Valeros makes the leap and then continues to keep an eye out for trouble.
Taleath leaps with the others, searching for whatever might be revealed once across.
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You enter the rotting tavern, where the fog is not present allowing you to see a little bit better. Splintered remnants of tables and cabinets clutter a long, rectangular room that reeks of mold and decay. In the corner of the room, a locked wooden chest lies.
From around the corner, you hear some shuffling noises that makes you immediately realise that you're not alone in this place. Turning towards the source of the noise, you see a couple more undead creatures! An armored skeleton holding a Morningstar and a shield scrawled with a, presumably, unholy symbol, and two zombies .
Mavis readies herself to cast a spell but first tries to identify the creatures.
She then moves forwards and shoots her crossbow at the red zombie.
Not knowing much about the undead, the ranger chooses to just treat them as deadly threats and move on from there.
1) Hunt Target (Red)
2) Hunted Shot
3) Stride
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Mavis realise that the skeleton is clearly a cleric, one of Urgathoa! As abeing of undeath, they are immune to sleep, death effects, disease, paralysis and poison. And due to their unusual anatomy, the are resistant against sharp weapons.
A few bolts and arrows are let loose immediately in reaction to the presences of the undead horde, but in the relative darkness, the attacks miss their intented targets.
The zombies move towards the front lines and attempt to swing their fist at the Pathfinders. Fortunately, the armored men were prepared defensively to deflect the strikes!
Siv is momentarily shocked by the onslaught of the undead. He cries out in fear upon taking a significant thrashing from the Zombies but then realizes the fists were turned away by his armor. Not knowing of their resistance he strikes back with his elven blade.
With the undead shambling towards him, Valeros attempts to slice the remaining sinews and tendons of the creature to bring it to the ground.
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Siv strikes the zombie with his sword, his first attack connects but the weapon seems ineffective as it barely wounds the creature. Adapting to the situation, Valeros comes in strong and chooses to pierce the zombie twice, enough to cause enough serious wounds that it dies.
Abishek comes around the corner and blast a telekinetic projectile towards the other zombie, knocking it relatively hard that it wobbles for a moment.
The skeleton comes closer towards the Pathfinders and begins casting. A dark colour ray spurts for from his hand and strikes into Abi!
1) Hunted Shot (Red)
2) Interact (Stow Bow)
3) Interact (Ready Elven Curved Blade)
Liranna will pull out her shortbow, step to the side for a better aim and take a shot against the zombie threat!
Valeros approaches the remaining undead.
He then lashes out with his blade at the spellcasting skeleton!
Liranna instead will fire at the skeleton, not having any other weapon on hand to counter it.
Abi draws a mace from his belt, then tosses it at the skeleton.
Watching the zombies fall, Siv then moves against the real threat. He cautiously approaches the skeleton cleric. When he enters range he lashes out with a his gloved hand attempting to seize the cleric. He utter a pray as he does so asking his goddess to purge the unnatural creature.
Liranna cringes as the negative energy flows through her body, but shakes her head, hair flying around. She grits her teeth and drops her bow, pulls out her rapier, moves over to flank the skeleton with Siv and tries to use her precision to damage the skeleton with no other weapon at her disposal.
I'll also be using Nimble Dodge reaction on the first attack aimed at her.
Abishek recoils from the negative energy that seems to seep into his very bones. Such darkness... I've felt such dark energy before, but I've learned to bend such energy to my will... Such magical attacks will likely serve no use against a skilled necromancer as he...
Abishek grabs his whip, then puts his fingers to his temples, then casts a hand towards the zombie cleric. << Whatever rot-addled mind still sloshes around in that nigh-hollow skull of yours... feel my incursion... feel this wracking pain!>>
Traits Illusion, Mental, Nonlethal
Casting Somatic Casting, Verbal Casting
Range 30 feet; Targets one creature
Duration 1 minute
Pain wracks the target, dealing 1d4 mental damage and 1d4 persistent mental damage. The target must attempt a Will saving throw.
Success Full damage, but no persistent damage and the spell ends immediately.
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Failure Full damage, and the target is sick 1. If the target recovers from being sick, its persistent mental damage ends as well and the spell ends.
Critical Failure Per failure, but the target is sick 2.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 2d4 and the persistent damage by 1.
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Liranna moves swiftly to get into a more advantageous position. She notes a momentary opening, a crack in the skeleton's armor, and strikes her rapier through it, penetrating it's backbone. It shrieks loudly!
Abi follows with a mind inflicting spell, with the skeleton already distracted with the pain earlier, his mind succumbs to the spell! Howls of pain continue.
Trying to avoid the claws of the skeleton, Valeros reaches over his shoulder to retrieve his shield.
He then raises his shield to batter his foe.
Then moves his shield into a defensive position.
With his shield raised, the fighter continues to try and bash his skeletal foe.
Then he moves his shield into a defensive position.
The ranger moves up into melee range and swings at the skeleton-thing.
1) Stride (5')
2) Attack
3) Attack
Abishek attempts to coil his whip around the legs of the shambling skeleton cleric, then motions with his hands - his mace moves once more, flying from across the room towards the undead warrior.
His body wracked by the undead's negative energy even with his shield raised, the fighter concludes his shield is better used as an all-out weapon rather than a form of defense.
Well, the elf will try yet again . . ..
1) Attack
2) Attack
3) Attack - with basically no expectation of hitting the barn wall.
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Taleath gent's a lucky strike that just narrowly slices the skeleton's spine. With a final cackle, he falls to his demise. As you search the room for clues and the zombies, you come to a dreadful realization that the zombies are their former identities are those of the victims of the named Rose Street Killer! The only identity you cannot immediately conceive is the skeletons.
Nearby, there is a fresh trail of blood that leads to leading to one of the larger holes in the floor, calling down below, you realize that someone is down there, injured but alive. "Help! Is..Is someone there? Is the undeads gone?!" The voice cries.
Helping her out of the hole, you piece her as the missing Pathfinder that Valsin set you out to search, Nelfurhin Zor, and she tells her story. Slowly the pieces of the clues you found, start to make more sense, as they connect with her story.
"The skeleton...no..Wennel.. he wasn't always like this..he used to be a great half-elf, one that I admire and is the inspiration of why I joined the Society, the Liberty Edge! Wennel, he was a cleric of Milani, he freed me from slavery, and many others, and helped us get our bearings. We remained good friends until....until this."
"For the last 2 months Wennel had insisted that he was close to proving that several abductions around Absalom were connected to a secretive cell of slave traders. He expressed his intention to expose the cell even if it meant its members might try to silence him."
"He went missing for awhile, and I got worried, but was overjoyed when I heard his voice outside my door. It was unusual, but I paid no attention to it. But was shocked to find he was not himself. He kidnapped me, and as a result, here I am, barely alive.."
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"Hmmm." Valeros contemplates. "I am no religious scholar, but it would seem that the slavers must have driven poor Wennel to speak something blasphemous, before silencing him."