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You return to the inner temple area and search around for an area that has not already been extensively documented.
Glowing coals warm this shrine and cast an eerie under-lighting on the towering, snake-headed statue behind the altar. The reek of ammonia and rotting flesh fills the air and burns the eyes.
You spot a small flying snake within the temple.
Status: bold may post
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
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
Flying Snake
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Tere 9 damage;
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Limney identifies the flying snake as a Saru, a magic flying snake that can deliver a nasty poison either via bite or by spitting it. He takes out his wand and blasts a hole in one wing.
Kildrek closes the distance. He does realise the small thing is too high for him to reach with a melee weapon.
Status: bold may post
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 0; mage armor (standard action only)
Seru (flying) 4 damage;
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
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The snake flys and around, directing a jet of nasty venom at the approaching Kildrek.
The poison gets right into his eyes, and boy does it sting.
Status: bold may post
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 0; mage armor (standard action only)
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 2 ; channels used: 3 ; Fort DC 15 required.
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Seru (flying) 4 damage;
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A crack of thunder and the tang of ozone cut through the complex. The figures before you, and indeed the walls, the floor, even the air itself seem to crumble and fall away like glittering sands through an hourglass. Unfamiliar figures—their heavy, hooded robes embroidered with the symbol of a winged eye—stand about the field, their hands crackling with lightning. Dozens of Pathfinder spellcasters lie dead at their feet. A gargantuan image of a woman appears and shimmers like a desert mirage. She has a regal bearing, but her features are lined as if by years of endless duty.
”Arrogant Pathfinders! Your ridiculous Society spends fortunes and lives to reassemble a treasure that turns time itself like the pages of a book—a key that could undo all the misery and suffering our world now knows—and you use it for this? Poking at snakes and playing at heroism? Golarion knew a true hero once! Our Lord Aroden—who raised the Starstone from the sea and imprisoned the undead tyrant Tar-Baphon—could already walk the world again were it not for your petty games and delays. Every death in your hours of playtime now hangs as a weight around your collective necks, you spoiled children.
“I am Lady Arodeth, and on behalf of the Harbingers of Fate and the God of Mankind himself, I have seized your Sky Key. Its defenders threw their lives away trying to stop compassion and destiny from returning to this world. I advise you not to throw your own lives away attempting to do the same.
“Behold the return of the Last Azlanti! Behold Aroden!”
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While distracting, the team has more pressing concerns, just at the moment.
Limney sends another magical missile at the flying snake. That must have hurt. Tere's javelin just mises it.
Kildrek ignores the foul venom of the serpent, but his firebolt is easily dodged by the small creature.
Status: bold may post
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 2; mage armor;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 0; mage armor (standard action only)
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor
Seru (flying) 7 damage;
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
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Neither the storm nor the quarterstaff hurt the snake
The magic missile does cause it to lose some height. It turns and wings back up to near the 20' ceiling. There it spits at Archybald, who is the closest.
Status: bold may post
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ; May act twice.
Archybald ; 3 damage; 2 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 1; mage armor (standard action only)
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
Seru (flying, 20') 7 damage;
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The snake is badly buffeted by magical blows.
It is knocked out of the sky by the force of the blows it has taken.
Status: bold may post
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
Archybald ; 3 damage; 3 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor; BLIND; (More Fort required post battle) (assume delaying but may still act if he wants to)[/b]
Seru 16 damage; 5 NL damage; buffeted (-2 to hit)
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 2; mage armor
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
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And the snake falls!
As the world stars to shake, you try to quickly make some notes on the rituals and regalia you see around the area.
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A crack of thunder and the tang of ozone cut through the complex. The figures before you, and indeed the walls, the floor, even the air itself seem to crumble and fall away like glittering sands through an hourglass. Unfamiliar figures—their heavy, hooded robes embroidered with the symbol of a winged eye—stand about the field, their hands crackling with lightning. Dozens of Pathfinder spellcasters lie dead at their feet. A gargantuan image of a woman appears and shimmers like a desert mirage. She has a regal bearing, but her features are lined as if by years of endless duty.
”Arrogant Pathfinders! Your ridiculous Society spends fortunes and lives to reassemble a treasure that turns time itself like the pages of a book—a key that could undo all the misery and suffering our world now knows—and you use it for this? Poking at snakes and playing at heroism? Golarion knew a true hero once! Our Lord Aroden—who raised the Starstone from the sea and imprisoned the undead tyrant Tar-Baphon—could already walk the world again were it not for your petty games and delays. Every death in your hours of playtime now hangs as a weight around your collective necks, you spoiled children. "
“I am Lady Arodeth, and on behalf of the Harbingers of Fate and the God of Mankind himself, I have seized your Sky Key. Its defenders threw their lives away trying to stop compassion and destiny from returning to this world. I advise you not to throw your own lives away attempting to do the same."
“Behold the return of the Last Azlanti! Behold Aroden!”
The robed Heralds begin casting, and arcs of lightning leap to the rods made of skymetal. A deep thrum from somewhere below reverberates with chest-tightening force, then the earth begins to heave and quake. Emerald green miasma lashes out, snaking back along the arcs of arcane lightning and infecting hooded casters throughout the crowd. Your body—or perhaps the whole world—crumbles to dust and you hear a distant scream of “She’s overloaded it!”
And just as swiftly, the world is whole again, but in place of a flower-speckled field stands the sprawling marketplace of a small city. Ivory-white buildings and columns feature reliefs and endless statuary all depicting physically perfect human specimens in poses of glory over serpentfolk. A chiton-clad crowd of gawkers stares, both at you and at the roiling dome of green light that encompasses nearly a square mile of territory, beyond which this strange city stretches on.
Robed Heralds panic as they sprint beyond the edges of the glistening dome, only to collapse just beyond its border. There they scream and writhe, their bones cracking as flesh and sinew age to dust in mere moments. Meanwhile, those unfortunates consumed by the green miasma scream and stagger, their features warping and bloating as if the power seeking refuge within them were too big for mere flesh to contain. And high overhead, a looming stone glows with a light visible even in the growing light of dawn.
Status:
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
Archybald ; 3 damage; 3 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor; (More Fort required post battle)
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 2; mage armor
Limney force missile used:4 ; 1 point CON damage; mage armor
Oddly, you all feel somewhat refreshed...
If you could include which of these you are doing along with your reflex saves and anything else you are doing that would be good. Lets assume the restoration happens after the falling damage.
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Status: bold still to save and restore
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
Archybald ; 3 damage; 3 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor; (More Fort required post battle)
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 2; mage armor
Limney force missile used:2 ; mage armor
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Status: bold still to save and restore
Tere 1 damage;
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 3 ; reroll used;
Raven elemental rays used:3 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 2 ; storm burst used 2; mage armor
Limney force missile used:3 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 4 damage; 1 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor;
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"We can't leave the bubble. We can't stop Earthfall. We may snap back to our own time reference before the stone hits, but... If I remember my history, Aroden is still mortal at this time. Has that insane harpy gone to warn Aroden, to tell him he dies in the future so he can avoid it?"
He pauses a moment.
"Would that be so bad?"
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The citizens start to grow angry.. and scared. Words and said, and while there are no obvious weapons as such (yet) you can see people looking around for chunks of wood or other improvised implements....
Status:
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 1 Damage ; reroll used;
Limney force missile used:3 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 4 damage; 1 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor;
Tere
Raven elemental rays used:1 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 1 ; storm burst used 0; mage armor
"Um...tell them we come in peace." mutters Archybald out of the side of his mouth. "They should let us deal with this, return to their homes, and prepare for the end of the world. Actually, don't say that last bit."
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Between Lim's words and Kildrek's actions the crowd is quietened and starts to disperse.
A familiar figure limps out from between two buildings. The weight of years seems to hang over Kreighton Shaine, the Pathfinder Society’s illustrious Master of Scrolls, his face more deeply lined than it was this morning.
“My apologies for not reaching you more quickly, but I have been quite distracted,” he pants.
To the left and right across the ancient marketplace, other versions of Kreighton Shaine are speaking to other, equally bewildered Pathfinders. “It seems redundant to say so at this point, but the Harbingers of Fate have seized control of the Sky Key, and we all appear to be trapped in what the Isle of Kortos used to be eons ago. The same sort of temporal bubble that brought the serpentfolk city of Sessegishoss to us now keeps our forces pinned down here."
“We are attempting to uncover the Sky Key Vault now. While the vault itself seems to be here in this time period, our entrance to it wasn’t projected back, and we’ve lost our bearings relative to its location in this new landscape. What’s more, I worry simply reclaiming the Sky Key will not be enough to allow our escape— that green surge we all witnessed seems to have invested many of the Harbingers with enough of the Sky Key’s energy to
maintain our chronological exile.”
Shaine looks worriedly up at the sky. “We will need to work together to uncover the vault and cut the tethers that anchor this time period to the Harbingers’ spellcasters. We must do both so we can use the Sky Key to escape.”
A crack of thunder sounds overhead as the dome of green light twists and arcs down to the surface with a thunderous crash, and strange, hairy beasts stride where it struck. “And we would be wise to move quickly.”
He reaches into a bag and hands you each a healing potion.
"Any questions before we move on?"
Status:
Kildrek fire bolts used: 3 ; channels used: 2 Damage 1 ; reroll used;
Limney force missile used:3 ; mage armor
Archybald ; 4 damage; 1 points CON damage; hand of the apprentice used: 3; mage armor;
Tere
Raven elemental rays used:1 ; 2 point CON damage; ; mage armor ;
Haliphod acid darts used: 1 ; storm burst used 0; mage armor