"Hmmm," Hope said, "what would you need to do with this evocation to destroy the ghost?"
Elanna, having absolutely no idea looks to her sister, the apparent newly powerful arcane master, or whatever she is going to take to call herself next.
"With ghosts, you typically need to put the spirit to rest somehow. This spirit seemed to be more an echo of some caster's strong emotions.
While evocation might disrupt the effect, I don't know that it would be useful in removing the emotional impression. I've never seen anything like this before though. I suggest we just avoid that chamber and move on with our search."
He motions through the door to the south, hoping someone better trained in locating traps will take up the exploration.
Elanna passes cautiously through the door to the south before pausing to check there is no immediate threat.
Elanna doesn’t find any traps as she leads the way. Listening at the door halfway down the hall, she can hear many snarls and growls from the other side. It sounds like several fleshdregs are in the adjoining room!
Fi nods to Moon's evaluation of the situation and agrees with the approah to avoid that area for now.
Once Ela declares the next room safe, she moves on and readies to open the door beyond. "Trouble ahead. Everyone ready?"
Opening the door, she steps in with her rapier ready to stab some fleshdregs.
Any furniture that might have once been in this rough hewn room has been removed, making room for the four fleshdregs that now inhabit it. They snarl and shamble forward to attack!
Screaming Moon acts to separate the fleshdregs, sending webs to ensnare one of them.
Taking just a step forward, Ruby Meadow waves her hand in a come for me motion and readies a swing of her great sword.
Fi dashes ahead to setup flanking for sister, piercing one with Baraket. Even though she strikes it, she frowns and seemingly grows frustrated with something.
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Elanna strikes in tandem with her sister to make the most of one of the fleshdreg's weak points.
Triel lunges at the nearest one, with Vindir close behind to defend against any retaliatory strikes.
Hope didn't hesitate to send a blast out at the nearest of the approaching flesh dregs.
While a few days ago a batch of fleshdregs might have been a formidable fight, your power has grown significantly since then. With blasts of force and deadly slashes and strikes, you dispatch the twisted monsters without breaking a sweat!
Returning to the main hall, you continue around the corner. The walls of this wide hall are carved with dense inscriptions. A door opens in the north wall, but to the south, the inscriptions converge into a spiraling pattern that periodically flashes with pulsations of glowing orange energy.
"...what kind of magic is this?" Triel ponders.
Fi moves up and studies the patterns before stepping back to explain. "It's a one-way portal and this is the entrance exit side. If I had to guess, the other side is in a region in Hollow Mountain known as the "Forges of Wrath."
"Oddly, that bit of seemingly useless information has a ring of something of great importance. We should take note and consider that information in the future."
Shaking his head and wondering why he just said that, Screaming Moon waves toward the northern doors. "I can't say that I would want to go through that portal anyways, so I am glad it is broken. Perhaps we should go through these doors instead?"
The door opens onto a luxurious suite that has seen better days. Though outfitted with draping curtains and tapestries of immense battles, the smell of spoiled food and animal musk fouls the air.
A hulking sinspawn is here, clad in chainmail and gripping a glowing red halberd. A pair of fleshdregs accompany him. The sinpsawn's mouth twitches as he gathers as much sincerity as he can and addresses you in a rasping voice.
"Welcome. I am Mozamer. On your way down here to stop me, you ended up killing many. You show your wrath well. Perhaps you have a place at my Lady's side? Join me, and we'll take this town in a direction those other fools would never have been capable of. Alaznist will be pleased to see you help me raise an army before she takes back what she has lost."
The sinspawn snarls and eagerly orders his minions to attack!
Mozamer clutches an unholy symbol depicting a circular rune adorned with eyes. He barks out a harsh prayer in Abyssal, and a shimmering energy field surrounds him. Meanwhile, the fleshdregs rush to attack! One of them chomps down on Triel, sending a minor jolt of electricity through her body.
"Welcome. I am Mozamer. On your way down here to stop me, you ended up killing many. You show your wrath well--"
"Wrath? No. Annoyance? Yes." Triel cuts the sinspawn off. "And you must be ill-informed, indeed, if you think we killed more than necessary to reach you."
---------------------Vindir's eyes flare as the fleshdreg bites Triel, and he snaps out two swift punches with the force of an angry bear!
Triel swipes her scythe at the fleshdreg that bit her...
...and steps over its body to lunge at the sinspawn.
Moving to a position where he can get multiple combatants into the effect (but making sure Mozamer is affected), Screaming Moon casts Color Spray.
Recklessly rushing forward, Ruby Meadow skirts the lesser enemies and heads straight for Mozamer, swinging her greatsword.
Fi tears into the one in front of her, aiming to take it down quickly! If she does, she steps up intot its spot.
Elanna strikes at the creature in front of her with a small flourish.
Hope looked at the doorway and felt a shiver of relief that it was already broken. She vaguely recalled something about the place and didn't have any interest in going there. As they continued on and found the Sinspawn who tried to, not effectively, turn them to his side Hope was not pleased.
Hope didn't hesitate after the ugly guy started talking. She pulled in a batch of gravity, the dust around seeming to pull towards her, and just as he finished speaking and his offer was rejected, unleashed it at the fleshdreg who didn't bite Triel.
The twins both stab the same fleshdreg, taking it down. Fio steps up and tries to shock the second one but misses it. Triel and Vindir take down the other fleshdreg. Hope’s blast comes up just short of punching through Mozamer’s armor. Screaming Moon’s spell has no effect on the sinspawn, while Ruby Meadow misses badly.
Mozamer brings his halberd to bear. Ruby parries his first swing, but his second tears into the Shoanti. Then he lunges forward to bite her, and the warrior woman falls!
Triel grumbles and turns her scythe on Mozamer with a vengeance!
Vindir swarms in next to Triel with a pair of follow-up punches!
Fi tries to repeat the actions of stabbing and shocking, but isn't quite as successful this round.
Reeling from the pain of the shared wounds, Screaming Moon does his best to keep Ruby Meadow standing.
Reaching out to heal her, he then moves back out of the way.
Ruby steps up to flank with Vindir and tries to power through Mozamer's defenses.
Elanna rushes to flank the fleshdreg with Triel and Vindir but manages to nearly lose her grip on her rapier as she rushes to strike the creature.
Hope cursed when her blast fell short of hurting her target and quickly followed up with another.
You surround and focus your attacks on Mozamer, but only Triel manages to land a hit on the tough sinspawn. Hissing with fury, Mozamer grasps his religious symbol and channels negative energy!
Elanna feels the pain wrack every fibre of her being but knows she cannot back down now but unfortunately still has the incorrect grip on her rapier.
Triel ends up overwhelmed by the incoming unholy power, though her false life spell means that she isn't really harmed by it.
Well. THAT'S an uncomfortably familiar feeling.
She shifts to flank with Ruby and swings her scythe again!
And again the sinspawn's protections are too much!
Hope felt the foul energy wash over her and felt it sap her strength. She also realized that a portion of it she was able to simply ignore. It must have been due to her./..experiences when she was gone.
She turned her glare on the bastard and sent yet another blast of gravity at him.
Vindir manages to tank the incoming damage more easily--and is about to pummel the sinspawn when Triel shoots him a look.
He understands it intuitively, and starts to withdraw from the melee.
With pain and injury coming in from all avenues, Screaming Moon's mind is overwhelmed and he is only able to hold on to his link with Ruby Meadows.
Staggering back and reeling, he attempts to collect his wits.
Moving back from the battle, Screaming Moon calls upon the forces of nature to empower the party.
Able to shake off most of the effect, Ruby looks with concern at Screaming Moon as he staggers and nearly falls.
Ruby Meadow swing again with her greatsword, then steps behind Mozamer, opening up flanking opportunities for both of the twins.
Fi resists the attack and then is completely healed by Moon's divine energy. She focuses her arcane mastery into Baraket, hoping it's enough to land a blow.
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Mozamer cackles as he deftly avoids harm from all of your attacks. He turns to Triel, attacking with halberd and teeth.
A bloodied Triel promptly withdraws from the sinspawn's attacks.
Holding off on healing Triel for the moment, Screaming Moon attempts to ensnare Mozamer to make things easier for the party.
Ruby continues slashing at the monster.
Elanna finally manages to steady herself and strikes him just under his arm as he raises it.
Hope was getting mad at her inability to hit this monster, even worse the others seemed to be having problems too. She thought they needed a new way to take it down and looked quickly around the room to see if she could find a way to do just that.
Fioralba watches the situation deteriorate as Triel retreats, the group seems to flounder in their attacks. She drops the gauntlets that are protecting her so she can use Baraket's full power!
"NO! Fioralbla! What are you doing?!?"