Seeing Davian seriously injured, Aragelda Raises her Shield and casts another healing spell.
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Aragelda heals up Davian, who is now back to full health! "And now you die, orphans!" bellows the fiend, as it takes in a deep breath! It exhales out a cone of billowing fire!
The fiend also catches fire, and this actually finishes it off!
- x Yellow
- x Davian [Field slayer]
- => Aragelda
- x Edjarha [kicks of doom]
- => Dunlin
Conditions:
Aragelda: 66/70
Davian: 43/43
Dunlin: 42/73
Edjarha: 30/66
Enemy Conditions
Yellow: -125
Treat Wounds timeout:
- Aragelda:
- Davian
- Dunlin: 40m
- Edjarha:
Edjarha grunts in pain as he's singed by the fire. He renews his defensive spell, then, ignoring his wounds, dashes over next to the fiend to set up a flank for Dunlin and lashes out with two quick hits.
Davian feels great for a brief moment before the fire burns ninety percent of his body. He screams in pain as the shocking rune jets out into the fiend.
HP 4/43
AC 20 (21 w/ mage armor; 22 w/ shield)
Buffs: Longstrider (8 Hr); Mage Armor;
Hero Points: 0/3
Focus Point 1/1
Spells (1st) 3/4; (2nd) 3/4; (3rd) 2/3
Spell Rune (1st) 1/1
Aragelda somehow ducks under the flame.
Aragelda drops her weapon, runs to Davian, and tries to pat the flames out.
Aragelda tries to pat the flames out but they only manage to spread, so as only final last ditch effort he falls to the floor and begins rolling around.
HP 1/43
AC 20 (21 w/ mage armor; 22 w/ shield)
Buffs: Longstrider (8 Hr); Mage Armor;
Hero Points: 0/3
Focus Point 1/1
Spells (1st) 3/4; (2nd) 3/4; (3rd) 2/3
Spell Rune (1st) 1/1
Aragelda quickly patches up some of his burns.
Aragelda manages to pat the flames out as well as soothe the burns. "Thanks, it spread so fast I wasn't sure if I was going to pass out from it."
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Once Davian's fire is put out, the team takes time for healing, treating everyone until something jumps out at them, or they are healed up.
In the ashes remaining after the fiends are destroyed you find a pair of matched carnelian gemstones, worth 50gp each.
While Aragelda is patching everyone up, you search the common room, finding a variety of scorched flatwear and pewter plates worth 10gp.
Davian kneels downa nd wipes his hand through the ashes as he notices a glint. His hand pulls out a pair of matched carnelian gemstones. "Look at that!"
"Lovely!"
Davian tosses them into his pack. "Let's check out the door to the west."
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The party moves through the open doorway to the main residency area of the inn. Doorways to the guest and residency rooms line the scorched walls of the hallway and ash covers the floors.
From the ashes, a raging inferno arises! The memories of a being burned alive fills the minds of Dunlin and Edjarha, and the forms of a trio of teenagers can be seen in the swirling ashes!
Critical Success: The creature is unaffected.
Success: The creature is sickened 1.
Failure: The creature is sickened 2.
Critical Failure: The creature is sickened 3, and it is flat-footed for as long as it remains within the haunt’s area and for 3 rounds thereafter.
- => Dunlin [DC25 Will pending]
- Haunt
- Aragelda
- Edjarha [DC25 Will pending]
- Davian
Conditions:
Aragelda: 70/70
Davian: 43/43
Dunlin: 73/73
Edjarha: 66/66
Enemy Conditions
Haunt:
To disable the haunt (disable is always 2 actions, and must be adjacent)
- Diplomacy(E) to temporarily calm the rage of one of the three spirits
- Religion(T) to exorcise one of the spirits
All three spirits must be calmed or exorcised.
Davian watches as Dunlin turns ill in an instant and backs around the corner to catch his breath.
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Phantom flames rage from around the ash pile, catching Edjarha!
- x Dunlin [Sickened 3, Flatfooted]
- x Haunt
- => Aragelda
- => Edjarha [Sickened 1] [17 pending save]
- => Davian
Conditions:
Aragelda: 70/70
Davian: 43/43
Dunlin: 73/73
Edjarha: 66/66
Enemy Conditions
Haunt:
To disable the haunt (disable is always 2 actions, and must be adjacent)
- Diplomacy(E) to temporarily calm the rage of one of the three spirits
- Religion(T) to exorcise one of the spirits
All three spirits must be calmed or exorcised.
"Argh!" Edjarha gasps in pain as the fire burns him. "Please, spirits, we mean you no harm! Go in peace!"
He calls out to the spirits, then retreats from the area.
Aragelda starts to pray to Folgrit to let the spirits pass on.
Davian had not prayed for some tie now, but this seemed as good of a time as any. He joins Aragelda in prayer, trying to keep pace.
Davian looks around. "Are they gone? Did we do it?"
Davian looks around for his stuff. "Were we swindled and robbed?" He begins to question the group that sent them out ghost hunting.
Davian flushes with embarrassment. "Oh, I have my stuff hehe. Maybe I am more tired than I originally thought." He slumps down mockingly into one of the beds. "You know, I traveled around these orphanages while living on the streets several times. They all seem the same." He lets out a deep sigh remembering those tougher times. "But all that is going to change now that I met you guys."
"Creepy. Let's move on." Edjarha, seeing all of the bedrooms are empty, moves cautiously into the large common room to the east.
Davian rolls off the bed. "No rest for the wicked it seems." He follows into the room behind Edjarha.
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You move back to the common room, which is as you left it. The bar looks to have been cleaned out some time in the past. To the east is a doorway to the back rooms.
The back areas include the brewery and kitchens. Several beer tuns are in the brewing room, long dry. The kitchen contains little of value, any foodstuffs long rotted away.
As you make it to the kitchen, you see the kitchen door is open to the outside. A strawberry-blonde woman who you recognize as Liese Kahkosa is at the edge of the forest, and turns back to you. "Thank you for taking care of those daemons. I couldn't have looted the place without your help!"
She shifts into the form of a wolf, and bounds off into the forest. A trap door sits open down to what must be the root cellar, or perhaps aging rooms.
Aragelda scowls and turns to her friends. "Should we go after her or see what's downstairs?"
"Let her go. She's just a looter." He eyes the basement with disdain.
"Wasn't our whole point in coming here to find relics? What if she stole them?"
"We'll probably have just as much luck tracking her down later, then. I suppose we should go see how much damage she caused."
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With that, the party heads down the stairs to the cellar.
Rows of wooden barrels line the walls of this cellar, but it is the large copper kettle that dominates the room, and moldering sacks of grain are stacked beside it. Several barrels have been smashed open, spilling their contents on the floor, giving the whole cellar a sour, musty smell. Several cabinets have been clearly ransacked, their contents likely stolen.
Behind the brew kettle you find a secret door.
"Look! There's a secret door behind the brew kettle. PErhaps she didn't find this."
Davian looks at the lock. "Any of you good at picking locks?"
"Not me. Maybe we could force it open?"