Lasaraleen hits, but her weapon is unable to do any damage to the fiend.
A zombie steps forward and attacks Chandu.
Another moves up, taking the bard's AOO and succeeding in striking her.
The one who has recovered his sight moves into position.
The last blinded zombie tries to recover from the Glitterdust.
The Bone Devil falls prone (a free action) and launches a full attack on the mortal who had the temerity to enchant it.
Having recovered from the Holy Smite blindness, the four human warriors all draw and drink potions.
Renard runs until he is out of sight of the Bone Devil, at which point he can act normally (next round).
Round 2 - Haste, IC +2
Zombies (Teal -24; Brown -24; Orange -24)
Bone Devil (-89, Prone)
Warriors (Purple/Green/Grey/Blue -10)
Renard (-22; Panicked 2 more rounds but now out of sight of the source of his fear; Poisoned, 6 Str damage; 230' off edge of map)
Lasaraleen
Jair (-36)
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Round 3 - Haste, IC +2
Chandu (-10)
Ignatius
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Free Action: "What she said! Away with you!"
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Full Attack:
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The paladin warbles on and on about how it's not right to hurt people. He opines that it's particularly hurtful to his feelings because these people are his friends. During this proselytization, a micro-moment before being hit by the scimitar, the bone devil capitulates: "Alright! Fine, fine. I'll leave; just shut up already you insufferable paladin!" Then *POOF!*
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Free Action: Addressing the humans in the nearby cages, the Sarenite offers: "We'll free you, soon, new friends! As soon as it is safe."
There's a slight echo of the bone devil's voice in the air: "Oh, jeez! You really are a one-dimensional caricature, aren't you?!? I'm outta here!"
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Ignatius actually misses the zombie, so distracted is he by the departed fiend's rudeness in interrupting the sermon. But his follow-up strike destroys another of Geb's Defenders.
Jair, Chandu, and Lasaraleen are up!
Chandu swiftly eliminates two more zombies.
You defeat the remaining foes, with Jair possibly gaining a "friend" if she wishes.
I will assume Chandu casts Delay Poison on Jair and Renard.
You free the grateful human prisoners.
"What happened to the Bitter End? Our town... all of a sudden it was like this, and devil and undead were everywhere!"
"He was trying to sacrifice us to the stele!"
You see that this fountain has a stele, like the one at Rijana's campsite back on Golarion.
"Six of us died and nothing happened!"
The Bone Devil had the last of Rijana's four journals: Demi-Planes, Pocket Dimensions, and the Mysteries of Geb.
Reading the journals, you can piece together the following:
The original plan for the steles and the demi-plane, established thousands of years ago, seems to have been that one of Geb’s loyal commanders (such as the Bone Devils) would activate the stele, awaken the armies within, sacrifice his life to Geb in the planar Geb’s Rest, and use his life essence to merge the pocket dimensions with the material plane, thus unleashing the hidden army against the Nexian invaders.
Somehow, Rijana awoke the Bone Devils, who then began awakening warriors from stasis (both living and undead). Rijana had successfully activated the stele once (traveling to this demi-plane using the incantation), and the Bone Devils must have forced her to activate it again. But something went wrong, and instead of merging the planes, it flipped them. Every living soul in Geb’s Rest vanished, banished to this demiplane of Geb’s Accord, while Rijana and the Devil's minions appeared in the middle of the town’s square. Rijana having her soul extinguished by the ritual, as you saw.
Jair does not make a friend. The last zombie is summarily destroyed.
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Chandu examines the various journals as the group frees the captives. OK, I think I have this. We can reverse the transportation process but we will need the bodies of one of these bone devils. It should swap all of us here back into the area of the other stele. If everyone is ready then I can activate it and gets us all the hell out of here.
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It takes Renard some time to regather his wits and an even longer time to jog back to his companions.
With the poison in his system temporarily held at bay, Renard thanks Jair profusely.
"By the sands, That poison was a middling thing though I ran like a craven coward just like when I first started out! For that I apologise."
Turning to Ignatius, "I heard your war cry just as you defeated yet another foe! I might wish to emulate that warcry as well."
Using the corpse of one of the Bone Devils, you are able to activate the stele in the fountain.
All living things in the planar Geb's Rest are flipped back to the version of the town in Golarion. That version is run-down and dingy, but at least with an afternoon sun in the sky. The residents thank you profusely.
It is no problem to head back to the stele at the camp and use the reversed incantation to deactivate. There is no particular time pressure in this regard.
For saving the town of Geb’s Rest and return its people to the material plane, you will be forever spoken of as heroic legends among the people of Geb. It takes no time at all for the tale of your heroism to spread, and any time afterwards that you yourselves in Geb, you’ll generally be greeted as heroes. (There is a boon to that effect.)
Once you return to Absalom (by boat), Adril Hestram is sad to hear of Rijana’s death but happy that you have returned with her journals. "Research, I should say, that will most likely appear in the next volume of the Pathfinder Chronicles. Fascinating stuff."
He adds off-handedly, "Oh yes, and body recovery too, well done."