Kallie had stayed back and quiet, not knowing what to say to the horribly afflicted man. But she did get an idea. "Does anyone know break enchantment? It might help."
"Oooo, nah. I mean, that's a righteous spell but only some of the sickest skalds can nail it. Maybe in a year, if I keep practicing?
"Once we rescue mom and the gang, one of them must know it though."
Croq thinks for a minute.
"Would tying you up make you lose control too? If not, maybe we could tie you before we KO you, and then bring you to safety? Or we could try to come back with a scroll, when we can?
"Or HEY!! Kallie's great at compelling people. That's kinda her jam. Could you compel him to let us knock him out?"
Kallie's mouth twists. "It doesn't work like that. Otherwise, I'd compel an enemy to stand still while you bash his brains in."
"We're in Magnimar, we can at least find a scroll."
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Isiah seems... relieved when told that there's (more or less) readily available magic that could treat his affliction.
"In that case... I can wait here a bit longer while you all... clean house," he suggests. While you haven't explicitly said that's why you're here, Isiah has likely determined the reason behind your visit from various context clues. "I suggest securely sealing the doors before you depart. When you return, even if I won't be entirely lucid, having some food handy should keep me... docile long enough for you to use the scroll."
Before you leave, Isiah adds one more tidbit.
"Be on the lookout for a vampire named Sumsarru and a ghost named Xanesha. Someone named Erigantus helped Leptonia... procure their aid as guardians of this forsaken place," he warns. "From what I gathered, Erigantus is more of an independent ally than a lackey. Leptonia paid him with a 'runelord's tome' for his assistance with that foul sludge that turned me into this."
Before everyone departs, Galatea suddenly appears holding some of the foodstuffs left behind by the cultists. She places them before Isiah before falling back with everyone else.
With only a moment or so before Isiah loses his clarity, you all hustle out of the room and seal the doors. There appear to be two options for further exploration left. Across the pit, there is a room to the northwest that you have yet to explore. Additionally, you have not yet opened the door due north of the one leading to Isiah's chamber.
Aurealia opens the door to the north of Isiah's chamber.
Kallie follows Aurealia through the door.
Aurealia opens the door without any trouble. The room beyond is mostly desolate. You discover nothing there but some empty shelves and tables... Oh, and an animated skeleton covered in discolored, rotting entrails.
The skeleton growls and charges at Aurealia! It lands a painful strike and attempts to grab onto her. However, Aurealia nimbly dodges said attempt.
As expected, Galatea promptly vanishes from sight. A moment later, you can hear her chanting, and some Aurealia's injuries vanish. Cheshire reflexively gets into a pouncing position. However, the tigress quickly realizes that she doesn't really have much a charge lane.
Aurealia slashes a crack in reality and slips through it to appear behind the undead creature. She enters a rage and attempts to trip the creature which hurt her!
Jaya snaps her fingers and a puff of glitter engulfs the skeleton, judging that the Andosanas don't need much more help than that to dispense with a simple skeleton.
Croc starts to Sing a Song of Rage, while she hustles to keep up with her sibling.
Unless her knowledge of undead tells her this is a mundane skeleton barely able to threaten a novice adventurer, Kallie decides to use her new metamagic rod as she casts hold person.
While it probably won't be successfully hiding from anyone for a time, the skeleton is largely unaffected by the spells thrown at it.
Unfortunately, Eugeni didn’t cover mohrgs in much detail during your studies on the undead, so you can't recall much about them
The creature seems to briefly debate its next target: the nearby Kallie or the isolated Aurealia? With a low growl, the creature ultimately rushes at the centaur wizard! The skeleton grabs Kallie by the neck and latches on tightly...
A whistle echoes throughout the entire complex, and Cheshire rushes to Kallie's rescue! She squeezes past Kallie and the skeleton, who slams a fist into the tigress side. Cheshire roars in pain but keeps moving. Once behind her foe, she bite into its boney leg, but she is unable to secure a hold.
At the last second, Kallie quickly reinforces her defenses with magic, preventing the skeleton's attack from connecting.
Aurealia reaches out and casts a boosted bull's strength on Cheshire, causing the cat's muscles to swell massively.
"Watch out for the tongue! It's a Mohrg; it'll paralyze you!"
Abruptly taking the undead creature much more seriously, Jaya sent a guano-powered bead of fire to a precisely calculated distance from the skeleton.
"Eeeww, gross!" Croq frowns at Jaya's warning, and then swings for the skeleton's face from above.
Seeing that this was no ordinary skeleton and that she just got lucky by throwing up some emergency extra protection, Kallie knows she has no business being in melee with the thing. She retreats.
The mohrg is caught by the full force of Jaya's Fireball despite the point of denotation being fairly far away from it.
Seemingly to realize that it's not long for this world... again, the mohrg nonetheless lets out an angry hiss and lashes out at Cheshire. It lands one powerful against Cheshire's side. She's able to shrug off its second strike, but the tigress is caught completely off guard when her foe uses its tongue to attack her.
True to Jaya's warning, poor Cheshire is left paralyzed by the mohrg's tongue. After a few second of stunned horror, Galatea screams in rage. Becoming visible in the process, she grabs the mohrg by the skull and belts it with a powerful burst of positive energy. Her spell completely destroys the undead monstrosity.
Galatea quickly tries to tend to Cheshire, but the tigress is completely paralyzed for the time being.
"Unless someone can quickly restore Cheshire, I believe we should wait for her to recover on her own. It shouldn't be more than a few minutes, after all."
"Yeah, sounds good. I'm getting pretty tired, guys. I've only got a few more tricks up my sleeve before I'll need some rest."
About four minutes pass before Cheshire finally recovers from the paralysis. After sighing in relief, Gali pulls her animal companion into a hug, which causes Cheshire to purr (as much as tigers can) and nuzzle her big head against Galatea's much smaller one. After breaking the embrace, Gali draws one of her wands and begins looking over the group's injuries.
"Who need some healing?" Galatea offers. "We've found a lot of battles today, and something tells me that we're likely to face another beyond that door."
"I could use some love," Aurealia says, indicating her wounds.
Galatea nods and quickly gets to work healing first Aurealia and then Cheshire.
With the mohrg truly dead, there is seemingly nothing else of interest besides the door to the north, which Galatea keeps looking at apphrensively. Before anyone opens it, Gali casts some protective spells on Cheshire. She then fades from sight once more.
"Hey, you guys see that? Secret door."
"Sorry I missed it, nice catch. I must be more tired than I thought."
Aurealia goes over, and once the others are ready opens the secret door.
Croq stands beside her sibling, ready to make a dramatic drum roll if they see anything interesting.
Aurealia opens the secret door... and finds the same secret passageway she spotted earlier! This discovery confirms that you are now next to the westernmost wall of the Gecko. There is nothing else of interest in this room besides the closed door to the north.
"Alright then, let's do it!"
Staying beside her sibling, Croq walks up and–when everyone is in place–opens the door.
Like many Thassilonian interiors, the long chamber beyond the door has a vaulted ceiling, this one scaling up to thirty feet. While there are signs of previous furnishings once existing in this area, now the main things of note are five coffins. There are four small ones in the alcoves on the eastern and western sides of the room. Surrounded by several odd but possibly valuable objects, the final coffin sits in the northern alcove.
"Welcome, welcome!" a deep voice greets you. An individual steps out of the shadows who very much fits the "winged demon" description Brianne gave you earlier. He opens his arms and wings in a "friendly" greeting gesture. "You must be the visitors my servants told me about. Tell me, adventurers, what brings you to my home?"
You suspect that this would be Sumsarru, the vampire Isiah mentioned earlier.
"We don't need anything from this guy, right?"
"I can't think of anything," Kallie responds to Jaya.
"Hi! We were just in the neighborhood," she calls out to him. "I don't think we have much in common, though. It's not like we're here to borrow a cup of blood or anything."
Kallie's remark gets a chuckle out of Sumsarru.
"Normally, I would ask if you've found any interesting treasures during your travels. I like to collect such items and learn their stories," the vampire gargoyle remarks. He gestures to the collection of trinkets behind him. "However, since you don't need anything from me..."
With a gesture of his claw, Sumsarru's four minions from earlier appear from behind their coffins.
The derro minions rush at the Andosana Sisters!
Cheshire tears into one of the derros.
Kallie continues to seethe at facing foes against whom her spells are nigh worthless.
She grasps the threnodic rod and targets one of the vampire spawn, causing it to feel the sexual passion of the living (and horny)!
Croq starts to belt out another raging song, lets her carpet carry her five feet up and to the left, and then takes a swing with Drumstick...but the swing goes wild and the derro ducks it easily.
Aurealia attacks the same one as Cheshire, hoping to end its unlife quickly.
Seeing that Cheshire's corrosive attacks were proving effective, Jaya makes a few quick adjustments to her spell, just in case Sumsarru had prepared some sort of defenses against her.
Kallie's spell takes hold!
And Jaya's acidball destroys two of the derros and heavily damages Sumsarru!
Sumsarru growls with pain as the magical acid burns his undead flesh, though the wounds rapidly start healing.
"You mages hit hard," he admits. The gargoyle quickly nocks a couple of arrows on his bow and fires. "But you can rarely take damage as readily as you deal it!"
The two surviving vampire spawn try attacking Cheshire, but the tigress nimble dodges their strikes.
With Aurealia's help, Cheshire slays the heavily injured derro and then gravely wounds the other.
Kallie can't help but let out a giggle when Jaya is grazed by one arrow, as opposed to the massive amount of damage that her friend dished out.
"I think the trade-off's not really working in your favor," Kallie says. "Especially since you've just about run out of minions."
She then casts haste on her companions. "Go get him," she tells her friends.
Aurealia starts running forward, through a crack in space, to emerge behind the gargoyle. With an animal shriek she slams her horse-chopper into the monster!
"Still not an enjoyable experience," Jaya mutters, wrapping a shield of force around herself as she takes cover.
Croc smiles at her sibling and surfs through the air until they have the gargoyle flanked. Then she swings her drumstick into him.
With an angry growl, Sumsarru tosses his bow aside and makes a vicious last ditch effort to kill Croq.
The surviving derro tries to attack Cheshire, but the tigress' various forms of armor deflect the strike.
Cheshire easily dispatches the last derro.
Jaya pokes her head around the corner, expecting to see that the Andosanas have dismantled the remaining vampire, but preparing a few well chosen bolts of force if Sumsarru withstands their onslaught.
Annoyed that she's down to suboptimal spells, Kallie blasts the vampire with a shot of positive energy.
Bolstered by her mighty song of rage, Croquelle easily shrugs off the worst of the vampire's bite, and with a howl she slams drumstick into it again.
...then, buoyed by Kallie's spell, Croq finds herself swinging again right off the backswing.
"WOAH, Kallie, thanks! I'm really jamming now!!"