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Quiella navigates her way back to Orchid. "Do you think you can escape Justice that easily?" She says as she swings her blade again.
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With a single movement of his hands, Vailis summons an augmented earth elemental just behind Orchid, giving Quiella a flank.
The elemental immediately starts attacking the old assassin.
"Where's the book Orchid! Tell us and we will end this madness" advises Vailis.
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Right before Zeno shoots his bow, the thug south of him takes an opportunity attack with a kukri that completely misses.
Quiella also hits the bald thug as he advances across the room, so that when he hits the bottom of the pit, he falls unconscious. The gnome paladin then advances on Shadow Orchid and strikes her again with her greatsword.
Valik moves into the northeast corner of the room and prepares to strike anyone that gets close to him.
Vailis summons an earth elemental that proceeds to slam the old elf lady.
Melufiuos stabs Shadow Orchid with a double electrified rapier and with a thud she collapses dead to the ground.
Ophelia places herself in a defensive posture to avoid any potential rogue style attacks.
Apparently not just in it for the money, the remaining thug on the surface attacks the unarmored Zeno again, but the nimble archer wizard dodges the attack.
The two thugs in the pit attempt to climb out, but they both fall to the bottom, one of them losing his minor progress up the walls.
Initiative (Round 3)
3 Thugs
Melufiuos [Illusion of Calm Active] <= Up
Zeno [Gravity Bow Active] <= Up
Valik <= Up
Ophelia <= Up
Vailis [13 Damage] <= Up
Quiella <= Up
Effects
Bless: +1 to attacks rolls and fear effects
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Without Vailis direct directions the Earth elemental randomly keeps fighting the summoner enemies.
The elemental burrows below the house then appears behind the thug outside.
Vailis moves south and menaces the men in the pit "Surrender now and your lives will be spared. We are just looking for a book"
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Though stuck in his least favorite situation of all - a cramped melee - Zeno nonetheless has a few tricks at his disposal.
[dice=touch of gracelessness (CL 6), DC 16 vs droogie to my south, blessing]1d20+8[/dice]
While Vailis' earth elemental decides what to do, the summoner attempts to intimidate the two enemies in the pit. What effect his voice has on them is unknown as no one can see them from their positions 30 feet below the floor.
Valik determines that Shadow Orchid does look very dead and so he repositions himself back with the group.
Zeno successfully casts a spell defensively, and touches the enemy next to him. Although the thug seems slightly more wobbly than before, it would appear he resists the worst of the spell.
Quiella switches to a reach weapon while carefully putting her sword away.
Melufiuos draws his wand of True Strike and uses it to guarantee his rapier hits the bearded enemy next to him.
Unsure of what to do with no space to attack the bearded thug and not seeing the ones in the pit, the earth elemental looks around confused for a few seconds.
Ophelia continues her defensive posture to protect herself from the thug's attacks.
The bearded thug attacks Zeno again with his kukri and the strike is another miss.
Whatever the thugs are doing in the pit is unknown as no one can see them.
Initiative (Round 3)
3 Thugs
Melufiuos [Illusion of Calm Active] <= Up
Zeno [Gravity Bow Active] <= Up
Valik <= Up
Ophelia <= Up
Vailis [13 Damage] <= Up
Quiella <= Up
Effects
Bless: +1 to attacks rolls and fear effects
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Quiella tries to hit the thug in the corner with her long-handled hammer.
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Vailis points towards the pit "Get them. Make them surrender"
The earth elemental slowly moves down the coarse stone walls of the extra dimensional pit and cleaves the thugs.
The half-elf then tries to demoralize the thug in the outside stairs "You are outnumbered! Surrender!"
Quiella swings her hammer at the beared thug and hits him in the shoulders.
Zeno switches to his own personal kukri, but the slash of his weapon is dodged by the bearded thug.
Vailis' earth elemental moves to the pit and slides down to place itself in range to attack. The summoner then attempts to demoralize the pit thugs again, to an unknown level of success.
Melufiuos attacks the guy next to him with the help of his wand of True Strike. The successful hit downs the bearded thug.
Valik readies himself to punch any enemies that might appear.
Ophelia considers her next action after the thug next to her falls.
The thug that had been climbing the walls drops 5 feet and they both attack the elemental. The tattooed guard hits the elemental, while the one with the Headband misses.
Initiative (Round 5)
2 Thugs
Melufiuos [Illusion of Calm Active] <= Up
Zeno [Gravity Bow Active] <= Up
Valik <= Up
Ophelia <= Up
Vailis [13 Damage] <= Up
Quiella <= Up
Effects
Bless: +1 to attacks rolls and fear effects
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"I cannot hear your voices surrendering thugs! Why are you that stubborn? Just say it 'we surrender'!" the half-elf insist in his menace.
The augmented earth elemental keeps fighting the thugs in the pit with a cleave slam profiting his higher position.
Despite its superior positioning on the side of the pit, the earth elemental fails to hit a thug.
Back on the surface, Melufiuos supercharges his rapier, while Ophelia recalls her Bless spell.
Valik and Quiella wait on the ground level for another danger to appear and/or the magical pit to end.
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The next round in the pit, the headbanded thug slices into the elemental, only to get hit slammed hard in return. The elemental does not make a successful cleave attack.
After that, both thugs cut into the elemental, but it cleaves to hit them both. This knocks out the thug with the headband.
The remaining thug makes another successful hit after that, and so does the elemental which lays the thug down low as the pit dismisses itself.
Searching the bodies, you find no items on the body of Shadow Orchid, while the four thugs have 2 tanglefoot bags, 4 suits of lamellar cuirass armor, 4 masterwork kukris, 4 light crossbow with 80 bolts, 4 magical amulets, 4 magical cloaks, and 84 gp.
They are all Amulets of Natural Armor +1.
They are all Cloaks of Resistance +1.
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Moving onto the second floor, you discover more shelves and tables of books, but also four rolled-up sleeping mats lying in the northeast corner of the room, all in a neatly stacked pile. A small table next to the mats has a lantern and a few books on it. Nothing that corresponds with the description of the Abysium Codex is found in the room.
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Finally making your way to the third floor, you find bookshelves cover the east and west walls and a table piled with more books sits in the middle of the room between two more bookshelves. A large glass display case set in the center of the western bookshelf holds a great tome made of strange blue-green metal plates. Under the northern bookshelf you also locate a cot, under which sits a small locked brass chest.
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Quiella points at the book in the case. "Could that be it? Mel, do you think there are traps on there? Or on the other chest there?"
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Taking two minutes to thoroughly check the glass display check, Melufiuos does indeed find a cleverly hidden guillotine trap set into the ceiling. He also notes a particular book from an adjacent bookshelf whose spine appears much more worn than its neighboring books. He thinks he can probably bypass the trap by removing the book from the shelf.
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Mel takes and dons one each of the amulets and cloaks, if there are any left, as he waits for everyone else to choose first.
He also hands Quiella his wand, "Fix him up before we head up the stairs."
Upstairs, before pulling out the worn book to disable the trap, he does a quick scan with detect magic.
If we have time, he'll also take 20 to look for traps on the bed and brass chest (or were they included in the first check?). "Maybe there are gloves or something in there to make carrying that book safer?"
After donning a cloak and amulet as well as offering his wand to heal Vailis, Melufiuos scans the room with Detect Magic to learn that the book composed of blue-green metal plates is magical.
Taking another two minutes to check the area around the brass chest, Melufiuos doesn't find any other traps but he does locate a key in a hollowed out book on the western bookshelf.
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Quiella patiently watches Mel work. As he puts the key in the chest, she says
"Mel, you're really good at this. I'm really glad to have you on the team."
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Vailis follows the group upstairs "Thanks a lot for the healing" but he pays attention to the mats in the first room.
"Well done Mel!" the half-elf checks if he can use the mage hand spell to move the book without having to touch the abysium.
The metal plate book is completely unaffected by Vailis' Mage Hand.
Melufiuos opens the brass chest to reveal a magical potion, a magical set of bracers, and a magical gem. It also holds a parchment letter and a small black calfskin ledger.
The letter, written in the Elven tongue, is dated 2 months ago and appears to be from a man named Ascalar Vruul, a silver agent of the Aspis Consortium. The letter describes the consortium’s need of the Abysium Codex so they can access the Hao Jin Tapestry, which they have not been able to do on their own since losing the Ruby Phoenix Tournament. The letter cites the two organizations’ alliance during the tournament as the reason to cooperate, and threatens that not complying will result in the Consortium taking “other actions” and cutting the Golden League out of the resulting profits.
The ledger, also written in Elven, appears to be a meticulous and extensive catalog of criminal exploits dating back nearly three centuries.
You identify this book as Shadow Orchid’s infamous Black Ledger. Undoubtedly, many of the assassinations, thefts, and acts of extortion and bribery detailed in this ledger would link Shadow Orchid and the Golden League with numerous governments and powerful organizations throughout Tian Xia and the Inner Sea. If this information were made public, it could be severely damaging to any of the groups linked to it.
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It's a potion of Cure Moderate Wounds.
They are Bracers of Armor +2.
It's an Air Elemental Gem.
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Also, Vailis looks over the mats and concludes they are just ordinary sleeping mats.
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"Ahhhh, the infamous Black Ledger - 300 years of dirty deeds on behalf of who knows how many interests! This could be a crown jewel of blackmail material if ever there was one...."
Zeno then looks over the other treasure.
"And here's a healing potion, moderate strength..."
"...protective bracers, not very strong..."
"...*sigh*. Not sure about this one. Quite magical."
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"Are we going to look for any other nuggets of information? Or are we ready to head back?"
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