Tristan's last two slices both hit and are enough to finish off the last of the screamers. The silence in their wake is a relief and only broken by a particularly loud snore from Groff.
Combat is over.
9:20 PM on Sistersdag, the sixth of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
"ZZZZZZZ"
Khoran pokes Groff with the butt of his longspear from 10' away "You really shouldn't fall asleep like that in the middle of a fight ya lazy butt, it's not healthy."
wasn't there a tale a with a sleepy dwarf in it? If not I'll have to make one up. Sounds like the start of a good drinking song
there once was a dwarf named Sleepy... When he drank too much he got weeepy........
"huh? Whuh?" in a more monotonous tone than usual then he grabs his weapon, then stands. "They gone?"
Khoran looks at Groff and Helgash's injuries and pronounces his diagnosis: "Nothing I can do right now, I would need diamond dust to fix this. Maybe we can get some at the camp? I guess we go back to sleep... and hope we have no more surprises tonight."
"Damned screeching spirits" - Helgash growls, shaking the nerves from his bones then settles down again, offering some cheese to calm Coal down.
Well HELL! That's the last time I sleep soundly in the shadow of a tomb with undead lurking inside. Hideaway or not. That's a s&@%ty way to wake up.
The rest of the night passes without anything of interest interrupting your rest.
The new day starts with you still inside the sylvan hideaway.
8:00 AM on Thingsdag, the seventh of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
Well, Khoran sleeps in to make sure he gets his full 8hrs and can prepare spells…
After that, over breakfast ”Ok guys, I’m preparing based on the assumption we’re going in…”
Spirits: Life, ancestors
Hexes: Silkstring Snare, Ghost blade
L0 (DC 14, 4) : Guidance, Detect Magic, Create Water, Stabilize
L1 (DC 15, 5): Burning Disarm, Tears to Wine, Bless, Chill Touch, {open Slot}
L2 (DC 16,4) : False Life , Burst of Radiance, Burst of Radiance, {open Slot}
L3 (DC 17, 3) Daylight, Magic Circle Against Evil, Sylvan Hideaway
L4 (DC 18, 2) Anti-Incorporeal Shell, Ball Lightning
At the start of each day Tristan casts Lucky Number on everyone remember your own Number and use at your discretion
"Ok, we have a map for the complex, thanks to yesterday's scouting, and we know there are 11 human sized critters running around - which I'm figuring to be undead; how else are they in there without food for what looks like a couple of centuries... Something killed the bat, so I'm suspecting incorporeal undead of some sort, but that may have been last night's visitors. So the plan is march up to the door, pre cast Daylight, Tears To Wine, Protection From Evil 10' radius on Me. Use knock. We advance down the corridor as a unit. Groff and Helgash in front, then Me and Tristan, then Grimm last as artillery support. If incorporeals show up, I drop Anti-Incorporeal shell, and we nuke them from inside it..."
Groff grunts his agreement.
Tristan is much more eloquent but agrees with Groff
The party gathers around the hidden door that you found yesterday and Grimm reads the knock spell from his scroll. You can hear something click and something else slide from inside or behind the door so the spell has done something. Sadly the door doesn't seem any more inclined to open than it did yesterday.
8:05 AM on Thingsdag, the seventh of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
"Break it?" he says while hefting his weapon.
"Why didn't it open though..? Could it be blocked?"
Voices of Solid Things (Disable Device)
Source Legacy of the First World pg. 3
Category Region
Requirement(s) Witchmarket
You traveled with the Witchmarket for a time, either willingly or as a result of a bargain made by some other buyer. In your time in the Witchmarket, you learned to listen to the whispers of items as though they were living creatures, giving you clues as to their function. Choose Appraise, Craft, Disable Device, or Spellcraft. You apply your Charisma modifier on checks with that skill instead of the skill’s normal ability score. That skill is a class skill for you.
if diplomacy is more relevant, gather info +19
if dd is more relevant +25
"Break it?" he says while hefting his weapon.
The annoyance is evident on Khoran's face, as he replies with a single word "Yes!".
When Groff sets to work, Khoran will cast Heroism on Groff...
Helgash discovers nothing new about the door and why it won't open.
"This is a bad idea..." - Helgash grunts, consuming a concoction from his belt. Once he does, his features become more sharp, animalistic...
As Groff begins hammering at the door, Helgash imbibes from another flask, and draws his rapier.
"This is a bad idea..." - he repeats.
Coal squeaks his agreement.
round 1
power attack
round 2
power attack
round 3
power attack
round 4
power attack
round 5
power attack
round 6
power attack
8:10 AM on Thingsdag, the seventh of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
Groff pounds on the door which had until now remained so stubborn in its refusal to open, and on his fifth blow it cracks and falls apart. Peering though the pieces you see a corridor leading off into the dark, apparently empty of any creature, living or otherwise.
In response to the door shattering, Khoran mutters a spell and says "Let's do this, after you gentlemen...".
re: Light sources
Tristan is human and uses his Ioun Torch as well as Dancing Lights cantrip which he will keep recasting as it expires
Dancing Lights
School evocation [light]; Level bard 0, magus 0, psychic 0, shaman 0, sorcerer/wizard 0, witch 0
CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
EFFECT
Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect Up to four lights, all within a 10-ft.-radius area
Duration 1 minute (D)
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
DESCRIPTION
Depending on the version selected, you create up to four lights that resemble lanterns or torches (and cast that amount of light), or up to four glowing spheres of light (which look like will-o’-wisps), or one faintly glowing, vaguely humanoid shape. The dancing lights must stay within a 10-foot-radius area in relation to each other but otherwise move as you desire (no concentration required): forward or back, up or down, straight or turning corners, or the like. The lights can move up to 100 feet per round. A light winks out if the distance between you and it exceeds the spell’s range.
You can only have one dancing lights spell active at any one time. If you cast this spell while another casting is still in effect, the previous casting is dispelled. If you make this spell permanent, it does not count against this limit.
Dancing lights can be made permanent with a permanency spell.
Grimm casts mage armor on himself and follows the others in.
Moving into the building cautiously, but aware that the magic you've used has a timer, the first thing you discover is the locking mechanism for the door. The door is designed to open from the inside with an obvious lock as well as two iron bars that can be slid out to reinforce it. The knock spell seems to have unlocked it and moved one of the bars, but the other still remained engaged until Groff made it obsolete.
Moving past the door and into the first chamber four squat, brass-skinned humanoids appear in a cloud of smoke and brimstone in your midst. Their heads and shoulders blaze with a mane of fire and all are clad in scale mail and heavy shields and wield warhammers. Three take advantage of their surprise appearance to make attacks while the fourth runs to the east, into the darkness.
miss
+ 1 fire
miss
+ 1 fire
miss
These creatures are not evil so the protection from evil does not matter. Everyone can now roll initiative for the first round.
+3 dex +1 ioun stone
7 ranks +3 trained +2 int+2 Tears to wine
PS. Blue first guys, he's the one giving them a flank to work with...
Also,
7 ranks +3 trained +2 int+2 Tears to wine
+18 religion everything else +14
These creatures are Azers, outsiders from the Plane of Fire. They are immune to fire and vulnerable to cold. They also have spell resistance.
They have indeed been brought in by some sort of summoning spell that seems to have been tied to the room they appeared in.
8:10 AM on Thingsdag, the seventh of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
Round One Initiative Order
Grimm
Tristan
Azers
Khoran
Groff
Helgash
Grimm and Tristan may act.
Grimm will use his wand on the blue enemy.
Tristan strikes at the nearest enemy
Starknife 5bab +6Cha +1Starknife, (PA-2,+4)
Grimm's bolts of force strike the Azer closest, throwing it off guard so that Tristan's starknife can also find it's way through its defenses.
The wounded Azer responds by striking out at the offending target it can that hit it.
miss
+ 1 fire
hit
+ 1 fire
The other two Azers in combat focus their attacks on Groff, raining a series of blows on the sturdy dwarf. Once this is done the one to Groff's north shifts it's position slightly to the west.
miss
+ 1 fire
miss
+ 1 fire
hit, no crit
+ 1 fire
+ 2 fire
hit
+ 1 fire
The remaining Azer that ran to the west continues to a swirling vortex of red mist in the center of the next chamber only to touch it in passing with his warhammer before running back to the battle shouting in a language no on in the party understands. At his touch the red cyclone immediately slows its spin and dissipates, releasing four bulbous creature consists of many tangled legs, bulging bodies of puffed flesh, and mouths filled with sharp fangs. These creatures float in the air and seem to be orienting themselves to the situation.
8:10 AM on Thingsdag, the seventh of Eostre, 3517 I.R.
Round One Initiative Order
Grimm - cast magic missile
Tristan - attacked Azer
Azers - attacked/moved
Creatures - arrived/oriented
Khoran
Groff
Helgash
Round Two Initiative Order
Grimm
Tristan
Azers
Creatures
Khoran
Groff
Helgash
The entire party can act.
Khoran speaks while he delays for a heartbeat, "Azers, Spell resistant and fire immune, cold vulnerable."
as he assesses the situation...
Also, Knowledge check on the new arrivals
7 ranks +3 trained +2 int +2 tears to wine