"Haunted? Yes, I suppose haunted could describe it. Our friend here has lost his mind. We, too, were hunting treasure deeper in the jungle, but those the ruins are infested with fiends! If you value your lives and sanity, you will turn back now. "
Another man says, "Yah, you want to avoid that cyclops temple, it is bad news!"
Almost immediately, the others start to hush the last speaker. "Quiet, fool!" you hear one of them hiss.
With that, all of them start to quickly pack up camp and leave, physically dragging the insane one along with them if necessary.
"Beware, if you choose to go forward. Very bad."
You are able to determine that the babbler is not speaking entirely in gibberish, but that he seems to be rambling in a pidgin that combines pieces of Infernal and Common.
Reacting to Doodle's outburst, the looters quickly shift from being friendly to attacking. Green moves up to Lasaraleen, while Purple and Red jump Jair. Red tries to trip her while purple kicks at her while she is down.
Both of the looters freeze as Jair calmly stands up an moves out of the middle.
Haste is in effect - +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves, one extra attack with full attack, move at +30’
The lion gets a hold of green, and starts ripping into him. One claw missed, but the rest of the attacks were successful. Still, these guys are tougher than they may have seemed.
The babbling man (grey) runs off to the edge of the woods, and then throws himself to the ground.
Meanwhile, the looters attack. Red circles around Lasareen and kicks out.
Purple takes advantage to double team, although he proves very ineffective, and then steps to the side.
Green simply tries to escape the jaws of death, but does not break the grapple.
[ooc]Round 2: (bold may post actions)
Green looter (27 dmg, grappled)
Red looter
Purple looter
Radagast
Jair (15 dmg)
Lasaraleen (11 dmg)
Zaldurr
Doodle
Stormy
Haste is in effect - +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves, one extra attack with full attack, move at +30’
Radagast pounces on the relatively harmless man and shreds him to pieces. Jair suddenly becomes two Jairs, and pulls out a wand. Lasaraleen sees that her efforts to spare one man are somewhat wasted, although maybe he'll survive. Given that, she steps up and smacks Red at least with one decent hit.
Zaldurr and Doodle seem to get their spears crossed, and don't do much else.
The lion finishes playing with it's bloody toy, which is barely regonizable to anyone.
Red takes a deep gash as well, perhaps that is enough that makes him snap out of Jair's control.
Red withdraws and retreats.
The magic missile does enough damage to drop Red unconscious. He is still breathing though, while the other two are not so fortunate.
The original crazy one sits in a fetal position,rocking back and forth with his eyes closed.
Searching the bodies, and a nearby saddled horse loaded with gear, you find that there each of the agents has a magical pair of bracers, and magical amulets - except the crazy one. He only has a wooden holy symbol of Norgorber, which he drew out before his astonished compatriots and
smashed lies on the with ground his mace. That holy symbol lies in the place where he curled up and began babbling.
The horse’s saddlebags hold various scavenged items such as stone tablets, pieces of ancient engravings, and tattered tapestry scraps left behind after the fall of the Ghol-Gan empire, though one of the bags is torn open
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Jair starts to speak in Infernal to the mad man while looking at him.
“Fleeing fiends in the heart of this jungle, amidst the ruins of a great empire, I finally saw the truth. I saw visions of the cyclopes of Ghol-Gan weeping blood as they realized that for all of their culture, their gods had abandoned them. I realized that is the way of all gods. They string us along with parlor tricks, but fail when their power is needed the most.”
"This stone? A stone is a stone, but perhaps something more?"
He seems distracted, and then says "The temple is little more than bare stone walls, as is the ultimate destiny of all feeble god-halls. Just before the fiends arrived, a large wall in the main temple collapsed, so I doubt it will even remain standing for long.”
"The seal is a stone. Stones build a temple. But little of that still remains!"
"I know not how many, they get in your head! Get them out! I now see the error in my beliefs. Norgorber lies even to his faithful! That was one of the god’s many foolish secrets. His faithful shroud themselves in secrets, but where does it get them? The gods don’t matter in the end.”