Joliryn darts around the benches and stabs her kukri into the throat of the giant frilled lizard.
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Marnarius has no problem with slicing the blinded reptile's neck of with a carefully delivered slice of his weapon before he moves away to engage the next treat.
The Professional (just barely) manages to dodge away from the lizards
Seizing his chance, Rataji makes for another direction and sights his next spell towards his foe. his first fired ray sets a bunch of papers, ancients journals and maps ablaze as it his a cabinet next to his intended target but his second ray burns a large patch of skin on the lizard.
322 looks disgusted and points a finger at one of the lizards.
A sickly green ray springs from her finger towards the closest lizard.
The Ambitious moves away from the dead chameleon next to him to move over to a new target and punches it in the side of it's jaw. He can feel the creatures hide turn rock solid as he hits it
The Artist dodges under the lizards stretched neck as it tries to bite her as she moves in close before cutting a leg out from under it with a precise delivered strike,which seems to loose a lot of it's forward momentum as it touches the creature and doesn't cut as deep as expected.
In return the creatures hiss and attack you right back, one of them trying to bite the Artist before swiping it's tail around to try to knock the wind out of the small women
And the other one moves forward so it's no longer squeezed between 2 display cabinets and bites the Ambitious
tearing a piece of flesh out from the man
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Enemies
Seeing the creatures affected by the ray, 322 directs a second ray of sickening at the second lizard.
With nothing currently attempting to eat her, Shohiraj takes the opportunity to retrieve a healing potion from her Handy Haversack and drink it.
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Seeing the creatures affected by the ray, 322 directs a second ray of sickening at the second lizard but misses the slow moving creature as it dodges around in combat with the rest of the Aspis members in between 322 and her target
Seeing his companions doing well, Rataji decides to hold back and observe first.
Zurnzal, sensing that perhaps not all of his damage was getting through, uses Brawls Versatility to gain use of Power Attack and performs another flurry pounding into the creature multiple times but none of his blows is hard enough to cause any sort of damage and it is almost as if his fist hits a brick wall
With nothing currently attempting to eat her, Shohiraj takes the opportunity to retrieve a healing potion from her Handy Haversack and drink it healing herself
The artist continues to slice at her target, making a very tiny nick in it's scale covered hide as it's skin turns rock solid through which some flames burn it's veins from the inside
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The Leader (if he wants to do something) The Vengeful
(I'll put both on full defense the next time I have time to post and they haven't yet)
Lizards
Taking a circuitous route Marnarius moves behind one of the lizard. When he arrives he takes a second to see if it has any weak spots
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Using her enhanced speed the artist strikes once more with her weapon, but the creature just barely manages to avoid being hit as it only get's a glancing blow against it's though scales (doesn't hit AC)
Rataji decides to take a pot shot as he fires off a bolt from his crossbow seeking to perhaps aid his companions though he's never had much practice with it and the bolt ends up in one of the shelves filled with valuable papers and trophies from the Pathfinder Society
Taking a circuitous route Marnarius moves behind one of the lizard. When he arrives he takes a second to see if it has any weak spots.
Rolling away from the first lizard the creatures jaws snap shut right behind him as he leaves
The blue scaled lizard goes for the Ambitious
and blood spray over some ancient papers as the sharp teeth bite into the half-orcs flesh
and then it's tail almost knocks the Ambitious through a display cabinet
The other lizard seeing a tasty snack show up right in front of him decides to make use of it's new found target
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Party
Lizards
322 moves around to provide a little more support, and directs another ray at the purple frilled lizard.
<- no cover but firing into melee.
Circling her foe warily, Joliryn decides another powerful magical attack is needed.
"Come on guys! Tactics!" Marnarius shouts in anger when he sees that the ambitious forgets to step in his direction to set up the flank.
Shrugging he steps forward and lashes out at the lizard, using a twohanded grip on his sword
Recovered somewhat from her major injuries, Shohiraj tumbles into a flank with the Ambitious and tries to impale the lizard between them with her rapier.
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The experiment fires at the lizard and you can see it start to dry heave (it's sickened)
The Artist slices at the a crackling blade but as she slices into the creature some sort of barrier protects it from getting massively damaged (doesn't confirm due to protection from evil boosting it's AC against your attack, the rubbery hide absorbs some of the blades impact as it goes rock solid.
Zurnzal is unhappy with how this fight is going and decides to be just slightly more careful with big swings. Slowing down a bit. Of the one-twopunch he's dealing the first hits his target nice and hard, but again..it's as if he's punching a wall and the next attack goes wide..maybe to avoid damaging his own fingers
Marnarius shouts in anger when he sees that the ambitious forgets to step in his direction to set up the flank.
Shrugging he steps forward and lashes out at the lizard, using a twohanded grip on his sword. Using his enhanced reflexes he swings his blade 3 times, using his first 2 swings to set up an opening for the 3th one to cut deeply into the creature right before it's flesh turns rock hard and prevents the blade from cutting into it to far. (2 miss Ac, 3th one hits)
Recovered somewhat from her major injuries, Shohiraj tumbles into a flank with the Ambitious and tries to impale the lizard between them with her rapier. But the creature isn't impressed by her tumbling and turns around quickly, trying to bite her legs as she tumbles past
but even as the sharp teeth miss by a hands length it's distracting enough for her own planned attack to miss.
Rataji sets in another bolt and decides against firing it. He looks instead on how to clear up the mess...........
The blueish scaled lizard goes for the Professional, seeing it's facing her way already
, this time managing to slice into her, having had a taste of her flesh already..it seems to enjoy it
It tail then flicks quickly about towards the Professional once more
but having to cough as it tries this makes his tail hit a shelf instead
The purple scaled lizard hisses in anger at the Vengeful and after looking at cut it now has on one of his legs decides to go full out
but stepping in a pool of it's own blood it's too unbalanced to launch a proper attack
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Party
Lizards
Despite her substantial injuries, Shohiraj attempts to impale the lizard once again, but it's just really not her day.
Drawing her dagger, she advances up to give The Professional a hand.
<- base, flank and haste, fighting defensively.
"Tactics..." giggles 322.
"I heard him screaming in my dreams last night."
(+2 to AC this round from defensive fighting)
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The Artist swirls and dances back and forth, the flames of her blade dancing with her as she strikes out at the lizard.
"That's more like it!" Marnarius says when the flank is taken.
He lashes out at the lizard again, using his trademark twohanded grip on his sword
Their defenses are faltering! We are nearly there!"
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Despite her substantial injuries, Shohiraj attempts to impale the lizard once again, but it's just really not her day. Her attack isn't deflected by the magical energies surrounding the creature but it's scales are just to though to be penetrated by her rapier (doesn't hit AC)
The Experiment has similar results as she tries to stick it to one of the lizards.
The Artist swirls and dances back and forth, the flames of her blade dancing with her as she strikes out at the lizard. Hitting twice, but although both are decent hits neither of them is critical as she hits a magical barrier..and the rubbery hide seems to absorb some impact from her kukri (no confirm on the crit due to the +2 vs evil persons)
Manarius lashes out at the lizard again, using his trademark twohanded grip on his sword, hitting twice..but his last swing is deflected by some magical energy around the creature.
Somewhat Exacerbated, Zurnzal decides to resort to dirty tricks, going for a flurry of pokes to the eye until one hopefully connects and the creature has to close it's eyelids to prevent permanent damage to it's eyes and is effectively blinded - at least until it opens it's eyes again
Rataji swivels his fingers as he brings forth dart of ice firing it into the closest enemy, hitting the blinded creature with a bit of frost
In return the blind creature sniffs the air and tries to bite the Ambitious
but both it bite and it's tail attack go wide as it starts to hack up some slime from deep within it's lungs
The other one goes for Marnarius
but ends up sneezing at the wrong time and misjudges his angle when it closes in for the kill
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Party
Lizard
Taking a deep breath to center herself, Shohiraj attacks once again.
Joliryn tries to bring down her target, knife flashing and flames swirling.
The experiment giggles, enjoying for a moment the thrill of close combat. There is definitely somewhat wrong with the girl.
Threat confirm
Swinging wildly the vengeful misses with his first two attacks. Taking a breath he swings again and this time hits the annoying lizard.
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Taking a deep breath to center herself, Shohiraj attacks once again hitting this time and sending the tip of her rapier deep into the creatures tissue making it harder for it to move it's limbs..but it doesn't go in as far as she would have liked (still some DR).
Using her enhanced speed she strikes again, adding insult to injury as she stabs it again twisting her weapon into the hole she already made.
The Ambitious flurries away and his fists hit like pistons pounding muscles into a blood pulp as scales crack (no DR against his attacks)
The Artist takes advantage of the Professional's attacks and slices away at the lizard from the other side getting one deep cut among her attacks and the lizard fall on the floor and bleeds out
Mean while the Experiment and Marnarius are able to take out the last Lizard with a combination of attacks, their team work easily able to take down the severely wounded lizard - even with out the protection from evil the Experiment only manages to hit once,as does Marnarius..but even as the Experiment only manages a small prick, Marnarius attack is more then enough to slice the head of the reptile
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Now that you have some relative uninterrupted time to look around and heal you notice that most of the objects supplied here are of no
immediate use to you. Using detect you magic you notice a few exceptions. On one shelf lies a staff which detects as magical
The second is a weapon that once he sees it immediately draws Marnarius attention
of magically hardened gold and whose head is molded like a roaring tiger skull. The third is a serrated, singleedged longsword made of green-tinged metal.
You search around for the notes you came here to look for in a hurry, knowing that there are still Pathfinder patrols in the area
"I could use some magical healing, if anyone has the ability to do so. I'm afraid I've already used my potion." The Professional explains, not looking very healthy at the moment.
While she waits for a response, she takes a look around for the notes.
322 removes the lizard blood from her dagger, giggling at something only she can see.
"Oh you poor thing." she says to Shohiraj. "That does look painful. Does it hurt much?" She prods the wounds painfully.
"Ohh, I'm glad that was not my leg."
She helps search around the room for a bit, but is constantly distracted by speckles of reflected light in the darkest corners of the room.
"Oh I know. Wait a moment." she rummages in her satchel and pulls out a wand.
"Can't have you bleeding over us, yet. Can we?" she asks Shohiraj.
Marnarius picks a obsidian-bladed scythe with a mahogany handle from a weapon rack. "This is the one they send me for those years ago. I finally have it! That it may hurt my enemies more than it will hurt me."
He then quaffs a potion
After that he helps the professional search the room
322 admires the scythe from a safe distance.
"Most sinister@" she agrees, and then catches sight of Shohiraj, not really looking that much better after the first touch of her wand.
Shaking her head she takes out the wand and sights down it, taps her head with it and then gives it a good talking to. "Now, lets try and get it right this time shall we? You don't want to go back to that big forest do you? All those creepy shadows, and the wind blowing the leaves about. No.. now be a good wand."
She reaches out to touch Shohiraj with it again.
"Oh come on. I've seen you do better than that before." she says, changing tactics in her discussion with the wand. "Remember the time with the bear? Yeah, you did real good then. Try and do that again." she pauses, listening to something only she can hear. "The bear wasn't magical? What does that have to do with anything. Try Again." and for a third time she taps Shohiraj .
"I am so sorry" she says. "I don't know what Wanda is thinking today. I think you must have upset her somehow."
"Alright, let's hurry and get to the tapestry. Have we started the distraction yet?"
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As The Leader and the Professional search the area for the notes you are here to find with the help of the Experiment and Vengeful they don't find anything that even looks close to what it could be.
While you use a few spare seconds here and there to heal some of your suffered injuries
The Artist and Ambitious can still search..if they don't find it, it's going to take (at least) another 5 minutes of frantic searching
Joliryn assists in searching for the notes.
"Thank you." The Professional says simply to The Experiment after being healed, doing her levelheaded best not to appear worried about the elf's erratic behavior. To aid in this, she quickly returns to the search for the notes.
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Searching together you manage to find Aram Zey's notes on the Hoa Jin Tapestry's operation. They describe in the ritual's preface that the riste could tear a permanent rift into the Hoa Jin Tapestry, allowing uninterrupted traffic between the planes - but always to the same site with in the deminplane. He strongly advices against even preforming this procedure.
You decide to move to the next location you are supposed to visit and during your stealth trip there (or disguised trip for the Leader I think) you notice a slight increase in Pathfinder Patrol activities, but you manage to arrive unnoticed once more (assuming take 10's).
The Society has stored the Hoa Jin Tapestry in several different rooms over the years, but your intel has pinpointed it to a secure room, where it's been for several months now.
Reaching this area involves ascending 5 sets of stairs and zigzagging through numerours detours. Once you reach the door:
and part of a conversation they are having can be heard from this side:
A self-righteous male voice, lecturing: If it hadn't been for your brash measures, we would not have been on this duty. Think of it, if you had changed your violent ways, you could be enjoying the greatest moment in pathfinder history. What a view that congregation should be, and we only get to watch this torn tapestry.
A female voice, agitated and fiery: Is that so? I had no other option in Isger. We were surrounded, and I had to think quick. At least I got to see the tapestry again. If I had followed your advice, we'd all be dead.
Hearing voices, The Professional raises her hand to stop the others as she listens to a snippet of conversation. Afterwards, she whispers, "Two voices, male and female. Guards."
She then checks the door for traps and locks.
(+3 to find trap)
"They seem to be arguing and apparently the female has a violent way to get out of being surrounded. We probably should take her down first. Does anything that happened in Isger mean anything to you?"