Eve rushes down the hallway, starknife shedding light in one hand and whip in the other.
Rouqar is following Loarin, carefully and with stealth when Eve moves past....
Flouncy follows right behind the more imposing members of his troupe, hoping to be of use.
When Eve rushes past, He stops and rapidly casts Haste before she or anyone else is out of range. She may notice some spring in her step.
Beorn follows staying about thirty feet behind Eve.
Renia speeds up to stay third in line.
Beorn keeps his head on a swivel but moves to keep up with Eve.
Flouncy keeps an eye out, too, looking for traps or any sign of trouble.
He casts Greater Invisibility on himself, thinking danger is near.
Renia moves to keep up with the leaders while trying to stay alert.
With the added speed Eve quickly gets to the end of the hallway noticing two doors. One with a silver handle in the form of a wing and one with a gold knocker of a laughing imp. The green light throws shadows on the doors but quickly gets overpowered by Eve's light on her starknife.
Flouncy checks the doors for traps.
He also tries to discern what the unusual handles might symbolize.
"Thanks Flouncy. Eve, you seem to like moving ahead. Pick your favorite door and let's see if it is a princess or a tiger."
Rouqar follows along, a bit worried about a trap....
As you look for traps you do see several skull-decorated fly which likely means a homage to Urgathoa.
You don't think you see any traps.
As the group has now rushed down the hallway to the doors at the other end, you can hear movement within the cells on either side. Looking back you begin to see hands stretching out from the bars.
I don't know what the handles are about, but the decorations on the door are signs of Urgathoa.
Seeing the hands, Flouncy rushes to bypass the magical locks.
Wing handle:
Imp handle:
Flouncy feels most confident about how he did with the wing door.
Okay, friends, I'm going to open the door with the wing handle first. Take a few moments to get ready.
He takes a couple rounds to cast Message, then casts Shield on himself, and gives everyone time to position themselves, cast spells, etc.
Here goes! he says, then opens the door.
Beorn wait until just before Flouncy open the door, and then he cast divine favor.
Eve sets up.
Rouqar waits.
Opening the door you find a well lit room, with corpses along the walls in all sorts of torture devices. The room is covered in emerald green from a massive brazier at the far end of the room. You see a figure before it.
He turns and states, "Welcome to my lair and your tomb!"
Round 1
Bone claws
mob
priest
Eve 21
Rouqar 20
Beorn and Renia 17
16 mob and priest
Flouncy 13
11 Bone claws
Loarin 9
There is too much of a contrast of the green flames behind him to recognize his features without a high perception check DC 25.
2nd round - waves of fatigue and select second target for eyebite
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Effect
Range 30 ft.
Area cone-shaped burst
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw no; Spell Resistance yes
Description
Waves of negative energy render all living creatures in the spell's area fatigued. This spell has no effect on a creature that is already fatigued.
fatigued: A fatigued character can neither run nor charge and takes a –2 penalty to Strength and Dexterity. Doing anything that would normally cause fatigue causes the fatigued character to become exhausted. After 8 hours of complete rest, fatigued characters are no longer fatigued.
3rd round - baleful polymorph (Will DC 20) and 3rd target for eyebite
The group moves into the room and hears the necromancer's words.
"That's all I needed to know." Beorn says as he comes up with his bow, two arrows nocked. His face seems to get a little furry, his canines elongate, and his hair fades to a tawny orange in parts so that he appears to have stripes (animal aspect Tiger).
Seeing the horde of minor undead in front of the party Rouqar steps forward and raises his holy symbol to channel positive energy to harm them.
Flouncy barely steps through the door, and is not happy with what he sees.
He uses his ring to cast a spell he hadn't prepared earlier. Lightning Bolt, but with a twist. It's an Acid Bolt, fired through the line of undead before him, hitting the monster to the right of the cauldron and probably the big guy himself.
He also tries to get a look at the necromancer.
He's still invisible, for now.
Eve Detects for Evil.
Round 1
Eve relays to the group, "there is evil in the room!"
Rouqar steps forward and washes the room in positive energy damaging the undead.
Beorn's first two arrows barely get deflected by the figure's defenses, as the third arrow punches into its chest. 17 damage
Renia...
The mob of undead charge forward trying to get to the group. The priest casts a spell targeting Rouqar, striking him with waves of power. The priest says, "Feel the power of my god!"
HD Effect
10 or more Sickened
5-9 Panicked, sickened
4 or less Comatose, panicked, sickened
The effects are cumulative and concurrent.
Sickened: Sudden pain and fever sweeps over the subject's body. A creature affected by this spell remains sickened for 10 minutes per caster level. The effects cannot be negated by a remove disease or heal spell, but a remove curse is effective.
Panicked: The subject becomes panicked for 1d4 rounds. Even after the panic ends, the creature remains shaken for 10 minutes per caster level, and it automatically becomes panicked again if it comes within sight of you during that time. This is a fear effect.
Comatose.
Flouncy, still invisible, releases a stream of acid.
11 Bone claws
Loarin 9
He cast Eyebite!
A panicked creature must drop anything it holds and flee at top speed from the source of its fear, as well as any other dangers it encounters, along a random path. It can’t take any other actions. In addition, the creature takes a –2 penalty on all saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. If cornered, a panicked creature cowers and does not attack, typically using the total defense action in combat. A panicked creature can use special abilities, including spells, to flee; indeed, the creature must use such means if they are the only way to escape.
Shaken
A shaken character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. Shaken is a less severe state of fear than frightened or panicked.
Sickened
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Flouncy's acid spell hits the cauldron as well, it begins to froth and boil. The floating skull above the cauldron has its flames glow brighter. All of the corpses hit by the spell liquefy and the smell is awful.
The figure exclaims, "Yes more mana for my cauldron!"
The boneclaw hit by the lightning/acid bolt fell into the massive cauldron.
Renia charges forward and attacks the figure before the cauldron. As he charges forward and steps over the stream of blood, the blood glows with magical runes and it seems to explode in raw power.
The mob is but two ghouls, who both go after the dog.
plus disease and paralysis)
plus disease and paralysis)
plus paralysis
plus paralysis
The green boneclaw takes a 5 foot step to center more inside of the glowing pentagram. It moves its claws in precise movements and begins to screech out in Necril.
The blue bone claw attacks Renia but the image quickly fades revealing a ghoul in studded leather armor. Its razor sharp claws aim for Reina's weak spots.
plus paralysis)
paralysis (1d4+1 rounds, DC 15, elves are immune to this effect)
Round 2
Round 1
Renia charges through the magical effect to attack the priest.
Orchen is mobbed by the ghouls and the big dog defends itself against the one that came closest to hitting it.
Beorn growls in frustration and releases another volley of arrows. When he sees Rouqar struck break and flee he calls out to Flouncy, ”Flouncy, can you follow our cat friend and make sure he does not find danger alone elsewhere?”
Flouncy understands that the green boneclaw is summoning minions.
He moves, sneak attacking it with a silent, intensified acidball.
17x 1.5= 25.
His invisibility ends next round. He hears Beorn, and will follow Renia, just to keep us safe.
Round 1
The dog takes down the the undead before it as the positive pulse washes over them moments later.
Renia charges the caster and cuts a large wound with his claw.
Round 2 34 + 19+ 17=71
Eve continues holding onto her detect evil spell
Rouqar flees from the room.
Beorn's many shot hits as the last arrow is deflected. The caster now has three arrows stuck in his chest seeping blood and a claw wound.
Flouncy hits the large bone claw that is summoning something and thinks he may have stopped it. A tear forms in the middle of the air above the summoning ritual and the bone claw gets sucked up into it. Then the tear closes and a crystal clear blue dagger clatters to the ground. The ground begins to freeze around it at about a foot per round.
21 Eve
20 Rouqar*
17 Beorn* and Renia
16 priest and mob(ghoul) and green skull
13 Flouncy*
11 Bone claw
9 Loarin
*finished their actions.
Round 2
With an opponent right in front of him, Renia turns into a whirlwind of claws.
Orchen, fully distracted by the ghouls, turns on the closest one to take it down.
The halfling sees the bone claw seemingly shift into another dimension, and leave a blue dagger that seems to be freezing everything within a slowly expanding arc.
This is concerning.
Flouncy is perplexed.
You are sure the item is just that, likely a cursed item. It is not an outsider, no chance to see if it has an emblem on it to show nobility, and the spreading of the cold seems concerning, you believe that chill touch is the effective spell.
Renia summarily tears apart the priest. As the dog comes in it bites the ghoul. The ghoul attacks Reina.
(plus disease and paralysis),
(plus paralysis),
(plus paralysis),
disease (DC 15), favored enemy (elves +2, humans +4), paralysis (1d4+1 rounds, DC 15, elves are immune to this effect)
Round 3
...
Eve takes a step and lashes out twice, at the furthest enemy.