Raven, Aeron, Orlando and Varn take down the remaining cultist.
The creature lowers it head and charges Tessai but Tessai manages to avoid the gore from the creature's horns.
The creature then shift about causing it's shadow to intersect with Tessai's shadow and the creature's shadow becomes a copy of Tessai's.
You can all go again.
Rn 4
Aeron moves out to face the new enemy. "Torag's beard!! What is it?
Round 4
Stepping back to let the other melee types into the fray, Raven rushes back to the west 15'. She knocks another arrow, this one also cold iron and fires at the strange fearsome creature. The creature is so fearsome that Raven can't find a steady bead and her shot flies wide of the mark.
"I have holy arrows and another of evil outsider bane, will any of those help us against this thing?" she calls to Varn.
Round 4
Varn turns his attention back to the creature, taking several steps back away from it. "It's a peryton! They are evil creatures, but are not demons. The are weak against magical weapons, and beware their shadow ability. It makes you easier for them to attack." He snaps off another charges from his magical missile wand at the peryton!
Round 4_______________
Move act:
Orlando, embarrassed at his performance with that last cultist, rushes out of the room and dodges through his companions and rolls into position just north of the... whatever it is.
Standard act:
He slashes at the Peryton.
for a possible cold iron, slashing damage.
for a possible extra cold iron, slashing damage.
Tessai stares at the creature in front of her. GRitting her teeth, she swings Radiance as hard as possible - "Avast creature! Return to whence you came!"
Raven misses, Orlando crits and Tessai misses.
The creature focuses on Tessai having marked it's target.
Now because of the shadowmark each time Tessai is hit she must make a will save dc 15 or be shaken for 1 round.
Rn 6
"Foul abomination! I will unmake you!"
Aeron lines up a swing,
and lands a fearsome blow!
Round 5
Adalric extends a healing hand to Orlando.
Round 5_______________
Move act:
Orlando rolls into position just west of the creature, hopefully into a flank attack situation.
Standard act:
He thrusts at the Peryton.
for a possible cold iron, piercing and precision damage.
As both of the creature's hooves connect solidly with Tessai, she flinches at the strength behind them, but there seems to be something more, as there is also an assault on her mind and will.
Shrugging it away, Tessai smiles with appreciation at Orlando's intelligent positioning.
"Foolish monstrosity. Soon you will fall" - she reinforces the statement with a swing from
and the creature goes down.
Raven steps closer to the monstrosity just defeated. She turns it over with her boot, "What is this thing?" she asks with a tone of disgust and revulsion. "It looks like a mutated deer of the forest."
Orlando rolls up next to the door the creature came through and quickly darts his head out to look inside, then back again.
Varn lets out a sigh of relief upon seeing the creature fall. "It is called a peryton. They are vile, evil beasts that loathe all living beings. They have a sadistic delight in hunting intelligent creatures and feasting upon their hearts. What one is doing in here... I do not know."
He then goes back into the first room where they encountered the cultists to exam all the scrolls and books for information, also checking for any magical auras.
You find some potions on each cultist and the dwarf carries some magical scrolls but that is the only thing magical in room.
-5 potions
-3 scrolls
The bookcases and maps contain information on all current troop deployments and crusader activities around Kenabres.
"Is anyone injured?" After making sure everyone's healthy, Adalric tries to help Varn identify the magic items.
Varn will take a moment to analyze the items in an attempt to determine their nature while the rest of the group examines everything else...
Raven helps Aeron gather up the deployment and troop data to give to Lady Irabeth the next time they see her.
"Is anyone injured?" After making sure everyone's healthy, Adalric tries to help Varn identify the magic items.
The bookcases and maps contain information on all current troop deployments and crusader activities around Kenabres.
"This documentation..." - Tessai stammers - "How is it possible finding it here, in the hands of these most foul ones?!" - she shakes her head, fingers gripping tight the edge of the table, the wood creaking with the strain - "They know everything about our troops?" - then nods as Aeron and Raven gather the documentation.
Bookshelves line the walls of this small library. Many of the tomes have been torn to shreds, and smoldering piles of ashes fill the room with an acrid stench. One book on a circular table seems to have escaped destruction.
The tome is a manual of war.
Bound in bloodstained leather, this heavy tome is scarred like the flesh of a seasoned warrior and contains many generations of martial knowledge. Once per day, after studying the manual for 1 hour, a fighter may exchange one of her fighter bonus feats for another combat feat. She must meet the prerequisites for this new feat and she cannot alter a feat she is using as a prerequisite for another feat, prestige class, or other ability. This change persists for 24 hours, after which time the fighter's feats return to normal. The fighter may spend 10 minutes studying the manual to end its effects early.
Raven picks up the book and adds it to the loot taken by the party.
Room 1
A long table engraved with a relief map of Mendev stands to the east in this long room. A dozen bodies lie scattered about the room, each bearing a gaping empty hole in the chest. Nothing of value here.
Room 4
Six cots sit in two orderly rows in this room. The bedding has been tossed on the ground, and an iron lockbox lies on its side, empty. A lidless box holds scraps of moldering food, while a pair of large barrels nearby look to be filled with water. Nothing of value here.
Room 6
Several stacked horizontal shelves hold a number of small, straw-lined bird cages. A stack of parchment, three quills, a pot of ink, and a pile of tiny cylindrical objects cover a nearby table, while a small wooden door is in one corner of the room. This is the Aerie, all the birds have been killed. Nothing of value here.
Room 5
The southern portion of this room holds a wide alabaster basin filled with bloody entrails. The outside of the basin is carved with images of warriors around a raised sun, holding longswords aloft. A flight of stairs ascends to the floor above.
Tessai offers a prayer to Iomedae when they come across the alabaster basin - "I cannot accept this..." - she approaches the gore spectacle, her eyes focused in the images carved on its outside - "I want to see this over" - the whisper escapes her lips as the tiefling turns back to her companions - "Let us continue onwards and take this to its closure, whatever it may take - things like these are shameful, and once the Garrison is cleansed of its invasors, we must unde this profanity" - her tone is somber.
"Raven, Orlando, do you wish to scout the path ahead, and up the stairs? Or shall me and Aeron take point?"
"Oh, for Cayden's sake..." Muttered Orlando, exasperated at Tessai's delay.
"Tessai! Dash some holy water on it and genuflect if you must, but we have to move!" He barked, tumbling into place to glance up the stairs.
"I think that the time for surprise is long past, Orlando," Aeron says as he dumps out the entrails.
"This desecration keeps Iomedae from her house and strengthens our enemies. At this point there is nothing to be gained from haste and perhaps something to be gained from a little caution."
With the room as clean as it is going to get at this point, Aeron nods at Tessai and starts up the stairs.
Raven takes a deep breath and falls in behind Aeron, her bow at the ready in case trouble appears ahead.
"I was thinking of stopping the enemy before he uses the wardstone fragment he has to destroy ALL wardstones, our armies and letting the worldwound take over Golarion besides!" Orlando whispered as he started to creep up the stairway.
You clean the altar a little and it magically fills itself with crystal clear blue water. The water glows and shimmers, then gives you a vision of a circular room and woman with an insect like arm studying the wardstone fragments. The view then extends out of that room, through area another adjoining room to reveal a fiendish minotaur guard there, and finally down the stairs to show you looking into the pool before the waters go blank.
Orlando creeps up the stairs and can see the monstrous guard.
Orlando eases back down the stairs to report.
"There is a large fellow with an axe..." He broke off at the sight of the glowing font.
"Holy Fermented Grain did that actually work?" He swept his hat off his head and glanced upwards worriedly.
"Too large maybe to take down quietly?" - Tessai comments, moving up the stairs after her companions.
"Hammer beats axe," Aeron says grimly and charges up the stairs.
Varn gathers of the scrolls and potions until their properties are identified... He gulps back his stomach as it attempts to empty itself at the sight of the bloody basin. He helps cleanse the basin with several castings of Prestidigitation to assist in removing the blood and gore. "I believe we may be close to the end... We must be very cautious." He suddenly remembers his scale from Terendelev and removes the artifact before Aeron suddenly charges up the stairwell. He uses the item to protect himself from electrical damage.
Adalric assists the others in cleansing the basin. When his companions rush upstairs, he follows quietly.
Aeron charges up and find himself facing the demonic Minotaur.
The creature was expecting him and bellows a challenge as he arrives.
"At last! Battle! Come challengers show me your might!" he shouts swinging his enormous greataxes back and forth.
Ok Varn is up first but he is at the bottom of some circular stairs with a linup in front of him.
Varn quickly casts another layer of elemental protection over himself. Now protected against cold, Varn prepares himself to follow his comrades up the stairwell...
Round 1_________
Assumes Total Defense stance (AC26)
Standard: Casts Vanish.
Move: Invisibly, he moves up the stairs and into contact with the big guy; hopefully into a flanking position.
The minotaur charges Aeron horns down for the gore.