correction, the ghoul moves to the doorway.
Niu crashes the vial of holy water directly on the zombie. Ziera drops her zombie with one swing. The ghoul moves. Rhen moves up and pokes his undead bane short sword at the human zombie.
The dwarf drops the zombie with the undead bane shortsword.
Round 1 Undead Storage
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 72/72, Ranok 72/85, Niu 42/42
Ghoul
Niu, Ziera
Ghoul blue
Rhen
Ranok ✔
Ranok will move up 20', take a quick glance down the left and right halls, and ready himself for anything that may come his way.
Ready for this to end. Ready to see Khonsu.
Round 2 Undead Storage
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 72/72, Ranok 72/85, Niu 42/42
Ghoul (readied)
Niu, Ziera ✔
Ghoul blue
Rhen
Ranok (readied)
The ghoul readies a full attack should anyone get within reach.
Smiling at the party's effectiveness with the zombies, Niu moves into range and triggers his wand at the blue ghoul.
Ziera warily moves forward a single move and readies an attack herself if one of the ghouls comes within reach.
Niu's molten orb hits the blue ghoul. The blue ghoul readies a full attack should someone get within reach. Rhen moves forward and readies an attack.
Ranok is up.
Not able to charge through Rhen, his lame legs won't get him all the way to the udead, and not having a ranged weapon, Ranok sighs in frustration at this game of chicken and moves up 35'.
"Think you're guarding something do you?"
Round 3 Undead Storage
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 72/72, Ranok 72/85, Niu 42/42
Ghoul (readied)
Niu, Ziera ✔
Ghoul blue (-4) (readied)
Rhen (readied)
Ranok
The ghoul readies a full attack should anyone get within reach.
Niu giggles... "We can just sit back and watch as they burn"
As the flames from the previous molten orb flicker out, Niu moves to geta clear shot again and launches another orb at the blue ghoul.
Ziera continues her previous readied action.
Blue is destroyed. Rhen moves up to protect the exposed witch.
Ranok is up.
Ranok readies am attack and waits for the ghoul to burn.
The ghoul lunges forward to attack and drops from burn damage. End initiative,
Replacing the wand in his Haversack, Niu smiles. "Finally got to use that effectively. I think about it sometimes, but one of you are usually in range to be splashed."
Moving up closer to the hallway, he looks west. "I suppose we should go see what they were guarding."
Rhen takes point checking for traps. He gives you the all clear.
This strangely-shaped chamber is essentially an oblong room with six oval subrooms branching off of it at regular intervals. The ceiling here is 30 feet high and vaulted like a cathedral. Each of the small rooms has a short flight of stairs leading up to a narrow platform. Each platform has an intricately-carved, upright, closed sarcophagi and a set of large, broken iron chains that at one point probably held the sarcophagi shut.
"Closed sarcophagi with broken chains? Are we curious enough to release the undead that must lie within?
They could also hold items of great power. Maybe even a scroll of identify so we can learn what that staff does."
Niu's hands twitch toward the sarcophagi he is examining, ready to crack it open and look inside if Ranok doesn't stop him.
Niu is able to make out some of the intricate carving and deduces that architects built the sarcophagi to imprison the remains of six of Tar-Baphon’s most promising disciples, all of whom were tried by the Shining Crusade and found guilty of the gristly slaughter of thousands of innocents.
Niu's hand jerks back as he realizes who was in these sarcophagi.
"These were the Whispering Tyrant's lieutenants. Imprisoned here, but the fact that they added chains meant the crusaders expected them to animate."
Looking at the chains, he shudders. "Chained no longer. I think we need to know if these six are ahead of us or remain here. Perhaps we can flip one open while we prepare to run back into the hallway to bottle them up?"
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Suiting his words, he backs toward the hallway
Noting that Niu is backing up, Rhen asks Ranok "What we be doing, Ranok?"
"Want me to pop one open, then? I can slide off one of these lids maybe"
"Go ahead, open it. Be ready to withdraw."
Failure to be aware of your surroundings has allowed a particularly dangerous enemy to remain undetected. Backlash from the broken Seal animated them as undead and gave them the strength to break out of their stone coffins and merge into a strange composite creature.
This horrid creature’s limbs are composed of parallel bones from several humanoid creatures. Its head is a broken-and-fused amalgam of three skulls. Its ribcage numbers nearly twenty overlapping pairs of ribs, some of which are jutting out at odd angles. Its feet and hands are large and tangled like the roots of a great tree, made up of at least three hands and feet each. Withered intestine and dry sinew writhe in its empty gut and dangle from its open jaws. It roars and moves to Ranok.
Round 1 The Disciples
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 72/72, Ranok 72/85, Niu 42/42
Thing
Niu, Ziera, Rhen, Ranok ✔
The thing unleashes undead terror on Ranok
plus grab
plus grab
melee touch (paralysis)
Ranok takes 16 HPs of damage and is grappled. Fort save, Ranok DC 21 or paralyzed for 1d4 minutes.
"Ah! Where was that thing hiding!"
Glad that he moved out of the way, Niu tries to help the group out by throwing distracting sand at the creature, and drawing his dagger.
"Hold on, Ranok! We will save you!" Ziera encourages as she moves into position, swinging her longsword.
"Ah! Where was that thing hiding!"
Plain site, no one ever looked around.
Resistances? Special Attacks?
You get one of those. Which do you prefer?
Ziera lands a blow and deals quite some damage which the thing takes without paying attention.
Ranok will attempt to break free of the grapple.
If he frees himself, he would like to move back 20'.
The -4. It's only resistances are undead traits.
As Ranok tries to free himself, he gets the feeling this thing is so strong that he is not capable of breaking free.
Rhen flanks the undead monstrosity.
19-20
Round 2 The Disciples
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 72/72, Ranok 56/85, Niu 42/42
The monster releases Ranok and attacks Ziera.
plus grab
The monster releases Ranok and attacks Ziera.
plus grab
touch (paralysis)
Rhen misses the well armored undead.
Ziera takes 22 HPs of damage, is grappled and owes me a fort check.
The party is up. Be sure to set up a flank with Rhen.
Grumbling to himself for not planning better, Niu drops his dagger, snaps his wand of Bless out of his spring loaded wrist sheath and activates it before dropping that and picking up the dagger again.
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Ignoring the grapple as well as possible, Ziera strikes at the mostrosity.
That is a miss. Nice economy of moves, Niu.
Rhen will wait for Ranok to set up a flank for him.
"Five of 'em to dee nort, Ranok." He says.
Rhen pokes at the undead abomination.
plus Debilitating Injury: Bewildered -2/-4 (Ex) Foe who takes sneak attack damage takes AC pen (more vs. striker) for 1 rd.
Rhen connects with the grappled atrocity and takes a five foot step.
Ranok is up. It looks like it still has fight left in it after those two significant blows. It's high AC is down 4 for 1 round at this time.
A grey mist begins to appear in the entire area. At this point it is not affecting vision. Sparks flitter from here to there all around you.
Seeing no way to get involved with the flank now, Ranok simply gives the thing an overhand chop.
Ranok connects with the enemy.
Round 3 The Disciples
Rhen 65/65, Ziera 50/72, Ranok 56/85, Niu 42/42
The Composite Disciple Freak releases Ziera and attacks her.
plus grab
plus grab
touch (paralysis)
It does not attempt to grapple her. She takes 32 hp of damage and needs a Fort DC 21 or paralyzed for minutes.
The party is up.
"That's going to leave a mark." Niu comments.
Unable to do anything to help Ziera, he attempts to do some damage, shooting a ray at the creature.
Niu misses his mark. The composite disciple freak looks badly wounded. Rhen will give the honor to Ranok.
Ranok pulls his sword back to guard from his downward stroke and slices at an upward angle this time, slinging gore as the blade passes back and forth.
Ranok just cleans his blade with that swing. Rhen pokes at it with his UB shortsword.
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"Flank ye orc! Flank"
Rhen drops the freak. End initiative.
Rhen looks down at the remains and says "I gave ye direction, orc. Why ye not move north 5 feet? Don't hurt ye none to do so."
He searches the body 20+10 and finds nothing of value. "We's headed south." He leads the way.
While waiting for Ziera's paralysis to wear off, Niu start healing the party.
"My wand is getting a little low on charges. If we don't find the end of this dungeon soon, we may be in for real trouble."
Once Ziera is ready, he follows Rhen.
To Rhen, "Looked like you and Ziera had a flank going. Yes, let's find the big bad guy and put in into him."
Rhen heads south and checks the door for traps. He inspects it to find it unlocked.
"Be no traps or locks on this here door. Who be openin'?"
"Wait a second. We have to be getting close. It might be time for some spells."
Ranok, knowing that this whole place is evil, casts detect evil through the door anyway. He's looking to see if it is more evil through there.
Ranok detects one strong evil aura 15-20 feet behind the door.
"What did you have in mind, Ranok?
I don't have much of anything that would be helpful. I can make us immune to poison, but that is about all."
"I have spells and potions of my own."He says patting his side. "Let me take a potion, run through my spells, then I'll open the door. When I move through, if I see something really bad, we'll be ready. I hope I see something really bad. Here Ziera. Take this potion."
"K. We have just a few minutes. Let's go destroy some undead!"
Ranok will then open the door and step through.
Ranok enters a vestibule with curved walls on the north side and square corners on the south. On either side sit two copper braziers partially filled with a sour-scented oil that does little to mask the nauseating scent of rotting flesh that seems to seep from the shale stone walls. In the center of the room is a wretched-looking creature, a desiccated human form with new-looking armor and weapons. Flies buzz about this creature’s exposed flesh. With the open door, you all can see this.
Its appearance is so grotesque that you will need to roll a Will check.