The giant is blinded. Shortly. He manages to rub the glitter out of his eyes.
Grinning like a lunatic, Daseem invoked the blessing of Our Lord in Iron, before sprinting towards the giant at top speed, swinging his holy great circle in a vicious overhead arc that intersected with the giant's lower torso!
Bupkis powers up again, and fires again.
Menrozzar advanced forward, around the left side of the table, taking care not to step on the grate in his path. Once he finishes his advance, the giant is just within reach of his spear.
Daseem and Menrozzar approach around the table from two sides for a loose flank, hoping to catch the giant when he makes a move.
Bupkis misses with his attack.
The giant gets up, avoiding Menrozzar's attack, but taking Daseem's sword into his flesh. He reaches for the door and opens it. Which releases an undead abomination. This thing, which is built from a lot of corpses is large and has three clawy arms. It comes for Menrozzar.
Bupkis decides to switch targets to the undead abombination.
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The undead abomination had become a greater threat to him. Menrozzar called out, "Daseem! Keep the giant from opening the other door!" He then roared in rage as he shifted into a more draconic form before stabbing with the long spear at the undead abomination.
Bupkis and Menrozzar do their part to take the undead down. But that will take more effort.
Daseem's Gorum blessed sword flicked out as the giant released the door handle. He'd aimed for the ankles, the steel bit deeply and Daseem tried to sweep the giant off his feet!
The giant gets hit hard. But instead of fighting back he moves to the other door and opens it.
The undead abomination attacks Menrozzar.
Out of the opened door comes another undead that attacks Daseem.
As the giant showed it's back, Daseem's sword flashed out.
The undead clawed into Daseem, it hurt but it mostly made him angry enough to growl, "Gorrum!" Suddenly he was surrounded by heat and he unleashed a terrifying series of blows, hoping to cut the undead to ribbons!
Daseem makes Gorum proud. With three swings of his large sword he cuts of the limbs of the undead abomination and after shortening it to his hight, he chops off the head too. The undead crumbles to dust.
The skeleton lashes out at him, but Menrozzar keeps standing and fighting it, unaffected by whatever diseases and toxins it has.
Menrozzar takes apart the other undead abomination (not skeleton).
Bupkis powers up and tries to take out the giant once and for all.
The plan of the giant doesn't work. All his undead puppets destroyed, and a final shot from Bupkis, and the giant falls too.
Daseem grunted when he realized with a pang of disappointment there was nothing left to fight. In combat there was no time for introspection and self doubt, no time for thinking of his rocky relationship with Tessa whose words cut more deeply than any sword.
Uncertain of what to do next, he examined the corpses to see if they left anything of note.
There are a lot of tools that would make an alchemist or a necromancer happy. But it is either nothing a morally intact person would want to deal with or bolted to the floor and too heavy to move.
As the adrenalie faded away, Daseem realised he was hurt and he asked Bupkis, "Ken ye h-heal me a little friend?"
Bupkis heals Daseem.
"Maybe just go next door?" Amira suggests, as that laboratory isn't exactly olfactory pleasing.
Bupkis scans around and remarks, "Hidden door here!"
After giving everyone a chance to prepare, he opens the concealed portal.
A heavy metal chest sits against the southern wall of this simple, unadorned chamber.
Bupkis checks the chest for traps.
Bupkis finds the chest to be trapped.
Bupkis tries to disarm the trap.
"Good eye, Bupkis. We may wish to fall back and rest after this. I'm not sure how much more any of us has left."
Bupkis manages not to trigger the trap, but doesn't manage to disarm it.
"Amira, do you know a spell you can use to disable magical effects?"
"I do, but it is usually hard to overcome such magic, if it is not created by a beginner. But beginners can't do magical traps. Sadly I can't summon something to trigger the trap for us."
"I can try though."
After throwing the magic at the chest and then checking if the magic on it is gone she states "That didn't work. Haw badly do you want to look into that chest? I can try a few more times, but it might as well be a waste of spells"
"It might be something useful, but I'd rather we conserve resources and come back to it later. Unless someone has a way to open the chest from a distance?"
Telekintic Finesse. alloews me to disable devicice, but I can't diable magical traps.
You can perform any sort of fine manipulation you choose within close range, including attempting Sleight of Hand and Disable Device checks
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Menrozzar spends another couple seconds considering, then casts a spell to study the magic aura on the trap.
Daseem shuddered, "H-hoodoo! Best leave it a-alone!"
Oddly enough Daseem was more scared of what might be treasure than all the giants and other monsters.
"Whatever spell guards this chest, it is a power necromancy spell. Let's come back for it."
Exiting the room, Menrozzar points at the room across the way. "That one next, I think."
The large stone door, which isn't a two wing door like most so far, lead into a relatively small room. A series of low pedestals line the walls of this room. Perched atop each is a humanoid skull. A small plaque has been chiseled in stone beneath each skull, like a memorial. Antiquated, sometimes broken, weapons lean against several of the pedestals. None of the skulls or weapons are giant-sized.
As you enter and approach to read what is written, the skull atop the pedestal abruptly bursts into a corona of blue fire and animates and speaks. "Akargrim was my name in life," moans the skull in a sepulchral voice. "I and those with me fought the savage giant Hhurrun Springbane, who challenged me to single combat. We had nearly defeated the giants, but many of my companions were injured, and so I agreed to face Springbane alone. I had all but slain the brute when Springbane called to his giants, who leapt to his aid and cut me down before my clan could rally to my rescue. With my murder, the tide of battle turned, and Springbane returned to his people to lie about his courage and strength at arms. I charge you, go north from this monument to ignominy, then turn east. Do not veer west. My killer has been made perversely immortal for his so-called courage. Take my axe and bring me Hhurrun Springbane’s head, so that I, and these others with me, might remember justice, and find our way peacefully to judgment. If you return, I shall grant you a boon. I can do no more."
Menrozzar resists the mental pressure of the skull's request, but says, "We will likely encounter Hhurrun Springbane at some point, Akargrim, and we will kill him then. We will bring you his head if we defeat him."
Bupkis replies, "We take axe and bring back head!"
"No, this can't wait!" Amira objects to Menrozzar.
Daseem's eyes lit up, the music of the spheres had already started. Suddenly he stood up straight and for once his reticence and tongue twistedness was gone and he declared, "By GORUM I shall not rest until the head of Hhurrun Springbane is liberated from his shoulders!"
"We can do it after we clear the rest of this tomb. Is that acceptable, Akargrim?"
After finishing his compelling speech, the flames around Akargrim's skull die down and he becomes unresponsive.
"Let's not dawdle, just revenge needs to be dealt!" Amira tells, waving her small dagger around and then leading the conquest at hand out of the room.