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The ritual is a success and Gregaro Voth is free! The demiplane can’t control him any longer.
Suddenly, there is a strange shaking, like an earthquake rippling through the ground and air alike. The plants in the demiplane begin to grow and change. Oraiah Tolal calls out, “They’re here! The Thorned Monarch has arrived in the demiplane! And they’re not alone. We have an invasion to fight!”
Oskar sends bolts of energy into the satyr as Zabu tears the goat man's throat out. The leprechaun with the black boots gives a drunken sounding laugh over this and decides that he should probably just go somewhere else and keep drinking the wine he has in hand. You hear the other still invisible one humming some tune as it heads off into the vines to find some flowers.
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Maximilian: -15 Non-Lethal
Ruby: -5 Non-Lethal
Oskar sings a song that soothes the mental damage that Ruby took from the illusion.
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Roumatha doesn't get too far before the sweet tunes of the satyr are cut with discordant notes of Oskar's power lute.
"Gods know I want to break free!" he shakes off the enchantment and hurries back towards the battle just in time to see the Satyr bite the dust.
"Ugh... I'm sorry the pipes got into my head! The Thorned Monarch is going to pay for this..."
Zabu tries to hunt down some extra wine, but discovers that the leprechaun seems to have left with it. He could try chasing it down and asking, but the threat of the monarch attacking makes going off alone extra risky.
Teja gets a fairly good basic sketch of the satyr and leprechauns with little difficulty but something more detailed would take more time than she has.
Roumatha has a moment where he almost goes into the field of flowers next to some invisible humming thing, but ultimately shakes off the influence.
Finally Phillipton sits Max down and treats him to a series of mentally soothing wines, cheeses and other sundry finger foods, smoothing over the mental damage that the rogue took from that leprechaun illusion.
Benarry and Blackthane stand side by side and the half-orc claps her friend on the shoulder. “This is it! You got one more battle in you before you retire again?” Blackthane scoffs. “I’ve got more than that! To battle, Pathfinders! The Thorned Monarch is nothing without their army!” The two then catch sight of some big monster off in the woods and give chase, warning, "Remember the fey are sneaky! Don't let your guard down just because you don't see anyone."
There's a few seconds of silence until two small voices scream out in surprise from some mushrooms near by as two small figures disturb the big purple things and cover themselves in pollen, but also revealing their position to the everyone.
Oskar and Philipton both jump at the sight and spring into action, allowing them to get the jump on the creatures they can see.
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +10 Temp
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Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja +10 Temp
Little things:
Black
White
Maximilian +10 Temp
Zabu +10 Temp
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Before anyone can get into melee with these creatures, Phillipton rushes forward and casts sound burst.
The two spell casters of the party both drop spells on the two unlucky things that didn't hide themselves well. Philipton's sound burst washes over both with a wave and neither is ready for the grating noises, wailing in pain as some blood trickles from their ears.
Oskar then starts to recite a famous line of poetry, one that everyone remembers so well that it continues to play in their heads even after he finishes the first line. He then casts a small dazing spell on the little thing in white. Distracted by the mushroom and the sound wave it has no mental barriers and falls over, dead.
On the other end of the area, a tall spindly limbed humanoid with almsot moss covered bark like skin stands up having just finished casting a spell. He looks over at the fey in black gesturing toward Phillipton, hissing out, "You can have zzzzat one. The ressssst are mine!"
The fey in black gives him a blank stare back, but as the group and fey quickly notices, the cleric has been cut off from the rest of the group by a veritable wall of thorny brambles growing up between him and the rest of the group. The thorns look painful to push through but could be done in a pinch.
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Oskar +10 Temp
Phillipton +10 Temp
Wooden man
Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja +10 Temp
Little things:
Black: -17
White Distracted before his time
Maximilian +10 Temp
Zabu +10 Temp
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Roumatha looks around and sees Phillipton cut off from the group. He circles around the wall until the little fey is in his sight again, then assesses the threat
He shouts out. Phillipton, your help is needed around the wall - I'll deal with the small one and get back there!
He holds up the greatsword and lines it up with the creature.
Teja prepares to engage the enemy as she tries to recall what she knows about them. She has no clue what the little things are, but she does know that the big one is a grimstalker, one of the more aggressive and querulous fey. They like to hang out near the edges of forests on the Material Plane and kill people who defile the nature there. They are known for stringing the heads of their victims up as warnings and for spreading the seeds of various carnivorous plants at the edges of their territory, and sometimes even in farms and fields in an attempt to make the places impossible to farm. The creature is also known for his sap that is poisonous to mammals that makes its victims clumsy and slowly kills them over time.
Even though Teja doesn't recognize the small fey, Roumatha is intimately familiar with them. These are Jinkins, small gremlin fey that love to tinker with things and ultimately curse them. They travel in packs and like to ambush people in large groups, it's pretty unusual you only found 2... He gives a shout of warning that they might not be the only ones around, gearing everyone to be extra cautious.
Roumatha is partially proven right as a small form with Yellow dyed ears pops up next to the grimstalker and scurries behind the wall to approximately where the cleric is. He then tries to burry himself into the brush again, but fails to avoid Phillipton's piercing eyes.
The butler is also able to see another jinkin with red spikes accidentally pop out of the brush to take a look around and then quickly dives back under the foliage. As it does so the prescence of a third creature is given away as a twig snaps near the cleric.
The nearly dead fey with Black eye liner runs past Roumatha and skitters next to a halt in front of Hoartio and takes two slashes at him with his small shortsword. He gets two deep stab wounds that seem extra deadly from the threat of another hiding behind him. Luckily the creatures are pretty weak.
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Maximilian: +10 Temp
Ruby
Zabu: +10 Temp
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker
Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja +10 Temp
Jinkins:
Black: -17
Yellow: Out in the open
Red: Hidden somewhere
Pink: Hidden and figuratively breathing down Phillipton’s neck.
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"They're just popping up all over, aren't they?" Zabu says as the fey attack. He's itching to get at the big one, but the small ones are within reach. You know that old saying - "A fey in the hand is better than one that you can't get to, yet."
He shifts again, taking on his more feral appearance and rushes around the thorny wall to come at ink ears.
Rapier in hand, Max creaks and clunks through the under brush and gets to where the yellow fey is before stabbing out with his rapier.
Oskar takes a stab in dark, well more a clatter in the forest, and tries to catch three of the fey in his blast.
Yellow-ears dodges out of the way and out hear a groan of pain come from where Red-horn was last seen standing.
Zabu rushes wround the corner and charges at the one with black eyeliner, catching the thing off guard and killing the fey with his hasty teeth.
He is able to seek out in a cone and finds a pink toed fey standing right behind him and that Red-horn hadn't moved yet.
Pink-toes uses the foliage to cover his head and only gets a small singe, but Red-horns takes the full brunt of the spell.
Max then comes around the wall and stabs Yellow-ears through the leg, causing its wounds to start to sizzle against the cold iron.
The grimstalker then sees his chance and strides through the woods, the plants almost parting before him as he comes in close to Teja. "My, seems you are all alone over here. Minus the cat they've all left you alone." He gives a laugh as he slashes out at the woman.
Failing once puts you at stage 1, failing twice stage 2. Crit failures push you two stages instead of one.
Stage 1 1d6 poison damage (1 round);
Stage 2 1d6 poison damage and clumsy 1 (1 round),
Stage 3 2d6 poison damage and clumsy 2 (1 round)
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Roumatha: +10 Temp
Teja: -17 2 Fort saves
Jinkins:
Black: torn apart
Yellow: Out in the open -17
Red: Hidden to all but Philipton. -18
Pink: Hidden to all but Philipton. -9
Maximilian: +10 Temp
Ruby
Zabu: +10 Temp
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Teja feels the poison rip through her body, during as it goes.
She's still as deceptive as ever throwing the stalker off his balance, but then he arm betrays her and fails to find a mark.
Roumatha also comes in closer and takes a swing at the stalker but he prioritizes power and damage over precision and it is deftly avoided.
Yellow-ears very nearly at death's door strides away from the rogue and gets into a position where he is flanking with Pink-toes,
He misses terribly and tries again.
With a groan of annoyance he tosses his sword away and squeaks something accusatory at Zabu.
"You're going to tear my beautiful ears off aren't you? Well hen go a-flipping-head!"
Pink-toes takes a slash at Phillipton for the first time.
Before he takes a moment to try and hide from the butler again, disappearing from sight.
Red-horn, bleeding from practically everywhere, tries to burrow into the brush again hiding away from the cleric's piercing eyes. He also dissapears into the bushes.
A small sound issues out that you think is Pink-toes giggling over tricking the big man in black and white. Where Red-horn stupidly pops his head up to see if there's a good pathway before burrowing back under.
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Maximilian: +10 Temp
Ruby
Zabu: +10 Temp
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton -4
Grimstalker
Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja: -24
Jinkins:
Yellow: Out in the open -17
Red: Hidden. -18
Pink: Hidden. -9
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Ruby goes around the wall of thorns to join Zabu and surround yellow.
Max moves closer and stabs Yellow-ears, who had been spread eagle facing Zabu ready for the gnome to tear his throat out. The wound sizzles as the fey turns to look at Max the light fading from his eyes. "Et tu, umbra braccas? "
Ruby then rushes in just in time to see the overly dramatic little fey give a sigh, fall over hand across eyes, and stop moving.
Zabu rushes in closer and tries to take a bite out of the Grimstalker and then trip it up, but the long-limbed figure just takes the small man by the throat and tosses him to the ground.
Phillipton rounds the corner of the wall of thorns and tries to see what he can recall about the grimstalker.
He can't recall anything beyond what Teja told him about.
Oskar sends three bolts of force at the man who gives a growl and glares back at the bard.
The stalker then takes one swing at Teja and then another at the prone Zabu before stepping over to Oskar.
Teja catches a claw to her leg as Zabu takes one across his chest.
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Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja: -41 2 DC 21 Fort saves
Jinkins:
Red: Hidden -18
Pink: Hidden -9
Maximilian: +10 Temp
Ruby
Zabu: -20 Prone DC 21 Fort Save
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker -12
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Feeling herself get wobbly, Teja struggles for balance.
Deciding to make the best of a poor situation, she tries to appear weaker than her already feeble condition warrents.
Then thrusts at the creature.
Then, admiring the blood she finds herself disgusted with her own actions. Still, the creature in front of her wanted her dead, and she didn't agree.
Teja has a moment where her eyes gloss over from the poison and she takes a stab at a small tree that looks similar enough to the stalker. She pierces through it but then falls to the ground, her breathing extremely unstable.
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Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja: DYING 2
Jinkins:
Red: Hidden -18
Pink: Hidden -9
Maximilian: +10 Temp
Ruby
Zabu: -20 Prone DC 21 Fort Save
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker -12
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Teja's face scrunches up as she falls, a serious mental effort going on behind her face showing her trying her best to stay alive and concious. She stays alive, her bleeding stopping and breathing stabilizing, but fails to stay awake.
Roumatha strides after the grimstalker and then proves just how deadly he can be with his greatsword, slashing down and deep into the body of the fey creature. The wounds sizzle some around the cold iron of the weapon.
As he does so a group of pathfinders comes by and fires a few extra arrows into the few creature as well.
Everyone hears teh snap, crackle and pop of Red-horn as he moves through the brush to get to the other side of Max, so it's no surprise when he comes leaping out of the wilds to try slashing at the rogue.
He swings with a great deal of accuracy but isn'T strong enough to break skin much less leave what is likely going to be nothing more than a small bruis.
Pink-toes also makes a blunder as it gets in closer but the two fey makes their attack a little move deadly.
The element of flanking proves to make Pink-toes's attack much more painful than it first would appear, as they hit a vital spot on the rogue. The jinkin then tries to hide again but fails to avoid notice from anyone.
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Maximilian:
Ruby
Zabu: -20 Prone DC 21 Fort Save
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker -47 (or -36)
Roumatha: +10 Temp
Teja: -42 Grimstalker Sap: Stage 2, Unconcious
Jinkins:
Red: Out in the open -18
Pink: Out in the open -9
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Oskar is safely able to get to Teja's side and administer some much needed first aid.
Her delirious dream of a misty figure fades as she wakes up, feeling a little more alive.
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Maximilian:
Ruby
Zabu: -20 Prone DC 21 Fort Save
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker -47 (or -36)
Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja: -33, Prone, Grimstalker sap Stage 2
Jinkins:
Red-horn: Out in the open -18
Pink-toes: Out in the open -9
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Ruby joins Maximilian at looking the rogue over, unable to believe red did not do any damage at all. Confirming her human is unharmed the leopard attacks red.
Max takes down one and then the other fey around him with two quick slashes of his rapier.
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Maximilian
Ruby: Two actions left
Zabu: -20 Prone DC 21 Fort Save
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Oskar +10 Temp
Philipton +3 Temp
Grimstalker -47 (or -36)
Roumatha +10 Temp
Teja: -33, Prone, Grimstalker sap Stage 2
Jinkins:
Red-horn
Pink-toes
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