Fortitude save DC 30
Kythel as well is blinded by the Light.
He staggers and is forced to use a powerful spell on himself to heal his blindness.
As the tree shines almost everyone is surprised and blinded by the light.
JJ stumbles backwards looking for help.
Marigold calls for mystic energies that respond with her blindness being instantly removed.
Shebeleth utters a single word of power and he suddenly starts to flow at an astonishing speed.
The time blends and he casts a spell, another spell, performs a summon and casts another spell in rapid succession before you can even blink.
He then moves towards the center of the chamber at an astonishing speed.
Your superior sight let's you see this creature at the center as an illusion. The real Shebeleth moved next to the doors.
Shebeleth has duplicated himself, in addition to the copy in the middle of the chamber, another copy of himself moved to the door. This last copy is invisible.
A towering, corpulent beast fiend with the hideous head of a boar and arms ending in fatty, four-fingered hands, materializes in the middle of the room as Shebeleth completes his summoning.
Blinded, the shator demodand just summons a cloudkill after roaring in frustration.
Kythel casts a powerful healing spell on himself, curing the blindness.
Marigold's Round 2
"ಓಯಿ! ಅವನು ಮ್ಯಾಜಿಕ್ ಮತ್ತು ಭ್ರಮೆಗಳಿಂದ ತನ್ನನ್ನು ತಾನು ಗಟ್ಟಿಗೊಳಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾನೆ! ನಿಜವಾದ ವಿಷಯ ಬಾಗಿಲುಗಳಿಂದ ಮುಗಿದಿದೆ!" Marigold warns, having deciphered most of Shebeleth's magic shenanigans. That's all that she manages though, before another beast appears and then the immediate area is filled with noxious gases.
"Oi! He's toughened himself up with magic and illusions! The real thing is over by the doors!"
"Gah!" Marigold gags as the poison fog saps her vitality. Still, she can't leave JJ bereft of his sight. Reaching out, she conjures powerful healing once more to restore her brother's sight and then she moves out of the cloud as quickly as she can.
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As the tree flares, Maxim too is blinded!
Out of pure instinct he draws his pistol, hoping the glare from his vision fades...
"Skit! Can't see a darned thing!"
He pauses then brings forth a minor spell to aid his compromised defences;
"Schild!"
AC = 33/13/32
HP = 152/184
Weapon Equipped = Eldgammel +2 Holy(Divine Bond)
Condition(s) = stoneskin (100) 110 min, circle vs evil 103 min, air walk 103 min, resist energy (fire 30) 115 min, divine bond (+2, holy) 10 min, smite evil
Kikinnin watches as the cloud billows up around him, grabbing a lungful of air to prevent any ill wind burning his lungs.
Unwilling to charge directly through the mists at foes unseen now, the black beard keys into the sound of his bror bellowing blindness. His new Boots bring him a beautiful bounce.
"Vi trenger de perleøyene, Bror. Abadar gir deg synet å se oss gjennom."
"We'll need those beady eyes, Bror. Abadar grant you the sight to see us through."
Without a hesitation, Kikinnin looks over Maxim's shoulder, and marks the behemoth for a swift death, courtesy of his god.
Marigold's life bubble protects you from the noxious gasses of the shator, while her touch quickly returns sight to JJ.
Losing sight of his enemies, Maxim creates a shielding magic to protect himself.
Seeing this, Kikinnin moves near his dwarven brother and brings the miracles of Abadar. A mere touch is enough to return the outstanding view of the Shackled Tree to the blonde dwarf!
Recovered from the blindness, JJ walks through air to engage the demodands and demons. The young man appears through the cloud to be surprised by a huge demon that tries to catch him mid air.
JJ tumbles in the air avoiding the attack and striking hard with Alakast.
The hit is brutal, the huge demon reeling back for an instant as Alakast shines with holy light.
Dragon Juraan flaps his black wings into the air and opens his jaws, exhaling a powerful blast of acid through the demon and Shebeleth!
The demon protects himself with his arms, and the acid seems to only burn on him partially.
Shebeleth seems to completely ignore the dragon's breath. The priest starts casting a spell blindly and a wide column of fire descends on the middle of the fray catching JJ, Juraan and Maxim, but also the demon!
"આર્! તમે મને મૂર્ખોને નુકસાન પહોંચાડી રહ્યા છો!" shouts angrily the demon to the priest.
"Argh! You are hurting me stupids!"
You see the actual caster of the spell was the invisible Shebeleth, and afterwards he escapes through the door to the west.
The shator demodand at the back blindly points towards the sounds of battle. A pea-sized bead of hod red flies from the tip of his finger through the chamber until it explodes against the wall at your back, catching both Marigold and Kythel in the area!
The summoned demon attacks JJ with jaws and claws.
The attack is brutal and the demon cuts on him deep wounds. Fortunately JJ manages to move just enough to avoid a large ugly cut on his neck.
Marigold's Round 3
Marigold finds herself a bit too slow to roll out of the way of the fireball and catches the full blast - but she's had worse. Singed and smoking, she calls out, "ಇಲ್ಲ! ಶೆಬೆಲೆತ್ನ ಅದೃಶ್ಯ - ಅವನು ಬಾಗಿಲಿನ ಮೂಲಕ ಹೊರಟನು!"
"No! Shebeleth's invisible - he took off through the door!"
But there's little she can do about it as there are still the other foes to contend with. Unconcerned with the stink cloud she moves back into it, taking advantage of the cover it provides her as she tries to close some distance between herself and JJ. She then focuses her attention on the shator and attempts to charge its body with an electricity!
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As his sight is restored, Maxim tips the nod to his bror, then deftly avoids the incoming column of flame with some fancy footwork!
He then activates his magical boots; "Hi-Ho Silver!" and takes to the air... rising upward with pistol readied...
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AC = 33/13/32
HP = 152/184
Weapon Equipped = Eldgammel Holy +2
Condition(s) = stoneskin (100) 110 min, circle vs evil 103 min, air walk 103 min, resist energy (fire 30) 115 min, divine bond (+2, holy) 10 min, smite evil v big boy
Watching Maxim take to the air, Kikinnin nods to Abadar in his mind, then moves with the swiftness granted him by Marigold, shrugging off anything the pig demon can throw at him, before he tries his might into its side.
"Avana gaṇṭe baruvudu avanige tiḷidide. Om'me nāvu ī mānsada gurāṇigaḷondige, nāvu avanannu bēṭeyāḍabēku. Avanu illi biḍalu tumbā śaktiśāli."
The black beard flicks his head towards Marigold, to pay her words attention, as well as to shake his beard off from the demon's blood.
"He knows his hour's come. Once we're through with these meat shields, we need to hunt him down. He's too powerful to leave down here."
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"Thanks Marigold. So much easier being able to see. Best Sister Ever"
JJ steps up to the mighty demon and turns Alakast loose on the beast.
"Go back to the pit that spawned you. " he shouts, not really caring to defile his tongue with the horrid creatures speech. It knew what he was saying.
+14 to hit and damage from FT
+2 to hit and +2 +2d6 to damage from outsider bane
+2d6 damage from holy
Blow after blow smashes into the beast, breaking bone and shattering wings.
"How does it feel to take it for a change, rather than just dishing it out?" he snarls.
Marigold rolls away and gets unscathed thanks to her resistance to fire. Her spell though, fails to pierce the demodand's spell resistance.
In a deftly movement, Maxim avoids the divine flames descending over his head and starts flying over the rocky chamber.
While Kikinin approaches the demon tries to snap him with his large jaws, but the dwarf is fast to cut through with his mighty axe, avoiding the attack. The foul unholy protection of the demon snaps back at Kikinnin.
The demon is left bad enough that JJ is able to beat it with a single swing of Alakast. The huge demon disappears with a blast of fire in the same sudden way it appeared!
Juraan eats the fire strike, but his resistance protects him from the worst of it. Juraan flies over Shebeleth and goes through it making it clear it is just an illusion.
Kythel does something heroic!
The blinded shator demodand casts a spell and starts to blink between this plane and the astral one.
The illusory Shebeleth casts another fireball, but no fire comes out of his hands this time.
Rising above the clamour of melee, Maxim flies forward then levels his pistol at the demodand shifting betwixt planes and invokes some of his magic;
A ghost touch weapon deals damage normally against incorporeal creatures, regardless of its bonus. An incorporeal creature’s 50% reduction in damage from corporeal sources does not apply to attacks made against it with ghost touch weapons.
As Blinking creatures are considered to be ethereal - and (as RAW) "an ethereal creature is invisible, incorporeal, and capable of moving in any direction, even up or down. As an incorporeal creature, you can move through solid objects, including living creatures."
As per above Ghost Touch would affect the demodand? At least reduce miss penalty for ghost touch shots to 20%?
He then squints and fires a spectral bullet toward the corpulent brute;
Marigold's Round 4
Not wanting to get too far behind from the others, Marigold activates her powers of flight to cross the gap in the floor, touching down again next to JJ and Kikinnin.
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Fireball Reflex Save Kythel easily evade the Fireball damage completely.
As Marigold calls out the retreating Cleric, Kythel flies after! Beginning to cast a spell.
Continuing after in flight, the Cleric releases his newest ally in the hopes of tracking down the invisible foe!
"My friend, follow the stench of Evil!"
AC = 33/13/32
HP = 152/184
Weapon Equipped = Eldgammel Holy +2
Condition(s) = stoneskin (100) 110 min, circle vs evil 103 min, air walk 103 min, resist energy (fire 30) 115 min, divine bond (+2, holy) 10 min
Kikinnin barrels forward, charging the last foe in the room, according to the halfling lass. His eyes start playing with him, as the shator comes and goes magically.
The black beard spins in place, as the glowing blade fully circles him without any mass to stop its arc.
Kythel starts a summoning spell.
Maxim enchants his weapon and blasts the brute demodand. The bullet opens a whole in the shator's chest!
JJ fight's the debilitating demon's aura and moves forward towards the next foe.
Marigold flies over the lava stream.
A celestial dire lion materializes at the far end of the room and immediately disappears in the darkness of the western tunnel.
Meanwhile, Kythel, who has completed his summoning, flies and flows like water squeezing between the shator and the walls. The shator is blinded and does not notice this move next to him.
The black bearded Watcher barrels forward, but his mighty axe only goes through air as the shator blinks away.
Juraan flies over the shator and also disappears through the open doors and into the darkness of the tunnel.
"આર્! હું જાણું છું કે તમે ત્યાં છો, તમે ઉંદરની ટીકા કરો છો" exclaims the shator who locates Kikinnin by scent, and attacks.
Kikinnin blocks the enemy with his shield twice, but the demodand bites his right arm. The jaws do nothing but scratches though, as Maxim's stoneskin spell protects the dwarf.
The illusory Shebeleth continues casting a fireball, but he just disappears afterwards.
Those of you following the tunnel hear clumsy steps ahead of you. The tunnel is though totally dark and your enemy invisible.
"Argh! I know you are there, you reek of rat!"
Content to remain airborne, Maxim calmly reloads his pistol's barrel with an alchemical cartridge, then draws a bead on the demodand and fires
JJ steps forward, hoping to quickly clear the way for Kikinnin.
"Time to return to the abyss. Send my regards." he says, running short on quips after a long day.
Extra attack from fervor
+14 to hit and damage from FT
+2 to hit and +2 / +2d6 damage from evil outsider bane
+2d6 damage from holy
Blink and you miss. 1-50 misses.
I'm guessing blind fighting doesn't help against blink?
JJ's blows land heavily, but half the time the horrid demon just isn't there. Much to his frustration.
Kythel reaches into his pack and produces, an Everburning Torch!
He throws it ahead in an attempt to light up the room and at least see his ally, if not his foe!
"My friend, roar when you find our prey!"
Marigold's Round 5
As the action continues to push to the north and west, Marigold follows from a somewhat-safe distance, not wanting to be left behind in a place like this. Seeing the difficulty her allies are having against the shator, Marigold attempts to dispel some of the magics protecting him!
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With Marigold dispelling the shator demodand's defensive spells, Maxim and JJ give a quick and definitive end to the creature of Carceri.
The beast falls to the ground.
Kythel throws a torch into the tunnel. What he founds is their enemy has summoned a blade barrier in the middle of the corridor.
Swirling blades of force cut your advance through.
The dragon Juraan tries to dispel the blades but fails "Argh! He is there behind the blades, he is heading to the doors at the other end!"
Kikinnin does something heroic!
Shebeleth further moves north disappearing into the next room, of course only those able to see invisible creatures notice this.
"Get close to me.. I know a trick that might help here. But I need to touch you all" says JJ.
"Quick. I've not tried this before, but I think it will work..."
Once everyone is touching him, JJ concentrates, thinks of a pathway to the room on the otherside and Steps between the very weave of the fabric of reality of the material world.
Suddenly the group reappears on the other side, perhaps slightly confused.
JJ extends his hands and Marigold and Kikinnin, next to him, can easily grasp him. Maxim needs to move there and Kythel can reach, but he is too large for JJ's power.
The space twist with a swirling gravity wave that opens a hole through the astral plane and you feel JJ pushing you through. An instant later the room recomposes and you are standing in the middle of a new chamber.
The western half of this chamber is decorated lavishly as a bedchamber. Fine rugs cover the stone floors, and tapestries the walls. An ornate desk sits against one wall, emblazoned across the front with the Carcerian Eye. A wardrobe built of ebony sits near a large, four-poster bed. The room narrows to the east, then opens into a second chamber. This one is much more spartan. The floor is bare, but has been carved once more with the symbol of the Cagewrights. An altar and font stand near the far wall, both covered in a strange glowing script.
You spot the invisible Shebeleth in front of the doors, just on the tip of the arrow of the ground sign.
What is more disturbing is the strong bond you feel to the altar. You feel the flame in your eye burning and energy surging through your veins.
A fiery aura covers Marigold and all her hair bristles up energetically.
Juraan performs a new attempt to dispel the blades in the middle of the tunnel.
"Grooooar!" the black dragon roars with satisfaction as the blades blink and disappear from existence, leaving the way open to Kythel and himself.
"Over there... by the door" says JJ, pointing. "
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Marigold's Round 6
Though momentarily dazed by the sudden teleportation, Marigold quickly regains her wits as she feels the flame in her eye pulse from a sudden surge of power. At about the same time, her gaze lands on Shebeleth, standing near the tip of the arrow.
She begins casting a spell, conjuring up a floating chain of force, each end sporting a hook. It lashes out, attempting to trip the wily and elusive Shebeleth!
"તમે અમારી પાસેથી ચલાવી શકતા નથી..."
"You can't run from us..."
JJ points towards the arrow in the ground when he saw something.
A chain made of force materializes and coils around the invisible Shebeleth. Blinded as he is, he becomes an easy target and lands prone on the ground thanks to Marigold's magics.
The chain makes it easy to know where the priest is.
As JJ gestures and Lil Miss combusts, Maxim nonchalantly holsters his pistol and retrieves a wand.
AC = 33/13/32
HP = 152/184
Weapon Equipped = Eldgammel Holy +2
Condition(s) = stoneskin (100) 110 min, circle vs evil 103 min, air walk 103 min, resist energy (fire 30) 115 min, divine bond (+2, holy) 10 min
Kikinnin spends a moment reorienting himself, once he's whisked beyond the Blade Barrier. Watching the Chain find the foe, Kikinnin realizes he's still close enough to his fellow Watchers to impart Abadar's Justice to those who jumped by JJ's power.
Only then does the black beard step forward, and try his luck against the unseen Shebeleth.
Maxim uses a wand to see the invisible and suddenly Shebeleth's position becomes clear for him!
Kikinnin imparts Abadar's blessings on the team to then steps forward to cut through the priest's back with his axe despite the invisibility. The man manages to move to avoid a death cut and survives.
Kythel does something heroic!
Cornered in the floor the man utters a blasphemy "Your lying gods be damned! Your families be cursed! Your city cursed!"
The blasphemy seems to bear no effect on Marigold.
Marigold's Round 7
"ಒರಟು! ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಾಮಾ ಇಲ್ಲಿದ್ದರೆ ಅವಳು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬಾಯಿಯನ್ನು ಸಾಬೂನಿನಿಂದ ತೊಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದ್ದಳು!" Marigold remarks as Shebeleth utters blasphemous words, which seem to have no effect on her.
"Rude! If your mama were here she'd wash your mouth out with soap!"
Maintaining her focus on the chain she summoned, she tries to entangle the prone Shebeleth with it!
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JJ wilts a little under the foul words. But over the last year he has had to learn (no, really) to try and resist the charms of a succubus. And the foul words of a cornered priest have no power over him compared to the wiles of the fairest of the foul.
He strides forward and slams Alakast at the figure outlined by chains.
As the blasphemous outburst Maxim is suddenly chronically weakened, and unable to hold his pistol which drops from his grasp.
"Gods. Be. Darned... Weaker than a newborn..."
Limbs sapped of strength he attempts to recover a potion from his Bag of Holding
As the vial appears in his calloused hand, the dwarf grits his teeth and strugglingly imbibes its contents
The cursing words are too much for Maxim who is dazed by the blasphemy and severely weakened.
Marigold's chains entangle the priest, marking for JJ where he has to attack, his training in the deepest darkness of the Darklands paying of as he finds his prey. Alakast breaks the human bones with great strength.
Juraan uses the blessing of fervor to fly through the tunnel at extra speed and reach the fallen and entangled priest with a bite.
The jaws cut a chunk of the invisible creature.
Kythel's ally charges at the foe and tries to sink claw and fang into it!
Swift Action - Smite Evil!
POUNCE - Bite Attack - - Damage - MISS
POUNCE Claw #1 - - Damage - HIT
POUNCE Claw # 2 - - Damage - MISS
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Kythel casts a spell at the foe while flowing forward in his watery form. "my Lady, smite this foe!"
Holy Smite Damage
Celestial Dire Lion Save vs Blasphemy If it did not, the attack rolls will follow.
POUNCE - Bite Attack - - Damage - MISS
POUNCE Claw #1 - - Damage - HIT
POUNCE Claw # 2 - - Damage - MISS
Kythel save vs. Blasphemy - Strength Damage
Kythel resist the horrid words but they strike him severely all the same, in response the Cleric calls upon his Goddess to restore his vitality - cast Lesser Restoration on self
AC = 33/13/32
HP = 152/184
Weapon Equipped = Eldgammel Holy +2
Condition(s) = stoneskin (100) 110 min, circle vs evil 103 min, air walk 103 min, resist energy (fire 30) 115 min, divine bond (+2, holy) 10 min
The last words of Shebeleth manage to weaken the black beard, if only for a short while. He's not heard the Black Tongue in ages, and it resonates with him in the halls of the Fiery Sanctum. He eagerly awaits the time of their departure.
"Alright, Rat. Time to end your infestation down here. Your Tree is collared, and you yourself are bound by her chains. We have no interest in your confession, only your end." Kikinnin has a nagging fear, however. Zenith was sentenced similarly, and was still restored to life. Kikinnin pictures a trip to the lava pits, to see Shebeleth's body properly disposed of.
The dire lion runs through the tunnel jumping over the spot it senses the scent of the priest and opening a wide wound with one of its claws.
Kythel brings the power of his goddess into the midst of combat, slightly damaging the invisible and entangled foe.
The dire lion is paralyzed by the blasphemy for some minutes while Kythel is left dazed for a round.
But it does not matter, because Kikinnin finds the priest's neck in one of his swings, and the same he has beheaded hundreds of rats before, he beheads this one with a clean chop.
When Shebeleth comes into vision, you find a trove of equipment on him.
+3 mithral breastplate
+1 small wooden shield
+1 morningstar
mwk light crossbow with 20 bolts
belt of Constitution and Dexterity +4
headband of Wisdom +4
cloak of resistance +2
dusty rose prism ioun stone
ring of minor fire resistance
Ring of the Thirteen
metamagic rod of empower
potion of fly
scroll of mass cure moderate wounds
scroll of dimensional anchor
scroll of widened flame strike
scroll of invisibility purge
scroll of plane shift
three gems (100 gp each)
The eastern area of this room is a well packed library. The tomes cover a wide range of subjects, from the Outer Planes to local history, and including multiple topics of the arcane and planar.
Using detect magic you also quickly realize about a few arcane scrolls on the shelves.
Written in Abyssal, you found the construction plans for the Tree of Shackled Souls including its goal: opening a rift to Carceri that would allow all demodands and Adimarchus to enter Golarion. These construction plans also mention a failsafe back-up plan for shutting down the tree should something go awry, and Freija appears to be the one tasked with implementing this plan.
As the tree slowly shuts off, you feel part of the residual energy flowing into you.
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"Ugh...are...are we d-done here?" Marigold asks, suddenly feeling a bit woozy as the residual energy from the tree flows into her. "The t-tree's shut d-down, b-but...wh-what's this about a b-backup p-plan? And we st-still...there's st-still poor T-Terrem and K-Keygan and the others in those c-cages...even if we c-can't bring them b-back, we c-can't just leave them h-here in this p-place!"
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"We bring them home to bury them..." says JJ
He points to Terram. "He had a hard life. But he had family, all of us. And the others. They need to be able to mourn him too. "
He shakes his head.
"So many. So many."
He looks from cage to cage, wondering how many of the lives now extinguished he had crossed over the last year.
"Ever wonder if we are cursed? Did we cause this?"
The group moves away from Shebeleth's room and back to the tree. You mourn the thirteen bodies for a while and realize the tree is slowly shutting down. At this rate, some of you calculate it might take around a half an hour to completely shut down.
Juraan comes back to his human form and taps JJ's back "The Cagewrights are the curse, we are just trying to be the solution" The ever optimistic Professor looks sad though too.
"We should end this fight here and now, attack the rest of them before they regroup and form a coherent defense" the sorcerer looks at the tree absentmindedly "But we might need to protect the collar while it shuts down the tree. I think they referred to that for the backup plan Miss Marigold"
JJ nods.
"We guard the tree and collar first." he says.
"What happens to the tree once it deactivates? Can we take the collar off it? Cut it down? Destroy it somehow? I'd hate to leave it here as a gift to the next person trying to make a gate between worlds?"
He eyes up the cages.
"While we wait, can we get those cages down? I suspect tossing them into the lava might be what is required to at least undo that bit of the foul plan."
Maxim pauses from his loot inventory to observe a moment of solemness;
"Doin' right by the deceased seems best course o' action by my reckonin'. Iffin' I can bring back Keygan I surely will."
The gun-mage sparks up a stogie, then eyes the tree;
"Speakin' o' lava. Last I heard trees an' the molten blood o' the earth don't mix. Burn it an' it's gone."
"Y-yes...we need to make s-sure they don't rest-start the ritual," Marigold agrees. "Th-then, once it's shut d-down, m-maybe we can destroy the t-tree and the C-Cagewrights for g-good."
She also glances up at the cages. "D-dropping those into the l-lave doesn't s-sound like a b-bad idea. Either they'll b-be destroyed or p-permanently out of r-reach, that w-way..."
Juraan shrugs to JJ's questions "My guess is once it is shut down, they will need to conduct another ritual with 13 new shackleborn in order to restart it. About the rest, I honestly do not know"
You proceed to unbind the soulcages and once by one, you throw them all to the lava. The high temperature slowly starts to melt the adamantine. Once you are done though, you see the energy is still channeling through the tree into the collar.
"Hum. The cages probably were only part of the start ritual. With this the Cagewrights will need years to make a new ritual. But the tree is still functional, we need to protect that collar" comments Juraan.
The tree is a thorn bush fully made of adamantine with a mithral core. It will not be easy to break.
"Y-yeah...at least we've s-slowed them down th-though," Marigold remarks with a grim, but pleased expression as she watches the last of the cages melt into the lava. "If we c-can't break the t-tree, once it's p-powered down for g-good, m-maybe...c-can we redirect the f-flow of the lava to m-melt through it?"
"Or seal up the cavern so others cannot find it?" suggests JJ.
Even to him, that sounds weak. "Or at least delay them finding it by a few thousand years? That would be a good start."
He looks around the cavern and closes the doors, bracing them with rocks and other detris, not the least being the dead bodies.
"Lets get comfortable while we wait for the energy to vanish. Then... then we see what is left here."
Maxim nods eyeing the tree further;
"I got spells that can dis-inter-grate either parts o' the tree, or the ground around it. Might take a good while tho'. Would love to smelt that thing down... its value is reparation enough fir them that's lost."
The party takes sit comfortably to watch the tree while the collar absorbs all the energy. Some spells expire: Marigold's true seeing and Kikinnin's divine bond.
The remaining Cagewrights soon notice the ritual is halting down and the hideout attacked. With your stand by the tree, they have the time to regroup and reorganize. Soon enough they are storming the doors of the tree's cavern.
The northern doors open first. "Here they are!" the voice of a fiery giant booms all over the cavern, his huge greatsword shedding flames "So we got a nasty worms problem silently making holes through our base. I have them here Grehlia!"
The name picks up your ears. You remember the name of the Ebon Tryad leader that left the group after the cages were made. A small and stout woman appears below the giant's legs. She has a mousy brown hair cropped just above her ears. She speaks with a noticeable lisp "Send your Flamewarders after them Ti'irok, Freija and myself, we will fight from here"
Two haraknin advance forward past the giant, while another woman arrives next to Grehlia. Freija is a rail-thin woman who wears her hair pulled back tightly from her face. She wears austere robes that cover her from neck to wrist to anckle, always of the same blood red color. She is fastidiously clean, a sign of her obsessive compulsive behaviour.
Almost as she speaks Freija waves words of magic and her contour becomes displaced as she finishes a spell.
Before Ti'irok gives any order, the haraknin are already rushing through the room after you.
Marigold's Round 1
"ಹಾಂ. ಅವರು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ನಿಲುಗಡೆಗಳನ್ನು ಎಳೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವಂತೆ ತೋರುತ್ತಿದೆ," Marigold remarks. She conjures a blessing of fervor over herself and her allies, well aware that it will come in handy.
"Hmm. Looks like they're pulling out all the stops."
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As Marigold casts her spell, Maxim nods and draws his arcane gun as he mutters "High-Ho Silver Away!" activating his Wing'ed Boots