Having chosen your weapons, you move on into the next chamber.
The cavern corridor opens into a naturally domal chamber. Four stone pedestals stand before you, arrayed in a semicircle around a small altar. Atop the altar are four stone sculptures. One depicts the sun. Another has been carved to look like a crescent moon. The third is a tablet that has a small constellation of stars carved into it. The fourth resembles a comet racing through the sky.
The pedestals are identical save for the fact that each has a shining coin set into its face, starting on the left with copper, followed by silver, gold, and finally platinum.
Kaako looks at the statues, and asks, "So which of these is worth the least, to go on the plinth with the copper coin?" she scratches her head. "So the sun is placed before the stars, so it cannot be the last one....hmmm" There is more scratching of heads....
"So the moon is either platinum or silver, last or third....well this is a riddle ...." her beak clacks as she opens and closes it.
"So if the comet is worth a hundred times more than the moon, then the moon must be silver and the comet must be platinum ... " her head moves to the side, as she considers....
"So with just copper and gold left, the stars and the sun must be placed .... oooh! it's a hard one." she clucks some more as she waits for her companions, "But we do know that the most valuable goes last... which is the comet. The stars are placed before the moon, but the sun which let me think ... is gold is placed before the stars. So we place, sun, stars, moon, comet on gold, copper, silver and platinum respectively." She tips her head to the side, "Well me hearties, you think we do it like that? You think the fates will be with us."
"Seems to me that either the Sun or the Stars should be the most valuable. The map mentions 'lost at sea' and a sailor can always find their way with help from them."
Lavanna nods at Jadren. ”I think you’re on the right track”, she says.
Lavanna shrugs. ”I’d say the sun would be more useful, because not only can you use it to navigate, you can see better by it”
She moves the sun to the platinum pedestal, switching the comet to the copper one.
"OK as you say Lavanna, you always were able to see through the veil of obscurity." Kaako says as she watches Lavanna make the final moves with the statues.
”Well played, Kaako!”, says Lavanna.
When her shipmates are attacked, her face darkens like a storm cloud. Carefully stepping out of its reach, she sends a blast of intense sunlight at the hulking figure.
Lavanna misses with her spell attack.
Kaako coming out of the shadows of cover, tries to stab the voice of the ol cap'n in the back.
Jadren calls to Iomedae for healing then steps up to the skeleton and draws his sword.
Unfortunately, the blades are clearly not very effective against the skeleton. Both Max and Kaako hit, but clearly the damage is not what you hoped for... in fact, Max really did no damage at all.
Seeing Kaako come out of hiding, the giant pirate aims 1 attack there, and twists the gaff hook to cause Jadren more pain. The distraction, though, causes him to miss the tengu.
[Action 1 - Grab]
[Action 2/3 - Strike Kaako with claw]
Lavanna holds the holy symbol hanging around her neck, and extends her other hand.
”May Gozreh’s blessing grace these heroes, and smite their foe!”, she intones.
A golden wave emanates from her, passing through all in the chamber.
Kaako disappointed that she only struck once, goes for a different tack. After striking with his rapier he squarks loudly "Bring the storm's wrath to me!" and a shot of electricity sparks from his feathers straight at the skeleton.
Jadren sees Kaako's sword do little but tickle the giant, so he decides to try something a little different. He smacks the skeleton with his shield boss, and then gives it a swipe of his sword for good measure. Then, he lifts his shield back up gor protection.
Jadren's shield does as much damage as his sword, clearly more effective at breaking bones than slicing them.
Critcal success, no damage
Success, half dmg -5 for resistance
The skeleton again splits its attacks between twisting the weapon impaling Jadren and swiping a claw at Kaako.
"We'll get the ole cap'n down, don't give up." laughs Kaako as he continues with his assault. However seeing that the arc did
not seem to trouble the big bag of bones, Kaako tries to damage the undead with his rapier once more. However every time he strikes, he seemd to find the space between his ribs, not managing to strike once. "Arhhh me hearties, his heart is hard to reach, his bones rattle and roll, but still I didn't hit."
As Kaako keeps missing the bones, the clockwork parrot flies in and around the battle. "Why did you take a weapon if you aren't going to use them?" it caws.
”Because they’re not...!”, Lavanna starts to reply, then sighs. ”Fine!”
She draws the club she took from the previous chamber, and makes her way across the cave towards Kaako, holding it out to the feathered rogue.
"If you insist Cawlo." Jadren smacks the skeleton with hia shield again, drops his sword, and pulls out the gaff. Then inspiration hits and he tries to trip his foe.
Jadren trips the skeleton which falls flat on his back! He also manages to smack him pretty good with a shield.
Max's lightning bolt hits the pirate square in the shoulder. While the creature seems to resist some of the electrical damage, clearly this was more than it ould handle, leaving soem charred bits in its place.
The skeleton tries to stand.
The giant takes a small slam from Jadren on his rise, but rise he does.
Again a continued grab on Jadren to twist his impaled body in pain, and a claw attack directed at Lavanna this time.
"Let's see if I can get you this time, Capn." but as Kaako makes a pig's ear of her first strike, she tries the magic again.
"Let's see if I can get you this time, Capn." but as Kaako makes a pig's ear of her first strike, she tries the magic again.
Lavanna shrugs, and drops the club. She then takes a step back, and sends a bright ray of healing energy toward Jadren.
The skeleton doesn't react to electric arc, but it does seem to feel the slam of the magic missiles.
Jadren regains consciousness almost as soon as he passes out. Unfortunately, he has dropped his weapon and shield in the short period of time he was out, and he is still impaled.
Jadren grabs the gaff and tries to trip the skeleton again. Maybe they can tussle on the ground together.
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That is enough to knock the pirate bones down! He is now prone, and Jadren has 2 more actions if he would like...
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Jadren stands up and smacks the skeleton with his shield once again.
Jadren manages to strike the pirate with a shield.
The pirate stands up (provoking from Jadren, at least - right?).
Jadren is real tired of this skeleton. "By Iomedae's fifth act! Just stay down already!" he shouts as he crashes his shied into it once more.
Jadren, clearly gettin gtired and frustrated, bashes in the skull of the pirate as it tries to stand. The bones clatter to the ground.
Suddenly, on the south wall, another secret passage opens up, revealing a set of stairs that descend into darkness. As soon as this occurs, the clockwork parrot swoops down into the room and circles once before soaring down into the newly revealed corridor.
Cawlo hops precariously across the lid of the nearly empty treasure chest as the voice of Captain Renlock echoes from its metal beak once more.
“My friends. You truly were the finest crew I ever had the pleasure of sailing with and I am sorry to say that the promised treasure was a ruse. I hope you will forgive me, but I turned it over to the Andoran captain in exchange for his promise to be lenient on all of you. That treasure bought your freedom and I can’t think of a finer purchase.”
The bird grows silent for a moment, before leaping off the chest to perch atop the moldering drapery on the far side of the chamber. The voice continues.
“But fear not my friends, because an old pirate like me always has one more secret, and this one is for you.” With that, the parrot tugs at the curtain, which falls away to reveal a short passage that leads to a secret cove hidden on the far side of the island. There, sitting above the waves in a dry dock, is a glorious sailing sloop in near-perfect condition!
The parrot continues. “I had a few enchantments cast to make sure it was ready for you when the time was right. The ship is yours. Take it and see the world that I never did.”
Lavanna gasps at the sight. ”That old sea dog!”, she says with a grin. Curtsying at the parrot, she adds, ”Thank you, Cawlo” She casts one more spell, and the healing wave emanates from her again.
Peeking out of the passage, she checks the weather. ”Looks like the wind is in our favor”, she says. Then she turns to the others. ”What do you say?”
Kaako sighs with relief as she sees the bones fold, "Well me mateys, Jalden seems to have got the better of this giant bag o' bones. Ahaa! treasure awaits!"
But before she can search for the treasure, she watches as Cawlo starts into a secret passage... She strides boldly after the metallic bird, but her beak drops when she hears that there is no treasure.
See the ship, Kaako gives a whoop of joy, climbing onto the ship, she grabs the rigging and leans outward, her rapier in one hand standing 10ft above the deck. "The salt sea beckons, better than any treasure, let the sails fill and the hunted become the hunters!" She lets the wind ruffle her feathers her rapier pointed towards the blue shy, a wild happiness across her body.
"Come Lavanna, Elsir, Jadren and Cawlo, adventure and treasures await!"