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Velinov moves in to surround the Hao Jinite, using his dagger to flank and assist Kajar but fails to provide enough of an distraction to be too helpfull.
Kajar roars and swings his axe again, taking down the creature as Buri hits is at the same time, making sure the creature stays down.
After you examine the body a bit more in detail;
Aram Zey’s body still has a lingering aura of necromancy magic, which is a residual sign an Aspis agent having trapped his soul. This act also makes it impossible to use magic to revive the Master of Spells or communicate with him through spells such as speak with dead.
You still don't know how to close the portal, but you've heard that there should be notes in the librairy that detail how to do just that. Also the most prescious artifact of the last year - the Skykey is still somewhere unprotected....you might want to secure it.
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"Velinov, do you think you'll need lots of time figuring out how to close the portal with the information of the library at hand? Wizardry is like magic to me, you'll find no help from me there."
"If Velinov is the only one who would be capable of figuring it out, we might better go for protecting the Skykey. I've heard there was another group battling, if they are more the studying type, they might do better in the library."
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Myrayah sees a staging area for an army on the other side of the portal..but it seems that the entire army has made it's way to this side already.
Deciding that securing the Skykey has priority you make your way over towards the chamber where it's supposed to be kept.
This tall library is ringed by a walkway around its perimeter, which provides access to a second level of towering bookshelves. A broad Qadiran rug leads to a short pedestal within a tall glass case that itself sits within an inscribed circle—all cordoned off by a velvet rope suspended by brass poles. Several plush chairs and a few low tables bearing curios line the lower floor, and two decorative suits of armor stand at attention, each with a crossbow resting against its shoulder. Heatless torches blaze with remarkably even light in sconces throughout the room, and a tall pendulum clock against the eastern wall ticks each passing second as its hands move erratically.
As you move into the room to take a look at the glass case to check if the Skykey is still inside it a ghostly image of a Pathfinder appears in the center of the room, where his likeness eerily begins to slide through the display case. His voice echoes as he speaks to an unseen party. “Oh no, they’ve stolen the Sky Key. It also appears they disrupted the auxiliary stabilizer, too.” He pauses before continuing. “Do you feel that? I feel kind of sick all of a sudden. I hope they didn’t try to disassemble it—or worse, bring it too close to the tapestry. Wasn’t that why Zey kept them so far—”
The figure’s words go unfinished as he begins to scream and dissolve, fading from view in a matter of seconds
You suddenly start to feel sick yourselves as well, as if the dimensional forces surrounding the artifact caused space in this room to bend in an uncomfortable way.
Sickened: a -2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks
Then as you all start to almost throw up out of 4 spatial anomalies creatures which look like slimy, shifting mass which has the shape of a humanoid, but is made out of what appears to be some form of sticky rope or cloth appear.
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Even in her sickened state Myrayah is able to slice into one of the odd creature, piercing it's skin and causing it leak...some sort of ooze?
Kajar, breathing through his mouth more than usual, moves to the closest ghost-thing and slashes at it with his axe with similiar results to Myrayah's attack as his axe bites deeply into what ever the creature is made out of.
He steps closer to the center of the room, trying to set up a flanking position with the green slimy creature. He swings his axe...and his swing goes wide.
init
Buri, Velinov
Ecto's
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Buri manages to push away the nausea, focusing his powers he grows his nails into claws and moves forward to attack.
Velinov moves forward to provide a flank for someone
The creatures seem to suffer the same sickening effect you guys experience in this room and
move so that they have flanking as well and then attack
but only one manages to hit while most attacks are diverted by your armor
The one that does hit drags some scratches across Myrayah's skin
(and a DC 11 will save or become shaken for rounds
init
Party
Ecto's
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Kajar again swipes his axe at the ghostly-thing, tears in his eyes. But his impaired vision is throwing of his aim as he just swipes his weapon back and forth in the air.
With a primal scream Buri pounces at the creature, his first attack missing..maybe he doesn't want to taste what the creature is made from....
His claw hits and as the creature starts to go down Buri's second claw makes sure it will won't get up again.
shaking off the sickened effect he was feeling just a few second ago Ulfgar swings his axe through another one of the creatures tearing it in half.
init
Velinov, Myrayah
Ecto's
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Velinov tries to assist Myrayah but is too wobbly on his feet to be of much use
Luckily Myrayah is able to get a decent hit in and manages to take down the already wounded creature
The last creature takes a 5ft step away from some of you and continues to attack Myrayah
but ends up horrible missing
init
Party
Ecto
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Greener than usual, Kajar again swings his axe against the eerie ectoplasmic menace cutting away some of it's substance.
Ulfgar moves so they can surround the creature. He swings ...and hits.
Ooze flies everywhere before it starts to dissolve back go where it came from.
As you take a few seconds to investigate the room you notice that the display case has been emptied. As you leave the room to report your findings to someone higher in the chain of command you start to feel better.
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You go to the library to look for Aram Zey's notes on the Taperstry
Twelve bookcases line the walls of this cozy lounge room. Their shelves are crammed with books, scroll tubes, and tablets.
Comfortable furnishings are arrayed so that scholars may examine the works without needing to remove them from the room. It may be here that Aram Zey hid his notes about the Hao Jin Tapestry.
There are 4 Aspis Mercenaries rummaging through the books here.
All 4 of them look human, wearing breast plates with heavy shields and carrying a long sword and a crossbow with a dagger for back-up
init
You guys
Aspis
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Velinov moves to the adjacent potted plant and picks it up while starting to chant arcane magic, "Exercitus vesparum." As the pot is lifted in the air, a yellow and black insect flys off the leaves; then two, three, until there are too many to count. A constant stream of angry bees form a dense cloud in seconds and descend upon the western Aspis soldiers.
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As a natural reflex, Ulfgar gets extra loud when being in a library. He shouts an insult to the trespassers, walks up and takes a swing at the blue ribboned Aspis agent. His attack is deflected by the breast-plate the man is wearing (doesn't hit flatfooted AC)
Velinov moves to the adjacent potted plant and picks it up while starting to chant arcane magic, "Exercitus vesparum." As the pot is lifted in the air, a yellow and black insect flys off the leaves; then two, three, until there are too many to count. A constant stream of angry bees form a dense cloud in seconds and descend upon the western Aspis soldiers.
Kajar smiles his toothy grin and maneuvers to the blue-ribboned Aspis agent, axe at the ready and takes a swing at the man
[ooc]No flanking from current positions on the map
but his attack is harmlessly deflected away by the mans armor without drawing blood (doesn't hit flatfooted AC)
Buri moves next to one of the Aspis and swings his hammer, but like the rest of attacks made in the last few seconds his hammer bounces of the armor his target is wearing
Myrayah moves into the room and attacks one of the Aspis cutting his flesh right above the edge of his armor and drawing some blood
Ït's the Pathfinder! Tactical retreat everyone!"
The 2 Aspis next to the insects Velinov summoned turn away and run for the door behind them, one get's out a bunch of keys and tries to unlock it
which he succeeds at and the other one pulls open the door.
The one next to Buri takes a step back and pulls out a vial which he hurls at the floor between Buri and Myryah
it hits the floor, splashing both of them with burning liquid and setting fire to the rug it landed on, the fire roars and seems to be spreading through the room filled with not only very burnable books and papers but also ancient and very dry chairs, tables and rugs.
The last Aspis goes directly south from his current location and then moves around the wall of insects, past his companions and through the open door
init
You guys
Enemies+Fire
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Ulfgar follows the Aspis agent he was attacking and swings his axe at the agent. He positions himself so he blocks the retreat path of the last agent between the wall and the summoned insects, but is attack bounces of the Aspis armor without doing anyharm
init
Buri, Kajar + Velinov/Myryah with Combat maneuver checks
Aspis
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Myrayah tries to put out the fire before it can spread, un afraid to get close to the fire as it seems to fuel her.
Kajar shoots his crossbow, hitting one of the Aspis in the shoulder..almost piercing a vein in his neck but the arrow stops in the meaty part of it's shoulder before the tip can get far aenough to pierce that far.
Velinov tries to put out some fire as well
and manages to use a nearby rug to smother the flames
Buri goes fully on the defensive.
All the Aspis make a run for it
(green and red withdraw, blue is gone as well..so no provoking for those. Yellow does a double move, avoiding Kajar, but provoking from Ulfgar as he jumps through the cloud of insects and ends his movement at the doors.
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AAO from Ulfgar vs Yellow
You guys (you have till 3 PM EST US [UTC-5] to finish this part.)
Enemy
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As the Aspis agent passes him by, Ulfgar tries to swing his axe, but gets confused when the Aspis agent simply runs through the insects as if they were not there.
As the agent simply tries to flee, Ulfgar figures a tripping attack might be better and less dangerous if the pathfinders want some answers out of the guy. Ulfgar starts raging and...
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Myrayah joins the pursuit, as she sucks at searching.
Myrayah jump-flips over the agents' head and end up in a square behind him.
As the Aspis agent passes him by, Ulfgar tries to swing his axe, but gets confused when the Aspis agent simply runs through the insects as if they were not there.
As the agent simply tries to flee, Ulfgar figures a tripping attack might be better and less dangerous if the pathfinder want some answers out of the guy. Ulfgar starts raging and... slices the mans feet out from under him. Dropping him to the floor.
init
Buri, Velinov, Kajar(you have till 3 PM EST US [UTC-5] to finish this part.)
Enemy - prone, surrounded
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Velinov searches around in the library for the notes you came to retrieve and in hollowed out book set high in one of the southern bookshelves he finds notes that provide details on how to shut down the tapestry.
Relieved that the fleeing Aspis didn't have the notes you decide to let them flee after you make quick work of the prone one you managed to stop and return to the room with the Tapestry and spend a few minutes to follow the ritual that's written down on the notes and you manage to shut down the portal which Velinov is easily able to follow with his knowledge of how things like these are supposed to be handled.