Remy activates a nasty spell, electricity crackling around the small alchemical weapon. He moves into the room and tosses it at the large enemy. It strikes easily and explodes in flame, covering him in fire. The shock though, seemed to do much more as the thugs body locks up in agony as lightning courses through him. He collapses in a burning heap onto the floor, unconscious.
The remaining enemies' eyes are wide as their allies fall to the pathfinders without even landing a hit. But, with no where to run and no intent to surrender they resume their attacks. The thug's scimitar slashes at the Celestial Ant.
Taking advantage of both flanking and the grappled nature of the ant, the scimitar strikes, opening the crack in the creature's carapace.
Tenibri (Invisible 2/4) & Ant (grappled, -7)
Thugs (yellow -70 & down, green, blue 19 & down)
Khugron
Helvega & Cuddles
Boss (grappled, -25)
Tony & Luna
Tatho
Remy
Bold May Act.
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Rushing through the open door, Helvega makes her way to the edge of the room. Having drawn her sling while looking over the situation, she pauses.
"Holy moley! How did an ant do so much damage so fast?!" shrieks the halfling. "We've gotta save the pathfinders Cuddles!"
With a flurry of hand motions, she calls out "By the forest's grace, don't let it die!"
A bright light shoots from her outstretched hand and encompasses the massive man laying on the ground.
"Cuddles, keep the ant off me!"
Khugron moves up and whacks the grappled boss upside the head and he slumps back, still grabbed by the Ant. He is obviously unconscious with blood oozing from his ears. Helvega dashes into the room and shows a lot of confusion, but attempts to stabilize the thug that is currently burning.
Tenibri (Invisible 1/4 last round) & Ant (-7)
Green Thug (yellow -70 & down, blue 19 & down)
Khugron
Helvega & Cuddles
Boss (-46 & down)
Tony & Luna
Tatho
Remy
Bold May Act.
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Tenibri whispers the final words of his spell, invisibly pointing at Khugron to let the magic settle over the nagaji, who immediately starts growing in size.
His words never stop, though, his voice rising as he allows the shadowy veil to drop. "The ant is mine!" he calls to Helvega. Seeing the ant's head whip around at the sound of his voice, Tenibri waves his arm in the direction of the last remaining thug.
He then runs to the door to the alley, stepping onto the chest of thug lying in the doorway to grasp the door's handle and swing it closed.
The ant drops the unconscious boss, turning on the thug behind it and quickly stinging and biting.
Tony motions to Luna and she steps over closer to the remaining thug. He stabs with his lance, though the tip is deflected by the thug's buckler and misses. Tatho slides up behind the last thug and slashes deep into his back muscles, blood spraying. The thug turns and Tatho catches his eye, knowing instantly and supernaturally how much more harm his target can take before collapsing .
Remy watches the barbecue, as the last flames of the alchemist fire continue to burn the fallen thug. Tenibri yells out from the shadows, indicating that the Ant is an ally. You hear footsteps and then the back door to the warehouse closes... at about the same time that the front door to the potion shop swings shut behind the goblin as she continues getting the heck outta there.
The last thug steps to the side towards the little halfling after the ant's ineffective attacks completely miss him. Adrenaline pumping through his veins he slashes at Tatho, apparently looking to go down swinging. But swinging is all he is doing, missing the human completely.
Tenibri & Ant (-7)
Green Thug (-11, yellow -70 & down, blue -20 & down)
Khugron
Helvega & Cuddles
Boss (-46 & down)
Tony & Luna
Tatho
Remy
Bold May Act.
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With the fight done, Khugron used his weapon to help him steady his feet as the rage subsided. Looking at the shattered body of his first foe he paused. "Oh, sorry, forgot to give out ponchosss to help protect from splatter before we fight. Anyone have spell to clean me up?" the Najaji asked as he towered over everyone, covered in blood and gore from head to toe.
End of Combat Summary
Tenibri & Ant (-7, 5-6 rounds left?)
Green Thug (-19 lethal/-13 nonlethal & down, yellow -70 & down, blue -20 & down)
Khugron
Helvega & Cuddles
Boss (-46 & down)
Tony & Luna
Tatho
Remy
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With a mighty hack, Khugron brings the non-pointy side of his hammer across the back of the last remaining enemy's head, attempting to just bonk him unconscious. Unfortunately, the bonk is a bit too strong and he collapses to the ground hard. All four enemy's are down and the group appears to have sustained very little damage. However, the Nagaji and ant are covered in blood, which might elicit some questions down the road.
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"Oh, yeah, I've got you covered, Khugron!" Tenibri dismisses the ant, allowing it to wink back to its native celestial plane. "Let's see if any of them are alive; search them then throw them in the cages if they are!" He approaches Khugron, and spends many minutes using prestidigitation to clean the enormous warrior.
Oddly enough, even with the complete domination of the thugs, only one is dead-dead . The remaining three are definitely unconscious but stable. You also know that it is unlikely, but possible, that they will wake up without outside intervention. Even if they do wake up, it will be at least an hour later.
Tatho searches each body, piling up all their items and gear into the middle of the floor. After each is searched, a couple pathfinders drag them into a cell. The door appears to lock itself when closed. No keys are located in the room or potion shop up front.
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"Well that was quick and all....weren't we told not to steal the things? Hmm...but we were told to find stuff that proved he's bad." remarks the halfling, looking around at the downed men. "So far we've just got ourselves he said vs she said...there's gotta be documents around here somewhere...Let me give you a hand."
Everyone searches high and wide and low and tight, finding minimal to no documents of the type they need. Helvega, while thinking about their orders, seems to remember that the VC told them not to steal from the lodge, but didn't seem to mention anything about any mooks that might be there.
Oddly enough though, while searching, a door is found. To the north in the middle of a wall. It might just lead to elsewhere in the lodge.
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Tenibri examines the sword and is able to determine its enchantment. "This blade will be sharper and do more damage due to its enhancement."
"Helvega or Tony, I wonder if either of you would want to use this for the time being? It's the right size for any of us, but I don't really use a blade." Tenibri will claim the small-sized hand crossbow and bolts, as a backup, if nobody else speaks up for them.
He then gathers up by the new door, ready to explore further. "There must be something here somewhere!"
Tony nods and clips the short sword to his belt, clambering back up onto Luna and leveling his lance for any further combat.
Khugron turns the handle and quickly shoves the door open, stepping inside to see...
...an office. A basic table, chairs and in the eastern corner of this room, a large desk is covered with papers and ledgers. A hammock hangs loose behind the desk. Cowering behind the desk and peeking over it is a well dressed gentleman with eyes wide in fright . He sputters out, "don't kill me, take whatever you want!"
The gent stands up with a bit more confidence as you aren't initially attacking and pronounces, "why should I believe anything you thieves are saying? You come into a pathfinder lodge, murder the guards and expect me to just believe your words?"
He steps back from the desk with his arms out wide gesturing at everything in the room, "take what you wish and leave. I am no threat to you." To emphasize this, he unclips his dagger, sheath and all, and tosses it away from him towards the couches and chairs. The three of you do not see any other weapons on his person.
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Glancing from the stranger, to her companions, and back out into the room beyond. Helvega shrugs "Uh...ya know...he's got a point."
Turning back to the man, she smiles. "They's not all dead though...and I assume they attacked first...it's all rather unfortunate."
She slowly walks towards the man, arms held out "I'm Helvega, may I have your name? This all seems to be rather...uh...unfort" 'Wait! I already said unfortunate!' "Uh...traumatic. We truly don't mean you any harm."
"If you could give us a hand, we may be able to get out of your way faster. So the VC dude that runs or owns this shop seems to be a bad dude. We're just looking for the documentation of that...or the lack there of...Whatdya say? Help us real quick? Give us a hug maybe?"
His eyes narrow at the halfling, "listen up little girl. I won't be betraying my employer... but I'm not a fighter and will not waste my life on stupid shows of valor. I hope you know who you are stealing from as you won't get far."
He may think that he is intimidating or impressive, but his body language reflects that it is pretty much just cowardice, "and since you all are so insistent, my name is Tistin Snive and I am a the chief accountant in the service of Phlegos Dulm."
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"Yeah, Mr. Snive, as I was there, I can attest that we were attacked first; they tried to capture us... I'm assuming to make us slaves." Tenibri nearly spits with the invective he puts on that last word. "If they somehow found their way into a cage as a result, how can you blame us?"
Before he begins searching the room for anything, he pulls the others closer and keeps his voice low. "I hate to bring this up... but are we safe leaving this guy here when we're done?"
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Raising an eye, Helvega inquires "As opposed to the friendly young lady fleeing through the front door? I fail to see how two potential tattle-tells are better or worse than one..."
Glancing back towards Tistin, she smiles sweetly and bats her eyes. "I understand good sir and loyalty is an amazing quality for one to have. Good for you! I am sorry for the way we have been forced to meet." pausing, she glances back towards her companions before continuing "I do hope we will meet again some day in better circumstances."
Without another word, she begins to rummage through the room.
Everyone in the room sees that the desk is stacked with papers and ledgers and documents. There does not seem to be anything of note elsewhere in the room. There is a closed door on the west wall .
As Helvega steps over to the desk she fails to see the very cleverly hidden magical rune inscribed onto one leg. A flash of magic explodes as her hand touches the first piece of paper and the sound of rushing wind bursts forth as creatures are summoned from the grand beyond!
A voice, quite similar to Phlegos Dulm's from the party, emanates from the desk and gloatingly commands the creatures as they are summoned, "tēmanē jīvanta banāvō jēthī huṁ savāla karī śakuṁ kē mārī pāsēthī cōrī karanāra kōṇa chē!"
All of that though, is significantly secondary to what is actually summoned. FOUR beings pop into existence. The creatures’ bloated frames shudders with each heaving step, yet despite their shapes, the things move with surprising quickness.
Khugron
Enemy Yellow/Green
Tatho
Tony & Luna
Helvega & Cuddles
Tenibri
Remy
Enemy Red/Blue
Bold May Act.
Khugron whips his long polearm in a violent overhand swing, slashing it right past Tenibri's face and across the chest of the beast before it can even react! He opens up a large gash, but doesn't quite finish off the beast as its unnatural body type seems to resist the Nagaji's weapon (DR).
The creature steps forward and slashes both claws at the obvious threat, attempting to rip holes into Khugron.
Both claws appear almost guaranteed to strike the out of control raging fiend, but at the last second the creature seems to try to lessen the blow for some reason and fails to even connect. One of the other beasts steps back and begins casting a spell. It completes and the room quickly fills with a noxious cloud.
Khugron (fort save)
Yellow (-17) & Green
Tatho (fort save)
Tony & Luna
Helvega & Cuddles (fort save)
Tenibri (fort save)
Remy (fort save)
Enemy Red/Blue
Bold May Act.