Kzrira has her bow out and carefully scans the room in case any deceptive shaitans may happen to be about, not really expecting to see one due to their ability to move through stone, but watching nonetheless.
Amir will cast a glance at the floor as best he can...
If things look "safe" he will drop to the floor, otherwise he will pause...
Varkata watches the old thief's progress, then says, "Are we sure we'll be able to get out?"
Amir looks over the strange cube with the even stranger creature embedded within it. It certainly looks like some sort of trap yet he detects nothing. He can now see that the creature lives though it is unconscious.He drops onto the cube to take a closer look and Kzrira joins him with her bow ever ready.
Above, Varkata calls down a question while Karethas enhances his sight to study the evidently powerful dweomers of the cube...
Varkata's question goes unanswered as Karethas, who has been climbing upon the ceiling like some creepy robed fly suddenly gives a gargling croak and drops from his hold. The staff upon his back writhes and Gen takes its place to slow his fall with his own feather fall spell. No one has time to watch him recover a moment later as a hulking, roughly humanoid creature nearly as big as the great runic cube explodes up from the stone floor, faceless save for two glowing gemstone eyes!
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Varkata holds close to the rope, calling upon the Drunken Hero to strike down the elemental with a blade of force before finishing her descent.
Kzrira groans as she sees yet another of these stony monstrosities appear. Despite this, she begins to draw and fire arrows as fast as she can.
First arrow is normal, if it looks to do real damage, she will keep using normal arrows. If the first one does not seem to make its full impact, she will switch to the adamantine ones.
Knowledge(dungeoneering): <-- any clue what this is or if it is vulnerable to anything
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The arrows strike home, one after another.
Amir blanches at the arrival of the beast, Karethas can my blades even harm this thing?
Karethas shakes his head, clearing it from the overwhelming signature of the artifact in the center of the room. His ears still ringing, he shrugs his shoulders at Amir, "Give it a try! As he lands he turns to Gen with a smile, "Thanks Habibti! He pulls the wand of Stone Shape again, casts the spell and tells Gen. "Touch the stone cube."
Amir takes a defensive stance before the enormous mass of living rock and earth. Karethas shouts encouragement and sends his genie-familiar on an errand as he drifts to the floor of the strange chamber.
A blade glowing amber like cool pure ale flies at the giant rock pile striking it as Varkata drops onto the cube with her companions. Kzrira sands a trio of shots in quick succession. All hit, butadamantine does not appear to have any greater effect than steel against the living stone.
The behemoth ripples and its rocky surface is covered with stone shards as is the cube upon which it vaults. A limb pounds down on Kzrira like a landslide, but the strange feathered reptilian creature trapped in the ancient cube continues its troubled dreams.
At Gen's spell-enhanced touch, the rock around the Protean moves back freeing the unconscious creature.
Varkata tries to position herself to flank with the old thief, then swings Ebon Flame at the elemental, drawing on the ferocious strength of her deity as she does.
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Cursing as the rocky creature leaps up with ease to attack her, Kzrira steps back among the jagged spikes and once more unleashes three arrows at the stony monster.
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Amir grunts as the spike poke at him but the rogue shifts his step and begins to try to work at the large creature with his blades...
Karethas crouches and touches the cube while waving the useful wand of Shape Stone. The spikes smooth out, saving his friends some wounds and inconvenience. "Gen, shake the Protean."
Amir steps to the edge of the strange cube to slash at the great elemental. It still towers head and shoulders above the old rogue, but Amir is undeterred though pained by the stone shard that cuts through his shoe hobbling him with a wound. His twin blades flash, but only Simin's hot flame seems to do any real damage.
Karethas can clearly see that the mass of living stone is a greater earth elemental albeit with some additional power that lets it affect the stone around it. The wizard uses the wand once again to smooth the dangerous spikes for a moment before the outsider overrides the effect. He speaks an uncouth tongue to the unconscious Protean, but it remains bruised and unresponsive.
Kzrira and Varkata shift. The archer continues unleashing arrows. Two lodge in the creature with limited effect and the next two shatter upon hitting the animate rock. Varkata bravely joins the front line next to Amir. Cailean's conjured blade is knocked aside by the living monument, but the priestess bravely hits the THING with the freezing flame leaving a small crack framed with frost.
The monster pushes forward into the cube and wacks Varkata with a massive boulder sized fist. The priestess is thrown backwards through the air landing near Kzrira at the opposite edge of the cube! The rock cube erupts once again in sharp spines.
Varkata, heal the protean. An ally can make the difference here! Karethas casts Magic Missle and four purplish bolts slam into the elemental.
Varkata stands, then nods at Karethas, "How about all of us...?" She reaches up to touch her holy symbol and begins to pull on her link to her god, feeling the heady power fill her and begin to burn...
She then releases it, mentally directing it away from the Elemental, the blazing power within her dying down to a welcoming, smoky warmth, like a fine whiskey.
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Gritting her teeth as her crushed ribs are knitted back together by the drunken priestess's magic courses through her, Kzrira continues to fire at the rock monster not knowing what else she can do to affect the monstrosity.
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The arrows continue to slam home, although there effectiveness is less than she would have hoped.
"No, but we have two doses that will give someone the same effect that I have been saving for a big fight. I believe Amir has a potion to do the same thing. The two doses will last two hours. Amir's will last about 80 minutes. October 10th at 1:10pm.
"No, but we have two doses that will give someone the same effect that I have been saving for a big fight. I believe Amir has a potion to do the same thing. The two doses will last two hours. Amir's will last about 80 minutes. The wand can be useful in other ways, and the shaitan will all be able to create stone walls, so we will need it for that. I just wish I would have thought to have Varkata memorize Detect Chaos, so we could find that Protean more easily. I also wish I would have memorized Invisibility to have Gen scout around a bit." Karethas uses his last Pearl of Power to recall Grease and then casts Mage Armor using the Ramskin cloak.
Amir winces at the lack of progress but deicded he can only commit to chipping away at the creature as best he can...
Amir keeps up an attack at ferocious speed, but his short swords do little damage against the rocky giant. Karethas sends a round of translucent bolts into the creature to greater effect. At least more than Kzrira's barrage of arrows which merely send rock chips flying. The dancing sword hacks at the creature doing about as much damage as the arrows. Varkata calls up on her God's bolstering support and the adventurers feel renewed to press on against the monstrous elemental.
The primal feathered reptilian Protean now freed from the great glowing cube opens its eyes and roars in pain and confusion. In an instant it disappears leaving you to face the towering elemental alone. The stony giant pounds Amir with two crashing boulder-sized fists. The stone skin spell at least spares him some of the awesome force of the blows.
There are shouts from the corners of the room as shaitan emerge from the blocks covering the exits to the room. You spot the onyx form of Obherak flanked by golden Zulficar and another female alabaster genie. From the other end, an amber female and granite male emerge. Suddenly, the top of the cuber is engulfed in swirling blinding glittering dust!
Karethas cries out and rubs his eyes with the palm of his hand.
Will:
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Suddenly unable to see, Kzrira begins to rub her eyes.
What happened? She calls out.
Varkata looks about and sighs, "More incoming... and I think it was a glitterdust," then, noticing that she's safely out of reach, she begins to whisper the words to a spell, This should help... it's one of your favourites...
Amir grunts as the stone fists hammer at him but the rogue manages to shield his eyes as the dust falls from the sky. Seeing the protean disappear and some of his allies encumbered the rogue lets out a yell as he continues to trade blows with the monstrous stone creature,
Your kin is free and gone! End this now!
The micro-sandstorm disperses in an instant leaving the adventurers covered in glittering flecks of mica. Karethas and Kzrira are blinded by the dust, but Varkata and Amir manage to close their eyes tightly in time. Her glowing blade keeps stabbing at the great elemental while she begins a spell to increase her own size.
Amir is hindered by the grit that covers him and his strikes are less precise than usual. Simin still cuts into a stony forearm blackening a rock.
You must designate the location where these things are to appear, either by seeing it or defining it.
Karethas blindly tries to cast a spell.
Kzrira, knowing that aimlessly firing arrows is unlikely to be of any assistance to her companions, instead rubs her eyes once more in an attempt to get the glittering dust out of them.
Will: <-- should make it.
Obherak's commanding voice is heard over the shouts of the gathering shaitan. "Traitors! We will bury you in the stone!" Further threats are quelled by the appearance of a conjured orb of water which catches the leader off guard.
The great elemental backhands the swordsman annoying it knocking Amir back toward Varkata. It steps forward into the block and threatens all atop the glowing cube.
The other shaitan rush the cube with heavy ponderous steps. A pair each reach opposite sides below the heroes.
Karethas clears his vision and tries to cast a spell while not leaving himself open for an attack from elemental. A cloud of Glittering dust explodes behind the elemental, covering him and the shaitan behind him. Karethas spits out,"I knew we couldn't trust her." although he doesn't elaborate who he speaking of.
Varkata smiles as she suddenly doubles in height, "Better.", then uses her newly-found reach to swing out at the elemental, snarling as she channels the ferocious strength of her deity.
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Amir arches his back and propels his body off the floor with practiced ease, rising in place back to his feet. As he does so the rogue lashes out with Sholeh, now convinced its truly his only option for harming the creature...