"Hope that isn't V's," Chewface mutters. "Only good mages can make 'em. And whoever made it's close. Maybe we can jump it and have a bargaining chip, or pretend to and then go in swinging?"
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A homunculus is a tiny servitor construct created by a crafter to serve as a spy, scout, messenger, or assistant. When a crafter first begins to study the art of creating constructs, she often crafts a homunculus first, since the creation process is simple and inexpensive due to a magical shortcut: the use of the creator’s own blood. This forges a link between the homunculus and its master, causing the homunculus to gain a spark of the creator’s intellect, as well as the same moral values and some of the creator’s basic personality traits. Homunculi left to their own devices never stray far from their masters.
Weakest Saves: Fort and Will.
Gobil begins to lick his lips with a growing tongue as he enters his bestial rage, he then springs into action hopping towards the creature before clamping his jaws down.
"Snack time!"
Noting the group's opinion, Just keeps his mouth shut. However, the homonculus is another story. With a wordless rush, he draws his scimitar and takes a wild swing at the familiar.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Homonculus(12,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-3,Fine)
The Homonculus, now hurt and surprised, screeches a little shrill voice. It grabs the hot pot of soup it has been cooking and throws it at Gobil!
The soup clatters against the ground, missing the barbarian! The little creature then continues its screaming, it rushes to the door and flings it wide open!
Chewface, Hulgur, Allania
"Hey, shut up!" Chewface yells, not helping the lost cause of stealth as he throws fire at the homunculus.
"Should we head upstairs or further into the keep?" Allania looks both ways. "If we go upstairs we may be at a disadvantage and trapped as the orcs certainly let everyone know we are here. But V could be up there hiding as well."
"Well that creepy thing was probably running towards help, so we know where to find more trouble. I say we get it out of the way....those last orcs didn't stand a chance!" he says after putting his tongue back in his mouth and catching his breath.
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"Two possibilities. They are reckless and come to find us. We could set a trap for them if that is the case, or they are cautious and will prepare a trap for us. If we assume they are reckless and we are wrong they get the advantage. If we assume they are cautious and move right away before they have time to prepare and we are wrong, then no one has the upper hand. I say the second option is the better choice."
"We should quickly move in the direction of the door the creature opened."
"Don't think any orcs or her heard all those screams? We should go quick, get things over with before they set up too good."
"Agreed!" Gobil said, still feeling healthy and bursting into the next room.
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The Pathfinders move to the chamber on the northern side. Standing at one end of this long chamber is a marble statue of an elven woman holding a flask. She is dressed in a flowing gown, and liquid tears streak down her cheeks into a small pool surrounding the statue’s base. Other than the faint burbling of water, this chamber is peaceful and still.
Before the fountain sits an inscripted plaque.
Silwyth
Beloved Mother and Healer
Her death was one undeserved, serving to heal the village of Etran's Folly, when branded as a witch and outcast to her demise.
Never count on others for aid.
Inside the pool of water lays a box, and the alchemical symbol for 'Life'.
Allania watches Screech. "Careful, it looks like it is likely the ashes of a loved one."
"Leverage," Chewface says dismissively. "It's not an orc, so probably V's. Either she gives up to get it back or she gets mad and we kill her like planned."
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As Screech reaches in to take the box, the water suddenly surges fiercely. It begins to take the form of two sharks, that attack!
Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Blue Brine Shark(0,Fine)
Red Brine Shark(0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-3,Fine)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
The water elemental brine sharks bite onto Screech, but fortune favors the little goblin bard. They do not manage to latch onto the goblin, instead missing most of their fierce bites!
Allania steps in front of chewface, "That's no ashes." She slams sword and shield into the brine shark.
HP 44/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
Merin is only slightly surprised when the trap is sprung, after all, it only made sense that something like that would be protected. With a quick step forward, he swiftly patches up Chewface, and draws out one of the scrolls they purchased from the caravan.
"Shoulda known V doesn't care about anyone," Chewface says, acting as if he expected something. "Good trickster, gonna say that much."
"WHOA! What is going on..." Gobil exclaims seeing water assaulting Screech.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Blue Brine Shark(0,Fine)
Red Brine Shark(30,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-3,Fine)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-15,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
It is a good thing you are not fighting them in actual water, for Brine Sharks are deadly efficient in larger bodies of it. They can grab someone with their bite and drag them deep into water. You know that they are not very strong willed creatures, at the least. Fire is also less effective on them than you would like.
With the new foes in their faces, the brine sharks attack at their most immediate threats; Gobil and Allania.
The red brine shark elemental manages to bite and get a firm grip onto Allania, but the blue brine shark elemental pathetically fails to get the gnome!
Chewface hops around to get a clear shot through the shark-infested melee. "They don't care much about fire," he says, but that's his most reliable offense at the moment.
"They taste a little salty too." Gobil mumbles while still trying to chew on the blue water-shark till it stops fighting.
Allania continues to attack with everything she has the brine shark bites into her arm. "Let..go!"
HP 35/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Blue Brine Shark(24,Fine)
Red Brine Shark(34,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-12,Grabbed)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-15,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Fires lick at the red brine shark, but they provide only some damage. Gobil lands a series of vicious bites into the blue brine shark, and they do indeed taste like salt.
Allania finds her blade unable to land against the aquatic foe.
Noting the lack of damage from Chewface's flames, Merin pauses for a moment before sheathing his scimitar. With the free hand, he forms what could best be described as a javelin of light and hurls it at the brine shark fighting Allania.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Blue Brine Shark(24,Fine)
Red Brine Shark(34,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-12,Grabbed)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-15,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
The brine sharks continue their counter attack. Bites get landed on Gobil and Allania, to which the red one grabs Allania once again!
"Get off or get toasted!" Chewface calls on extra magic to guide his shots and avoid hitting Allania.
Allania blocks the brine shark as her shield absorbs some of the blow.
She tosses the cracked shield to the ground and grabs the second shield before striking again.
HP 25/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
"Yowch, it decided to bite back!" Gobil exclaims as he continues his own barrage against the blue shark.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Blue Brine Shark(33,Fine)
Red Brine Shark(48,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Allania(-27,Fine)
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-13,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-15,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
The blows against the red shark are finally too much for it to resist. The elemental bursts into a puddle of water!
Seeing the first shark go down, Merin calls another lance of light to hurl at the remaining one.
◆◆ Cast Divine Lance on blue
Merin returns the scroll he pulled out to his bag, and pulls out the heal scroll that they found in the throne cache. After a moment's thought, he looks at the others and nods. "I hope this is enough for now. I'd want to stop to better administer first aid, but we've already discussed pushing forward." he says,before begins to cast the spell from the scroll to wash over the whole group.
"Oh yeah, that feels great Merin!" Gobil says with thanks as his rage subsides and his form returns to normal. He gladly hands the ashes to someone that actually wants them. Gobil then checks the eastern passage.