With a burning need to cut this beast into ribbons, Nasar aims to finish the fight with one last slash attempting to disembowel the creature.
The crowd goes absolutely wild as Nasar hits the creature by its belly spilling out a plethora of guts and gore. The beast lets out one last roar as it coughs up blood as is silenced as it’s dragged down to the clambering hands below.
Nasar clambers back up to the arena without falling in the sea of shadow hands. An orb of shadow energy floats above the spot where the Brachidyos perished, awaiting retrieval from Nasar. The announcer holds a hand out as the main Well rises from the middle of the square arena, And there you have it ladies and gentlemen brains do work better than brawn sometimes as Nasar lays waste to the Brachidyos!
The Overseer raises a hand, Nasar grab your trophy and deposit it into the Well so that we may put this show of combat expertise to a close.
Nasar takes out his other potion of fly and gives it a drink
”It’d be very depressing and awkward if the first potion died out as I go to grab that orb.” Nasar the goes to fly to the orb so he can retrieve it and proceed to slam dunk the ever loving gods out of it i to the well.
Nasar does a quick boasting show as he slam dunks the shadow Peter Pan style and is slowly returned to The Overseers throne. The voices in his head pile on for a brief second as they seem to welcome a new spirit to their ranks. A loud roar echoes in his head the same way the Brachidyos roared at Nasar. As Nasar sees the throne room in front of him the voices quiet down.
Varis drops a hefty bag of change in front of Nasar containing 750gp and a glowing orb of shadow energy. That is your cut Nasar, a very great act of showmanship indeed and a wonderful tactician I must say. One day I may ask of you to lead a battalion of my Shadow Army with that brain of yours. Focus that orb and gain what you most desire from the shadows. They are surely in your favor kayal.
”I appreciate the thought Varis. An army is probably something I’ll have to lead and need one day anyways, so your vote of confidence is well noted. But with that and my prises I shall take my leave.”
Unless anything else is needed of Nasar, he is ready to leave the arena and rest before the early departure.
Nasar and the gang wakes up and converge outside the inn after having the inn's lovely complimentary breakfast. Genesis and Marissa wait with Nasar as he approaches. Marissa gives Nasar a thumbs up before saying, Deract and Lily went to the store to grab something really quick they said they would be back in a second.
And before the sentence concludes the pair come around the corner with a bag of supplies. Deract plants the bag on the floor and pops it open, Had to swipe that extra rope in case we have to leave any behind like in that last ice cave. Nice save on that one though Lily I swore he would've suspected something when that hook went missing off the back of his counter.
Lily laughs as she eats a honeyed biscuit still hot from the bakers oven, Oh please, nobody can resist a succubus's allure.
Deract hands Nasar a potion of Vanish, Here you go Nasar I figured if I stole something for each person this would suit you best. It aint the best but it'll do in a pinch! He then hands the two girls potions as well.
Gen inspects the potion before nodding, Cool, everyone ready to go then?
”Thanks Deract, appreciate the thought. Definitely can make use of this at some point.” Nasar puts away the potion and is ready to depart. ”Let’s get a move on now, if we beat the pathfinders there we can ambush them after taking down the wyvern, or we can wait for the pathfinders to take care of the hard part before we humble them.”
Deract smirks, Totally overlooked we could let them handle the heavy lifting. Oh this is going to be rich, your going down goodie two shoes!
Lily slaps him upside the head, Not so loud you dip!
And with that they head off to the outskirts of Riddleport. They begin their walk and within the hour they are almost to the mountain. The snowy peak can be easily identified, and a path to head up is carved out of the stone. Lily surveys the area, People must've used to traverse the area for trade until it was cut off by the wyvern. I wonder if the pathfinders have traversed through yet?
”Well I haven’t noticed any signs of people coming through recently. But as we close in it should be obvious if there was a fight recently or if we are lucky, ongoing. If we don’t
Notice anything, we could kill some time nearby in the snow, see if the pathfinders show up after us.” Nasar looks towards Genesis and Lily ”Either of you wouldnt have any way of helping us deal with the elements would you? Just in case a bad storm blows in so we don’t all freeze to death?”
Lily raises a hand, I can burn most of my low powered magic energy to give us some resistance to the elements with an Endure Elements spell. Good for 24 hours, other than that no.
Deract shrugs and keeps walking, Ehhh we will be fine. Oh look snow tracks! As they walk onto the snow they do indeed find sets of snow tracks. The tracks look to be made from shoes and one set of paws.
Lily inspects the tracks of paws, Looks like a young tiger or some kind of large cat made these.
Marissa looks around and smirks, If that isn’t a druid’s little friend then I don’t know what is.
Nasar snickers ”Unless they were being stalked by a snow leopard...that’d be funny. Good find Deract, now let’s get a move on, dont want to miss all the fun. Or get there so late they have enough time to finish the fight and heal up.” after giving the order he picks up the pace so they can close the gap on the party ahead of them.
The group hurries up the mountain and within 20 minutes they arrive at the freezy summit. They spy several tents posted up with a burnt out campfire from the night prior, a large cave entrance sits behind the display of tents that fades past Nasar’s dark vision into deep darkness. Icicles hang above the cave entrance and some are the size of a person. Marissa glances up at them, That is not something you want falling on ya...
Nasar’s mouth curls into a smile underneath his scarf. ”Lily let’s keep that in mind in case something here goes south, might be able to use bombs to drop those spikes on some unsuspecting enemies. C’mon, let’s see if the action has started. Gen, do you have anything that could make us invisible? Could let us get closer without being noticed since some people here like to wear loud clunky armour.”
Marissa grimaces as Nasar throws shade, Genesis you have a spell for ME right?
Genesis pops open her book and waves her hand as her hand fades slowly before returning back, Don't you worry, I can make us vanish for a few minutes if need be. Let's go! And with that she waves her hand as the whole group huddles together to disappear, We have to stay together though or the spell fails for anyone who steps out too far, 10 feet to be exact.
And with that they begin in. Not even a few seconds after walking in the find a group of blue scaled kobolds that have been slain, spears and ice sheilds lay flat on the ground and throats have been cut and bodies have been slashed.
Nasar shakes his head and motions the group to follow deeper into the cave silently as to not give away their surprise by speaking aloud.
Weird, I guess I figured pathfinders wouldn’t be as brutal as that. Guess they care for dragon kin as much as I do
They arrive at the edge of the cave leading downward by rope as they hear a brutish yell, Well how was I supposed to know it was gonna be this cold!?
To which another yell comes out by another man. Oh for Sarenrae’s sake it’s a fricken ICE CAVE you thought there would be saunas and hot tubs!? As the loud echoes of the yelling bounce off the caves a few small icicles hit the ground around them.
Lily whispers, And there’s our boys.
Nasar whispers as he grabs hold of the rope. ”Surprised it isn’t knotted, makes it easier to climb with...aw s$~* i didn’t...remember either. Hopefully that doesn’t bite us in the ass. They sound pretty close. Let’s wait a minute, see if they get closer or further. If they get closer we can set a trap here, if they get further we can proceed down.”
The footsteps trail off into the icy cave below after waiting a minute silence falls on them before ice can be heard being thrown around. Echoing through the cave everytime it hits the ground.
Deract begins moving down the rope as does the rest of the team and they can see from the distance of their dark vision a torch lit stabbed into the icy ground while a half orc man clad in heavy fur armor, an elf woman dressed with tools and gadgets strapped to every part of her, a halfling man whistling a tune as he heaves away a mound of avalanched ice, a lady dressed in white plate armor bearing a flag of Sarenrae, and lastly a Druid walking in sandals being helped move ice with its tiger companion that is almost a bit bigger than Bean.
The groups stand 120 feet apart and the pathfinders are unknowing of the teams presence.
Nasar glares for a half second while looking through the party, specifically when he sees the elf. But then he notices the tiger and tries to hold in his surprise as he whispers ”Oh man that’s a big lookin cat. I never seen them get that big. Let’s try and get closer...but no more than 60 or so feet. We don’t need to accidentally give ourselves away by getting too greedy with our approach. Plus, since they have an animal with them it might be able to detect us easier if we get too close.”
The party slowly huddles their way up to the closest they can get without being outright detected. As the pathfinders haul away the icy rocks littering the ground the half orc looks up to the ceiling, What the hell are those things? He points as ice shards start falling to the ground briefly before a hunk of deep blue ice slams into the ground.
The halfling looks around worried, Uhh... if I’m not mistaken it’s some kind of elemental!?
The tool riddled elf exclaims, Oh just PEACHY! And they all whip out their weapons to fight.
”Sucks to be them” Nasar whispers, while analyzing the newly formed battle field in front of them. ”Don’t get too relaxed, if this fight goes on for too long we’ll end up being found so stay on guard. If it comes to that...Lily you and I may have to try and talk our way into delaying a fight. Could potentially use them to help with the wyvern and then turn on them later. Hell with that blockage they probably will get delayed for a little while anyways.”
Deract can be heard shuffling as he places his hat on his head, Gotta make em think I’m a guy haha, And they watch as the elemental and multiple smaller ones crowd the team.
The orc rages as he opens up on the big elemental and the rogue dips and dodges around with her crossbow. The Druid casts up a large frog that trades blows with an elemental and the bard whistles a tune to empower his allies. And the woman slams her broadsword into the large elemental, after a few minutes of fighting the invisibility spell is about to wear off. The elemental looks close to falling but the small ones still seem to crowd around them.
Nasar groans a bit as the fight has dragged on so long that they are going to have to intervene or run away. ”Alright ladies guess we are going to be helping out for now. If we can keep them on our side until the wyvern is slain that’ll be great and we can take them down then. Here’s the plan, Marissa, you take the big one, Gen you stay out of the fight and provide ranged support, Deract flank with me, I cant hit these things as hard since they dont have weak points, but the support of another fighter will at least make it easier for me to land blows. Now move!”
Nasar makes first move while drawing his blades, taking aim at one of the smaller elementals.
Nasar emerges from the invisibility and the darkness as he rushes the small elemental next to the Bard. The bard exclaims in shock as the team also shows themselves. Who the heck are you guys?!
Nasar slashes at the elemental as it returns an icy slam back at him.
The elementals frigid body leaves frostburns on Nasar's side as it detaches from him. Deract scampers quickly to the other side of Nasar and claws at the elemental.
Genesis casts magic missile as they crash into the biggest boy, Marissa rushes the biggest elemental and slams her morningstar into its leg shattering a bit of it off.
Lily chucks a bomb toward the half orc and rogue as the elemental melts away slowly.
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Nasar ignores the minor questioning and focuses on trying to down the elemental.
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And with his 3 quick slashes the Ice Elemental falls, as it falls apart into chunks of ice a thought probes Nasar’s head. The Planar Battery calls to him.
Absorb Essence of Plane of Water?
The bard moves on to inspire his allies as they continue the onslaught of the last two small boys as they fall. All that stands is the biggest one as it sweeps its ice arm knocking down the rogue elf.
Uhh yes? Yea yes
Nasar readies his blades to continue the onslaught into the huge lad. ”Keep up the attacks and this one will fall like the rest! It can’t win against all of us!” Nasar continues his flurry from the small elemental and is now digging his blades into the huge one.
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The essence is sucked into the Orb as it changes its contents.
After Nasar and the whole battalion of Pathfinders and Nasar's comrades unleash a world of hurt on the Elemental is falls apart into hunks of ice.
Another thought probes Nasar's head,Absorb Essence of Plane of Water?
The beast crumbles as most of the ice in the avalanche start to crumble and disappear showing a large semicircle cavern leading forward. The girl with the banner runs over to the rogue and her hand glows as she wallops the downed friend across the face waking her up with a Lay On Hands. Up and at em big girl!
And the rogue wakes up gripping her rapier and prepares to rejoin the fight before realizing its over. Oh... Well... You guys did it, good job. She goes to put away her sword before she whips it back out haphazardly, Wait a second, where did you guys come from? I only saw you guys appear out from where we came in before I got dropped.
The half orc chuckles, Like a sack of potatoes I might add!
The halfling snickers, Nice one Kargen
Nasar watches the rogue get b@&$~ slapped into conciseness Yea that’s definitely a Paladin, this’ll be interesting.....oh Uhhh Yes new voice in my head absorb its essence
”Well unless you know of another way into this cave, we came in through the opening outside, down the rope and here we are.” Nasar puts his blades away and starts walking towards the ice avalanche to survey it and potentially assist removing it. As he walks he looks back towards the rogue and continues ”Really should put knots in your rope, makes them a lot easier to climb. Last thing you need is someone losing their grip and taking an express fall to the afterlife.”
The essence is sucked into the orb.
The rogue slowly sheathes her sword and scoffs, Uh yea, I’d think I know how to effectively work a simple rope. Well if not how, WHY are you guys here and who are you? We are here on special courier business commissioned by the Pathfinder Society and you guys shouldn’t be here.
The Pathfinders all look at each of the team very suspecting as Nasar moves the last of the blocking ice. Leading to a large cavern sloping down and to the left.
Nasar pokes his head into the cavern a little bit seeing it slope down to the left. ”Looks like it continues further through this cavern and drops down towards the left.” He then perks up at them outing themselves as Pathfinders. As he speaks he fiddles with his scarf and cowl to show his face so he can talk to them easier. ”Wait you all are the pathfinders? That makes this a whole lot easier. My name is Aleister, and I’m from the Magnimar High Altitude Special Operations Unit. I was ordered to bring my team out here to assist a group of pathfinders through these caves. We’ve had reports of wyvern sightings. When I saw the camp by the cave entrance I thought we were too late but then we heard the fighting and came as fast as we could.”
The rogue looks the team over suspiciously, but after a minute of speculation she drops her guard a little. Magnimar High Altitude Special Operations Unit... That's a name if I've ever heard one,
The half orc walks over to Nasar to look down the hallway, A team of... 7...8...9 of us is kind of overkill isn't it? Unless the wyvern is the real deal!
The paladin touches up her blade with a whetstone, Don't be so brash now Demora, a little help never hurt. Are they splitting our cut with you though because that wasn't part of our deal with our contact.
Nasar waves his hand at the Pathfinder Marissa ”No no we are getting our own payment for seeing the mission through. Unless this wyvern is something really serious we should handle it no problem. Wyverns tend to be on the weaker side of dragons, but that’s not a guarantee. Being in this cave is helpful since it wont be able to fly around as much. Now if there are eggs here, I’m expecting it to fight till death to protect it’s potential young.” He then turns his attention back to the cave further ahead ”It’d be nice if there werent any more elementals, i have little enjoyment battling them. They dont have any weakpoints for me to exploit with my attacks.”
The rogue restraps her tools bag to her back and mumbles, Someone finally gets it. Well lets go then Mr. Aleister we have a deadline to meet and I don't want to be here overnight.
They all begin walking down the hall and are met with a small carved out section of the cave that seems to have most of its ice melted away leaving cave stone all over the place. A few bones litter the walkway as they enter and it continues branching off into 2 ways. One with more bones and one with the ice reforming. Scampering can be heard in the bone hall.
The temperature starts to drop and Nasar feels a brisk chill down his spine as the rest of the team starts to put on their winter outfits. Deract and Lily stand there motionless waiting for the team to proceed before the Bard asks, You two aren't cold? It's getting to like sub zero down here probably.
Deract puts a hand up to feel the windy cold air, No in the Abyyy... Ab... Abbex... Where I'm from. I'm used to the really cold weather its almost like I'm still at home.
The bard nods as he finishes putting on his coat. The rogue looks down both paths, Well... there's two obvious paths, I say we split up and cover more ground to see what might lead forward. The other team can circle back around and catch up.
Nasar shrugs and waves for the team to come with him down the left path. ”Works for us, just don’t get jealous when we reach the dragon first. C’mon team let’s get a move on. Get this done and get home, I’m thinking of cooking up some fish for dinner when we get back.”
Marissa nods as she waves off the other team, See ya at the wyvern! And gives a wink and a peace sign as they wander into the bone riddled entry.
Nasar hears faint talking behind them as he walks away, though it can't be made out as common or anything else he speaks.
The team makes their way down the hall and not before long they stumble upon a massive pile of bones blocking the way forward. Bones of every part imaginable reside here littering both the floor and the path ahead. Skittering can be heard around the room in multiple spots but can't be seen by the team, the sounds seem to echo off the walls. Lily looks around, What the hell is this some kind of graveyard?
”Graveyard would suggest these bodies were buried, im thinking that this is more of a dining hall...possible for whatever thing or things are making these sounds.” Nasar draws back out his blades ”Heads on a swivel everyone, call out anything you see.” Nasar scans the room and ceiling for anything out of place.
Why am I getting strange vibes that we are going to be met by some weird spiders...
And as everyone goes on the alert a green and blue colored Kobold adorned with the skulls and bones climbs out from under the giant bone pile, he quickly readjusts his feathered shaman looking hat before he brandishes his staff as yells something.
Attack my beast! gather more delicious bones to empower you! RISE! And his staff glows as he commands and the pile starts to come together to make a large dragon made of bone and marrow. Bones and spines all protrude from this hollow being of evil. The dragon looks at the team and exhales a raspy roar as it gains its footing as whips its animated tail behind it.
Marissa looks to the Huge beast, Well that's not the dragon we're looking for!
Nasar sighs, ”Gen and Lily, can you two manage to take out the Kobold controlling this thing, might cause it to come crumbling down. Marissa and Deract, we will hold off the bone dragon best we can. Preferably turning it into a statue. Now c’mon, we’ve fought plenty of huge beasts already.”
Nasar sits in full defense for the dragon to close in so the team to surround and attack the dragon.
Gen takes a step back and conjures up some magic missles that bop the kobold, Lily flings a bomb his way that he manages to evade while running deeper into the bone pile behind the dragon of bone. The huge creature takes a step forward and lashes out with its large boney tail sweeping past the whole party.
Nasar manages to duck under as Marissa is slammed with the tail. She gives a huff as she tries to channel her inner anger.
Marissa whips out her morningstar and slams the dragons leg as a few bones fly off. Deract runs to the left side of the dragon tumbling through as his foot tries to stop him and slashes as the dragons face though not dealing too much damage.
Nasar five foot steps to the right of the dragon to sit opposite of Deract to set up flanks for each other. He then starts trying to sharpen his blades against the bones of the false dragon.
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Nasar cuts into the dragon though he doesn't deal as much as he would due to the boney hollow limbs of the dragon. All but one hit as the dragon as the dragon reups to exhale a large cloud of flames at Nasar.
Nasar manages to evade the flames, Marissa swings her morningstar at the dragon once more breaking off more bones. Deract claws at the beast barely scratching it. Lily and Gen rush to the side to attack the Kobold hiding away.
”Feels like I’m fighting your shadow again Marissa. Speaking of which, any plans on bringing that out anytime soon?” After a bit of prodding into Marrisa’s inability to draw apon her shadow, Nasar sends another flurry to try and deal some sort of damage its way.
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If I can’t do anything with my swords, I might have to try blasting this thing with Club, might break the bones better than my swords
2 of Nasars slashes hit the bones as it retaliates once more with a giant stomp of its feet on Deract and Marissa. Marissa shrugs off the hit as she yells. Ah yea I’m TRYING!
As she finishes her hair stiffens and her morningstar drops to the floor and she lets one fly at the boney mass. Have one of these!
She whiffs and almost falls as she hurls her grey fist at the dragon. She drops a giant F bomb as she gets into a defensive stance to block the next one.
Deract scampers around as Deract flings a Chaos Bolt that flies far left.
Lily grabs the Kobold out of the bone pile and headlocks him, I’ll handle him from here go help them. To which Gen starts casting Enlarge Person.
Nasar let’s out a laugh at Marissa hulking out and then absolutely sucking at the follow up strike.
”Oh good work Marissa, maybe you’ll be able to land a hit by tomorrow.” He then sees Gen casting something as he readies his next attack. ”Oooooh that looks like something fun is on the way.”
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Stealth DMG negated
Nasar lands two strikes but his first strike lands in a spot of dense bone instead of a soft boney spot almost straining his wrist and not getting as deep as he needs.
The dragon turns and slams its large tail down on Nasar as it claws at Deract and Marissa.
Nasar dips to the side dodging the animated tail as Marissa starts to grow almost double in size. Her voice deepens a bit before she squares up. One more boys!
Crit Negated
She slams her fist into the dragon spreading her invasive grey color to the dragons arm, the dragon flails about as its arm stiffens and starts to petrify.
Lily grabs a hold of the Kobold Shamans face and puckers her lips, Cmon a little kissy wissy won’t The Kobold screams as she magically seduces him and plants him down in the bone pile.
Deract slashes at the dragon, Avert your eyes BLEGH!
Nasar looks back at the sexual assault taking place in the background and tilts his head to the side like a confused dog. ”Thats weird...for a moment she reminded me of one of the voices in my head. Strange coincide-wait did she say ‘kissy wissy’? Questions for later. Marissa! Deract! Gen! We got this fight in the bag, let’s bring this poor excuse of a dragon down before Lily takes away our fun and steals the kill!” Nasar delivers another line of encouragement to inspire the team to put this dragon to rest before Lily finishes her lunch.
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Snek Negated
Nasar catches the dragon lacking and jets his blades under its mouth knocking apart a few bones as Deract attempts to mount the dragon rodeo style. He patches onto its back high up and yells as it begins trying to buck the imp off, I CALL THE- he is briefly tossed to the tail where he clambers back up its disconnected sections, I CALL THE SOUL GEM!
Marissa clenches her fist again and let’s loose once more throwing a solid combo. Lets see if we can’t speed this up.
She slams one fist into another leg turning it quickly to the cobble that matches the ground below them. The monster looks at Marissa to bite but is met with a final fist to the face causing its whole body to accelerate petrifying. The bone dragon lets out one last growl as it turns completely to stone.
Deract looks down standing atop the statue, Uh... does this constitute deadness?
Gen opens a book quickly as lizard screams turn to muffled hushes, From what I’ve researched it’s still alive. We need to break a necessary piece of its functioning body for it to be considered dead. Does it have a hear... She glances up at the hollow innards and mumbles, No heart ok... And it’s undead so it doesn’t really think. Well I guess the big question is if Nasar wants the Gem. Whoever should get it should keep trying to focus their talisman on the creature and we can just start smashing bone fragments until it is dead dead?
Marissa shrugs and feels up her stoney fist and glances at Gen with her deep purple colored eyes. Her shadow mimics her movement above her, Or just let it take another giant fistful of stone from me, it’ll shatter trust me.
Deract leans over, But I want the gem I called it!!
Nasar looks over the bone dragon "To be fair, Deract did call dibs first so it's only fair that he gets it. Plus it seems these dragon soul gems are pretty powerful and I'd prefer to not let one go to waste. I have an attack with my shadow that is...potent. It should be enough to destroy whatever is keeping this thing together. Gen, Marissa I'd recommend standing back. Deract...I'm sure you'll be fine."
With that Nasar drops his blades and begins to pool Club into his hand for a fireball.
This is going to burn like hell, but I can heal this and at least try and work on controlling his temperature so I dont burn myself in the future.
Nasar's blades clang to the floor as Club envelopes his hand, Nasar feels his hand vibrating vigorously as Club heats up hotter and hotter scalding his now red hand.
Fire DMG
The other two run to the side away from the epicenter and Deract stands atop the dragon talisman ready, This should be good! Let her rip!
Nasar wails the Club Ball as it collides with the dragon and lets off a deafening blast of bones and heat outward. The girls shield themselves as they witness this power in front of them.
The dragon is consumed into a small gem that emanates a dull grey light, bone fragments join the others in piles.
Lily shifts out of the bone pile she fell into with a very withered a now sky blue colored kobold. He's unconcious as she tosses him to the team, she wipes her chin, Nice work, anything of note in here?
And indeed there were:
956 gp (Each)
4 Phials of Wax
Bucket (5 sp, 2 lb)
Masterwork Trident (315 gp)
Scythe (+1 weapon, Jurist) (8318 gp)
4 Caltrops (5 sp)
Potion of Resist Energy
Deract picks up the scythe and swings it around clumsily waves it around like a reaper, Hehe look its like I'm one of those big bads in the Abyss right Lily!
Lily chuckles a bit but grabs it before he hurts anyone with a scythe triple his size. Yes yes but enough, we have s!!@ to do Deract.