It fizzles. Damn it!
"Keep attacking it, but prepare to Withdraw if needed."
feeling the effects of the creatures spell, Trib begins to move slowly, slashing away at the beast again, calling out "Well if we a are runnin' were runnin' slower now, yeah"
Seeing it not standing Archy lobs 3 bombs at it..
I still need will saves from Tribim and Gregor or their haste is gone.
PCs are up.
Gregor steps behind the golem to flank with Tribim and Klor. He then continues to beat on the creature.
AC-26
hp-43/60
status-hasted, flanking, rallying cry
Klor attacks gamely once more.
hit
hit
it does the slow thing again (saves from adjacent folks, Tribim, Gregor and Klor)
fail
and it swats him back.
hit and Klor goes flying across the courtyard into a wall making a sound which combines crunching noises and a loud splat. You don't think he's getting back up.
It switches targets to Gregor
hit
PCs are up.
Frowning at Klor Archy tosses 3 more bombs..
vs touch rem
And it finally breaks to pieces.
I think we maybe should have ran, Klor mya still have been alive leaving Klor to the medically trained, Trib looks around the room for anything interesting.
"Next time we get into flank immediately. It would have gone down much quicker." Gregor says as he checks himself for broken bones.
"Holy shit, guys."
Maria goes to stand next to Klor, and sets the body straight, crossing his arms over his chest.
"His ancestors would be proud of him. I am proud of him. Of all of you. We could have run. But we decided to stay. I thank you all for that. And I am sure Klor is thankful too."
"Thankful? Awful presumptuous. Somebody died. Cause you think everything here should die!"
Trib, realizing Klor is dead, asks "Isn't there a graveyard right out in tha courtyard? We can strip off his valuables and bury him there, that would be good enough." turning to there resident chef Trib asks "Phillip, you's would say a few kind words a'fore we put him in tha ground, yeah?"
If anyone here has an once of knowledge religion, they would realize that burying someone in a cursed graveyard is a less than good idea.
Maria frown at Phillip.
"That is why we came here in the first place. Get this accursed place clean up of evil, or die trying."
She casts floating disk.
"Please help me put it in the disk, so we can take him out of here, and lay him to rest, as a hero. As my great-great-grandfather. And I am sure he would like for us to get good use of his equipment to continue with the mission."
If anyone here has an once of knowledge religion, they would realize that burying someone in a cursed graveyard is a less than good idea.
"We should probably take him back to the village, give updates and a get a hot meal eh? Perhaps another soul has come to test their mettle in this crazy place."
We'll say you can buy what you like from Vars' loot pile if that is where you are going.
Trib nods his head, as he approaches Klor's feet, grabbing each boot by the heel, "Archaemedes is right, someone give me a hand and we will toss tha lad on tha disk an' burry him Back at tha village, yeah."
You are able to grab the corpse of your fallen comrade and drag him back to the nearby village from whence you set out. He's pretty heavy. Probably liked ale too much.
Maria pays for a good lot for him to be buried, and for a Torag's priest to make a ceremony and proper funeral rites.
I imagine 1k GP would probably make for a pretty damned elaborate funeral. (based on an ornate coffin being only 100 GP).
After dropping the body off to the Torag priest and watching Maria and the priest talk about costs. Kind of Maria to pay for Klor's funeral. Maybe she's trying ease her guilty conscious for killing those innocent sick people. He asks "Are we staying for the funeral then goin' shoppin' and seein' what the nobleman has for supper, yeah?"
With a gloomy demeanor Maria answers Tribim.
"Yes, we can report our progress so far."
Phillip spends more money than he should on ingredients for the next trip's meals.
That's well into the realm of insanely fancy.
I think people get a bit jaded because of the cost of magic items, but normal stuff is pretty damned cheap.
Heh ...maybe the extra cost is some preserving cantrip.
Duke Vars greets as you are taken to the reception hall in the manor house (only non trailer structure in the village). He treats you to a nice meal and asks about your progress. He assigns a seneschal to deal with the trading of goodies from his vault.
Now?
Thank him and go back to business.
OK, you need to decide how you go back in and where to.
"We could try the secret entrance we found. I think its closest to where we left off right?"
"Great idea Mr. Falco. Let's go."
Trib looks from Archaemedes to Maria, shrugs his head and asks "So we go to tha secret tunnel, do we want ta return ta tha courtyard?"
"Yes, why not?"
OK, you head back in via the concealed tunnel and get back into the courtyard. Now what? You have already checked every door which opens on the courtyard. There there is a passage to the SW which you opened earlier which lead to a hallway.
You also never actually wend through the main gateway. Other than that, you could backtrack to where you found a way down to the lower level.
There's plenty more on this level, you just need to find out how to access it.
Once back inside Archy will use his alchemical allocation and heroism pot combo again..
Since I've already said there's a corridor to the SW which leads into a hallway, you hardly need an Int check for it. You can probably realize that there's areas in the NE which you have let to find a way to access.
Maria goes in that direction. She handles a chalk to Tribim.
"Please cover me... mark the places I tell you to."
She will use her scroll of Detect Secret Doors granting a minute (10 rounds) for checking the place out. She will try to move as fast as possible to detect the doors, spending 2 rounds to pinpoint their location, moving if none is near. If she has time remaining she will try to use the "third" round on the last secret door detected.