Chance runs into the room and attempts to heal Vitalis.
Round 2
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Vitalis (-50) {2d6 persistent infernal bleed}
Edrakk
Jisara (-16) {1d6 persistent infernal bleed}
Devil (-38) {1d6 persistent bleed}
Chance
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Vitalis forcefully brushes away the devil's beard with his gauntleted hand. "Get that filth out of my face! I'll give you a shave you won't forget!"
Vitalis steps after the devil and slashes at him again. Then he attempts to heal himself with lay on hands.
Edrakk steps over to Vitalis, trying to dodge the devil's glaive and simultaneously trying to avoid stepping on the crystals.
When he gets to Vitalis, he starts trying to bandage the wounds. "These wounds are pretty bad..." He then pulls out one of his prepared elixirs.
Success, so Vitalis actually does heal 38 HP.
Vitalis moves forward and slices into the devil, then attempts to heal himself.
By the will of the Eternal Rose, he succeeds, and in doing so he closes the diabolic wound upon him.
The devil growls in disgust at Vitalis and wordlessly slices at him.
plus 1d6 persistent bleed
He once more hooks Vitalis on his glaive and pulls him closer. He then swings again at the paladin for good measure!
And once again, the devil juts his chin out as the tendrils of his beard go toward Vitalis.
As the beard-tendrils poke and prod at Vitalis, he feels some fiendish infection make its way into his body as well.
Round 2 —> 3
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Vitalis (-69) {1d6 persistent infernal bleed}
Edrakk
Jisara (-16) {1d6 persistent infernal bleed}
Devil (-52)
Chance
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Vitalis reels from the heinous wounds the devil inflicts upon him. "Well there's no healing out of this one. It's kill or be killed. Die!"
Vitalis swipes his glaive hard into the devil's right-side and drives him against the wall. He then steps into flanking with Jisara and slams his glaive into the devil a second time.
Vitalis swings with his glaive, bringing the devil to the edge of consciousness. His righteous might grants him strength as he swings one final time and decapitates the fiend!
Edrakk moves over and shoves the elixir in his hand down Vitalis’s throat.
Chance moves over and attempts to Administer First Aid to Vitalis.
Edrakk moves over and shoves a lesser elixir of life down Jisara’s throat.
Chance just stands around, not wanting to risk the situation as it stands.
Edrakk then uses Quick Alchemy to make another lesser elixir of life and feeds it to Jisara, bringing her to full HP and thus ending the bleed damage.
Ever the hero, Vitalis leaps toward the doorway to the east, only to find it very stuck.
Vitalis bursts open the door, finding a pair of malnourished, human twin brothers, not much older than 16 years old—identical in appearance to the twins the shapeshifters from earlier were pretending to be. Their arms are manacled, but they are otherwise free to move around; the swollen door stuck in its frame, as well as the devil on the other side, being sufficient deterrents to the twins attempting to escape.
Seeing the corpse of the deceased devil, the twins jump to their feet and desperately run out of their prison to join with the PCs.
Vitalis casts lay on hands on himself, then Jisara casts life boost on him, then they both Refocus. This is done a second time, which heals Vitalis back to full HP.
"That could've gone better, but it could've gone a lot worse," Jisara says. "Wish I had thought ahead and prepared something to get all this blood off of me." When the twins appear, for the second time, she points a finger at them and shakes her head.
"Stop right there, we've been fooled by this act before. What are your names?"
"Uh..Angus...?"
"Phenio. Shellet."
Chance pokes one of the twins in the side. "You seem real enough, I guess. What did that devil want with you? How did you end up down here? Don't you know better than to sneak into abandoned old buildings, especially when they aren't really abandoned?"
”We…were kidnapped. By…shoot! What was her name? The, uh, eyepatch-candy-shop-lady.”
“She must have drugged us with her candy. Next thing we know, we’re here and that masked devil woman is saying something about keeping us until our birthday and offering our newly-adult soul.”
“We’ve I don’t even remember what day it is, but I know our 18th was coming really soon.”
Vitalis is as surprised as the devil when its head separates from its body. "Well, that worked." he says before falling unconscious.
Ever the hero, Vitalis leaps toward the doorway to the east, only to find it very stuck.
"So that's what the devil was muttering about. These people likely had something very unpleasant planned for you once you came of age. We haven't encountered a woman with an eye-patch down here yet...Wait...there was an eye-patched woman running a confectioner's shop next to the Tooth and Nail. Luculla I recall Setrona saying. If we don't find her down here, we're going to need to pay her a visit. Could she be one of these changelings?"
"Angus. Phenio. Do you have a home to return to? Are you well enough to return on your own or would you prefer an escort? You are free now to leave. Or you can wait here and we'll bring you home after we've cleared all the dangers."
Luculla I recall Setrona saying.
One of the twins snaps his fingers. ”Yeah! Her!”
"Angus. Phenio. Do you have a home to return to? Are you well enough to return on your own or would you prefer an escort? You are free now to leave. Or you can wait here and we'll bring you home after we've cleared all the dangers."
”Well, yeah. Dad’s probably worried sick.”
“Except we don’t know where the heck we are, and we still have these.” He holds up the manacles still wrapped around their wrists.
As the PCs move back to the pit, they are cautious after Vitalis’s close-call, so all four look around. They find that there are more tiles on the east side that likewise are meant to hinge down. Chance, on the other hand, discovers several hidden switches on each side of the pit.
A pair of immense iron doors stands closed here. A short message has been written onto the doors in precise script, along with a symbol of an armored fish—which Vitalis immediately recognizes as the symbol of the Order of the Torrent.
These doors sealed by the Order of the Torrent; all holdings within awaiting arbitration. Lady of Graves, have mercy on the souls of those who perished within, and may the Guildmasters of the Gray Spiders burn for their sins.
Chance, with his regular castings of detect magic, determines that the door is magical, and is most strongly affected by abjuration magic. However, before the PCs have a chance to investigate this further, the sounds of chanting in Infernal from the south gets their attention. The door is clearly not going anywhere, so they move to investigate the chanting.
The ceiling of this long chamber rises to a height of twenty feet overhead, the shallow vaulting supported by stone pillars. Significant sections of the walls and floors have been inscribed with etchings of tiny letters, while statue- filled alcoves stand guard along the walls. Each of these statues is made of stone and depicts a feminine figure, although the details seem more like they were formed in clay that was allowed to harden rather than carved directly from rock. The westernmost statues depict the woman as a beautiful winged figure, while the easternmost depict her as skeletal, with the middle statues depicting a transition between the two forms. To the east, a stage supports a stone altar presided over by a seventh statue of the same feminine form, her right half skeletal and her left half beautiful.
The PCs seem to have arrived in the middle of a ritual of some sort—several changeling cultists gathered around and chanting, with nets in one hand and bolas in the other. Standing on the platform, flanked by two cultists, is a woman in a dress with a sickle in one hand and a holy symbol in the other, and a fiendish green mask upon her face that fails to hide her mismatched eyes. Draped upon the altar in front of the masked woman is a sight relatively familiar to the PCs after their extended stay at the Tooth and Nail: Luculla Gens, proprietress of the confectionery shop, the Sweet Tooth, that shares a building with the Tooth and Nail. Luculla stares blankly up at the ceiling, seemingly unaffected by the masked woman bringing the sickle dangerously close to Luculla’s throat.
As the PCs come into view, the masked woman immediately ceases her chanting and points to the PCs as she hisses ”Death to the nonbelievers!”
At this point, the PCs notice that the cultists (not the masked woman) seemed to have been flailing around a bit; almost like they were improvising their weird chanting.
The masked woman waves her arms around, transitioning perfectly to a spell that she casts. She makes a strange noise with her voice as suddenly a strange buzzing is heard overhead which grows louder as the reverberating sounds manifest right over the PCs!
Crit success
Failure
Crit success
Failure
Round 1
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Masked Woman
Edrakk (-4)
Vitalis (-4)
Jisara
Chance
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
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Vitalis speaks Infernal, so he reads the inscription aloud to the others.
"These doors sealed by the Order of the Torrent; all holdings within awaiting arbitration. Lady of Graves, have mercy on the souls of those who perished within, and may the Guildmasters of the Gray Spiders burn for their sins."
"It sounds like they buried the Gray Spiders alive within. We may find some angry undead once we get this open."
In the next room, from what the twins were saying, he is surprised to see Luculla on the altar rather than leading the ceremony, but that mystery can be addressed after the active threats are dealt with.
He shakes off the pounding sonic blast ringing in his skull and steps into the room. He levels his glaive towards the masked figure and shouts, "Reveal yourself, witch! You will find no mercy through lies!"
Then he swings his weapon at the nearest changling (red).
"Great! More undead. Never get tired of those guys."
Jisara is so fascinated by the chamber's environs and by just who is on the altar, she scarcely notices the sonic attack. Vitalis's armored bulk lunging forward into melee startles her into motion, however, and she follows him further into the chamber.
"Let's get started clearing a path," she says thoughtfully, before throwing a spark of electricity hopping between the two closest cultists.
Chance runs into the room after Jisara and Vitalis, skids to a halt just out of reach of the nearest cultist.
"Hey! Leave her alone! She makes really good little cakes!" He opens his mouth in a silent scream.
[ooc]↻: Unexpected Shift (if triggered)
Vitalis moves forward and slices twice at Red, knocking her out.
Jisara advances and arcs electricity between Green and Blue.
Chance moves forward and sends his own localized blast of sonic energy.
Edrakk Strides twice and swings his gale blade at Green.
Yellow and Purple stand attentively next to the masked woman, clutching their bolas intently.
Orange moves forward and chucks her bola at Vitalis.
She then throws her net at Chance.
Green and Blue their stare at the blood that falls from their bodies and each scream in zealous indignation ”The blood of the martyrs will further the Dowager’s cause!”
Blue, in her fanaticism, drops her net and runs at Edrakk and swings her bola at the tengu!
Green Steps over to flank Edrakk and likewise swings with her bola.
The masked woman, whose ears are still ringing from Chance’s spell, raises her holy symbol, then brings it down to her sternum.
As she pulls her hand away from her chest, a glowing image of Mahathallah’s holy symbol remains on her sternum, and an ephemeral circle manifests itself around her .
Round 2
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Masked Woman (-8)
Edrakk (-4)
Vitalis (-4)
Jisara
Chance
Orange
Yellow
Green (-15)
Blue (-6)
Purple (-8)
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Vitalis cuts down the next changeling (green) and continues marching closer to the leader. He strikes out at the changeling (orange) to his left as he passes by.
Jisara sticks close to the paladin as he advances on the altar. From the center of it all, she taps into her patron's magic to fuel a powerful wave of pure terror that washes over the cultists.
"Your Dowager is not here, fools! I am!" she roars, before falling into a mad fit of cruel laughter.
Vitalis cuts down Green and advances forward, which causes Yellow to throw her bola at the paladin!
Seeing Yellow miss, Purple likewise chucks her bola at Vitalis.
After ages of failed attempts, one of the cultists finally manages to get her bola to wrap around Vitalis’s legs and send him tumbling to the ground! The paladin then swings at Orange, bringing the cultist to the verge of her life.
Jisara sends a terrifying enchantment at all the remaining cultists!
Round 2
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Masked Woman (-8)
Edrakk (-4)
Vitalis (-4) {prone}
Jisara
Chance
Orange (-18) {frightened 3; Fleeing: Round 0 of 1}
Yellow {frightened 3; Fleeing: Round 0 of 1}
Blue (-6) {Fanatical Frenzy; frightened 2}
Purple (-8) {frightened 2}
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Chance takes a step forward, glaring at the masked cult leader and the minions flanking her. "I said, leave the pastry chef alone! What's wrong with you people? Nothing good ever comes from sacrificing people to fiendish powers from beyond the veil!"
With a flick of his fingers and a cry of "Flugantaj rokoj por ĵokeoj!", one of the bolas that the cultists had flung around the room rises from the floor and flies at the head of the masked woman.
◆: Step
Edrakk swings his gale blade at the cultist near him, and then steps back and draws a black vial.
Chance flings a bola at the masked woman, who shouts ”Assist me my faithful acolyte!” Purple immediately interposes and shoves the masked woman away, prepared to take the hit, and surprised when it misses.
Edrakk slices into Blue and pulls out poison.
Orange immediately books it out of the room, pulling the hidden switch next to the pit trap without even thinking of looking at whether the other two switches are pulled.
Yellow likewise books it off of the platform and out of the room, staying as far away from Jisara as possible.
Purple pulls out a bola and Readies an action.
Vitalis doesn’t have to effectively Stand twice on his turn
Blue advances at Jisara and swings at her with bola and claw!
”So be it, then!” The masked woman raises her arms high as she casts a spell that is very familiar—after all, Jisara just barely cast it.
Failure
Success
Crit Success
Round 3
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Masked Woman (-8)
Edrakk (-4) {frightened 2}
Vitalis (-4) {prone}
Jisara (-8) {frightened 1}
Chance {frightened 1}
Orange (-18) {frightened 2}
Yellow {frightened 2}
Blue (-6) {Fanatical Frenzy; frightened 1}
Purple (-8) {frightened 1}
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Jisara steps away from her attacker, moving back within Vitalis's aegis. She then turns back to the masked woman, frowning, before conjuring a layer of slippery grease beneath her feet.
Vitalis stands up. "You must have missed the memo that I hate being tripped. Now I'm annoyed and that's not good for you."
From there, he steps up to the altar, grabs Luculla by the ankle and yanks her to the floor, away from the cultist's deadly blade.
Chance turns around and, with a shout, flings the bola Blue just tossed at Jisara back at the cultist, then draws a scroll.
◆: Interact
Jisara moves forward and covers the platform with grease.
The masked woman slips to the ground, while the cultist somehow doesn’t.
Vitalis moves forward and yanks Luculla to the ground, her head impacting with a thud.
”Owww…”
Chance fires a bola and miraculously manages to hit Blue!
Edrakk applies leadenleg to his gale blade, then pulls out a blight bomb.
Purple, once again, pulls out a bola and tries to trip Vitalis.
Except she throws the bola far harder than intended and accidentally slips on the grease and falls to the ground. She then stands back up.
Orange and Yellow, who were running away previously, double back. Orange moves forward and slices her claws at Jisara!
Yellow likewise moves forward and claws at the now-flanked Chance.
Blue moves to flank Jisara, but instead of her, she turns to Vitalis and sweeps the leg!
Vitalis falls and hits the ground hard.
Blue then turns her attention over to Jisara and swings her claw.
The masked woman stands up from the ground and glares at Vitalis. ”Your goddess will abandon you here, paladin!” Her words cause doubt and turmoil to fill Vitalis’s mind.
Failure
Round 4
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Masked Woman (-8)
Edrakk (-4) {frightened 1}
Vitalis (-31) {prone; Stupefied 1: Round 0 of 1}
Jisara (-8)
Chance
Orange (-18) {frightened 1}
Yellow {frightened 1}
Blue (-19) {Fanatical Frenzy}
Purple (-8)
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"Idiots," Jisara mutters under her breath, before sending another jolt of electricity into her two assailants. She follows that spell with another, undoing some of the mental anguish inflicted upon Vitalis.
"On your feet, Vitalis, our friends are back."
”Owww…”
"Stay down and be quiet. Saving you from being sacrificed does not abscond you of your sins. You'll be judged soon enough."
Vitalis stands back up again. He rubs his head pounding from the powerful mental attack. "Your goddess may be strong, but mine is stronger!"
He swings his glaive in a sweeping sidelong strike into the remaining changling (purple) guarding the masked cultist.
"Let's hope your goddess isn't strong enough to fight this." Edrakk throws his blight bomb at the masked woman. Not wanting to use a dose of poison unnecessarily, he steps back closer to the platform and draws another blight bomb.
“Yikes!” Chance reels back as Vitalis blocks the orange cultist’s attack, then ducks beneath the blade of the yellow cultist’s glaive, crumpling his scroll in a suddenly sweaty hand. He takes a careful step back towards the wall, then peers around the orange cultist to wink at Jisara before sending Blue’s abandoned bola flying again, this time at the orange-garbed cultist.
"Flugantaj rokoj por ĵokeoj!"
Jisara uses her magic to heal Vitalis and arcs electricity between Orange and Blue.
And both fall to the ground.
Vitalis stands back up and cuts into Purple, sending her flying against the wall and falling to the ground!
Edrakk throws a blight bomb and manages to hit the woman!
Yellow, the last remaining cultist, runs up to the altar to stand next to the masked woman.
The masked woman casts a simple cantrip—shield—then begins singing in a deep tone that blasts forward at Edrakk and Vitalis! Chance, on the other hand, sees an opportunity and tries to harmonize with the masked woman’s song so its notes are less jarring.
Failure
Crit fail -> failure (counter performance)
Success
Round 5
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Masked Woman (-22) {2d4 persistent poison}
Edrakk (-13)
Vitalis (-29) {Fast Healing 6: Round 1 of 4}
Jisara (-8)
Chance
Yellow
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"Nearly done," Jisara says, before reaching her hand out and pointing it at the sole remaining cultist. "You should have run."
"Do you still think your goddess is protecting you? This fight is over."
Vitalis attacks the last cultist (yellow), then spreads out in case the masked leader has any more area spells.
With the combined efforts of both Jisara and Vitalis, Yellow is knocked out, leaving only the masked woman.
Round 5
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Masked Woman (-22) {2d4 persistent poison}
Edrakk (-13)
Vitalis (-29) {Fast Healing 6: Round 1 of 4}
Jisara (-8)
Chance
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Edrakk clambers onto the platform, trying to keep his balance on the greased floor.
He falls, and then takes a second to try and stand up again.
Once he's righted himself, he takes a swing at the masked cultist with his poisoned blade.
Chance watches in admiration for his friends as the cultists fall under their onslaught. “You really should have taken more time to think this whole plan of yours through,” he calls up to the masked woman. “It would have saved everyone a lot of trouble, and me this scroll.”
Chance unrolls the scroll and reads off the spell. Three scarlet darts appear in the air in front of him, and immediately fly at the masked woman.
Edrakk gets up onto the platform and slices into the masked woman.
Chance then uses his scroll to send missiles at the woman, but using her magical force shield she deflects most of them!
The woman sees herself surrounded and decides to move off of the platform. As she moves past Jisara, however, she snaps her fingers and suddenly dark glowing energy surrounds the hand clutching her holy symbol, which immediately begins to have its flesh melt away! The masked woman’s now-skeletal knuckles graze Jisara!
Success
In the blink of an eye, though, the flesh returns to the woman’s hand as she continues onward to the other side of the room.
Round 6
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Masked Woman (-33) {2d4 persistent poison}
Edrakk (-13)
Vitalis (-23) {Fast Healing 6: Round 2 of 4}
Jisara (-13)
Chance
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Vitalis chases after the woman and slashes her again. He calls back, "Someone keep an eye on the one on the ground. She could still be up to no good."
Jisara, smarting from fighting off the magical assault, sends another bola hurtling at the back of the masked woman's head. Then, realizing the woman's plans, she shouts a word of power and simply isn't there anymore.
She instead stands between the masked woman and the door she'd clearly hoped to escape through.
"Don't be so quick to leave. You delivered your followers to this fate, and you will join them in it."
Chance sings a song to taunt the fleeing cult leader and inspire his allies.
“Where are you running?
Let’s get that mask off of your head
Where are you running?
Your evil minions now are dead
Where are you running?
Ooh, wee, ooh, wee, ooh
Where are you running now?
Fiend-style, defiled
Your Night Queen won’t protect you
Keep your hands in sight and put ‘em in the air
Time to stop this party
Your chance to live is narrow
Don’t count on making it home
Where are you running?
Let’s get that mask off of your head
Where are you running?
Your evil minions now are dead
Where are you running?
Ooh, wee, ooh, wee, ooh
Where are you running now?
Where you running, girl?
I saw you up there
You were up on that stage
Getting ready to kill the woman who makes those little cakes!”
He takes a bow, and tries to slow her down by casting roaring applause.
Vitalis advances forward and swings at the masked woman!
Jisara flings a bola at the masked woman and literally leaps through time to cut off her escape.
Chance sings with fabulous flair in an attempt to get the masked woman to engage.
She just glances at Chance in confusion and slowly claps her hands, unsure exactly what the gnome expects from her.
Edrakk pulls out a dose of leadenleg and applies it to his gale blade.
The masked woman, genuinely confused as to why she’s still clapping, chants and moves her hands between claps, finally raising her holy symbol high as a wave of negative energy issues forth from her!
Success (only because of Unexpected Shift)
Success
Crit Fail
As the woman’s spell reaches completion, Vitalis swings his glaive at her in a desperate attempt to keep the negative energy from going toward Jisara! Chance, meanwhile, vanishes in a bright flash of light that allows him to avoid the worst of the energy wave.
With a single valiant slice, Vitalis knocks the woman from her feet, sending her falling to the ground!
Exactly the amount Chance needed to heal.
Jisara casts life boost on Vitalis, and Vitalis casts lay on hands on Jisara. Chance, Jisara, and Vitalis all then Refocus.
To top people off, Vitalis casts lay on hands on Edrakk, and Jisara casts life boost on Vitalis (to heal him 1 HP). Jisara and Vitalis then Refocus.
The cultists had nothing on their persons of any particular value, save for the masked woman’s +1 sickle
”Urgh…” Luculla Gens picks herself up from the floor as she rubs her head. It is at this moment that you realize that this is the first time you’ve seen the woman without either an eyepatch nor oven mitts, and you now know why. As she rubs her head, you find that her hands end in long claws. She then regains her senses slightly and realizes the PCs are in the same room as her. She stares at them with one eye that is a calm hazel, and another eye that is a deep green. Realizing how this looks, she flusteredly shoves her clawed hands under her armpits and turns her head to the side in a futile attempt to hide her green eye.
"What the blazes..." Jisara mutters, examining the masked woman. "I hardly expect a bunch of cultists to have excellent tailoring, but her robes and even the mask are too big for her by half. Damned if I know what this means, though."
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Jisara looks down at the woman, arms crossed.
"So, what's your story?"
Chance pauses his search of the corpse of the masked woman and sits back on his haunches, rubbing the back of his neck in confusion. “Huh. That’s strange. Her clothes are a little baggy. Not that I expect your average leader of an underground-dwelling, fiend-worshipping cult to pay too much attention to fashion, but... could she have been fasting for some reason?” His eyes slide towards Luculla, hunched over and still uncomfortably close to where, until a few minutes earlier, she had been laid out for sacrifice. “Ummm, some completely unfathomable reason? Or what about when she tried to cast that spell on you, Jisara, and her hand turned skeletal for a moment before going back to normal? Maybe she’s really a skeleton and her corpse is some kind of lingering illusion?”
Chance closes his eyes, puts his fingers to his temples, and chants, “I choose not to believe! I choose not to believe! I choose not to believe!” Keeping his eyes closed, he reaches out a hand and pats the late cult leader’s shoulder, feeling for bone through the (perhaps) illusory flesh, then opens his eyes.
The gnome looks around for Luculla’s eyepatch and oven mitts. If he finds them, he brings them to her; if not, he approaches her anyway.
“So, what brings a talented confectioner like you to a nasty place like this? I’ll bet it makes a fascinating story. But it can certainly wait until we’re back above ground if you’d rather.”
Chance steels himself for the worst, and he finds something upon the mask that he did not expect: pride. Pride in being able to even touch this mask, let alone wear it. The masked woman was honored and proud to wear this mask, as it had only come into her possession recently.
Mahathallans probably do fast, but this kind of weight change would require something more akin to starving oneself. You’re not sure if that’s a common thing in this religion, though.
Chance doesn’t notice anything particularly illusory from the corpse of the formerly-masked woman.
Jisara looks down at the woman, arms crossed.
"So, what's your story?"
Luculla looks askance, her eyes filled with sorrow. ”No point in h-hiding it, I guess. K-Kintargo has…a tiny changeling population. Most of us gathered here. We spent time here in contemplation, the usual stuff with the church. But things started going too far—kidnappings and sacrifices?! I…it’s horrible! But…the clergy here are…were the only family I ever knew. Not all of us are that…homicidal! But…Caterina was crazy! When I realized she made a deal with a devil, I…tried to run away, but…” She stares at the altar. ”Caterina didn’t like that…”
"Yeah, except the twins Angus and Phenio said you were the one who drugged and captured them. Given the circumstances, I'm inclined to believe them over you. I think we should bring them over and confirm their claim. If you are innocent, you won't resist being restrained for now, will you?"
Vitalis moves next to Luculla. He has manacles to use but keeps both hands on his glaive until he can discern if she will fight back.
”I didn’t have a choice! If I didn’t drug them then I’d be the one on the altar! But it turns out I was going on there no matter what…”
"I don't sense any lies. But you do admit to drugging the teenagers. This case is too complex for me to judge on my own. I'm going to bring them in to weigh in on the situation. And of course I'll listen if my allies have an opinion."
Vitalis will attempt to shackle Luculla's hands with his poor manacles. And if that is successful, he'll go to fetch the twins.