Female human Paladin of Shelyn 1 | hp 20/20 | AC 16, T 11, FF 15 | F/R/W +6/+3/+4 (+2 vs. charm, compulsion, fear) | Smite 1/1 | Lay on hands 3/3 | Perception -1, Diplom +7, Sense Motive +4
On her turn, Gailen will run back exactly the way she came, which will bring her back inside the room, but that'll be her whole turn.
"Huh. That explains why Aram Zey was missing... He has also been thoroughly stripped of his equipment. Come on - we should head for the last area in the tower..."
"Oh..." Evarice falls silent as she inspects the Master of Scrolls.
"I'm certain the Society will help restore him...":(
Evarice makes a short prayer, hoping his death was relatively painless and that he is sleeping blissfully in the afterlife. Pinned under a green dragon, then bludgeoned with an enchanted morningstar counts as painless, right?
"The Chamber of the Sky Key remains. Let's stop the Aspis incursion."
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Being wounded, Pau takes one of the four new CLW potions and drinks it down.
CLW 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
That means there are three potions ready to be claimed right now.
Female human Paladin of Shelyn 1 | hp 20/20 | AC 16, T 11, FF 15 | F/R/W +6/+3/+4 (+2 vs. charm, compulsion, fear) | Smite 1/1 | Lay on hands 3/3 | Perception -1, Diplom +7, Sense Motive +4
"Agreed. There's obviously nothing we can do for the Venture Captain anymore. Let's go stop whoever did this in the first place."
Evarice's significant knowledge of the planes, combined with Aram Zey's notes (which you recovered from the library) make shutting down the portal easier. After about 10 minutes of arcane rituals you're able to sever the connection between the tapestry's pocket dimensions and the prime plane.
Zey:
As it happens, the casters are able to determine that while there *is* some melee damage, most of his injuries seem to be arcane in nature: a slay living spell and many (many!) small burns, as if from magic missiles.
Clearly, his throat was cut at some point with a small dagger, too.
You spend a good bit of time closing the portal, but it seems to have paid off. There is less fighting in the corridors as you hurry to the Chamber of the Sky Key.
This tall library is ringed by a walkway around its perimeter, which provides access to a second level of towering bookshelves. A broad Qadiran rug leads to a short pedestal within a tall glass case that itself sits within an inscribed circle—all cordoned off by a velvet rope suspended by brass poles. Several plush chairs and a few low tables bearing curios line the lower floor, and two decorative suits of armor stand at attention, each with a crossbow resting against its shoulder. Heatless torches blaze with remarkably even light in sconces throughout the room, and a tall pendulum clock against the eastern wall ticks each passing second as its hands move erratically.
There is a pool of blood in the carpet, and bloody drag marks heading out the door you enter from. Perhaps Aram Zey was slain here.
A ghostly image of a Pathfinder appears in the center of the room, where his likeness eerily begins to slide through the display case. His voice echoes as he speaks to an unseen party. ”Oh no, they’ve stolen the Sky Key. It also appears they disrupted the auxiliary stabilizer, too.” He pauses before continuing. “Do you feel that? I feel kind of sick all of a sudden. I hope they didn’t try to disassemble it—or worse, bring it too close to the tapestry. Wasn’t that why Zey kept them so far—”
The figure’s words go unfinished as he begins to scream and dissolve, fading from view in a matter of seconds.
Knowledge(planes) DC 18:
The warp in the fabric of reality here likely destroyed the unfortunate investigators who were first to discover the missing Sky Key. This dimensional tremor has started to wane, but it periodically shunts otherworldly creatures to this room.
Creatures who are suddenly transported here are likely to be less affected by the dimensional energy vortex.
Please arrange yourselves in the first two squares inside the door. (At least two will still be outside the room.)
Wyatt looks around the room with obvious interest.
Knowledge(Planes): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23.
"The warp in the fabric of reality here likely destroyed the unfortunate investigators who were first to discover the missing Sky Key. This dimensional tremor has started to wane, but it periodically shunts otherworldly creatures to this room."
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Can someone put Pau at the other spot in the room?
And still one more CLW to allocate, I think. (Pau, I'm declaring you have it unless someone tells me otherwise soon.)
As the previous (and unfortunate) adventurers fade in and out, they are eventually replaced with crude oozing humanoid things. You can't tell whether these are the same people or not, but there is certainly no sense of humanity left.
They monsters charge toward you, oozing.
Knowledge(religion) DC 15 OR Knowledge(planes) DC 20, trained only:
They have DR 5/slashing
If roll beats previous DC +5:
The creatures also have the Horrifying Ooze ability:
Horrifying Ooze (Su) Any creature struck by an ectoplasmic creature’s slam
attack must succeed at a DC 11 Will save or be shaken for 1d4 rounds.
—COMBAT—
Evarice
Prisim
Apollyanna
Gailen
** Oozes 1–3
Wyatt
Pau
** Ooze 4 (light blue)
Those in bold may act.
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Female human Paladin of Shelyn 1 | hp 20/20 | AC 16, T 11, FF 15 | F/R/W +6/+3/+4 (+2 vs. charm, compulsion, fear) | Smite 1/1 | Lay on hands 3/3 | Perception -1, Diplom +7, Sense Motive +4
Gailen moves forward and swings her glaive at the oozy thingy.
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Pau moves forward and strikes at the closest enemy with the cold iron dagger he had taken earlier.
Female human Paladin of Shelyn 1 | hp 20/20 | AC 16, T 11, FF 15 | F/R/W +6/+3/+4 (+2 vs. charm, compulsion, fear) | Smite 1/1 | Lay on hands 3/3 | Perception -1, Diplom +7, Sense Motive +4
Gailen attacks the ooze nearest her once more, now flanking with Polly.
Symbol: An icosahedron with a number 1 etched on the top
Sacred Colors/Garb: Randomly determined
Sacred Animal: Randomly determined
Favored Weapons: Chance or randomly determined
Form of Worship and Holidays: Worshipers pledge their entire lives to Play-by-Post messageboard games and in-person games leaving their significant other at home alone every Saturday night.
HP 45+0/47(+10); Reroll @+4 1/1;SPELLS: Lvl 1 5/8; Lvl 2: 2/6; Lay on hands (2d6) 0/1; CLW wand available 44/50 Gnome CORE Sorcerer-5: AC 13 (17 mage armor); Fort +5; Ref +4; will +3; Perc +7; Init +1;
I'm playing in standard in a 5-6 and we don't have a fighter type. Lots of mixed casters and my dwarven bard is the closest we have to a tank. He goes down in almost every encounter. Of course there are only five in that group and two of them are 4th level. Dicey.
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
Pau pulls out his wand of Mage Armor. "Could one of you reapply this for me? I've got a feeling, more defensive magic might come in really handy. If one of you wants a charge, feel free."
Female human Paladin of Shelyn 1 | hp 20/20 | AC 16, T 11, FF 15 | F/R/W +6/+3/+4 (+2 vs. charm, compulsion, fear) | Smite 1/1 | Lay on hands 3/3 | Perception -1, Diplom +7, Sense Motive +4
Gailen breathes heavily in and out a few times. "They were abominations. Leave it at that, and think nothing else of it, my friend Prisim."
Core Monk 7 | AC (24/25v Evil)/19/(23)17 | HP 59/59 | Ki pool 6/6 | 50’ Movement | F+9, R+9, W+9 | +2 vs. Enchantment spells and effects)(immune to all diseases) | Init+2 |Perception + 13| Evasion |
HP 45+0/47(+10); Reroll @+4 1/1;SPELLS: Lvl 1 5/8; Lvl 2: 2/6; Lay on hands (2d6) 0/1; CLW wand available 44/50 Gnome CORE Sorcerer-5: AC 13 (17 mage armor); Fort +5; Ref +4; will +3; Perc +7; Init +1;
While it should be 'Prism', the real name was taken. So I've been tossing up between having her name 'Prism' and the handle 'Prisim', or just going for the name being wrong and having everyone think I am ignorant, but at least getting not having reporting worries. For the moment I'm learning toward her parents not knowing how to spell Prism properly - which giver her slightly erratic nature would not be an unreasonable background.
