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Dropping Tere, the snake slithers forward towards..
The delectable Archybald. Everyone seems to love him today.
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Archybald ; 14 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor; dying;
Tere 12 damage; (unconscious, stable)
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 2
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor; 3 damage;
snake (grappled) 12 damage
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Yet another missile slams into the snake, it is starting to look rather unwell.
Raven however slips as she tries to frost it.
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Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 2
snake (grappled) 16 damage
Archybald ; 15 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor; dying;
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor; 3 damage;
Tere 12 damage; (unconscious, stable)
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Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
snake (grappled) 16 damage
Archybald ; 12 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor; (unconscious, stable)
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armo
Tere 9 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
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Another bolt of magic hurtles towards the already badly damaged snake. It drops Archybald in its death throes.
The ragged team looks around the room. It appears there may be someone tied to the altar at the top of the room....
Status:
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 12 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor; (unconscious, stable)
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armo
Tere 9 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
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The man has Azlanti features and speaks to you in a variety of different languages, trying to find a tongue in common.
Eventually Tere recognizes an old form of Elven and is able to do some translation.
"I am Generald Krahnaliara Lac Suhn!" he proclaims "and I thank you for my rescue." He looks curiously at your dress and equipment. "but I should see to my troops..."
Status:
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor; (unconscious, stable)
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armo
Tere 9 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
Edit:
I jumped the gun slightly here. After finishing off the snake you had a chance to also examine some of the bits of the temple as you approached the altar. Please make a heal, knowledge(dungeoneering, planes or religion), profession(scribe) or survival check. This is one check as a group, I'll take the first roll, but others may aid-another. You may want to discuss in OOC about which skill/who to make the primary check.
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The general nods to Raven "Captured in battle... You remind me a bit of my wife. Adn indeed is is for one of those rituals. Luckily I killed the priest"
He points to a dead serpent folk nearby. Visibly easing up, he talks a bit more about his family.
“I have always loved my grandmother’s ittho bread. Only used the honey from her own bees, and only fed them blossoms her grandmother brought back from the Western Colonies. Nothing ever tastes the same now.”
While to Archybald he admits "I'll not tell you anything about the military. But about my family... I never do get to see the wife and kids anymore. Marrying into a colonial family may have helped avert a war, but these years of separation are a heavy burden on anyone’s shoulders.”
Limney puts him further at ease. "Sorry. I start to get nostalgic around Peacock’s Dusk. These damn family holidays. They always remind me I still haven’t taken my boys to the Western Colonies. They love their little-folk nanny, and I thought they’d like to see one of the cities her people built.”
Social skills used: (each can try each once)
Diplomacy: Liminy(aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, failed); Raven (23!)
Bluff: Archybald (18)
Intimidate:
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To Kildrek he says “My warriors are no cowards, and neither am I! They didn’t surrender in the field, and if these snakes hadn’t taken their sikkar—their coiled knives—they never would’ve been taken alive.”
As Liminy talks he eases up a bit "I believe so. Magic sometimes does go wrong - makes its user wrong sometimes too. I don’t care if his great-great-great whatever grandfather gave us ioun stones or water itself ! Imperator Illsmus is a headstrong fool, and his notions about raising mankind to godhood will end in embarrassment at best.”
Tere talks about debt, and the general looks unimpressed. "Those serpent folk have a debt of blood. We had separated into two regiments, with shield walls, and I sent the left flank wide to take
the serpent folk from behind. We’d been clashing near the mouth of the Ilssele for years, trying to push the colonies’ eastern borders"
Social skills used: (each can try each once)
Diplomacy(25): Liminy(aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, failed); Raven (23!)
Bluff(20): Archybald (18) ; Liminy (aid, succeeded)
Intimidate(21): Kildrek (21)
Status:
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor;
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Tere 9 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
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"But I've found the Imperator's words very convincing - what makes you so sure he will fail?"
*edit* REROLL - PC Folio and 1 GM Star
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzm2DNZNJqxnZUFpVHRaQ3VOV28/view?usp=shari ng
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"Who might become a god? It is madness to even try." sighs the general. "Madness that the serpents spread among us."
“I Lost my brother Urterre to the Silent Servitors, who watch outside and within for threats to the empire. He ran coded messages between the colonies and the homeland, but was never quite the same after his ship was lost at sea for three weeks. His body healed just fine, but his eyes… they always seemed so distant and afraid after that.”
He thinks a bit more, his mind perhaps drifting from some of the drugs given him in preparation for the sacrifice. Family would seem to be important to him as he keeps returning to them.
“It has also been many years since we heard from my great-grandmother’s descendants, but I sometimes imagine that when I gaze into the sky and see the red planet, they can hear my prayers for the health of them and our empire’s colony.”
He drifts back to the "present" "Did you say Sekamina ? No, I believe this is Sessegishoss."
Social skills used: (each can try each once)
Diplomacy(25/+3): Liminy(aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, failed); Raven (23!)
Bluff(22/+9): Archybald (18) ; Liminy (aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, succeeded); Archy (aid, failed);
Intimidate(21/+3): Kildrek (21)
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The general stretches nodding at the words of Liminy. "Even a skilled warrior may be felled by misfortune." he agrees.
“The key to battling serpent-men is the night battle, or making your main thrust at dusk. Then the fatigue of battle hits the same time as the cold reaches their hearts. Slows them down. That was General Akorian’s secret to victory at Esrogas, when they tried to land on the homeland itself, and it still works all these years later.[b]”
Haliphod prods him to reveal more
"[b]“Their war-beasts are fearsome, but subterfuge is truly what tore our lines down. Misinformation spread among the ranks, dissenters and the magically compelled turning on their own brothers."
"I’ve fought human opponents, and loath as I am to spill another man’s blood, I’d take that clean death over the slow, strangling suffocation these monsters mete out.”
Almost to himself he adds "“They took the lines at Ilssele. Broke our backs and killed most of my men. Olhas was perhaps a day’s march beyond. I doubt very much it’s still there.”
He waxes nostalgic, the drugs and his wounds dausing his mind to wander. He rambles on about his family’s private island villa in the colonies, located “south from the Mierani forests, hugging the coast east for four days and then a shot southeast from the southern cape.”
Social skills used: (each can try each once)
Diplomacy(27/+3): Liminy(aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, failed); Raven (23!) ; Kildrek (aid, failed); Hali (aid, succeeded)
Bluff(24/+9): Archybald (18) ; Liminy (aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, succeeded); Archy (aid, failed); Kildrek (aid, succeeded); Hali (aid failed)
Intimidate(25/+12): Kildrek (21); Tere (aid, failed); Liminey (aid, succeeded); Hali (aid succeeded)
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"History? What is history?" murmurs the general. He looks around.
"I must find my men. My men. My brother. My brother. Urterre died in my arms. The dagger was warm in his back. Passed along the documents to me, but the only words he could muster were ‘Minister Erodel wears the veil. Amaznen save the senate.’ He seemed half-mad by then.”
Social skills used: (each can try each once)
Diplomacy(27/+6): Liminy(aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, failed); Raven (23!) ; Kildrek (aid, failed); Hali (aid, succeeded)
Bluff(24/+12): Archybald (18) ; Liminy (aid, succeeded); Tere (aid, succeeded); Archy (aid, failed); Kildrek (aid, succeeded); Hali (aid failed)
Intimidate(25/+12): Kildrek (21); Tere (aid, failed); Liminey (aid, succeeded); Hali (aid succeeded)
Status:
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor;
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Tere 9 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
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Limney kind of recognizes the location described. You guess his villa was somewhere off the coast of Nidal. Surely a future Pathfinder expedition will be sent there!
Raven continues to talk with the general who is rapidly recovering from the toxins.
"My wife is always trying to tie my chiton like an imperator, not like a general. See how it goes over, around, then under? I ask if she wants her husband flogged, and she just says she’d rather have her husband sit on the senate. Not a… not a subtle lady. Gods, I miss her."
He smiles in memory
"Her name’s Vanaschen. I know, I know—am I crazy to have married a woman of the Eastern Colonies? I thought mother was mad when she arranged the marriage. I shouted out the garden blessing, I was so damn mad. But I suppose we’re all like that at that age. Once my whiskers came in and I stopped thinking of myself, I saw her for who she was: this fiery, passionate woman who didn’t need any of my excuses. Her father and my mother still argue over whose family officially joined whose—if we’re still Azlanti or perhaps tainted by Kellid blood. I swear Vanaschen would conquer both peoples just to quiet them, if she didn’t find it so damn funny. The way she pushes me to step up into mother’s senate seat, I think we’re still Azlanti.”
He stands, recovered as much as he can be from the ordeal.
"I must be off to find my troops. They will be trying to free me"