Floating Heads - Round 2
20 Qorinae
21 Adjinakou
21 Purple Head
12 Malkavik (posted already)
6 Tor (posted already)
13 Slaynn (posted already)
5 Tiberiu
3 Zephir
Adjinakou will cackle and curse the other flying abomination.
Qorinae moves up, and realizes there's no chance of a shot with so many of his allies between him and the target.
"Kill it!" he shouts, encouragingly, and keeps an arrow nocked should anything appear needing to be shot.
Floating Heads - Round 2 - continued
Qorinae continues readying to shoot the first available target within range.
Adjinakou sends his hex magic at the remaining head-thing, trying to reduce its defenses.
Its shriek already spent, the remaining floating head is only left with its bite against the growing number of enemies in the room. It swoops down to bite at Tor, taking a chunk out of the dwarf's arm, and injecting him with foul poison.
Malkavik hits the remaining head with his last bomb giving it a significant wound.
Tor's counterattack after being bitten hits the head, and with the hex affecting the creature's defenses, the attack manages to get through, smashing in part of the face of the thing.
Slaynn, still distracted by the shriek of the other, manages to strike the creature, but cannot get enough force to damage it.
"By Gozreh! These heads are hard to hit!"
Yells the big man as he, yet once again, misses.
"Good shot, Tor," Tiberiu says grimly. "Let's finish this off." His scarf whirls at the one remaining head as he steps back away from it--his other hand forms an arcane sigil that manifests as a bolt of freezing energy that steams into the air around it before searing the head's flesh!
Floating Heads - round 2 - concluded
While Zephir continues to whiff at the air, Tiberiu channels his magic ability in conjunction with his bladed scarf to good effect. The Varisian weapon slices the head open, while the arcane blast of ice finishes off the dangerous enemy once and for all.
End of combat
" I must say, since I've been here, I have seen some of the strangest critters in my life!"
Zephir exclaims as he examines the room.
He then slaps a clw on Slaynn's shoulder.
" Ah. Friend Slaynn, what a fight, Neh?"
Now that the heads are dead, you can see this room features a sunken pool of water, the rim lined with what appear to be human skulls. The water looks crystal clear and quite refreshing.
Tiberiu shudders. "A little too close for my taste, thanks all the same," he says, moving over to the pool. "What is this place? Are those skulls? Not sure I'd want to drink anything from this...I'm still betting on a cult of some kind." He peers into the pool.
"Can anyone see what's through that door?" he asks.
" I agree Tiberiu. Don't drink any standing water no matter how crisp and clear it looks..."
So saying he moves to the door....
Just as Zephir gives his wisdom about not drinking standing water, the entire pool refreshes with new water in a veritable instant, the old seeming to just melt away, and the new conjuring from thin air.
The door in the east wall opens to another hallway and short flight of stairs ascending before ending in another single stone door. Nothing can be heard from the other side, and to your initial review, no traps are present.
"Is anyone still injured?"
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"The mace? Sure you may have it. This staff has served me well so far." Slyann nods to Malkavik as he follows the rest onwards.
Seeing the water basin suddenly fill up, remarking dryly as he glances at his companions.
"Well now it seems that water at least won't be a problem here."
Bringing up his quarterstaff, he backs Malkavik as on entering the room.
The door opens into a flight of spiral stairs that wind up around a center pillar to the darkness above. It's not far up the staircase that you see the entrance blocked by fallen rubble.
Even Tor the dwarf has to concede without the right digging tools, it may take you several days to unblock this rubble.
" Well. That's that." Rumbles Zephir as he turns and heads back down the hallway.
Long walk for nothin'. Once you get back to the end of the hall, after passing through the room with the refreshing pool of water, you are back in the room with the statue of the beautiful but quite enraged woman.
There is a door to the north here, a way into the caverns that continues north and if you backtrack a bit more, another passage that leads east that remains unexplored.
Where to next?
"Well..." Tiberiu says slowly, looking around, "I'm no tracker, but it seems likely that our quarry would have just continued fleeing north. Shall we press on that way?"
The door on the north opens into a large chamber that was obviously a prison as testified by the twenty cells that line the room's perimeter. A rickety wooden platform overlooks the room with two flights of stairs descending to the prison floor ten feet below. A five-foot-wide wooden walkway runs from the northern edge of the platform to a passageway to the east.
In the eastern part of the room, three of the strange-mouthed horrors you fought earlier in the catacombs stand, apparently arguing in some strange language over what appears to be a human skull.
As they hear and see your entry, they move to attack.
Ancient Prison - Round 1
25 Adjinakou
22 Purple Creature
21 White Creature
21 Zephir
18 Tor
16 Green Creature
16 Tiberiu
13 Qorinae
11 Malkavik
8 Slaynn
"Gods dammit," Tiberiu curses quietly as he, yet again, unwinds his scarf.
Ancient Prison - Round 1 - continued
Adjinkou looks askance at the horrific creatures and gives the Misfortune hex to the Purple one.
Purple creature shakes off the witch's hex then rushes up the stairs attacking the halfling alchemist with it's strange mouth, but the foul bite misses.
White Creature rushes to the other side of the raised platform blocking the stairs that go down.
Taking a 5' step behind Mal, Zephir chuckles.
" Heheh. Protect my knees small one."
Then attempts to stab the purplish hued creature.
Tor will move to the open space in the middle of the group and smack the close sinspawn with his hammer.
Ancient Prison - Round 1 - continued
Zephir steps up behind the bomb-throwing halfling, and stabs at Purple creature with his longspear. The oracle successfully hits the sinspawn just as Tor smashes it again with his warhammer.
Green creature rushes forward, but ends up stuck behind his purple ally and cannot attack.
With a growl of exasperation, Tiberiu squeezes past Zephir and takes up a position on the stairs, scarf whirling. "C'mon, scum," he mutters, remembering his rage at the last one. His scarf whirls through the air.
Ancient Prison - Round 1 - concluded
Tiberiu. defending the western stair, flails at the sinspawn with his scarf, but misses doing any damage to the grotesque creature.
Firing through the crowd on the platform, Qorinae targets Purple creature with his bow, but the shot flies wide, as he is bumped by the advancing barbarian, Slaynn.
Quaffing his mutagen, Malkavik provokes an attack from the adjacent sinspawn, even after moving to the walkway, clearing room for the others. The sinspawn's claw rakes the halfling for 5 hp dmg, but he successfully downs the mutagen.
Ancient Prison - Round 1 - concluded
Slaynn steps into the space vacated by the halfling alchemist, but his swing with the quarterstaff misses everything.
End of Round 1
Ancient Prison - Round 2
25 Adjinakou
22 Purple Creature (8 hp dmg)
21 White Creature
21 Zephir
18 Tor
16 Green Creature
16 Tiberiu
13 Qorinae
11 Malkavik
8 Slaynn
Ancient Prison - Round 2 - continued
Adjinakou 5'steps away from the oncoming creatures. The witch gives Purple Sinspawn the Evil Eye, reducing his ability to save, but the sinful creature is able to overcome the hex effect.
Purple Sinspawn makes a full round attack on Slaynn striking out with his claws and grotesque mouth. Slaynn stops the bite, and knocks one claw out of the way with his staff, but the other claw nicks him for 2hp dmg.
White Sinspawn also full round attacks against Tiberiu who has jumped in his way. The brave magus is able to avoid all the attack from the evil creature for now.
Zephir will pull back and stab again at the purple one!
But the effort of looking back and forth to each side causes him to miss.
" Tiberiu! Back up the stairs so we may aid you if needed."