"Good thing I do not have to be anywhere near them."
Heshan focuses on the one remaining elemental standing.
"Yes, they are fire elementals, no angels here Ohrmzid"
With that said, Omari takes a step to improve his line of sight and sets his bow a singing...
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No guidance on the second shot
Roryx steps forward, and swings at the one still standing - "Probably some sort of guardians"
Omari puts two arrows into the enemy. Roryx misses the fiery creature with the mace. The fire angel has better luck, even though it's flailing around blindly. From the touch of the creature Roryx catches fire. Manuun gets attacked too and set aflame.
Heshan douses the other elemental in colors, but to no effect.
"Creatures of fire! These must be Sarenrae's guardians, but I do not know how we could appease them" seeing no other way but fighting, Ohrmizd slashes out at the already damaged elemental.
Ohrmizd hits the fire elemental with his blade and kills it. Manuun puts an arrow into the angel. It's hard to see where or if that hurts, as the arrow catches fire and is burned within a few moments.
As his targets line up, Omari remarks "Hey, it's a shooting gallery...", as his bow continues to sing.
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Roryx steps back from his foe, and attempts to put the fire out.
Omari sends two more arrows into the angel to be transformed into ashes. But not without doing their damage.
The guardians keep attacking. Ohrmizd easily dodges the atttack, but Manuun gets fully hit.
Ohrmizd blocks the fire elemental protecting himself from the flames with his shield "Get out of there Man! Protect yourself with the gong!"
Omari takes another pair of shots:
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The fire now extinguished, Roryx moves in again to attack.
The special ops team fights viciously against the fire guardians. With mixed success. Ohrmizd cuts successful into the fire and Manuun as well as Omari get one arrow in. Roryx is too careful with his attack.
Heshan steps forward, setting himself up for one more blast.
The fire elementals keep attacking. The on attacks Ohrmizd, the other one moves until it bumps into Roryx. But both flail past their opponents.
"I should have brought more arrows!" exclaims Omari as he takes a step back and shoots again...
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"Wow! That was close, thanks Heshan!" Ohrmizd observes how the elemental blinded by Heshan's spell burns only air. The Keleshite slashes strong at the creature "Sarenrae, I will cleanse your temple!"
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Manuun shoots the floor. Omari shoots another arrow into the angel, and Ohrmizd finishes it off.
"Not to worry. There is more where that came from," he replied with a glimmer of a smile.
"Not to worry. There is more where that came from," he replied with a glimmer of a smile.
Heshan decides to forgo the magic to give it a shot of his own.
Roryx swings again - "Stay still!" - he grunts at the flying elemental.
Heshan kills the last of the elementals with his well aimed shot.
Looking where the elementals died reveals small piles of fire salts.
Checking the hole, you find that it is now 60 ft deep and has a side exit at the bottom.
Roryx crouches by the small piles on the floor, curious about the nature of the remnants - "Amazing creatures" - he comments, retrieving the salts into a belt pouch - "I think these may deserve a better look later on"
"Gentlemen, would you believe I propose a quick pause in our mission? I have made an error, and we have a problem. I forgot to get a spare quiver of arrows in the battle market, and I only have 2 left (and my blunt ones), but also, how are we going to get down that well and then back up... It's 60 ft deep, and I assume all of us our going. I have 50' of rope, and I am guessing that some of you others do as well, so that is no problem, but how do we anchor it. Last time, most of us stayed at the top and held the rope so Manuun and Ohrmzid could climb up and down. What we need is a couple of 12' timbers that we can set across the hole and tie the ropes too. So I propose we leave, close the door behind us (with the princess's key), and run to the battle market and get some timbers, and a spare quiver or 2 of arrows. The come back and resume our explorations - should only take us 10 minutes."
"Probably we can just climb it up with some caution or tie the ropes to the gong base" Ohrmizd looks at the pit and checks if there are handholes or a sufficient uneaven surface for him to climb.
"But we can go look for a few logs if it eases your mind Omari" the Keleshite shrugs looking at Roryx.
The walls of this large, rough-hewn chamber contain several niches for burials. Shrouded corpses, most reduced to skeletons decades if not centuries ago, pack the niches from floor to ceiling. A raised dais in the center of the room bears a ceramic cask with a elaborate topper capped by a figurine of Sarenrae.
"Ohmg! Aren't you wise Man? You are totally right! Let's go there and check it while we take a decision" Ohrmizd rushes into the next chamber, shield up and ready for the case.
"Wow! Look at that! We found a secret figurine of Sarenrae. Aren't my days good?" Ohrmizd readies himself to climb to the dais and pick up the figure unless someone else spots something dangerous and stops him.
After fingering his spare quiver of arrows, Omari follows into the opened door.
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"Ohrmzid, wait, let Manuun see if there are any traps before plunging in there... And by the by, there is a hidden door," pointing, "There. More for Manuun to check out"
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"Yes Ohrmizd, lets give it a look first."
Manuuns cloud tattoo moves back up to his temples as he activates detect Magic. The Tattoo is glowing in a distinct purple instead of his usual blue, after the tight runins he had with the Elemental.
Afterwards he turns to the niche which Omari pointed out to see if he can find aan opening mechanism.
Ohrmizd nods and holds back, eager to recover the statue of his goddess "For how long that figurine has awaited in there for a truthful follower... I will make it a relic of the new temple restoration"
He then blinks "Mmmm... what's that tattoo Man? Are you ok?"
"Or it could be placed there as a trap. You cannot trust every shrine you see out there my friend," Heshan replied as he held up one finger in the air.
The secret door can be pushed open. Behind lies a worked tunnel that leads to another room. This plain stone-worked chamber once stored the church’s valuable religious artifacts. It’s been ransacked somewhat, but some lesser treasure still litters the floor.
For example a phylactery, a periapt, a necklace and prayer beads.
Ohrmizd shrugs "Do not know, I just noticed. What is it? Are you ok?"
When the group advances through the secret door the Keleshite advances in the first row, casting the light of his scimitar forward. He spits to the floor angry at the sight of the ransacked place "How dare they exploit Sarenrae's sacred place. We need to place the little that remains in a secure place before robbers take everything"
The man makes sure to pick the little treasures that litter the floor and put them in his pocket or those of his friends where they cannot be robbed.
Omari follows Ohrmzid into the secret door, while chanting a cantrip (detect magic), and searches the room .
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further, when they return to the altar room , he will examine the dais and the "ceramic cask with a elaborate topper capped by a figurine of Sarenra" with Detect Magic.
The cask is one piece and can not be opened. But inside Omari detects magic.
Ohrmizd feels doom creeping up to him as he bags the goods.
As he picks up whatever is there Ohrmizd goes pale "Something terrible is about to happen, can you feel it?"
Coming back at the dais room he does try to help Omari find a way to open it, searching a switch or a written command word in the recipient.
As he picks up whatever is there Ohrmizd goes pale "Something terrible is about to happen, can you feel it?"
"I trust your instincts" - Roryx snorts, drawing his weapon and standing ready.
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"My skin is still hurting from all that fire."When Ohrmizd finds the sarenraen artefacts Manuuns looks at them more carefully trying to understand what they are.
"Is anyone else hurt? I know you got burned Roryx. Gather round and I will channel Erastil's blessings."
Omari will get the wounded close enough to him to benefit and then channel to heal them.
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As he picks up whatever is there Ohrmizd goes pale "Something terrible is about to happen, can you feel it?"
"Well, when I examined the room with detect magic, I found nothing. Still ... I suggest returning the artefacts to where they were laying in the treasure room. When such terrible things, as has happened here, well divine wrath and curses can be disturbingly general... We can always come back to them later, after we have cleansed the rest of the temple - particularly, whatever is down the well."
Coming back at the dais room he does try to help Omari find a way to open it, searching a switch or a written command word in the recipient.
"Before you try and open that, let's figure out what's in it. Use the senses Sarenrae has gifted you with. There is supposed to be something trapped down here; it may very well be in that cask."
"I am not leaving Sarenrae relics here to be robbed. But I can agree to leave them here until we cleanse the temple from its evil" Ohrmizd leaves the stuff in the ground but takes note of everything useful to make sure no one robbed while they are exploring the rest of the area. He makes sure to leave the secret door closed and well concealed after him.
Nodding to the Erastil's fellow he focuses his assessing eye to see if there is any evilness, goodness, chaos or law inside the figurine "Are you expecting to find a genie inside? Like those tales of magical lamps?"