Crummock moves forward into their midst, and simply channels, harming all of the undead.
Meanwhile, Dimitri 5' steps forward so that he can see two of them, and unleashes the full fury of his rifle.
Einar smashes his hammer at one of the Pale Snipers, while Dimitri blasts both in his range to bits with his rifle.
Greta walks in and stabs it with the flame tongue sword, but it does not manage to get through the dusty trench coat.
Mr. Whiskers recovers from casting his spell.
Mr. Whiskers steps to where he can see the remaining rifleman and magic missiles it, using the spiral staircase as cover.
Mr Whiskers's magic missiles strike the creature.
The Pale Stranger glares coldly at the party.
Both of the are not bothered by the stare.
Then it starts trying to perforate Crummmock with bullets, but only one manages to hit.
Greta tries to hack at it with her flaming sword.
The last blow hits, and does some damage even though it is not very effective.
'That rifle of Dimitri's is really effective. To bad it doesn't shoot around the corner' Seeing the other two dead rifleman down, Einar moves toward the third, 'What am I doing? I need to get out of here.' He then turns and runs down the stairs.
Einar runs down the stairs, to the ground floor of the ruined chapel, and sees charred bricks still smolder like dying embers as fresh flames flicker eerily across their crumbled surface. The flames seem to grow in intensity at his presence.
Dimitri takes a 5ft step then opens fire on the remaining rifleman and riddles it with bullets till it falls over.
"Da, proshche prosto strelyat' v protivnika, a potom dumat' o veshchakh. " Dimitri says.
Yes it is easier to shoot at our enemies then think about things.
Crummock manages to catch up to Einar and slaps a remove fear on him.
Searching the bodies, the party finds 60 metal catridges, 3 +1 Rifles with scopes and a Snipers helmet
'I don't think the scary guy will come down here...hhhmmmm Is it my imagination or are the flames more intense as I get closer.' Turning to see Crummock behind him, touching him briefly the fear dissipates. 'Thanks Crummock, did you notice that the flames seems to become more intense as we get closer?"
Einar shrugs, nodding back upstairs. "Before we leave, lets go get those rifles. Can you imagine what a dozen men with those could do in our world."
As they head back down stairs Einar asks, "Shall we clear this building before we go on?" He then heads north and west, hammer in hand, keeping a keen eye out.
Einar notices that the flames are very hot, and wisps of smoke are beginning to rise from the violet flames.
Coughing in the hot air, Mr. Whiskers says "Я не думаю, что смогу выдержать это очень долго!"
Mr Whiskers transforms himself into a half orc, then puts on the chemical warfare suit, along with Greta, Crummock, Einar and Dimitri. Dimitri helps adjust everyone’s gas mask, and they get moving downstairs. Mr Whiskers uses a scroll of resist energy to protect himself.
Though many of the ruined monastery’s walls have fallen, those enclosing the chapel’s baptistery still stand. Burned and pockmarked statues of saints and martyrs – two of them still whole and standing, encircle the baptismal font.
Einar and Dimitri notice the stigmata bleeding, but Crummock and Mr Whiskers do not.
The eyes, ribs, palms and feet of the statues begin to seep blood and everyone begins to bleed at a rapid rate, their bodies draining dry.
Stigmata wounds appear on the two remaining complete stone statues – fresh blood streams from both their eyes and wounds where prongs of barbed wire rest on their stone bodies. Then the statues turn their bloodstained faces towards the intruders and descend from the pedestals to attack the party.
'Must be some kind of temple... why is that thing bleeding.' Not very interested in religion, Einar muffled in his mask points and asks. "Why is that statue bleeding?"
Mr Whiskers knows that they are stone golems and they are immune to magic and have 10 DR/adamantine.
'Blast, looks like bleed isn't all their going to do.' Seeing the statues begin to attack, Einar rages, his cambion ancestry becoming obvious even as he enlarges, he swings the hammer at the nearest statue. "Let's see how much more blood we can get out of you before you crumble."
Crummock channels to heal the party...
...before getting out of the way.
Dimitri then steps forward, and focus-fires on the same target as Einar.
Einar smacks the stone golem once, with his other two blows glancing off its stony exterior but his hammer does not seem fully effective.
Mr. Whiskers gets out a vial of acid and throws it at the other statue.
The vial of acid hits the other statue squarely.
It tries to pound Einar to the ground but only causes the images to pop.
Then it emits a shockwave around it.
Einar resists the effects of the shockwave.
The other stone golem moves up to slam Einar.
One of its fist catches Einar in the face, but the other just pops another of Einar's doppelgangers.
It also sends a shockwave around it.
Dimitri proceeds to blast one of the golems attacking Einar into a pile of rubble.
Dimitri keeps blasting the last golem.
Crummock, meanwhile, channels again.
Mr. Whiskers taps Einar, using his Spell Tinkerer ability to reduce the duration of the slow effect by 50%.
Einar feels that the slow not so long lasting - 3 rounds more.
Dimitri blasts the other golem and it also falls apart.
Light shining through fire-damaged stained-glass windows castsdistorted images of holy martyrdom and saints on the floor of this ruined chamber. Rasputin sits on the floor, awaiting the party."The longer you wait, the more my mother is diminished, and the greater my power grows." Then he gestures at Einar.
He repeats himself in Russian.
Mr Whiskers recognizes it as a murderous command.
Einar manages to resist the urge to murder the person next to him.
As he moves to a position where he can see Rasputin, Mr. Whiskers asks "Почему вы следуете за планом своей сестры? Половина книг, которые вы читаете по магии, - это мусор, и вы знаете, что она планирует предать вас."
"My sister's plans? Why - we hatched them together. A fitting end to the one who abandoned me to mud and dirt when I was destined for greatness. Also she who would siphon her own daughters for power, so what more fitting end could she deserve for being drained by her son to fuel his ascension to godhood? " Rasputin replies calmly. "Yes most of what the books say are garbage - that's why you need to separate the seeds from chaff."
Nodding in the way that a parent might respond to a child's story, he asks "Да, я уверен, это то, что она тебе сказала. Что она получает от якобы превращает вас в бога?
"Mommy dearest, out of her way," He replies sardonically. "It's a good bargain. Both sides get something they want."
With a chuckle, Mr. Whiskers says "Да, это должно быть так." Allowing the sarcasm to be plain in his voice, he adds "Хорошо, что ваша сестра доверяет другим с такой большой властью."
Crummock shrugs.
"Я бы предположил, что это просто, что ей все равно, что происходит, что для нее, это несущественная планета-вода. В конце концов, почему лев заботится о том, что комар делает на другом континенте?"
"She didn't really have many other alternatives." He answers, then nods at Crummock. "Right you are. The only planet she cares about is Golarion - I don't mind ceding it to her - there are many other worlds for my domination."
"Tsk tsk..."He tuts at the party. "There are really more productive uses of my time then wasting it here." And with that, he disappears - like he never existed. It begins to get very hot to the point of being painful - as the smoke begins to fill the entire area. THe party heads out.
Einar makes a cursory scan of the area but there is nothing of value to loot.
"We have the body, perhaps it is time to find the rest of Viktor?"
'That make sense' Einar nods his head in agreement, heading off the way that Mister Whiskers pointed.
The flaps of a dozen canvas tents whip stiffly in the cold wind. The ground in this yard is churned by the passing of heavy horses, and the fire pits dotting the area have long since grown cold.
6 headless Siberian Cossacks ride around patrolling on fiendish mounts.
Greta recognises them as Dullahans and they have SR.
'Undead, more undead' Dropping the hammer Einar moves forward, raging and casting shield as he goes, he draws the dragonbane thawing longspear, "I will try and jam the doorway." He places himself so he can attack any rider who comes near. Then thrusts the spear at the nearest rider.
Einar stabs one of them but it still remains up, and he sees the stab wound he inflicted heal.
One of the Dullahans calls out Einar's name. "Einar Kinslayer Bjornson"
As it utters those words, Einar feels something drain out of him.
The others pull their revolvers out and fire at Einar.
One of the revolvers jam.
Einar loses another two of his doppelgangers.
Then the remaining two, one draws a lance, the other a scimitar and attacks Einar, who stabs them as they come close.
One of Einar's doppelgangers pop, but the other manages to slash Einar on the thigh with his scimitar.
Crummock grins, then casts a spell, causing golden light to envelop the back 5 cossacks, even as sympathetic wounds open across his body.
Dimitri then starts unloading, targeting the 'back' cossacks.
Crummock's golden light seems to sear into their undead bodies, and one of them crumbles.
Dimitri blasts up the one that called out Einar's name freeing him from its evil enchantment, as well as the one next to it.
Greta walks up to the first one and stabs it.
Figuring the combat almost over, Mr. Whiskers casts disrupt undead on the nearest Dullahan.
Mr Whisker's zap of the nearest Dullahan burns a small hole in it but it doesn't fall over.
'What ever that ghoul did to me, I need to thank Dimitri proper for ending it when this is over. Feeling something lift off of him Einar nods to Dimitri then steps back and thrusts the spear repeatedly at the nearest rider. "I always did hate cavalry, all a bunch of arrogant pricks."
Einar stabs one of the Dullahan's and it topples of its fiendish steed - that vanishes like a puff of smoke. The remaining Dullahans, one of the draws a scimitar, the other a lance. The lancer charges in, followed by the scimitar wielding Dullahan.
The first blow pops off one of Einar's remaining doppelgangers, while the second opens a gnash in Einar's right arm.
Greta stabs the nearest Dullahan with her ranseur. Two of her strikes connect killing one of them.
Einar takes a step back and finishes the last one off
Searching the bodies, the party finds 6 +1 scimitars, 6 masterwork lances, and 6 revolvers, and 30 metal cartridges each.
The tents contain the lifeless trappings of a military camp, though a thorough search of the dullahans’ corpses and their tents reveals valuables worth 1,000 gp in total, predominantly silver and gold jewelry and medals earned in life.
One massive yurt flap in the breeze, its roof partially collapsed by the weight of heavy snow contains medals of distinction pinned to the frozen canvas’s interior, worth 1,000 gp total. An ammunition
box contains four extra dimensional grenades.
In a chest there is a picture of a weather-beaten, battle scarred Cossack Colonel clad with medals of distinction, together with his other Cossacks standing guard over the Romanov family. The faces of both the entire Romanov family - from the Tsar to the Tsarina, and her 4 children can be seen in the picture. It seems that from the expressions the children's faces - they treated the Cossack Colonel like a favorite uncle.
The party sees a ragged-looking goat with rotting, maggot infested flesh, stone-like hooves, and dead white eyes standing silently chewing its cud, staked to the ground with a worn rope in a muddy circle in the middle of the Cossack camp. A lantern with a sickly glow hangs from the goat’s neck. The goat breaks free of the feeble rope as the party approaches.
Both Greta and Mr Whiskers have no idea what the goat is...
It moves at Einar who stabs at it.
Then a sickly yellow glow begins to emit from the lantern its carrying, sending bone chilling fear down the entire party.
It then tries to gore Einar, and manages to stick him in the ribs.