The large axe guardian takes punishment from the party, but still remains standing after Caspan's trip fails to send it to the ground. It swings both of its great bladed weapons at Caspan, but both miss.
In the distance, more pounding sounds can be hear and a second guardian rounds the corner in the distance behind the first. This one does not have battleaxe arms however, it's left arm is shaped like a long bow which is draws back and fires at Caspan, sinking an arrow into his chest.
With Wren's magic filling her, Selde stepped forward and attacked in a blur. Her blade of flame leaving long trails of light in the air.
As the golem moved farther away from Emil and Caspan was hit by an arrow, Emil finds himself unable to attack the golem, so he touches Caspan to keep him healthy before he dives back into melee. Then he draws out his last flask of alchemist's fire.
Magic Missiles always seemed to do the trick, so Wren began trying to damage the axe wielding golem with her missiles.
Damage
With the thing right next to her Jillian unleashes her fully furry on the nearest construct or whatever it is.
HP 47/64
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16, CMD 22 (+2 vs. dirty trick; +3 vs. trip); 25% chance to negate criticals
Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +2 (+2 resistance bonus to recover from a continuing effect)
Unbreakable Survivor (9 hp) 0/1
Martial Flexibility 2/6; knockout (DC 17) 1/1
Effects: haste (+1 to hit, +1 AC, Reflex)
"Thanks, pops!" Caspan calls over his shoulder as he continues to pummel the first golem.
As Thael's pit opens up underneath of the creature, it leaps backwards and avoids falling down it. Fortunately for you, this puts it out of your line of sight and gives you sufficient enough time to focus your attention on the axe-wielding golem.
Selde and Caspan put down the golem before Wren can cast her spell.
The bow guardian waited at the ready, firing two arrows to the first person that entered its line of sight.
HP 47/64
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16, CMD 22 (+2 vs. dirty trick; +3 vs. trip); 25% chance to negate criticals
Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +2 (+2 resistance bonus to recover from a continuing effect)
Unbreakable Survivor (9 hp) 0/1
Martial Flexibility 2/6; knockout (DC 17) 1/1
Effects: haste (+1 to hit, +1 AC, Reflex) rd. 3; Deflect Arrows 1/10
"Hrngh," Caspan grunts, hoping Emil will heal him before he rushes forward .
He concentrates on the fight, knowing he's going to have arrows flying at him.
After a few moments, he leaps over the pit.
Wren rushes forward and uses her psychic discipline power to heal Caspan, knowing she needed him at full strength to help with yet another wooden golem.
CMW
Emil channels healing energy to heal the damage caused by the splinters. "I got one last flask of alchemist's brew fer that last un. Whatever's in tha vault better be worth all this."
With the one down Jillian moves up to see where the archer went and ends up getting an arrow in the shoulder for her trouble. She calls back to the others "It is way down the hall."
She moves back to giver herself some space and then runs toward the pit to jump over.
Those boots really help and she easily jumps over the pit.
She finishes closing the distance to attack the construct, reaching down to heal some of her wounds on the way.
AC: 20 (19 Base, Haste +1)
Lay on Hands: [X] [X] [X] [X] [X]
Smite Evil: [X] [ ]
Spell-like Ability: Alter Self [ ]
Level 1 Spells: Protection from Evil [X] [ ]
Selde followed her allies in jumping across the pit.
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Jillian, Caspan and Selde clear the pit with ease, landing on the other side.
Emil harumphs at being left behind and faced with a pit to get across to join the fight. He calls for Wren and Thael to clear a path as he starts building up speed as he moves toward the pit to attempt to jump across.
Emil lands on the other side of the pit with a few feet to spare and moves past the sloping sides to get closer to the fight.
”Hey, if you want to bring the baddie back this way, Thael and I can still cast spells at it,” Wren suggests hopefully. ”You almost got it to fall in,” she tells Thael, patting him on the shoulder.
Jillian attacks as Emil cleans the pit, landing a solid blow against the wooden guardian, but not as effective as it normally would be.
The golem throws it's arms outwards as an explosion of splinters burst forth from its body, striking everyone who has crossed the pit . Taking a step back, it then fires two arrows at Caspan. The first one strikes him, but the second one misses.
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Jillian is too caught up in her attack to dodge out of the way of the explosion of splinters this time, luckily it wasn't as big of an explosion as the last one.
Injured she presses the attack hoping to put this thing down before it can do more damage to anyone as she steps up and swings her blade.
Wren delays, knowing her magics weren’t strong enough to make up for the distance and obstruction between the rest of the group and the two mages.
Caspan knocks the arrow aside, then ducks behind Jillian as she takes the worst of the splinters!
HP 40/64
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16, CMD 22 (+2 vs. dirty trick; +3 vs. trip); 25% chance to negate criticals
Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +2 (+2 resistance bonus to recover from a continuing effect)
Unbreakable Survivor (9 hp) 0/1
Martial Flexibility 2/6; knockout (DC 17) 1/1
Effects: haste (+1 to hit, +1 AC, Reflex) rd. 3; Deflect Arrows 2/10
He closes in and throws a fist at the stupid wood archer, hoping to splinter it more .
Jillian attacks as Emil cleans the pit, ...
Seeing Caspan take more wounds from the guardian, Emil cast his most powerful healing spell and advances close enough to the brawler to touch him, letting the warm glowing energy flow into him.
Selde jumped over the pit, rolling with her momentum to avoid most of the constructs splinter attack. Running forward, she moved behind the construct to flank it with Caspan.
Caspan lands a hit, but Jillian both of hers. The guardian ignores Selde as she takes position behind her. Once she buries her blade into her back however, she pivots and turns to face her, firing two shots into her. [ooc]This will provoke.
Jillian continues to concentrate on taking the thing down as quickly as possible, especially after seeing Selde get savaged by the things arrows.
HP 57/64
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16, CMD 22 (+2 vs. dirty trick; +3 vs. trip); 25% chance to negate criticals
Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +2 (+2 resistance bonus to recover from a continuing effect)
Unbreakable Survivor (9 hp) 0/1
Martial Flexibility 2/6; knockout (DC 17) 1/1
Effects: haste (+1 to hit, +1 AC, Reflex) rd. 3; Deflect Arrows 2/10
Caspan flails wildly at the wooden thing.
"Leave her alone, you stupid conniption!"
The guardian's attacks left it open for Selde to counter attack, bringing her flaming blade to bear once again. Unfortunately both arrows struck Selde at point blank range. While her spider silk once again proved it's worth by catching the arrows, their force still violently struck her. Besides the pain to her shoulder and ribs, the force of the arrows also thrust her back, slamming her head in to the stone wall. Selde's vision faded to an icy blackness as she lost consciousness.
Wren nervously bounced back and forth, foot to foot as she couldn’t tell what was happening ahead of them. ”Lure it back here and I can help zap it with my thorns,” she yells.
Emil is going to try to hit the construct with his scythe, but when he sees Selde fall, he once again goes into the the role of healer, which suits him fine. He prefers healing to harming. He is not an expert on things arcane, but he believes that the positive energy that heals most creatures does not repair damage to a machine, even a magically functioning one.
So he steps back out of the reach of the creature and channels positive energy which spreads out and around the golem to reach Selde, Caspan, and Jillian.
Selde goes and Jillian misses, but Caspan barely connects with the tree archer, though it's not enough to finish it off.
Emil's positive energy gets Selde conscious again, but she's laying at the creatures feet, behind it.
Wren calls out some advice while Thael snaps off an acid arrow which burns into the guardian's chest.
When the guardian sees Selde stir, it turns and kicks her with it's large, thick wooden leg. Twice.
With little else to do than to try and put the construct down Jillian glares at it when it kicks Selde twice but puts all she has into attack it hoping to end it.
HP: 40/51
AC: 20 (19 Base, Haste +1)
Lay on Hands: [X] [X] [X] [X] [X]
Smite Evil: [X] [ ]
Spell-like Ability: Alter Self [ ]
Level 1 Spells: Protection from Evil [X] [ ]
HP 64/64
AC 19, touch 12, flat-footed 16, CMD 22 (+2 vs. dirty trick; +3 vs. trip); 25% chance to negate criticals
Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +2 (+2 resistance bonus to recover from a continuing effect)
Unbreakable Survivor (9 hp) 0/1
Martial Flexibility 2/6; knockout (DC 17) 1/1
Effects: haste (+1 to hit, +1 AC, Reflex) rd. 3; Deflect Arrows 3/10
"Can't lure it anywhere with Selde behind it!" Caspan calls back.
The blood on his knuckled covers the momentary relief as Father Emil heals him, before he splits them immediately again punching the thing. Unfortunately, he's distracted enough by the idea he may lose his beer-maker that the blows don't manage to do any real damage.
Almost as soon as the positive energy brought her back to consciousness, the viscous kicks of the construct sent her back to painful darkness. Blood ran from the half-elfs nose and mouth as she lay on the floor in an unnatural pose.
Emil edged closer, hoping to get in an attack with his scythe, but again deferred to send healing energy to Selde and the others around him.
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Wren hits the thing with a magic missile if it is still up.
Damage
Caspan flails about in front of the wooden guardian, but can't seem to land anything solid on the large creature right in front of him. Wren fires off a magic missle that slams into it and then Jillian finishes it off, cutting enough of the tree apart to fell it to the ground in front of her, almost landing on top of Selde.
Seeing Selde bleed out again, Emil once more channels healing energy to help revive the fallen druid. Thael's pit eventually disappears and Pila, Wren and Thael can rejoin the group to the north.
The party now rests at a four-way intersection. Having come from the south, it looks like the passage to the north angles back to the west in the direction they came from, likely completely a large circle. Selde can just make out an alcove extending to the north much like one to the south where they found the large key.
To the east, the passage ends at a wall-to-wall iron door with no handle or hinges. The stone wall to the north of the door is inset with a pair of large keyholes.
Off to the west, it looks like a crypt awaits.