Human Female Paladin of Shelyn 5 | hp 47/48 | AC 21 T 11 FF 20 | CMD 19 | F +10 R +6 W +8 | Spd 30' | Init +1 | Diplo +10, HAnim +10, KnNob +5, KnPla +6, KnRel +5, Perc -2, Ride +6, SensM -2 | smite 1/2 | lay hands 3/6 | wand clw 24/50 |
Prisim wrote:
She eyes up the ball "My cousin Jeffrey was good at bowling..." then adds "Of course, gnomish balls are smaller than human ones."
"Eww."
Gailen Windbreak wrote:
Gailen walks up to the mirror. She stares into it. "I don't see anything special. Why won't lady Shelyn show me what we need to DO?!?!" she yells in frustration.
"GRRRR. I hate tests."
.... light bulb!
"Oh maybe we need a second mirror. Didn't he say we needed two full-length mirrors" Apollyanna has Pau and Wyatt find and place another mirror in the room.
If there is another mirror:
"No, a little more to the left. No that's too far. Huh? Maybe we swap the walls. Move the two mirrors to the north and south walls and the bed, night stands and wardrobe to the east and west walls... Hmmm. Maybe some paint."
If not:
"Oh, that's right! I forgot that he said only one of the mirrors was inside Arliss Hall. So now what do we do?"
Wyatt ponders for a moment, before hazarding a guess...
"We were told that the building always finds more room, but what if someone is already *in* the room...? I wonder..."
Taking the key, Wyatt hops out the window, wanders around the building to the entrance again, and tries to open the door to 'room 8' from the other side...
Human Female Paladin of Shelyn 5 | hp 47/48 | AC 21 T 11 FF 20 | CMD 19 | F +10 R +6 W +8 | Spd 30' | Init +1 | Diplo +10, HAnim +10, KnNob +5, KnPla +6, KnRel +5, Perc -2, Ride +6, SensM -2 | smite 1/2 | lay hands 3/6 | wand clw 24/50 |
Assuming there is time Apollyanna bends all of her concentration into looking around room 8--Oh! Precious Moments figures! They're so adorable! Takes 20. Which turns into 18....
Wyatt hops out of the window, and scurries back around through the inside.
The door to room 8 is closed, but not locked, surprisingly. He open the door, and finds it just as it was when he first entered, but with his companions no where to be seen.
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
A slight OOC clue here: Wyatt essentially has it solved at this point...
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 |
"Let's try that, then. Time is wasting...we have to get to that mirror!"
Wyatt touches the mirror in his empty room, and it ripples around his hands.
As Gailen points out, Wyatt has solved it. I'll assume at this point that either a) he finds a way back to the rest of you to tell you of his success, or b) you figure something is wrong, and you follow his path and discover the same thing.
Evarice and Prisim play with the door, opening it and closing it, but to no avail.
As Wyatt discovered, it needs to be opened from the outside when locked from the inside. He also inadvertently discovered how to get the last person through: by jumping out the window and running around.
You step through the mirror in the hidden room and come out in the floating tower. Part of one wall is missing: the southeast corner of this room has broken off along with part of the floor. Rubble, loose bricks, and masonry litter the edges. Beyond the opening, blue sky and the Absalom’s city skyline are plainly visible, as is a floating barrier of debris and magic that would prevent anyone from easily flying up to where you are. A solitary door is closed to the south and a full-length mirror—that you just stepped in from—is bolted to northwest wall.
After thoroughly checking the door for traps, he then attempts to open it.
Failing that (since we don't have a rogue in the party to deal with traps or locked doors), he will attempt to climb around the broken wall, trailing a rope behind him that others may follow him more easily.
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
"Good work, everyone. Now let's find and defeat these Aspis dogs!"
Evarice takes in the beautiful skyline for a moment.
"This is what we fight for. To see the majesty and beauty of the world before us. And to defend it from anyone who would ruin it." She nods to the party.
Human Female Paladin of Shelyn 5 | hp 47/48 | AC 21 T 11 FF 20 | CMD 19 | F +10 R +6 W +8 | Spd 30' | Init +1 | Diplo +10, HAnim +10, KnNob +5, KnPla +6, KnRel +5, Perc -2, Ride +6, SensM -2 | smite 1/2 | lay hands 3/6 | wand clw 24/50 |
Evarice Bue wrote:
Evarice takes in the beautiful skyline for a moment.
"This is what we fight for. To see the majesty and beauty of the world before us. And to defend it from anyone who would ruin it." She nods to the party.
"That and friends to share it with." She stand up between Evarice and another closest Shelynite and hugs them closer with one arm apiece. "It's like our very friendship is magic!"
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;
"Group Hug!"
Prisim rushes into join the Shelynite ritual. Then, as the tower lurches remembers they are on a timeline. Stepping up she tries the door in front of her
"I've never been here before, but I guess we need to check out everything on this floor to make sure there are no Aspis?"
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 joins in the hug, her grouchiness softening a bit. "Thank you, sisters, I needed that." She is also ready for trouble. Let's hope they don't make it double...
You're able to open the door—after searching it thoroughly and finding no traps— and step out on to the tower. The ceiling above you suggests there is still at least one more level up.
The wall to the east has crumbled away. The floor is tilting wildly to the east, and stones tumble past on their way out of the hole in the wall.
Because of the tilt, for the rest of the encounter any movement to the west is treated as difficult terrain unless the character also succeeds at a DC 10 Acrobatics check.
To speed things up...
You make quick work of your search of this level. Clearly this tower was built with defense in mind. You find arrow slits, and gargoyles with reservoirs for acid and oil to rain down on attackers below. Another room contains an armory, full of weapons and ammunition. You find barrels of oil, and a wheelbarrow. Now if only we had a holocaust cloak, that'd be something.
You can acquire mundane versions of most martial and simple weapons and ammunition.
In the guard station, you find dusty cots that affirm no one has been stationed here for many years.
Give me a marching order for heading up the stairs, and we'll proceed.
Human Female Paladin of Shelyn 5 | hp 47/48 | AC 21 T 11 FF 20 | CMD 19 | F +10 R +6 W +8 | Spd 30' | Init +1 | Diplo +10, HAnim +10, KnNob +5, KnPla +6, KnRel +5, Perc -2, Ride +6, SensM -2 | smite 1/2 | lay hands 3/6 | wand clw 24/50 |
Apollyanna would like to be in the first or second position with her sword and board ready. I'm at work for the rest of today so others will have to move her.
As Apollyanna looks over the edge, she sees nothing holding the tower up. Magic energies have caught falling stones in a maelstrom around the tower, which would make it difficult for anyone to fly up. It seems the mirror was the only sure path up here.
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 gets in the second position, following Apollyana. "Fall in line. Let's find out what is causing all this chaos up here!"
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 gets behind Wyatt, ready to protect from the rear.
I put everyone on the map in as best of an order as I could given your descriptions. Minor adjustments are okay.
You open the door to the top of the tower, and step through.
The top floor of the tower is an open, undivided by interior walls but for the small space partitioning the stairwell. Windows large enough to step through line the exterior walls. Immense magical circles are permanently etched into the floor, their lines and curves inscribed and filled with several types of metallic powder. Faint, multi-colored mist roils within the southern circle, as if the being or force bound within is breaking free as the tower's energies are disrupted. Marked in purple on the map.
Two strange contraptions stand near the northwest and southwest windows. Each device is a large, red-tinted crystalline lens mounted in a frame so that they may be angled in all directions.
You see three others up here, presumably Aspis agents. They turn threateningly when the see you, weapons drawn.
The half-orce brute takes the arrow in the chest, then grins at Wyatt menacingly as he rips it out and tosses it aside.
It hurt him, but now he's just angry.
The purple whatsit takes on a reddish tinge when Prisim views it through the red crystal.
@ Prisim:
There are several arcane symbols around the edge of the lens. If you are willing to spend the next 1d2 ⇒ 2 rounds studying the lens, you may learn more about how to use it.
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 past her allies to the nearest Aspis agent and swings her glaive at him.
Human Female Paladin of Shelyn 5 | hp 47/48 | AC 21 T 11 FF 20 | CMD 19 | F +10 R +6 W +8 | Spd 30' | Init +1 | Diplo +10, HAnim +10, KnNob +5, KnPla +6, KnRel +5, Perc -2, Ride +6, SensM -2 | smite 1/2 | lay hands 3/6 | wand clw 24/50 |
For Goddess's sake Wyatt will you stop shooting people! Gailen watch were you swing that thing! 'I come first with the rose!' 'I come first with the rose!' Geez.
Move action: Move in.
"Ugh! Listen, you Mr. Brute Guy, you look like a reasonable person. You are all obviously out numbered and cornered in here. If you give yourselves up now, I can almost guarantee that we can find you a prison with a fine arts program through which you can better yourselves and build toward your future. What do you say?"
Standard action: Ready to smack him defensively (-4 Atk, +2 AC) if he takes any offensive action.
The brute grunts, raises his blade, and dies ignominiously as Apollyanna runs him through. As he falls, an object of some kind stays floating in mid-air, for a moment, then drops slowly to the ground.
—COMBAT—
Evarice
* Agents
Pau
Prisim (playing with the device)
Gailen (attacking)
-end round-
Wyatt
Apollyanna
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 |
Think I got skipped that round, DM.
Pau moves forward and swings at yellow with a powerful karate chop.
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
Perception to see what the floating object was:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19
Nope, not skipped, Pau. Still the first round ... just lotsa people posting in advance.
Evarice fires off a bolt of lightning, which causes the agent to be wracked with pain.
The blue agent steps up to fight off Apollyanna, but thanks to her defensive stance she is able to easily parry his attack.
short sword:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (15) + 3 = 18
The red agent focuses the lens at Evarice, and it shoots a ray of fire. The aim is off, and she escapes unharmed.
ray:1d2 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
Pau hurries up and kicks the red agent in the face. The Aspis agent gasps in pain, and staggers, but does not fall. Redirecting target, as yellow was already down.
Gailen slices through the blue agent, nearly cleaving him in two. As she turns, she sees the object floating near the fallen brute. It's likely this was the stolen piece of the Sky Key.
Prisim continues working the arcane lens. She just about has it working.
Her view of the other one was blocked, so she probably didn't see the ray of fire from the other lens.
End of round 1
With two enemies down and the last one at 0 hp, I'm going to call this fight.
The combined might of the Pathfinders easily overwhelms the remaining agent, and he falls, never to rise again.
Combat is over, but I'm going to stay in initiative for reasons that will soon become clear. Feel free to post up to three rounds of actions.
—NOT QUITE COMBAT—
Wyatt
Apollyanna
Evarice
Pau
Prisim (playing with the device)
Gailen 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 |
ROUND 1
Pau holds his ground. "What is the deal with those machines, Prisim? I've never seen anything like those before."
