Lumi's powerful jaws latch onto the guard, and she drags him to the ground as she tears a chunk out of his leg. The guard attempts to stand, but the tiger snaps her jaws on his arm, keeping him down on the ground.
Round 1
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Round 2
Shruti (glorious presence, mage armor)
Sirius (lead blades)
Razisus (-8, unconscious, dying, guidance)
Polo
Paemil (guidance)
Lumi (guidance)
Guard (blue -6, prone)
Guard (green)
Priest (red)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
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In the blur of battle, out of the corner of his eye Paemil sees his companion fall. His attention is divided between the priest, the prone guard, and his fallen friend.
Must. Press. On.
"โจมตีนักบวช!" he yells out to Lumi, before turning his back to her and striking at the green guard.
Attack the Priest!
The taste of blood fills Lumi's mouth as she wildly drags her prey down to the ground. He tries to stand, and she wrestles him to the ground again.
HUNT! DEATH!
On the brink of her instincts taking over, Paemil's call pierces her rage:
โจมตีนักบวช
Looking up, she sees the target in red. Her jaw relaxes on the fallen guard and she leaps over him. Aiming for the leg, she tries to bring down her next target.
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Shruti’s face fills with horror as Razisus falls. ”Not yet, my friend. Your goddess will have to wait for another time for you to join her!” Shruti raises a hand toward the bleeding priest and closes his wounds from a distance. In the next moment, a spear is in the samsaran’s hand, pointed at the followers of the Living God.
Tsuk draws his greatsword and moves forward, ready to engage!
Paemil turns and, with a vicious stroke, nearly disembowels the guard that took Razisus down. Though the guard stands, his face has gone white with the sudden blood loss and pain, and he looks to be barely on his feet! Lumi, meanwhile, shows her devotion to her master and skips the easy meal in front of her, instead closing on the priest. Caught up his spell, he can barely defend and the tiger easily tears out a chunk of flesh.
Shruti focuses on Razisus, ensuring that the man won't bleed out before he can be helped further, and readies a spear.
Round 2
Shruti (glorious presence, mage armor)
Sirius (lead blades)
Razisus (-8, unconscious, stable, guidance)
Polo
Paemil
Lumi (guidance)
Guard (blue -6, prone)
Guard (green -14)
Priest (red -7)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Sirius and Polo both hesitate, perhaps uncertain after seeing Razisus fall, perhaps thinking that Lumi's ferocity has things in hand.
The guard that felled Razisus steps away from both Tsuk and Paemil, then retrieves a flask from his pouch which he quickly drinks down.
The other guard attempts to stand, but Lumi is still on her watch; she keeps the man on the ground, inflicting further injury.
The priest is able to push through Lumi's damage and finish casting his spell. Soft sparkles appear in a burst just in front of him, settling on Paemil, Lumi, and Razisus... and the prone guard! The sparkles bring on a strong feeling of sleepiness; everyone yawns simultaneously as they try to stay awake; the guard is unable to resist and is quickly snoozing on the ground.
The priest steps back and retrieves his own flask, which he drinks down quickly, disappearing from view!
Round 2
Sirius (lead blades, delay)
Polo (delay)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Round 3
Shruti (glorious presence, mage armor)
Razisus (-1/7, unconscious, stable, guidance)
Paemil
Lumi (guidance)
Guard (blue -10, prone)
Guard (green -11)
Priest (red -7)
Sirius (lead blades)
Polo
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Shruti moves up to Razisus and heals the fallen priest, who returns to consciousness. Meanwhile, Paemil falls victim to the Razmiran priest's enchantment, falling to the ground in delirious slumber.
Round 2
Sirius (lead blades, delay)
Polo (delay)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Round 3
Shruti (glorious presence, mage armor)
Razisus (guidance)
Paemil (sleep)
Lumi (guidance)
Guard (blue -10, prone, sleep)
Guard (green -11)
Priest (red -7)
Sirius (lead blades)
Polo
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Despite getting teeth into her enemy, Lumi is unable to wrestle her to the ground. A sleepiness washes over the leopard- forcing little more than a yawn from the cat. It is enough though, for the priest to step away from Lumi and out of her reach.
In a moment, her target is gone.
Still smell. Not gone. Taste blood.
She steps forward cautiously, seeking to locate her prey. Once located, she unleashes all of her furry on the human.
(+4 if prone)
(+4 if prone)
A sleep spell causes a magical slumber to come upon 4 HD of creatures. Creatures with the fewest HD are affected first. Among creatures with equal HD, those who are closest to the spell's point of origin are affected first. HD that are not sufficient to affect a creature are wasted. Sleeping creatures are helpless. Slapping or wounding awakens an affected creature, but normal noise does not. Awakening a creature is a standard action (an application of the aid another action). Sleep does not target unconscious creatures, constructs, or undead creatures.
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When the priest casts his spell, the sparkles settle on Lumi, and she is unable to resist the effect; she falls to the ground next to the guard that she's been keeping pinned to the ground. He eyes her warily, unsure of what appears to be his luck.
As the guard attempts to down his potion, Tsuk brings his greatsword down in that moment of lowered defenses, skewering the man viciously and ending his life. The potion rolls out of his hand unopened as he collapses to the ground.
Razisus moves forward to where the priest was last seen, hoping to corner the man, and Sirius moves over to the prone guard, bringing his magically heavy blade down on the man, ending his life as well.
Round 2
Polo (delay)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Round 3
Priest (red -7)
Polo (delay)
Sirius (sudden speed, lead blades)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Round 4
Shruti[(glorious presence, mage armor)
Razisus (guidance)
Paemil (sleep)
Lumi (guidance, sleep)
Priest (red -7)
Sirius (sudden speed, lead blades)
Polo (delay)
Tsuk (Ward hex, enlarged)
Tsuk, guessing correctly that the priest hadn't yet moved, brings his greatsword down in a bloody crash; the priest's mutilated corpse appears on the ground before you.
The crowd that had been chasing you starts appearing around the corner, but they lack the fire that had been driving them against you. Most appear befuddled, bewildered. There is much scratching of heads and quiet conversation as people regain their senses of selves and try to make sense of what had been going on over the last weeks.
After some conversation with the locals, and a few detect magic spells, you are able to put the pieces together. As is typical of a Razmiran, this priest--Folloch Teag--had been using arcane magic to mesmerize the villagers. The scepter you were after seems to be the tool he'd been using, and it seems now to be fully depleted of magic, unfortunately worthless. The village, however, scrapes together a sum of gold which they offer you in thanks for your service; it seems you'll not go to Ulisha empty-handed after this quest after all.
I think I will now lead on.
Chapter 4:
The Crash
Handout
Accompanying her notebook entry, Ulisha filled the next several pages with crude maps, complex equations, and further notes. She apparently returned to the Pathfinder’s cave mentioned in her previous entry. By observing the angle of the ridgeline and her current position, she was able to calculate the crash site’s probable location. The last page on the matter includes a detailed map into Numeria with various landmarks and a destination. An addendum written in recent ink warns, “Tread lightly. Numeria remains a mystery to the rest of the world. Those who stay too long draw unwanted attention.”
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As the party makes their way from Razmiran through Ustalav, to get to Numeria and the location of the crash site that Ulisha identified, Feelo rejoins them at their predetermined rendezvous.
"Thanks for making time for me to be away. I'm a bit jealous; you're getting more of Desna's gift than I got, sitting here in Ustalav the whole time. Still, I had some time to investigate what Ulisha was saying in her journal. I think we all know about the Rain of Stars and what it did to Numeria, right? Well, it left all this Numerian Steel around. People go crazy for it, and the Kellids scavenge it as their primary trade. Crazy strong; it cuts through almost anything. In Absalom they'd call it adamantine, of course. Expensive stuff!"
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Razisus considers what he already knows of Numeria.
When he realizes that he knows little of the far away land, he begins asking questions as he enjoys (and extends) hospitality to others during their journey northward.
“Good Feelo's words have been confirmed by those with whom I have spoken as well!” Razisus agrees. “Why during our journey here, I have learned that not only did this Rain of Stars result in the arrival of this precious ‘admanantine’, but also in tales of a vessel from the stars having crashed in the land. Indeed, some claim that the object that fell during the Rain of Stars was not a meteor at all, but in fact a massive ship carrying advanced weapons and materials—as well ascreatures from other worlds. The local population views objects from this event with suspicion and prefers to make claim to any such finds they come across for the purposes of having the objects or materials destroyed.”
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Shruti nods along in agreement as Feelo and Razisus describe what they had learned. Shruti had learned all of this a while ago, of course, in studying the nations of the Inner Sea, but they preferred to partake in conversation around the topic rather than to be the one to teach everyone else.
"Of course, there will be some who wish to destroy what they know little of. Our Ulisha does not seem to be that sort, however. This One is sure she will try to make as much profit from the bounties of this crash, whether it is asteroid or vessel from the stars. It will be interesting to see what we will encounter there."
You travel to Numeria without problems.
The view is phenomenal at the crest of this hill, where Ulisha’s map indicates a crash site. Vast plains extend to the north, where clouds gather on the horizon. To the south, the Sellen River cuts a definitive border between the River Kingdoms and Numeria.
Please make a perception or a knowledge Nature check.
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Feelo admires the view from the crest of the hill. "Desna be praised! This..." he repeats, sweeping his hand across the vista he's taking in, "this is why The Song of the Spheres has such a place in my heart. Always in my life she brings me to these amazing places. O Starsong, Great Dreamer, Resplendant! You bless me every day!"
Razius and Paemil notice that the soil along the slope of the hill here is looser than it should be, as if a recent rockslide had covered it.
It only takes a few minutes of digging to uncover a solid metal surface buried below. The strange craft is ovoid, just over 10 feet in length and 5 feet in diameter at its widest point.
You can make a knowledge nature check to find out what the craft is made off.
To open the craft you need a strength check.
Not yet enough.
With the help of a weak halfling the half-orc manages to break open the hatch.
The inside of the wreck is cramped. A single chair made out of the same strange metal faces the hatch, dozens of straps hang inside the device, and an array of levers and buttons lines the interior on one side. Several dozen palm-sized metallic discs and an unadorned silvery bracer lie scattered across the interior.
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"Your help is most appreciated, Desnan."Razisus responds to Feelo. He then turns to Tsuk. "And, of course, I would not have requested your strength had I not thought it capable of seeing the task done."
Peering into the wreck, Razisus notes, "Why, inside is a room! One sparsely decorated with the most unusual of adornments on one side." He scans the interior of the wreck trying to make sense of what he is seeing and trying to spot clues that would let him better ascertain the purpose of the 'room' and the items within it.
You see nothing more Razisus :-(
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"I am not sure what to make of this find or how to profit from it." Razisus notes. "I suppose knowledge of its location alone is worth something. I have heard of organizations that have an interest in artifacts and knowledge that may be wiling to provide some coin for this information, though they are based in far off Absalom."
The cleric searches through is backpack. "I seem to be at a loss for writing implement." he admits sheepishly.
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Shruti slips into the 'cave' shortly after the others and begins examining the various discs and other objects inside. "Perhaps this bracer would be of some importance to someone with the right understanding," Shruti says quizzically. They follow Feelo's example and examine the objects, searching them for any magical auras.
Rhe discs are Numerian “silverdisks,” a form of currency. There are 35 in the pod, each worth 10 gp.
The silver bracelet is an even greater prize, as it dampens the kinetic energy of any objects moving toward the wearer. Mechanically, this grants the wearer 15 temporary hit points, but due to damage the bracelet sustained, there is no way to recharge these temporary hit points. Further, after maintaining this field for 24 hours, the bracelet permanently runs out of energy.
In any case, you did aquire what was needed. The metal of the craft is incredibly hard and no matter what Tsuk tries, he is unable to take anything from it.
As you descend from the mountain you are suddenly interrupted.
“Stop there,” demands a Kellid woman who hefts a massive blade.
“You’re are not from here, and those things are not yours. Give us the silverdisks, all the gold you have, and anything else you found there. Then you may live.”[/B]