"If they got a sample of everyone's blood maybe they could control or take away that persons soul, who knows what they can do? Damn!" She moves in the front line.
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During the afternoon and into the evening, a small crowd of patrons gathers here,15 people circulating in small groups. Some of the patrons pass around small pipes and even offer some to friendly PCs. The pipes create a slight haze of chemical laden smoke, making everyone a little light-headed.
The lethe house is run by Drollis, a lazy, foul-smelling dwarf who relishes his position of authority. He sits in a large armchair in the corner, flirting crudely with female patrons and laughing raucously at jokes only he gets. A ceremonial stand behind him is topped with a jagged circular object covered by a heavy cloth. Drollis occasionally targets a spittoon to the side of his chair with a large gob of tobacco spit.
When the Pathfinders arrive, Drollis is friendly and offers to let them sample a few doses of lethe. The foul dwarf even invites the PCs to tour the lethe house. He waddles around the lethe house, grunting and complaining quietly to himself as if he were burdened greatly by the effort.
If the PCs comment about the ceremony room, ask about Lissala, or mention the Feast of Sigils, Drollis explains that he and a small number of worshipers of Lissala use the lethe house for a feast celebrating the goddess. He even invites them back later in the evening to participate in or observe the Feast of Sigils. He does ask that animals and otherworldly creatures wait in the lobby during the ceremony.
Drollis meets inquiries about other missing people that might be tied to the lethe house with smooth denials, and points out that lethe is never lethal or even addictive, and has few side effects. If pressed, Drollis assures the PCs that all the activities that take place in the lethe house are done with the consent of the clients and they are free to talk to any of the patrons.
"Well, we will think about taking a look at it, what time does everyone gathers here for the Feast? And if you don't mind, can you give me a hint here on how is the ritual?" She looks almost child-like asking questions to the loose-tongued NPC.
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You arrive back in time for the feast.
Several shelves filled with books and small containers line the north and east walls of this room. The floor is covered with a lush red rug, and the walls are decorated with oaken and cherrywood panels inlaid runes with at regular intervals. Black and burgundy satin curtains block the room’s small windows high on the north and east walls. An oaken veneer covers each of the three doors heading east, west, and south out of the room.
The centerpiece of the room is a large, seven-sided table with an ornate, seven-pointed star inlaid into the surface. Between the points of the star, seven blackened runes are also set in the oak. Seven chairs with filigree backs surround the table; each chair back exhibits a rune that corresponds with a rune on the table.
The feast is fairly short and simple. Seven people sit around the table and Drollis passes the Chalice of Signs around to each person. Participants read a brief prayer to Lissala from a slip of parchment and cut their arms to bleed into the chalice. At this point, participants feel drained as the magic of the chalice also pulls a small portion of each one’s soul to power the magic. Drollis then mixes a small amount of ink with the blood in the chalice and intones a final prayer. The chalice glows briefly, then Drollis pulls out seven wafers and dips a small brush into the blood and uses it to paint a small, unique sigil on each, which he passes to one of his thugs to distribute.
Drollis’s thugs and any PCs participating receive a wafer that restores their now-sullied souls and benefits while nonpaying participants aren’t allowed to eat their the sigil wafers. Drollis carefully places
any wafers from the nonpaying patrons into a small gilded box and places it on a shelf behind him. At that point, Drollis reaches over and pulls the cover from the holy symbol of Lissala,
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You do not have to participate. Those who do gain the benefits of
If instead someone other than the person whose soul is inside the wafer consumes it, she gains a +2 profane bonus to an ability score of her choice for 1 year. A character can benefit from only one bonus from a sigil wafer at a given time. The person whose soul fragment was in that wafer loses that part of his soul permanently, so consuming a wafer in this way is an evil act. The one consuming the wafer shifts her alignment one step toward evil. Players who do so should be given the opportunity to atone for such actions before the scenario’s conclusion if such an alignment shift would result in their removal from the Pathfinder Society Organized Play campaign.
Those who failed the save:
Seoni 26
Drollis & 2 thugs 19
Seelah 10
Algar 4
Thoth 1
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Thoth refuses the wafer if that is indeed an option.
If Seoni casts glitterdust Thoth will not cast invisibility. Rather he will use Greater Feint to deny a thug it's dexterity bonus until the beginning of my next turn. Thoth will avoid getting adjacent to any foes with his second move action.
Thoth looks around groggily, he knows that once again his bodies immune system has failed him. As he shakes the cobwebs out of his head he attempts to get the attention of a Thug.
"I just can't seem to get my rapier out of its sheeth. Oh my!"
Move action: Greater Feint Thug
Knowing that whatever it is that ails him is preventing him from being as effective as normal. Thoth swiftly eyes Drollis and studies this particular opponent for any weaknesses or blatant tactics.
Swift Action: Kirin Style on Drollis
Amiri also follows Seelah, moving in to flank and attacking the dwarf with a Surprise Accuracy:
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Retcon, sorry Seoni, I glazed over the post.
One of the thugs is blinded, miss chance = low bad Events occur as planned.
Seelah's first attack misses the dwarf, he lazily ducking the first blow, only to be set up for the follow up which angerly slices into his shoulder (14 damage)
Amiri moves into catch the dwarf while he is off guard and takes a large gash into his back (40 damage)
Algar moves to relieve the stress put on thoth from the thugs, clubbing one repeatedly.(31 damage)
Quelion casts haste as the world around the Pathfinders slows down...
Next Round...
Seoni you're up.
Amiri pays no heed to the guard that just attacked her. She focus on the blind, dangerous dwarf in front of her.
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Seelah delivers two telling blows to the dwarf sending him sprawling to the floor in a pool of his own blood.
Algar misses wildly with several swings before finally connecting with the thug. (43 damage)
Seoni fries the thug with a lightning bolt, save or no he goes down (dead)
Amiri finishes off the final thug making him a fine paste on the walls of the room. (dead)
COMBAT OVER.
To your east is the door you entered the chapel through, to the south lies two seperate doors. to the West lies a single door as of yet unexplored
The still enraged barbarian some effort in the task of NOT breaking the door down and opens it, sword in hand.