He brings his Chainsaw to life with a roar and swings it at the unknown creature.
It bites deeply into the thing.
Figgy hits it with a bomb and it writhes in pain as it burns.
Korvan misses with both swings.
Olimpia darts in again and stabs deep.
Geeting badly wounded wasn't in this creatures plans, it tries to dart away by going up. AOO from Raktar & Korvan.
Korvan to have his AOO.
Korvan finally finds his eye and ends the things existence.
Everything in the room has been smashed, but among the bones of the dead Dwarf you find three gems. As there is nothing else on the Dwarf they must have eaten the gems to hide them.
These three gems lie amid the bones:
A garnet worth 500 gp.
A sapphire worth 4,500 gp.
A pale blue rhomboid ioun stone. (+2 Str)
What are you doing now?
Dilana shakes her head as the creature dissipates sure that she will know what it was. "Some sort of air elemental. If we see anything like it again cold will do the most I think. Sorry i did not come up with that information earlier but no harm done really."
"This place is rather interesting, I could come back here and study for years.... we just have to kill the ghost wizard guy and then I can." Figgy says "One more room?"
Yea, too bad we cannot just talk to that wizard ghost. It seems totally insane.
Once the group identifies the ioun stone Olimpia suggests You might want to use this Korvan. I think it would benefit you the most.
"Thanks. If this little thing does what you folks say it does, yeah I think I can put it to use.
With the terrifying mist creature dead by Korvan's hand Raktar breathes easily. "What horrors will the last lab hold for us?" he wonders out loud.
"We could be lucky and it could be nothing." Figgy says with a weak smile
Again the doors are not locked or trapped, but they are airtight and very thick.
F17. Lab 3: Gaseous Ooze Research
The tables and shelves in this large laboratory are all coated with a thin greenish slime. One desk is heaped with pages of notes, and a human skeleton dressed in moldy robes lies slumped over it. A large glass tank atop the easternmost table is shattered and shards of glass litter the floor of the room, while a pale green haze floats in the air.
As the door opens to reveal the room the green haze pulls its self together into a large green cloud.
Horrid shapes form within this cloying green mist, which pulses sporadically and with seeming voracity.
Hungry Fog
N Huge ooze
Init -3; Senses Perception -5; Aura bewitching brume (10 ft., DC 8)
DEFENSE
AC 5, touch 5, flat-footed 5 (-3 Dex, -2 size)
hp 59 (7d8+28)
Fort +6, Ref -1, Will -3
Defensive Abilities gaseous, negative energy affinity; DR 10/magic; Immune acid, electricity, ooze traits, sonic; Resist cold 10
Weaknesses vulnerable to wind
OFFENSE
Speed fly 15 ft. (perfect)
Melee +5 touch (6d6 negative energy)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks enveloping mists (DC 17, 3d6 negative energy and staggered)
Base Atk +5; CMB +5; CMD 12 (can’t be tripped)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Bewitching Brume (Su)
Any creature within 10 feet of a hungry fog or currently being affected by its enveloping mists must succeed on a DC 8 Will save at the start of that creature’s turn or become shaken for 1 round at the half-glimpsed shapes of phantoms floating within the fog. This is a mind-affecting fear effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Enveloping Mists (Ex)
A hungry fog can engulf foes. A creature engulfed by a hungry fog does not gain the pinned condition and may move normally—such a creature is not in danger of suffocating, but as long as it begins its turn engulfed, it is staggered in addition to the damage the attack causes. The save DC to avoid the enveloping mists is Constitution-based.
Gaseous (Ex)
A hungry fog has a body composed of eerie mist. It can pass through small holes or narrow openings, even mere cracks, but cannot enter water or other liquid. It has no Strength score, and cannot manipulate objects as a result.
Vulnerable to Wind (Ex)
A hungry fog is treated as a Tiny creature for the purposes of determining the effects high wind has upon it.
As well as the cloud a dark, shadowy creature rises from the dead body and darts into the cloud.
This malignant cloud of shadows boils in the air, its skeletal maw eerily babbling as the creature’s claws manifest from the darkness.
Allip
CE Medium undead (incorporeal)
Init +5; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +7; Aura babble (60 ft., DC 15)
DEFENSE
AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 13 (+3 deflection, +1 Dex)
hp 30 (4d8+12)
Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +4
Defensive Abilities channel resistance +2, incorporeal; Immune undead traits
OFFENSE
Speed fly 30 ft. (perfect)
Melee incorporeal touch +4 (1d4 Wisdom damage)
Special Attacks babble, touch of insanity
Base Atk +3; CMB +4; CMD 17
Feats Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes
Skills Fly +16, Intimidate +10, Perception +7, Stealth +8
Languages Aklo, Common
SQ madness
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Babble (Su)
An allip constantly mutters to itself, creating a hypnotic effect. All sane creatures within 60 feet of the allip must succeed at a DC 15 Will save or be fascinated for 2d4 rounds. While a target is fascinated, the allip can approach it without breaking the effect, but an attack by the allip does end the effect. Creatures that successfully save cannot be affected by the same allip’s babble for 24 hours. This is a sonic, mind-affecting compulsion effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Madness (Su)
Anyone targeting an allip with a thought detection, mind control, or telepathic effect makes direct contact with its tortured mind and takes 1d4 points of Wisdom damage.
Touch of Insanity (Su)
The touch of an allip deals 1d4 points of Wisdom damage (DC 15 Will negates). A successful critical hit causes 1d4 points of Wisdom damage and 1 point of Wisdom drain (instead of double Wisdom damage). With each successful attack, an allip gains 5 temporary hit points. The save DC is Charisma-based.
What are you doing now?
Raktar almost recoils from the horrifying sight of a malevolent cloud that fills the last laboratory. He sees a small shadowy being rise into the cloud from a corpse on the floor. "That shadow is an allip," he calls out. "They're insane, and it'll try to spread it's insanity via it's touch or contact with it's mind."
Feeling that the level of danger beyond is significant, Raktar reaches deep into himself and calls upon his magic, a burst of silver light bathing him and his friends with the blessings of Brigh - her ingenuity and adaptability.
Choose one at the beginning of your turn:
•Increase speed by 30 feet.
•Stand up as a swift action without provoking an attack of opportunity.
•Take one extra attack as part of a full attack action, using highest base attack bonus.
•Gain a +2 bonus on attack rolls and a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
•Cast a single spell of 2nd level or lower as if it were an enlarged, extended, silent, or still spell.
HP 68/73, 19 non-lethal
AC 26, touch 14, flat-footed 25 (+10 armour, +1 Dex, +2 natural armour, +3 shield of faith)
Speed: 40 ft
Fort: +7 (+4 vs disease), Ref: +5, Will: +8 (+1 vs fear)
Conditions: bull's strength, lead blades, shield of faith, bless, expanded armour, blessing of fervor
Melee attack (+2 chainsaw): +12/+7 (+6/+1 BAB, +4 Str, +2 enhancement, +1 bull's strength, +1 bless, -2 Power Attack)
Melee Damage (+1 earthbreaker): 4d6+15 (+6 Str, +2 enhancement, +1 bull's strength, +6 Power Attack)
Dilana mouths the words "spread it's insanity' quietly to herself. So many interesting things since I left my cobblers shop. This is fascinating, I wonder if it could be harnessed... no... bad idea.
Being at the back of things and unable to see due to the tight quarters Dilana waits to see what is going on.
Figgy lobs a bomb at the creature hoping this thing doesn't like fire either.
FIggy then backs out of the way
That cloud is a Hungry Fog! Olimpia warns as she opts for the movement benefit of the blessing of fervor and begins to recount its strength's and weaknesses . She then spring attacks, adding Stay away from the thing as best you can. Do not let it envelop you!
"Have I mentioned how tired of gaseous creatures I am?" Korvan rhetorically asks.
"Figgy, get back let it come to us."
(blessing of fervor)
Figgy shreds the fog with fire, Olimpia slashes and darts away. Korvan dashes in and cuts what is left to pieces.
You all resist the maddening babbling of the Allip as it closes on Korvan
It's incorporeal hand just missing his flesh.
The party may now act.
Before Raktar can even raise his chainsaw the nightmarish fog dissipates as his friends hammer it into oblivion. The allip still fights on, but there is no space for Raktar to engage it. "Korvan, make a hole!" he calls out, waiting for his opportunity to strike.
HP 68/73, 19 non-lethal
AC 26, touch 14, flat-footed 25 (+10 armour, +1 Dex, +2 natural armour, +3 shield of faith)
Speed: 40 ft
Fort: +7 (+4 vs disease), Ref: +5, Will: +8 (+1 vs fear)
Conditions: bull's strength, lead blades, shield of faith, bless, expanded armour, blessing of fervor
Melee attack (+2 chainsaw): +12/+7 (+6/+1 BAB, +4 Str, +2 enhancement, +1 bull's strength, +1 bless, -2 Power Attack)
Melee Damage (+1 earthbreaker): 4d6+15 (+6 Str, +2 enhancement, +1 bull's strength, +6 Power Attack)
Dilana moves and peeks her head around the corner. If she can lock her gaze on the allip her eyes flash green as she attempts to hex it.
Korvan steps to the side allowing Raktar access to the allip. He then takes a series of heavy swings at the creature himself.
Olimpia considers using her last Ghost Touch ability of the day on the incorporeal undead, but since no one succumbed to the creatures call she decides to save it for the ghost. Choosing the speed enhancement from Blessing of Ferver she spring attacks the Allip.
Figgy outside the room will keep an eye out for the ghost mage.
Taking a step to the side to let aid arrive Korvan finds it unneeded as he easily slashes the babbling thing into nothing.
This lab was used by one of Furkas's more accomplished apprentices, a woman named Anada Visk. She was charged with the investigation of how certain gaseous creatures exhibit similarities to ooze creatures, combining features of vaporous and protoplasmic life. The green slime coating this chamber's walls, floor, and furnishings looks foul but is harmless-a nasty side effect of the creature that's dwelled within this room for so many years.
The body slumped against the desk is Anada's, and an examination of the notes on the table reveals the cause of her fate.
Her notes describe her research into a roiling mist imprisoned within a glass cage. The reports begin very clinically-enumerating the density, resilience, and indeterminate composition of the mist she has been tasked to study-but devolve quickly into senseless ravings about corpse-white faces speaking from within the mist.
She grew more and more obsessed and secretive, and the last entry reads, "Xoud has stopped checking up on me-it has been days since he stopped by. I think he might be planning to steal my research. I'm out of food, but I dare not exit the lab. I will shatter the tank and join with the hungry fog, and we shall then be as one!"
Treasure:
Anada's body still wears her voidfrost robe,
Robe, Voidfrost
Aura moderate abjuration and evocation; CL 10th; Slot body; Price 11,000 gp; Weight 1 lb.
DESCRIPTION
This blue and white silk robe gives the impression of ice and frozen fog forming over its surface.
The robe grants the wearer cold resistance 5 and increases the wearer’s caster level for all spells with the cold descriptor by +1.
Once per day on command, the wearer of the robe can emit a 20-foot-radius burst of cold. Creatures other than the wearer within the area take 2d6 points of cold damage (Reflex DC 16 half).
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
Craft Wondrous Item, Heighten Spell, resist energy, cone of cold; Cost 5,500 gp.
and at her side is a wand of Gust of wind (18 charges) she used to
handle several of her subjects.
Her spellbooks are among the objects stacked on the table.
Spells.
1st. Air bubble, Burning hands, Cause fear, Comprehend languages, Corrosive touch, Erase, Expeditious retreat, Glue seal, Invisibility alarm, Mage armor, Snapdragon fireworks.
2nd. Bestow insight, Blur, Continual flame, Glitterdust, Hypnotic pattern, See invisibility.
3rd. Air Geyser, Blast barrier, Cloak of winds, Disable contruct.
What are you doing now?
Raktar comes to a stop next to the collapsed form of the dead allip, his chainsaw poised to strike but ultimately unneeded. "This woman clearly lost her mind," he says as he quickly skims through her papers. "Xoud seems not to be the only one who'd gone mad in this tower."
"Very nice robe but not as useful as what I am already wearing. Should sell for good coin at least."
She flips though the spell book for a moment. "This will be more useful once there is some time to read it."
Someone should wear the robes for now. The cold resistance is good.
"Poor lady, an apprentice just left to her madness by her mentor, Brigh never does anything like that does she Raktar?" Figgy asks his fellow in the Lady of Gear's fatih.
"I may be able to copy some of those in time but spells aren't like Formulae." Figgy follows the larger folk
Having cleared this floor you advance stealthily up the stairs and reach the next level.
F18. Fourth-Floor Atrium
A wide balcony overlooks a spacious atrium here, its low iron
railing wrought with geometric symbols. A window high on the west wall is protected by narrow metal slats. Three doors stand in the east wall, but only the central door remains intact, with a short message written above it. The northern door has a hole burrowed through it, while the southern one has been completely smashed apart.
The stairs to the west lead down to area F13, while those to the south lead up to area F22. The door to area F19 bears a 3-foot-wide hole, as does the door at the top of the stairs leading up to area F22. The door to area F20 is labeled "Lab 4: Animal Research" and the door to F21 is broken apart-no sign of its label remains.
What are you doing now?
"Looks like something has burrowed out of there," Raktar says, pointing at the holed door, "and then up the stairs. Another of Xoud's nightmarish monstrosities, no doubt."
He looks around at the others before saying "My magic is starting to wane, I don't think we should push too much further today."
"Do you think is is safe to leave and come back Raktar? At the very least that ghost knows we are he and it will give time to prepare."
"I am running low on infusions as well, I have handed out most or used them up. It would be nice to clear this forsaken tower today but we don't need someone to get hurt seriously by pushing to hard." Figgy agrees with Raktar.
"I suppose there is a chance we get cornered on the way out," Raktar admits, "but he's had plenty of time to attack while we've been distracted with his various creatures and he hasn't bothered. I just feel like we'll be walking into trouble if we push on too far."
Stuck halfway up the stairs Dilana calls up.
"Were already here, be a shame to walk up for nothing. Lets check this level and go down. I can come towards the front, I have not used many spells being in the back."
She slips up to be second in line assuming that the group will do this level.
"That garden with the moth will be a good place to rest" Figgy says from the rear with Dilana
F21. Lab 5: Infernal Vapors Research
Both doors to this room are battered outward and hang askew on their hinges. The furnishings within-a pair of large metal cages and a desk-have been smashed to pieces and pushed together into a large nest.
This room held the two Achaierais that you killed on the floor below.
Treasure: The achaierais have formed a crude nest from mangled metal and splintered wood. The nest contains the remains of one of Xoud's assistants and his All tools vest.
What now?
"Looks like this is where the bird-demons lived," Raktar suggests, looking round at the destroyed room. "This looks useful," he says, digging out a leather vest from the pile of wreckage. "Anyone know what it is?"
An All Tool Vest. Should be quite handy for Figgy.
Figgy looks the vest over
Dilana doesn't let on that she is a little disappointed that they will be stopping for the day. The fact that they found a spell book has her interested.
Aura faint conjuration; CL 1st; Slot chest; Price 1,800 gp; Weight 5 lbs.
DESCRIPTION
This well-made leather vest bears numerous shiny metal buttons, which stud a number of bulging pockets.
Once per day, as a standard action, the wearer can speak the vest’s command word and order it to bring forth all the standard tools required to make checks for any one Craft skill. These tools appear in the countless pockets of the vest or, if too heavy, on the floor, on a nearby shelf, on a workbench, or in a toolbox or cupboard that appears nearby. Once summoned, they remain for 24 hours or until another creature touches them, whichever comes first.
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
Craft Wondrous Item, summon instrument; Cost 900 gp.
"Animal Research," Raktar says, reading the panel on the next door. "Sounds much less terrifying than the labs downstairs." He nonetheless raises his chainsaw, ready for something horrible on the other side of the door.
Anyone else imagining angry and mutated animals? Olimpia asks as she scouts ahead checking for traps.
"At the very least," Raktar replies, seeing that he and Olimpia were clear on the same page when it came to how they imagined the denizens of the tower.
Korvan chuckles at Olimpia's comment, "Hell, I'd almost be disappointed if weren't at this point."