Isabella moves toward the room to assist. She looks in just as Forest reaches for the woman. When Forest grabs the woman with a controlling grip she goes nuts and lashes out at him. Her hands dent the plates of his armor and leave score marks from her nails. She hits so hard Forest is sure she had to have broken something (hit twice, dmg 14 and 9).
Kizzy remains frozen under the affects of the supernatural, uncontrollable fear.
Round 2
Runt 46/46 magic weapon
Forest 34/57
Camil 39/39
Isabella 41/41
Kizzy 37/37 2 rounds cower
Lavanor 54/54 1 round cower
Zherxikas 33/33 2 rounds cower
Woman uninjured
"OMG. This is a Revenent. It is already dead, so don't feel bad about killing it. Forget using cold or poison."
If Forest goes for the pin, Runt will assist. If not, then I will choose a different action later.
Lavanor was not familiar with what a revenent was, he only knew how much it terrified him. "The horrors of this place are just too much. I must push through this fear. Once we have what we need from here, we can raze the building," he thinks to himself, frozen in fear.
"Argh! None of this would be happening if we followed my plan from the start!" Forest gripes as the cold ladies mean hands tear into his armor. He attempts to pin her that he may more easily pummel her to re-death.
Camil climbs to his feet, overcoming the supernatural terror, What Runt said, she’s an undead thing.. her only purpose in existing is to hunt and kill the person who killed her. Aldern Foxglove.
She wrests her arm away from Forest and then rebuffs his and Runt's attempts to pin her arms. Then she lashes out at you both. Forest is wary enough to dodge back and avoids those nasty claws but Runt is not so lucky (dmg 14). The woman tries to pull Runt into a bear hug but fails. "I'm coming Aldern!" she wails, "Your servants will not stop me!"
Round 2 (operating a little out of order)
Runt 46/46 magic weapon
Forest 34/57 done
Camil 39/39 done
Isabella 41/41 <<<
Kizzy 37/37 2 rounds cower
Lavanor 54/54 1 round cower
Zherxikas 33/33 2 rounds cower
Woman uninjured done
Round 3
Runt 46/46 magic weapon
Forest 34/57
Camil 39/39
Isabella 41/41
Kizzy 37/37 1 rounds cower
Lavanor 54/54
Zherxikas 33/33 1 rounds cower
Woman uninjured
Kizzy remains locked in place, her mind filled with fear and her muscles frozen.
Isabella clutches at her holy symbol and once again releases a burst of positive energy, this time to disrupt undead.
"I guess we will have to destroy her. I was rather hoping we could subdue her and let her loose on this Aldern fellow."
Runt moves into a better position and takes a swing at the thing...
Her Raptor follow behind and does the same
Str 17, Dex 17, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 14
HP: 28[22]
AC/T/FF: 15/14/12
SR: 8
CMD: 17[15]
F/R/W: +8[6]/6/3
Camil looks at the creature, peeking his head around the door at the small room and focuses on her movements and how her undead body responds to threats.Kizzy, I know you can hear me, but this is definitely evidence that Aldren isn't as he seems...
Seeing a momentary opening, Camil darts inside the room tumbling into the corner to menace the woman and prepares to attack her.
Kizzy hears Camil's voice, eerie and distant; but his words do ring true even though her body refuses to take action.
Isabella blasts the room with radiant energy but the woman seems to shake off most of it. Then Runt slashes at her and it is like hitting a tree. When Camil tumbles into the room he stumbles nearly coming to a stop right next to her but she does not take advantage and merely has eyes for Forest and Isabella.
Round 3
Runt 46/46 magic weapon done
Forest 34/57
Camil 39/39 done
Isabella 41/41
Kizzy 37/37 1 rounds cower
Lavanor 54/54
Zherxikas 33/33 1 rounds cower
Woman light injury
As quickly as he was struck with fear and couldn't move, Lavanor seemed to return to normal. "Curly, open that door to let Scout into the room. This hallway is too congested," he says, motioning to the door on the right and then whistling at Scout. He then runs past the group in the hallway to see if he can help with the creature.
Round 3
Runt 46/46 magic weapon done
Forest 34/57 <<<
Camil 39/39 done
Isabella 41/41 <<<
Kizzy 37/37 1 rounds cower
Lavanor 54/54 done
Zherxikas 33/33 1 rounds cower
Woman light injury
"Fine, have it your way." Forest release the cold lady and draws his scimitar, slashing at her with his preferred weapon.
Isabella casts a shield of faith in preparation for doing battle with the undead. (Should bring AC up to 17.)
oops, here it is with DC
Instead of being focused on Isabella and Forest she may be focused on the door.
Forest slashes into the dense flesh of the woman and makes a small gash. Out in the hall Isabella can be heard casting a spell. Then the woman steps closer to the door and screams, "Get out of my way!" as she tears into Forest (one clawed hand hit dmg 9). She attempts to strangle Forest but just misses getting her claws around his throat.
Round 4
Runt 46/46 magic weapon
Forest 25/57
Camil 39/39
Isabella 41/41 shield of faith
Kizzy 37/37
Lavanor 54/54
Zherxikas 33/33
Woman moderate injury
I think she's trying to escape and find Aldren! I don't think she'll hurt us if we get out of her way. We could follow her to wherever she's trying to go? He waits to see what his companions think about this.
"Makes sense to me. Let's just follow her."
Shakes of the effects of the fear. "Very well... " he says and backs up a bit, but readies to cast if need be.
Kizzy feels her fear was away as quickly as it came, she takes a moment to gather herself. Finally hearing Camil and Runt talk about following the "her" they encountered. She waits to see what happens next.
"Uhh. Seems like a sketchy plan." Forest says, confused.
"It's worth a try," Lavanor yells to the group in the room before turning around.
"Move out of the hall. We're letting this creature out of here," he yells back to the others still in the hall before moving back towards the rest of the group.
"Yea, and follow her. She will lead us to the guy that created this mess in the first place."
As the team hoped the crazed woman heads out through the hall shoving everyone rather violently but not causing any serious injury. She descended the stairs with everyone in tow. In the entry hall she stops and smells the air before screaming, "I'm coming my darling!" and then pulling open one of the northern doors revealing a staircase down.
At this point, Forest and Runt have begun to fall behind. Also, as Kizzy steps off the bottom step she is blasted by heat. The manticore in the center of the room bursts into flame and lashes out with its tail stinging her (dmg 9). She quickly pats herself down to keep the flames from spreading. When she is done, the manticore stands quiet and moldy as before. Onlookers only hear her cry of surprise and see her clothes burst into flames briefly before she pats them out.
(slow down for Forest and Runt or keep up with the woman?)
"C'mon, let's hurry!"
Follows the group.
Camil will follow the woman down the stairs, he recoils for a moment at the firey manticore apparition, but continues to let her lead.
Kizzy pats out flames and singed frill, I am really beginning to hate this place. she says as she continues to follow the rest of the people following the undead thing...
The woman rushes down the steps and turns left at the bottom. The room opens up into a kitchen at the bottom of the steps not that she pauses. A large oak table, its surface covered with moldy stains and rat droppings, sits in the center of this large kitchen. Shelves line the walls, and an oversized fireplace dominates the northeast portion of the room. The shelves in the southwest wall are in a much greater state of disarray, and two one-foot-wide cracks in the wall near the floor lead south into the earth beyond the basement walls. The woman heads down a small hall. At the end of the hall she stops to open a door. Kizzy during the pause hears movement coming from the kitchen. It sounds like a bunch of tiny movements, the she begins to see rats come out of the cracks and other openings in the room.
Upstairs, Runt finally reaches the bottom of the steps and the manticore bursts into flames, to her eyes anyway. It's tail lashes out at her (dmg 11) causing flames to burst upon her clothes (this, everyone sees). She, like Kizzy, quickly taps them out and by then the manticore is back to normal.
Rats Kizzy yells, then realizes the warning may simply be misunderstood as a description of the circumstances, adds Vermin - lots of them! as she retrieves the alchemist fire she has.
After putting out the flames she pulls out a scroll of expeditious retreat and casts the spell. After that her little legs don't seem to slow her down much and she quickly catches up to the leaders.
Camil looks at Kizzy, and then the rats before digging out his own alchemist's fire and weighing it in his hand before throwing it.
The woman opens the door and moves through. Everyone follows as rats begin to poor out of the walls in the kitchen. Most find they are in a long hallway. At the end, she stops to open yet another door. Luckily, this opens on a room and everyone piles in leaving room in the hall for their team mates who are closing in from behind. This room looks to have once been some sort of arcane workshop, although little remains but broken glassware, shattered jars of pottery that contain dust and mold, and several rusty instruments and tools. A row of soggy books sits on the northern end of a workbench along the western wall. At the other end of the workbench, what looks like three iron birdcages sit, each containing a dead diseased rat. To the east, two stained-glass windows loom. The northern window depicts a thin man with gaunt features drinking a foul-looking brew of green fluid, while the southern one shows the same man but in an advanced state of decay, as if he had been dead for several weeks. His arms raised and head thrown back in triumph, his rotting body turns to smoke and spirals into a seven-sided box.
When Isabella enters the room, it appears that the man in the stained glass windows is sneering at them all. The she sees the books on the table and is drawn to read them.
Although Forest and Lavanor get ahead when Runt stops to cast her spell, the increased speed allows her to make up the difference. She just makes it to the hall south of the kitchen before the rats pour into the area closing off all movement. Runt closes the hall door as the velociraptor springs through. Looking at the door, she is unsure if the rats can make it under the door or not.
Up front, the woman heads out a second door from the room into a small hall with yet another door. She opens this one onto a set of steps open to the room they descend into. Piles of broken stone, dirt, and a few ruined pickaxes line the edges of this room. The floor in the middle of the room has been torn up to reveal an ancient set of stone spiral stairs, obviously of much older construction than the surrounding basement, winding deep into the bedrock below. A foul stink, like that of rotten meat, wafts up on a cold breeze from the darkness. The woman plunges into the darkness.
Camil is to the first landing when he stops momentarily.
Once Camil recovers, the woman is gone somewhere below.
"Gads, Camil, what happened? Don't lose her guys!"
Runt plunges onward, attempting to rush past Camil and catch up with the exceedingly fast vengeful spirit.
Isabella pauses and, against her better judgment, stops to check one of the books in a room full of strange stained glass windows. Probably a bad idea, and yet...