Confirmation roll
Damage.
Shel's second dagger blade slams into the wounded creature's stomach, disemboweling it, as it collapses dead back into the pool from whence it came.
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Round 2:
Red moves around the pool and attacks the devil.
Round 2:
Rileth moved 30 ft around the pool and came around to flank the creature with Red. She called upon Desna's fortune and favour to help her in this battle.
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Erylium, concentrating on her spell, easily dodges the barbarian's attack. However, quite overconfident, she fails to recognize the danger from the bard, until she feels the rapier puncture through her steel-like skin, drawing blood! The quasit shrieks in pain and that is enough to make her lose her summoning spell!
Round 3:
Erylium, frustrated, snarls at Rileth, "I will make you pay for your insolence of harming a servant of the Demon Queen!" You see Rileth's wound on the quasit starts to close and heal on its own.
The quasit takes a 5' step to move into Rileth's square. The quasit then proceeds to claw at the bard, drawing blood twice. Rileh sees poison dripping from Erylium's claws!
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Rileth could feel the position seep into her after the initial claw attack.
Round 3:
Rileth moved 5 ft to get away from the creature's poisonous claws and bite and then attacked the tiny quasit, even as its previous poisonous claw had wrecked havoc on some of her deftness.
Round 3:
Realizing that his inaccuracy with the greatsword in one hand could cost the team, the raging Red decided to go all out and to the heck with defense! He dropped his shield as a free action, gripped his greatsword with 2-hands, and tried to flank the tiny devil.
Red wades through the pool and moves to flank with Rileth, bringing the sword down on the outsider.
The raging barbarian lands a vicious blow, that causes the quasit to scream in pain, as the wounds squirts blood! Erylium reflexively moves her hand to grip her wound, as she shoots death stares at the barbarian.
C'mon, don't be a useless space filler again! Make a difference!
Perri chastises himself silently, even as he draws his string back again, and lets another shaft loose. He watches it sail past the Quasit, however, doing nothing to help bring the thing down.
Shel moves to the quasit and tries to distract it and providing aid to Red’s next swipe.
Attack vs AC 10 to aid another for Red
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Round 4:
The wound caused by Red's greatsword begins to close. Erylium's anger is quite apparent, as her words directed at Red spit out, "I will slit your throat for harming me, you cretin!"
Red tries in vain to resist the devil's magic, but he feels his muscles stiffen until he cannot move.
Rileth attempted to skewer the tiny creature with her rapier as it moved to Red; however she could not find quarry.
Round 4:
Then taking a 5ft step, opening a place for Shel, should she wish to flank with Red for more effective strikes, she lunged at the powerful quasit, hoping to pierce its flesh with her rapier.
Much to her frustration, she could not find quarry again!
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AoO
Damage
Shel missed with her strike as well, the gods of fate not favoring the group any further.
Shel will step in and take advantage of any flank possibility, figuring that was the only way she could damage the little demon.
Attack with flank
Damage plus
sneak attack
Attack with flank
Damage plus
sneak attack
Round 4:
As his full-round action, Red will continue to resist the spell, aware that the devil could try and slash his throat with her dagger, when suddenly he starts to feel his arms and limbs move.
Perri shifts position again, trying to get a line of attack on the quasit that doesn't involve either woman, before trying once again to shoot the varmint.
Round 5:
The devil's wound continues to close little by little. A little overconfident, the devil believed it could withstand one more round before it took more defensive strategies.
It decided it needed to teach the barbarian one final lesson as it ripped into its flesh.
Shel again tries to take advantage of the flank possibility, figuring that was the only way she could damage the little demon.
Attack with flank
Damage plus
sneak attack
Attack with flank
Damage plus
sneak attack
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Possible Critical
Damage
Round 5:
Red moves 5' back from the devil and tries to bring his sword down on Erylium.
"Please, help us to overcome this evil without any further harm to our town."
And yet one more time, Perri bends his bow. The green glow and cast shadows playing about the room wildly as he moves, but much faster when the bow flexes.
Frustrated by missing, again, but having hope from his previous shot, Perri reaches deep within himself and manages a heroic effort to bend the bow again, quicker than he normally would even consider trying.
Round 5:
Her companions' concerted effort to kill the quasit buoyed her determination all the more and Rileth took a 5ft step and then lunged at it with her rapier, hoping to pierce its flesh.
However, in her hurried determination, Rileth miscalculated - her rapier sliding off without injuring the creature.
Red's greatsword slashes the quasit, leaving it feeling vulnerable. It decides that it will turn invisible, heal up, and pick off the wounded party members later. Unfortunately, its plans are for naught, as Perri's holy imbued arrow pieces its brain, killing her instantly!
The two small rooms to the northeast and southwest of the cathedral entrance were once used as storage and robing chambers—both rooms are empty today.
"Well done, all," Rileth praised each person's effort at the fall of the dangerous and arrogant quasit. The creature's poison could do no further damage, yet what injury it had done to her - she could still feel it in her limbs/body. She did not like the feeling.
Looking at the chambers, Rileth pondered...
Red ends rage and falls to one knee fatigued. "That little devil..tough as nails." He then picks up his shield. He looks back at Erylium's corpse. "She have any treasure on her?"
In investigating the smaller triangular pool, where Erylium cut herself and summoned a sinspawn, Rileth can tell that this is a Thassilonian artifact. However, beyond that, you cannot tell how it works.
Once the group catches their breath, Shel asks the others’ advice. ”Where do you all think we need to check next. You all point the way and I’ll get back to scouting.”
Stealth
Perception
Perri takes the time to recover the few arrows that didn't break, and the arrowheads form the ones that did. He looks about the room as he does.
"We should probably get Father Zantus down here to consecrate this evil temple, purify it away from the current purpose. I see just the two other doors. What do you think, left or right? I heard a story once, where the adventurers followed the mantra that 'left is always right.' Sounded better as a child."
In investigating the smaller triangular pool, where Erylium cut herself and summoned a sinspawn, Rileth can tell that this is a Thassilonian artifact. However, beyond that, you cannot tell how it works.
Rileth cast Detect Magic on the artefact; hoping to determine if it possessed a magical aura and the type of aura/magic.
"Shel, can you see if this artefact has a trap set in place?", pointing to the place inside the smaller triangular pool.
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Rileth cast Detect Magic on any items found on the quasit.
Shel looks for traps on the area that Rileth pointed out.
Perception v traps
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Shel detects no traps on the area.
"This small pool is a Thassilonian artefact and the rune carved again and again is the word for 'Wrath'. The quasit cut her wrist and summoned the sinspawn. The priests of Sandpoint must examine this pool and remove the necromantic magic which exists, here. Also, Master Bodert would be most interested in a Thassilonian artefact and rune..."
Pointing to the items she had removed from the tiny quasit, she added, "I'll stow these items for now, except for the unholy symbol of Lamashtu. Yet, I am not happy to leave it in this place lest it is used by other evil creatures once we depart..."
When the dancing light orbs extinguished as the magic ended, Rileth cast again, forming four new light orbs with which to light there way.
Red ponders, "Rileth, I am not all that familiar with magic. In fact, all magic, except magic granted by the gods, tends to creep me out. But did anyone else notice that when the quasit cut her wrist and summoned that beast, the glow of the smaller triangular pool diminished noticeably. The Thassil...yeah that pool. Is that important?"
Shel shrugged her shoulders. She didn’t know much about Magic either. She’d let the others work all that out. ”I say we hit that door southwest of where we are now before continuing north. I don’t like leaving our backsides unprotected, so to speak.
When the group is ready, she searches the door.
Perception
Disable
"Yeah, then it is even more important that we get the Father down here. Everybody okay? Anybody hurt enough to want attention?"
..But did anyone else notice that when the quasit cut her wrist and summoned that beast, the glow of the smaller triangular pool diminished noticeably. The Thassil...yeah that pool. Is that important?"
"I witnessed the same play of light and I believe it could be important. When we leave, here, I will speak with someone more learned than I on the matter. I am sorry I do not know the reason for this, Red." Rileth looked embarrassed by the admission. She grimaced a little at the wounds the quasit had inflicted upon her - concerned that her movements did not feel quite right since the poisoning.
"Do we wish to search the catacombs now? We do not know how far they go and what we may discover in them. Some of us are injured and I am not feeling quite right since the poison from the quasit's claw. If you wish us to proceed, I shall of course follow."
"Yeah, then it is even more important that we get the Father down here. Everybody okay? Anybody hurt enough to want attention?"
"Red is more injured than I. Perhaps he should be healed if you still have a little magic left, Perri?" I may need the aid of Father Zantus once we leave this place for the poison that first entered my blood has done deep injury that is beyond you and I."
Calling upon the small magic she felt inside her this day, Rileth cast a healing spell on herself,
knitting her open wounds closed giving her a small semblance of physical relief.
"To the catacombs or do we leave this place?" she asked, her dancing light orbs playing around them.
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You backtrack your way back past the shrine and the long hallway, heading west until the corridor forks north. You head 20' north and find a red marble statue of a strikingly beautiful but, at the same time, monstrously enraged human woman stands in the middle of this room, her stony expression twisted in fury. The woman wears flowing robes, and her long hair is held back from her face by an intricate headdress of hooks and blades. In her left hand she carries a large book, the face of which is inscribed with a seven-pointed star. Her right hand holds a glittering metal-and-ivory ranseur.
Your resident bard tells you that this is a depiction of Alaznist, the last Thassilonian runelord of wrath. She is believed to have retreated from view along with the other runelords during Earthfall, and it is unknown whether she survived that cataclysm. The ranseur was her signature weapon.
Shel does not detect any traps on the weapon. You can go east down a corridor or north to a door. West is the cave system from whence you initially entered the catacombs.
"That weapon doesn't appear to be the same stone as the statue. Should we see if we can take it?"
Shel creeps up to the statue and checks both the weapon and the book to see if she could separate either of them from the statue.
Perception
Perception traps weapon
Disable device, if applicable
Perception
Perception traps book
Disable device, if applicable
If the group agrees, she next leads them to the door, checking it for traps and opening it when the group was prepared.
Perception traps
Remove trap/Open lock
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With the red marble statue of Alaznist, the last Thassilonian Runelord of Wrath, before her, Rileth marvelled and pondered until Perri directed them to the weapon she was holding in her right hand.
Quietly she spoke, "I may not have the necessary tools at present to help pick locks or disarm traps and alike, yet I have experience with working on locks and intricate, complex devices. Let me aid you with my knowledge, Shel."
With a flick of her wrist, Rileth moved two of the bobbing light orbs closer to help them examine and work. The other two bobbed nearby, lending light to the males in the party.