Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Ridley will do the same, and use the initiative bonus should we enter combat.
Zaarah opens the northernmost door in this chamber. It would appear the Onyx Alliance converted this room into a makeshift storage area; it appears to be little more than a meeting room with empty boxes and barrels used as makeshift tables and chairs. It doesn't contain anything of note.
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
On to the southern door! I'm assuming Zaarah is ok taking point still and have arranged the party around the door. Please move your token if you are unhappy with what I have done.
Finding nothing of interest in that room, Zaarah moves to the lower room and checks there. She finds another abandoned room, this one seemingly converted for quarters, as several beds have been stood up against the wall. As with the previous room, you find nothing of note here...
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
To the north then! Looks like someone already moved the tokens.
After finding nothing of interest in the eastern chambers, with Zaarah leading, the party moves west...
A few benches and empty armored training dummies are the only things of note in this spacious chamber. The chilled air here speaks to some kind of magical refrigeration, though it has little effect beyond misting breath. A door leads out to the building’s arterial hallway to the east, while a partly opened wooden door leads to the north.
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Through the door to the North!
Brrr...chilly... anyone have any idea why this rooms is refrigerated? Maybe they store some green mold in here somewhere...
Looking at the dummies, you can discern that they were used recently and bear marks from a variety of different slashing and piercing weapons. You reflect that this once must've been a cold storage chamber that the Onyx Alliance converted to a training area...
As she nears the northern door in the chamber, Zaarah detects the subtle smell of raw sewage wafting in from the partially open door...
Pushing it open further, a pungent stench of sewage fills this dark room...
Assuming a light source is activated
Tipped over crates fill the southern end of the chamber, some leaking a rainbow of muted colors onto the floor. Zaarah hears some mumbling to the east...
"Alas, poor Willuh..." The source of the voice, a three-legged freakish creature that is mostly mouth, with four tentacles, two tipped with barbs and one with eyes, extend from its sides, seems to perk up when it sees you. In a low rumbling drawl, the creature says, "Greetings...you haven't come to take the rest of my hats have you? Sadly, I have accidentally ruined my favorite one..." His huge mouth has a sad, pouty look...
Knowledge (Dungeoneering) DC14:
This creature is an otyugh, albeit a unique one with an extra tentacle...
Any character who has been credited with completing True Dragons of Absalom:
You recognize that this particular otyugh is Hats...
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Oh my... I've never met an Otyugh like you before. You're much friendlier than most! We are here looking for a hat - I'm not sure if it is yours. Hopefully not. Which hat is your favorite and how has it been ruined?
As for us, we're looking for a boring old stuffy Osirian headdress.
"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance ... I once had a hat too but I lost it. Super sad. Had an anxiety attack when I realised it wasn't on my head. You know ... I had a hat on the head?" she says and starts touching her head with sad eyes.
"Do you work with these onyx guys? Are they your friends, too?"
He's immune to disease; his bite carries disease while his tentacles can constrict...
Hats nods in commiseration with Zaarah. "Yes, losing a hat is a tragedy...and that was my favorite..."
Hats gets a little anxious when Zaarah asks about the Onyx and Ridley mentions looking for the Ossirian headdress. "Uh, yes, about that...first off, no I'm no friend of the Onyx Alliance. I am guardian of the Sewer Dragons, a kobold tribe in Absalom allied to you Pathfinders; yes, I know what a Wayfinder means. I journeyed here with Drendle Dreng; when I noticed one of his notes kinda fell to the ground, I saw it mentioned a magical Ossirian hat and it's likely location. I came here and acquired it..."
"If you have it in your procession, could we have it as we were searching for it as well. In return, any other hats we find in this place we could give it to you." Faerin offers.
Female N Kitsune, always in human form (auburn hair, freckles, dreamily observing and sometimes looking a little bit crazy) | Swashbuckler 1 / Magus 15 | Low-light vision | Speed 30ft, Fly 60ft | Boots of Speed 10/10 | Lucky Horses. 1/1 | HP 209/209 | Normal: AC 24 T 19 FF 16 | CMB +25 (Disarm, Trip, Sunder), CMD 28 | F +22, R +22, W +15 | Empower 1/1 | Quicken 1/1| FreeMove 4/4 | Panache 9/9 | Arcane Pool/Ring 11+4/13+4 | Black Blade Pool 4/4 | Concentr. reroll 2/2 | Chaldira reroll 1/1 | Reroll 1/1 | Flight 15/15 | Init +9 | Perc +26, SM +21, Bluff (Deceive) +28, Dipl. (Convince) +28 | Active cond: Ablative barrier, invisibility, fly, Defending bones
Diplomacy:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (12) + 14 = 26
"Oh I completely understand!!! Really! Hats are like babies that you want to have close ... hats are like friends that you want to trust in ... hats are like defenders that keep your head safe! But you have to understand that we really, really ... I mean really need this hat. Would you be so kind and let us reunite with our friend the hat?" Zaarah says with genuine understanding!
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
I think we are misreading the situation here... Agent Hats has deftly completed his mission to recover the Ossirian hat. He should get all the glory for returning it to Lady Blakros. The fabulously wealthy Lady Blakros. With an EXTENSIVE wardrobe. With lots of exquisite hats in it. That I'm sure she would be more than willing to share with whatever intrepid agent returned the museum property.
Listening to Zaarah and Ridley, Hats' tentacles bob up and down. "Yes, if I had lost a hat, I'd wish it returned...and this Lady Blakros will give me a special hat in exchange? That sounds agreeable so I will accompany you...but I'll hold and guard this hat till then..."
Female N Kitsune, always in human form (auburn hair, freckles, dreamily observing and sometimes looking a little bit crazy) | Swashbuckler 1 / Magus 15 | Low-light vision | Speed 30ft, Fly 60ft | Boots of Speed 10/10 | Lucky Horses. 1/1 | HP 209/209 | Normal: AC 24 T 19 FF 16 | CMB +25 (Disarm, Trip, Sunder), CMD 28 | F +22, R +22, W +15 | Empower 1/1 | Quicken 1/1| FreeMove 4/4 | Panache 9/9 | Arcane Pool/Ring 11+4/13+4 | Black Blade Pool 4/4 | Concentr. reroll 2/2 | Chaldira reroll 1/1 | Reroll 1/1 | Flight 15/15 | Init +9 | Perc +26, SM +21, Bluff (Deceive) +28, Dipl. (Convince) +28 | Active cond: Ablative barrier, invisibility, fly, Defending bones
"Oh yes! That is so great! So a couple of Pathfinders, a Linnorm king wax golem and a hat loving Otyugh go into a bar ... " Zaarah says and abruptly starts laughing.
She then leads the way to the last door in the main hallway.
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Before we move on,
didnt the onyx alliance leader say there was something these room to help us? Let's take another look and see if we can figure out what she meant...
Ridley will take a few moments concentrating on the ossirian headdress to identify it. I'll take 10 on spellcraft for a 27. Then he'll do a quick once over of the other rooms to see if we missed anything.
You identify the headdress as a helm of teleportation.
Also, you find numerous vials of various chemicals (you can gather up to 10 alchemical items from the Core Rulebook).
Leaving that area with Hats in tow, Zaarah once again takes point, and moves back to the hallway...she opens the northern door, revealing...
Harsh, cold blue illumination fills this space, coming from braziers hoisted up on the ceiling some thirty feet above. A cracked-wide ebony pyramid rises ten feet off the ground in the chamber’s center, covered by a thick layer of dust. Small cases line the joins between wall and floor along the northern edge of the room. A series of paintings hang from the northern wall, each depicting a somber scene in muted colors.
Of the three pictures mounted on the wall, the Yamada Osa painting rests at the center between two glass paintings. As Nigel Aldain’s inventory list indicated, the image portrays the somber view of a Tian Xia village situated between a mountain and a forest.
Knowledge (Geography) DC25:
You can pinpoint the village as in the Yamada Osa painting as being Baakai, the largest settlement in the dreary Tian Xia nation of Shenmen.
Not long after the door is opened, two large figures emerge from the glass paintings and approach you with ill intent...
Knowledge (Arcana) DC18:
These are a pair of glass golems; you may ask 1 question for every 5 points above the DC.
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Female N Kitsune, always in human form (auburn hair, freckles, dreamily observing and sometimes looking a little bit crazy) | Swashbuckler 1 / Magus 15 | Low-light vision | Speed 30ft, Fly 60ft | Boots of Speed 10/10 | Lucky Horses. 1/1 | HP 209/209 | Normal: AC 24 T 19 FF 16 | CMB +25 (Disarm, Trip, Sunder), CMD 28 | F +22, R +22, W +15 | Empower 1/1 | Quicken 1/1| FreeMove 4/4 | Panache 9/9 | Arcane Pool/Ring 11+4/13+4 | Black Blade Pool 4/4 | Concentr. reroll 2/2 | Chaldira reroll 1/1 | Reroll 1/1 | Flight 15/15 | Init +9 | Perc +26, SM +21, Bluff (Deceive) +28, Dipl. (Convince) +28 | Active cond: Ablative barrier, invisibility, fly, Defending bones
Zaarah concentrates on her black sword to deal cold damage!
Energy Attunement (Su): At 5th level, as a free action, a magus can spend a point of his black blade’s arcane pool to have it deal one of the following types of damage instead of weapon damage: cold, electricity, or fire.
Spell combat & spellstrike: Cast touch spell Brand/0-level defensively, free action to deliver touch spell with Scimitar (spellstrike).
Casting Brand defensively, concentration DC 15:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10 Using reroll! Casting Brand defensively, concentration DC 15:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Zaarah successfully casts brand defensively and delivers her touch spell with her Scimitar.
Brand, free action to deliver with Keen Scimitar Black Blade +4 attack roll, -2 spell combat :1d20 + 14 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 14 - 2 = 31 Scimitar Black Blade +4, Dex mod +6, Damage roll :1d6 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
Zaarah attacks with her intelligent Black Blade Scimitar.
Then regular attack with her scimitar during spell combat full attack.
Keen Scimitar Black Blade +3 attack roll, spell combat :1d20 + 13 - 2 ⇒ (7) + 13 - 2 = 18 Scimitar Black Blade +3, Dex mod +6, Damage roll :1d6 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15
Opportune Parry & Reposte:
In case Zaarah is attacked she uses 'Opportune Parry' and parries by expending an AoO to parry and spends a panache point (so if the attack roll of tshe opponent is lower than Zaarah's parry then the opponent does not hit and Zaarah could potentially reposte)
Opportune Parry:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (2) + 13 = 15
In case Zaarah successfully parries she uses 'Reposte' as an immediate action to attack the opponent that attacked her.
Zaarah’s black blade lands solidly, delivering a significant cold shock throughout the black glass golem...along with the damage, the magus also notices that the golem is now moving slower...her second strikes just misses...
Male Shoanti Barbarian 10 HP: 102/102 l AC: 12 /T: 12/FF: 10 l Fort: +13, Ref: +6, W: +9 l Init: +2 l Per: +5 l Movement: 40
The blow from the jagged limb of the glass golem leaves the barbarian bleeding but doesn't drive him back. The big man returns the favor with a quick pair of punishing punches that smash glass as easily as they smash bones.
Continue rage. Punch for lethal. Fighting defensively to bump my DR to 9/-.
Taurus continues to pound away at the blue golem, his first strike landing squarely in the glass creature's solar plexus, with second strike missing high...
With a better look at the half-elf that recently appeared, you all recognize her as the previously assumed dead Pathfinder, Chalos Visanda...
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Gah! You betrayed the Pathfinders! Can't stand for that!
"Handle that so called dead pathfinder." Faerin says as she steps up burnt and face reddened where the heat got her.
"This golem seems more suited for me." as she steps up and uses her special training to attack it...
StoneStrike
As a swift action, she treats her melee attacks until the beginning of her next turn (whether armed or unarmed) as magical and adamantine, including ignoring hardness up to twice her paladin level, with a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls, as well as on combat maneuver checks.
1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 + 2 = 211d10 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8
Ignores hardness = 6
Slitherbane fairly whistles through the air as she slams it hard against the glass body...
"Did you get the impression I was ignoring you? Good."
Ursahla steps up and goes for the eyes.
Freebooter's bane now on Chalos. Allies within 30 feet of Ursahla that can see and hear her get +2 to attack and damage vs Chalos.
Dirty trick:1d20 + 26 ⇒ (19) + 26 = 45On a hit, Chalos is blinded for 1d4 ⇒ 4 rounds plus 1 round for every 5 I exceed her CMD. She can remove the condition as a standard action.
In case Zaarah is attacked she uses 'Opportune Parry' and parries by expending an AoO to parry and spends a panache point (so if the attack roll of tshe opponent is lower than Zaarah's parry then the opponent does not hit and Zaarah could potentially reposte)
Opportune Parry:1d20 + 14 ⇒ (16) + 14 = 30
In case Zaarah successfully parries she uses 'Reposte' as an immediate action to attack the opponent that attacked her.
StoneStrike
As a swift action, she treats her melee attacks until the beginning of her next turn (whether armed or unarmed) as magical and adamantine, including ignoring hardness up to twice her paladin level, with a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls, as well as on combat maneuver checks.
Ignores hardness = 6
Attack with Stone strike 1d20 + 10 + 2 ⇒ (10) + 10 + 2 = 221d10 + 5 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 2 = 14
Faerin once more swings Slitherbane with great force aiming for the precise spot where she had struck before seeking to widen that crack.
Faerin brings down Slitherbane, striking the black golem a solid blow, while Taurus plants his fist squarely against the prone golem’s glass jaw; the barbarian’s second attack goes awry...
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Ridley tweaks his bomb formula, and the liquid in the vial turns blue and starts smoking slightly as frost forms on the outside. Ridley then lobs it at the blue golem.
Chalos Visanda, knowing she and her golems are in trouble, moves back 5'. Desperate with here back to the wall, she blindly sends a fireball directly into the wall west of her...
Fireball Damage:6d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 4, 6, 3, 2) = 19
If I calculated correctly, Zaarah, Faerin, and Ursahla are caught in the blast radius of 20'...DC16 Reflex save for half damage...
As the flames engulf the remaining glass golem, you notice it's wounds start to heal somewhat and it starts to move faster...
Taurus continues to bleed...
COMBAT! Round 3 - The bold may post!
Chalos Visanda (-19)
Zaarah (-19, bleeding; need Reflex DC16)
Ursahla (need Reflex DC16)
Ridley (-15)
Taurus (-39, bleeding)
Faerin (-32; need Reflex DC16)
Glass Creatures (blue dead; black -48)
Human M Human Alchemist 8 |Current AC: 23 AC Base: 21 T 14 FF 20 | HP 58/58 | F +9 R +12 W +5| CMD 13 | Init +8 (12wHA)| Perc +19 | Spells: Level 1 5/6 Level 2 3/5 Level 3 2/3| Bombs 19/19 | Active Buffs: SeeInvis, Heroism, DrkVsn, BrkSkn, Cog
Ridley moves slightly to the north and lobs another cold bomb at the black golem.
