Sickly looks around worriedly... he can not harm the shadowy creature in close to him, and the other he can barely make out around the corner.... not to mention the vampire proving very difficult to hit.
With a small indecisive wail, he decides to swing at the corrupted samurai.
Jaware scores a pair of devastating hits while Miyako fails to identify the new combatants. Matsu seems to have a run of bad luck as his blade finds only armor. Sickly though scores a hit though auspiciously. The specters continue to harass the party!
Vs Bait:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22 Negative Energy Damage:1d6 ⇒ 6 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 5
Vs Sickly:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (18) + 6 = 24 Negative Energy Damage:1d6 ⇒ 3 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 2
Vs Jaware:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 Negative Energy Damage:1d6 ⇒ 6 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 1
Bait screams like a girl and runs away from the spectre... "Help!"... not having any holy water or magical weapons, he's just not effecteive against these things, and knows it, so Withdraw action.
Bait determines that discretion is the better part of valor as he takes his leave. The undead samurai closes the distance with Jaware and slashes at the tiefling.
Jaware is hit by the crit despite his impressive defense.
Jaware waits, gauntlet in hand for Matsu to step up and make his attacks before stepping back and making his.
Sickly seems to be having trouble breathing, his breath coming in long wheezing gasps as he steps away from the spectral creature. You notice his nose has started to bleed.
"Go away!" He yells, as he steps away from it, then swings desperately at the shadowy figure... his longhammer barely finding anything solid to contact.
With Bait in the other corridor, there's finally room for Miyako to do what she's been wanting to do. She drops the wand of protection from evil and points her index finger at the northwestern corner of the room north of her. A small orange bead is launched from her finger and hits the corner, where it explodes into a massive fireball.
FIREBALL!!!:7d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 1) = 22 Ref DC 18 for half
Once the fireball's gone, Miyako flies into the northern room while trying to avoid an attack from the spectral creature she's passing overhead.
Acrobatics, to avoid AoO:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (12) + 15 = 27 You have to make a Fly DC 10 check to move less than half speed and remain flying, but my Fly modifier is +10. So that's an auto-succeed.
Miyako's eyes start emitting an orange light and both the air surrounding her and her own form begin to blur. The blurring increases as the air in a 10-foot radius surrounding Miyako heats up drastically, inflicting fire damage to the spectral creatures inside the room.
Heat Aura:3d4 ⇒ (1, 2, 1) = 4Aww... :( Ref DC 18 for half
Heat Aura (Su):
As a swift action, you can cause waves of heat to radiate from your body. This heat deals 1d4 points of fire damage per two oracle levels (minimum 1d4) to all creatures within 10 feet. A Reflex save halves the damage. In addition, your form wavers and blurs, granting you 20% concealment until your next turn. You can use this ability once per day, plus one additional time per day at 5th level and every five levels thereafter.
The two spectral creatures are emotionless even as the giant ball of fire hit them. They do dodge the waves of heat coming off Miyako though. They still come after the heat radiating oracle though.
Vs Miyako Touch:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 Negative Energy:1d6 ⇒ 4 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 5
Vs Miyako Touch:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 Negative Energy:1d6 ⇒ 2 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 4
The one not in the big room continues to assault Jaware.
Vs Jaware Touch:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (14) + 6 = 20 Negative Energy:1d6 ⇒ 3 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 1
Party is up! I will assume that Bait is in delay unless I am told otherwise. Fort DC17 to negate the con drain.
AC 24/26)/T13/FF23 HP 48/67 F+8(10) R+4(6) W+4(6) Init +1 Perception +0
Samurai Sword saint (Order of the Warrior) 8
Dropping his sword Matsu quickly draws his bow and shoots at the green spectre, selecting an arrow prepared with ghost salt blanch.
Attack, Ghost touch:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (5) + 8 = 131d8 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Sickly destroys one of the undead harassing Miyakp while Jaware connects with a pair of slashes on his foe. Matsu attempts to help but it missed. Miyako!
Fort vs attack 1:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14 Fort vs attack 2:1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
@DM: I had 20% concealment versus their attacks while being all blurry from the heat. I'll postpone my other actions till I know for sure whether both attacks did hit or not.
With her constitution suddenly down the gutter, and feeling very weak and feeble for it, Miyako figures getting the heck away from the creature is the best course of action. She can however not resist the urge to quickly attack the creature once more before flying to safety.
"No, go away!" He yells, as he takes a swing at it as it closes... but it is not nearly enough to stop the creature from reaching in to try to draw even more of his precious life-energy away. He manages to just step away, before it can do any more permanent damage, and takes a couple more quick swings, trying to drive it away.
If it is still going after his first swing, he will use use his Auspicious Mark rage power again, to add 1d6 ⇒ 4 to the iterative attack (edited to include above).
Edit... oops, brain fart! I can only use auspicious mark once per rage... and I'm still on the same rage from when I used it earlier vs the vampire.
So ignore the extra 4 points on the iterative attack (so it will likely miss).
Bait misses with his strike and Matsu lands an arrow. Sickly destroys his accursed foe while Miyako heals herself. Jaware finishes off his foe as well! Combat Over!
While the terror is over for now, some of you know that vampires don't stay down for long so you track down the gaseous form and stake the vampire before she can return to life. However, she has still not been put to rest properly and you feel as though you should do so. I need a knowledge(Local) or knowledge(Religion) check please.
You know that Shizuran tradition is to cremate the body on a pyre under the midday sun, then distribute the ashes to the deceased’s descendants. Similarly, Lastwall’s tradition is to cremate the entire body save the skull, which is etched with the name and dates of birth and death then placed in The Ossuaries of the Fallen in Vigil.
"Just the skull." Sickly adds in a quiet mutter. "Not the whole head..."
You can tell he's not eager to work with corpses... his fear of germs getting the better of him. Though he supports burning the body and returning ashes, over bringing back an entire corpse!
Miyako fully heals her constitution damage with a couple of lesser restoration spells.
Spellcraft:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23
She inspects the sword and shares, "The sword's broken, but holy."
Miyako grabs the sword and puts it in her bag, so it can be presented to the Knights of Ozem later. Her carrying capacity still tripled by ant haul, Miyako has no problem carrying the staked body of the vampire outside. Once outside Miyako puts the body on the ground and starts collecting wood for a funeral pyre.
"I suggest cutting the head off before putting the rest on the pyre. We can scorch the flesh off the skull in a separate process, removing it from the skull with controlled fire. I expect that to be less messy than removing the tissue in other ways. We can turn up the heat on the pyre enough to fully cremate the rest."
Ah, bah... Well, at least it happened at the end of the scenario!
I have 25 PP myself, so I can easily pay the required PP to fix my Con. I'd feel bad letting you pay while I can do it so easily! Thanks for the offer anyway! ;)
Won't complain about that =)
Two Restorations would cost 760 gp total... you only have to pay 600 for the faction thing, correct? Miyako and Sickly could throw in the remaining 160 at least (80 each)!
The body is cremated. You find nothing else of note or worth in the building. You bring the remains to her descendants and the weapon to the Knights of Ozem. When you return to Uscalin Lodge, Venture Captain Besnik is excited to hear about your mission.
Bait happily reports just about everything he can remember, because that's what Pathfinders do - explore, cooperate and report!
"Specters! and the champion was turned into a vampire, we had to vanquish her, then burn the body to return the ashes to her descendants and bring her sword here. I hope we did right by her and the Society."
"I tink I cod su'mm." Sickly mutters in response, having been sick pretty much the entire trip back... the damage from the wraiths having taken their toll.
"Congratulations! I knew you would triumph! Just goes to show I picked the right Pathfinders to seek out adventure while unknown dangers lurked. Go and rest while I put the report together for the Ten. Surely this addition to the Chronicles will put Uscalin on the map!"
