"Ummm...is anyone in there not crazy?"
Crazy? Crazy? These mists have made you all into treacherous shadows of yourselves!
Crazy?
Auri now shoots for Amir.
Sting
D13 Fort save or nap it off.
You treacherous cur of a rat! No true dragon would dare abuse me in such a way!
Aurichalcum retains his sanity though it is hard to tell from the violent exchange in the swirling amber mists. Karethas wonders what will become of them all.
PERCEPTION CHECK:(4 rank, +1 Wis)
Amir yells a threat at the flittering dragon and then attack his own hand. A moment later he collapses and surprisingly so does Karethas leaving only the tiny dragon to wrestle with his inner demons.
Perception
Auri blinks, then looks again, then looks at his sleeping comrades.
Auri swoops in to have his fill of whatever the thing is rolling around in the mist...
Attack
Damage
Zzzzzz - Kzrira has dreams of shooting small dragons and then cooking them on a spit over a nice open fire.
Rage fills the psuedodragon as a mysterious shape is seen in the mist. Surely, this creature is behind the madness that has afflicted his companions. He swoops in striking the creature with a fiery sting and then it vanishes though the dragonette senses that it remains near. A sonorous voice is heard beckoning the dragon to rest until he regains his senses, but dragons don't sleep unless they wish it.
Auris mind stays full of angry rage, his mind pressing outward in threats of anger (in Celestial) "She brought me here to transform and gain my magnificence, no false blasphemers will stop my true destiny! Sarenrae guide me! Asmodeus, lord of the fiery pit, drive my flames to burn my foes!"
There is no response from the befuddling fog as the little dragon mentally shouts oaths.
Attack
Attack
Miss? (missed)
Will Save
Aurichalcum snuffs at the confusing cloud forgetting what he's doing. Then he remembers! This strange flying elephant-bear in front of him is his ally. They were fighting a horrible mummy that killed his friends and just attacked Karethas. The friendly bearephant entreats Auri to save his wizard friend while it retreats into the roiling mist.
Auri wanders off to find his Wizard friend, on the lookout for any Mummies
Finding the napping elder with a bloodied wound...
CLW
Amir the Wizened Wizard... in line with what my good comrade suggested.
Confused Nope.
In a moment of clarity, Aurichalcum heals Amir's wound and the haggard rogue appears to rest more easily, but surely Karethas must be in need of assistance after the beating he took from the cursed undead!
Somewhere in time...
Auri starts looking at the walls pressing in, and tries to take flight through them to be free Damage -
Some time later...
Then in a moment of clarity... he heals Karethas
CLW
Aurichalcum chips a horn and suffers some bruises in a panicked attempt to escape the mist, then sees the opening and remembers his fallen companion. He summons healing energy over Karethas though he doesn't look injured. Behind the wizard and the dragonette the wall reassembles and in a moment, there is no evidence of the strange cave beyond.
Crazysauce?
Auri decides to go for a wander back outside while he ponders how to drag his companions out to safety.
Auri flaps back up to the entry room and the haze eventually wears off in the fresher air. He sees no evidence of a mummy though he clearly remembers the attack. He feels weary after the ordeals of the day and the stillness of the lost shrine lulls him toward slumber. After all, his companions are all sleeping soundly and that friendly creature will surely watch over them.
Like a cat in the afternoon after a fat meal, Auri finds a nice elevated perch to fly up onto, stretches out, and naps.
After a long day, all members of the party sleep well. There is no way to tell time deep inside the lower passages of the old shrine, but surely it is past noon when everyone awakens. Karethas and Aurichalcum are in the stone sphinx chamber with no sign currently of the magical door they passed through the previous night.
Falear, Amir, and Kzrira awaken in the arcane miasma soar from mysterious wounds. Everything is a blur of terrible and strange events and dreams for everyone except Kzrira who has no memories of dreams and only half remembers the events of the night before. In fact, it is if she hasn't rested at all.
Kzrira wakes up and finds herself in a strange darkness feeling like she just slept on a pile of rocks, which is essentially what she did.
Tentatively she calls out: Where are we? Is anyone here?
She reaches around eventually finding her bow a few feet away where it was dropped when she collapsed.
Karethas groans as he rolls over, sore after a night spent on a hard stone floor. He looks around and notices Auri curled up in the room. What happened? Where is everyone else? Did I really see a shaggy elephant? He finally rises. "Auri! Where are the others?"
The strangeness does not abate...
Amir will rifle in his bag and pull a sunrod. He will light it and cast it about in the miasma.
Hearing the voices of everyone wakes me, "Stay away from me Kzrira, I won't have you shoot me again!"
I rise to my feet, picking up the wand and once Amir's light source is viable I move away from Kzrira, but remaining near everyone else.
What happened. Everything was blurry. I recall attacking something and then it is all black. Are the rest of you as exhausted as I am?
Suddenly she realizes what Faelar said: I attacked you? No, I would never do that. I may find your ways strange and your devotion to knowledge rather odd, but I would never attack you. We are a party. One for all and all for one. Attacking party members is not part of that.
You clearly remember everything up until the point where you allegedly went crazy. Then it gets a little murky. At least those in the mist appear have gained some tolerance of its less beneficial effects though it may not be permanent.
"I think we got disoriented, we all seem better now though"
"Ummm...'We all'? The others aren't here, Auri!" Karethas pauses for a moment as he looks over at the design on the wall. Finally, resignation appears on his face, "We can only hope they are still alright in that accursed mist. Let me prepare my spells and we will go look for them. I don't want to go back in there without some spells at my disposal." He pulls out his spellbook and settles down.
Karethas takes advantage of a quiet moment without having to worry about his companions attacking themselves or each other to prepare his spells while the confused dragon wonders where everyone else went.
Inside the fog, the others try to piece together what happened.
Karethas finally claps his spellbook closed. "Alright, I think I have a plan! Last night, when you all were in the mist, I was outside of it and I don't believe I was under it's effects. In any case, I saw this....creature. It was very strange, with an elephantine head and a bear like body. It was very difficult to see, sort of going in and out of the mists. I think this means that it is either just hard to see or it is ethereal. If it is ethereal it will be difficult to hit, but I have memorized some spells that will hit it for sure. If it is well hidden or invisible, I have spell that will let us see it. Therefore, YOU are going to open the door and I am going to be ready with my spell and will cast it if I have reason to believe that it is in there. Sound like a plan?"