Indeed it does. Spellcraft roll for more info?
Tarak squints at the aura of the finely crafted weapon, "Yar, it is magic... let me see if I can't ..."
Well, it is not a simple +1 weapon. Though it seems like it is at first. But there is more to it.
You head back to the cemetery again, outside the church, and find it is quiet this time and head on into the church (B12, which I am assuming is your destination in the interest of speeding things up).
Most of the walls of this forlorn ruin still stand, but the interior walls have been demolished and gutted. Several skeletons litter the structure's interior, including about a dozen garbed in the red-chiton livery of the Pactmaster Guard. the rest appear to have been clerics of Sarenrae or even common citizens, though the past 20 years have rotted away most of the skin and cloths worn by the corpses. Ash and fire stains the interior walls and ceiling throughout most of the structure and signs of violent battle are everywhere. It reminds you of the scene in the catacombs of the monastery.
Near the center of the church stands a forlorn stairwell that leads down to a heavily barred door. A strange metal plate with a glowing series of irregularly etched lines mars the surface of the door, casting the stairs in a dull red illumination.
Lupe casts detect magic and look around.
"Oh? Can I try to determine what magic it holds?" The ifrit asks as he sees that Tarak can't tell more about it.
"I mean it's a dream given blade, isn't it?" he fails terribly but is unable to admit that he can't tell from a magical club to a magical fork let alone this fine blade..
The runes on the door are definitely magical, as if the fact that they glowed wasn't a huge tip off, though you can't make heads or tails of them. It sure ain't in common. Urah gets nothing more on the sword. I guess weird dream swords are just not his thing.
As the move through the Pesh field Gnasher hands the Fauchard to Urah, letting the sorcerer examine the blade. Nodding his head when his friend points out thatit's 'dream given.'
Recognizing the armor of the pactmaster guards and the clerics robes, Gnasher having a gift for speaking the obvious points out. "Must be temple." As the tribe moves towards the stairwell and the heavy doors, pointing towards the ruin he asks, "Can anyone read runes?" Carefully looking at the stairs themselves, Gnasher cautiously walks down them, then stops to look at the door. Turning Casper he asks, "Knife master think it's safe?"
Gnasher does not notice anything of significance other than the glowing runes.
Having failed miserably at identifying Gnasher's new weapon, the ifrit tries his hands on the runes instead.
"I can only tell when something is magic not what it does. Usually, smarter people than me do that."
Urah gets no more info on the runes than he did on the sword. Less in fact.
Looking around the room, Gnasher Chuckles at Lupe's comment about 'smarter people.' "Time to see what behind door." Turning impatient, Gnasher approaches the door, fauchard in one paw, he pushes the doors open with the other, looking about the room.
The door does not budge no matter how hard you beat on it (which I assume comes next).
Growling to himself, Gnasher looks at the magical door again then looks at the others. Setting his weapons down he draws out a crowbar he attempts to pry it open. Resisting the frustration and rage growing in side of him, he turns to the others. "Use key or magic maybe open?"
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Urah looks over.
"Perhaps another place? I do not have such magic to open the door." he pauses as he scans the skies.
"Also trying to open the door by force might attract unwanted attention."
Perception on door
Casper discovers what the others already have, a big sturdy iron reinforced door with glosing magical runes on it, surrounded by ancient carnage.
Tarak also casts detects magic and looks at the runes, "Now what do we have here..." he mutters to himself quietly.
While Tarak and Casper study the door, Gnasher Pauses for a moment considering the building the were in. Thinking to himself that this had been a temple of the goddess called Sarenrae. He knew little of Sarenrae but enough to believe that many of the bodies had been her clerics. Though he personally did not see the value of properly burying bodies, he wonder if this goddess did. Waiving his fauchard he Gestures towards the temple. Trying to form the goddess name properly he asks. "This temple of Sarenrae, do anyone serve her?" Pointing at the bodies. "Temple desecrated. Maybe door open if made clean again?" He gestures towards the cemetery. "Put priests bodies in graves?" He looks to the others to see what they think.
"Or maybe it wants the whole place cleaned up before letting us in?" Urah muses aloud.
Tarak detects that the runes are a powerful seal that will prevent the door from being opened. The rest of you ponder the sentience of the temple.
Tarak detects that the runes are a powerful seal that will prevent the door from being opened, though he has no idea how he would bypass the ward. The rest of you ponder the sentience of the temple.
Casper glares angrily at the implacable barrier,
"Well, that's... exceedingly vexatious."
He turns to regard the rest of the company,
"I suppose we need to direct our attentions, for the moment, to some other portion of this godsforsaken ghost town."
"Agreed maybe we can find someone that knows about it."
And a ghost town it is. Particularly in the church. You can tell by the dust that nobody has been here in a long time, including gremlins or hobgoblins. Well, present company excluded of course.
Stepping away from the heavy doors, Gnasher nods, resting his fauchard on his shoulder. "Tribe go to buildings closer to middle. they nearer now." He heads out the door, crossing the road through the rubble, catching the road on the other side. Moving up the road keeping a keen eye out on his way towards the smaller building on the right. Stopping at the build he quickly checks the door for locks or traps.
You head out towards the center of town when you come face to face with a patrol consisting of 4 gnolls and the creature Felliped described which, indeed, does look like a demon.
Go ahead and give me knowledge planes rolls while I set up a battle map. Unless of course you plan to run (yea right).
You round the corner of one of the streets and before you is the patrol. You immediately spot them as they are out in the open, but they take a moment to notice you.
Ongoing effects:
Bold may go.
Casper ()
Gnasher ()
Lupe ()
Wolf ()
Tarak ()
Urah Pyr ()
Demon
Red gnoll
Blue gnoll
Yellow Gnoll
Green Gnoll
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Seeing the patrol further up the dusty street Gnasher, desiring to test the found fauchard, drops his original one, grasping the new one in both hands. Charging down the street he begins to rage, His paws grow into overly large claws, his eyes grow red, his fangs enlarge and he begins to froth at the mouth, his brown hide takes on a red-orange cast to it, giving a peculiar laugh. attacking what appears to be a demon with the newly acquired fauchard.
@Casper, the demon is in front and is 60' from you. Lupe and Gnasher are the only ones that have a straight line and may charge. So no, unless you use a missile weapon. But you can get a lot closer.
The demon looks rather smug until Gnasher crits him. After that it staggers backwards a step and look in pretty beat up.
@Casper, the demon is in front and is 60' from you. Lupe and Gnasher are the only ones that have a straight line and may charge. So no, unless you use a missile weapon. But you can get a lot closer.
The demon looks rather smug until Gnasher crits him. After that it staggers backwards a step and look in pretty beat up.
@Casper
You follow in Gnasher's wake and then take up position alongside him.
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Urah runs through the spells he does know at hand and finds himself coming up very short.
He picks his position very carefully and looks for a chance to launch his own attacks.
When Gnasher swings his weapon, a patchy, uneven growth of mold appears on his hands up to his elbows.
Swinging his sling, Tarak moves towards the battle, looking for an angle to add some damage.
Lupe and Wolf charge into battle.
Lupe is unable to connect, feeling some unseen force tap his weapon just the tiniest bit, just enough to make his blow glance off the tough demon hide. Wolf latches on with his teeth but they are also unable to penetrate the hide
The demon steps back and make a ripping motions with his hand and continues to do so. Those of you with the skill may make make a spellcraft roll to figure out what it is doing, but it sure looks magical.
The gnolls rush forward with howls to block your advance on the demon. Gnasher, since you have reach you can take an AO. If you KO one, Yellow will move into the vacated spot instead of where she is headed.
Your hides are also tough enough to block most of the blows, except for Casper who takes a nasty one through the thigh (unless the AoO takes one out in which case Yellow is attacking Gnasher instead).
Ongoing effects:
Bold may go.
Casper (-8??? pending AoO results)
Gnasher ()
Lupe ()
Wolf ()
Tarak ()
Urah Pyr ()
Demon (-30 hp)
Red gnoll ()
Blue gnoll ()
Yellow Gnoll ()
Green Gnoll ()
Urah draws out a sigil in midair and thrusts out a finger aiming for one of the gnolls.
A tiny dart of acid is launched!
Casper grimaces and then proceeds to completely flub his follow up.
Seeing the patchy mold growing on his claws and arms, Gnasher dares not drop the weapon yet. During the Attack of the rushing gnolls, he is disturbed by the vision of a towering horned beast, he strikes at the nearest, yelling, "Come meet your death! He dodges the first attacker but unable to block the second, it slashes his arm.His eyes widen as he steps back and slashes the magical fauchard at the gnoll.
Tarak looks at the gnoll assaulting Casper and starts changing, his voice bringing images of the roar of a storm or the crashing of waves, as he finishes an arc of lightening flashes between himself and the gnoll.
Gnasher messes with red pretty bad and he drops to the ground, unable to move. In spite of the chaos of battle, Urah manages to land a glob of acid on Yellow, searing his cheek and promising a nice scar, provided he lives to form on. Tarak is having a bad day, however, and pretty much sits this round out.
After adjustment for the hit on Gnasher after reduction to damage due to rage and then the fast healing we have...
Ongoing effects:
Bold may go.
Casper (-8)
Lupe ()
Wolf ()
Demon (-30 hp)
Red gnoll (-12 HP)
Blue gnoll ()
Yellow Gnoll (-3 HP)
Green Gnoll ()
Gnasher ()
Tarak ()
Urah Pyr ()
Yep. Gnasher is back up to full after fast healing 2 and negating 4 of the 6 HP he took.
"Take that creature."
Wolf
Blue takes a particularly nasty cut from Lupe and looks a bit wobbly while Casper flails wildly. The demon finishes his gesturing and...
Two more of the demons appear as the thing howls in triumph. Things are looking grim!
The two that were summoned are summoned right in the gap left by the eliminated gnolls and do not have their halberds deployed so they use their horns to savage the fighters that have been doing the most damage. The gnolls also attack though blue collapses after making it's attack.
Now that Gnasher is no longer charging, his armor is up to the task and it
misses him. In fact it is a total whiff all around except for one lucky gore on Lupe.
Gnolls:
Demons
Ongoing effects:
Bold may go.
Gnasher ()
Tarak ()
Urah Pyr ()
Casper (-8)
Lupe (-6)
Wolf ()
Yellow Demon ()
Blue Demon ()
Black Demon (-30 hp)
Red gnoll (-12 HP)
Blue gnoll (-12 HP)
Yellow Gnoll (-3 HP)
Green Gnoll ()