Ziera shoots down into the pit.
Edmund continues to delay.
Gray is perfectly content to wait and let his companions mow down the remaining fiend from the top of the makeshift pit, though he is ready to assist should the hound manage to escape.
The Avenger attacks the hellhound, firing down into the pit.
Ziera shoots again.
Vince steps forward and looks into the pit to confirm the hell hounds are gone. He seems satisfied, because he sheathes his weapons. He mutters to himself as he walk over to Ziera, “I need to get a bow, can’t believe i don’t have one. ”
To Ziera he says, “I, uh, could use some healing. ”
Ziera nods to Vince and says Just a second.
Ziera hits herself with a heal first, and then heals Vince.
<--Ziera
<--Vince
<--Vince
Payk, you were still hurt from yesterday, here, let me heal you.
<--Payk
Anyone else need healing?
Gray waved off the offer of healing with a polite gesture, instead striding forward and snagging their latest prize. Waiting a couple of seconds to see if it explodes or anything else bad happens, the inquisitor shrugged and walked back to the group, handing the latest scroll to the aged bookseller before getting ready to discover the secrets of the final room they had yet to grace with their presence.
The Azure Avenger brushes himself off, feeling a bit winded. Still, there were a few moments to catch his breath as Edmund studied the scroll.
Edmund dutifully announces the veracity or not of the newest scroll.
Well, let's hope this ends it.
She walks across the bridge to the last door they haven't explored, and casts open on it.
In the hallway, Ziera stops and casts Invisibility on herself, then proceeds around the corner into the room carefully, watching for bad guys.
Edmund uses a ghost sound spell (DC 17) to create the illusory sound of somebody drawing a sword from a sheathe coming from the far left corner of the room.
Edmund moves up to the end of the hallway but not into the room itself. He’s placing his illusion in the far left corner.
Gray, thinking Ziera's disappearance a rather prudent occurrence, calls upon his deity and becomes invisibility himself, sliding into the room after the aasimar to see what guardians this last room might contain.
The Azure Avenger turns invisible as well, before stealthily moving into the room.
Seeing everybody turning invisible, Edmund does likewise. ”Would either of you like this spell as well?” Edmund asks Vince and Payk.
Vince smiles. "Hell yeah!"
He accepts the spell and then hurries into the room.
Payk nods as well, and thanks you for the spell. He notches and arrow and scurries in.
Payk moves again, and then studies the construct.
Edmund steps further into the room, then uses ghost sound to replicate the sound of Gray’s spiked chain, coming from the hallway leading to the door. DC 17
For now, Gray is content to study the device/thing/construct, not too keen to jump right into the fray and determine what combat capability the thing would have. He stepped lightly towards the animagus, waiting to see what it might do or when one of his companions would lose patience and start laying into it.
Ziera double moves toward the pedestal. Halfway through her move she pauses and says
Who are you?
She moves quickly after this so that she can't be targeted by a spell, but she wants to understand before just attacking, and, unlikely as it is, she desires a peaceful resolution to the situation. Unfortunately, she realizes this is unrealistic, and thinks they have to destroy the automaton to recover their memories, but she wants to see if it has anything to say first.
Since he didn't attack the place where she had been, Ziera takes a risk and asks from her current position
We believe that our memories were stolen and that some of them have been placed within you. Is there a way to extract them without your destruction?
The presence of the animagi put The Azure Avenger on edge. This thing is sentient? He thought. Or maybe just inputted with a few responses to obvious questions.
The Avenger moves to get into a better position, ready to burst out to strike.
Vince moves forward, establishing himself at the front of the group. He thinks at least.
Payk cries out in elven before popping back into view. He notches and fires an arrow at the animagus. He rushes the shot though as he is already reaching for a second arrow, and doesn't pull the string fully back. The drops after a foot. Payk stares are his bow, and then the arrow, confused at how he could have failed so badly. The second arrow, half drawn from his quiver, remains in his quiver.
[bigger]I will defeat you
Taking the brunt of the blow, The Azure Avenger grins under his mask. "Not trying to make it easy for us, eh?" he says, feeling his arcane energies reach his palms. Stepping to the side for a better angle, the Azure Avenger releases two bolts.
Ziera moves to the pedestal and examines it to see if there is anything different than the others, or if there might be a trap.
Ziera takes the scroll.
Gray restrained a pained grunt from escaping his lips as he was hit by the blast, instead quickly striding forward to put himself between the aasimar and the construct, hoping that taking the scroll might take some of the fight out of the thing. Regardless, the Zon Kuthonite calls upon the aid of his deity once more, swinging his chain at the thing as he became visible once more.
Edmund intones a spell, adding extra power to make it last. A bolt of acid flies across the room at the construct.
And likely misses
Vince swings blindly at the animagus, and somehow manages to land a strike. the attack barely seems to touch the animagus though.
hit
fail
Ziera sings a soft, long note, which turns solid just over the corner of the pit. Then she reaches up and ties her rope to it.
The Azure Avenger keeps up the pressure, firing again and again.
Edmund tries again, casting an extended acid arrow
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