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You can gain the benefit of only one channel vigor spell at a time. Limbs: You gain the benefits of a haste spell.
Mind: You gain a +4 competence bonus on Knowledge and Perception skill checks and on ranged attack rolls.
Spirit: You gain a +6 competence bonus on Will saving throws and Bluff and Intimidate checks.
Torso: You gain a +6 competence bonus on Fortitude saving throws and concentration checks.
"Hopefully this will work." Esmarelda said before she took a steady breath and moved in taking the space between the dream and their captain. "Trust me to move out of your way, just attack." Esmarelda told him.
Cass goes with the old standby magic missile, figuring that this thing is probably immune to anything more advanced.
The missiles fizzle out and do nothing.
Percy hacks into the misty thing.
Everybody can now act.
Head hurting worse than after most of her drunken ragers, Ashlei focuses on the target of her rage!
Rhialla lashes out with her rapier, the blade's particular desiccating magic having no particular effect on a creature with no moisture to take.
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"I hate this thing, I hate this thing, I hate this thing!" Esmarelda repeated as she slashed away.
You keep hacking into the nightmare creature and it is taking more and more damage.
The creature decides that this is not in his favor and vanishes.
What are you doing now?
"Dammit!! Teleportation magic...dimensional jumping...it's somewhere here, but could be anywhere within 300 yards." Rhialla says in annoyance.
Heat coming off of her in waves, and her starkife glowing with inner fire in the dim light, Ashlei turns to the others.
"It can't be far! I doubt it will leave the building. Follow me closely!"
Turning on her heel, she rushes off...
Esmarelda screamed in rage before shouting ".... HAVE I MEANTIONED I HATE THIS THING?!" However she did look to Rhialla and Cassiopeia to see if Ash was right.
"Yeah, the range is limited. Let's see if we can find it before it escapes," says Cass.
"We need some way to lock it down magically, but dimensional anchoring isn't exactly something I can do."
"Fortunately, it's something I can. I just didn't expect it to run. Don't really expect a nightmare to have a sense of self preservation." Rhialla replies. "Stairs up Ash! It's likely bound to the building or general area."
Ashlei, her head still hurting from the monster’s touch, can barely hear her compatriots as she take the stairs two at a time…then leaps through the doorway to tumble to her feet in order not to get attacked as she enters a room again!
You move upstairs.
There are a number of doors around you. B21 is the room where you saw someone spying on you. You haven't been inside it though.
What are you doing now?
Ashlei heads for B21 and kicks the door open.
As Ashlei splinters the door a hail of arrows hits her.
The room itself is empty now with a door leading east off it.
What now?
Ashlei quickly plucks an arrow from her now sore derriere, and rushes into the protected room by leaping and tumbling into it to avoid directed hidden attacks.
"Here's ME! Its dying time!"
Sharing a glace with Percy and rolling her eyes, Rhialla turns to Esmeralda with a resigned expression. "This is how we dealt with traps before you joined us...and apparently still do....at least until Ash is in enough pain to choose something other than the face first approach" she says quietly with a sigh.
Taking a moment and letting the rogue sweep the room ahead of her before moving in. ”Es, can you check that door for any other nasty surprises? Ashlei, how you holding up?”
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”Ashlei, how you holding up?”
A stream of curses so vile, and words so strange (Ignan), billow forth from the broken doorway in a storm of rage and anger that would collapse the planet in on itself if the speaker could only get revenge on the focus of its anger that way.
Ashlei can see this room has been used as a base by someone. Mattresses have been set to block the windows and a used bedroll is in one corner.
Ashlei begins searching/slashing the mattresses and bedroll for clues and the stray coin or two...
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"For you beautiful, anything." Esmarelda said as she winked at Rhialla. She looked to Ashlei and said "Did we learn our lesson?" with jest.
She looked to Ashlei and said "Did we learn our lesson?" with jest.
Only more vile epithets, and a few feathers, spew forth from the spintered doorway.
"@#$_*%_+@!!($+#$_*%_)#+#%#%#%_+*%*...and shove it up your very pretty...@_(*%#(*#*%+_(%#!!"
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"Gods damn it Ash. Calm the f+@# down. Let Ezzie here work..."
He growled out slowly making his way into the room. He felt a bit nervous being in the room that just had a hailstorm of arrows.
"And if you wont calm down I will calm you down. Bend you over my knee and spank you like a child if you don't calm down.. and I bet Rhialla will help me."
He growled now watching their back trail and keeping his eyes on their mage to make sure nothing was sliding up behind her.
Hearing her Captain's orders, Ashlei stops and stares at the ceiling for a minute, then turns and stands by the door quietly. Her starknife remains in hand and glowing with inner heat however.
There are no traps on the door to the next room, but it is locked. .
What now?
While Esmarelda handles the lock, Cassiopeia casts heightened awareness to expand her senses and give her a better chance to hear, smell, or otherwise feel the presence of their quarry.
Esmarelda took out her picks and knelt in front of the door getting to work. "We're clean on traps, though this door is locked. Or well, was." Esmarelda said as she popped the lock.
Esmarelda easily opens the door to the next room.
B22.
Piles of mattresses lie heaped against the doors of this close room. Several more mattresses cover the floor. Windows look out to the south and east.
What now?
Ashlei's hands shake in anger, when she replies through gritted teeth at the sight of the room.
"More mattresses? Someone has a fetish! We should just burn this building to the ground! What are we? PIRATES! We pillage and burn. This hunting down spirits and whatnot...sounds like those idiots that go 'adventuring'! Are we suddenly murder-hobbos!"
Ashlei scans the room and spots a terrified looking man pressed against the ceiling?
What are you doing now?
"F'n finally! Found something Cap'n!"
She points with her now cooling star knife at the odd man...clinging to the ceiling?
"Want me to gut him?"
We the satisfaction of violence close at hand, Ashlei suddenly seems calmer oddly enough.
Giving Es a wink as she effortlessly picks the door's lock, Rhiallah follows Ash into the room, looking up to where the firebrand points. "You have seconds before she guts you, though I'm curious to see if the burning or the cutting hurts more."
"This the person we saw running from the tower?"
"Ash, is this the person you lobbed the fireball at?" Rhialla asks, looking over to Ashlei.
Ashlei shrugs and removes a dirty-white chicken feather from her jacket sleeve with an annoying look on her face.
"Could be. He's the only solid person we've seen in this building so far. He's definitely not the see-through witch thing we've been trying to kill."
She looks up suddenly at the man, her eyes alight with ideas and an evil smile on her face.
"Maybe she/it's here for HIM. If we give it him, think it will go away? Or if we give him to the disappearing spider people, they will leave us alone?"
"Rhialla you got speak with dead prepped?" Esmarelda asked as she crossed her arms and leaned in the door way. "Because if not might I remind you, dead men tell no tales." She explained.
The terrified man reacts to your menacing words with terror!
Splintering the flimsy shutters on the window beside him as he dives headfirst out of the building!
What now?
Judging by the way he lowers himself towards the ground and was pressed to the ceiling he has a Levitate spell going.
Hissing between her teeth, she quickly screeches out.
"Another Witch! Where's an annoying slave-taking spider guy when you need him...!"
She then follows the man to the window and dives out the window in an attempt to 'catch' and 'ride' the levitating spell-caster to the ground!
Rhialla lets out a sigh, pinching the bridge of her nose for a moment before walking to the window to watch Ashlei plummet to the ground, landing in spectacularly heroic fashion as the man levitates toward the ground.
Shaking her head, she sends a freezing shard of ice into the idiot for his troubles, turning to the others. "Es, care to do that walking down the walls thing behind him to point out just how useless trying to run is? With Ash waiting below him and you following him down, he should get the point."