Coming up behind the statue, Blaze lashes out with Sunstrike But his footing is a little off and he misses.
"Later were gonna werk on yer form Blaze!"
As Blaze attempts to move past his foe, it lashes out with one of it's metallic legs...
AoO: for Miss chance:
...catching Blaze with a raking gouge across his side. Blaze's return strike and Grusk's blow both clang off the creature metallic hide.
The statue ignores the Keleshite when it spies the weapon of it's kin in Grusk's hands. It's own trident lashes out...
Trident: for Miss chance:
...one tine tearing through the half orc's upper arm with force.
Action Tracker (Adjusted): Statue, Blaze, Kaavel, Grusk, Darkbiter, Doc, Sentis + Baran
the chagrined half elf picked himself up off the ground and moved out of the smoke and around the statue to flank with Grusk.
Kaavel readies the chisel and hammer once more before swinging.
Doc poured a potion the side of a small keg down Darkbiter's throat.
"Wake up!"
The strike of Kaavel's chisel rings out once more in the chamber, releasing the dead cyclope's other arm. It fades to nothingness in the same manner as the first and Kaavel feels the cyclops sighing in relief.
Sentis maneuvers around to the back of the beast as Doc gives Darkbiter a refill.
Action Tracker (Adjusted): Statue, Blaze, Kaavel, Grusk, Doc, Darkbiter, Sentis + Baran
Scoots back a little and throws some dirt into the wound.
"Thats gonna burn like VD! Glad tha wasnt a crotch shot!"
"Like ye ever use yer crotch fer anythin' that'd make ye worry 'bout VD." Doc says with a roll of his eyes.
Dark seems quite unconcerned about the whole thing as he wakes up. "But I like naps. They are quite pleasant, and I figured you would have finished off the statuary by now." Not having anything better to do, and clearly not able to do much against the statues, Dark starts to move around the smoke on the other side to go see how the monk is doing, and his sword might end up being more useful on the chains than on the statue.
Blazes strikes the statue again
Blaze decides its time to end this and infuses Sunstrike with some of his arcane energy, making the scimitar much deadlier than normal
Blaze's blade finds a joint in the creature's armor and strikes a powerful blow, causing the statue to lurch in pain... but it remains standing.
Grusk rubs himself with dirt, while Darkbiter makes his way around the conflict towards the thronebound and now armless preserved cyclopean.
The statue's attention is drawn to the keleshite, and it's trident is driven toward's Blaze's chest...
Trident: for
...though it's aim is ill-directed.
Action Tracker (Adjusted): Statue, Blaze, Kaavel, Grusk, Doc, Darkbiter, Sentis + Baran
Kaavel moves to strike at the ankle chain before swinging once again.
Dark will continue to use his bear like strength to strike at one of the remaining chains with his greatsword.
"Hey spiky!" Doc bellows, "Didja notice that our boys're freein' throneboy? Yer 'bout t' fail yer mission!"
Kaavel and Darkbiter rain dual hammer blows unto the chains that bind the cyclops legs in place, freeing the dessicated creature from it's bonds. It begins to laugh as it stands up from it's seat and throws it's head back and roars to the ceiling "Mwen mare l 'pa plis ... Dwa tire revanj ... tire revanj ak lanmò..."
It then turns to regard Kaavel and Darkbiter with it's eyeless skull, talking as it's body slowly dessicates and falls to dust around it. In elvish it states "My thanks to you... friends of the undying." and it disintigrates to nothingness... though you see the hint of a smile upon the cyclops' lips.
The reaction of the remaining statue is immediate. It sighs a relief and you get a single word worm it's way telepathically into your mind Release before it slams the hilt of it's trident into the ground and you feel a sudden pop and rush of air from where it stood... it has vanished into thin air.
Looking to the throne that you recently freed the cyclopean from, you find that it was not lying. The seat of the throne is hinged, and there is a compartment that you believe you could open.
"That went well" Blaze says with a wry smile. He then walks over to throne and checks to see if the compartment radiates magic of any kind
Blaze gets multiple auras from within the compartment, as well as from the throne and shackles itself.
"Whoever plans to open this, be careful, there's a fair amount of magic here. Not sure if any of it will prevent opening or harm anybody trying to lift the lid."
"Grusk, ye bust it open. At this size Ah din' think mah tool's would wirk too well an' Ah wanna stay big in case somethin' else happens."
Sentis relaxed as the statue left...That thing teleported out of here using an inate ability. They were never trapped in here.
Blaze shakes his head Sentis' comment "Not true. They may have been prevented somehow from using their teleportaion magicks so long as their prisoner remained chained up."
That certainly makes sense Sunny. Where did they go though?
"I got myself a trident. I took a pretty good whack an aint' myself yet, tha troll dirt is doin a good job though."
The trident Grusk holds is well made and if gazed upon with the arcane sight - it does indeed radiate magical power.
Sentis will cast Cure Light Wounds on the half orc.
Heal -
Nice work Grusk. Can you check this throne for any devious traps before we open it?
Dark is visibly relieved that releasing the prisoner didn't backfire on them as he waits for the others to check the security of the treasure department.
Grusk takes a look at the throne.
Disable Device
Doc passes out a pony-keg sized cure potion.
Grusk finds that the throne does not bear any traps... or at least he thinks it doesn't. Trying the hinged seat he remains un-smote and peers within to find a cloth wrapped bundle sitting atop a weathered book.
Sentis removed the mask still quite unsure to its properties beyond hearing the chanting and tucked it back into his pack. He'd have to research it much further and at least learn Polyglot.
Confident in Grusk's trap finding skills; the druid reaches in to remove the bundle.
The bundle contains a few hard items, so when you get it out you unroll it upon the floor. You find curious items within...
A shortbow in shape, but seemingly made of snowflake obsidian stone instead of wood.
A leather belt, which has a sky blue stone set into the belt buckle.
A simple mottled brown wooden rod affixed with copper bands that bear a patina of corrosion.
A hollow clear tube that seemingly holds a liquid flame.
As you remove the bundle, you also note that the book below bears Ghol-Gan iconography.
Blaze examies each item in tur If any of them are magical, he takes his time trying to determine what they can do
Handing off the bundle to Blaze; the druid then reaches in for the Ghol-Gan tome.
What have we found Sunny?
"Mah favorite part." Doc says with a grin. While Blaze looks over the contents of the throne the dwarf takes a swig off his flask and pulls the enormous trident out of the ground.
"Hey Kaavel, ye know how t' use one o' these?"
Kaavel looks at the weapon for a bit before saying "No."
"Shoot. Ah was thinkin' it was 'about th' right size fer yer new suit. Well, ah got another idea for it."
The shortbow bears an amorphous enchantment upon it that seemingly reacts to the wielder. The strength of the pull required dependent on the strength of the wielder. It also contains magic of conjuration.
The belt is not magical, but the stone set into the buckle is similar to one that has been found before - another ioun stone. The enchantment upon this seems to be linked to earth.
The rod is magical, though it's magics are beyond your ability to plumb. The rod is a few feet in length, and each of the four bands appears to be able to be depressed.
The flame within the tube is non-magical.
"Well now, tha's interestin'." Doc says, looking around the folks gathered at the throne to eyeball the vial.
Powerful items. We can make good use of these.
Sentis knelt to his haunches and relaxed for the first time in what seemed days.
Holmburg will love to see this book. How do we keep running into these Ghol-gan places anyways? Seems way too coincidental. In the last month we've found two of their constructs and this is a race of people that most havent even heard about.
"Indeed, it does seem rather more than pure chance. I suspect that we shall be finding more of them before we are done. Hopefully the next one will be more informative so that we can actually learn something useful about them." Darkibiter relaxes a bit now that the fight is over.