Buzz attacks the nearest target, which is the oracle
Poison—Injury; save Fort DC 11; freq 1/rd for 6 rds; effect 1 Dex; cure 1 save.
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Hate. Crowe's soul was filled with hatred. Those miserable used witchcraft to remove him from fighting, but now had come his turn. After crossing the chamber at a great cost, the bloodrager swings his earthbreaker in the air toward the oracle, hitting him not only with his gun, but also with the strength of the winds loaded on his route.
Miranda points her crossbow at an enemy and fires, but her shot flies wide and ricochets off a pillar.
Wazziri, though coming close to striking the nimble halfling, cannot quite pin the little rogue down.
Boram can't hit the enemy, either.
Despite their struggles, Yarricki charges in and impales the oracle, finally dropping him.
Crowe, his anger boiling over from missing so much of the fight, flattens the last halfling in a gruesome display.
After a few moments, all is silent except for the heavy breathing of the Pathfinders and moans from a couple of the fallen and unconscious enemies.
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Yarricki goes around, casting stabilize on the enemies that are still alive "We should deliver them to the city guard, no reason to take justice into our hands and deliver the final punishment to them."
After having done the stabilizing she pats Buzz on the head "Well done Buzz! Shall we head back to Dreng to deliver the reports we found to him?"
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Crowe falls to his knees, after explode the skull of the halfling with his earthbreaker. Clearly fatigued, he braces in his weapon to raise with difficulty, since there was still a lot of glue spread through his body.
"Miranda is right. We should check the bodies of these rascals and see if there is anything to indicate who hired them to kill us. If it's that someone did."
The group searches the corpses of the dead and ties up the fallen that still live. They wear mostly mundane equipment but find documentation showing the group are members of the "Harbingers."
An organization founded around the Book of One Thousand Whispers, the Harbingers desperately attempt to make the recorded prophecies within come true so as to set the world right after the death of the god Aroden. The group had apparently come to the Shrine of the Failed in search of unattended items that fulfill more of the book’s strange conditions, but the presence of the Pathfinders was a direct violation of the Harbingers’ mission. It seemed they had attacked, hoping to kill the group and ensure the Pathfinders didn't interfere with the foretold omens.
After surviving the ambush, the Pathfinders are able to leave the Shrine of the Failed and deliver Eylysia’s cache to the Grand Lodge. The crowd gathered around the Starstone Cathedral has disbanded, and many of the locals are still horrified following Sir Reinhart’s attempt to vault the chasm on horseback, which ended with a fall into oblivion.
Drandle Dreng personally thanks the new Pathfinders for their successful investigation, indicating his interest in their future careers as Pathfinders. For those who have yet to complete their Confirmation, the venture-captain promises to speak with Master of Scrolls Kreighton Shaine to have the process expedited. Dreng assures those who have already completed their Confirmation that they will receive further assignments soon.
Several days later, each of the group receives a missive summarizing some of the Society’s initial findings.
Your recent investigations and recovery of agent Eylysia’s papers have already yielded
results. Under my direction, a team of scholars has tracked down the long-retired Society
ciphers the gnome used and translated many of her entries. Although many of these
records present valuable leads, one is especially timely and exciting.
Several months ago, the Pathfinder Society recovered an incomplete relic called the Sky
Key. Its missing components disappeared millennia ago, carried by dwarven refugees to
the far corners of Avistan and beyond, and the Society has struggled to follow these faint
trails to piece the potent device back together. It appears Eylysia may have found one of the
pieces centuries ago! She writes of a visit to Tar Kuata in Osirion, where she not only met
with the Iroran devotees there, but also the curious order of dwarven monks known as the
Ouat. According to her journals, some of the resident dwarves’ ancestors arrived long ago
from the distant north bearing a broken treasure of wire and steel. Based on additional
context and several magical divinations, I have reason to believe Eylysia—and you—may
have found one of the lost pieces of the Sky Key!
I have contacted Venture-Captain Norden Balentiir in Sothis to prepare for an
expedition. You have already demonstrated your resourcefulness by uncovering this
information; when I assemble a team to travel to Tar Kuata, I hope you will consider
joining the expedition.
Highest regards,
Venture-Captain Ambrus Valsin