Penny chirps up to Icilias "Still trying to master elementary spells ehh newcomer? Let me show you how its done"
(cover penalties, and blasting into melee not applied)
"Bah, would be much more effective if we could see them clearly! "
Cwm slashes at the flying creature and finds that his blade slices clean through it without damaging it whatsoever. Yngvilda finds both her shield and axe injure the creature, though it only seems to be half as effective as normal. Eldon, Penny and Icilias all miss due to the tight constraints of the battlefield layout.
The creature swipe at Cwm and Yngvilda, but both of their attacks miss as well.
"My weapons hurt them, maybe it's the magic? Do you have anything enchanted Cwm?"
Yngvilda keeps on bashing her spectral assailant, and steps forward to try to help Cwm flank if he finds a better weapon.
Cwm shakes his head, "I hope they're not sentient. Nothing enchanted unless you mean my burning hands." He glances at Yng and then eyes the cubby to see if he can slide over to give her an assist, "I can't get a clear line to do that yet though."
Out of options, he activates his ring of force shield and slides over next to Yng.
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Penny chirps up to Icilias "Still trying to master elementary spells ehh newcomer? Let me show you how its done"
"Bah, would be much more effective if we could see them clearly! "
Icilias gives Penny that look that often only passes between noblewomen as they banter with words like duelist do with swords. "Oh yes, my dear. Please do teach me your ways. I can feel the lesson taking root already." Despite the mocking and condescending tone, there is a friendly (if slightly wicked-looking) grin on her face.
As she speaks, she steps into the spectre in front of her, studies it's movements and habits, and slashes at it with her scythe. "Yngvilda, Cwm. Would one of you be a dear and provide a bit better opportunity, please?"
5-Foot Step
Move Action: Studied Target )
Swift Action: Fires of Hell
Standard Action:
"Yngvilda, trust your instincts!" Tykent's voice is firm and full of hope as he stands in the doorway. "Remember your training!"
Seeing a new opportunity in her allie's positioning, Penny reaches out her hand, as if to grasp the ghostly bones of the [red] creature, as she attempts to manipulate it to her will.
Edit: New Action. Penny will run into the room behind Cym, and attempt another disrupt undead at the top target.
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Neither Eldon nor Penny can get a good line on the incorporeal creature in front of Icilias.
Cwm repositions and Tykent shouts out words of encouragement in his chanting.
Yngvilda lands another two solid hits and as Icilias's scythe finishes off the first creature.
The creature tries to attack Yngvilda, but misses once again.
Cwm slides over to try and give Yng some assistance. He yells as he swings, trying to distract the creature.
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"Ha! It's working!"
Yngvilda is delighted at taking out one of the incorporeal monsters, and keeps up her attack. She takes a step to flank the thing, and benefiting from Cwm's aid and Tykent's magic, unleashes the full power of an Ulfen warrior maiden!
Keep your shield up, you've got this
[ooc]So with the fortune that's two 31s to hit (assuming it can be flanked)[/dice]
”Now follow your companion to the afterlife!” Tykent demands, slamming his walking stick into the ground.
Eldon moves to a more advantageous possition.
Penny steps down trying to get a clear shot at the remaining spectre.
"Its too crowded in here!" she whines out.
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The party seems to pull all of their luck together with a series of strikes that all land and finish off the remaining incorporeal foe, freeing their continued passage south through the dormitory. At the far end of the room a staircase leads upwards to another level of the monastery.
"We are fortunate indeed," Tykent observes, pulling out his willow wand for a moment before tucking it back into his sleeve. "Excellent teamwork everyone. But let's be off before a certain draconic menace loses their temper." He makes a show of avoiding Taylor for a moment before guffawing heartily.
"Yes yes, let us continue on while the lot of you seem to be running on a positive streak. Leave no stone here unturned. "
Cwm moves to the next area, daggers at the ready.
Moving south, you enter a burned dormitory where afire long ago immolated the contents of this room, leaving the narrow cubbies black with soot.
Six Grioths are here and quickly move to engage you as you enter the room.
Defeating the annoying pests, you complete your exploration of the eastern wing of the building and move west into the courtyard.
This courtyard surrounds a dry fountain. A statue of a woman wrapped in a flowing robe stands in the center of the fountain, her arms extended as though reaching up to touch the sky.
With nothing left in the courtyard, you exit and move north and turn west at the corridor junction, heading back through the door you entered earlier. Continuing west, you reach a pair of double doors you press open and find another empty room.
Narrow pillars painted blue and gold support the ceiling in this shrine. At its west end is a large statue in a mother-of-pearl -lined niche. The figure sits in the lotus position, hands clasped and eyes closed in prayer.
When you are ready to move on, you head southwest and open a door into another courtyard. The vegetation in this quiet, open-air courtyard has been lovingly tended. Small purple berries grow on the nine plants in the middle of the a rea. A small brass bowl sits near one of the bushes, a few bright berries within it.
Finally, you head out and east to the last room on this floor, the assembly hall. Eight pillars painted with faded quotations and prayers from Irori's teachings support the ceiling of this large
chamber. A statue of a man with a long braid stands to the south.
A scroll still resides in the statue in a bone scroll tube.
Tykent pauses to bow to the statue in the courtyard. "Saint Kyerixus," he explains reverently. "The founder of this monastery. I am sure it would bring her sorrow to know who dwells here now, but perhaps more scholars will return one day." He gives a smaller bow to Penny before continuing back inside.
"Can you feel that?" Tykent motions to the stone figure and smiles at Yngvilda and Cwm. "Take some time to absorb this feeling of Irori's serenity. Perhaps it will stay with you for a time after you leave." He gently shoos the other two out into the next room.
"Icilias, could you give me a hand?" Tykent fusses around the base of the statue in the large assembly hall and points out a part of the base that isn't connected to the rest of the rock. "Thank you so much. Oh, and look at this - Penny! You might enjoy this scroll!"
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Icilias takes in the crafted beauty of the various rooms as they pass through. While she doesn't care a whit about Irori, she feels a touch of sorrow, seeing this place go to waste with these creatures inhabiting it's halls.
She moves up to help Tykent retrieve the object in the statue, then peers up the circular staircase in the room.
"If we've made sure to cover our tracks, so to speak, on this level, then we should make our way up. Many more creatures to slay before we can a shot at the master, if the druid is to be believed."
Cwm sidles up to see the shaman digging around in the statue, seeing the hiding area just as he pulls out the tube, " ice eye Tykent, I barely noticed that. I agree we should go up these stairs. Maybe we can take the others back down."
Yngvilda looks nonplussed at the suggestion of meditation, but she recognises Tykent's wisdom, so she sits before the statue.
She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and tries to feel the serenity. From the darkness behind her eyes, she hears a rasping voice.
Keeeep yoouur shieeeeeld uuuuup!
Her father's words, but spoken as if by a dessicated corpse. Suddenly she sees the face of the mummy from earlier, reaching out to punch her again.
With a shout she stands up, mere seconds after having sat down. She moves quickly to disguise her disquiet.
"WHAAAaat a good idea Tykent, I feel very serene now thank you. Where are we going, stairs? Sounds good let's go!"
Taking the stairs up, you enter a large room where the ceiling of this twenty-foot-high room is painted with a scene of scholars at study. A polished wooden statue of a woman sitting in the lotus position, eyes closed in meditation, hangs from the center of the ceiling on several lengths of thin twine so that it seems to levitate.
Squatting amid dozens of tattered books at the center of the north wall is a hulking, mammoth sized creature. It looks like the winged monsters you fought many times before, but this one is the size of a horse! The beast shrieks loudly and attacks.
"To be alone is to be foolishly proud." The unseen wind begins to pull at Tykent's robes again. "Your folly leaves your defenses exposed and will be your downfall!"
Yngvilda takes in the scene, briefly considers trying to flank the creature with Cwm, but decides she doesn't like the high ceiling and its wings, so charges at it with her spiked shield!
"Come on you great lumbering beast!"
I really need to remember to refill the breakaway shield boss on this thing
Thinks Yngvilda the in the moments before the counterattack.
Cwm charges forward, daggers at the ready. He slashes at the monster's wing.
Cwm's dagger cuts through the creatures wings and it roars in anger at the party's opening assault.
The creature is unable to shake of Tykent's hex, which lowers his defenses. Yngvilda's bash further reduces the creatures defenses, just enough for Icilia's scythe to find purchase in its right side.
Since Cwm acted first, the creature targets him with its large, semi-transparent magical falchion. He swings twice, only connecting on the first strike, but doing damage with its strike. As Cwm is struck, he is recalls pain suffered in the past and he takes an additional points of nonlethal damage. Finally, he lashes forward to try and bite the rogue with it's razor-sharp teeth, but it thankfully misses.
"Now you begin to understand." The unseen wind whips Tykent's robes furiously against his legs even as the old man stands tall. "Now you feel the dread, the fear, the certainty of death approaching."
Cwm nearly falls to his knees before the creature. He drives both points toward the beast, trying to kill it before stepping back.
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Yngvilda tries to make herself a target by keeping up her onslaught. First by smashing it with her spiked shield:
Then with her powerfully magical axe when it's off balance!
Eldon moves into a better position.
[ooc]Double move[/dice]
Seeing the giant hulking creature before us, Penny shouts out. "Ahh good tactics Tykent. We must weaken this foe so these fools can be effective."
Penny raises up her arm and lets out a blast of negative energy burst towards the foe.
DC 16 fort for half. 5 rounds.
"Bah! Can barely even see him to make contact!" Penny scoffs.
The grioth fights off Tykent's extended evil eye attempt, but that is negated by his chant which helps continue it regardless.
The party then puts forward an excellent demonstration of their martial capabilities as everyone lands attacks and pile up a significant amount of damage on the grioth. Only Penny's attack fails and misses, unable to properly see the LARGE grioth that takes up nearly the quarter of the room.
The creature exacts some revenge however, leaning forward and taking a bite of Cwm's retreating back
Next, it turns to Yngvilda and with it's cruel blade it thrusts it past her shield and into her chest +
"Now that I have gotten my bearings straight, lets try this again shall we?"
Penny casts ray of Enfeeblement again.
dc 16 fort for half, 5 rounds.
"This room is just too distracting!"
"You think your luck will hold?" Tykent laughs, a hollow sound that echoes as if the room were several times larger than its actual dimensions. "Fool!"
"Ha! I barely felt that!"
After spitting out a couple of teeth, Yngvilda tries to kill it with her next strikes, because she's slightly concerned that if she doesn't these sweet new scars she just got will decorate only her corpse.
Cwm intended to slide around behind the monster but it nearly takes him down. Shaken, he withdraws to try and get in a better position.
Casting Elemental Ray.
The large grioth denies Tykent's misfortune attempt! Thanks to Tykent's earlier hex at reducing the foes defenses, Yngvilda's first strike lands.
Eldon shocks it with a little bit of electricity, but shockingly Penny misses as Cwm withdraws