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Agon enjoys the view of the lovely ladies, until he remembers they are trying to kill him.
"Ifrits. Humanoids touched by the plane of fire. Expect them to use fire and heat-based attacks, unsurprisingly. If only it were a bit quieter, I'd ask them plenty of questions."
He draws his longbow and nocks an arrow. "Oh well. Maybe if I shoot their friend they'll get the message..." Inspired by Pavo's tale, Agon fires at the elemental.
The woman moves carefully among the heated rock and scoffs at Khargrom's appraisal. "I have no intent on even letting you lay a hand on me. Your weapons will be kindling next to our magic. We may be cast off here, but even in this realm we are clearly more important than you and your little flammable band."
The elemental takes the arrow and nearly collapses to the ground but charges forward with rage at the source. Spitting fire all the way it slams into Agon with the full force of the fiery body.
- Round 2 -
Nahko
Kuti
Khargrom
Pavo
Red Elemental Humanoid (I'll fit in her turn during your actions)
Ironshanks
Agon
Bemmer
Yellow Elemental Humanoid (double move)
Blue Elemental Creature (charged Agon, 5 damage)
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Fire Elemental.
Fire Elemental.
Fire Elemental!
Agon watches it slam into him.
It burns but he quickly drops the longbow and puts out the flames. "Oh! You speak in common, ladies?" He pulls out a longsword. "Any chance we could not fight to the death? Perhaps we could explore this area together?"
"Sorry about your elemental friend there but it did try to burn me alive."
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With Kuti still by his side, Nahko smiles at Ironshanks' reminder. "Right you are, my dwarven friend." Nahko drops his scimitar where he stands and draws his sling instead. Fitting up a bullet, he twirls it and releases, sending it arcing over the fiery, molten stone towards one of the ladies.
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"That's right, my boon companions," Pavo continues to encourage everyone as they engage the hostile natives. "Don't let their bluster intimidate you. We have been trained by Absalom's best swordsmen, mages, and, ah, experts, and we outnumber them two to one."
He moves carefully across the terrain to avoid the lava seeping through the ground and slashes at the elemental assaulting Agon.
Free: Continue inspire courage
Move: Move 20 ft
Standard: Attack
Agon's attack is able to strike down the elemental before it can get a second blow and his words provoke a response from the red shielded woman.
"Why do you think we would join with you? Do you think your words able to cool my fiery impenetrable mag-ACK!" The woman's dialogue is interrupted by a swift moving stone to the gut from Nahko. She staggers from the weight of the blow as she drops her weapon. "Your words have swayed me mortal, I will offer you my guidance to this realm."
The yellow garbed woman rages hearing the other concede defeat, "Coward! Do you not have any pride? I may be banished here mere mortals, but in my veins flows powerful god-like beings and I will not bow to you!"
She strides forward across the rock as she launches her javelin at Nahko. The attack falls short but her confidence is undeterred, fueled by the heat all around her.
- Round 3 -
Nahko
Kuti
Khargrom (ready)
Pavo (action)
Red Elemental Humanoid (7 damage, surrendering)
Ironshanks
Agon
Bemmer
Yellow Elemental Humanoid (double move)
Blue Elemental Creature (16 damage, down)
The arrow strikes her true and she collapses from the weight of the blow before she is able to deliver another response. The field calms with no more weapons pointed at the party, although the standing woman is still slow in her movements to avoid prompting another attack.
She looks ever at her fellow before turning back to you, "I doubt you came here to stand in a field of flames, what are you here for?"
She sighs heavily hearing the initial reason. "Of course you answered the call."
After taking a moment to compose herself she directs you, "I'm not sure about what you mean about Numerian, but if you are looking for non-genie artifacts I suspect you could only mean the mass of metal that lies near here. We have been long told to stay away from it, else something about it might be able shift the balance of heat across this planet. Although I would suppose it would make it more tolerable for your kind."
"If you wouldn't mind I rather just secret myself away rather than be discovered disrupting material plan artifacts and whatever vile things they left to defend their own mechanisms."
She directs the way to a crashed vessel of shining metal stands in sharp contrast to the lurid reds and blacks of the igneous landscape. Scorch and claw marks ravage the hull, but a fiery propulsion system seems mostly intact and juts toward the stars at an angle.
The exterior is torn open allowing easy entry to the the grounded vessel. Shadows flicker in and out of existence as electric noises discharge from within the walls and ceiling. You find the weight of your body return to you as you enter, still not as much as you feel on Golarion but still a dramatic change from your movement on the rest of the asteroid.
As you move toward the interior you find that there are other inhabitants moving through the space. Large 8 foot tall creatures with rotting flesh wearing heavy padded armor. They turn toward you with hungry looks as the pair of undead rasp in an alien language. They bare their teeth with nothing but the desire to rip into your flesh as they lurch toward you all.
- Round 1 -
Khargrom
Ironshanks
Pavo
Nahko
Kuti
Agon
Bemmer
Red Undead Initiative
Green Undead Initiative
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"Ah, you were all called here?" Agon laughs. "Ring a bell loudly enough and everyone will show up to listen. Maybe we could spend some time to know each other a bit better-" the rest of the party urges Agon along. "Uh, well. Good day. Night. Sunrise. I don't know how time works with you!"
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Agon recalls the potion of endure elements he drank. "This heat is unbearable. Good thing we came prepared- wait, what's that?"
"How repugnant. Undead cannibals. Their touch is especially dangerous."
"Which is why I will open up with an arrow."
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Ironshanks stows his trusty longbow as he grins to himself Heh, take that. Not a bad shot yer a Dwarf I say. He reattaches his darkwood shield and checks on his waraxe, still safely tucked in his belt holster.
"If ye wanna save yer friend from bleedin' out we kin wait. Just don't do anything else stupid." He waits then follows as they head towards the metal ship.
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He lets out a low whistle as he sees the traveling contraption "Wow, look at that thing... sure are alotta Gnomes back home that'd trade their whole families away to check this thing out." Dwarves would only trade off a daughter or two I reckon.
Seeing the claw marks he moves inside with shield at the ready and his hands hovering over his axe handle. "By Torag's beard! Them look like some giant deadies! Stay behind me kids!"
He moves forward and tries to bury his axe in the skull of one down below.
Sorrina Westyr’s projection appears to every Pathfinder. Behind her is a map of the Asteroid, Aucturn’s Tear, lit up with different colors around the different regions.
“Good news, everyone! Our tactical reports coming from the region known as the Crater, tell us that the entire region has been claimed and is now safe for travel! Keep going, Pathfinders!”
Breaching through the defenses a large group of Pathfinders begins their descent into the Asteroid. As the defenses are broken the asteroid seems to groan in response as the gravity suddenly shifts.
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When he feels the oppressive heat from their walk, Nahko quickly drink his potion of endure elements to protect from the heat. He pours out Kuti's potion into a small bowl so that she can drink hers as well.
When he sees the horrifying undead--and especially in response to Agon's warning--Nahko keeps Kuti in a heeling position. He instead begins the words and motions for a spell; a ball of fire appears in the palm of his hand. It swirls and throws off sparks with the heat of a campfire, but Nahko doesn't seem harmed by it. "I'll use the ifrit's weapon against our next foe...." he says with a chuckle.
Flames as bright as a torch appear in your open hand. The flames harm neither you nor your equipment.
In addition to providing illumination, the flames can be hurled or used to touch enemies. You can strike an opponent with a melee touch attack, dealing fire damage equal to 1d6 + 1 point per caster level (maximum +5). Alternatively, you can hurl the flames up to 120 feet as a thrown weapon. When doing so, you attack with a ranged touch attack (with no range penalty) and deal the same damage as with the melee attack. No sooner do you hurl the flames than a new set appears in your hand. Each attack you make reduces the remaining duration by 1 minute. If an attack reduces the remaining duration to 0 minutes or less, the spell ends after the attack resolves.
This spell does not function underwater.
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Pavo moves to gain line of sight into the pit and draws his rapier. "Why am I getting closer?" he mutters to himself before beginning a quick incantation and gesturing at the floor of the pit. A wide puddle of grease appears.
Move: Move 10 ft & draw +1 rapier
Standard: Cast grease (DC 13)
The arrow lands a solid blow but the dart doesn't find a mark between their erratic movements.
Ironshanks blow barely connects with the undead as it tries to lurch out of the way. With the weight of the blow it has not chance of defending against Pavo's spell and it slips and slams to the ground.
With the loud crash of the undead against the floor you feel the weight of the world return to you. It feels as though the spirits of the earth beneath your feet are grasping at you, trying to pull you down in a rage. They feel far and away though, the only effect you feel is to have your normal gravity return to you.
- Round 1 -
Khargrom
Ironshanks
Pavo
Nahko
Kuti
Agon
Bemmer
Red Undead Initiative (9 damage, prone)
Green Undead Initiative (5 damage)
The prone undead pulls itself from the ground in an attempt to dig his death into Ironshanks to no avail. In the desperation to attack, it opens itself up to a lethal blow from Ironshanks as it only cares about satisfying the hungry that drives it.
However the other undead with glowing green eyes attempts to rip into Bemmer. While its teeth do not manage to get a hold on the dwarf, the pair of horrid claws manage to connect.
- Round 2 -
Khargrom
Ironshanks (AoO on Red)
Pavo
Nahko
Kuti
Agon
Bemmer (10 damage, 2 Fort Saves)
Red Undead Initiative (9 damage, prone)
Green Undead Initiative (5 damage)
The axe tears through the undead before it even reaches Ironshanks. Turning his attack on the second undead nearly has the same effect, but it stubbornly holds onto unlife and a desire to rip the party into pieces.
- Round 2 -
Khargrom
Ironshanks
Pavo
Nahko
Kuti
Agon
Bemmer (10 damage, 2 Fort Saves)
Red Undead Initiative (15 damage, destroyed)
Green Undead Initiative (11 damage)
Environment: Severe heat, normal gravity.
With the shifting gravity is difficult to line up an accurate shot for the dart another the undead avoids another of the projectiles.
- Round 2 -
Khargrom
Ironshanks
Pavo
Nahko
Kuti
Agon
Bemmer (10 damage)
Green Undead Initiative (11 damage)
The attack brings a swift end to the undead and gives you more freedom to explore this alien place as you find both magical gear and items similar those reported drawn from Numeria.
There is a metal crossbow like item with a handle and a trigger, but no string or limbs. It radiates no magic, but still has a faint hum of energy as you inspect it.
There are six fully intact versions of the full body suits that the undead were wearing that can be easily adjust to fit any of you under your existing armor (and with more effort could be sized to Kuti, but would hamper the use of claws and bite).
In addition there is a set of potions in a supply station here all marked in alien text.
Four potions that remain at room temperature despite the constant heat.
Two potions with a light minty scent.
One potion that is thick with a strong alchemical odor.
It is difficult to identify how the vessel functions, but looking at the design it is likely it is self-propelling. If you were able to get them working, you could cause the asteroid to rotate and even out a lot of the temperature throughout the site making the actions of other Pathfinders much easier as they explore.
You could do this either by pouring more power into the system with significant electrical energy or by repairing the machinery
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With the threats neutralized, Khargrom picks up his tossed darts and starts inspecting the corpses and searching the rooms. Finding a collection of items that have not degraded over time he piles them up for the rest to look through. He then starts inspecting the ship.
He pulls out his high end tools and gets to work on the ship.
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"Well, that was fun." Agon sheathes his weapons. "Oh, and potions. Time for a taste test."
"No idea what this is."
"Cure Light Wounds." He holds one potion aloft. "Bemmer, drink this."
"Remove Disease. Is anyone sick?"
"Hmm, how does this work?" Agon looks at the board. "I've heard some one talk about this. A half orc whose solution to everything involved a hammer and 'more power'. He could grunt quite well, too."
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Ironshanks smiles and laughs as the last ghoulie falls "Take that ya blasted undead alien giant! A herd of Dwarves can't be stopped!" He seems to 'accidentally' leave out humans and elves in that assessment. He lops off each head with his waraxe before declaring the battle won.
As the others begin work on figuring out the ship, he takes his time checking on the potions. With a bit of sniffing and tasting, he's able to identify the first set as 'endure elements' "We just drank some of these, come on now Agon!"
He confirms the next group as cure light wounds and is stumped by the last one.
It is difficult working with the deteriorated systems Agon's esoteric knowledge paves the way for Pavo and Khargrom to repair the most obviously damaged systems and with that the vessel hums to life. The ground shifts underneath your feat as energy resonates from the ships core into space. Slowly, but surely the asteroid is being affected, but it may take some time to see the fruits of your labor.
Your actions though have drawn the attention of another Pathfinder as she pops her head into the ship, "You caught me off guard over here. I didn't expect this to be suddenly brimming with life! Excellent work!"
She gleams with praise a few more moments before becoming more dour as she looks out onto the horizon.
"I'm afraid though I didn't seek you out for no reason. I'm trying to organize some teams to help investigate and resolve a new issue. There is another group on the asteroid setting up strange devices. We can't be certain why, but they are setting up devices throughout that are disrupting our portals back to Absalom. I need your team to shut down one of them nearby. I wish I could tell you more about the group, but I'm the dark here. If you can, convince them or stop, sabotage their progress, or find some other way to keep our portals open. It would be a disaster to have our exit cut out behind us."
With her thanks given she directs you to a nearby ridge where trio of humans, all with bright red skin, are at work setting up a magical item of moving red sand. As they set it up the device begins to resonate with a low hum as they carefully prod it to make sure it is working properly.
, or at least delay what they are doing. You can also fight them so that you can disable it yourselves. Alternatively a very stealthy character could try to sneak up and sabatage the item without them realizing . Otherwise you may have some other plan for responding to this.