strike one
bingo
The door doesn't open.
You do hear a muffled voice from the other side "Is that the pizza we ordered?"
Jean prepares, getting his weapons out, and standing next to Kronug.
"Well I was just kidding. I figure you guys were from the ship out here, but if a pizza place delivers by ship, we won't complain. " and a bunch of rattling and stuff happens and the door opens.
A half elf female opens the door and greets you. "Hello, I'm Fenella of the cyphermages. We've been trapped up here a bit. You did bring a pizza right?"
Marckus looks around. "Nivea has it, right?"
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Kronug handles the half-elf some jerk and cheese and says with a grin "I was following your lie, but now you have give me a way to retire during my older years: ship-by pizza. Anyway these rations will taste as good as pepperoni special with extra cheese because the topping is we be your saviours. Can we enter and discuss what the hell is going on before we have to kill any more tentaclions or tongombies?"
The look on her face shows that she has trouble following that extremely tortuous logic.
"Right. Whatever. Well yes, come in. I can explain the situation. "
She takes you inside the tower. There are a few other mages present (five total) and they all appear to be rather beat up, and there's a clear look up fear in their eyes.
Two of them are actually either asleep or unconscious on their bedrolls. These two are quite bandaged up.
"We came here five days ago, though it feels like much longer. There were twelve of us, my mentor Fenella was the leader. She didn't make it. Five of us are all that remain. None of us were bit though. That is important. "
"Well we were surveying the island and the meteor impact looking for noqual, which seemed to be more scarce than we expected. Then three nights ago, the tentacle beasts converged on our base here and attacked. We were ravaged, and only a few of us were able to seal ourselves into this tower to keep safe. I've been trying to signal out at night with spells to get someone's attention for rescue. "
"Have you encountered the tentacle beasts? None of you were bit I hope. "
then looking desperate "You have to get us out of here!"
"Hey Kronug, didn't you get bit?"
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Jean enters and checks the place around.
He tries to "read" the cyphermage, identifying her emotions and trustworthiness.
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Kronug listens to the scared mage and even pays attention. When Punchy asks him, the Kellid inspects his own torso and scratches some fangs' scars.
"Yup. Totallu. Hunneth percent biten. But who cares? I'm more worried about that zombie french kissing me out of my usual strength. It was a flesh wound."
The man -and the legend- turns to the half-elf again. "Anyway, my mates and I are here as part of a bussiness trip. According to our accountants-" says Kronug as he kisses his biceps -our traitorous former employer owes us a slice of whatever they were dealing with here. But we can't do none of that with a group of sexy wizards bunkered in the tower, so I say we help you. After discussing rewards. Or during the discussion, I mean, we can talk, fight and walk at the same time."
Hearing that you were bit, they all edge back from you. "Everyone we've seen bit has turned into one of those tentacle zombies. I'm not sure it's safe to have you in here. As for rewards, the Cyphermages will be sure to have you well rewarded for rescuing us. We have few enough resources here. "
"We'll make sure that our Cleric Jean here, takes a good look at Kronug to make sure no tentacles sprout from him...Lucky for you we came when we did...We took care of a pack of those tentacle beasts. Hopefully that was the last of them. Like you we're here to explore the island. Anything interesting we should be on the look out for other than the tentacle beasts?"
"I You have a cleric? Could he do something to help out my people? Some are in a bad way. "
"We didn't get a chance to explore much before the creatures trapped us in here. We didn't really notice anything else out there. "
"You do have a ship coming back right? We saw the vessel sail away earlier. "
"Yeah, but not for several days. These guys are clever like that." Marckus says, still apparently bitter.
"Where are they?"
There are two people in this room bandaged up, unconscious in their bedrolls.
Jena channels twice, trying to heal them.
All of the cyphermage party appears to be helped some as all were ailing, the ones on the floor seem to wake up.
The leader and the rest thank you profusely for the healing.
As they express their gratitude, another of them who is apparently on watch up high in the tower yells out
"Here they come again! There's one hell of a lot of em!"
Samaritha immediately runs to the iron door and makes sure it is security locked and barred shut.
"We're safe in here, right?" Marckus asks the wizards.
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"We have been so far, but the watch seems to think there's more than usual. " she replies.
"I hope your friends have some magic available."
He quickly closes his eyes and asks for Besmara's help in the upcoming fight.
He helps barricading the door.
"Go up and see how many they are, and pepper them with arrows!"
Dwarfus chows down on another barbarian chew
Sileth seeks the best high spot for raining down arrows on the approaching beasties
It will take you a bit of time to get to the top of the tower as it is a 50' tower, and there are three interior floors.
I'd say three rounds.
Anyone else have something they want to do?
Marckus takes out his ax and stands to one side of the door, then indicates for Kronug to take the other. "We'll knock them down as they come through."
He then grunts and flexes all of his abdominal muscles, as though passing a kidney stone.
Jean will cast on Himself:
You haven't been in combat for some time, your mirror images are expired.
Sileth gets to the top of the tower and he sees a veritable swarm of the tentacle critters rushing out of the woods around the ruins.
They come piling into all the buildings looking for prey, eventually setting on the tower as their target.
As the wave of akatas reaches the tower, the beasts begin scrambling up the sides and scratching at its foundations. Luckily, while there are windows on the lower part of the tower, they are shuttered.
The Cyphermages at the first warning all cast spells on themselves, and begin to look quite nervous. Seems that they are not really from the combat branch of that organization.
Sileth, you can start shooting now, you have no shortage of targets.
"there's a ton of them... Better Hold that door. "
apply cover penalty if necessary
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"Hey, have any magic for me?" Marckus asks, hoping for some kind of deific strength or general invincibility.
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The leader of the Cyphermages replies "We're a bunch of explorers, the combat spells we know really only apply to us, not to making people fight better. So, no. "
We're on the 4th round now. People had 3 rounds to get ready.
Jean casts Weapon of Awe on Kronug.
Dwarfus moves to hold the door. He stands behind kronur get who he gives the spot in front of the door
Sileth kills a critter climbing up the tower with his two shots, but there are plenty more.
You hear scratching at the iron door, but there seems to be no danger of it giving way.
You also hear scratching at the window shutters, but as they are not iron, you're not so sure about those.
PCs up.
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There are windows indicated on the map.
AS to where you are on the map, most of you are still on the ground floor. B5a.
Sileth is on the top floor. B5f.
"I go up! Check the next room!"
Jean moves up to help Sileth.
Dwarfus holds his position
Sileth kills another climber, but is getting worried as some are getting up to his floor and will likely be coming in the windows after him shortly. He also notices that a bunch of the creatures are scratching away at the base of the tower.
On the lower floors the creatures are breaking through the shutters, but the windows are fairly narrow, so they are unable to get through them this round.
One person per window can engage them, but they will have cover as the windows are close to arrow slits.
Jean keeps going up, to help Sileth.
Marckus approaches a window, ready to lop of anything that pokes through.
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