Maelchar casts detect magic and scans both the body and the room... sighs when he realizes that detect magic isn't gonna work until the invisibility wears off... so he speaks. "I cannot use detect magic on him until the spell that makes him invisible wears off... when it does, I will scan him to find out what he might be carrying..."
He turns his attention to the rest of the room while maintaining the spell, just in case anything stored in the room might be magical.
"I am running lower on spells, but I'm not completely out yet, so if anyone needs healing, speak up while I have some left."
Reiko cleans her katana and retrieves her wakizashi - abandoned in the main hall - before searching the body of the Tiefling there and the others splayed across the different rooms.
XP 1 , 2 0 0
Male demon-blooded tiefling alchemist 5 (Path finder Player
Companion: Blood of Fiends 2 0)
CE Medium outsider (native)
lnit +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +10
DEFENSE
AC 23, touch 14, flat-footed 20 (+3 armor, +1 deflection, +3 Dex,
+2 natural, +4 shield)
hp 41 (5d8+15)
Fort +6, Ref +7, W i l l + 3; ; +4 vs. poison
Resist acid 5, electricity 5, fire 5
OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee dagger +3 (1d4/19-20)
Ranged bomb +7 (3d6+2 fire)
Special Attacks bomb 7/day (3d6+2 fire and catch fire, DC 14,
10-ft. radius)
Spel l - L i ke Abi l i t i es (CL 5th; concentration +6)
1/day-shotter (DC 13)
Ext racts Prepa red (CL 5th)
2nd- borkskin, blur, protection from arrows
1st- bomber's eye, cure light wounds,
expeditious retreat, shield, true strike
Before Combat Othirubo drinks
his mutagen to bolster his
Dexterity, then drinks an extract
of borkskin, blur, and shield.
During Combat Othirubo uses his
bombs in combat, switching to his
dagger once he's down to one bomb
(he saves this one for escape-see below).
Morale If he drops below 15 hit points, Othirubo uses
a smoke bomb to cover his retreat, then flees to
area P 1 8, knocking three times on the door to
area P6 if the PCs haven't already forced the
door open. He drinks elixirs of expeditious
retreat and cure light wounds along the
way as he gets the chance.
STATISTICS
Str 10, Dex 17, Con 14, I n t 14, Wis 10,
Cha 12
Base Atk +3; CMB +3; CMD 17
Feats Brew Potion, Iron Will, PointBlank
Shot, Precise Shot, Throw
Anything
Skills Bluff +6, Craft (alchemy) +10,
Disable Device +S, Knowledge
(arcana) +10, Perception +10, Sleight of
Hand +11, Spellcraft +10
Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common,
Hall it
SQ alchemy (alchemy crafting +5, identify
potions), mutagen, discoveries
(enhance potion 2/day, explosive
bomb, smoke bomb), poison use,
swift alchemy
Maelchar after the body is stripped of its good which happens while it is still invisible from the crafty Zeriax you see 3 potions (2 are the same), leather armor, and a ring all appear as magical.
Mundane items found are a wicked looking curved dagger, 4 holy symbols (2 of Iomedae, 1 of Shelyn, and 1 of Desna), a bottle of ??? alchemy check required, a portable alchemy kit, and 14 gp in small coins.
In the room you find a plain looking sword case and a MW alchemy lab.
Reiko you find that the 4 cultist all have: MW scythes, holy symbols, chainshirts, and 15gp each.
The searching of the bodies of the cultists and the alchemist will take a couple of minutes. For those that have minute level duration spells going they will all be expired.
What are the rest doing?
Reiko are you searching the tiefling rogues as well going back tot he beginning? If so you will spend a couple more minutes to loot the bodies.
potion one (with a duplicate)
potion two
leather armor
ring
+1leather amor
2 potions of cure light wounds
The leather armor seems to be slightly enchanted with a modicum of protectiveness for those who wear light armor, but I'm sure someone in the resistance can make use of it if we can't. These two potions are cure light wounds. This other potion and the ring are an enigma to me. Perhaps Pakak can solve the riddles."
He raises a brow in Pakak's direction and offers him the items to see if he can identify them while Reiko continues her search.
Zeriax stands up, dropping their bloody opponent on the floor - "We got somewhat carried away friends, but he was intent on murdering us all - one of the foulest opponents we have faced thus far" - he comments, starig at the broken form.
The monk retrieves his bow, and moves first to carefully search the area where the pit was created.
Then moves to stand watch by the door.
The leather armor seems to be slightly enchanted with a modicum of protectiveness for those who wear light armor, but I'm sure someone in the resistance can make use of it if we can't. These two potions are cure light wounds. This other potion and the ring are an enigma to me. Perhaps Pakak can solve the riddles."
He raises a brow in Pakak's direction and offers him the items to see if he can identify them while Reiko continues her search.
"mmm..." Pakak takes each item, casting detect magic upon each in turn.
"I'm afraid I cannot make hide nor hair of the ring either," He confesses.
As the healing engulfs him, and many others, the last of his wounds fade, "My thanks to you and your goddess, Samantha."
Potion of cure moderate wounds Pakak...
The room where the cultists we located...
Blood and filth smear floor of this long room. Six white stone statues of famous heroes line the hall-each clawed, bloodstained, partially smashed, or otherwise defaced. At the far end of the hall, a raised dais holds an upturned alabaster altar. Sitting atop the upside-down altar is a hideous mass of severed limbs that have been stitched together into a vile monstrous insectoid shape. Before the dais, seven ratty bedrolls have been laid out on the floor.
The alchemist room...
A long table and six chairs have been pushed against the western wall. On the opposite wall, a tapestry depicting a map of Mendev hangs from a silver rod-the tapestry has been slashed several times and splashed with filth. A bedroll sits on the floor, and on the nearby table is an array of alchemical devices and a long wooden sword case wrapped with cords, as if ready for travel.
Zeriax at the far end of the long room by the dias you see a faint outline of a doorway that alsmot seems to glow once the alchemist has been killed.
The door is quite easy to see now that the alchemist is dead. As Zeriax noted there is a faint glowing outline around it. With it glowing like that it would be impossible to miss but from the looks of the dust around it no one has moved the door at all. Almost simultaneously you all recall the dream you had the previous night. Perhaps Iomedae is indeed watching you and by clearing out this area of her temple she is allowing you to see what others can not.
Observing the door that seemed to go unnoticed before, Zeriax comments to the others - "This is most unusual - there seems to be some sort of glow around this doorway. I cannot say why... As well it seems to have been untouched for long..." - he adds - "We should see what lies beyond"
Reiko quickly heads back to the front door and looks for a way to secure it.
Reiko you have the key to the from door although you chose to pick the lock the first time. As you lock the door Zeriax announces that he does not see any traps on the door. He also does not notice any mechanism to open the door either, no hinges, keyhole, knob, or anything else of note.
"Another healing potion, a moderately powerful one I'll wager."
"I dunno. I think it is glowing for a reason, calling us to it... the intruders did not see it thus or they would have entered it, perhaps we are being led to it for good cause?" He approaches the door and gently touches it along the edge and offers a brief prayer to Iomedae for guidance and wisdom.
The door glows slightly but does not open.
"Not wise to refuse a sign from a goodly goddess I think."
Having locked the front door, Reiko returns and eyes the glowing door. "The Lady reveals the door but perhaps we must find our own way in. This isn't exactly my forte..." The samurai pulls out a worn set of picks and other tools and begins probing for a mundane way to open the door.
Garith this is still an alter to Iomedae but you do not see an icon like the other with a hidden message.
Reiko you work on the door but it does not give way to your efforts.
"Perhaps Radiance is the key somehow, Garith? or the words from the other wall... what were they again?"
Reiko puzzles over the doorway that defies her efforts to open it, "Or possibly the sword in the sealed case?"
Reiko widens her search, looking at and around the altar for any clue as to how to open the door.
Wracking his memory, finally Maelchar utters what he hopes are correctly the words seen on the wall. "Let us inherit thine arms, Iomedae," hoping that perhaps the words might be the key to opening this door somehow.
If that doesn't work, he looks to the others and shrugs.
Reiko you look around the altar and the stone pillars and even the statues and the ceiling. Nothing outside of the faint glowing outline of a doorway is visible to you to indicate that something is hidden at all.
Maelchar recites the prayer that Pakak found in the other room. The outline of the door flashes brightly and a slight humming sound can be heard. The glow recedes until it fades out but the bright light is still burned into your retinas illuminating the blank door.
Zeriax smiles at the smart thinking on Maelchar - "Well done"
He keeps watch however, blinking the bright light from his eyes.
Reiko tries to open the (hopefully) unlocked and untrapped secret door.
Garith, I need a will save at +2 please as Reiko disappears from view.
Garith you manage to walk through the wall where the door was located and see...
This small chamber is free of dust. A holy symbol of lomedae hangs unmolested on the wall above a weapon rack filled with swords, crossbows, and spears. Three wooden dummies wear pristine suits of armor. A shelf holds several leather quivers, each stamped with a golden sun. Two silver shields hang from pegs on the wall.
"Well done indeed," Pakak is pleased. True, Iomedae is not his goddess, and he's sure whatever awaits is for a follower, but any divine help of goodly nature gives him hope they'll yet triumph.
She bows respectfully to the symbol and steps back towards the doorway, whispering the news.
"This is an armory and Iomedae's symbol hangs still. There are several impressive suits of armor, silver shields, swords, spears, crossbows, and stamped quivers filled with arrows... I am not Iomedae's so I dare not touch her belongings here."
Although you are not a direct follower of deity Iomedae as called here, your religious followings of Shizuru are akin and similar to Iomedae. You feel like part of you belongs here and that you are a kindred spirit.
From behind the doorway the rest of you hear "This is an armory and Iomedae's symbol hangs still. There are several impressive suits of armor, silver shields, swords, spears, crossbows, and stamped quivers filled with arrows...
The doorway shimmers and you can tell that it is an illusion of a door but nothing substantial resides there any further.
Maelchar sighs... and says "It's merely an illusion of a door... the passage is clear." and he walks through the door, or attempts to.
When Maelchar enters the chamber, he begins by casting detect magic and scanning the room, examining the magic items, if any.
If there is more than one magic item, he calls to Pakak, "Gonna need your help here, master Pakak... I cannot tell what magics these things carry."
When Pakak enters, he points out the magic items, if any, though sure that Pakak will be able to see them himself after a brief moment of casting.
To enter the room you still need to make the will save but now at a +2 to the save...
Maelchar you realize that there is a +1 longsword, along with 5 arrows of similar make, a separate arrow, a breastplate with the symbol and a shield with the symbol of Iomedae that are all magical.
While you are doing this Reiko catalogs the remaining items and finds three cold iron longswords, two cold iron shortswords, two heavy crossbows, a composite longbow ( +2 Str), a masterwork cold iron heavy mace, two cold iron longspears, 50 cold iron crossbow bolts, 100 cold iron arrows, two sets of masterwork chainmail and one MW heavy steel shield.