Vexas looks alongside Fenna.
4 of them (1 of each identical pair) detect as under strong enchantment magic. The other 4 are apparently under no magic that you can detect.
The four under the effects of magic are strongly enchanted. I suspect that means control of some kind, but I can't be certain. We should be careful as we proceed.
Vexas looks down the hall as if expecting to spot some powerful wizard.
"Do we have any means to remove enchantments? If we can't, then we can hope that killing the caster does the job. We should leave them safe but unable to come after us. Maybe lock them in a room somewhere without their weapons."
Vexas frowns and thinks, focusing hard...
Sosche adds, maybe obviously, ”So the enchanted ones are the townsfolk, and the others, if they are also harder to damage, are the faceless stalkers. Yeah, lock up the townsfolk if we can until they’re back to themselves. I can think of no better plan - good idea Brannart.”
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Brannart sheathes his sword and retrieves his polearm.
"Let's see if this next room will work as our jail cell."
He points to the door a short distance up on the western side of the corridor.
"Vexas, can you check it?"
Brannart drags the unconscious defeated foes out of the way, then goes to open the door on the west side of the corridor.
Sosche helps shift the unconscious, and then moves into position with Brannart.
I'm sorry, I thought paizo was going to be down this week and didn't check. Don't have time to post now (may be able to tonight) but its going dark tomorrow morning for awhile.
First, let me abjectly apologize for the radio silence. There have been some issues consuming my time and attention.
Those issues are hopefully now under control, I should be able to resume posting again.
So, as a reminder, you're here in a temple that used to be (thousands of years ago, before Earthfall) up on a hill. It is now on the edge of the ocean and is partially underwater.
You're here hoping to find the kidnapped colonists.
You've just finished a fight with 8 of what appeared to be the Andoran soldiers who were part of the force sent to defend the colony. However, it turned out that only 4 were soldiers, the other 4 were all Faceless Stalkers.
You knocked out all the actual soldiers and proceeded to stash them in room C9.
That room was sort of interesting.
Gears, hammers, shears, springs, tongs, and plentiful other tools and components lie scattered on shelves and on the floor of this room. The room’s main features are a large hearth with a darkened metal hood and exhaust duct above it, and an anvil placed in front of it. A single steel gear is lying on the anvil, and right next to the anvil is a stack of metal tablets with cogwheel-shaped indentations of different sizes
on them.
It would be apparent to Fenna that this equipment was intended for the maintenance of clockwork devices. The forge itself is a marvel. It wasn't fueled by something mundane like wood or charcoal, it was instead fueled by something else, something as yet unknown. Power came into it from somewhere else.
There is a lever in the off position. You're reasonably sure that turning it on would bring the forge to life, at least if the power source itself is still working. Whether or not it will work at all, or without side effects after all this time, isn't completely clear to you.
This room would give you a +5 to Craft clockworks rolls.
Or, of course, you could just loot it to the ground :-).
In total, the gears and parts are worth 1,000 GP in total and would weigh a 100 lbs or so. There is a pair of blue engineers workgloves here and a traveler's any-tool
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"This room should help people working on clockworks? As should these magical gloves, and this tool? Let's keep it intact, then. Maybe we can find a way to use it. Maybe even get Azlanti clockwork creations to work as guards for us."
"Where to now? I guess this door?"
After Vexas checks the door on the east side of the corridor, Brannart will open it.
"I already have a traveler's any-tool - great stuff!" Sosche also has no need for this loot and also doesn't see the need to trash the place quite yet.
He lines up behind Brannart at the door, pole arm in place and ready.
Fixed (you should be able to control it now),
Do people want me to set it so that everybody can move all tokens or just the owners of the token?
Before we moved on...
Vexas is tempted to throw the switch just to see what happens with the forge. He gives it a try...
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After, Vexas lines up behind the others to pass through the next door.
Sosche steps up next to Brannart at the door.
Flipping the lever had absolutely no obvious effect. Are you leaving it in the position it was in or in the new position?
Opening the door, you see a room. The walls of this gear-shaped room have seven alcoves, each five feet deep and fitted with a horizontal metal shaft. Each of the hollow, cylindrical shafts has six notches cut around
the outer edge. In three of the alcoves stands a trio of intricately sculpted metal statues, one in each alcove.
The "statues" are obviously that of a clockwork servant, a clockwork soldier, and a clockwork mage.
The Soldier is on standby. It is NOT currently moving or acting but presumably would if its instructions cause it to do so.
The Servant and Mage are powered down, needing to be rewound before they would turn on.
With those rolls, feel free to look up all of these creatures. But be aware that these are ancient Azlanti versions and so the information you have may not be completely accurate.
Flipping the lever had absolutely no obvious effect. Are you leaving it in the position it was in or in the new position?
Vexas returns the lever to it's original position.
Each of the hollow, cylindrical shafts has six notches cut around the outer edge.
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The shafts are in the alcove and are obviously the main function of the alcove since they mostly fill the alcove. The notches are definitely part of the original design.
No, the shaft in the middle of the room does NOT look like it can turn. It is a load bearing shaft required to keep the room stable.
"Do you think this is just where they stored their clockwork devices? Might have been more at one time." Sosche wonders.
"I don't see the need to enter this chamber at the moment. I suspect if we do so, that soldier is going to have things to do and I'd rather let it, ah, sleep, or whatever."
Sosche suggests they close the door and try a different one. However if anyone goes in the room, he follows so as to cover them - keeping an eye on the clockwork soldier as he does so.
Not finding any immediate purpose in the room, Vexas agrees.
Yes, it's unclear this place serves a function that impedes or helps us.
If the party otherwise proceeds to agree, Vexas will skulk South to the next intersection, peeking around the corners and scanning for immediate trouble.
"Should we lock the door or spike it shut? If we do something that causes these clockwork creations to animate - like flipping levers to see what happens - then perhaps we should make sure they can't cause us any trouble."
Sosche has a travelers-any-tool, so he has a hammer/mallet for the pounding, but he has no stakes or iron spikes.
"I do have a heavy pick. I bet we could wedge that sucker to keep the doors closed, and I can grab it on my way out."
If that works, he does his best to wedge it in there so the doors cannot open.
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Gears, hammers, shears, springs, tongs, and plentiful other tools and components lie scattered on shelves and on the floor of this room.
"Perhaps something from the previous room will work. There were so many metal parts that would serve."
Yes, I'd allow you to grab something from the clockwork room to spike the door.
Door is now considered to be locked (can still be broken (DC 21) or destroyed)
Sosche follows - a discrete distance behind.
Map updated. Nothing too interesting, corridoors, doors, start of what looks like rooms, and the beginning of water to your south.
No obvious enemies
Vexas sneaks across the hall to the double doors leaving east and listen's through them.