"Got it. Have you seen a creep named Lowls?"
Where are these Stela?
"I do not recognise the name Lowls I'm afraid, the thing I worry about is the Pallid Mask.
Where the stelae is is a bit difficult to explain. Carcosa is more than just a city, it is a collection of ideas. These are connected by a nexus, only by travelling to one can you find the way to the next and so on. The nexus in this area is not too far and can lead you to the next, but I should warn you the way to the nexus can be dangerous."
We have been in danger since the day we dreamed of getting killed by a guy named Tatterman. I'm ready
"Aye, lead the way!"
"Let's go!
"The oppressive basalt walls wind through the Neruzavin nexus. The rock walls are rough and uneven and riddled with peculiar protrusions and shapes. You see a solitary figure standing in the moonlight as if waiting for you. He appears to wear a white mask and is dressed in pale yellow priestly robes. It beckons you to come closer.
Cassilda whispers, "It is the Pallid Mask, the King's emissary. It is he who brought damnation upon all of my people, including my daughter. There are unwritten rules that govern us both. I dare not oppose him directly, for the King will punish that affront. Yet the Stranger has learned his horrid master does nothing when I defend only myself. So we are at a stalemate. I may discover something of the stelae you seek, though, while he is distracted with you. So play his game. Just be wary."
”Anyone need to do anything before we approach,” Atajay calls out. Once the others were ready, he leads them forward.
Got my hammer so I am all set.
Penith peaks out from behind Senn and shakes her head at needing to do anything first.
"As good as I will ever be."
The Pallid Mask calls out to you,
"I would parley. The King in Carcosa knows you travellers and thus so do I. You are delivered into the hands of the Unspeakable One, but you already belong to him. Carcosa is his child, and he is Carcosa. Carcosa birthed Xhamen-Dor, who is now one with a certain Count Haserton Lowls, with whom you are well acquainted. You were marked long ago.
If you swear fealty to Hastur and gaze upon the Yellow Sign of your own free will He will grant you crowns of gold and make your lords in the new reality that waits. You are already damned because of the actions you took in service to Count Lowls and the sacrifice of your memories in the Dreamlands.
You took his coin, supped at his table, and drank from his cup. The service you gave Lowls was in service to the King, to Carcosa. Accept your fate, because you will not avoid it in death."
Smash time? Trevor asks Atajay.
"I don't want to be lords of anything." Penith says to her companions, softly, reaching into her bag for a very nice rock.
"You jerk. We didn't get crap from Lowls and we sure as hell won't be taking any from you!"
Trevor takes Domeric's reply has a hard no and attacks!
Before Atajay could think of anything to add, it was go time!
The Pallid Mask looks at Trevor and stares deeply at him
- Trevor Will 28 or confused
Using Improved Iron will for reroll
Trevor's eyes cross
It was such a nice rock, Penith thinks as it starts veering off course through the air. Wind currents or just over-eager throwing, the world may never know.
Spellcraft to figure out what he did to Trevor.
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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon against self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie, 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead, nay not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was, to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the wings of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him, As if the increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet within a month - Let me think not on't; frailty, thy name is woman - A little month, or ere these shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she - O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer - married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her gall'd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Senn will cast suppress charms and compultions freeing Trevor seeing that this is a brain thing of some sort.
Then she will have Bitey attack.
Domeric begins his song and casts Beacon of Luck.
Penith's rock just bounces off the Pallid Mask's skin.
Atajay you recognise the spell as confusion.
Bitey manages to claw and bite the creature twice but not all of the damage gets through
Trevor charges!
Bitey! Jump off my back and eat his head!
[i]Trevor deals the Mask a mighty blow.
In retaliation the Mask tries to touch Trevor.
Penith stays in the back again, pelting with rocks.
Ahhh! I'm melting! I'm melting!
Trevor uses Pugnacious to enlarge his hammer for 1 round and full attacks.
Due to being ghosty, damage is cut in half
Hammer the Gap. If attacks 2 and 3 hit. Attack 2 does 1 extra point and if 2 and 3 hit, 3 does 2 extra damage
Penith's rock flies through the air and strikes the Pallid Mask doing a considerable amount of damage.
Trevor strikes the Mask three times, but hardly any of the damage gets through.
Domeric Hastes the party!
The archer pulls back his bowstring and fires multiple arrows at the enemy.
Attack with PBS, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, GMW, Haste, Greater Bane, Divine Power and IC
Damage plus
sonic plus
Greater bane
Attack with PBS, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, GMW, Haste, Greater Bane, Divine Power, IC
Damage plus
sonic plus
Greater bane
Haste Attack with PBS, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, GMW, Haste, Greater Bane, Divine Power, IC
Damage plus
sonic plus
Greater bane
Iterative Attack with PBS, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, GMW, Haste, Greater Bane, Divine Power, IC
Damage plus
sonic plus
Greater bane
Senn will focus on supressing charms and compulsions keeping Trevor in the fight
Then she will have Bitey attack.
[i]Atajay unleashes a volley of arrows that pierces the Pallid Mask's arrow doing considerable damage. Bitey darts across and starts to attack the Mask but only one of the attacks gets through.
The Mask tries to attack Bitey in retaliation.
Trevor keeps smashing!
Penith tries to repeat her epic mask smashing shot, and fails spectacularly.
Between Trevor and Penith the Pallid Mask falls.
Loot: +3 quarterstaff
"Trevor just a little longer until your brain is clear and I can let this spell down. Cassilda what now that king in this area is dead?"
Senn, how about a magic staff for you in case Bitey isn't near?
"He was only the messenger I fear, there may be other dangers here, you will need to tread carefully."
Trevor leads the way east.
The wind carves basalt walls part here, opening into a large, empty space. Tall, irregular towers riddled with holes like titans' flutes jab at the sky. On the northeast wall of this canyon is a sunken relief sculpture of a massive robed humanoid, exquisitely hewn from living rock and thirty feet tall. A passage that leads to the east reveals a wide chasm and rubble where it looks like the ground split open. A cold, dry wind blows constantly.
Knowing Penrith was a better healer than he was, Atajay asks the Mistress of the thrown rock if she could help heal him after the last encounter.
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Penith perks up, since almost no one ever asks her to heal them. With Senn's amazing healing abilities she understands, but STILL... "YES!" a blurting exclamation in the midst of ruin and wind, before she composes herself "I mean... yes, I can help with that." she smiles, no Beams, at Atajay as she rests her hands on his wounds.
You can heal people? Wow! What else can you do?
Penith nods quickly up and down like a bobber on a fishing pole, still smiling. "Just rocks... oh, I like to imagine building things. Maybe once this is over I'll..." she shrugs not really knowing what that would be, but it is nice to dream.
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"Penith is a very talented heal and Trevor is a doctor and I do my healing. If you die in this group you did something very wrong."
Senn, there is a magical aura about 30 feet in the air above you all.