I don´t think i know something that could hurt it. Are you sure that´s the way to go?
to check out this lantern and the mold.
Kana's knowledge of the arcane doesn't help her with the situation here.
Kana are you asking if thats the door we go through? If so then yes. The inscription says don't follow the herd. There are obvious sets of footprints to the other doors. It further says fear not the icy denzien, only fear thy infernal lord. So yeah pretty sure we go through the door with the icy denzien on it. So you have no damaging cantrips then. Well lets see what this liquid ice does.
Cole throws the liquid ice at the mold.
The quartz jewel breaks on the mold and the alchemist's ice shatters as it is exposed to the air. The mold vibrates for several seconds before it freezes solid and then explodes. Shards of snap frozen mold fly across the room as the door is finally cleared. The heat returns slowly to the room and as you approach the door another inscription is revealed. Thou hast made thy own path.
Holy Asmodeus that worked. Looks like we are clear to go from here. Get warm Fletch.
Cole moves and opens the door hoping the Cardinal isn't douchey enough to trap the door as well.
The door leads to another hallway, going south then east and north again it comes to another door. Know your enemy. Shatter all that blinds you
and then burn thy adversary to ashes.”
Well Fletch if the sayings keep being as litteral as they have been this room is right up your ally. Don't know what it means by shatter all the blinds you... Lets take a look. Wade, Kana, put out your light for a moment. I want to peek into the room.
Not sure what light sorces people are using, but I will wait a sec for them to be put out and open the door and peek in.
Yea, here's hoping *shiver* could really use a good bonfire or something.
I will ready one of my bombs...just in case.
Inside the room it is pitch black. Whatever is causing the darkness is powerful enough to dim the light in the hallway just outside the door.
The pitch black room has a plain stone circular pedestal in the middle with a fitting on top holding a black sphere. The walls are stone like the rest of this place but the floor is a grate of metal with 1 inch holes every few inches. There are two doors. 1 is in the north wall and the other in the east wall.
Will use detect magic to check out the sphere and the room.
You detect a faint evocation aura cpming from the black sphere.
The spell is indeed Darkness
Wasteful? The doors have been quite litteral so far and this one states shatter all that blind you. If we could not see in the dark then this globe would be blinding us. Don't let greed cloud your mind. This is a weakness. Asmodeus does not like weakness. Go aheah Declan give it a smack.
You don't need to justify your greed with me. Asmodeous proviedes all we need. If it were a tool it would have been given as suck like the liquid ice. Disobey the lesson and take the orb at your own risk. The lesson says to shatter so that is what we shall do unless you just must have it. If so go and take it then.
Kana breathes out loud as Cole mentions not being able to see in the dark would be a weakness.
Stop talking and break the cursed thing.
Declan steps into the room and swings at the globe cracking it but also sending it flying onto the floor with a crash. It splits in half each hemisphere rolling around several times before finally coming to rest. This breaks the darkness spell allowing those without darkvision to see inside the room though the lack of a lantern in this room keeps the light level low.
Unfortunately there seems to be an occupant beneath the floor who hisses when the light returns to the room. It emerges from the holes in the floor. A red mist which attacks Declan, swirling around her it manages to get past her defenses, the mist attaching to her skin and siphoning away her blood.
The mist seems to move faster swirling around Declan and back into the floor.
Still the closest and easiest prey the creature comes out from the ground again attacking Declan feeding on her blood again. After feeding it withdraws below the floor once again.
Ok Fletch lets burn this thing back to hell. Declan fall back to Wade so he can stop the bleeding.
Draw and ready an alchemist fire.
Bomb's away. I am using my Precise Bombs discovery to exclude any and all party members from my bomb's explosion. I know I go after Declan but in case they are still there for some reason when it's my turn.
Targeting center of the room and hoping to catch creatures in splash radius.
Bomb: DC 16 to avoid the splash damage of 6 Fire damage.
Kana snips her fingers and says a word in a mysterious language, what make 3 swirling globes of light appear, swishing around in the room.
Declan move out here to Wade, Kana bring your lights, Fletch don't waste your bombs or do you have so many you can warrent not hitting direct.
As Declsn comes out Cole shuts the door to regroup.
Ok here I have 3 left 4 including the one in my hand. Wade, Kana and Declan take an alchemist fire. Fletch get another bomb ready. I'm going to hit myself with infernal healing and go in to draw it out. Hopefully the spell will keep me alive form it and the splash. When it comes up everyone throw. Got it?
Cole will then reopen the door after handing out the fire, and making the plan and using a charge from the wand. I assume Wade hits Declan one or twice with his negative energy while this is going on. I should enter the room using up two rounds of the fast healing. Lets storm the gates. :)
@DM:
Fletch throw a bomb...Fletch don't throw a bomb...Jeez is this guy EVER happy?
I will wait till Cole draws out the creatures then chuck a bomb at the nearest one, leaving Cole (and anyone of us in there for whatever reason) out of my splash radius.
vs. Touch AC; DC 16 Reflex to avoid 6 splash damage
Declan stumbles from the room as Kana sends magical lights whizzing around the room lighting everything up. Fletch uses this light to aim his bomb at the center of the room. The explosion blackens the pedestal and sends the split globe flying into a corner of the room. A screeching hissing is heard as the force of the explosion and flames are felt in the small area below the room. Cole steps inside the door with his alchemist's fire ready. Wade...
Declan's bleeding is stopped and some of her wounds healed.
The creature emerges hissing with hate 10 feet in front of Cole who throws his Alchemist's fire as he prepared. His throw is off and the fire hits just to the red mist's left, barely singeing it.
The mist continues advancing on Cole slipping around his armour as if it wasn't there, sucking the blood from under his skin and withdrawing below the floor once again.
I would like to keep my turn, readying to throw once I see one of them.
Perhaps we should get under the floor somehow! Somebody has a wooden stake? This seems like a vampire mist to me. We should drive a wooden stake into the floor and pierce it´s heart!
Wade it got to me, If you could hit me with the wand
Cole Draws and readies another alchemist fire.
Oh how about you hit it with the wand? Maybe some positive energy will hurt it.
Reluctantly, I shift my bomb to my off hand as I pull out a short birch stick with Bob's Bargain Basement etched into it's length.
Abra-whatever. At everyone else's look of contempt I reply, What? That's the command word!
Nice Fletch. You stopped the bleed before it happend. Now give the wand to Wade so he can make him self usefull we need you throwing bombs. I got four fires left including the on in my hand here.
Still just readying for round 2
Not sure how to proceed, wands are wielded to reduce the creatures effectiveness and fire is prepared. The mist was too quick for Cole's hasty shield attack as it retreated, his shield hitting empty air.
You wait seconds wondering if it will be back and as you talk amongst yourselves the red mist strikes at Cole again. He throws the alchemists fire wide just to the left dealing minimal damage. Still this seemed to slow the creature slightly. It then retaliates, easily getting around Cole's armour and inflicting more wounds.
After being invigorated again by Cole's blood it moves back under the floor again, continuing its hit and run tactics.