Before Edwin can drop his bow, Dawn brings the glaive down heavily upon fairy. *SPLASH!* It doesn't come back up.
The feral fish-woman on the wall of trophies screams in frustration.
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Shaking his head to clear it, Bob looks around. 'Whats goin on 'ere? Wait wasn' I jess in the hall o'er there? OYE! We's a fightin!'
Raising his musket, he aims for the strange woman. "Yas needin ta learn you sum manners, m'lady! I...." trailing off as he sees the water glistening off his musket, he frowns. "Ruttin...dun messed up me powder! That aint gun do me no good."
Quickly the man empties the barrel and sets to reloading it. Tugging the stopper from the powder horn, he dumps a few grains down the barrel and begins packing his wad as he returns the stopper.
Holding a finger up, he advises "Be witcha in a moment."
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Razka continues to sway gently even after the singing stops, a blissful, mouth open grin on his face.
"Hey! I was listening to that!" he says with a scowl when it stops.
Then, his eyes open wide with shock and post dated fear and he claps both hands over his mouth, muffling what comes out next.
"My teeth! You were going to take my beautiful teeth!"
Anger makes it easy for him to summon up the power to fling magic at the toothy woman.
The magic missile splashes harmlessly off the woman. She sniffs condescendingly. "Teeth shouldn't talk back!"
Round 3! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Small woman with strange teeth, and webbed hands and feet
__ Dawn -2 hp (bleed 1), -1 Cha
__ Edwin
__ Vina/Lakadee
__ Razka
__ Bob
__ Elianna -4 hp
Unable to move very far, Elianna returns fire, and puts a bolt in the wall just below the crotch of climbing tree. It makes a solid *thunk* followed by a sort of *wawawawawawa* noise as it vibrates back and forth.
The small woman puts on a pair of oversized, horn-rimmed spectacles and says sweetly through her tusks to Vina, "You wouldn't hit a girl with glasses on, would you?"
Round 4! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Small woman with strange teeth, and webbed hands and feet SR 12
__ Dawn -3 hp (bleed 1), -1 Cha
__ Edwin
__ Vina/Lakadee (Vina - Will save DC 17, but with a +5 bonus)
__ Razka
__ Bob
__ Elianna -4 hp
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Smiling broadly, Bob raises his musket and takes aim. "Now be my turn ta join the shindig!"
Breathing slowly in...and out...in...and out, he gets the lady in glasses in his sights and slowly squeezes the trigger...**BaBOOM** rings out in the small room as a gout of flame blows out the end of his strange weapon.
"OW!" says the woman. "That really hurt, you jerk! You could put an eye out with that thing!"
The bullet bounces off side of her head with about half the effect that Bob would normally expect, sure the stream of water that followed the bullet out of the rifle might have something to do with it, but still.
Dawn prods the woman. "How rude! I'll have you know I'm a lady! It says so in the text!"
Edwin goes next to the Lady.
"You must be destroyed!"
"'Destroyed?' Hah! I think not! You'll all be my little babies! You and all your beautiful white teeth!"
Round 4! (Theme ♬)
The Bold May Act!
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__ Small woman with strange teeth, and webbed hands and feet SR 12 -10 hp
__ Dawn -3 hp (bleed 1), -1 Cha
__ Edwin
__ Vina/Lakadee
__ Razka
__ Bob
__ Elianna -4 hp
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Seeing her party closing in and knowing her crossbow isn't effective anyway, Elianna moves to the door and tries to close it to prevent escape. If it doesn't look like the door will move due to the flow of water she will instead draw her bladed scarf from around her waist and ready an action to attack enemies of the party if they approach her.
"I was just about to say something about how I never hit a lady with glasses, I guess I'm not technically hitting you so much as projecting focused magical energy at you," Razka says before projecting focuse magical energy at her.
"'Destroyed?' Hah! I think not! You'll all be my little babies! You and all your beautiful white tee-"
ZAP!
"-EEEETH!" the lady shouts and then falls like a plank into the water. **SPLASH!**
Seeing her party closing in and knowing her crossbow isn't effective anyway, Elianna moves to the door and tries to close it to prevent escape. If it doesn't look like the door will move due to the flow of water she will instead draw her bladed scarf from around her waist and ready an action to attack enemies of the party if they approach her.
Elianna moves toward the door unwrapping her waterlogged scarf from her waist, but it doesn't look like the small woman is going anywhere.
Looking back, Razka notices something larger than the average stuffed bird floating in the gilt cage in the alcove near the doorway.
"Well that twere a bloomin mess! Whatcha lookin at Razka?" inquires Bob as he quickly reloads. The man takes special care to keep it all above the water...causing a bit more difficulty than usual.
There's something strange about the birdcage.
Dawn sticks the tooth back in its socket, pulls out her hand and hands it to Vina.
Like a troll's limb the healing magic reattaches the tooth to Dawn's gum.
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Razka is just about to begin the traditional, insufferable gloating over a fallen foe when something in the cage catches his eye. He wades toward it, stopping just outside to examine the contents.
"Dunno, yet, Bob. But you might want to have that fancy boomstick of yours ready, just in case," Razka answers his companion.
Nested among a few dozen floating taxidermy birds of various species is a seemingly paralyzed humanoid form. The figure is still breathing, but unnaturally immobile.
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Virml is up to his neck in water, his hands grasping the bars, his mouth fixed in a nearly toothless scream. Only his tear-filled eyes move. They dart about imploringly as the party members draw near.
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"Hey, it's Virml the... Helpless? What are you doing here?" Dawn seems confused.
"Careful where you swing those, little shrub. Unlike you, Wirml won't grow back his arm if you smash it off."
She pulls out her warhammer. "That being said, let's smash a hole in those bars and get Virml out of there."
If it has been less than 2 minutes since Lady Gormandelle attacked, Dawn's Monkey Fish spell is still active. She'll swim underneath and haul Virml out of there.
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Lakadee steps cautiously forward. Tentatively the trent raises his keg-sized fists suddenly slams them down on the cage folding it into a more envelope-like shape somewhere beneath the waterline. Tiny stuffed birds with glass eyes bubble up to the surface.
There's a long pause as everyone just stares.
Dawn determines where Virml is pinned by prodding about with her warhammer. The second a huge gout of air bubbles to the surface rises to the surface (as if it had been forced out of someone by a walking tree having stepped on them) Dawn dives down and hauls the paralyzed man out of the wrecked cage.
The man emerges senseless, paralyzed, nearly toothless, with bleeding gums, and with birdcage grill marks impressed into his exposed skin.
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Swimming. Dawn wishes she were good at it. Anytime she tried to practice, some kind of joke would kick in and she'd think about how inconvenient webbed feet would be. You can't wear socks, you'd tear the front of the sock. And even if you did, it would get soggy when you'd go swimming (because you have webbed feet. Of course you would swim all the time!) so why wear them? Watching Foremother swim as well as she walks just made Dawn more jealous, so she never learned how to really dive deeply.
Wait, Dawn lost her train of thought again. Look for Virml.
With the spell still active, she dives down, grabs the guy and swims back to the surface, plopping him atop one of the book cases.
"Hey Vina, can you use my wand again to stop his bleeding gums? It's amazing he's still alive."
"Hopefully that did it. Now he can explain how he got down here. Didn't Shaine send him to transcribe some of the dry scrolls?"
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No bookshelves in this room, but there is a stuffed rhinoceros missing a pair of big grinding molars, and some cropping teeth up front.
The magical healing seals Virml's bleeding gums, and improves his general greenish pallor a bit.
After a while, his ridged muscles soften enough for him to unbend and speak.
"Thwang goodbehs you are heay, who-ebbah you are." burbles the man though his ruined mouth. "Ah it was howwahbhul, simpwee howwahbhul."
He begins to explain how he came to be imprisoned, unfortunately this takes a while as he goes accustomed to his newly acquired lack of teeth.
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"'Who needs a key when you can smash?' should be a Pathfinder motto," Razka says as the tremendous clang generated by wood wailing on iron sounds through the chamber. He stops his search for said key, but does not stop searching the room in general, still seeking out a specific tome (looking for a friend...)
Should the explanation take longer than his search, Razka grows impatient. "The rest of the story can be told walking, can it not? Unless you have something important to tell us about this particular room? I'd like to finish searching this place before I have to do it while treading water."
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Elianna narrows her eyes at the discovery of Virml, and casts detect magic to sweep the area as she tries to catch Dawn's attention by speaking in Elven.
"Αν αυτός είναι ο Virml, ο οποίος αναφέρθηκε στη Shaine και την Zarta και είναι έξω εκεί που εισήγαμε??"
"'Who needs a key when you can smash?' should be a Pathfinder motto," Razka says as the tremendous clang generated by wood wailing on iron sounds through the chamber. He stops his search for said key, but does not stop searching the room in general, still seeking out a specific tome (looking for a friend...)
Razka finds a sack full of hundreds of teeth, many of them humanoid, and cast in silver or gold.
Should the explanation take longer than his search, Razka grows impatient. "The rest of the story can be told walking, can it not? Unless you have something important to tell us about this particular room? I'd like to finish searching this place before I have to do it while treading water."
"I thupoth tho." says the absolutely miserable sounding Virml. He gets up and follows the party led by Edwin to the next door. He begins to explain his sad tale.
After a hard walk through deep water Edwin opens the next door on the southwest.
Edwin tries the knob on the door. It appears to be locked. Edwin doesn't hear anything on the other side the sound of the levels various waterfalls drowning out any sound.
"Oh yef, thass my naam. How dib you nobe? Hab we meb befow?"
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"Oh poor man... s-s-stand still will you? and give me a boost" says the small-sized vanara as she grabs the bag of teeth from Razka. Her feet resting on Virml's hands, one by one, she re-sockets the proper teeth in the man's gums, making sure they are the right ones.
Satisfied that the man has all of his teeth again, she uses a charge of her wand of cure light wounds to make them take root again.