Academy of Secrets (12-14) Tomb of the Iron Medusa (13-15)
The Moonscar (15-17)
The Witchwar Legacy (16-18)
RotRL Book 6: Spires of Xin-Shalast (16-18)
Then acolytes act strangely, as is some force, something mental, is holding them back, but they put up no further resistance.
If you have a look outside:
On a moon-glass outcropping, high up in the tower, an opening is covered by a polished lid of obsidian. The heavy lid is operated with a nearby mechanism, and slides away to reveal a 100 foot deep shaft, straight down, its sides perfectly polished, without any foothold.
You'll need some form of flight to move down, but that doesn't seem to be a problem with your group
A natural cavern opens up here, its ceiling stretching to a height of over fifty feet. A wide circular hole occupies the center of the ceiling, surrounded by a ring of fanglike stalactites. Two shorter, narrower passages lead away from the cavern to the northwest and southwest, and a fifteen-foot-tall shelf lies on the eastern wall.
Amsheagar watches the tame foe. "Is he under some sort of mind altering drug, or just loyal...." he goes ahead and moves around the room, looking outside at one point before returning to the group.
"Someone tie him up?"
That treant is at best going to make a nice stopper for this glass shaft
At the low end of the obsidian pipe, a natural cavern opens up, its ceiling stretching to a height of over fifty feet. A wide circular hole occupies the center of the ceiling, surrounded by a ring of fanglike stalactites. Two shorter, narrower passages lead away from the cavern to the northwest and southwest, and a fifteen-foot-tall shelf lies on the eastern wall.
The group has just landed in this deep cave, when three strange worm-like creatures bury up from the ground and walls. Four long antennae stretch from the face of these giant, multi-eyed flatworms. From their spiny, chitinous body emerge four tentacles.
Glaurung reacts to the new presence by stabbing it. Pad wonders if the worms would be hurt by fire, something that Nalshene can attest to: these are Somalcygots, strange aberrations that bury through rock. They're immune to acid and cold, but fire hurts them normally.
Pad casts a haste spell. (I'm curious where that fireball goes, taking line of sight into account.)
PRD, Fireball:
You point your finger and determine the range (distance and height) at which the fireball is to burst. A glowing, pea-sized bead streaks from the pointing digit and, unless it impacts upon a material body or solid barrier prior to attaining the prescribed range, blossoms into the fireball at that point. An early impact results in an early detonation. If you attempt to send the bead through a narrow passage, such as through an arrow slit, you must “hit” the opening with a ranged touch attack, or else the bead strikes the barrier and detonates prematurely.
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Glaurung
Nalshene
Ezrek Pad Amsheagar
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Worm - Red (24)
Worm
Worm
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Jebediah
Female gnome Sorcerer 16/Oracle 1 | hp 88/89 (1 TEMP) | AC 15, T 13, FF 14 | Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +11 | Perception +25
Nalshene activates her fleeting glance ability, gaining greater invisibility for up to 15 rounds. Since she's still flying from the fly spell, the creatures shouldn't be able to perceive her even with tremorsense.
Then she'll cast a quickened shadow evocation to emulate a greater flaming sphere. It hits the blue worm first.
fire:6d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 2, 4, 5, 3) = 19DC 30 Will save to disbelieve, then DC 30 Reflex save to negate damage. If it fails the save, it also catches fire.
Nalshene sets fire to one of the worm, while Narshala rips at the rubbery hide of another one.
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Glaurung
Nalshene
Ezrek
Pad
Amsheagar
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Worm - Red (70)
Worm - Blue (19, on fire)
Worm
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Jebediah
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For my own reference:
Fire: Characters at risk of catching fire are allowed a DC 15 Reflex save to avoid this fate. If a character's clothes or hair catch fire, he takes 1d6 points of damage immediately. In each subsequent round, the burning character must make another Reflex saving throw. Failure means he takes another 1d6 points of damage that round. Success means that the fire has gone out—that is, once he succeeds on his saving throw, he's no longer on fire.
GFS: This spell functions as flaming sphere, except it deals 6d6 points of fire damage to any creature it strikes. Any creature that fails its save against the sphere catches on fire. If a creature catches on fire, the DC to extinguish the flames is equal to the DC of this spell.
The Treant slams into the red worm, seeing as it is the only one it may be able to read.
Slam 1:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32damage:2d6 + 9 ⇒ (1, 5) + 9 = 15 Slam 2:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (15) + 17 = 32damage:2d6 + 9 ⇒ (2, 3) + 9 = 14
Amsheagar still in his huge bird gitup, claws at the Blue worm twice.
Talons 1:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20damage:2d6 + 20 ⇒ (5, 5) + 20 = 30 Talons 2:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (19) + 11 = 30damage:2d6 + 20 ⇒ (2, 3) + 20 = 25
Seeker (sorcerer) 15 HP 71/107 (6 neg lvls) | AC 18 T 11 FF 15 | F+13 R+9 W+14 (+1 vs traps) | Init +2 | CMD 18 | Perc+18 (+7 vs traps) | Folio 0/1
Buffs:
NONE
Pad will attempt a quickened Scorching Ray at northern (blue) worm instead fireball when he was initially adjacent to the eastern (red) worm before Amsheagar moved up.
About that treant: I was serious when I said it wouldn't fit down the pipe. Unless you have some other means of getting it down into the cave, it'll be stuck upstairs.
Amsheagar rips into the red worm, while Ezrek prepares to launch a bomb. Even though the worm's tentacle slaps Ezrek, Ezrek still manages to throw his bombs.
Nalshene directs her flaming sphere to continue burning the same worm.
fire:6d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 4, 4, 3, 4) = 27DC 30 Will then Reflex
Then she casts a Quickened shadow evocation mimicking a dragon's breath spell, breathing a line of fire at the (blue) worm.
fire:12d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 5, 3, 5, 6, 5, 3, 1, 4, 6, 4) = 53DC 30 Will then Reflex.
Finally, she'll cast entangle on the (red) worm. DC 22 to avoid being entangled
Fire damage that I forgot:1d6 ⇒ 21d6 ⇒ 6 RFX:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (4) + 11 = 15 RFX:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14
The purple worm passes out after spitting acid, and the repeated blasts of fire from Nalshene, followed by Narshala's attack bring the last worm to the brink of death.
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Jebediah
Glaurung
Nalshene
Ezrek
Pad
Amsheagar
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Worm - Blue (170, on fire)
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Amsheagar looks around and pulls out a wand of CM. "Was anyone seriously injured in that?" he asks. He will proceed to heal those who were injured. Roll you health if you want one, 41 charges.
Glaurung: Female Gnome Mother F%#~ing Dragon Disciple 15 | HP 200/200 DR 10/ada 120 pnts | AC 34 T 14 FF 32 | CMD 27 | Fort +11 Ref +2 Will +5 | Resist fire 10 | Init +7 | Perc +12 (blindsense 30')
Back now! Posting should be more regular, at least for the time being.
Glaurung pulls her spear back up to vertical as the rest of the party takes care of the worms. "Great work. I'm still feeling fine, let's scout out these tunnels. Be wary of more worms, I guess, now that we knot that's a possibility."
Two doorways open into a huge cylindrical chamber. Above rises an arched ceiling, while runes are etched into the lunar glass floor below. A set of porphyry steps carved with obscene acts spirals along the inner wall of the room, granting access to the northern egress and the floor below. Books fill every inch of the walls from floor to ceiling.
The stairway is not connected to this level, but the bookshelves should be straightforward to climb (DC 10 Climb).
Female gnome Sorcerer 16/Oracle 1 | hp 88/89 (1 TEMP) | AC 15, T 13, FF 14 | Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +11 | Perception +25
"Oh... this place is a treasure trove! Jeb, don't hurt those books! I would just see you turning all dinosaur-y and ripping them apart in your excitment. I will hope to catalogue every one of them if we have time to do so... do any of you have a portable hole or other large extraplanar storage device that we could store all of these in? The society could benefit from the knowledge, to be sure."
Appraise to notice any particularly amazing books:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (7) + 11 = 18
Every single tome in the lines upon lines of books has near-legendary status. So much so, that it is hard for Nalshene to find a particular one that stands out. Volume of lore, spellbooks from the Arcanamirium, Unknown spells of Great Might, Philosophies of the Whispering Tyrant.
Opening but one of the book shows the true content of the library: where the books seems intact from the outside, the contents have been utterly defaced, destroying the content. Ripped pages, blackened text and shredded vellum - each book has been meticulously treated so as to utterly eradicate any knowledge found within.
Descending by the staircase, the group makes its way to another chamber. Manacles and chains hang from the ceiling of this cylindrical chamber at varying heights, though each set is at least thirty feet off the ground. Two doorways exit the room, one to the south and the other the northwest; each is placed high in the walls and shaped like an open demonic mouth. Three balconies at varying heights look down upon the scene, while embedded in the floor is a great metal cage with a human-sized opening shaped like a hungry mouth with a lolling tongue.
Five of the six sets of cold iron manacles hold imprisoned celestial creatures—three dead hound archons, and a decapitated leonal. The corpses have all been horribly mutilated, many of their wounds taking the form of vile insults or defamations scrawled in Abyssal. One set of manacles holds a creature that is still alive - a creature upper half angel-winged woman, lower half snake.
She hangs, suspended by her wrists, from the ceiling at a height of 40 feet.
