Able Stone hurls a javelin, but it misses, scattering across the floor.
Round 2:
27 Saphera
Up next:
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
8 Guy in robes
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Seeing the magical newcomer arrive, swift as a leopard and graceful as a feather the tengu monk literally somersaults over one of the tables and is in the caster's face before he can speak another magical syllable. Twirling his staff defensively, he calls the attackers to reason once more.
"I say surrender now, honorable ones, for the sake of peace and harmony!"
And with that, a roundhouse kick so suddenly materializes a taloned foot in the magician's face, it seems to have materialized from thin air!
Round 2:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
Up next:
10 Able
10 Kuaizi (already have an action pending)
9 Hassari
8 Guy in robes
Zanu draws his weapon and moves into position to flank.
Priddy smacks the guy square in the stomach, nearly doubling him over.
The man that Priddy hits drops his bow and draws a rapier, trying to skewer him. Shouting, "Over here!"
But he misses.
His friend comes running, flanking. Giving him the oppurtunity to sneak attack.
The second assailant lands a heavy blow.
Able closes in, grabbing onto the rogue and holding tight.
Kuaizi leaps over the table, closing in on the caster, smaking him in the face with a talon. [its a hit. I moved you to what I tought was a more viable spot, extrapolating from where you first stood, as you can now flank, and you should have the movement speed. I dont know where the bless came from, but flank gives a bonus too so your rolls are good[/ooc]
Hassari moves, making sure he has good line of fire. It would not do to accidentally hit some of the beetle cilinders...
Both rays striking the target, making the caster cry out in pain, before collapsing on the ground.
We enter round 3 of combat.
Round 3:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
8 Guy in robes
Round 3:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
Up Next:
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
The wounds on the man in robes stop oozing blood and lympf fluid from the burn wounds, altough the smell of ozone still hangs in the air from the blasts he endured.
Zanu moves up to the back corridor.
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Percival absorbs the blow, and is none too pleased by the presence of a second assailant.
This won't do.
Percival reaches into a front pocket, obscured by the shield, and grabs a handful of sand. Winding his flail, he aims for the new target and pulls the blow at the last moment...
...and attempts to wrap his flail around the assailant's weapon in their confusion...
"Grab it. See what happens."
Round 3:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
The man being grappled by Able curses at also loosing his weapon. He tries to break free.
Breaking free, he desperately attempts to tumble trough Able's space.
But he doesnt make it.
His buddy takes a look at the situation and takes another shot at Priddy.
After which he 5 foor steps back into the other corridor.
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"Ooof!" the poor monk exhales as pain wracks his small body. Regaining his composure, and seeing Saphera tend to the caster now on the floor, he turns his attention to the remaining threats.
Seeing little avenue to get past his allies north of him, the monk speeds by towards the northeastern doorway. Sliding by Zanu, he swiftly hustles towards Saphera and... leaps over her head, performing a double somersault over both her's and the archer's heads, and lands squarely on his feet in a flanking position with the holy warrioress.
Twirling his staff defensively, he sternly observes, "You were warned, unfortunate ones!"
Round 3:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
Able Stone lands two blows on the man. With no room to fall back, the rogue defiantly stands his ground.
Kuaizi shows some incredible feat of dexterity, vaulting over his opponent.
With no easy path to his opponents, Hassari starts tying up the downed caster.
Round 4:
27 Saphera
Up Next:
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
Saphera starts running but is impeded by the craped quarters.
Round 4:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
Up Next:
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
Zanu moves up and readies an attack to hit the bad guy once he comes into range.
Priddy focusses fire with Able stone, taking advantage of the flank.
He hits the man square in the ribs, leaving him reeling and heavily wounded.
The man throws up his arms and yells "I surrender! Please!"
His buddy looks around desperately. Tengu monk in front. Hexcaster and approaching Slayer at the back.
In a desperate attemt to escape he smashes the glass of the window he is next to, and jumps trough.
Barely making it past Kuaizi in his haste, he tears his clothes on the shards of glass
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"Caw!" the tengu monk cries as his opponent breaks through the window. He drops his staff and tumbles right through the window after his opponent. The fast sprinter soon catches up with the archer, and makes a dive after him. Taloned hands seek purchase on his opponent's wrists, followed by a taloned foot swiping at a leg...
The man does not resist able stone, but does not look happy about the manacles.
Kuaizi reaches for the other man his wrist, brushes it, but comes away with only a strip of torn cloth.
Hassari moves to the broken window
Starting round 5.
Round 5:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari
Round 5:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
Up Next:
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari (already specified an action)
Saphera moves back to the unconcious but stable caster, who is now neatly tied up.
Zanu moves forward and breaks another window, giving the oppurtunity to cast a spell at the fleeing assailant.
Round 5:
27 Saphera
18 Zanu
17 Priddy
15 Shooty bad guy 1 and 2
Up Next:
10 Able
10 Kuaizi
9 Hassari (already specified an action)
Priddy, fed up with the rogue, persues out of the window, using his shield to keep the glass shards at bay.
Surprising himself with how nible he managed to do that.
Closing in on his opponent, he tries to end the fight with a good whack from his flail.
Hitting the man hard, the sickening sound of crunching bones is heard. Not even having time to groan, the man falls to the ground, unconsious.
The room is dark, as only a minute amount of light enters from three tiny windows near the ceiling.
The incinerators have not been lit today, due to the festivities
lantern has been left on the floor and is still lit.
The library’s numerous volumes have been strewn about the room in chaotic piles, and some books have been torn apart.
metal cage filled with dancing ethereal mists. This dangerous artifact is infamously known as the Cage of Soul Echoes. Its existance is pretty much common knowledge to Pathfinder agents, altough few have actually seen it.
Since it was last activated it has been cordoned off by a set of six permanent wall of force spells, surrounding the cage in a cube of force.
As far as you can tell, no one has tampered with the walls of force.
chamber rise and arch to form a half-dome, 30 feet high and supported by columns carved into the walls.
Shelves covered with innumerable books, scrolls, and tablets fill
this sacred space.
No lights are on in this room. It looks undisturbed.
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Kuaizi immediately kneels down beside the crushed man, quickly assessing his wound, bandaging him with rags, and propping up his head to prevent death, if possible.
He then uses a couple of sashes to tie the unconscious man up (if still living). Standing back up, the monk takes in a brief overview of the rest of the grounds he can make out from this vantage point, and judges how the overall battle appears to be faring. He then looks back to Priddy, "Percival-san, would you do me the honor of assisting me in carrying this man back into the mausoleum? We have questions that need answering. And," he adds, gesturing open-palmed to the rest of the mausoleum, "There is more to explore."
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Percival stows the shield and flail, at least for a moment.
Another notch in the belt.
Percival grabs the captive by the hair and pulls hard to get him to his feet.
"Sorry 'bout that. Kinda hard to bend over and do it right when ya been sliced open. So, let's play a game. You tell us how many people came in here with you, and if you get it right, mister Wu and I take you to the mausoleum. You get it wrong, mister Wu takes a five-minute break. We clear?"
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Able also produces a 'happy stick' for he's slightly wounded as well, and lays it in view of Saphera with a questioning eyebrow. Furthermore, he hauls another set of manacles and chains out of his backpack, and starts interconnecting the two prisoners inside, making sure they're snug and safe. Safe for others that is.
Kuaizi stabelises the unconcious man.
Being still unconcious, he can not answer any of Priddy's questions.
Able Stone chains the currently concious prisoner to the uncouncious caster. The man makes no remark, keeping his mouth shut.
Saphera searches the unconcious caster. A masterwork light mace and a masterwork light crossbow hang from his belt.
You also find a potion, a scroll and a wand.
Hassari studies the objects.
The purpose of the scroll eludes him, but he announces that the potion is one of the Cure Moderate variety. The wand is one of the spell "entagle", but it is clear it is missing slightly more then half its charges. (20 remain)
With the three prisoners secure, and no other apperant threats in the building, the party splits up.
One half explores the building, the other half interrogates the prisoners.
It is clear that whatever the goal was, it must have been the library. Books are in heaps, pulled from shelves and some even with pages torn out.
Its hard to make out if there was something specific. All books touch on the subject of death.
Checking in the location the caretakers mentioned, you find a hidden cache of sullpies.
Tying the prisoners securely and waking them up, reveals little. They are determined to keep their mouths shut.
With some 'gentle persuasion', they are willing to tell what they know, in exchange for their lives. They dont expect to be released, but a promise you wont kill them in cold blood suffises for them.
It appears they are the simple rank and file in a lager operation.
They accompanied others who went trough the library. This all took place even before the speach that was the kickoff for the larger attack.
What the higher ups wanted or where they went, they are not sure. They had orders to stay at the Mausoleum, and defend the building, in case someone would need to access the library again.
With some more pressing, the caster reveals that he heard someone talking about capturing a soul after death.
Even if you press more, there is little else they know. This was meant to be a large scale attack on the Society, but to what goal they dont know. They had clear orders as a team, and knew other teams would have missions on the ground, but never learned what those other teams were up to. They themselves had strict orders not to talk to other teams about their own orders.
Searching the rogues, you find that both carry a rarpier and a masterwork longbow. 20 arrows each, altough there is a special looking arrow in a side compartment of each of their quivers.
They also each have two potions.
Checking the caster over again, you find a bronze badge in his posession.
You move towards starhall. The outside of the large keep was designed with Azlanti architecture in mind. Two wings extend from the center structure, with a domed tower at the end of the east wing a smaller patinated bronze dome over the center hall. Starhall serves as an observatory, library, and museum for otherworldly and extraplanar objects and lore.
You know that inside the main entrance is a library with several display cases of objects recovered from Numeria, as well as a curator’s desk and a staircase to the eastern tower.
As you approach the building you see that the doors are shut, moving up you listen if you hear any sounds. And indeed you do hear noises, as if things are being thrown to the ground.
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"We should try and identify the items we just found and hand them out."
1x potion found on the spell caster. (Cure moderate wounds)
1x scroll found on the spell caster. (Unidentified)
1x wand found on the spell caster. (Entangle with 20 charges)
1x Bronze badge found on the caster. (Unidentified)
4x Potions found on the rogues. (Unidentified)
2x Special looking arrows found on the rogues. (Unidentified)
Saphera inspects the coin closely.
______________________________Starhall______________________________
With the sound of the Starhall clearly being sacked, Saphera casts shield of faith and then opens the door.
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In hushed tones, "A wise idea, Saphera Moonglade-chan." The monk withdraws a potion already on his person and drinks it.
Kuaizi quickly glances around for any windows to peer into. Sneaking up, he risks a peek to see what's going on inside.
If there aren't any windows... Whispering to his honorable companions, "Only one way to find out. I will go first." The monks sneaks up to the door, and prepares to kick it open.
Although there are windows in the building they are rather high up in the walls. Kuaizi therefore kicks open the door. Inside he sees two winged dragon-like creatures ransacking the bookshelves and throwing things to the ground. When the doors open they immediately take on a defensive pose, looking at what you will do next. You see swords strapped to their backs beside some javelins.
Initiative
Your map
25: Able
14: Blue
13: Zanu
13: Hassari
12: Saphera
07: Kuaizi
05: Priddy
04: Red