They were the back two ghouls, and had to crawl over difficult terrain (stairs strewn with ghoul corpses) to bite, so PCs with reach weapons get AoOs....
Also, DC 13 Fort vs disease in addition to the DC 13 Fort vs paralysis if those bites do in fact land after potential AoOs are resolved....
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After dispatching two of the creatures, one with a double slice that rends its head off, one of Nacht's arms are caught by a slobbering mouth.
He feels something course through him but it does nothing but stir his fury. Looking upon the beast Nacht seeks to paint the walls with it's bodyparts.
Alphonse swings to take his pound of flesh f om the remaining Ghoul.
Round 3
The Dominican will continue his invocations to help his party members while bringing out a flask of holy water and will splash it at a ghoul.
Jimeno stabs at the next ghoul in front of him with his lance and tries to hold the line for any other of his allies to get through.
'Never Feel Naked Again'
Jean continues his piercing tirade on the ghouls of Paris.
Also:
Jean doesn't even notice the stench of the rotten blood as it spews onto his face as he jabs and twists his spearhead into the Ghoul's decrepit frame. He just feels alive.
The ghouls have been defeated! The adventurers are victorious....
As silence settles over the subterranean scene, thoughts of loot begin to bubble up in certain heads....
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The ghouls wear funeral shrouds tattered with age and little else, but some jewelry is recovered: a thin gold necklace with a golden rose pendant inlaid with garnets, a silver ring inset with a garnet, gold ring, a gold bracelet engraved with images of triremes and dolphins, a silver brooch set with moonstones, and a copper bracelet interwoven with opals....
Appraise checks can determine the values....
The corpses re-dead, laid around them as they were handled with speed. Nacht didnt care abut the baubles as they were not important to him. Things that shined did not keep you alive done here. He began to instead look around for where ore of them may be or more importantly the taint of the Necromancer.
The friar will offer requiem prayers for the ghouls and will take holy water and splash it on them.
In Celestial
Father, we ask you to receive the souls of our brethern. Forgive them any sins that they have done and guide their souls to the New and Everlasting Jerusalem. We ask this through Christ Our Lord.
Iommi-Tyr Magnusson, as the others finish off the last of the Undead, begins looking for clues, not unlike Nacht, to determine from where these Undead came....
Were they animated recently?
What were they in life, Parisians? Clerics of Notre Dame? Something else & they traveled here from afar?
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Excellent....none of us lost a limb or anything important. Let's be off and set this nasty wizard off on a one way journey to Hades, then we can set Mr. Nacht here free from his predicament. So let us.....ooh....shiny trinkets....
Paddy bends down to pick up one of the baubles.
Well, this will help pay for the wine when we celebrate later....don't judge me...
Nacht's eyes appear to be judging you but then again he seems to be judging everyone.. and Yellow eyes are kind of hard to interpret.
[dice=Perception:Wasp]1d20+10
After his unique insect-like eyes sweep each of these fellow-creatures, The Beetle Man scans the bone-and-skull-strewn ossuary below....
His multifaceted eyes zero in on a scroll tube made from a human thigh bone, with a cork stopper at each end--nigh invisible among the thousands of other similar bones strewn about the vault....
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Iommi-Tyr Magnusson, as the others finish off the last of the Undead, begins looking for clues, not unlike Nacht, to determine from where these Undead came....
Were they animated recently?
What were they in life, Parisians? Clerics of Notre Dame? Something else & they traveled here from afar?
[dice=Knowledge Religion w/ Inspiration]1d20+9 +1d6
[dice=Perception w/ Inspiration]1d20+4 +1d6
These corpses, five men and a dwarf woman, each bear a brand scar on their bellies marking them as cannibals.... Likely, these were Parisians sentenced to death at the gallows for the crime of cannibalism during one of the many famines that have swept through the city throughout history....
** spoiler omitted ** Hisao mutters to himself as he scoops up the jewelry.
[dice=Appraise]1d20+4
The thin gold necklace with a golden rose pendant inlaid with garnets is worth 1,800 gold taels!
From his perch amid celestial bamboo in the Seventh Heaven, the Monkey King grins as he watches the adventures of Hisao-San and his companions unfold....
This Mister Hisao is my kinda guy! Go for the shiny objects! Eeeek! Eeeek! Eeeeek! I think I'll toss some riches his way....
The Monkey King snaps his fingers....
Down on Earth, the gold ring the ninja is surreptitiously removing from a ghoulish finger briefly sparkles with divine light!
Nacht digs through what looks to be piles of human refuse to pull out a particular bone showing it to the group as if it were plain to see for him. He was not sure what it could be but knew it held some significance being hidden.
Nacht digs through what looks to be piles of human refuse to pull out a particular bone showing it to the group as if it were plain to see for him. He was not sure what it could be but knew it held some significance being hidden.
Something slides inside the hollow bone tube. Corks stopper each end.
Nacht opens it up and looks, intrigued.
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Nacht opens it up and looks, intrigued.
A vellum scroll slides out of the bone tube into Nacht's hand....
Unrolling the scroll, he sees that it is covered in a crabbed script, seemingly scrawled in dried blood.... It appears to be in some kind of code....
Linguistics check, DC 20, to decipher the script....
Nacht looks at the item with confusion, another language perhaps.. there was no way of telling but He tried to figure it out.
After a minute he got nothing and tried once more, it simply was too archaic but he knew it meant something.
Two minutes in however, his brain got a stinging feeling as he held his head. A memory flashed into existence of being in a place.. a place with bonded paper with leather covers, a candle dancing with orange flame.. words..
Intriguing scroll we found, there, Nacht -- May I?...
Nacht is holding it out so he isnt really trying to hide it.
Jimeno looks pleased as Manuel Fray cleanses the ghouls and then frowns as Paddy mentions using the baubles for drinking away the night.
He then looks back to Manuel Fray with interest.
With some time to rest again, Jean settles his little self down, and checks out what Nacht and Iommi are up to. He sees the vellum scroll, its' odd script, and thinks back to his many days in the Cathedrale Sainte-Marie D'Auche, to the many scrolls, books, and answers hidden in their dusty shelves...
Jean points to the ghoul corpses as he speaks to his companion.
"Monsieur Tyr, beware. That scroll may be riddled with hexes of the enemy... What does it say?"
I shall read the Scroll aloud, Master Jean....
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Astounding,... before the events of tonight I had never even met one Chinaman, and now two of 'you people' are revealing the honor of your Eastern brethren. Welcome, and, Thank you.
Jean takes a hint, and begins whispering over the scroll, trying to sense the presences of the spiritual energies surrounding.
What language is that scroll laddy? I assume you can read it, after all. I might be able to figure it out.
Paddy then turns to the new adventurers. In Spanish then Italian, he says Greetings. My name is Paddy. I assume you fellows are searching for the necromancer as well? We would welcome you on this journey.
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The scroll contains The Lord's Prayer in reverse, followed by a list of Satanic commandments:
Satan is thy God and Master; Thou shalt worship no other!
Keep in secret unholy idols of thy Lord Satan and His fallen angels!
Deceive thine enemies with well-spun lies and trickery!
Take from others whatever thou desirest!
Murder thine enemies--all that stand against thee!
Lay with the wives of thy neighbors, and mate with whosoever thou please!
Honor thy mother and father only if it bring glory to thy Dark Lord Satan!
Sow doubt in the hearts of those faithful to our foe, the Church of Rome!
Convert those who art worthy to the worship of Satan, and make blood sacrifice of all others!
Covet thy neighbors' goods and wives, and steal them or take them by force whenever thou mayest!
To Iommi in French
Seeing as no one is paying attention to the weird ring Hisao shrugs and slips it onto his finger after turning in the valuable necklace to the party's pool of treasure.
Nacht let the script fall to the Viking. It didnt interest him one way or the other though his arm seemed to itch. He looked for any passages at this point. He gave Hisao a glance.
" Nīsuringu. "
Before going back to his task of hunting undead and the Necromancer.
To Iommi in French ** spoiler omitted **
Seeing as no one is paying attention to the weird ring Hisao shrugs and slips it onto his finger after turning in the valuable necklace to the party's pool of treasure.
Hisao suddenly vanishes from sight! He can see himself as a ghostly shade, but his companions clearly can no longer see the ninja!
Three passageways exit the 40-ft-square vaulted ossuary besides the stairs by which the party entered on the south wall; each a 10-ft-wide-by-15-ft-high corridor running straight into darkness beyond 60-ft darkvision range, east, west, and north.