First we need a way to defeat this darkness. After that if we still need blood I will volunteer.
”Is there a spell that cancels other spells, or maybe one that makes a light stronger than this darkness? I don’t know much about the arcane, so I’m probably grasping at straws here,” Cori suggests somewhat lamely.
What I think we need to do is to get that continual light spell on the ioun stone heightened to be able to overcome the darkness. Such an item could be useful to us for a long time.
We can certainly try that first. Stanislav agrees. Might take some time and even require some luck.
"We could just incinerate the whole room, darkness or not," Cori suggests. She taps the vial of alchemist's fire on her bandolier. "Did anyone else bring one of these?"
The room is likely far too large to do so effectively. I do agree however, having a stone that can dispel powerful darkness spells may be useful at a later date as well. At the very least, we will know that it would be unlikely for an enemy to be able to turn out the lights on us.
I have put forth a plan. We leave and get the enchantment we need to pierce the darkness. That mist creature heals from blood and can retreat into the the floor. We need to at least be able to target it.
Holding the stone for a moment before passing it to Vinnick, Stanislav says I think we now have a tool that will give us a chance to best this creature. Is everyone ready to proceed?
Cori takes her flask of alchemist’s fire in hand. ”Ready when you are,” she replies.
She gives the full amount of gold to Tiadora to buy the continual flame ioun stone, and some silver for the oil.
When Tiadora gives her the items later in the day she packs them away. Once they back at the entrance to the dark room, she takes out the ioun stone and gives it to Stan, Here you go Stan. Rather you hold this above my head, saving me from a tired arm to hold it above my head. She takes out an alchemist's fire too, plus one oil flask in the other hand.
In draconic, Ajikis, now stay close next to me, and be in the light. Don't want you to loose your blood.
Ajikisshochraos scoffs back, The blood loss will be yours. Not mine, as she steps in on the left side of her charge.
In any case you return to the room were the darkness is and the heightened ioun stone is able to overcome the darkness and light up the room.
The room is 20 by 20 with a pedestal in the centre with dark sphere placed on it. There is a door in the centre of each wall to the south, north and east.
The opening you come in from is to the west of the room.
The creature that attacked Slid is nowhere to be seen, you assume it is somewhere below the floor as you can see the small holes placed evenly all over the entire room now.
I could just have him shatter the sphere. Unless we wanted to keep the item for later use. Which may not be a terrible idea actually.
"If putting it in a bag will suppress the darkness, then it I agree wholeheartedly," Cori says.
I do agree. Let us keep the dark ball. I sure I can find a use of it. I sure our misty friend here will remain hidden below the floor, if we just leave a burning torch in the room, as she prepares to take the ball from pedestal to cover it up using her cloak.
Once the ball is taken care of, she looks around the room, especially the pedestal for the silver trophy they supposed to find.
R'yzztyg is first to approach the pedestal and try to reach for the orb. The most creature attacks coming out of the tiny holes in the floor it quickly begins to suck the blood out of R'yzztyg (kinda feels like being stung by a million mosquitoes all at once) dealing 1 bleed damage and con.
Skip init for this battle just treat this as enemy went first so now it's all your turns. The enemy is curently sharing a space with R'yzztyg.
She screams, Not friendly. Take this, and steps back to throw her alchemist fire at the floor under where she stood moments earlier.
Cori passes her vial of Alchemist’s Fire to Slid.
Seeing the plan is to go into the room Stanislav drinks a potion of Protection from Evil and uses an oil of Bless Weapon on his blade before following R'yzzntyg into the room.
When the creature shows itself Stanislav attacks, power attacking.
Vinnick throws one of his own alchemist fires at the creature as well, moving up to the orb after he does so.
Cori calls upon Calistria for the power to inflict pain upon her enemy.
Her hand writhes with a dark, unnatural flame and she strides into the room, once everyone else has thrown their vials of alchemist's fire.
She reaches for the nearest tendril of mist, slashing at it with her engulfed hand.
R'yzzntyg's turn
Mist's turn
R'yzztyg (and her companion if she is in the same space) took 3 splash damage from the alchemist fire and 1 bleed) bleed repeats at start of your turn until treated)
So the creature took 18 damage total (10 fire and 8 from Stannis since bless weapon makes you bypass the dr)
actually the creature gets a reflex dc 15 to avoid the secondary fire damage.
The creature screeches in pain, it attacks Stannis inflicting 1 bleed con
and retreats back into the floor (provokes an attack from Stannis, anyone else in melee range with a melee weapon drawn, people in range would be R'yzzntyg and cori but you might not be able to bypass it's dr)
Cori slashes at the retreating mist again with her engulfed hand.
Stanislav takes his AOO on the retreating creature and asks Is anyone good at binding wounds?
Seems it's attack does indeed need a touch attack, I was treating like a swarm attack. So lets see. The initial attack on sid was pretty much auto hit so I wont reroll that one but I will roll the one on R'yzztyg.
Not a crit but both attacks did indeed hit.
The creature was not slain by the AOO but it is left very weak it likely wont be coming back out anytime soon.
Unable to stanch his own bleeding Stanislav calls for healing fromthe party's wand of cure light wounds. Can I get some healing here? he asks, his hand reaching towards a potion on his belt.
[ooc]If she cannot use touch of corruption for an AOO she would certainly know so perhaps she can try a different AOO? Might not be magical so might not bypass DR though.
If that thing will stay in its den below the floor and let us pass then perhaps it is for the best that we did not not have to kill one of our new master's pets. Stanislav conjectures.
Cori approaches Stan, brandishing the new wand.
"Time to see if this thing works as promised, I guess,"
She touches him with the wand.
"Is anyone else in need of healing?" she asks the others.
Cori nods. ”As good a way to choose as any other. Best make sure there’s nothing on the door designed to kill the unwary before we open it, though.”