Shae's eyes widen in anticipation as Rast gifts her with a magical boon: She seems excited that maybe she'll make a decent contribution in the coming fight! She lets a bolt fly, targeting the closest creature still standing.
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As the bad guys have yet to act, they are flat-footed, so that certainly works just fine.
Now they will take their initiative;
...welp! All of you get to go first :D The one that Shae attacked looks pretty bad off. Shae, your sneak attack will still apply against these guys since they're flat footed until they act.
I'll also be a kind and loving GM and remind you that Bit of Luck applies to ALL d20 rolls you make on your turn, so you can apply it to initiative. Not that it matters much now, but for the future.
Now in combat, Merrick will do his usual deed; taking a full attack and using Rapid Shot. He will attack first the one Shae hit, and then the one that Asa and Eloisa have used spells on.
Shaedeen reloads, aims, and tries to off one of the big bad monsters all by her little ol' self!
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Merrick, your aim is spot on; both shots sink deep within your foe's torsos, and they fall to the ground, never to rise again. Only one is left!
Shaedeen half-stifles a shriek of indignation as Merrick steals her kill.
Asa begins closing with the remaining spawn, attempting to hit it with another acid ball as she does.
However, her aim is thrown off by her moving closer.
Moving forward quickly he struck with his flail, hoping to put the foul creature down before anyone could get hurt. He brought his flail down hard, using the momentum of coming down the the stairs to add to the impact.
The creature is absolutely susceptible to crits, and you confirm. Cailin, you do a tremendous amount of damage; the creature looks like it's on it's last legs.
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Eloisa fires a Force Missile at the last sinspawn.
Eloisa, that does in fact drop it. That's also my favorite spoiler of all time now.
He didnt frown or move or say anything really as the magic missle struck the creature. He turned to nod and got the most incredulous look on his face raising a long thin eyebrow.
"Well done?"
He said sounding confused. He wondered if she always burst out in happy dances when things went well in her life. He wasnt going to judge of course, he merely turned and head for the other sinspawn bodys to make sure they were... well dead dead still.
Asa looks over to Eloisa, and merely smiles. "Nice hit."
She begins looking around the room to see if the spawn were guarding anything.
"I don't know, are those things something a caster might call here? Or do they live her normally?" He answers to rast asking his own question.
"Maybe we can find some clues around here in any case."
Shaedeen flashes Eloisa the briefest of disapproving glances in response to this second case of kill-stealing but then scurries forward to accompany Rast as he starts to explore.
"Yeah...that was good teamwork," she reluctantly admits as her eyes wander this way and that in search of traps or other threats.
Looking at the north of the room, you can see eight empty cells; clearly, this was a prison of some type, though it looks as though it hasn't been used in many years. To the southwest, you see a door, and you realize it likely links up to where you initially came in to this level.
There is a hall to the east; you can explore there, or continue back to where you came; there's still an eastern path near the pottery room.
"Apparently they needed prisons in ancient Thassilon too... though I imagine that the punishments might be a bit worse from what I have read of the place."
Gesturing to the hall, Asa cocks her head to the side. "Shall we continue forward here, or double back to that pathway down the other tunnel?"
"Since we're here, we may as well continue."
Eloisa's face still a little red tries to recover, "I wonder if we're going to find any more statues or artifacts. Maybe some that aren't broken." She lines up in the middle of the group.
You continue to the east. You come across a room that contains several ancient relics of what appear to be torture implements, though their function and style seem strange and archaic. In one corner sits a cage with spikes protruding inward from it's iron bars. In another stands what appears to be a star shaped wooden frame, it's surface studded with hooks. In the center of the room is a long table covered with leather straps and a number of cranks that seem designed to rotate and swivel.
There are closed doors to the south and east.
The Desna Knight averts his eyes from the sight "Danm, this looks like a torture chamber. I never thought something like this was hiding under Sandpoint, I wonder if the glasswork has always hidden this."
"I really don't want to linger in this room, but better have a quick search."
While he is search he says. "I say we finish this room quickly, this is not a place I want to be in."
Merrick opens the southern doors assuming Shae checks for traps.
The crumbling remnants of several chairs and a long table clutter the floor of this room. To the south stand three stone doors, each bearing a strange symbol that resembles a seven-pointed star. You recognize it as the same rune you saw in the pottery room.
Among the rubble are books and pages of writing, but all are severely faded; nothing meaningful can be gleaned.
"indeed Rast, looking at these... grisly things doesnt turn my stomach like i thought it would. A terrible thing indeed."
He began. He paused at the room with the rubble and the stone doors frowning, This was all beyond his understanding at least.
"Damn, it has just been too long since these were cared for... all that knowledge, lost." She glances back at the torture room. "Well, perhaps some knowledge is best left lost..."
"I fear I am going to become more and more accustom to this sort of thing. Terrible what man can do to man."
"You may be right," Shae says softly in reply, "or maybe these torture devices belong to those sinspawn things...although they look awful old...."
Eloisa spends time looking through the rubble. She picks each book and paper examines it and then tosses it when nothing can be gleaned. Suddenly with a cry she dives under a chair, and comes up with a prize. A scroll. "I found a scroll of Flaming Sphere. That's going into the spell book."
Your taking 20 can cover all three doors; they're close together.
The doors, once they are open, were clearly once prison cells. Each one houses the skeleton of a badly deformed humanoid; one has three brittle arms, another has an enormous misshapen skull, and the third has a rib cage that goes all the way down to it's pelvis- a pelvis with stunted leg bones strewn below its strangely flat girth.
There seems to be nothing else in the cells or the chamber.
I'm going to assume you continue east. When you open up the doors, you find a relatively large room. The ceiling of this strangely cold chamber arches to a vaulted height of twenty feet . The floor contains eleven wooden lids strewn haphazardly over eleven five-foot-wide pits in the ground. From the darkness within these pits echo up strange shuffling sounds and, every so often, a low moan.
To the south of the room, two grotesque creatures await you. At first glance, they appear to be Goblins, but they are far larger than normal (Medium size). Upon closer inspection, you can see that their bodies are twisted and misshapen; both have three arms. One of them wields a long sword, a handaxe and a dagger. The other has a mace, a flail and a heavy shield. As you enter the room, they spring towards you!
Kurasaviel will slice back with his own blade, putting the weight of his body behind his blow.
Wow! What poor initiative rolls for me lately! You all go before the baddies.
Merrick will do what Merrick does; two shots. He'll shoot both at the one with three weapons.
"Well that is a whole new kind of ugly!"
Asa attempts to discern what on Golarian these creatures are.
Asa, they are still, at a base level, Goblins; something of a magical nature has mutated them.
"Not sure exactly what caused it, but mutated goblins as far as I can tell. Probably die the same as normal ones, but be careful. No telling how else they have been changed."
So saying, she closes in with the goblinoid that Merrick was using for target practice and attempts to hack of one its extra arms with her falcata.
He moved forward torwards the one with the shield, if only becuase Asa and Merrick seemed well on the way to try to pincushion it out of existance. He struck hard and fast, but in a way to make sure he had his shield in optimal position.
You all hit, dealing damage!
"That are some ugly creatures even for a goblin. But still a good goblin is a dead goblin."
The Desna Knight moves to the nearest goblin thing, using acrobatics to jump around obstacles.
Shae puts her quick reflexes on display, firing her crossbow as soon as she's within point blank range.
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Eloisa fires a Force Missile at the goblin thing. "Interesting. I wonder what kind of magic caused this?"
I know we're doing theater of the mind, but do your best to specify which enemy you are attacking, please! I will assume Shae hits the one that Merrick shot; that one falls, a quarrel in it's throat. Eloisa, the Desna Knight and Calin take out the other one, the mutated Goblins mowed down before they could even act.
Great job being murder machines!
The path continues to the east; however, you do hear, underneath some of the wooden tiles in the room, an occasional, low-pitched moan.
What do you do?
Turning to Eloisa, Asa shrugs as she wipes the blood off of her blade. "Who knows, we have a moment to examine them and find out."