Second Round
Initiative:
Adowyn 21 Entangled
Rivani 19 Entangled
Lerin 14
Mavaro 14
Amiri 12 Entangled
Erasmus 8
Kyra 3
Mavaro continues his advance, but stops short of the crater. He holds his sword up warily.
Things have change a little bit, sorry again. I will give you the following information:
As soon as Amiri come close to the crater:
Red, slimy, shifting ectoplasm bubbles and churns inside this five-
foot crater. Surrounding the ectoplasm, a mass of twisted hands and angry faces are formed in the dirt. Unlike those in the previous crater, these shapes convulse and wail with hateful life. The ectoplasm splits into three blobs.
This takes part in the first round, the second round is going to start as soon everyone let me know its actions.
Amiri curses colourfully as the nearby foliage starts to entangle and grab at her legs, halting her forward movement.
She starts to call back questions to the others, when she notices the churning ectoplasm forming in front of her.
"Beware, the spirits here are taking on form!"
Unable to move, she instead merely stands ready for when they approach.
, for damage.
Adowyn lifts her bow to ready an action to fire, and realizes there are too many people between her and the ectoplasm and she cannot maneuver to get a clear shot because of the vegetation... She tries to free herself from the entanglement instead. To do so, she casts Feather step on herself so she can ignore difficult terrain for 10 minutes.
With a curse, Erasmus continues to fight his way through the vegetation.
Initiative:
Adowyn 21
Amiri 12
Enemy 1 Green 20 Destroyed
Rivani 19
Enemy 2 Red 15
Lerin 14
Mavaro 14
Erasmus 8
Enemy 3 Blue 8
Kyra 3
Adowyn lifts her bow to ready an action to fire, and realizes there are too many people between her and the ectoplasm and she cannot maneuver to get a clear shot because of the vegetation... She tries to free herself from the entanglement instead. To do so, she casts Feather step on herself so she can ignore difficult terrain for 10 minutes. She concentrates and casts it normaly.
The first blob turns into a humanoid shape creature, each one sports a horned brow, clawed hands, and goatish legs with cloven hooves. It comes close to Amiri, but she was ready to attack it. The attack was so powerful that destroyed the creature in just one hit.
Rivani gets free from entangle and moves forward.
The second blob turns into a human shape creature, floating it moves forward and attacks to Amiri. The hit was powerful too, Amiri staggers, but keeps stand.
Amiri sees a collage of confusing images that include a windswept mountain pass, a cave filled with an eerie green glow, and a pulsing fungal creature brooding in the dark.
Lerin keeps in guard.
Mavaro tries to cast a spell Lead blades, but he can't concentrate. The spell is lost. Then he moves.
With a curse, Erasmus continues to fight his way through the vegetation.
The third blob turns into a human shape creature, floating it moves forward and attacks to Amiri. The hit was less powerful that the first one, Amiri staggers, but keeps stand.
Kyra takes its sacred symbol and casts positive energy. All her friends are free from the haunt for now.
Enemy 2 Red 4
Enemy 3 Blue 4
Able to move freely, Adowyn moves up and fires her bow at the red haunt.
She orders Leryn to 'stay' to keep him out of the entangling area.
Kyra moves closer to Amiri. Seeing her take a couple of blows, she cast a spell on the barbarian.
[dice=clw]1d8+1
Suddenly seeing red, both figuratively and literally, Amiri shakes her head attempting to free it of the strange visions, and angrily swings her blade at one of the creatures.
, for damage.
Erasmus steps to the side, and tosses a chakram at Blue (assuming Amiri missed, of course!).
Rivani steps out of the cursed vegetation and concentrates her psychic energies on the creatures surfacing out of thin air...
Mavaro, firmly gripping his one-eyed sword with booth hands, tries to cut the ectoplasmic creature in half.
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Initiative:
Adowyn 21
Amiri 12
Enemy 1 Green 20 Destroyed
Rivani 19
Enemy 2 Red 15
Lerin 14
Mavaro 14
Erasmus 8
Enemy 3 Blue 8 Destroyed
Kyra 3
Able to move freely, Adowyn moves up and fires her bow at the red haunt. Her attack was good, but apparently it wasn't harmful, the creature doesn't reacted to this arrow.
Suddenly seeing red, both figuratively and literally, Amiri shakes her head attempting to free it of the strange visions, and angrily swings her blade at one of the creatures. Unfortunatelly, she fails with her attack. Rage runs through her veins.
Rivani moves and concentrates her psychic energies on the creatures surfacing out of thin air...
The ectoplasmic human (Red) is angry. He attacks one more time to Amiri The creatures also fails.
Lerin doesn't move.
Mavaro, firmly gripping his one-eyed sword with booth hands, tries to cut the ectoplasmic creature in half. He fails this time too.
Erasmus steps to the side, and tosses a chakram at the ectoplasmic human (Blue). He deals damage to the creature and destroys it.
Kyra moves closer to Amiri.
Amiri continues to swing her massive blade, this time aiming for the last remaining ectoplasmic creature.
, for damage.
Mavaro frowns in frustration and tries again to cut the creature down.
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Stepping up, Erasmus tosses another chakram at the remaining creature.
Rivani tries again to crush the remaining creature with the powers of her mind...
Adowyn saves her arrows since they seem ineffectual, and waits for magic to hopefully deal with these creatures.
Initiative:
Adowyn 21
Amiri 12
Enemy 1 Green 20 Destroyed
Rivani 19
Enemy 2 Red 15 Destroyed
Lerin 14
Mavaro 14
Erasmus 8
Enemy 3 Blue 8 Destroyed
Kyra 3
Adowyn saves her arrows since they seem ineffectual, and waits for magic to hopefully deal with these creatures.
Amiri continues to swing her massive blade, this time aiming for the last remaining ectoplasmic creature. The hit is good, so good and strong. Amiri destroys the creature.
Combat is over.
Suddenly a known voice comes from behind. "Is it safe now? Can I come to the crater now?"
Amiri's anger slowly subsides, as she stands breathing heavily from exertion.
"I think there's something to this iron thing." She says with a faint smile.
"What were those things?" She adds, examining the extent of her wounds. "They hit pretty hard."
"It might be safe now."
A gnome happily runs forward and examines the fresh lightning strike. After many inquisitive exclamations, he harvests two vials of ectoplasm into his newly developed storage containers. Then, looking to Amiri and showing her the containers, "Those creatures were humanoids linked to Leng, you know, the plane of dreams or something like that. They were formed by this ectoplasm. Thanks for your help. Now, I have to study these samples while you complete the remainder of your tasks. Dr. Quolorum smiles to all of you and runs going away from all of you.
MANOR
It's been 2 days since you helped to Dr. Quolorum to catch some ectoplasm. You all feel well, have all your spells and are ready to this new mission.
You received a large package and a brass key along with Dr. Quolorum’s letter. The package contains two boxes made of crystalline panels, each about 1-foot cube. Nobody dares to stop you from approaching the manor, whose front door you can unlock with the key.
Dusty sheets cover the furniture of the front hall—all save a large portrait flanked by unlit candelabras above the fireplace directly opposite the front door. The room smells musty and old.
Rivani
Mavaro
10+: Lady Illirigarde commissioned this manor over 40 years ago, and it’s been bad luck ever since. She disappeared one stormy night, and nobody has used the building since.
15+: The last person to enter the manor, 20 years ago, ran out screaming and for several hours afterward he acted oddly.
Amiri glares around the abandoned manor ready for trouble.
"So what are we looking for here?" She asks no one in particular.
"And what are those things supposed to do?" She adds, indicating the crystalline cubes. "We expecting more of those ectoplasm things from the forest?"
She draws her sword, clearly thinking it a better way to deal with such things.
"'Almost Certain' and 'risk-free'... I'm not sure he truly understands the meanings of these phrases. But let's see what we can recover, eh?" Adowyn stands ready to enter the manor when the others do. She keeps a sharp eye on Leryn, as animals can often sense when things are 'not quite right'.
"Come on... let's see what horrors await us in here...", Erasmus says fatalistically.
As Amiri draws her sword, Mavaro shrugs and nonchalantly does the same, though he holds it lazily, without the same preparedness as the barbarian. "I suppose we just explore the place. This portrait seems the obvious starting point for investigation." Mavaro walks up to the portrait to give it a closer look.
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Amiri shrugs slightly, as she absently lifts the corners of the sheets with her sword to see what, if anything, is beneath them (beside the obvious furnishings).
She slowly makes her way towards the doorway to one of the adjoining rooms.
Rivani follows the others inside the hall and quips"Well, well, well.... we may be the first visitors here in quite some time. If I remember correctly the last person ever recorded having entered here run away in the span of a few short hours... and that was something like 20 years ago! Chronicles claim he never was quite the same afterwards"
"Well, let's hope that doesn't happen to us, eh? Pathfinders are made of sterner stuff than average folk, after all."
Erasmus shrugs.
"Frankly, based on how things have gone so far, I wouldn't be surprised if the house came alive, and tried to digest us..."
Nevertheless, he attempts to assist with searching the room.
Once inside, Adowyn looks for signs of others besides her group having moved around in the area.. (tracks in the dust maybe?)
Mavaro discovered that someone tore at the portrait, leaving it slashed and Lady Illirigarde’s face unrecognizable. Despite the damage, the subject’s strong widow’s peak is still visible. The plaque below the painting reads “Lady Rena Illirigarde,” but something tried ineffectively to scratch that out and instead carved “Hate” in many places on the wooden frame.
As all of you inspect the room and painting, the unlit candles ignite one by one, illuminating the defaced portrait.
A moment later, Rivani listens that there is a scratching sound to the east through the door.
Adowynn and Amiri think they are the only who have walked in here in decades, so the story of Rivani must be true.
Kyra doesn't find magic other than those magic objects brought by her companions.