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Magnus takes an AoO on the Blind Harpy. He does not need to drink his flight potion to pursue her because...
...drops her. She is now bleeding out. However, if he wants to use his flight potion to take on Red, he may. Or he could just shoot at Red from the tower. Your choice!
Pai casts an acidic spray at the leader.
"It burns! It burns!"
Androva takes the full 26 points of damage and will take damage again next turn.
We have... Vendel's readied attack, Masafusa's action, Grigorii's AoO and readied jump, and Magnus left. Did I miss anything here?
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Magnus, thinks about drinking his potion of flight, but instead just draws his bow, dropping his sword. He fires a shot at this Androva the Red, hoping to end her. He keeps the rage burning, something he has rarely felt, and relishes it. A little voice in the back of his head seems to remind him, 'This is why you are not worthy. This is why you will always struggle to be good enough!'
Magnus shoots Androva the Red for eight points of damage! Grigorii kills Blue with his bite! Masafusa only manages to feint Red (and lowers her AC) because Purple is unconscious and no longer paying attention.
She aims, once again, for Masafusa. "I almost hate to do this, because arrows might wreck the look of the gloves I plan to make from you. Then, again, maybe I'll make them a fashion statement."
"Here was the hole that pierced the fox's heart!"
"Bah, the winds! But I will get you, I promise! The hunter is patient."
Meanwhile, the Purple harpy attempts to stabilize.
The whole party is up!
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"Seriously!? 'Crappy piece of flappy' is the BEST you can come up with?" Androva shrieks with indignation.
Three of Magnus's arrows hit, and the fourth misses the harpy. "I see that instead of putting thought into your taunts, you just wing it! Well you can kiss my cloaca, baby!"
Everyone but Magnus is up!
Okay, technically, you're all DOWN and the Harpy is UP. Correct that, will you?
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Grigorii follows Vendel down the tower and continues singing.
He remarks to Glorymane, "Guess he doesn't trust me."
<Amusment>
"You won't get away from us!"
All you had to do was rage
Let me remind
You this is what you wanted
You ended it
You tore all I wanted
But not like this
Not like this
Not like this
Oh, all you had to do was rage
Rage
Hey, all you had to do was rage
Had them in the palm of your hand
Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I’m rage singin’
Rage, hey, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well, it could've been easy
All you had to do was rage
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I hate harpies, they give winged creatures a bad name.
Seeing that Magnus probably has the fight finished before he can drink a potion of fly and get to the harpy, Tink will take the opportunity to spend a ki to activate barkskin in case anything else comes around. And move so that he's under the harpy in case it decides to come down
Magnus says something snarky, which he may someday regret, but not now. Grigorii readies glitterdust, Tink Tink makes a snide comment and boosts his AC, and then the fox stares and casts ill-omen, which the harpy cannot identify but knows is bad news. He then feints her again.
"Aaaargh! I knew I should have turned you into a pair of gloves!" She glares at him.
Vendel and Pai are up.
The Ill Omen clearly has its effect. The harpy succombs to the acid damage, gets hit by the Magic Missile and then falls.
The body spirals downward, and crumples on the rocks jutting out of the snow on the frozen pass. That is one DEAD Harpy.
What do you do next?
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Now that the fight is over, Magnus calms down. He grasps the golden key around his neck, asking for forgiveness over his lack of control. He calmly puts his bow away, picks up his falchion, checks it for damage even though that is almost impossible, and sheaths it.
He then takes a look at the carvings, hoping to identify them with the supposed fallen Scion of Humanity.
You find a couple of interesting things when you search. The huntress harpy was wielding an obviously magical +1 composite longbow. You also discover a partially eaten, partially frozen minotaur corpse in the northernmost tower. The harpies had only stripped off its upper garments to butcher it, but its magical boots are still intact.
As Tink Tink studies the writing in the tower, he recognizes it as Ancient Azlanti, engraved in spirals and clever designs all around the inside of the tower.
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"Could someone please help me translate these runes? I believe them to be about Aroden, but my skills in language are not great. Lady Zadrian would be very pleased if you did. "
'See, this is why you are not worthy. 'Talia would figure this out. I know she would ' Tears and frustration can be seen in the eyes of the valiant knight, for reasons the party cannot understand.
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Tink will lose track of Grigorii and find himself absorbed in reading until Magnus speaks up. Sure, they lay out the lives of a group of monks who worshiped Aroden. It looks like these towers are the ruins of a place similar to where I was given new life. If you have any writing materials, I can translate some of the poems/homilies for you. Oh and if you're interested this part appears to be the chapel, it seems they lived a simple but active life here.
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Magnus pulls out some parchment, and hands it to Tink. "It would be most kind of you to do so. Thank you."
Though he doesn't understand the runes, he swears to learn Azlanti, so that he can come back here and read the runes himself. And to bring his sister here, so that they both can experience it.
While Tink Tink Tunk transcribes the runes, Magnus goes through the devotions of both Abadar and Aroden, though he expects his prayers to Aroden to once again go unanswered.
He then walks over to Masafusa, and calling upon Abadar's grace, touches the fox. Golden energies flow from the calloused hands of the warrior priest into the fox, healing the wounds caused by the harpy.
He then meditates for a minute, staring into a shiny little crystal engraved with the golden key of Abadar. [ooc](Meditation crystal from Adventurers' Archive, refreshes his LoH).
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Masa will trot over to Magnus.
"If you have it to spare, I would appreciate it. Otherwise, there is a wand in my pouch," he turns to show a pouch strapped to his back.
"I would suggest we do a quick sweep of both towers and the harpies and then keep moving." Masa says this before leaping through the snow back to the red harpy, leaping onto its body and sniffing around in its pockets.
Praying in the old chapel, Magnus feels... not a connection, but maybe a moment of recognition? It’s an ancient holy place, and the stones still reverberate with a sacred aura as he prays there. His sister must see this place!
The others find nothing else of note other than scattered harpy leavings. But since there is only one corpse here, the harpies must have only been here but a few days. It's time to move on.
The party heals up and takes thorough notes on this lost Aroden monastery, and then moves on past the howling winds and treacherous ice of the Hollowfrost pass. The path forks, one leading ever upwards towards a series of caves in the cliff face. The other winds ever onwards, hugging the mountain as it takes you closer and closer to the mines. You follow it, and the sky clears.
Hustled along by Grigorii’s march, there’s no time for leisurely sight-seeing. Still, the views from these snow-capped Kortos Mounts are beautiful. Occasionally, you see birds of prey circle in the sky, or a few aurochs grazing for grass beneath the snow. You see no more harpies as you journey further and further into minotaur territory.
The trail joins up with a wide, sturdy road rutted with tracks from what appear to be very wide and heavy carts. Bits of discarded track and railing lie scattered around, and a large weathered sign reads, Northwinds Mine. There’s something else painted more recently under the sign, in a language none of you currently speak. The inside of the mine is dark, with tunnels branching everywhere.
How do you proceed?
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As they travel, Masa will concentrate for a moment and reset his defenses.
During the hike, he approaches Grigorii, speaking up to the large man.
"Assuming that we do not have to fight flying enemies again, you seem to be the least armored and most prone to be hit of our front line. I'd like to offer you a defense against that, if you'd allow me to touch your mind."
Masafusa's ears fall back as he sniffs the ground.
"Minotaurs."
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"Thank you, friend. My songs protect me well enough, but I will accept whatever tricks you see fit to bestow." he nods to acknowledge the fox.
As the group approaches the mine, Grigorii signals for caution. "Take care, fellows. Vendel, will you check the mine entrance for loose rocks, or instability? Tink, can you figure out what those marks on the sign mean? I will conjure a light for us that can not see in the darkness."
Vendel doesn't notice any loose rocks or instability... Not around the entrance, anyway.
Glancing at all the tunnel entrances, you do think that if you're going to have any hope of navigating this maze, it will take everything you can remember from the lore of such places.
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Magnus replies to Vendel, "No, no I don't know what you mean. I keep saying that. What do you mean?"
He looks forward to the mine entrance. "Well, which one do we go through? Should I call my bonded partner to enhance my blade now? Are we close to the minotaurs?"
He thinks a while longer... "Anyone see centaur tracks?"
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As her request for healing wasn't being heard, Pai pulled out her wand of Internal Healing and tapped it to her. She hated using that wand, but she had to admire its results. She immediately felt her wounds start to knit, but felt her personality grow more gruff and angry as the bad spell took effect.
Know. Dungeoneering
Pai looks around the mine, wondering if she could discover anything that might help the group as they progressed.
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"No, really, I don't. Why do you say it every time you say anything? You are very confusing. I don't know what you mean." says a very confused Pathfinder.
"No! Pai! Don't do that to yourself! I am so sorry, I can heal you!" Abadar's warrior rushes over to Pai, and touches her, infusing her with a feeling of community and belonging.
"Damn me and my lack of attention. I was too focused on the ruins. I apologize for the taint that you will bear on your immortal soul for that."
He then takes a minute to recharge from a mediation crystal.
"Are we about to enter?" He pulls out a wand, and gets ready to use it, if he sees anything, or if they are to enter a door.
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Grigorii grows visibly frustrated as the party navigates the maze, "Gorum teaches us that the path to glory leads straight ahead, toward the enemy. This is not that path."
Despite his annoyance with the twisting caverns, he attempts to compose a song to remember the way out.
Left, Left, Left-Right-Left, forward march...
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When asked to read the sign, Tink will prepare himself with Mage Armor and Barkskin and sneak up to the sign and have a look around while he's there.
Assuming we all get together again before entering, Tink can act as scout if needed, but really only sneaks if he's by himself or with some else sneaky, he sees no real reason with large stompy people around.
I'm glad someone can figure these tunnels out, I certainly can't. Maybe we should make some sort of mark to leave ourselves a trail.
The inside of the mine is pitch black, with only the light that you bring with you to illuminate its winding tunnels. The mineshafts vary in height from 10 feet to 30 feet, with timber supports bracing the ceiling. The tangled network of mineshafts form a sort of labyrinth, making it challenging to navigate from location to location, beginning at the mine’s entrance. Fortunately for you, Pai discerns patterns in the twists and turns, and you make good progress for the first part of the maze.
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"Hey! We're on the right track! See that tuft of hair? Could only come from a minotaur!" exalts Magnus.
A little later, "Oh, that doesn't look good... that's some blood, and centaur tail hairs. No, they couldn't just be horse hairs, just look at them!"
'There, I guess Abadar is pleased with me now.'
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"Thanks, Magnus. That feels much better," Pai grins as she pulls that hated wand away, not letting it take complete control of her.
"And sorry, Vendel. I get so out of my head when I even think about that awful healing wand. I say the meanest things and I feel just terrible about it."