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Genta fails to trip the fleeing elf.
Ksarress begins pulling on the Sky Key, but before he can make any progress with Ivan's help, the mists within the circle shift more swiftly as arcs of electricity fly higher and farther from the circle. The powdered metal that makes up the ring shakes and flies outward buffeting against those close to the circle like blown sand. With the gust of metal, comes a huge burst of electricity that forms into a creature. Sound emanates from the circle; the sound of two odd booming voices.
"Hey, that's my shiny thing!"
"No, it's mine!"
"Wait, we're free."
"Why are we still in here then?"
"There's the shiny thing."
"But that thing has the shiny thing."
"Why are we speaking so they can understand us?"
"Well how should we be speaking?"
"Així."
"Ei, en pidä, että yksi. Katsotaanpa käyttää tätä."
"Forse, ci lasceranno andare."
"Ndoshta jo që një gjarpër, shikoni në atë atmosferë."
"We can just go off and do our thing, yes?"
"Not interested in killing you."
Initiative
Round 6
Gaevus: Go
Fetch: Go
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"If they don't want the Sky Key, maybe I should help move it? I'm not so good at pulling myself, but maybe I could help jimmy it free?" Gaevus looks uncertain as to how to proceed, especially since it seems like the party doesn't want him to murdernate the weird creature.
If there appears to be no threat, and Ivan tries to move the Sky Key again, he will attempt to aid Ivan. If the protean looks threatening or anything else comes out, he will instead attack that threat.
Gaevus's sausage fingers slip on the Sky Key, and he almost gets a finger stuck in it, just like in the devices in the Mausoleum earlier in the day....
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Gaevus, looking up, sees the new elemental threat. He steps around the pillar and, tapping his Boots , slashes thrice at the new threat.
Yelling back toward the protean voices, Gaevus says, "I like all those things too! Perhaps we can be friends? ... Just don't worry so much about the frowning snakeman, he doesn't like any of those, but he's still all right, I promise!"
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"Do you guys plan on going home or staying here....?"
Gaevus is all for letting them go, unless they seemed to want to do harm. He'd be a little worried that they might cause harm if they stick around in the Pathfinder Lodge (given all the crazy stuff that's happened so far!), but if they want to go back to Protean-land, then Gaevus is all for permitting them to be free.
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"Not all that glitters is gold. Not all that shines is treasure. Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line. And don't try to out-snake the snakeman."
Yitza's visage is haunting... both fey and ancient, and her voice is hollow and cold. Her wisdom should be heeded. Whether or not they can understand all her connotations.
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Gaevus parries the first slam, and ripostes with the sharpest slash he can muster!
"Aha!" he boasts, letting his guard down briefly, allowing the elemental's second slam to bop him right on the head. "Oof!" He puts his buckler hand to his head. "My plume!" he frets.
"Um, where are you guys going?" he asks the pair of proteans. "Didn't we convince you to go home?"
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Gaevus looks utterly flummoxed by what the proteans' confusing conversation. He's momentarily shaken from his stupor by the reinvigorating clap of Max's hand on his back. With a positive strength modifier, Max almost knocks Gaevus's precious blue felt cap off of his head!
"Thanks, Max!" Gaevus rights his hat and fixes his hair. "You're the best. I don't say that as often as I should!" He grins and turns back to the elemental. "I'll try not to get hit next time!"
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"Gaevus you fool can't you be counted on to murder the right things? Wherever they're going, they'll advance the unmaking of the material plane! This cannot stand!"
Ksarress is so anxious to cut them down he draws a longer weapon rather than run up to them.
(edit-forgot double smite damage on first attack for being a chaotic outsider)
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"Ugggh," Genta groans. Leaving the proteans and Ksarress to have it out, She points at the remaining lightning elemental. "You. You are having a bad day." She casts major curse at it.
"The Sky Key isn't going anywhere anymore," says Genta. "It's basically an immovable rod. Can we clear the area please!?"
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"Are we letting them go? ... Are you guys going? Maybe you should go before the snakeman kills you...." If the plan is to let them go, Gaevus will back up a little and delay.
"What's the plan to get the Sky Key now? Or are we just going to stay here and protect it until the bigwigs arrive?"
If they look like they are going to attack Ksarress, Gaevus will take a 5 foot step and full attack, though I can't promise Gaevus won't get Wisdom damaged to unconsciousness.
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With the departure of the proteans, the energies holding the Sky Key in place dwindle and it drops from the air, no longer blinking, into Ivan's hands. You can easily return through the mirror back through Arliss Hall and Dimension Door outside where Kreighton Shaine is waiting, looking relieved to see you return with the Sky Key. Other Pathfinders stream out of Arliss Hall behind you and begin gathering toward the front gates of the Grand Lodge campus.
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"Oh, pretty much all the live long day," says Genta, catching her breath. "Yeah, you should do something about them. I'm just grateful we and the Sky Key are fine. Trust me, this thing is way worse." Genta will make sure Kreighton Shaine gets the Sky Key back. "Renyrd, no," she adds, seeing her fox eyeing the artifact.
