Fingalad heard the swarms go down, so he drops his flask of fire and steps forward a bit. He sees a goblin through the doorway and brings up his bow. He takes aim, then looses an arrow at its head.
Crunch:
Notes: (None)
Round 2 action: drop fire as free action
Move 10' down hallway
Attack green goblin
Rolls: stealth, no penalty for moving less than full speed:1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
Fingalad pins the 2nd goblin to the wall, leaving it as a warning to the rest of them.
Andruss moves around the corner and beigins to jumble the final goblin's mind...
Will:1d20 - 1 ⇒ (9) - 1 = 8
The goblin begins staggering around and is quickly overwhelmed by Balzanno and Brunhilde.
Feel free to make your attack rolls if you want on him, but other than that, combat over! Where to from here? Northwest door (the double door) or Northeast door (the single door)?
Henrick doesn't hear or notice anything odd. You open the door and it reveals a small alcove with a second set of double doors behind it. You still don't see any traps, however this time you hear the sound of some movement from behind the door.
I'm going to say that at this point we move to initiative as someone opens the door, however he wont get a surprise round against anyone due to the advanced warning. You still likely won't see him in the room once opened, but you'll all be on your guard, assuming you're quicker than him on the draw... Reorder yourselves as you see fit, and we'll say that the door is opened right before the first round of combat (initiating combat).
The door is flung open and Brunhilde springs into action! A few creeks can be heard from within the room... and you hear the sound of something beginning to rush towards the party!
This huge chamber is entirely tiled with plain gray flagstones. It's uncannily cold, and only a trickle of light slips through a trio of tiny windows, one set into each adjoining wall, just below the eaves. The room is lined and partitioned with rows of massive stone cubicles. The cubicles stand twice the height of a grown human. Each cubicle has an iron door with a brass plate on it. The plates are labeled and numbered with a black wax pencil.
Henrick can read this, and Brunhilde can with a DC 13 Perception:
Something is waiting in ambush behind one of the stone cubicles on the left hand side of the room. You catch a few tendrils wisping around from around the corner... Feel free to make the knowledge check below before you act.
Anyone who can see the creature can make the check below:
Knowledge (Religion) DC 15:
The creature inhabiting this room is a wraith. It is an undead creature, and as such is immune to mind-affecting effects, bleed, death effects, disease, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, stunning, fatigue, ability damage/drain, and exhaustian. Read 1 spoiler of your choice below for every 5 you beat the DC by
Special Defenses:
This creature is incorporeal and cannot be affected by anything non-magical. It also posesses an unnatural aura which scares off animals from approaching.
Weaknesses:
Wraiths are powerless in sunlight, and cannot attack if exposed to natural daylight.
Special Attacks:
Wraiths can sap away your lifeforce simply by brushing their ethereal tendrils against you. Their touch can cause constitution drain and also heals them. Additionally, any humanoid killed by a becomes wraiths themselves, under the control of their sire. If their sire is killed they become free-willed wraiths.
Round 1:
Brunhilde
Baddy McBadface
The rest of the party
Since its just you and the baddie (so far), putting Brunhilde on delay would make no sense, so I'll put her on total defense for the round so we can move forward.
You hear a whooshing sound... From behind the cubicles, a ghostly creature, little more than a dark shape with two flickering pinpoints of light where its eyes should be, comes flying down straight through the cubicles!
It appears near Henrick, and reaches out towards him with a swirling blackness of a hand.
Attack:1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11vs Flat-Footed Touch Negative Energy Damage:1d6 ⇒ 6 Con Drain:1d6 ⇒ 2Fort Save DC 17 negates
Unfortunately, as it is an incorporeal undead, your weapon isn't nearly as effective as you would have hoped... The urgrosh passes through the creature, but you can see the magic aura of the weapon tears at the ghost on the way through...
Andruss unleashes a curse from his wand, but it appears to have no effect on the creature.
Immune to crit from weapons without the ghost touch property. Half damage from magic weapons without the ghost touch property. Also, since it is incorporeal, feel free to move through it if you need to reposition. Just expect to eat the AoOs...
Balzanno begins to brutally chip away at the incorporeal monstrosity, but Fingalad's shot finds nothing but mist as the agile creature floats back and forth.
AC 15 T 11 FF 14 | HP 24/34 | F +4 R +3 W +5 | Init +5| Perc +0
Spells Remaining:
1st 4/4 2nd 1/2
Spells Active:
mage armor - 1hr
Francois removes a scroll and casts long arm on Gabrielle.
I think this may remove the total cover from the doorway as the 15' reach allows line of effect to the wraith from Gabby's square? Does the wraith still get partial cover from the doorway, though? If so attack roll needs another -4
"Merde! Zhere must be a better place to fight zhis creature!"
Fingalad studies the wraith for a moment, then waits for the opportune moment to send an another arrow over the shoulders of his companions.
Crunch:
Notes: although Fingalad cannot confirm a crit against the ghost without a ghost touch weapon, a 20 still automatically hits, right?
Round 2 action: move action for studied target
standard action to ready an attack as soon as there is only one source of soft cover in between Fingalad and the wraith (this will negate the soft cover, as of Deadeye Bowman)
if this trigger does not occur (though I expect it will when Henrick moves) then Fingalad will attack anyway
Gabrielle's attack may have a cleaner line of sight, but her slow swings are easily avoided by the agile creature. Fingalad however manages to tear through a chunk of the creature, breaking off chunks of whatever binds this undead creature together.
Wraith (21 dmg, possible temp HP depending on Balzy's save)
Since we're on side initiative and Henrick had to move to attack, I wasn't going to bother waiting for the trigger. Also, Henrick, you still have an opportunity attack to take.
Wraith: 28 dmg, pending life drain on Balzanno.
Remaining actions:
Balzanno (Turn, AoO, Fort save dc 17 vs 5 con drain)
Henrick (AoO)
Andruss (Turn)
Brunhilde (Turn)
The horrid creature avoids Balzanno's first swing, but is smashed rather brutally by the other. Andruss's magic missiles slam into the creature, shredding it bit by bit.
Wraith: 47 dmg
The onslaught from Balzanno and Henrick slowly beat the creature down, and Andruss's final magic missile causes the undead horror to dissipate.
The cubicles in the slabs are all held just over freezing. Most of them contain humanoid remains, although a few also hold the remains of other creatures. Each cubicle is labled with a creature type and a date, as well as a brief description of the nature of the cubicle's contents. These contents range from entire preserved corpses to various organs or other parts. All of the sampled contents contain at least some soft tissue, as cleaned bones are stored in the Ossuarium instead.
The small door to the east opens into a chamber containing a massive iron stove. Urns full of ash can be spotted throughout the room. They are all dated, labeled, and stacked along a wall near the back for later use.
The passageway to the side leads into a a vast chamber, with rows and rows of dark-lacquered mahogany shelves, holding thousands of texts.
To the north, a chamber has an odd glow eminating from it.
A strange, metal cage lies sprawled in the center of the room like a great, undulating, skeletal lotus. Long tendrils of translucent ether lash violently from the artifact, while crackles of eerie light dance across the metal frame and up into the ghostly pillar that erupts from the center of the device into the night sky. A dozen bodies surround the pulsating cage, flopping on the floor and
convulsing madly.
This appears to be the cage that Charvion was using to speak with the dead, although now it appears to be malfunctioning...
You can attempt to either charge past it, or try to shut it down. What would you like to do?
Do we have any idea what shutting it down would take? If it is massive damage, Henrick would charge right in, being somewhat of a student of the undead. But if it is going to require finesse or engineering or something, he is just as happy to charge past it.
Gabby and Brunhilde move forward and begin working at the complex mechanism that is causing the cage to go haywire.
Gabby is able to make some progress, however Brunhilde's bashing does nothing to help the process. However, as soon as each of them begin their work, a blast of ethereal force engulfs them!
Gabby and Brunhilde, give me fort saves. Anyone else who wishes to try to disable the cage give me your Disable Device rolls along with Fort saves. This is a complex device and multiple checks will be needed.
Damage:2d6 ⇒ (6, 2) = 8Halved since everyone passed, so 4 damage to Brunhilde, and Gabrielle
With a burst, the cage blinks into the ethereal plane, becoming completely intangible to all of you, however you suspect that Gabrielle's work has possibly slowed it down.
Cage returns:1d4 ⇒ 3rounds later
If anyone has any prep actions they want to take, you have a few rounds do do so, anyone who wishes to try to disable the cage again, go ahead and give me your rolls.
If any of you have buffs that are still up, let me know what their duration was and roughly when you cast them (ie what encounter or between which encounters you cast them).
