+10 HP back to the damaged shield.[/ooc]
Allania takes a moment and bashes the dent out of her shield on the corner of the fountain while the others look into teh eastern passage. "That looks a little better."
HP 40/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
Seeing Allania take a break, Chewface follows suit. He looks over the ashes at the same time, not doesn't expect to find any magic.
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The doorway to the east appears to be a storage room. This chamber is piled high with boxes, barrels, and crates. While most are partially empty, they do contain a wide variety of alchemical tools, reagents, and supplies that could be used to create a vast array of alchemical items.
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The chamber to the north appears to be a laboratory. The doors open into a long chamber packed full of alchemical gear and experiments. Cauldrons stand next to tables where even now volatile mixtures are brewing and bubbling. A large furnace is opposite the door, just behind a long pool of water with a statue of a woman standing at its head. To the east, a passageway reveals a set of descending spiral stairs.
Four creatures, looking like larger homonculi without wings, are tending to this laboratory. They do menial work such as cleaning and dusting.
"Wait for me Hulgur." Gobil says as he hears the demand, seeing the four homunculi...he prepares for a fight.
Allania joins Hulgur., looking at the spiral stairs. "Let's not waste our energy on them if they are going to allow us to pass."
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Allania(-0,Fine)
Red Drudge(0,Fine)
Blue Drudge(0,Fine)
Green Drudge(0,Fine)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
The drudges drop their brooms and lab equipment, and turn to look at Hulgur and the Pathfinders. They let out guttural sounds, engaging a challenge to the adventurers.
"Couldn't just keep working could you." Allania walks into the room slamming her shield into the drudge before driving her sword through it.
HP 47/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
"Shouldn't be surprised...She probably made them, after all," Merin muses, as he moves into the room and draws his blade. With a quick swipe, he goes to strike at the one closest to this end of the room.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-0,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Delay)
Allania(-0,Fine)
Red Drudge(6,Fine)
Blue Drudge(0,Fine)
Green Drudge(0,Fine)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
The drudge crew retaliates with a frantic force of fury! The orange one first climbs onto the nearby table to take a strike at Allania.
The Red, blue, and green drudges then proceed to vomit up a lot of alchemical reagents, creating hazardous pools on the ground around the Pathfinders.
Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: None
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-2,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Delay)Has a first round still
Allania(-14,Fine)
Red Drudge(6,Fine)
Blue Drudge(0,Fine)
Green Drudge(0,Fine)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Fire should work better on these awful things...right?
Allania continues to press the initiative as she strikes back into the centermost drudge. As she hits she raises her shield defensively to try and avoid further blows.
HP 33/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
Merin takes a step out of the puddle, before continuing to attack the foe that he began to attack.
Gobil leaps onto the table and traverses it to the other side of the drudges, before entering his rage.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-2,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Allania(-14,Fine)
Red Drudge(27,Fine)
Blue Drudge(0,Fine)
Green Drudge(25,Fine)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Allania, still standing in the alchemical vomit, finds herself starting to smell like third degree burns.
The drudges once again begin another series of flailing attacks.
Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-12,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Allania(-42,Fine)
Red Drudge(27,Fine)
Blue Drudge(0,Fine)
Green Drudge(25,Fine)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Allania blocks some of the blocks some of the blow as it cracks a bit of her shield. Her arm hurts from trying to absorb the strike as the fumes from the chemicals begin to melt her shoes and burn at her lungs. She lays out one final strike before retreating for a bit of safety.
HP 10/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
Gobil starts to pounc on the nearest drudge.
Chewface looks for a safe place to stand as he takes aim at the drudge Gobil is menacing.
Seeing that Screech has done some healing on Allania, Merin continues to wail on the drudge that he's near, bringing up his shield up at the last to keep it at bay.
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Light Condition: None
Active Buffs: Bardic Performance
Active Penalties: None
Merin Talusian(-12,Fine)
Screech Razorsong(-0,Fine)
Allania(-16,Fine)
Red Drudge(33,Cut Down)
Blue Drudge(22,Fine)
Green Drudge(33,Crushed)
Orange Drudge(0,Fine)
Gobil Sliink(-0,Fine)
Hulgur Grimm(-0,Fine)
Chewface(-0,Fine)
Hulgur crushes the green drudge with a determined first strike, and Allania finds her blade was effective at cutting down the red drudge. Her second slash cuts the blue one before she parts.
Merin's initial target, destroyed, leaves him an opening to change his course of action.
Merin quickly sheathes his blade before calling another javelin of light, and hurls it at the injured drudge.
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The central table contains common alchemical items ready to be shipped. Chief among them is a small crate containing 6 vials of lesser alchemist’s fire and another with 4 lesser acid flasks. There is also a small, velvet-lined box containing a single dose of lesser stone body mutagen. A note on the table indicates these items are intended for an address in the Chelish capital of Egorian.
STONE BODY MUTAGEN ITEM 5+
UNCOMMON ALCHEMICAL CONSUMABLE ELIXIR MUTAGEN POLYMORPH
Usage held in 1 hand; Bulk L
Activate [one-action] Interact
This mutagen calcifies your body making it as hard as stone.
Benefit You gain resistance to physical damage (except bludgeoning) equal to the listed amount.
Drawback Your Speeds are reduced by 10 feet (minimum 5 feet) and you take a –2 penalty to Reflex saves.
Type moderate; Level 12; Price 300 gp
You gain resistance 5 to physical damage (except bludgeoning) and the duration is 1 hour.
The only pathway forward in this room is a stair case leading down.
"Oh...why does everything here taste so terrible. Unnatural concoctions and creatures!" Gobil laments as he looks over all the vials.
Allania slumps down. "That could have gone better." The fumes still get to her as she retches.
HP 10/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
Merin goes into his bag and fishes out the healing elixir that he had, and hands it to Allania. "Think you can stomach this?" he asks as he does so.
Allania downs the potion. "Thanks, Merin and Screech." I should be good for a little while long. She says as another wound continues to seep slightly.
HP 34/47
AC 20 (22 with shield raised)
Hero Points 0/3
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Travelling back towards the south, the Pathfinders find the door leading further is locked.
The silver key retrieved from the orc's throne room seems to work on this door. The door swings open to reveal a well-appointed lounge. Off to one side, a pair of padded chairs sits in front of a fireplace lit with faintly glowing embers. Two bookcases flank the fireplace along the curved wall; they are filled with tomes, scrolls, and an assortment of odd and esoteric objects. Nearby, a staircase goes up to a second level, and a door stands partly open, leading into a kitchen.
"Oh wow, this looks comfy. I would say we relax for a bit if we weren't constantly fighting for our lives." Gobil says searching the room.
Barring a lack of interesting items, he will peek his head into the kitchen.
Chewface looks ready to breeze by this room, but he does a cursory scan just in case. "Gotta be quick. Through the kitchen? Probably a dead end, with more of those homunculi. But either way it gets louder from here, and then they're already disposed of."
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Searching the room finds that most of these belongings are of little to no value to the party, save for a book in the shelf. It is a ledger, containing all of Vilree’s business dealings over the years, including all of the deals with Bort. While most of these dealings were ordinary in nature, she did place orders for large amounts of certain reagents. In the past year in particular, her orders got larger and larger, including a number of vilesounding reagents such as corpse blood, essence of bile, and fester root.
Screech is able to confirm that these ingredients would be used for deadly poisons and even crafting diseases.
A handful of diaries are also in this room. They detail the years after her mother, Silwyth’s, death, when she tried to survive in a town that shunned her. The diaries end on the five-year anniversary of Silwyth’s death, when Vilree decided to leave the town. She mentions that she found a new place to live and learn about her mother’s work: a series of caves deep in the forest north of town.
Among the curios and mementos on the shelves is a silver locket that contains a small painting of young Vilree. The locket is worth 5 gp. In addition, there is a hand of the mage on one of the shelves, grasping a vial of lesser bravo’s brew.
"That is a LOT of supplies...what was she doing with that much, or what is she still doing with it. Now I am getting worried." Gobil says picking up his pace in heading to the next room.
"Dunno, but it can't be good. Just a little killed Bort." Allania begins to grow worried. "We need to find V quickly."
"We've seen a lot of it used. The poisoned tree with the Wolves, the Orcs in the caves; she's used a lot of the reagents already."Merin responds after thinking about it a bit. "If she hadn't decided to off Bort so sloppily, she'd probably would have executed her plan with out anyone the wiser."
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"So what of this're we torching?" Chewface asks the most important goblin question. He injects a bit of logic right after and looks more sour for it. "She probably can't use it in a pinch, and maybe we could sell some."
"Selling it to someone more responsible or DUMPING IT ON HER, seem like great ideas. Let's find the stinking witch and come back for it after I gnaw her leg off!" Gobil says bouncing mad at the thought of all the damage wrought by the poisons.
"Let's check out upstairs quickly for threats before we had down stairs,"Merin says a bit dispassionately. "So long as there's noone or nothing up there, we can then move to clear out the basement, where I expect her to be."
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The doors open to reveal a bedchamber with a large bed opposite the door, flanked by a desk and a dresser. The heady scent of lilac hangs heavy in the air, emanating from a cone of incense that is still smoking faintly.
Scouring through this room reveals a few interesting details. Firstly a bunch of letters from Hallod confirming the delivery of various shipments of alchemical reagents. Another piece of parchment contains a timeline of dates and notable occurrences. Near the bottom, it shows the date that Bort's caravan arrived in town.
Tied up loose end: Merchant.
The last reaction is in place.
Mother avenged.
In the closet is a chest that contains three sacks of coins and some alchemical elixirs.
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UNCOMMON ALCHEMICAL CONSUMABLE ELIXIR MUTAGEN POLYMORPH Usage held in 1 hand; Bulk L
Activate [one-action] Interact
When created, this mutagen is attuned to your choice of one of four energy types: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. When consumed, the mutagen suffuses your body with energy that spills out of you whenever you attack. At higher levels, it can even grant you the ability to unleash the energy in controlled bursts.
Benefit You gain resistance to the attuned energy type. Whenever you score a hit with a melee weapon, add the listed amount of damage of the attuned energy type.
Drawback You gain weakness 5 to the other three energy types.
Type moderate; Level 3; Price 12 gp
You gain resistance 10, add 1d4 damage on a hit with a melee weapon, and the duration is 10 minutes.
"Well, we can put her own tools against her!" Gobil says eyeing the mutagen.
"Feel free, Gobil,"Merin responds, as he looks over the notes. "I'm not sure if we're too late, or in the nick of time, but either way, we have to finish this now. Vilree's not up here, so she must be downstairs. Let's go find her."