"Hmmm. This tiger pelt. Could be worth much gold if we were to sell it."
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Edmund takes a few steps in, and kneels beside Shardra and the tiger. He runs a gloved hand over the fur- inspecting the creature.
"Hides can be difficult to clean. Given more time, perhaps- but not now."
Standing, from having inspected the pelt, Edmund's eyes flash purple. His eyes dart around the chamber, seeking some confirmation of safety before calling down Kissan and unknocking his arrow.
Patrick scans the room with Detect Magic
Nothing magical can be found.
Edmund takes a few steps in, and kneels beside Shardra and the tiger. He runs a gloved hand over the fur- inspecting the creature.
"Hides can be difficult to clean. Given more time, perhaps- but not now."
Standing, from having inspected the pelt, Edmund's eyes flash purple. His eyes dart around the chamber, seeking some confirmation of safety before calling down Kissan and unknocking his arrow.
Nothing evil can be found in this room but there is an evil aura around here! You could follow it.
"Follow the evil? Are you sure?" Shardra looks around the room, uncertain about it. Something sends shivers down her spine.
"Where to next? I'm getting more and more concerned that this is a trap or something."
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"Yes, this whole place is filled with things that want to kill us. I think our choice right now is to go back to the red wizard Daegros or have Crowe knock down the blue door and see what's behind it. I think we should see what lies beyond the blue door first and see if we even need Daegros's help before parlaying with him again."
Crowe looks to Edmund, "This way?" And heads down the indicated path.
The evil aura is strong in the direction of the northern door from the room you are in currently.
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Ignatius opens the door!
Two stories of tightly packed bookshelves line the western half of this musty chamber, and a massive mural map of what must be the Inner Sea region from eons ago adorns the east wall.
An enormous skeleton of a huge, twelve-legged reptile clutters the center of the room.
You immediately see two enemies! The flesh of these walking corpses is rotting and putrid, their body skeletal in places and their eye sockets glowing with red light.
These are cairn wights! Some societies deliberately create these specialized wights to serve as guardians for barrows or other burial sites. A cairn wight is an advanced wight that fights with a weapon, typically a sword, that channels its energy drain attack and affects creatures damaged by the weapon as if they had been struck by the wight’s slam attack.
You recognize these two! They look like the description of Rozimus’s companions, the cleric and the bulky half-orc warrior.
Round 1
Patrick
Edmund
Ignatius
Wights
Hanzi
Shardra
Crowe
Bold is up!
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Ignatius clicks the heels of his boots to grant himself the gift of speed before getting into his martial arts stance and unleashing a flurry of gunfire at the red wight. On his second shot smoke pours from his weapon but nothing else comes out of the barrel.
"Curses! I knew the saltpeter from that batch wasn't up to snuff."
Melee slam +4 (1d4+1 plus energy drain)
Special Attacks create spawn, energy drain (1 level, DC 14)
Defensive Abilities undead traits
Special Abilities
Create Spawn (Su) Any humanoid creature that is slain by a wight becomes a wight itself in only 1d4 rounds. Spawn so created are less powerful than typical wights, and suffer a –2 penalty on all d20 rolls and checks, as well as –2 hp per HD. Spawn are under the command of the wight that created them and remain enslaved until its death, at which point they lose their spawn penalties and become full-fledged and free-willed wights. They do not possess any of the abilities they had in life.
Resurrection Vulnerability (Su) A raise dead or similar spell cast on a wight destroys it (Will negates). Using the spell in this way does not require a material component.
Description
Wights are humanoids who rise as undead due to necromancy, a violent death, or an extremely malevolent personality. In some cases, a wight arises when an evil undead spirit permanently bonds with a corpse, often the corpse of a slain warrior. They are barely recognizable to those who knew them in life; their flesh is twisted by evil and undeath, the eyes burn with hatred, and the teeth become beast-like. In some ways, a wight bridges the gap between a ghoul and a spectre—a warped animated corpse whose touch steals living energy.
Patrick's magical bolts hit the undead in the back! And after the flurry of gunshots have put several holes into your former Barbarian companion the undead slumps to the ground.
Round 1
Patrick
Ignatius
Edmund
Pathfinder Barbarian Wight, red, disabled
Pathfinder Cleric Wight, yellow
Hanzi
Shardra
Crowe
Bold is up!
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Edmund takes a small adjustment to his positioning, slipping between Shardra and Crowe to open up a clearer shot at the yellow former pathfinder. He draws his bow, and a a beam of purple energy engulfs the weapon
After the flurry of missiles, a sharp whistle calls out from the echoey chamber- Kissan leaping after the arrows.
"Go get 'em, girl"
Wa Wa Waa waaaa. Attack
Effortlessly, the large cat bounds into the room- squeezing through the small entry way and into a pocket of space, before turning on the yellowish target.
Edmund's arrows also blow large holes into the wight and eventually Kissan's attack rips the undead to shreds!
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The library represents one of the best surviving storehouses of ancient Azlanti lore remaining to history.
Patrick realizes that this is the skeleton of the behir whose picture you saw ripped in the room with the invisible demon.
Edmund can feel the evil aura here!!
Crowe flicks through some books and gives a low whistle, "Well, this is why we're really here then. The Society will want this, all of this, if they can get it."
He pauses, looks up as if addressing someone, "Maybe we have the basis of a deal here."
"Hmmm. No sign of our companions here. Library is interesting, but we should come back to it later.". Shardra doesn't care much about books and seems intent on finding the bodies of the Pathfinders.
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Kissan trots back over to Edmund, who absentmindely scratches her head- his head dealing with the scene before him.
"I believe these *Are* our companions, Shardra. As much as it pains me to say it. The evil of this place has infused their very essence. And, let us not forget the Wizard who claimed they were safe. He still has much to answer for..."
Shardra clenches her teeth, in anger. "I hope these weren't the Pathfinders we were searching for." She mutters quietly, "Those wizards will pay for what they've done.".
You find not traps and open the door.
The floor of this short corridor is specked with faded blue stone mosaics, but the walls remain completely bare save for five niches in the east wall: three at eye level and two more below and between them.
Each niche in the top row contains what appears to be the skull of a long- dead human.
The niches in the top row each bear small metal placards, but the niches in the lower row have no similar inscriptions.
Simple wooden doors at the north and south ends of the hall lead elsewhere.
A palpable sense of evil suffuses the room, making the distance from door to door seem even longer than it is.
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Unfortunately, as us spellslingers get older and accumulate more knowledge and spells, we tend to forget that, with great power, comes great responsibility. I hope that being a Pathfinder, will ensure I do not walk the wrong path as many have done.
He frowns seeing the skulls.
As indicated by the placement of these skulls
He starts to move closer to read the inscriptions, when ......
The three skulls animate and attack interlopers. They appear as aged human skulls!
Cackle Hex (Su) As a move action, the penanggalen may cackle. Any creature within 30 feet that is under the effects of the penanggalen’s evil eye or misfortune hex has the duration of that hex extended by 1 round.
Evil Eye Hex (Su) This hex causes the target creature to take a –2 penalty on one of the following (penanggalen’s choice): AC, ability checks, attack rolls, saving throws, or skill checks. This effect lasts for 6 rounds, or only 1 round if the target succeeds at a DC 15 Will save. This is a mind-affecting effect.
Misfortune Hex (Su) This hex causes a creature to suffer grave misfortune for 1 round. Whenever the target makes an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check during this time, it must roll twice and take the worse result. A DC 15 Will save negates this effect. A creature may only be targeted by this hex once per day.
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Round 1
Patrick
Ignatius
Edmund
Hanzi
Shardra
Skull, red
Skull, yellow
Skull, brown
Crowe
Bold is up!
"Undead beasts!" Shardra yells out. "Kill them all!"
The shaman slowly walks in and consults with the spirits around. "Yes, that'll work. Thank you oh great ones."
Following her masters command, Kissan leaps through the door and lunges at the brown skull.