** spoiler omitted **Best is will, Middle is Reflex, Worst is fortitude.
blood drain, create spawn, disease (filth fever)
Yes, you recall their physical description as well.
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Amarok checks the panels intently, shuddering at the thought of the undead creature. Turning to his companions Amarok indicates the second panel of the mural with interest.
"The shard of Jade in this panel, it resembles a Hare. It is strange to have so many automatons here is it not? I wonder how we avoid detection here?"
His bow drawn, the Monk keeps his eyes focused, looking for hidden watchers.
@shiori, they have light sensitivity and they become staggered when exposed to direct sunlight when outside of a body. also has undead traits.
Pipes snake across the floor, feeding a series of fluid-filled vats before connecting to six metallic sarcophagi—three on each side of the chamber. In the chamber’s center, a large glass vat rises past a second story balcony. To the south, anchored to the wall are three similar, ten-foot-tall vats. Two sets of stairs curl up the southern arc and provide access to the balcony that looms fifteen feet above.
The three containers to the east contain stitched-together tissue from a mixture of human and fiendish flesh. All of you recognize a familiar tattoo of a stylized cradle that identifies these misshapen corpses as people from the village of Dallo. Furthermore, you recognize that the fiendish flesh belonged to ceustodaemons.
A look through the middle casket reveals a book named Death's Gentle Caress. Inside the book are several scrolls.
Moving up the stairs. A balustrade rings a balcony where a vast, circular vat rises from the chamber below. Nestled against the northern curve of this chamber sit three workbenches crammed with glassware. Along the east and west walls, large spikes with upraised points are affixed to the floor, four to the east and four to the west. A single set of stairs at the chamber’s southern end rises to another chamber above.
A lantern on one workbench is lit, illuminating the area in dim light.
Sitting against at a desk, is a man you all recognize. Mata Ryuu, but you do not get a chance to talk as a bunch of heads on spikes start yammering in warning to you presence. You turns around and a furious sneer crosses his face.
"How dare you break into my tower"
You guys start at the bottom of the circle on the right and can start from either staircase.
Combat Order:Round 1
Bold may act
Wiem
Lurgh
Shiori
Amarok
Yeti
Kyra
Swarm
Calomel
Mata
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WIth Lurgh storming up one staircase, Amarok darts up the other, taking the time to focus and enter his martial arts style of the snake. Facing the Yeti, Amarok sighs, not wishing to attack the poor creature but guessing there will be no choice. Nocking an arrow to his bowstring, the Archer prepares to defend himself from the Yeti if needed.
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Wiem carefully wraps the scrolls into a case. "I'll hold onto these, but if someone wants the animate dead, cure serious wounds, dispel magic, or undead anatomy II scrolls should take them,"
At the sound of battle the grippli grabs the floating starknife and dashes up the stairs. "Master Mata Ryuu?"
Weim moves into closer to combat.
Lurgh completely vaporizes the beheaded swarm in a flourish of flames.
Shiori moves up the steps.
Amarok readies an attack against the beheaded yeti and takes his shot when it opens it maw. The beheaded yeti drops to the ground.
Combat Order:Round 1
Bold may act
Wiem
Lurgh
Shiori
Amarok
Kyra
Calomel
Mata
Kyra and Calomel move up the stairs.
Mata begins casting a spell centering next to Kyra and Amarok.
CMD=42
The ground around them opens up and rubbery tentacles start reaching for everything in their vicinity. They grab hold onto Kyra and Amarok and they both takes points of damage.
Combat Order:Round
Spell 1/9
Bold may act
Wiem
Lurgh
Shiori
Amarok:Grappled
Kyra: Grappled
Calomel
Mata
Lurgh takes down Mata with his rays and only leaves behind his charred remains.
(CL 6th)
scroll of break enchantment
dagger(non-magical)
iron unholy symbol of Fumeiyoshi
spell component pouch
1st level—alarm, expeditious retreat, mount, unseen servant, grease, mage armor, magic missile, obscuring mist, shield
2nd level—resist energy, see invisibility, spider climb,acid arrow, bear’s endurance, pyrotechnics, web
3rd level—daylight, lightning bolt, wind wall, dispel magic, fly, slow, stinking cloud, vampiric touch
4th level—fear, black tentacles, dimension door, greater false life, stoneskin, lesser globe of invulnerability
5th level—dismissal, waves of fatigue, acidic spray, possession, wall of stone
diamond dust (worth 250 gp)
As you go through the room and take the center stairs up to the next room. Twin braziers disperse the scent of jasmine oil throughout this bedchamber. A yeti pelt is draped over a futon near an arcane circle carved into the floor. North of the circle, a teak box overflows with jade figurines. A hollow in the eastern wall is bordered with a marble carving of wolves stalking a hare amid grave markers. Words are carved in a spiraling script around the hollow.
The teak box contains 18 jade figurines depicting the following animals: eagle, fox, butterfly, horse, raven, ox, dog, crow, jackal, rat, snake, whippoorwill, crane, songbird, carp, monkey, tiger, and ram.
are missing: the wolf of Fumeiyoshi and the hare of Tsukiyo.
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Shiori take 10 on spell craft to identify the items which givers her
22. So she IDs everything but the headband and lets her allies know what it is.
She also translates the tien script."Only by destroying my brother could I walk safely into the grave, and emerge before the undead who worship me." Well, that's gruesome. Hmm I'm going to run back and get some of those creepy amulets. They may come in handy later.She mutters a brief prayer over the ashes of Mata Ryu.
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Amarok bows to Kyra as she tends to his wounds. "My thanks my lady, now this is a terrible turn of events. Lord Ryuu was controlled or coerced last we saw him but perhaps this is all willing on his part. A shame we will never know."
Moving on he listens to the Tien words and nods thoughtfully before looking at the Jade figurines.
"Hmm, I know not their purpose but the carvings here match those we saw in the atrium. Hmm two of the figures in the portal seem to match those in the box, how interesting."
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Fumeiyoshi killed his brother, Tsukiyo. Here the wolves stalk the hare... It must be some sort of representation of what the script suggests. Downstairs we saw a tapestry...
"Fumeiyoshi is shown sundering a piece of the other's jade armor. Then, the Lord of Envy gloats over his fallen enemy with the shard of jade held high, while in the final panel, Fumeiyoshi thrusts the shard into an arcane circle where it crumbles to dust, activating a nearby portal in a graveyard."
We could try bringing the hare downstairs and see how it compares to what was missing from the carving we saw when we first entered. If nothing comes of that, I wonder if smashing the hare in the portal would cause something to activate.
Sharaheen walks into the room behind the pathfinders and studies the arcane circle on the ground.
"Ah, a ritual circle this must lead to a portal"
After studying this for 10 minutes, she is able to figure out the ritual to open the portal.
Sharaheen is able to walk an individual through the ritual, who ever wishes to do the ritual may do so.
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Amarok listens to their ally regarding the ritual required but such specialisation is beyond the Monk and he keeps quiet, instead keeping his eyes focused on the Portal and the carvings to see if he has missed anything. Spotting something off, Amarok goes still and raises his hand for quiet, his eyes searching the portal and he gets a little closer until he can be sure.
"There is a trap built into the portal here, it seems set to activate if someone were to try and use it. Are any of you capable of removing it before we proceed?"
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Shiori begins to walk back towards the stairs while thinking out loud.
Good idea. Hmm, well the last door said stuff about putting coins in the mouth and we did that and the door opened fine. if the hare represents Tsukyio as Lurgh said and the tien script talks about killing his brother to pass safely, maybe it will help with the trap someone. OH! im so stupid.
She trots back and casts detect magic to see if she can suss out auras on the trap, portal and hare statue.
@Shiori, you detect the arcane circle, but nothing from the trap or hare statue. The portal is not active yet.
@Weim, all you saw in the cage was bags of rice.
Shahareen looks towards Shiori, "Well it would not hurt to try anything. So if you think you should smash the hare, then proceed."
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Amarok shakes his head to WIem's suggestion clearly uncomfortable at such wanton waste of life, even if it is one crafted by magic.
"The trap will spring when the Ritual utilizes the portal, which I fear an Animal cannot do. Shiori if you are willing to activate the Portal I can try and break the Hare with an Adamantine arrow.
I suggest not all of us stay in this room however, as to avoid the traps repercussions as we cannot disable it."
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Sharaheen walks Shiori through the ritual and smashes the hare with relative ease. The portal activates and Shiori is sucked immediately, the trap does not activate.
Without hesitation Sharaheen follows almost immediately.
A veneer of regality struggles to mask the decaying features of this once-opulent court. A fraying carpet leads from the chamber’s arched entrance to a raised marble dais featuring two worn leather chairs. Flanking the dais, a pair of marble statues each depict an imperious samsaran woman. Porcelain jars and ornate boxes adorn alcoves in the north and south walls. In the eastern portion of the room, hundreds of small mirrors are carefully arrayed in a circle on the wall. Together, the mirrors reveal a raging snowstorm.
Once the PCs enter the portal, they find themselves standing on the eastern end of a hall, within 10 feet of a marble archway identical to the one they entered.
This extradimensional lair is an enclosed, dimly lit stone hall with 30-foot ceilings. The room’s furnishings are all finely crafted, but over the preceding 2 centuries, they have degraded badly
What appears to be a beautiful samsaran woman in a flowing silk robe stands before the northern chair, attended by monks. Jujanil welcomes the PCs warmly, then rises into the air and sheds her robe, revealing that her body is but a floating head trailing a mass of slick viscera—she is a penanggalen. Jujanil laughs and says, “So kind of you to bring me a new wardrobe.”
And with that...
Combat Order: Round 1
Bold May Act
Amarok
Calomel
Blue
Shiori
Wiem
Red
Lurgh
Kyra
Yellow
Jujanil
Sharaheen