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"Wow Shechera calm down for a min, but keep the thought... Gentlemen, can you enlighten us on the situation? You wouldn't want us to assume the worst and get in trouble would you?"
Tera raises her hand when she told Shechera to stop, she didn't look pleased with the situation at all.
Bluff check if needed;
Surprise Round
Shechera
Round 1
Julien
Yaroslav
Ape Man 1
Ape Man 2
Shechera
Tera
Kazuo
Maldrek
Julien rushes toward the sound of screams.
Julien rushes toward the sound of screams.
Julien charges in and hops up onto the desk.
HP 8/8
1/1 (remaining) Comp. Languages
1/1 Detect Secret Doors
1/1 Erase
1/1 Read Magic
Luck Pool 1/2
Daring: 1 pt: +d6 on Acrobatics, Climb, Esc. Artist, Fly, Ride, Swim
Opportunistic Evasion: 1 pt to avoid dmg after successful Reflex save
Inspiration Pool 4/4
0 pts: Know/Ling/Spellcraft
1 pt: any skill check
2 pts: attack or save
Replenishes on insp roll of 6 or natural 20 on Sense Motive or Knowledge
Julien deftly leaps atop a desk just after Shechera plunges his sword into the flat-footed ape. Yaroslav buries a star knife into the second simian as they both try to slam Shechera!
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Julien addresses the ape men: "What are you looking for?"
Julien is certain that the apes were once human...but appear to have completely transformed due to the mist.
"Subdue them, but don't kill them. I think they are under a curse."
Round 2
>>>Julien
Yaroslav
Ape Man 2 (4)
>>>Shechera
>>>Tera
>>>Kazuo
>>>Maldrek (takes the higher of 2d20 for his next d20 roll.)
Shechera slices into the first ape and it falls to the floor. As its life slips away the ape-like features dissipate; returning the man to his human-self. The second ape lunges at Shechera in retaliation but can't connect with the nimble slayer. Meanwhile Yaroslav asks his deity to grand Maldrek with a bit of luck!
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Julien aims an aklys at the feet of the other ape but misses.
He gives up on that line of attack and aims the other at the ape's head.
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Shechera hesitates for a moment as she the beast turn into a man at her feet.
Please don't tell me that death is the only release from this curse...
In a flash of inspiration the slayer steps up to the side of the remaining ape man and brings the pommels down on the creatures head in an attempt to knock it out.
As the second ape is battered unconscious the same thing happens; the simian features melt away and you are left with a still-breathing and somewhat naked human. "Is it safe to come out?" A voice calls from inside the filing cabinet.
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Not death just unconsciousness...
Digger! Look, they turned back! We can turn back! Still holding her bloody swords the slayer turns to the party. Someone! Knock me unconscious! I don't want to end up like them! she points to one of the men they just fought.
She seems to be ignoring the voice in the cabinet.
"Fear not, Shechera, we will fix you." I hope.
Julien calls to the voice in the cabinet that it is safe.
The quivering man emerges from the filing cabinet and introduces himself as Saldak. He names his two coworkers currently lying on the floor as Yannis and Kadarnik. Saldak is a scribe, his jowls quaver and shake with terror as he recounts his tale.
"The offices suddenly flooded with a strange mist early this morning, and that tendrils of it seemed to pour down Kadarnik’s and Yannis’ throats moments before they went stark mad!"Nigel was examining some artifacts in another area of the museum and Saldak is certain that these Tik Taan idols are responsible for the museum’s current predicament. “I smelled something wrong with those hideous monkey-faced things as soon as Lugizar brought them out of his pack. I’ve a nose for trouble, I do! No one listens!”
Saldak rummages through one of the desks and produces some scraps of Mwangi cloth inscribed with strange writing. He interprets the script on the cloth which reveals not only a warning against the idols’ corrupting powers, but also a powerful chant that dispels their influence over men. (Treat as a scroll of break enchantment.)
He looks down at his fallen companions. "Will they be alright?"
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After a combat is over, Yaroslav rushes to the body of the man, that was sliced by Shechera
"Oh Desna almighty! How could I've been so stupid not to see that these are men under a curse!" He dropped to the knees near the body and started checking on his wounds.
May it be that he's still alive and I can still save this poor soul?
Despite taking a decent thrashing, Yaroslav is able to help the second man from entering the afterlife. While collectively the party is able to heal the museum employee's physical wounds, they will be psychologically scarred for some time.
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"Maldrek, if you're so disappointed you missed the brawl. Why not help Shechera with her request and knock her out. I might help her to change back and help you release some frustration... A win-win situation if you ask me" Tera says with a jolly voice while shortly looking up from the cloth before turning her attention back to it as if she said nothing.
"The Tik Taan idols--where are they?" While the others see to healing, Julien tries to get information from the scribe. He looks around the room for anything else that seems significant.
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"This might hurt," said tiefling. "are you sure you want it?"
He put his warhammer on the ground and took one of his gauntlets off.
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"Luck fortunes this man. He will live." Yaroslav switched his attention to Saldak. "Your friends will be alright. They will need some care and attention, though. I suggest you and your companions flee this place until we can handle this curse. We are deeply sorry that we had to deal with your assistants that way."
The healer finally stands up and wipes his hands on the robes. After that he cleans his starknife the same way and secures it on his back.
"This path can sometimes be dirty, indeed" he says while overlooking his once white robes "Well then. Can you give us directions on where to search for Nigel and these idols?"
"There are some idols in the exhibit across the hall...beyond that I have no idea."
As Tera reads the parchment Shechera's ape like features disappear, leaving her feeling much like herself again. Digger begins picking at his newly forming body hair and still has a craving for bananas.
The museum employees wish you well as they timidly leave the building in search of a physicker who keeps late hours.
East Exhibit Hall
The party moves across to the East Exhibit Hall. A large placard above the entryway to this hall reads “Hunting the Beasts of Legend” in great block letters. This gigantic chamber is relatively free of mist, and darkness is held at bay by braziers of radiant light. Behemoths occupy these halls, great taxidermy nightmares such as a two-headed bear easily taller than an ogre; a great desiccated beetle, its carapace larger than the face of the clock tower of Absalom’s Clockwork Cathedral; a massive specimen of chimera, its jaws open in a mock roar; and an assembled skeleton of a tyrant lizard. The walls here are studded with strange masks, staves, spears, and other implements of long forgotten cultures, most likely used in ritual hunts of the beasts preserved here.
Suddenly two of the stone faced helms hanging on the eastern wall begin to crackle loudly as shards of stone begin breaking away from what appears to be flesh underneath.
Round 1
Julien
Tera
Yaroslav
Kazuo
Maldrek
Shechera
Vargouille 1
Vargouille 2
The half-elf is quick to react. Julien tries to remember if he has read of anything like these floating heads.
He rushes toward the creature and swings his aklys.
Julien and Yaroslav don't think these floating heads have any historical or religious signifigance...in fact they appear to be not of this plane. Digger gets in a magnificent strike with his naginata while Shechera studies the movements of her floating targets.
As Maldrek helps Digger smash one of the masks to bits, he recognizes them as Vargouille...they have the ability to transform their victims into one of them with a single kiss!