Quiella hits the greased bugbear in the head with her hammer and it falls unconscious in the slippery substance. Her subsequent attack on the other bugbear does not hit.
Vailis loads his light crossbow and fires a bolt that hits the flying dwarf that causes some minor injuries. Coco moves around the room in a manner avoiding opportunity attacks and attempts to smack the bugbear with Abysium Codex, but the heavy metal plate book is not designed for combat and the attack misses.
Ophelia tries to paralyze the flying adversary with magic, but the dwarf successfully resists the spell.
The remaining bugbear steps over to Quiella and fails to hit her with its morningstar.
Initiative (Round 3)
Zeno <= Up
Valik <= Up
Melufiuos <= Up
Flying Dwarf
Vailis/Coco
Ophelia
Quiella
1 Bugbear
Group Effects
Bless: +1 to attacks and fear saves.
Zeno hits the flying dwarf with a arrow that slips through her armor to penetrate her side. She groans in unexpected pain.
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Mel sheathes his rapier and pulls ought his bow. "I've neglected you too long, my friend"
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Valik throws a punch at the bugbear that misses him completely.
Melufious puts away his rapier and switches to his longbow.
"I'm not going to die today after all this." The flying dwarf swears to herself as she takes more injury from her bleeding arrow wound and then moves swiftly across the ceiling, down fifteen feet to the hallway and finally 80 feet back down the hallway that the group came from.
Initiative (Round 3)
Zeno
Valik
Melufiuos
Flying Dwarf
Vailis/Coco <= Up
Ophelia <= Up
Quiella <= Up
1 Bugbear
Group Effects
Bless: +1 to attacks and fear saves.
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"Oh, yes, sweetie. You attacked us and you are dying here today to pay for such boldness. Unless you surrender immediately and start talking" Vailis talks as the woman flies over his head and then he follows her while casting wall of ice 5' just in front of the woman.
Meanwhile, Coco sidesteps and attempts to bring down the bugbear with the book "Knowledge is sometimes hard to enter into some heads"
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Quiella punches at the bugbear with an elbow spike and then tries to throw a shoulder spike into him.
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Vailis prevents any further escape by the dwarf with a handy Wall of Ice.
Coco then smacks the remaining bugbear in the back of the head with the priceless but heavy Abysium Codex.
Quiella finishes that bugbear off with a single thrust of an elbow spike.
Zeno's arrow goes through the flying dwarf's back and she slowly eases to the ground unconscious.
The bugbears carry only a simple morningstar and a javelin.
On the robed man's body, you find two light green potions, 1 dark blue potion, three magic wands, a masterwork dagger, a quarterstaff, a magical cloak, a magical ring, and 48 gp.
While on the dwarf, you discover 2 purple potions, another dark blue potion, a suit of masterwork full plate, a heavy steel shield, a masterwork battleaxe, a light crossbow with 20 bolts, a silver holy symbol of Abadar, and 12 gp.
They are Cure Light Wounds potions.
They are Cure Serious Wounds potions.
They are Cure Moderate Wounds potions.
It's a wand of False Life with 15 charges (CL 3)
It's a wand of Mage Armor with 30 charges (CL 1)
It's a wand of Spontaneous Immolation with 15 charges (CL 3)
It's a Cloak of Resistance +1
It's a Ring of Protection +1
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After the brief combat finishes, you all have an opportunity to look around the room and wonder at the thousands of items stored upon the walls. Perhaps this is where you can find the items you need for the ritual?
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Coco also quickly becomes innately aware that he can open the 18-foot-tall solid iron double doors by simple touching them with the Abysium Codex.
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Zeno sorts through the booty...
"Healing potions, probably amateur potency..."
"...here's some more, and these are MUCH better..."
"...and here are a couple of a more middling vintage."
"Ah, this one carries a weak necromantic ward. Should have enough power to be of some use to us, enough to go 'round, even."
"Mage armor, as they call it - and the enchantment is still fairly strong."
"Hmm! A mage need merely point this one at a foe, and that foe should burst into flame!"
"These two accoutrements are common wards against harm and general woe. I'll take the ring, if nobody else needs it."
That dealt with, he begins looking around for the missing relics...
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Mel will look in reverse order of Valik. Take 10=23. That should cut our search time in half.
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Zeno, Valik, and Melufiuos all look around the room for the four objects needed for the ritual. After 20 minutes, the statuette, the training katana, the gold brick, and the scales are all located.
Afterwards, Coco presses the Abysium Codex against the west doors and they open.
Beyond the doors, the next room is a vaulted chamber whose walls are lined by numerous statues of soldiers from different cultures and eras. Standing in the center is what looks like a metal centaur, with golden clockwork wings sprouting from its back and barbed chains at the end of its arms instead of hands. It's form looks a bit withered and sunken, and its countenance suggests it's in pain.
Nevertheless, it appears to be waiting for you and asks, "Why do you seek the Abysium Heart?"
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Mel looks at the creature with awe and pitty. He whispers, "what unnatural being is that? And why does it suffer so?"
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"We are here to re-attune the Hao-Jin tapestry so that it will allow us to travel back and forth between Absalom and Varisia."
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Only Zeno recognizes the creature as a Zelekhut Inevitable. These living machines hunt down those who flee just and legal punishments. He also recalls that chaotic aligned weapons work best against them and they possess spell resistance.
The Inevitable silently judges Quiella's words for a few moments before nodding and moving aside, "You may pass. My condition is of no concern to you."
True to his word, it allows you to pass. Coco then places the Abysium Codex onto the next set of doors which open in response.
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Dominating this next chamber is a vast statue—twenty-five feet tall, composed of a strange blue-green metal shaped in the likeness of a Tian woman wearing exotic robes. It’s partially shrouded in a churning vortex of multi-colored energy that hisses and crackles with menace. Extending from the statue to the walls, floor, and ceiling is an immense web-like array of shimmering energy tendrils that seem to phase in and out of reality. A white marble altar, studded with dozens of multi-colored glass knobs and metal levers, lies a few feet in front of the statue.
The altar is dedicated to the god Abadar.
As the group enters the room, a bolt of electricity shoots out from the vortex, striking Ophelia!
Afterwards, a mass of lightning flies out of the vortex and takes on a vaguely humanoid form. Still hovering off the ground, it attacks Quiella twice with its 15 foot reach, hitting the flat-footed paladin with both slams.
Initiative (Round 1)
Lightning Monster
Melufiuos <= Up
Valik <= Up
Ophelia [19 or 9 Damage] <= Up
Zeno <= Up
Vailis/Coco <= Up
Quiella [32 Damage] <= Up
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Zeno, for his part, has always found the concept of "acting as one" a little unsettling - after all, the anthropoid races are like the opposite of coral: the more of them bunch together, the uglier and stupider they all get. Still, he's seldom one to waste his breath on such things. He just gets to doing does what he does best....
Zeno recognizes that this creature is a Huge Lightning Elemental. They are moderately resistant to all weapon damage as well as immune to electric attacks and possess the same immunities as all elementals such as immunity to critical strikes and precision damage. He also remembers that they can more easily hit those wearing metal armor and/or carrying metal weapons.
Valik prepares an extremely well prepared defense.
Zeno hits the elemental with an arrow and, as expected, it resists some of the damage.
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Vailis quickly steps next to Valik and touches him while casting fly on the brave human "Great advice master! Time to put it to work!"
Coco extends his wings and starts flying trying to hit the Huge Elemental with the Abysium Codex!
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Quiella takes a step back (to get out of the thing's reach) and pops out her wand.
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Valik also begins to dispense advice to help his companions defeat the elemental menace.
Next, Vailis steps up to Valik and casts a Fly spell upon him, while Coco sprouts his wings and starts to fly towards the elemental. The lightning monster attempts to slam him as he approaches, but its swing is clumsy and it misses. Coco then hits it with the Abysium Codex, but it does very little damage to it.
Quiella moves back five feet, pulls out a wand, and increases her defenses with a magic spell.
Ophelia takes the worst the earlier lightning bolt has to offer, then casts Bull Strength on Valik.
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Melufiuos casts Mirror Image and 5 illusory duplicates form around him. As he moves away from the group, he also notices that the knobs and levers on the altar appear to be linked to whatever shot lightning at Ophelia. With that in mind, he might be able to disable it before it fires lightning at someone again.
The elemental ignores the flying Coco and moves 5 feet to the northeast to position itself to make two more slam attacks against Quiella. Despite her additional armor, once again both attacks hit and she takes injuries from both bludgeoning and electricity.
Initiative (Round 2)
Lightning Elemental
Melufiuos [5 Mirror Images] <= Up
Valik [Fly, Bull Strength active] <= Up
Ophelia [19 Damage] <= Up
Zeno <= Up
Vailis/Coco [C: Flying] <= Up
Quiella [64 Damage; Stabilize check needed] <= Up
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Vailis steps out of the elemental's reach, then produces a licorice root to cast haste on the group!
Coco 5 foot steps in the air around the elemental, moving his wings as fast as he can. The eidolon uses his claws against the fearful elemental!
Despite the destructive lightning elemental hovering over his head, Melufiuos steps over to the altar and begins attempting to disable the magical trap.
Zeno fires another arrow that hits its mark, but yet again it seems resistant to the damage.
Vailis steps away from the elemental and casts Haste on the group, while Coco hovers in place, dropping the Abysium Codex 15 feet to the ground. The book falls to the floor with a loud clank. With both his hands free, the eidolon claws the enemy three times and once again the elemental foe resists a great deal of the damage.
Valik starts to tumble through the air as he flies up to attack the elemental, but fails to barrel roll with sufficient dexterity and leaves himself open to attack. Fortunately, the elemental is confused by his movements and its opportunity attack misses. The monk then hits the lightning creature, yet barely harms it with his punch.