Praxim unleashes on the headless thing again, slowing down a bit to better place his shots.
Praxim's arrows fail to breach the Headless Lord's armor. No sooner does the last arrow ricochet off the armor, then this creature emerges from the wall next to Praxim. The huge maw in it's belly opens and spews forth molten steel.
Feeling the burn, Thordak keeps his concentration upon the headless creature in front of him. Taking a step back, he attacks the thing with gusto.
haste
Tomaru takes the full brunt of the blast.
Aurora's eyes go wide at the new foe with literal fire in its belly. Remaining as high as the ceiling will allow, she summons her magic and sends it forth with a rending will of its own, entangling around the creature's hardened exterior and crushing it with lethal force.
Thordak's first attack carves dead meat from the Headless Lord's side, but his efforts are thwarted by it's armor.
Aurora hits the new arrival with a crushing spell. The thing twists and turns, gnashing metal teeth and spitting fire.
The Headless Lord speaks. "Oho! Now he arrives! Another of my finest! How do you like him?" Then it wades in to kill both Thordak and Tomaru.
Despite the fury of the battle, Tomaru is able to focus enough to pray a spell to Desna that brings forth a manifestation of her will to help dispatch Tomaru's foes.
Spiritual Ally (using Archie's token): threatens and can flank, flanking
He then uses his Dimensional Step to adjust his position.
Praxim takes a 5-foot step sideways, braces for the blow he knows is probably coming, and unleashed more arrows at the Headless Lord.
He also used a swift action to heal himself:
Aurora continues the crushing magic, wrapping it around the enemy and squeezing once more, channeling all her fear and concern in to energy to help vanquish the foe.
Praxim
Forgefiend
Lym/Aurora/Thordak
Headless Lord
Tomaru
Praxim attempts to step, but the rapidly cooling magma creates difficult ground in and around the spot of the molten spew. The huge fiery maw lunges at the elf as he slips.
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The iron jaws bite and tear, trying to rend Praxim's armor, but he manages to twist free before his armor is destroyed! His one arrow scores a solid hit on the Headless Lord.
Having taken serious injury from Aurora's first spell, the forgefiend doesn't wait to take another. The huge creature simply slips back into the wall from which it emerged!
Aurora switches targets, and the Headless Lord dies in a convulsing, twitching lump.
Tomaru moves closer to Praxim and Channels Positive Energy to Heal his allies. Since he does not know where their foe will come from, he does not move the spiritual ally.
There is a cry of rage from outside the room, followed by the sound of fluttering robes and subterranean rumbling.
"Hang on! I'm coming!" you can dimly hear Lym shout.
Thordak turns his head toward the others. "Where'd the other one go! He can't have just disappeared." He waits a moment to see if it reappears
Aurora keeps flying near the ceiling, and way away from the walls as she watches with Thordak as to where the dreadful molten metal spewing creature might reappear.
Praxim uses his detect evil to scan the wall where the creature disappeared.
Praxim detects nothing. The walls here are solid stone, and several feet thick.
Several seconds go by that feel like hours. Nothing happens.
After two rounds, Tomaru speaks up. "Perhaps we should keep moving. That thing will surely wait for us to be in a compromising situation, but we waste precious time just waiting here."
Lym comes flying into the room, and rises to join Aurora.
"What's been happening?" she asks, frustration audible in every word. "Accursed Enchantment-spells! Are you all alright?"
Seeing no enemy, Thordak calms and takes a few moments to catch his breath as usual. "Blast. I never saw the thing but I heard it. What in the blazes was it that could just disappear like that?"
True enough, we could wait forever and it may not reappear. Let us move on once we are all ready
Aurora settles down on Thordak's shoulder once more.
Whatever it was, it smelt bad and had an even worse temper...
Praxim pauses to touch himself with his cure wand.
"Describe it to me," Lym suggests while continuing to hover overhead. "Maybe I can identify it."
As they decide where to go next, Thordak checks the body of the headless one and takes anything of use.
So we wait about 7 rounds before leaving the room.
I forgot to ask if my channel is enough to heal everyone up? If not I have more healing available.
"Let's take the lower hallway." Tomaru suggests.
Well I agree we should press on, before our Giant foe has yet more time to entrench himself and summon further aid..
Aurora's tiny visage is etched in purpose, determined to press on and vanquish the party's foe.
"Agreed. Let's move," Lym says.
The lower passage is narrower than others you have seen here in the library - 5' in fact. It leads to space unlike that which you've seen so far. This twenty-foot-square room is shaped almost like a silo—its ceiling arches up to a vaulted height of one hundred feet.
Instantly suspicious, Lym looks up to the ceiling overhead and mutters a Word of Power. Three orbs of light go spinning up into the distance overhead.
Aurora flits about the corners of the room, her keen eyesight delving for anything hidden or of note in the room.
Praxim scans for evil.
"Are we close to the big guy yet? He obviously knows we're coming."
"Let's keep moving. The longer we take the more time they have to prepare."
Lym's lights climb upward as Aurora flits about. The rest move into the room as Praxim scans for evil. Just as Tomaru finishes speaking about moving on, the gnome's sharp eyesight catches a flicker of flame high above. The forgefiend appears from the wall 100' above you and vomits out more molten metal!
Lym cries out her agony at the rain of molten metal.
As soon as she has recovered a little from the brutal damage, she shoots up into the sky, targeting the forgefiend. A single dart of arcane force goes wheeling away from her and impacts the Outsider flawlessly.
Thordak barely manages to avoid some of the magma. Unfortunately he still manages to get seared far more than he prefers. "BLAST! Come down here over-sized cauldron!"
Aurora nimbly dodges away from the torrent, but even so at her reduced size she cannot avoid it all, earning some nasty singes.
Right, our turn!
She brings her hands forward, sparkling pyramids of force building in her palms, before they whoosh forward in a rainbow-like cascade, slamming one at a time in to the thing's exterior, buckling and warping the metal.
reduce by 1 if haste has expired.
Tomaru reacts as one would expect when doused with super heated fluids. He screams then
Praxim's arrows impact harmlessly from the forgefiend's armored body , while the force effects from both Lym and Aurora are absorbed by the thing's Shield effect.
While a forgefiend swims through rock like a fish in water, it's not so good at flying. So it's with wide eyes that you watch it step out from the wall and plummet to the ground! A living missile of blackened iron and molten metal impacts the ground with a deafening CRASH!!!
Lym halts her upward journey and hovers, cloak belling out as she spreads her arms towards the forgefiend. The Wizard's voice rings out in an invocation, the words bouncing off the walls and converging on the Outsider, constricting around it and nipping and tearing at the magic that keeps it on Golarion!
Praxim nimbly avoids most of the falling metal beast. Assuming it survives it's own fall, Praxim pumps arrows into it.
Why do I even roll?
Tomaru is smashed by the forgefiend. Through gritted teeth, he responds to it, "No. You won't"
If it saved against Lym's Dismissal, use Tugging the Strands to make him reroll. He has to take the second roll.
If it still succeeds, use Dimensional Hop to put a little distance between Tomaru and it.
Being rattled after being burned, the dwarf has had enough. "MY TURN!" the dwarf yells as he lets his fury take over and he steps over and attacks with reckless abandon.