Before the lurkers can react, Letitia runs over to the corner of the room to line up a shot with one of her more potent spells.
"Ha! Let's see how those pesky lights do with my fire!" Samuel is quick to give a shot to the far one, focusing on red, or yellow if Letitia's bolt dealt with it.
Then quickly reloads the musket.
Llewellyn starts chanting a jaunty old Taldan marching tune, this irreverent tune spurred everyone on to greatness!
Drawing his cold iron longsword, Llewellyn then closed with the nearest lurker!
Ashling steps forward with what seems to be enhanced speed, limbs aglow. She swings the Cold iron Longsword. Focused, she aims her slice where they will be rather than are.
Callix steps forward, her axe burning with silver fire, and attacks the middle creature.
Letitia moves over and fires off a lightning bolt hitting 3 of the lurkers
Samuel lines up a shot and pegs the red one, though it resists a bit of the damage
his eyes adjust to the rapid changes in illumination in this room, and he is no longer dazzled
Ashling anticipates the creature's movement and gets a critical hit on yellow
Callix moves in and finishes off the lurker that was hit the hardest by the lightning.
The red lurker moves to the wall and touches it, casting Daylight
the room is suddenly once again very bright (though not painfully bright like it was when you first entered.)
The lurkers all vanish in the brightness and become invisible.
Green attempts to limit the magic user's effectiveness and casts deafness on Letitia
Everything goes very quiet for Letitia who now cannot hear or see her enemies...
Yellow slashes at Ashling with its claws
neither attack hits as the Black Rider moves around the incoming attacks gracefully, even without seeing her attacker.
The party may act
Global Condition: |Party Condition:
Callix HP: 58/58 - AC: 20/14/16 Status:
Letitia: HP: 48/48 - AC: 18/12/15 Status: deaf
Llewellyn HP: 50/59 - AC: 23/21/13 Status:
Samuel HP: 67/67 - AC: 23/18/16 Status:
Ashling HP: 36/44 - AC: 19/15/15 Status:NPCs:
Yellow Lurker HP: -29 | AC: ||
Red Lurker HP: -27 | AC: ||
Green Lurker HP: -16 | AC: ||
Blue Lurker HP: -50 | AC: || dead
Letitia scowls as all sound is snuffed out for her. Getting stricken with such an affliction was troublesome, but hopefully less debilitating than being unable to see. Unfortunately, the fey beings resumed the bright light again which rendered them invisible.
She yanks out a flask of magical oil she created a few weeks ago and hurls it to the ground, creating a countering area of shadow that dims the daylight spell.
With a snarl of anger, Llewellyn marshals a fraction of his arcane power into his blade which starts shining softly. He then sends a pair of vicious strikes towards the lurker!
"Rats! How to tell them out from just the bright light?" Samuel curses, and if Letitia's actions do not do the trick, he just shots where the red lurker was when it cast the spell, hoping it has not moved.
Regretfully, the musket is rendered stuck, which only arises more curses from the gunslinger, forcing him to quick clear the trigger with a fast unloading of powder.
Having seen her target fall, Callix tries to scan for a new foe -- and seeing her companions still fighting, she moves toward Llewellyn.
Letitia pulls out a vial of oil and trows it, spreading an area of darkness that counteracts the daylight spell, bringing the room back donw ot a dim light. (20% miss chance again)
Llewellyn cuts down the closest lurker with a vengeance
Samuel tries to shoot one but something bad happens in his gun. must be too damp in here or something. He clears out the bad powder to try again.
The remaining two are visible now, giving Callix and Ashling targets to go after
Callix, Ashling, Lurkers, Letitia, Llewellyn, Samuel
Callix attacks the creature fighting the bard.
Ashling will attack the creature in front of her
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The group has some difficulty getting to grips with the little fairies, but they are able to do just enough. Callix and Ashling both hit their targets, dropping them.
the combat is over. the gem radiating light is still under Letitia's cauldron, and Letitia is deaf.
"Rats! This musket dropped me in a bad moment!" Samuel complains, though he starts to laugh as he sees the enemies are done already "Well... you made a good deal of them anyway, so I guess it is ok, hehe"
The Taldan approaches the cauldron "But what was that? Is it safe to pick the lighty gem? Maybe we can use it for when we explore dark tunnels..."
Letitia keeps her scowl on her face as all sound is denied her. She busies herself by collecting the sparkling dust from the dead bodies of the lurkers.
Once done with that task, she taps Callix on her shoulder. "I am afflicted. I cannot hear," she says, unable to regulate the volume of her voice. "Do you know the means of restoring someone's hearing? I'd cast dispel magic on myself, but I'm concerned I may mess up the crucial vocal component because I cannot hear my own inflections."
Samuel approaches the cauldron. he can see that slight amounts of light are escaping from the bottom where the couldron doesn't fit the whole exactly, but it is hiding most of the light.
He asks if it is safe to pick up the cauldron, likely looking for the go-ahead from Letitia who put it there in the first place, but of course Letitia cannot hear him.
Letitia asks callix for help, speaking much louder than normal.
Callix shakes her head, then mouths, "I do. But not prepared today."
Letitia sighs, but doesn't despair. Determined to remain useful, she goes to inspect the light source underneath her cauldron. She casts detect magic, repeating the attempt after her first effort fails, and studies the object.
"Deafened? That's too bad, I know a restorative chant but I don't think it can return hearing." murmured Llewellyn as he considered if there was a way within his power to treat her.
"So she cannot hear us say witch jokes?" Samuel smiles and blinks as Letitia scans the cauldron for magics "Guess she might still be able to read our lips. I will not risk ending up transformed into a toad. Or worst. An ice stone."
Whether the gem thing is solved or not, Samuel will take the exit of the room going south, understanding that is the general direction where the corrupted creature lives.
"We should follow him." said Llewellyn, miming this for the granddaughter's benefit before he hurried after Mr Samuel.
Despite rushing, Llewellyn kept a careful watch in case there were any surprises.
Hearing Letitia cannot hear properly Ashling takes it maybe a tad too seriously and will keep close to watch her back until such a time that she can actually hear something if it decides to sneak up on her, Spells to return hearing arent in my reptoire either unfortunely, do we know if it will wear off?
Letitia follows Llewellyn at a short distance, letting the gunman and bard stay up front.
She gives Ashling a look of irritation when it's obvious the assassin is staying close to watch her back in case something were to sneak up behind her. Lazlo glides from his nearby perch in the bright room to land on Letitia's shoulder and rotates his head to look behind his witch.
"I'm not an invalid, and perfectly capable of watching my back. Your cold iron sword will be needed against the debased nymph." She makes a shooing motion for Ashling to move ahead of her.
Callix shakes her head, "No, I'll need to cure her. The Hero will grant me the spell, but I hadn't asked for it today."
She nods, "I think we'd best press on. Lazlo can warn Letitia about anything she doesn't hear."
it takes a second try to use one of the most basic spells a witch knows, but Letitia is able to remove and identify the stone. it is a gem of brightness with 25 charges.
The others are not sure exactly how to help Letitia. There is a mix of approaches from humor to trying to be extra protective of their ally. Callix has the fix for the problem, but it will need to wait until the next day.
Letitia assures them she will be fine for now, and will get the help she needs from her familiar.
Samuel leads the way down the next corridor. a long stair case meanders further down into the statue. Samuel spots light from up ahead and moves to investigate. He finds that the stairwell opens into another hollowed out cavern
Flickering light fills this cavern, emanating from the eye sockets of nine skulls hanging from chains staked into the walls with iron spikes. Huge stone menhirs form a ring about the perimeter of the chamber, catching the candlelight and tearing it into swaths of wavering shadow. The gutted corpses of two frost giants hang from two of the menhirs, facing each other from the east and west. Bound to the massive stones with rusted chains, the giants are soaked in their own blood, which flows into the center of the room to disappear into a huge pile of wilted wildflower blossoms.
there is a creature inside of the pile of flowers, almost completely covered. it appears to be laying down in the pooling blood.
In her new silent world, Letitia keeps her eyes peeled and stays alert for any signs of movement. Without even Lazlo's warning hoots to help her, she pays special attention to his emotions through their empathic link. When the pathway opens to reveal the chamber and its grisly interior, she doesn't get caught up in the displayed corpses of the frost giants and instead stays alert for whatever did it.
Letitia attempts to keep her voice low when she says, "there, in the pool of blood. Something lurks underneath the flowers."
Callix tries to look where Letitia is pointing, wincing a little at the witch's loud whisper.
"What I can see are the dead giants..." Samuel eyes up over the hanged bodies "A gruesome fight has recently happened here... whatever can do that to the giants is a force to reckon..."
The Taldan slowly advances to the first menhir to look more clear to the flowers pointed by Letitia "Maybe the nymph?"
He tries to make her appear by talking to her "Jadrenka sends us to claim your other locks"
Llewelyn looked around disdainfully, this place had all the charm of an abattoir.
"In the pool of giant's blood? Yikes!" he murmured. When Mr Samuel suggested it was the Nymph, Llewellyn felt a trickle of sweat beading on the back of his neck, "Erm Mr Samuel, remember what I said. You and I may have a problem..."
Ashling nods and continues on, not guarding Letitia as asked. Instead she takes to the front and draws her sword , Give the word and I'll start a snow storm large enough to force it out. . Ashling's hand glows with a Violet light of magic energy
Letitia spots something in the pile of flowers and warns the others. Most of the group hangs back outside of the room, but Samuel walks forward calling out that Jadrenka sent them.
At this, a woman rises from the flowers. Her skin is dark and her face is cruel, but she is still unnaturally beautiful, and fully nude. her arms drip with fresh blood.
Samuel cannot resist her blinding beauty, and finds that he is indeed blinded by her very image.
the woman replies
"You are not from here, you do not speak with the authority of the Warden. you are interlopers, just like these giants I have sacrificed. there are plenty of stones here, you will be added to them!
Callix, Ashling, Samuel nymph, Letitia, Llewellyn
"Don't worry so much Llewelyn, sure it cannot be worse than..." Samuel is surprised by actually how beautiful the nymph is "My eyes! Goodness! She is too much! My eyes!"
The Taldan pokes around to find the menhir and takes cover behind it while rubbing his eyes trying to find out why he cannot see.
hearing Sameuls surprise, Ashling snaps her fingers and casts Frostfall
rounds 3
dc 15
Ashling will follow up by drawing her blade and moving in
Callix moves forward toward the creature, calling on the Drunken Hero to strike it with his rapier as she closes.
Samuel takes cover.
Ashling casts a frost spell hitting the nymph
She is damaged but is not slowed by the frost.
Callix summons a spiritual weapon, but it misses.
Both Callix and Ashling are also affected by the blinding beauty of the nymph!
Both are blinded at the mere sight of the fey woman.
the Nymph begins casting a spell.
the party may act
Global Condition: |Party Condition:
Callix HP: 58/58 - AC: 20/14/16 Status: blind
Letitia: HP: 48/48 - AC: 18/12/15 Status: deaf
Llewellyn HP: 50/59 - AC: 23/21/13 Status:
Samuel HP: 67/67 - AC: 23/18/16 Status: blind
Ashling HP: 36/44 - AC: 19/15/15 Status: blindNPCs:
Debased Nymph HP:-4 | AC:??
Letitia can't hear what's going on, but she can see. She can see that many of her companions can no longer, and she had no wish to be both deaf and blind.
From her vantage point she casts a spell to send a spike of cold iron at the fey, then shouts in Minkaian, "We should retreat and recover our senses! Follow my voice!"
Additionally, if a creature with DR/cold iron takes damage from this spell, it is sickened for 1 round and must attempt a Fortitude save. If it fails, for a number of rounds equal to your caster level, it must succeed at a concentration check (in addition to any normally required concentration checks) to use any spells or spell-like abilities it has—the DC of this check is equal to 15 + twice the spell’s level. If the creature fails this concentration check, its spell is wasted.
Once he realised what was happening, Llewellyn muttered "Nope!" under his breath before crying, "Time to go! Allegro! Allegro!"
A sudden thought grabbed him and he gave the granddaughter a meaningful look as he mimed the motion of a wall springing up and he held himself as if shivering.
Ashling retreats back from whence she came, her sight being poor was already a thing but for it to get worse freaked even her a bit
"Ah! Put yourselves into safety!" Samuel shouts coming out of the cover and aims towards the approximate area where he hears the nymph is casting from "You are not bringing more magic here beast of nature! Die!"
The Taldan covers the group's retreat with a dead shot on the nymph, or at least where he thinks she is casting from.
Callix starts backing toward Letitia's voice, while the spiritual rapier makes another attack.
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Letitia hits the fey with an iron spike, making her scream in a voice that sounds much less pleasant now.
She is able to continue casting, and resists Letitia's spell.
Samuel is able to pinpoint a close location for where the nymph is by the sound of her spellcasting, and tries to shoot her twice.
the shots are grouped close together but only one hits.
Then Callix retreats, but her spectral weapon hits the nymph
She is able to continue casting through all of the damage.
The group pulls back, realizing that this will be a difficult fight.
The Nymph finishes her spell, and a large air elemental appears, close to Samuel. it slams him with large hands
the nymph moves closer to Samuel, casting another spell. a thick web of nettles springs up from the ground, the thorns dripping with acidic sap. the nettles scrape agaisnt any inch of exposed flesh on Samuel and Callix
Samuel is either lucky or wearing sturdier leather and manages to avoid some of the damage.
Callix takes more damage and the acid will continue to eat at her for another round
the party may act
Global Condition: |Party Condition:
Callix HP: 47/58 - AC: 20/14/16 Status: blind, acid nettles
Letitia: HP: 48/48 - AC: 18/12/15 Status: deaf
Llewellyn HP: 50/59 - AC: 23/21/13 Status:
Samuel HP: 48/67 - AC: 23/18/16 Status: blind
Ashling HP: 36/44 - AC: 19/15/15 Status: blindNPCs:
Debased Nymph HP:-23 | AC:23
the shots are grouped close together but only one hits.
Feeling pain coming from all angles, Samuel tries to retreat following Letitia's voice.
Fortunately, his sense of direction, used to move through the forest at night and agile legs, find him climbing up the stairs at pace.
Callix keeps trying to back away, while also casting a Prayer spell.
Letitia gestures and calls forth a solid pane of ice across the threshold just in front of Callix. "That will not hold her for long. Minutes. Less if she chooses to try to break it down or has fire magic."
"Let's get out of here!" cried Llewellyn who continued to back away.
i have a spell to block sight. We can use it to get away but i need to know when everyone is here She calls out readying to cast Sleet storm to cover there escape.