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"We can ask about all of that AFTER we've dealt with our mission here. I don't think we need to know right here right now..." Zhatara says to Malik and mentally adds "Or ever"
Then the mesmerist turns towards Kolris:"Ask them if there's any kind of dangerous creature or person hiding in the vicinities"
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Kolris makes sure to translate what the leshys say to him for the rest of the Pathfinders. He does not translate Malik's questions at all, knowing that questions about grinding would be frightening, and fearing that questions about seeds and reproduction could be offensive.
"האם אתה יכול לספר לנו יותר על מה רדפו אותך מתוך ההרים, או מה חי מתחת? אנחנו שייכים לארגון שמעדיף לעזור מתי שנוכל. אולי יש משהו שאנחנו יכולים לעשות, במיוחד עם האיום מלמטה."
"Can you tell us more about what chased you out of the mountains, or what lives below? We belong to an organization that prefers to help when we can. Perhaps there is something we can do, particularly with the threat from below."
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אנחנו לא הולכים למטה. זה שם. אתה רוצה לעזור? אנחנו עוזרים לך. הנה, קחו,הם קבועים.
We don't go below. It is there. You want to help? We help you. Here, take, they are fixed.
The one you were talking to goes over and gives Kolris a dark haired doll wearing a tiara, a silver locket with a portrait of Arenzo Davian, an Pearl of Power, and a Spellbook.
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Kolris looks quite grateful to receive the items offered. "תודה! ננסה להשתמש בפריטים אלה בתבונה. האם אתה יכול להראות לנו את הדרך למטה, כדי שנוכל לחקור את הסכנה הזו למטה? אתה יודע משהו על זה כדי שנוכל להתכונן?"
"Thank you! We will try to use these items wisely. Can you show us the way down, so that we can explore this danger below? Do you know anything about it so that we might prepare?"
He turns to his companions, and holds the items out. "The leshys offered these to us; I imagine some of them might even be magical aids. Can anybody identify what we have here?"
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Jacques listened to the translations, but still had trouble grasping what was going on. Talking gourds?
That certainly topped the list of strange things he had seen so far in his short career.
As the rest of the group started to cross the courtyard toward the entrance to the section of the house below ground, he got up and started climbing down from his elevated perch. The distance he had to travel made him one of the last to cross.
He gingerly attempted to step through the patch without stepping on anything that might be alive.
Tipping his hat to the Leshys, Jacques proceeded down the stairs.
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Malik attempts to mimic the party's careful moves...
But his mind is elsewhere. As he moves past the patch, he eyes the creatures curiously.
"You sure they don't have any dead that might have had been willing to contribute towards advancements in the fine science of alchemy?", he asks Kolris, attempting to walk through the patch with some degree of care.
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Zhatara -
Jacques - In an almost perfect hop, skip and jump, makes it across.
Kolris - Confidently, smoothly, makes his way acorss.
Malik - Almost tripping on his own two feet, Malik makes his way across to safety.
Nali - The gourds aren't evil, by any means. And Nali makes her way across without incident.
Smiley - Wow! A careful dwarf. Who'd a thunk it?
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Six round pillars and a large iron gate built into a low archway on the west wall are not the most compelling features of this musty cellar. Drawings rendered from soot and dark brown paint cover the walls. They’re broken up by narrow fissures of dark earth and crumbled plaster. The room is filled with bones, most of which are heaped around a large throne against the south wall.
Low-light vision
(+4 vs. Traps)
Darkvision 60ft
The oldest and most obscured of these drawings depict scenes of the Thrune family being savaged and brutalized by humans and devil-kin alike. The newest scrawlings depict civilians burning under a Chelish flag. The bones are leftovers from animal and humanoid creatures that met their end.
The dark brown 'paint' is actually dried blood.
The newest bones are troll bones, many of which exhibit deep bite marks.
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Shatara casts light on Jaques' rapier before studying her surroundings.
"That's dried blood, not paint" she calmlu states pointing at the walls. "And those are troll bones... something ate the creature and left deep bite marks on them. We need to stay on our guard. There's monsters down here with us"
So saying the woman touches Smiley's shoulder and speaks a single word...
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Shatara casts light on Jaques' rapier before studying her surroundings.
"Something down here ATE A TROLL?!?
Does stomach acid defeat a troll's regeneration or is that a meal that lasts forever?
Regardless, I am very much on alert now. Perhaps we should take a more careful look about?"
Unless there is some objection, Jacques will begin actively perceiving while checking the immediate vicinity for danger.
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Smiley smiles warmly at Zhatara's touch.
Well, ooglechuk to you, too!
He wanders over to the largest pile of bones.
Troll bones, eh? Well, good riddance says Ole Smiley. "One fewer troll is still at least three too many", that's what my brother Mekkar says.
He picks up a largish bone and sniffs it, then bites it lightly.
Yup, that's troll all right.
Despite his confidence, Smiley wouldn't know the difference between a troll bone and a dragon bone if his life depended on it.
He pokes around the pile, looking for a souvenir.
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Malik observes the exchange, and seems a bit concerned. "Something that secretes acid, I assume. Or fire, but that's unlikely. Also, Smiley here...", he grins at the dwarf, then proceeds to pick up one of the bones pieces to take a better look.
Its funny, you would swear its human bite marks. But, there is something, well, off, with them. Not quite right, as it were.
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Unless Kolris is able to learn anything meaningful about the items given him by the leshy's, he dons the necklace himself, and hands the doll to Nali. "Maybe you can make some use of this." He pockets the pearl and spellbook, knowing that the Grand Lodge would love to have them included with his report.
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** spoiler omitted **
Unless Kolris is able to learn anything meaningful about the items given him by the leshy's, he dons the necklace himself, and hands the doll to Nali. "Maybe you can make some use of this." He pockets the pearl and spellbook, knowing that the Grand Lodge would love to have them included with his report.
The doll and necklace are what they seem to be, trinkets of long ago. The Pearl of Power information may be found HERE
The spellbook contains the following spells.....
An Haul
Cloak of Winds
Create Pit
Endure Elements
Fog Cloud
Gravity Bow
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Skeletal corpses thinly wrapped in decaying burial linen rest in niches cut into the stone of a wide hallway, which is intersected by numerous narrow fissures. Many of the niches have collapsed, with bony remains jutting out of the rocks and dark earth. The hallway opens into a larger room, where a stone altar is surrounded by cracked walls decorated with intricate reliefs of religious figures and prominent Davians whose tombs lie beyond.
The hall opens into a room filled with relief-covered walls surrounding a large stone altar where clerics performed rituals over the dead. The reliefs depict scenes of Aroden on Golarion, particularly a lesser miracle performed at Westcrown, in which he transformed and revitalized a garden of roses. On a family member’s death, this room was covered with white roses as clerics prepared the body of the recently deceased for burial. Of late, the rites performed on the stone altar have become far more macabre.
Hanging upside down by a thick metal chain is a troll. That troll is being tortured and tormented by a Ghoul. With all the cuts blood and other entrails and vicera litter the floor. Anyone moving in/around the RED square must make an ACROBATICS check or fall prone.
++++++++++++++++++++++Combat Round 1++++++++++++++++++++++
Ghouls
1 - Attacked (Missed)
2 - Delay
Nali
Troll
Smiley
Malik
Kolris
Jacques
Zhatara
Ghoul #1 (Black) moves up and attacks Kolris, the only one he can actually get at with the gate remnants in the way....
....But only manages to bite into his armor, not hurting him at all.
Ghoul #2 (who you DON'T see) delays his action.
BOLD MAY ACT
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Nali's arrow flies true, dealing a decent amount of damage, but not dropping the ghoul.
There is no real weakness to a ghoul.
++++++++++++++++++++++Combat Round 1 CONTINUED++++++++++++++++++++++
Ghouls
1 - Attacked (Missed) -8hp
2 - Delay
Nali - Attacked and hit Ghoul 1
Troll
Smiley
Malik
Kolris
Jacques
Zhatara
The troll, tied up as he is, tries to bite the ghoul, but it is to far away to do so.
BOLD MAY ACT
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Kolris tries to push his way into the room, shouldering aside the iron gate and avoiding the claws of the ghoul as best as he can. The hallway behind him was a mess, so he had no choice but to go forward. He too tries to recall what he can remember about ghouls.
He lunges forward with his rapier, then holds it swaying in front of him, ready to strike back if he can. "Let's see if we can free that troll. I bet we'd find an ally for once!"
If any creature attacks Kolris, he attempts to parry!
If he successfully parries, he ripostes!
Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the swashbuckler, she can spend 1 panache point and expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature's result, the creature's attack automatically misses. The swashbuckler must declare the use of this ability after the creature's attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry and if she has at least 1 panache point, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action make an attack against the creature whose attack she parried, provided that creature is within her reach. This deed's cost cannot be reduced by any ability or effect that reduces the number of panache points a deed costs.
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"Free the troll? Really?
Your heart may be in the right spot, but I think we can handle these ghouls on our own. If you want to negotiate with the troll afterwards, that's fine."
Jacques pulls back on his bow, but pauses before releasing, thinking of waiting for Smiley to move out of the way. However, the scuffling of additional feet in the room convinces him to shoot without delay and allow Smiley the time to make his own tactical preparations.
The first arrow strikes true, but the second Jacques is forced to send wide as Smiley reacts subtly to the sound of an arrow whooshing by his ear.
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++++++++++++++++++++++Combat Round 1 CONTINUED++++++++++++++++++++++
Ghouls
Arenzo Davian -
Nali - Attacked and hit Ghoul 1
Troll - Bites and gnashes teeth
Smiley - Grapples RED
Malik
Kolris - Swings and misses (-3hp)
Jacques - Shoots and hits, killing RED.
Zhatara - Swings and misses. Hypnotic Stare does no good, target dead.
SPECIAL ATTACKS = Ghouls Fever, Paralysis
Jacques - You didn't actually say who you were shooting at, the troll or ghoul, so I am going to think you are shooting at the Ghoul.
Coming out of the cracks and shadows the FINAL GHOUL shows itself. It is non other than Arenzo Davian!!!!!!! Seeing the moment to strike, he does so at Kolris.
He ties your Parry roll, your Oppertune Parry and Repost fails.
Make a Fort DC 13 or become infected!!!!!!!!
BOLD MAY ACT