"Gods!" Kizzy cried out in frustration and swung again. Less impressively this time.
Round 4
Round 4
Kast, pleased to have hit something, even an image, tries again.
to hit;
damage.
hp: 24/24 - 2
AC: 16/13/13 + 2/shield
Saves: F2/R5/W3
Aroden's Verve: 0/0 used
GlitterBomb: 0/0 used
Extend GammaRadiation: 0/0 used
Quantum Leaps used:
Pathfinder Carry: 0/0
Staff of Courage: 5/6 left
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+3[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+4[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+3[/dice] damage.
[ ooc]Morningstar, two handed:[/ooc]
[ dice]1d20+4[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+3[/dice] damage.
"Oh! I think I have them Seamus!" Izomandakus laughs, not hiding he has been quickly hoarding everything he managed to reach first.
The redhead looks for the manacles, then walks over to the woman and offers them to whomever is able to fit them on place while holding the alight torch in the other hand "She won't be able to use most of her magic with these ones on"
Meanwhile Pachemu waits, and jumps over the woman, snatching a leg with her mouth if she sees the opportunity to help Seamus or someone else immobilize the dazed woman.
Qetsiyah finally stays her weapon thrust as Seamus grabs for the woman. Unable to reach her except to attack, she issues another Lion's Call to aid her friends. "Grab her arm, yeah, like that... Now twist it up behind her. Well done!"
Meg sheathes her sword and grabs one of the spellcaster's arms to help the other hold onto her.
HP: 27/27
AC: 18/14/15
Saves: F3/R6/W4 +2 will vs charm and compulsion, +2 fort vs poison and drugs, +4 fort vs alcohol
Hypnotic Stare: Spellcaster
Painful Stare: Spellcaster (unclaimed)
Implanted Tricks (1/3 used): Mesmeric Mirror (herself)
0: (Dancing Lights, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, Message, Read Magic, Ghost Sound)
1: 4/4 used (Vanishx3, Lock Gazex0, Ill Omenx0, Faerie Firex1)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] damage.
Izomandakus prepares the manacles while Pachemu aids the upcoming grapple by Seamus, who throws down quite the maneuver, locking the wizard in his embrace. Kizzy issues a fresh Lion’s Call to aid her allies as she waits to see what will happen. Meg also aids the grapple. Kast, in his excitement, stabs again, though he fails to hit her even with all the writhing around.
No longer dazed, she does what she can to try and break free of the hold!
to break the grapple
Unable to break free, she continues to struggle.
Round 5
Kast presses the attack now that Seamus has her grappled, using the flat side of his blade for non-lethal effect.
to hit;
non-lethal damage.
hp: 24/24 - 2
AC: 16/13/13 + 2/shield
Saves: F2/R5/W3
Aroden's Verve: 0/0 used
GlitterBomb: 0/0 used
Extend GammaRadiation: 0/0 used
Quantum Leaps used:
Pathfinder Carry: 0/0
Staff of Courage: 5/6 left
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+3[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+4[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+3[/dice] damage.
[ ooc]Morningstar, two handed:[/ooc]
[ dice]1d20+4[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+3[/dice] damage.
"Ah, how does this work?" a bit nervous Izomandakus balances from side to side, waiting for the opportunity to shackle the wizard. When he sees that Seamus pins her down, the boy tries to adjust the manacles to her.
Pachemu keeps holding the woman from a leg, trying to help her remain still.
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"The last time I wrestled a girl was--" Meg's face turns bright red. "--er, never mind that."
Meg pulls out her handkerchief, which still smells of lavendar, and uses it to tie a gag on the bound spellcaster. "Just so she does not try casting any spells or calling out to anyone while we figure out what to do with her."
Kizzy flipped her Guisarme around and swept with the hook, trying to knock the mage on her invisible ass.
"My elder sister Olivia hates wrestling." She added to the commentary, frowning at the memory of Olivia's prim attitude. Then grinned abruptly, "So of course, I made sure we did it a lot. At least until I got so much taller, it wasn't really fair, anymore." Well, pretty soon after that.
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Seamus quite handily pins the squirming woman against the wall, as Izomandakus, after a short delay, slaps the manacles on the still invisible wizard. Kizzy tries to sweep her legs, to put her prone - and succeeds! Meg gags the manacled, prone, and pinned wizard to prevent further spell casting (no verbal, no somatic). Kast takes the opportunity to slap the entirely captive captive.
The wizard remains invisible (although now that I think of it she might have gone visible trying to break the grapple… I’m going to say she’s still invisible for fun) and stops struggling. She stands inert against the floor as if awaiting her fate. She says nothing.
Seamus thinks he hears a ‘clank’ or something on the other side of the door, but it’s muffled, and the doors on this level are relatively heavy stone affairs. They are well balanced, and open easily, but hard to hear through.
Seamus, strangely, doesn’t hear anything beyond the door after the first clank. He’s starting to wonder if he’s hearing things down here…
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Meg is quite happy that the subject has moved away from women wrestling, as she has no wish to embarass herself further. "I think we should prepare to meet the enemy here. I expect someone will be coming after our new friend called out, and here we at least have the advantage of a chokepoint and time to prepare. I fear taking this darling upstairs would take too long."
She draws her sword and flattens her back against the wall, her eye on the door.
"Ok, cutie, do not worry, I am sure this all has been a misunderstanding and there is reason for you all to work with those goblins. Who where you calling when we arrived? That Nualia... is our Nualia from Sandpoint?" understanding the gagged woman is not going to answer, Izomandakus softly pads her belly and stands up.
Holding back with the torch he makes a gesture with the other hand closing the western door at a distance "I agree we do not want surprises at our back. But for now we are only sure she called the attention of Nualia. Thus, I say we focus on that back first"
Pachemu shows her teeth at the fallen Lyrie, menacing to attack if she attempts something bold.
"I expect someone will be coming after our new friend called out, and here we at least have the advantage of a chokepoint and time to prepare."
Kast nods and moves to guard the back stairs, readying the Iron Quil in case any foes are circling around. He listens intently.
Round 6
to hit;
non-lethal damage.
Qetsiyah readies an attack as well, half expecting the door to burst open at any moment.
Seamus, strangely, doesn’t hear anything beyond the door after the first clank. He’s starting to wonder if he’s hearing things down here… Izomandakus closes the door you came in through, as he begins to speak to the prisoner. Meg prepares for further battle, and readies a strike. Kast readies for an attack from the rear, which does not yet come. Kizzy readies an attack against any who would open a door… and someone does, only to feel Kizzy’s blade - and the fight is on!
The door opens into the room (from the east). You see what can only be Nualia, along with a gigantic hound at her side (image). (Note the image shows two yeth hounds, yet there is only one.) Nualia’s left hand has been transformed into a demonic talon. With the exception of her demonic hand and her scarred belly, the rest of her body is incongruously beautiful.
Seeing you, she frowns and touches a symbol at her neck, steps back 5’ and casts a spell. Her yeth hound pads in front of her for the moment, and bites at Seamus.
and Will DC 14 or shaken
Kizzy blocks the blow that surely would have landed on Seamus otherwise.
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
”I heard there was a group who thwarted our initial raid, though they failed to actually stop us from robbing the crypt.” she laughs. ”Will you do the same here? Too little too late? We shall see.”
She regrips her bastard sword in two hands.
Izomandakus is left breathless, jaw opened, as Nualia makes her aperance. Able to recognize the attractive woman behind all the scars he is frozen while he makes his mind on what is going on "Nu... Nualia! Can you not recognize me? I was but a child when you... when you died"
His eyes lower at the terrible scars on her belly and the strange hand "Wh-what has happened to you Nualia?! Have the goblins stolen your bones and resurrected you? Why?!"
"And why do you hold Thassilion's Sihedron Rune of the seven virtues? Are you a follower of their old faiths? Why are you asking the gods for divine favor in combat Nualia?!" Izomandakus tone is increasingly alarmed "We are your fellow friends of Sandpoint! Is this Yeth Hound menacing you?"
Although the boy is frozen by the discovery, merely holding the torch as Kizzy deflection of the Yeth attack registers as a non aggression, Pachemu does not, and growls menacingly at the hound.
Izomandakus does nothing but talking and remaining frozen in surprise at what his eyes see but his mind wishes not to. But...
More readied than it might seem, Izomandakus responds with a quick movement of his hand shutting closed the door at a distance before the attack hits anyone. Then steps back behind current Kizzy's position in the map.
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Round 7
Kast spins on his heels to size up the foes at the back door.
Know (Planes)
”Oh poop! It’s a ‘no-dog’!! Oh wait. It’s worse than a ‘no-dog’! It’s a yeth hound!” Kast identifies the beast and calls out...
Know (Religion)
”She has the Mark of Lamashtu upon her! If you’ve heard of tramp stamps, then you’ll love wretch sketches! Like those on her belly!” Kast points with the Iron Quill to the woman’s belly.
”Sihedron Rune, like Izo says!. That is, a seven-pointed star that symbolized the seven virtues of rule of early Thassilon. But that empire is long gone!”
”We’re going to have to be perfect to defeat that hound! Everyone...be *perfect!*”
Kast casts Bless.
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Meg gets a good look at Nualia's stomach scars and her stomach churns. Every expectant mother has heard of Lamashtu and what her "blessings" do to you. Some women barricade themselves away and surround themselves with blessings of Feronia or another more benevolent goddess of fertility, not wanting to risk the slightest chance of some wayward villain cursing their child. Meg had been more cavalier, as typical, as she could not bear to think of the horrors that might be unleashed upon her body should she be so unlucky as to fall under Lamashtu's gaze.
That this woman would so willingly throw herself to Lamashtu is beyond anything that Meg can comprehend. A drive for self-annhilation, a warping of your most fundamental being into pure function and monstrosity.
Meg hates herself, sure, but she has never hated herself that much.
"Why in all of the hells would you do to this to yourself, Nualia? Because you lost your child? I lost two--" She peeks around the corner, lifting up her shirt and armor to show the c-section scar on her own stomach for a long moment before letting it drop again. "--and I did not come anywhere close to...this. I just became an even worse alcoholic than usual. You know, like a sane person."
She feels the anger building. This all feels so personal now. She begins to move as if to flip back behind the wall, but instead stabs at the hound. She can deal with Nualia when the hound is gone.
HP: 27/27
AC: 18/14/15
Saves: F3/R6/W4 +2 will vs charm and compulsion, +2 fort vs poison and drugs, +4 fort vs alcohol
Hypnotic Stare:
Painful Stare:
Implanted Tricks (1/3 used): Mesmeric Mirror (herself)
0: (Dancing Lights, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, Message, Read Magic, Ghost Sound)
1: 4/4 used (Vanishx3, Lock Gazex0, Ill Omenx0, Faerie Firex1)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] damage.
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Qetsiyah was focused on the enemy as the door opened, and protecting her friends from whatever came through it. She'd never met Nualia but she could recognize trouble when she saw it. And while she usually liked dogs, she did not like the look of this one.
”I heard there was a group who thwarted our initial raid, though they failed to actually stop us from robbing the crypt.” she laughs. ”Will you do the same here? Too little too late? We shall see.”
Kizzy scoffs, "Not many worry over the dead when the living are threatened." She said with a sneer, wondering what could have caused this woman to hate her adopted father so. She knew first hand that it rankled to stand out so from your own kin, but as long as there was love, a family was a family... wasn't it?
She goggled at the flurry of revelations from her friends. Blinking especially at Meg's words. But all this talk of ancient symbols and evil gods tells her it's time to be ready for fell magics.
"Alright, everyone, this is what we came here for. Fate has led us right to her and fate favors the bold! We're going to take this one step at a time, guard each other close and take her down, together!"
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Last post had a lot of data, so I delayed this bit. Here’s the description of the hallway beyond the door before Izomandakus closes it again.
This short hallway rises in a slope to the east. Five feet from the western door, the floor is polished and shiny, unlike the dusty floor elsewhere. A pair of stone statues depicting stern men wielding glaives stand in alcoves north and south of this section of the hallway. At the eastern end stand two stone doors, their faces carved with strange runes. Just past the doors is a third alcove in which a partially collapsed statue sits. The top half of the statue is missing, leaving behind a ragged stump of a torso.
Seamus slashes the dogs nose, causing to reel back slightly as he bloods it. Meg feints the intelligent dog and cuts it deeply in its flank as she ponders what Nualia has become. Kast casts Bless, to further boost his allies as he continues to watch the back. Kizzy activates her tactician ability as she questions Nualia. Izomandakus’ ready goes off changing his initiative, and blocking the dog from biting!
Nualia laughs at Meg’s scars, ”You know nothing of the power of birth! Sure, you may know the pain of a man violating your body, but you know nothing of the power to grow a fiend!” she grasps her womb, clearly relishing the unwholesome creatures she can, and maybe has, created there.
She spits at Izomandakus. ”You! You were part of the problem. You and the other residents of Sandpoint!” She says it like something unpleasant she stepped in but can’t get off her boot. ”You were all so fawning! ‘Oh you’ve got warts? Just go see Nualia.’ and ‘Her hair can increase fertility.’ I was a FREAK! A sideshow there to please the populace and nothing more.”
Kizzy scoffs, "Not many worry over the dead when the living are threatened." She said with a sneer...
”You think the goal was to kill the residents of Sandpoint with that raid? Oh how precious. That was just a side bonus. Like chips with fish.” She laughs viciously, but does not share her plan.
”To hell with you!” she hisses angrily as the door slams in her hounds face just as it was about to tear into the party!
Seamus, dimly through the thick door, hears Nualia whistle, as to the dog, and he hears the ‘clank’ again through the door!
Seamus opens the door to find the yeth hound in the hallway, slathering and eager for battle!
Meg's lip turns up in disgust at the "power to grow a fiend" statement, but she says nothing else yet. When Nualia turns her anger onto Izo, Meg scoffs.
"Oh boo hoo! You think you are the only person people have treated like a sideshow? I had everyone in Magnimar gossiping about every intricacy of my life. People would write thinkpieces about me because I tried out a new style of clothing! Thinkpieces! Do you even know what a thinkpiece is? And you organized a goblin invasion because people came to you about warts? Well, congratulations. You really are a freak, now."
She rushes after the retreating Nualia, attacking the hound once more to help clear the way.
HP: 27/27
AC: 18/14/15
Saves: F3/R6/W4 +2 will vs charm and compulsion, +2 fort vs poison and drugs, +4 fort vs alcohol
Hypnotic Stare:
Painful Stare:
Implanted Tricks (2/3 used): Mesmeric Mirror (herself) (unactivated)
0: (Dancing Lights, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, Message, Read Magic, Ghost Sound)
1: 4/4 used (Vanishx3, Lock Gazex0, Ill Omenx0, Faerie Firex1)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] damage.
Meg charges forward - and into a trap! No one had an opportunity to take-10 to see it, and so it snuck up on you. As she closes with the yeth hound, a pair of portcullises slam down on either side of her, trapping her in the square!
She makes an attack through the bars (normal cover), but the agile hound avoids it!
You hear, around the corner to the north, laughter.
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"Lamashtu's mark?" Izomandakus looks at Kast shocked "Of course, is the same like in the altar below Sandpoint... how did I not realize..."
Then the boy looks at Meg even more shocked as she reveals her scars "Oh what? You were a mother Meg?! Of course... that's what you meant back in the temple..."
Izomandakus is shocked when Nualia starts to shout back at him aggressively "Bu... but... it was always so nice around you... you were always so nice..."
As the action resolves and the corridor is cleared when Seamus opens again the door, the redhead is increasingly unnerved "This has no sense. This is not the Nualia I knew. She died in the temple and some demon has come to posses her resurrected body or something" he turns to Kast "Lamashtu has corrupted her body. Yes, that must be"
Izomandakus is still murmuring when Meg charges forward and ends trapped behind the portcullises "Critters!"
"Hold this pig!" handing the torch to Pachemu, Izomandakus moves a hand and closes the door at the back with a few more arcane words, the one from which the laugh is coming, trapping the dog between the doors and the portculises "We do not want that demon possessed creature to come now"
And makes a step forward rolling up his sleeves.
Meg bangs her fist against the bars, wincing as it hurts more than she expected. As she shakes out her hand, she glares at Izo. "You were listening? That was a private moment and I do not care for you spreading my personal--" She cuts herself off as she realizes that in her focus on Nualia, she may have spread her personal information about a bit too freely herself. She bites her lip, then refocuses. "Nevermind all that! Let's figure out how to move this damn portcullis!"
Ahhh, Meg, please make a Reflex save DC 15. Succeed, and you're 5' back, and not enclosed in the portcullis.
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Meg is able to leap back and avoid being trapped in the cage! Instead of lashing out at the dog, she grasps the portcullis and heaves, but she doesn't have a good angle and the iron bars are too heavy to budge much (rolled low). More like a DC 20, or maybe even higher.
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Kast looks over the portcullis, thinking strategically.
"Seamus, can you jury rig it so that it can't be opened again? make it so that it's stuck, can you?" Kast asks, hopeful.
Kizzy moved closer to better see what was going on. "Better grab your crowbar, Izomandakus. What are you hoping to do, Kast? Jam it shut to trap her in there?"
Kast keeps his eyes on the stairs down as he answers Kizzy.
"Yeah. Absolutely. We don't know who else is with her and what the terrain is like, let alone if they might come up behind us. If we can block off his side, then we can clear out the floor above and circle down," Kast's eyes dart around. "We can't go charging off without the prisoner either. What if someone comes down and frees her?"
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Seeing Meg manages to avoid the portculis, Izomandakus remains by the pillar instead of stepping forward "That's clever Kast, trapping her like the Shinning Crusade has the Whispering Tyrant sealed at the Gallowspire"
After some seconds for the others to voice up their concerns, the boy also adds more elaborated thoughts "Well, in fact, we do not know if there are more exits there. We might trap her, or we might not"
"But while we decide, we can try to deal with the Yeth Hound" pointing to the doors ahead he adds "Why don't you try to shot it through the bars while I try to hold the doors as closed as possible?"
Seamus opens the door and readies an attack! Meg charges forward, and into a trap, which forces her back. Though she be mighty, she cannot lift the gate. Kast and Kizzy delay, chatting about their plans for the battle. Izomandakus, still somewhat flabbergasted, slams the door shut on Nualia yet again!
So she opens it, stepping through with a longbow, her sword sheathed for now.
Meanwhile, the hound takes a step back from the cage, clearly aware of what’s coming…
The two statues on either side in the cage suddenly swing down with their glaives in patterned attacks! The blades blur, swinging wildly within the cage. It’s a good thing there’s nothing in there with them.
Round 9
Kast keeps his guard on the back way and hopes the shoot-and-jury rig plan begins to work.
"Maybe the witch has something we can use. Izo, can you check?" Kast nods at the wizardess.
Oh wow yes, that was a bit ago - apologies!
DR 5/silver
"I totally want to Kast! But I am busy right now trying to purify Nualia on Sarenrae's flames" Izomandakus tries to quickly answer the warrior while precisely picking a scroll from his case and unrolling it saying the completion words to trigger the contained spell пылающая сфера.
A roaring flaming sphere materializes at Nualia's feet!
"Burn out of poor Nualia evil spirit!" Pachemu raises her head up to look at the boy unbelieving, while still holding the torch at her small mouth.
Qetsiyah seemed to think that things were not going particularly well. She winced as the statues sliced at the empty space. "Good thing you got out of there, Meg. I have some silver weapon blanch, but it takes time to apply. And Izo has a point, we don't know if she has a way out or not."
Meg roars in frustration. ”Fine! I’ll check her.” She steps back and begins searching for any scrolls or keys or anything else useful that might help get them past this trap.
HP: 27/27
AC: 18/14/15
Saves: F3/R6/W4 +2 will vs charm and compulsion, +2 fort vs poison and drugs, +4 fort vs alcohol
Hypnotic Stare: Yeth
Painful Stare: Yeth (unclaimed)
Implanted Tricks (1/3 used): Mesmeric Mirror (herself)
0: (Dancing Lights, Prestidigitation, Mage Hand, Message, Read Magic, Ghost Sound)
1: 4/4 used (Vanishx3, Lock Gazex0, Ill Omenx0, Faerie Firex1)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+1[/dice] damage.
Seamus switches up his weapons for the hound. Meg goes to search the woman - who fights back, writhing and shifting to make her job as difficult as possible. Meg still comes up with a potion and a scroll - both unmarked. Kast readies an attack in the rear. Kizzy converses further and continues to delay. Izomandakus focuses on Nualia, their foe, and drops a ball of fire at her feet.
vs DC 13 or 14hp fire damage
The two statues on either side in the cage continue to swing down with their glaives in patterned attacks! The blades blur, swinging wildly within the cage.
Nualia laughs, and takes a shot with her bow at Meg through the open doorway and then shifts out of sight into the next room.
Unwholesome energy envelops her bow as she shoots.
Meanwhile, your manacled wizard rejoins the fray, and becomes visible, as a magic missile launches at Meg! As the woman appears, you see a wand in her hands, still manacled, but she is no longer gagged.
on Meg
"Get off me!" she screams.