Bran steps through the door quickly enough to avoid the bone devil and when he sees it he enters a fury.
"Die monster! You don't belong in this world!"
Bran delivers two solid hits to the Bone Devil.
The Devil's fiendish power protects it somewhat from the sword.
The hobgoblin clerics don't like this at all. One takes a step and tries to Dispel Hamailii's Invisibility Purge.
That does it! The hobgoblins are all invisible again. Since the caster had to move to get line of sight to Hamailii, you can tell where he is - at least until he moves again.
You hear more chanting, and one of the enemy reappears as he touches Bran.
A dark power tugs at Bran's soul, trying to weaken him, but through his faith in Kurgess he is able to shake it off.
The final one appears as he attacks Tal'ariel with his mace, and then conjures a single Mirror Image as a move action.
Trellara blows up the room again.
The one who attacked Tal'ariel falls to the ground, unconscious and smoldering.
Round 2 - GOOD HOPE +2
Daniel -23
Tal'ariel -7
Trellara
Bone Devil -31
Bran
Hamailii
Warpriests (Black -24, Green -24)
Daniel turns to try and finish of the hobgoblin left standing in reach so Bran can concentrate on the devil.
Daniel hits twice. The hobgoblin is still standing, but barely.
Edit: I forgot about the readied action I had specified for Hamailii. Her arrow does strike the cleric as he tries to Dispel her Invisibility Purge. There is no way he can make a DC 31 Concentration check, so he loses the Dispel and the Invisibility Purge remains up.
Blue would then have tried to Dispel instead of attacking Tal'ariel.
And he fails, and he dies from the Fireball, and Tal'ariel is uninjured.
Black is at -42 and visible.
Tal'ariel is up (and not injured).
Tal'ariel charges the injured cleric!
; .
And misses completely.
Tal'ariel misses with her sword.
With Bran having stepped between the Bone Devil and its previous prey, the fiend attacks Bran.
The fiend has the Devil's luck and every one of its attacks hits. Even so, Bran remains in the fight, and shakes off the poison.
Hamailii again readies to interrupt casting with her bow.
Round 2 - GOOD HOPE +2
Daniel -23
Tal'ariel
Trellara
Bone Devil
Bran -41
Hamailii
Warpriests (Black -42, Green -24)
Staggering back from multiple blows from the devil, he becomes emboldened and carries out his familiar assault.
"Go back to the Hells where you belong!"
He dances quickly to give Daniel some room to take down their massive foe.
Bran's attack both miss.
One hobgoblin steps back, uses his Copycat ability, and only then tries to Dispel the Invisibility Purge.
Hamailii's arrow strikes the image, and his spell goes off!
But fails to knock out Hamailii's spell.
The other steps back, conjures his own illusory twin, and casts Hold Person on Bran.
Bran freezes up! The nefarious power of the evil dragon-god's magic grabs hold of his mind...
Round 3 - GOOD HOPE +2
Daniel -23
Tal'ariel
Trellara
Bone Devil -31
Bran -41 (Held)
Hamailii
Warpriests (Black -42 w/1 image, Green -24)
Daniel steps between the immobile Brand and the bone devil and hobgoblin and attackes the devil.
Daniel hits the Bone Devil twice, but only one hit seems to injure it.
Round 3 - GOOD HOPE +2
Daniel -1
Trellara -15
Tal'ariel
Bone Devil -37
Bran -41 (Held)
Hamailii
Warpriests (Black -42 w/1 image, Green -24)
Trellara moves up and casts Vanish on Bran.
The Bone Devil stabs at her with its tail as she passes.
She resists the poison, then casts her spell. Bran disappears.
Tal'ariel takes a quick sip from her sipping jacket and disappears momentarily, only to appear behind one of the clerics!
;
The Bone Devil has numerous targets to choose from. While he would love to rip Bran's throat out, the Vanish makes that difficult. He settles on the champion of Kelinahat.
The Bone Devil's luck continues to hold, as nearly all of his attacks land. Daniel resists the venom of its tail stinger.
Its voice echoes in your minds.
Foolish mortals, to challenge the might of Tiamat. I will crack your bones and eat the marrow. I will flay your skin from your corpses to decorate my lair.
Surrender and I will let one of you live after but a mere week in the rack. That you may limp back to your feeble man-village and spread the word of what is to come. That they may bow down or flee in terror.
Persist in your defiance and you will all die horribly.
Bran breaks free of the Infernal magic! (Can 5' step if you wish.)
Hamailii again lines up a shot.
One cleric (Green) steps out of the flank, conjures an illusory image, and casts a spell on Tal'ariel.
She resists the Hold Person attempt.
The other (Black) casts a spell on Daniel, shouting "FALL."
Hamailii's arrow hits his illusory duplicate as he does so, and he then takes a move action to conjure another.
The Command spell fails.
Round 3
Bran -41 can take 5' step if he wishes (used full-round action to break free of the spell)
Round 4 - GOOD HOPE +2
Daniel -28
Tal'ariel
Trellara
Bone Devil -37
Bran -41
Hamailii
Warpriests (Black -42 w/1 image, Green -24 pending Tal'ariel's math, has 1 image)
Bran shakes off the paralyzing magic, the fiendish restraint giving him pause, before moving into a better position to hopefully set up a new attack.
Tal'ariel keeps her focus on the clerics! She disappears for a moment again, then reappears to strike one of the clerics!
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She strikes true and her next attack goes at the next cleric.
; ; .
; ; .
Daniel smiles at the devil, "You will be the one dying here today. May Kelinahat's power crush you!" He smites the evil creature and attacks.
Tal'ariel drops two foes with one swing.
In a whirlwind of steel and mithral, Daniel slashes the Bone Devil. It falls to the ground, quite dead.
After making sure the same is the case for the hobgoblins, Hamailii channels to heal.
Trellara uses a wand on Bran.
Bran at -9
Daniel at -5
Push on quickly down the stairs the Night Hag had been heading for, or explore the level more?
It has been 1 minute since you entered the Fane of Tiamat.
Bran breathes a sigh of relief and lets his rage subside. "I think we need to go where that Night Hag went. If there is a ritual, a spellcasting fiend like that could very well be a part of it."
Talariel nods. "I agree. Let's get off this level and push forward into the next."
The stairs lead down, deeper into the mountain.
This cavernous chamber is lit by the flickering illumination of hundreds of red, blue, green, black, and white candles fitted into niches all along the walls or into candle-holders affi xed to the sides of the long pews that line the southern half of the room. The ceiling vaults to a height of what looks to be nearly sixty feet, but it’s hard to tell for sure due to the hundreds of dangling leather strands festooned with scales and claws. These grim decorations clatter and twist softly on faint breezes, hanging in places down to just ten feet off the ground.
The northern half of the room is raised five feet above the floor of the southern half; a short f light of stairs to the east leads up to this area. The raised area is dominated by a large stone altar. Stony dragon heads rise up like the curling fingers of an upturned palm around the altar, which itself is stained, scorched, and pitted. To either side of the altar stands a twelve-foot-tall stone statue of a five-headed dragon, her leering heads snaking down to look at the altar as if in curiosity. Each statue has a long tail that ends in a hooked stinger.
Five large alcoves twenty feet off the ground overlook the northern half of the room; there seems to be no easy way of reaching these lofty perches.
Daniel looks moves next to Trellara and whispers to her, "There are wyverns in those alcoves. Anything you can do about them?"
"I hear them too. Perhaps we should withdraw momentarily and prepare for battle," suggests Tal'ariel.
She casts Detect Magic and begins observing without moving from her position.
It is hard to tell if the wyverns see your or not... most likely they do, as you are not all hidden, but they haven't reacted yet.
"I could get two with the wand, but not all five," replies Trellara. "Unless we get them to converge."
Back up and prepare?
Bran got the Fly spell from Hamailii. I am not sure what you all have for scrolls and potions.
You can certainly back up and cast spells. Only one wyvern at a time could attack you if you were back down the hall even 10', and they're not that stupid.
Anything else you want to do?
I will roll initiative and get this going tomorrow otherwise.
Tal'ariel spends a few rounds preparing with spells.
She casts Haste as Trellara begins Inspire Courage.
Hamailii uses Blessing of the Faithful on Bran to boost his attacks.
The party leaps to the attack!
Tal'ariel 31
Bran 26
Daniel 25
Trellara 26
Hamailii 26
Round 1 - Haste, Inspire Courage +2, Good Hope, other effects
Tal'ariel (Barkskin, Shield)
Trellara
Hamailii
Bran (Fly, Sacred +2 attacks)
Daniel (Fly)
Wyverns
Daniel points to the left and says "Let's start there!" He looks back and adds, "If you think it will hurt them, fireball when you it's advantageous." He then flies and attacks
"Aye! One at a time!"
He charges into the wyvern hoping to bushwack it before it can react, the twin attacks of Daniel and him going in.
Daniel strike one wyvern hard, but an unseen force deflects Bran's sword.
The wyvern retaliates. Its deadly tail stinger pierces Daniel's armor, but he resists its venom.
Another flies up and stings at Daniel.
A third flies up and stings at Bran.
A fourth comes up but needs to move into position.
The last one moves up to sting at Tal'ariel. Her various magical protections hold.
Trellara ends her song (letting it linger, so 1 round used today) and uses the Wand of Fireballs.
Hamailii fires at the nearest wyvern.
The wyvern falls to Hamailii's arrows.
Round 2 - HASTE, GOOD HOPE, INSPIRE COURAGE +2
Trellara
Hamailii
Tal'ariel
Bran
Daniel
Wyverns (Red -14, Yellow -31, Black -31)
Daniel attacks the one he started on.
Tal'ariel takes a step to get a better angle, then conjures a burst of glitter to blind the wyverns!
Feeling the desecration in the air, Bran tries to focus and drop his foe.
The enchantments on him allow him to swing the greatsword with supernatural speed.
Daniel strikes the wyvern twice before Bran finishes it off with his first swing.
Bran then redirects his remaining attacks to another .
I think Tal'ariel can hit two. Yellow and Black?
One is blinded.
Daniel is hit once, is grabbed in the creature's jaws.
The blinded wyvern manages to shake off the Glitterdust, and the one that resisted the spell attacks Bran ineffectually.
Trellara, understanding the need to end this quickly, moves up and uses the wand again.
Flames engulf the room, and one wyvern is barely able to keep aloft.
Hamailii moves up and takes a single shot, felling another wyvern.
And very quickly there are only two wyverns left.
Round 3 - HASTE, GOOD HOPE, INSPIRE COURAGE +2
Trellara
Hamailii
Tal'ariel
Bran
Daniel -14 (Grappled)
Wyverns (Blue -29, Yellow -45)
Seeing the jaws clamp down on Daniel, Bran knows the best way to handle this situation was to overwhelm them while they were distracted by their prey.
"I'll get you out of there!"
The sword strikes down with massive force, but he hopes it wasn't as trained as he was when he grabbed a foe.
Tal'ariel attempts to engage the wyvern she temporarily blinded.
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Bran slices the wyvern in twain, freeing Daniel.
Tal'ariel strikes hard on the last of the reptiles.
Daniel finishes off the last wyvern.
There seems to be no way out from this cavern.
You split up and search the back of the alcoves and the walls between them.
Given the size of the room, and the DCs, I will say it takes 1 minute for Tal'ariel to find the secret door leading out.
Total time elapsed since entering: 3 minutes.
A short corridor leads to the next space.
The air in this large cavern is cold and smells musty. Thick carpets of pallid fungus grow around the stalagmites that cover the floor of this cave, and razor-sharp stalactites hang from the ceiling above. The cave’s floor has three tiers, each rising five feet above the one before it. The ceiling slopes upward to the north as well, never reaching a height of more than twenty feet. To the far north, a fifteen-foot-wide passageway continues north. To the south, a massive, irregular pit yawns into darkness.
There are three dangerous beasts in here - Greenspawn Razorfiends, like you fought in the swamp. However, as Bran and Daniel are still Flying the terrain which would be an advantage to them is much less so. And the tactics described for them are somewhat hampered due to the fact that they have only +2 Stealth. Plus, the module has them using Sunder on your gear which is not a great design choice. And they are rather similar to the wyverns.
So... after a short fierce battle, backed up by a few Fireballs and Hamailii's bow, you finish off these beasts.
Time elapsed: 4 minutes.
Daniel looks down the pit and says "Can anyone cast light on something and drop it down there?"
Hamailii can do so, and does.
The Light pebble falls and falls, about 200'. It is too far away and too dim to make out any details of what is below. But there is a bottom to the pit.
Bran looks down and hears the plunk, "I think we should avoid this. Whatever lays underneath can't be good."
Tal'ariel nods. "No time to waste on mysterious pits." She looks northward instead.
Tal'ariel looks northward.
A wide hallway leads to the next room.
This circular chamber is dominated by a three-tiered circular platform. Five sinuous stone dragon necks arc up from around the second tier, their heads turned upward to aim open maws at a pulsating hemisphere set in the ceiling above. Within each of the dragon’s jaws glows a brilliant sphere of rapidly pulsating light, shifting from white to red to green to blue to black. The ceiling in this area rises to a thirty foot-high dome. An alcove to the north houses a ten-foot-wide shaft leading up through the ceiling.
Five priests stand at the dragon heads on the pedestal's second tier.
Two more priests, in different garb, stand back-to-back on the pedestal's top tier. .
All of them seem to be chanting, directing prayers up the central shaft above the pedestal.
Despite Tal'ariel's great Stealth, there are four shadowy entities in the room that she cannot hide from.
Tal'ariel knows these are wraiths, dangerous incorporeal undead. They can suck the life out of you with a touch.
The wraiths shriek, and the priests turn their attention from their chanting.
Round 1 - GOOD HOPE is active
Bran
Daniel
Tal'ariel
Warpriests
Wraiths
Clerics
"Beware--wraiths!" says Tal'ariel in warning. She draws a scroll of Haste and casts it on the group!
She then steps out of line of sight.
Wraiths? Of what? Of who?
He wasn't sure what to make of the situation. After a quick assessment regarding ghosts he puts his buckler away; it wasn't going to help against their ghastly touches and he figured they were the largest threat.
"We need to do this very carefully." He glanced towards Trellara, "Do you think you can launch a fireball in there? Get them to engage us?"
Daniel pauses and says "A fireball down that hall would be good, but if they come to us hit those wraiths with it. Shall we wait for them here Bran?"
Before Trellara can react, the enemy acts!
First, the warpriests cast some spells... though you cannot tell what they might be.
Then, the wraiths fly down the hall to attack!
Two are able to reach you.
The elf's Shield spell saves her from the wraith's deadly touch, its arcane power crackling.
Daniel feels a chill as the wraith touches him , but his soul resists the worst effects.
Trellara pulls out her trusty wand.
A blast of fire catches the wraiths.
Hamailii channels the power of Desna.
Finally, the enemy clerics cast some spells.
Round 2 - GOOD HOPE and HASTE are active
Bran
Daniel -5
Tal'ariel
Warpriests
Wraiths (Teal -11, Yellow -11, Brown -11, Magenta -11)
Trellara
Hamailii
Clerics