hand while holding it down with the other.
Dolgrym swings his magical hammer twice at the grappled cyclops.
Attack with flanking
Damage
Iterative Attack with flanking
Damage
Zavier smashes the cyclops into the wall, damaging her severely.
Dolgrym just misses hitting the creature.
Gallant attacks the creature relentlessly.
With his first blow Gallant tears the throat out of the cyclops.
As she dies you murmur,
"You may have killed me but you will never defeat Skirkatla."
The tomb giant tries to climb out of the pit, but fails
"Curse you! She was not Skirkatla?!" noticing the tomb giant is still alive, Leira flies over the pit and plants a wall of fire on the bottom "Extra motivation to climb learning"
Leira almost feels sorry for the giant, but she then remembers about what his kind did to Trunau and how they killed her mother. She frowns and concentrates in the fire making it burn for as many rounds as the pit lasts and beyond.
The fire keeps raging while the giant fails to climb and Leira contemplates the furnace with a serious demeanor until the pit expires or the giant dies or gets out.
Zavier wrinkles his nose at the smell of burning giant. Who is Skirkatla? Even bigger giant?
Struggling to get out of the pit, the tomb giant is roasted alive by Leira's spell.
Loot: +2 scythe
m/w heavy crossbow
headband of mental prowess +4 (Wis, Cha)
ioun torch
"Wow this gear is amazing. This headband is great for well anybody that is not me but especially Leira and Dolgrym. So it seems we are nearing our goal. I'm tight on spells but I also don't want to lose the momentum gained today. I can make either option work."
"Zavier, Elena the giant of the Cathedral told us Skirgaard camp was leaded by a graveknight called Skirkatla, the winter wolves told us she is in this tomb, and the slaves told us again about Skirkatla"
"I agree this was indeed a good find. You use more offensive spells Dolgrym, why don't you take the headband yourself?" offers the young girl.
"If this was not Skirkatla, then we should undo our steps and look for where she might be" Leira air walks back to the other side of the chasm and retraces the group steps to the first not opened door "Look, there is a door here to the west, we can try this way"
Heading back to the antechamber you try the other doors. They open into another large room. The walls of this cavernous room to the east and north are finished masonry, but the rest of the chamber has a rough quality to it, as if hewn from the rock. Against the western wall sits a square stone dais, more a solid block of stone than a platform. A flight of steps is cut into the eastern side of the dais, leading up to a massive black throne. Faded, tattered carpet runners connect the dais to massive stone doors to the north and east. White support columns stand in remote corners of the room, along with a solitary stone bench toward the south end.
Inside the room are 5 figures. On the throne is a large undead giant. In two other corners are two young women who appear to be bathed in eerie green flames. Finally there are two corpses with elongated legs and bows made out of bone in front of the throne.
Block 1: Witchfires and baykoks
Block 2: Leira, Dolgrym, Sid and Zavier
Block 3: Skirkatla
The witchfires fly up in the air and fire a bolt of green flame at Leira and Gallant.
They miss Leira.
The baykoks then fly up in the air and howl
Zavier cannot move!
Will (+2 v. spells, poison and SLAs) (+4 v SUs and SLAs of giants)
Will (+2 v. spells, poison and SLAs) (+4 v SUs and SLAs of giants)
The dwarf shakes off the evil magic, trying to bolster his friends if possible. ”Fight it off! These mongrels are trouble!”
Before going into the next doors, Leira renew her spells that are running out of duration: shield of faith, enlarge person and ironskin.
She also does something new, before opening the doors her skin gets hard like the stone.
As they open the doors and spot the giant in the throne Leira smiles "Aha! We finally found you Skirkatla! It is the time to pay for your crimes!"
Seeing the evil flames coming for them, Leira casts communal resist energy to protect everyone against fire.
She moves around touching everyone, including Gallant, and finishes her movement hiding herself from the enemy arrows behind the walls cover "We need to figure out how to stop them shooting at us. I can try with a wall of fire or a fog, but the room is huge"
Leira you recognise the creature on the throne as a grave knight but you are unable to recall anything about them.
The creatures with the bows are baykoks. They have the ability to devour the soul of a dead or dying creature. They have a howl ability that can paralyse and their arrows can do negative energy damage.
The creatures on fire are witchfire, they are incorporeal creatures. They have immunity to fire. Their touch attacks are incorporeal. They have some spell like abilities and their fire bolts can cause their victims to be engulfed in green flames, making the target sickened. This also makes them vulnerable to fire. Any creature entering the same square as a witchfire has the potential to become engulfed in the green flame.
I have a wall of stone to make a zig zag so they have to break it or come to us. Wall of stone does not have a huge area to work with for giants. Or I can start summoning a monster. Thoughts? If nothing else I can haste.
Dolgrym casts Freedom of Movement on the grappler.
Sid you do not recall anything more on the baykoks or witchfires (you've found out all there is to know). You do know that graveknights have the rejuvenation ability, they have damage reduction against everything except magic, they have spell resistance and they are immune to cold, electricity and fire.