Cloudia
Lukian
Mao
Travail
Blue
Aurus
Green
"Are you all right in there? I can barely see you!"
Once again Cloudia lets loose the effective missile of force, targetting the same figure as before, sensing that one more magic missile is all that is needed to put it down.
[dice=MM damage]1d4+1
Cloudia shoots a magic missile at a fresh target(blue), almost putting it to rest.
The gnome will enter with care and shot an acid blob at the blue monster
Succes
Lukian shoots and kills the already hurt 'blue' black echelon.
Miraculously the open poison bottle lands on the pile of grain without spilling or breaking!.
Mao continues to wander through the fog and tries to look for Aurus. He readies his fist to attack the first hostile creature to approach him.
You easily spot Aurus in the pile of grain and you can make out he's still quite alive and kicking.
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It looks like my former steed has found some hay. he says with a laugh.
Travail walks forward and shoots a single arrow point blank range at the remaining agent.
Potential Hit
Hits
Passes through the agent harmlessly.
Aurus
Green
Cloudia
Lukian
Mao
Travail
Aurus continues to struggle with the pouring rain of cereal, but he does manage to call upon his divine powers to keep on going.
[dice=Lay On Hands]1d6
He then takes a swing at the foe facing him and Mao.
The last remaining operative moves to the open poison vial.
Mao makes an effort to catch up to the remaining echelon.
Mao makes an effort to catch up to the remaining echelon.
Mao moves and suddenly all sound is gone! From the grain jumps yet another black echelon who tries to open the flowhatch direclty above Mao
miss
Succes
Succes
Mao succesfully jumps away and avoids the cascade of grain!
The green operative readied attack triggers and he tries to claw Mao
Hits for
[dice=Strength]1d20+3
Aurus struggles again with the grain, slipping and sliding, and isn't quite able to reach the final echelon member. He holds the mace in one hand as he draws a dagger and throws it desperately at the foe.
Aurus's dagger hits, but does minimal damage.
Cloudia
Lukian
Travail
Green
Orange
Aurus
Mao
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Thinking quickly, and figuring th evial must be important, Cloudia steps into the room and casts a DC 16 grease spell on the vial.
Travail shoots two arrows
Hits for None comes through
Misses
Lukian splashes some acid
Hits for
The two remaining Black Echelon attack Mao
Hits for
Party is up!
Now that the vial is safely greased, Cloudia returns to the faithful magic missile and lets go with another miniature mote of force against orange.
[dice=MM damage]1d4+1
The Agent Orange manages to survive the arcane assault.
Mao unleashes a flurry of blows to the more weakened echelon.
[dice=Flurry 1]1d20 + 2
[dice=Flurry 2]1d20 + 2[dice=Damage]1d6 + 2
[dice=Damage]1d6 + 2
Mao destroys the heavily damaged echelon.
Aurus moves up to the last echelon and swings his flail
for
and pulverizes it!
Combat is over
Yargos Gill joins you.
"You destroyed the Black Echelon and managed to prevent them of poisoning the grain with their awful gut wither poison!"
He sees the single opened vial and says: "Close that quickly! We don't want it airborne!"
Nine more ceramic vials of Gut Wither are still in an ancient rusted metal chest.
"Ok, back to the mission! Let's get to Grandmaster Torch"
Desperate to find Nessian, Yargos takes you into the sewer maze of the Puddle District, a waterlogged labyrinth of dangerously flooded tunnels known as the Siphons. There you find the receiving room of Grandmaster
Torch, one of Absalom’s most notorious information brokers. Yargos warns you that Grandmaster Torch has powerful friends and bodyguards and that they would be wise to keep their weapons sheathed.
After requesting an audience, you are brought before the Grandmaster.
Grandmaster Torch lounges in a shallow pool nursing horrible burn scars that cover his entire body, while two servants gently recycle the water over his charred form. Two heavily armored, half-orc bodyguards remain close at hand.
With a soft spoken voice he says
"Welcome Pathfinders, how can I be of assistance?"
In a dramatic voice, Cloudia responds, "We have to find Nessian. He is putting the entire city at risk. We could all die!"
"I indeed know where the upstart Nessian has carved out his new base of operations. I'm a bit reluctant to sell this information, as ratting out a potential future underworld leader of Absalom might be dangerous in itself. My normal price for such a thing would be around 6,000 gp, which a group of yours is unlikely to afford."
"Well, you got that right, nor do I feel much like paying criminals and disaster profiteers," Aurus says with barely concealed contempt. "But you got a different offer, don't ya?"
"That's quite an accusation coming from a pathfinder. More than once I have heard those referred to as murder hobos. Things I could tell you about the Decemvirate would have a good soul as yourself question the wisdom of donning the rune of the open road, but that's another story. Let us indeed try a simple test and see if you are up to the task of stopping a potential disaster."
"I’ve recently come into possession of a series of safes. Unfortunately, the safecracker I employed has turned out to be quite useless. If you can coax even three of the five safes open, I could be persuaded to disclose Nessian’s location and dispense with my regular fee entirely. These chests are remarkably unique and I have the foreboding suspicion that, in this case, the receptacles just might be worth more than their contents, so I’d rather you didn’t smash them open. Oh! One more thing: if my diviner warns me you have crossed me and stolen the contents, there will be repercussions."
"We'll keep our end of the bargain. But what's the catch here? I'm guessin' these chests ain't just sitting in your back room awaiting our attentions."
"Indeed, the safes are not my back room, but in one of my side rooms."
Torch points to a door.
"There's no catch, except if you don't succeed, you'll have to go back to your precious logde and find some of your colleagues who are more capable and are able to prove themselves. If you can't beat a couple of boxes, how will you fare against Nessian and his goons."
As you go through the door Grandmaster Torch pointed to you enter a small room with 5 safes:
Cloudia will cast detect magic and examine a box that radiates magic with either spellcraft or Knowledge Arcana.
[dice=Spellcraft or Kn Arcana]1d20+4
All boxes, except the Devil Dial, radiate magic, but only the Smooth Stone Chest actually has a school aura. Cloudia identifies it as Illusion.
Aurus picks up the holed safe and looks curiously at the script along the sides.
Aurus discovers that the strange lettering on the box is actually the notes to an ancient forgotten tune.
AN illusion, maybe I know what is is he says as he rubs his little hands together
Lukian examines the box and manages to pierce the illusion to discover the box can actually be opened simply by lifting off the lid, a permanent glamer tricks any who look upon it into thinking that the chest remains closed and sealed.
Inside the box is a collection of material components for a wealth of spells (value 500 gp but 70 lbs. of weight)