Kyra luckily avoids the spores and continues to attack while the warriors get get themselves together.
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Deluge shakes his hand, still expecting the flame to appear. It does not. So, he is down to swinging with a stupid club, so he attacks defensively knowing full well that clubs on wood suck.
Indeed it connects, but it rebounds off the hard skin of the creature and sends painful shock waves up his arm.
"Dang it! I need to get a couple of scrolls so I can talk to things like this. Fighting them sucks."
AC temporarily 25.
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Deluge and Fethril are able to recall that the strange fungal basidirond is a deadly plant monster that feeds on mineral-rich moisture, be it runoff from cave walls or fresh blood. By ensuring a constant flow of nutritious moisture, canny cave dwellers can use basidironds as guardians for their lairs, although they must take care to avoid the plant’s hunting routes lest they become its latest victims. You think that even though they are immune to cold damage, the cold will slow these creatures down for a few rounds. As for the spores, it is an inhaled toxin, so you might be able to stop them from affecting you immediately if you are cleaver enough. Other than the cloud, nothing else is special about these plants.
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Merisiel and James continue to hallucinate for the round, while Fethril walks out of the room. The elf feels ligher, as he steps outside the zone of magical supression, as he then proceeds to cast a missile at the target. Deluge and Kyra both miss their mark, but create a big enough opening for Kavor to step up and strike one of the plants down with a mighty blow. It falls, bleezing green ooze over the stone floor.
The blue plant continues slamming at the druid, but is also unable to connect.
Round 5
Kyra -8 lethal (--)
Fethril -10 lethal (--)
James (Enlarged) -Hallucinating (2)
Merisiel (--) -Hallucinating (2)
Deluge (Barkskin)
Kavor (SoF, Barkskin)! Basidironds (
red -66, blue)Everyone may act!
Upon hearing Fethril and Deluge's explanation, Kyra steps next to Deluge and strikes at the plant creature, adding "You hear the sages friends! Hold your breath, everyone!"
Kyra holds her breath and proceeds to swing at the fungal threat!
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Between the group you manage to deal quite a substantial amount of damage to the plant. It retaliates, by slamming at Kyra.
...but once again the attack does not connect. The following few seconds happen quickly, and you immediately drop the creature to join it's counterpart on the floor.
James and Merisel stop hallucinating, only to realise they have missed the fighting.
Meri snaps out of her mental funk and shakes her head to clear it. She retrieves her discarded blade.
Umm..can someone fill me in on what happened? Use small words, please...my head is swimming right now..
Kyra steps outside of the tower to heal herself then comes back to the heroes a short while later.
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Taking your time in the foyer to heal and restore your conditions, you move back into the Tower, taking time to admired the intricate carvings in the wood-effect walls. Moving into the Tower off to the side of the main hall, from where the plant creatures appeared from you carefully step in.
A riot of colourful fungal blooms striped and spotted in bold red, yellow, blue, and purple cover the uneven floor of this round chamber. Several chunks of dimly glowing orange and purple crystal peek through the carpet of mould and puffballs. The lumpy floor is littered with the remains of several horses and humans, apparently discarded here to feed the fungal growth.
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James studies the room and holds up a hand. He says "The fungi in this room are poisonous. Be careful. We might want to back out and burn it if we can. Also all the corpses in here are missing their eyes. Something is going on here." He then stops and picks up a pouch out of a boot. "Platinum" he says.
Well, that's just disgusting. There are better ways to deal with bodies. I mean, proper burials...not what you think I mean. But I do know a buy who does that. The eyes are missing...might that mean something? She holds up a pouch that jingles as she moves it.
Sounds valuable... She opens up to reveal the contents.
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Kavor Doan also notices the missing eyes... "Some foul ritual at work, perhaps?"
And the poisonous fungus. "Sadly, I did not prepare Fireball today, as I would be going armored for this mission. Deluge, would you have the means to burn out the fungus?"
He does not know any more than his companions do.
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"Oh dear. It just occurred to me that Drow cultivate that very same fungus to make some of their nasty poisons. This being an abandoned elf place, it would not surprise me if Drow took up residence. In any case, if you have something to defend against poisoning I highly recommend using it, even if it is a tad bit expensive."
Indeed, Deluge rummages around for his chocolate flavored antitoxin and eats it, only making a slight face.
"Man, I thought this would taste better."
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Surveying the area, "Have care! Those crystals are dangerous when interacting with some schools of arcane or divine spellcasting. They are called Caphorite, and it is notorious for absorbing magical light around it. Based on this property, some have given it a specific monicker as it is sometimes referred to as 'Drowstone'."
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Having learned what you can from the strange Fungus farm, you step away from the stomach churning scene and press on to the Towers only other chamber. You find the door oddly sturdy after all this years which is strange as the other inside door had rotted away. Pushing it open, it hardly creaks as it swings on hinges to reveal the inner furnishings.
This wide circular room is relatively clean and clear of debris. Faintly glowing runes embossed into a crescent-shaped pedestal near the center of the room cast wild shadows against the walls. A heap of dirt and rubble along the west wall covers what were once stairs leading up, while to the north, a wide staircase descends into darkness. A stylized map woven of metallic fabric hangs on the east wall.
Looking closer at the Map hanging from the wall, you can study it for a moment, for the thread still seems fairly well preserved.
Taking a closer look at the control panel reveals The pedestal is 4 feet high with its top surface sloping down toward the center of the room. Six large runes on raised buttons form a hexagon, with many smaller symbols woven around them. There is no discernable writing upon it, but the symbols do look Arcane in nature. You can study the pedestal to find out more about its workings. You can of course, also try to mess with the panel to decipher its inner workings.
In addition to the control panel, a nearly imperceptible, 10-foot diameter teleportation circle is inlaid in the floor in the center of this room in front of the pedestal.
- Suppress or activate an effect that evokes normal light throughout the tower.
- Suppress or reset the elven guardian statues.
- Suppress or activate the teleportation circle.
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The dwarven war-wizard does his best to figure out what is going on here. He was never all that much for studying compared to other wizards - preferring to go out drinking or get in a good brawl - but he has learned a few things in his years.
"This is an old map. From before Earthfall. This is the land as it appeared during the height of the Thassilonian empire over l0.000 years ago."
He casts Read Magic to examine the arcane symbols around the pedestal.
Once again, he successfully manages the somatic components even in full plate armor. Still, should probably invest in mithral armor one of these days.
Perhaps if he had been a more studious wizard he might have more of a clue...
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Fethri nods his head at Kavor's supposition before adding "There seems to be more recent markings though. I believe these are settlements, but I do not recognize the language. If need be, I have magics that may remedy that if we have need of it later."
He then moves over to study the pedestal "I think I can make out the marking here though."
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You examine the staircase and find no obvious traps or other machinations to cause you distress, delay or injury. Deluge gives it a good long study and finds the staircase sturdy, made from the same wood-effect stone as the rest of the tower. The rooms below are as gloomy as the rest of the tower, making it hard to make out details in the nooks and crannies of the place.
As the group look around and study the map, Kavor takes some time to scan over the room whilst Fethril inspects the pedestal closely. You uncover nothing out of the ordinary, well as much as can be called ordinary for a strange millennia old pedestal in an abandoned tower.
Fethril is able to quickly determine how to properly use the device, and quickly consults the party on what he should do with the on/off buttons.
[ooc]sounds cool to me too[/ooc0
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The structure echoes with energy, as it comes to life when Fethril manages the contraption to activate the lighting. A strange sensation, washes over the group, as if the entire building just made a sigh of relief, having been in a slumber for a very long time.
Moving down the winding stairs it comes into a subterranean basement, again carved by the strange magic of the long lost Elven Geomancers, much of the furniture here must have rotted away and weapons that may once have been stored her have been reduced to rust. The air here is cooler than the upper floor, and the room is relatively clean and clear of debris. The walls, though made of stone, bear the carved likeness of fresh soil riddled with tree roots. A staircase along the northern wall winds upward to the floor above, and an open doorway leads to the south.
This room turns out to be blessedly empty and you move through it quickly towards the open doorway across the chamber. Beyond a few pieces of furniture made of petrified wood and a stack of sleeping pallets, this rounded triangular room is devoid of furnishings and gives the appearance of having been ransacked, with tables turned upon their sides. A wealth of mushrooms and fungi grow to a height of three feet around the periphery of the room. Open doorways allow passage to the north and south, and a closed door made of petrified wood stands in the middle of the curved eastern wall.
Peering through the next door, you see very little of consequence before stepping in. Merisiel's sharp ears however pick up the faint sound of breathing and realises they are not alone. The rogue spies dark clothed figures hiding behind the tables turned over in the room!
Round 1
James (--)
Merisiel (--)! Zolvato (red)
! Solvox, Upland Raider (blue)
! Firanil, Upland Raider (green)Kyra[/b] (--)
Fethril[/b] (--)
Deluge[/b] (Barkskin)
Kavor[/b] (SoF, Barkskin)Merisiel and James may act!
Merisiel picks her way through the debris and casually flicks a dagger at the bandit with the green cloak.
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Merieil moves forward, throwing her dagger at one of the bandits, but the drow is too agile and slips the attack. James moves forward menacingly, but the captain only smiles. "And where do you think you're going?"
One of the captains, casts darkness onto his rapier, while the other shoots at Merisiel with his crossbow, but misses even in the darkness.
"Death. To elves." says the captain, chosing to completely ignore James, and focus his attention on Merisiel. The bow hits hard, but the last arrow misses this mark.
Round 2
Kyra (--)
Fethril (--)
Deluge (Barkskin)
Kavor (SoF, Barkskin)
James (--)
Merisiel -49 lethal (--)! Zolvato (red)
! Solvox, Upland Raider (blue)
! Firanil, Upland Raider (green)Everyone may act!