A small rune in the center of Davian's back faintly glows as it offers him protection. He follows Ingraham through the door.
Gideon listens to the north door.
Edjarha moves down to the southern doorway, looking into the room for obvious trouble.
Aragelda stays with the group.
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Along the southern wall here is a large relief carving of a sunburst made of nails. Instead of typical flagstones, the floor is made up of headstones with names and dates. Curiously, six of the headstones seem to be pried open to reveal empty graves within.
As you move in, six skeletons stand up, two wearing partial hellknight plate. They form up quickly to attack!
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Alak hesitates, not knowing what to do considering it is the bones of his ancestors that have risen up!
- D Alak
- => Gideon
- Orange
- Ingraham
- Davian
- Aragelda
- Edjarha
- Brick
- green
- blue
- pink
- yellow
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 22/22
Edjarha: 39/39
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Brick:
Orange:
Green:
Blue:
Yellow:
Pink
Gideon gives his allies a rousing shout. including Alak "Stand strong Alak! Your ancestors have fallen to the curse of the undead but you have the strength to see us through!"
Gideon then bludgeons the skeletons with their own loose headstones.
"Hem them in Alak!"
Alak looks apprehensive as he moves forward and draws his blade. "Stand down, noble warriors. Enjoy your peace."
The dead warriors make no aggressive moves towards Alak, and he holds his blade.
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All four are destroyed!
"Cum te non habemus iurgium, Orci eques!" rasps the orange fringed one.
We have no quarrel with you, Hellknight!
- D Alak
- x Gideon
- D Orange
- => Ingraham
- => Davian
- => Aragelda
- => Edjarha
- Brick
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 22/22
Edjarha: 39/39
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Brick: 7
Orange: 7
"Uhm, Alak. These friends of you and your Hellknights?" Davian watches as the undead rise from the Hellknight Crypts. He holds back a moment not wanting to desecrate the area.
"They are our honored dead. I seem to remember something about a now-out-of-vogue method Hellknights used in the early days to ward their crypts against necromancy. I assume the necromantic ward has been triggered."
"May the gods help you find peace!"
Aragelda glows for a moment, and a wave of positive energy washes over the creatures.
, DC 18 basic Fort save
Edjarha decides to let the dead come to him, rather than put himself at risk. He casts a protective ward, before firing off an arc of electricity at the pair of undead.
Alak then swings his blade in an aggressive, intimidating manner!
The skeletal hellknight goes down!
He strikes once at the last knight.
And it goes down!
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"Thanks Alak, I didn't want to begin messing around with your friends or family, or if you even knew them." Davian didn't know what to say exactly as he really just didn't want to piss off a Hellknight.
"I should patch this up before it gets infected."
Aragelda tends to her injury.
Aragelda works with efficiency to clean and bandage her wound.
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"Thanks Alak, I didn't want to begin messing around with your friends or family, or if you even knew them." Davian didn't know what to say exactly as he really just didn't want to piss off a Hellknight.
Ingraham nods in agreement, then looks to Alak.
"Sorry lad, next time I'll join you in battle so ye stand not alone."
As Aragelda heals Davian looks to Gideon as he stands at teh northern door. "What's in there?"
”It could be anything. A Hellknight lich risen to defend the tomb, dust, grave knights. I’ve never been here before, either ”
Gideon examine the balberd for historical significance, and magical power.
Gideon nods and follows.
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"Shall we check this door first?" Aragelda lines up behind Gideon.
Davian nods. "Any door really."
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Davian points to the second door. "That way, I have a good feeling."
Gideon notes to himself Scene where the goblin heroes are trapped in a maze as he nods to Davian's suggestion.
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Narrow stone walls filled with coffin-sized compartments stretch from the floor to the ceiling in this dark, claustrophobic chamber. Most of the compartments are occupied with shroud-covered bodies, though some of them are conspicuously empty.
Then, as you walk down the corridor, from the southern wall, five helmets each rise up from their compartments, and are begin to attack! A strange fusion of spirit and steel, a hellcrown has no corporeal form by itself, but instead inhabits the helmet it so proudly wore in life. Dangling from the helmet like a shroud is a shadow of the former Hellknight’s spine, adding to the creature’s terrifyingly gruesome appearance.
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First, a spike shoots from the red helmet at Edjarha! And then another, as the first one goes flying, but that misses, too! It then flies into the corner and up to the ceiling.
Then black flies over the party to try its luck on Davian. Its second shot is on target.
The nail embeds itself deeply, but does not affect him in any other way.
- x Red
- x Black
- => Gideon
- Blue
- White
- Edjarha
- Yellow
- Alak
- Davian
- Aragelda
- Ingraham
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 23/29
Edjarha: 39/39
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Red:
Blue:
Yellow:
Black:
White:
Gideon once again inspires courage.
"Defend yourselves!" shouts Gideon.
Before firing an electric arc at red and black.
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Both of the floating helmets dodge out of the way of some of the electricity!
Blue glares at Ingraham. "You have been judged, and I am the executioner!"
It then fires a literal coffin nail at Edjarha, but it goes very wide.
and it tries again
Then white yells at Davian, "Street rat! Time to die, pissing yourself in fear!"
It then fires its nail at the sorcerer!
The nail embeds itself in Davian, causing him to bleed.
- x Red
- x Black
- x Gideon
- x Blue
- x White
- Edjarha
- Yellow
- Alak
- Davian [Bleed 1d4, Enfeebled 1]
- Aragelda
- Ingraham
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 10/29 Bleed 1d4, Enfeebled 1
Edjarha: 39/39
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Red: -5
Blue:
Yellow:
Black: -5
White:
Enfeebled 1 for 1 minute and giving it 1 persistent bleed damage. The enfeebled will stack, and the bleed damage will go up with each strike and failed save. A creature can remove a nail with an Interact action to reduce the enfeeblement and amount of bleed damage. Pulling out the last nail removes both conditions.
"Ouch! That's quite enough from you!" Edjarha drops into his familiar stance, lashes out at the black helmet in front of him, then quickly weaves a protective enchantment.
Again Alak looks confused. Why are these undead not attacking him?
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- x Red
- x Black
- x Gideon
- x Blue
- x White
- x Edjarha
- x Yellow
- D Alak
- => Davian [Bleed 1d4, Enfeebled 1]
- => Aragelda
- => Ingraham
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 10/29 Bleed 1d4, Enfeebled 1
Edjarha: 39/39
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Red: -5
Blue:
Yellow:
Black: -13
White:
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Ingraham decides that now is the best time, more than ever, to finally call upon some latent powers buried deep in himself.
"I won' go down without'a fight!"
The dwarf then proceeds to let loose a growl that sounds bestial, as he transforms into a mighty bear!
You call upon primal energy to transform yourself into a Medium animal battle form. When you first cast this spell, choose ape, bear, bull, canine, cat, deer, frog, shark, or snake. You can decide the specific type of animal (such as lion or snow leopard for cat), but this has no effect on the form's Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal trait. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 16 + your level. Ignore your armor's check penalty and Speed reduction.
5 temporary Hit Points.
Low-light vision and imprecise scent 30 feet.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can use. You're trained with them. Your attack modifier is +9, and your damage bonus is +1. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack bonus is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +9, unless your own modifier is higher.
Source.
After completing his transformation, the bear-Ingraham goes into a rage!
"I've got you, Davian!
Aragelda uses a first level spell to help out Davian.
Davian pulls out the nail and tosses it to the ground. "Ow, what the hell is that?" He backs away to safety and shields himself as a shimmering rune appears in front of him.
HP 26/29
AC 17 (18 w/ shield)
Hero Points: 1/3
Focus Point 1/1
Spells (1st) 4/4; (2nd) 3/3
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Davian feels much better as Ingraham goes into a rage!
Red shoots a nail at Gideon!
The nail lodges itself in the floor in front of Gideon.
The next nail is much closer. It then yells at Gideon, "Stop that abyssal racket!"
That is more effective than the nails, as Gideon is indeed frightened!
Black shoots at Edjarha a couple of times. On the first shot, the nail deeply embeds itself into the elf!
It then shoots again! This time it misses.
Finally, it gives a terrifying stare! All with spikes in the must save!
Edjarha is frightened 1 by the prospect of being nailed up by these helms!
- x Red
- x Black
- => Gideon
- x Blue
- x White
- x Edjarha [Enfeebled 2, bleed 1d4, frightened 1]
- x Yellow
- D Alak
- x Davian
- x Aragelda
- x Ingraham
Conditions:
Aragelda: 43/43
Davian: 23/29
Edjarha: 33/39[Enfeebled 2, bleed 1d4, frightened 1]
Gideon: 38/38
Ingraham: 40/40
Alak: 34/34
Enemy Conditions
Red: -5
Blue:
Yellow:
Black: -13
White:
While courage lingers Gideon fires a shot at red before using another electric arc.
However, before he does, Alak takes his attack of opportunity!
He lands a grazing hit.