S$#!. Lavanna has her work cut out for her, guess I'll give the little turd a helping hand, even if I don't like her much.
Some magical chanting can be heard followed by an invisible hand reaching out to touch Lavanna on the shoulder, turning her invisible.
Lavanna feels herself disappear under the effect of Elsir's spell. She looks at him like "what did you do?" before realizing that her typically expressive face is also covered by the glamor. Shrugging, she whirls on Jadren, feeling his pain, and knits her fingers together with a stitching motion, causing his guts to spill back into his handsome belly, sealing the skin with threads of positive energy.
Having healed Jadren completely, the Hook is shunted by his body's re-integration with itself, expelling it to the other side of him, now barely a flesh wound, even if still very much on it, or rather, wrapped around it, stuck, but unharmed.
◆◆) Cast Heal from Divine Font
◆) Stride
"Pssst!" she whispers at Kaako, having darted invisibly behind the creature, drawing it's attention for the rogue's strike!
Jadren turns pale like a ghost when the massive hook impales him and almost cuts him in half. Close to vomiting seeing the blood and intestines spilling out of his plate armor, his eyes go wide when he feels the warmth of what he can only suspect is Lavanna’s healing hands.
”Thanks, dear.” He says still sounding a bit weak. The gleeful spark in his eyes that has been there throughout the whole exploration through these caves vanishes as he scowls at the massive skeleton in front of him.
”I didn’t like that, big boy.” He growls and raises his shield before he begins hacking at the undead beast with his longsword, only halting for a brief second trying to remember what they've taught him in the temple.
Kaako grips Quellin's Club in one hand as he peeks around the door frame into the Skeletal Pirate King's chamber. He sneaks in through the open door a few paces and gets next to the giant skeleton.
He swings the club behind his back and whacks the skeleton hard in the knee cap.
Re-rolling stealth.
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Elsir decides to do something nice for Lavanna, making her invisible to the naked eye, probably glad his own face isn't seen when he does.
Lavanna takes advantage of the invisibility to heal up Jadren from his massive stomach wound, getting him back to feeling healthy if still stuck on a hook. She then slips around the undead and into a position to help Kaako later. She gives away her very approximate location enough to try distracting the skeleton.
The fighter then goes to town on the skeleton. he takes one swing and skitters his longsword across a femur, dealing less damage than if he'd been cutting softer flesh but the pure trauma seems to leave some traces of damage. His second slice also clatters on bone, only some of the force applying to his target.
The hook in his stomach is distracting enough that trying to recall anything about skeletons is just... OW!
Kaako, feeling hidden in the shadows, sneaks into a good position realizing as he moves that the skeleton is tracking him the entire way.
The tengu then applies a club to a choice spot on the skeleton that seems especially distracted by Lavanna's 'psst' than expected. His club hits and deals more damage than Jadren's two attacks combined.
The skeleton twists his hook in Jadren, keeping him grabbed and dealing a small amount of damage.
It then takes a look around for that spellcaster that must be in the room somewhere.
Elsir proves to be silent as a church mouse at the moment and the skeleton gives a grumble as it is unable to pinpoint the breathing of the elf. It then tries to swing a claw at Kaako instead.
It slashes through a few feathers and leaves a small streak of blood behind, but doesn't do anything too damaging otherwise.
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Jadren: -7 grabbed
Kaako: -13
Lavanna: Undetected
Elsir: Undetected
Big Ol’ Rattlin’ Bones -37
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Elsir freezes as the skeletal pirate scans the area for him. The hairs on the back of his neck rise up. The longer he can't see me the better. Let's help out Kaako since I can reach him...
The elf takes a step closer to Kaako and reads the magic runes of his scroll before placing a hand on the bird's shoulder. Kaako becomes blurry, like he's looking in the mirror after a long night at the pub.
Blur Spell 2
Illusion Visual
Source Core Rulebook pg. 321 2.0
Traditions arcane, occult
Deity Black Butterfly
Cast Two Actions somatic, verbal
Range touch; Targets 1 creature
Duration 1 minute
The target's form appears blurry. It becomes concealed. As the nature of this effect still leaves the target's location obvious, the target can't use this concealment to Hide or Sneak.
Concealed: This condition protects a creature if it’s in mist, within dim light, or amid something else that obscures sight but does not provide a physical barrier to effects. An effect or type of terrain that describes an area of concealment makes all creatures within it concealed.
When you target a creature that’s concealed from you, you must attempt a DC 5 flat check before you roll to determine your effect. If you fail, you don’t affect the target. The concealed condition doesn’t change which of the main categories of detection apply to the creature. A creature in a light fog bank is still observed even though it’s concealed.
Jadren feels the hook piercing his flesh again. I have to get out of this.
He attempts to break out of the close engagement with the skeleton.
Finally out of the claws of that beast, Jadren steps aside to possibly flank the massive creature, before attacking it with his longsword. He doesn't want to give away Kaako's position, but he surely hopes the tengu will attack from the opposite side to through their foe a bit off-guard.
Bwaaak!!! Get Jadren unhooked!
Kaako stays put now that Lavanna is directly opposite to distract the skeletal pirate king.
He swings his special club wildly on the skeleton's leg bones, hoping to topple the undead giant. While swinging, he notices that not only is the club a blur while swinging, but his whole body is as well.
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"Looks as though you have jinxed yourself!" Lavanna teases.
She skulks invisibly around Jadren and the Hookie and gets next to Kaako (out of flanking position and, incidentally, also out of Elsir's "way"...)
"Eat this!"
◆) Stride
◆◆) Cast Heroism vs Kaako
Range @ touch
Targets @ 1 creature
You tap into the target's inner heroism, granting it a +1 status bonus to attack rolls, Perception checks, saving throws, and skill checks.
The tengu's plumage glisten a little even in the low light of the cave as Gozreh's water droplets coats them in a gentle sprinkle of supple sea salt!
Elsir slides away from the skeleton's side and behind Kaako as he casts a spell from his scroll on the tengu making his form a little more difficult to see.
Jadren just barely is able to extricate himself from the hook of the skeleton and then moves into better positioning. He and Kaako then both take multipple swings at the undead but despite it being heavily distracted by the two's positioning they fail to penetrate the heavy armor the thing has on. Seems that someone might ahve accidentally jinxed themselves.
Lavanna staying hidden boosts Kaako even further and gets him ready for a proper fight.
The skeleton the responds. First he swings at the more dangerous Kaako.
His hook flies through a space where Kaako seemed to be standing but fails to actually connect.
In a rage it then flips around and swings his claws at Jadren.
He just barely gets around the shield of the fighter and lands a scrape across Jadren's forehead and left eye.
The skeleton then tries to finally locate those pesky casters.
It finally finds where Lavanna and Elsir were standing, their breathing and casting giving them away.
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Jadren: -28
Kaako: -13
Lavanna: Hidden
Elsir: Hidden
Big Ol’ Rattlin’ Bones -37
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Lavanna darts and weaves invisibly, making just enough noise to alert Hookie that she is nearby, but only long enough to coordinate with her shipmates, providing flanking for both Kaako and Jadren!
◆) Stride into Flanking with Kaako
◆◆) Ready action to Stride into Flanking with Jadren
◆) Stride into Flanking with Jadren
◆◆) Ready action to Stride into Flanking with Kaako
Trigger @ Kaako's turn ends
Effect @ Stride across from Jadren
Trigger @ Jadren's turn ends
Effect @ Stride across from Kaako
The sounds of the halfling moving around distracts the skeleton significantly more than anyone would normally expect, giving Jadren and Kaako both good openings to strike at the giant thing.
Graaak!
Kaako squawks as his club strikes tattered bits of the skeleton's armor.
Aye, you all bring me bad luck!
He jokingly replies to Lavanna with a wink.
Then his feathers glisten after being misted with water. He shakes the extra water from his plumage.
Ahh! Bath time!
Kaako sticks to the same spot now that Lavanna is directly opposite. He flails the graceful club again.
Re-roll that first strike!!!
Lavanna darts opposite Jadren, scratching her trident against the rocks to disorient the Hookie!
Lavanna slides into place across from Kaako as the tengu starts to swing at the skeleton.
His feathers glisten in the natural light of the cavern as he makes his attacks. The first looks as though it was going to swing into the wall of the cavern but proves to be a trick of the light as it connects with the skeleton...'s armor, the actual meat and bone of the thing a little harder to hit.
His second swing, however snaps a rib as it comes down through an opening, but the third swing is rebuffed by the armor again.
As he does the scratching sounds of Lavanna moving around sounds around the cavern ending up next to Kaako again.
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Jadren: -28
Kaako: -13 Blur, Heroism
Lavanna: Hidden
Elsir: Hidden
Big Ol’ Rattlin’ Bones -50
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Elsir watches the pirate's good eye settle on his location All good things must come to an end. Time to retreat! Still invisible, Elsir moves back behind the altar before slinging a pair of magical orbs through the doorway and into the guardian's chest. The Elf's scowl then fades back into view.
Jadren suddenly starts to move fairly mechanically, taking a few creaking motions to raise his sword over head and then swings down on a femur of the skeleton.
It lands and chips off some bone mass, before the form ratchets back and swings again and again.
It seems that telegraphed and simple, but powerful strikes are jsut the thing to help bring down this skeleton.
He then takes a step over to the side to try help Kaako with his fighting.
Elsir decides that he has pushed his luck with the invisibility and steps back into the observatory room firing a salvo of magical bolts as he goes. They chip off a few bones as they fly, but the elf is quickly revealed sight again.
Jadren takes three swings at the skeleton skittering his sword across leg bones each time, and chipping bits of the white material willy-nilly, but he does seem to be making some progress in taking down the skeleton.
The pirate skeleton then gives a roar and swings at all three people around him, taking a swipe at Jadren first.
The human gets his shied up but its not enough to block the blow.
The hook then swings at the other visible combatant, Kaako.
The rogue is able to avoid the blow entirely, as it whiffs past his head.
Finally, the thing takes a claw swing at the one person still invisible to his sight, Lavanna.
It just barely strikes at the right spot and barely catches her by the shoulder, but the hands have enough force to leave some nasty wounds behind.
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Jadren: -57 Haste
Kaako: -13 Blur, Heroism
Lavanna: -22 Hidden
Elsir:
Big Ol’ Rattlin’ Bones -85
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Surprised at the blow, Lavanna remains where she is, and engages in a double-mudra. First, she crosses both her hands across her heart, conjuring a tiny wind which gusts violently when hooks or claws fly near. Second, she raises her hands straight up, and clenches her fists, leans her torso down and pulls her arms down in a crashing motion, causing a wave of water to splash over her comrade.
◆◆) Heal @ Jadren
◆) Shield
Poised as the wind and waves protect her and hers!
”Thanks Lavanna!” Jadren yells over to the Halfling that saved his life on multiple occasions today. ”Keep on pounding, big boy.” He says towards the skeleton and takes a step to his left, to help Kaako find some vulnerable spots more easily.
He then begins to hack away.
Elsir lets his missile gun stay on fully auto, a steady stream of magical bolts flying into the giant skeleton.
Lavanna puts up a shield of wind around herself as she then pushes a wave of healing into Jadren.
Jadren takes a few swings at the skeleton but only his first one connects with enough force, but only shaves off a few chips of bones.
Elsir fires a few bolts of magic at the skeleton breaking bones and a shattering a scapula.
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Jadren: -11 Haste
Kaako: -13 Blur, Heroism
Lavanna: -19 Hidden
Elsir
Big Ol’ Rattlin’ Bones: -101
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Just... Crumble to bone splinters already!!!
Kaako darts around the giant skelly to flank with Lavanna. He flails the graceful club again.
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Kaako sidles around the skeleton, and takes two quick bashes at the legs of the skeleton, the first cracks its left femur and brings the thing crashing down, as the second shatters the thing's skull leaving an unmoving pile of bones in the wake.
As the group stays on guard to make sure the thing wasn't bluffing being dead-dead and not still undead-dead the sound of rocks rumbling echoes out from the south wall as a new door opens. Cawlo wheels into the room, gives a derisive CAW at the remains and flits into the doorway. He stops, looking back and making sure everyone is following him with a pirrup of noise.
The stairs descend deep into the island for what feels like a floor or two before leveling off and slowly ramping back up to sea level. It takes a near hour of following the clockwork parrot before you emerge into a naturally-formed cavern barely lit by holes in a curtain on one wall. In the center of the room is a giant chest. Approaching, it becomes quickly clear that the thing is propped open, and a few more steps proves it to be empty of all but a few heavily corroded coppers and silvers.
Before anyone can start to complain, though, Cawlo hops precariously onto 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 small bay. He flies across the sands to a different part of the rock wall before pulling open what proves to be a second, glamoured curtain that hides a secret cove 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 turns to look at the group, sunlight glinting off his eyes. “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.”
Cawlo gives everyone a long look, before stopping. For the first time since your reunifying the bird seems at a loss as to what to do. He looks at everyone with pleading eyes and caws one last time, "Cawlo wanna oil."
Jadren’s smile grows wider with every word the captain speaks through Cawlo’s mouth. Listening to his late captain, Jadren walks over to Kaako and puts his hand on his shoulder. ”Well done, Kaako. Well done.” He whispers.
Jadren does not hesitate a second. Having been at Iomedae’s temple and trained has definitely changed him and turned him into a better person. Nevertheless, hiding in a stone building all his life is probably not the right path ahead. He walks towards the boat they’ve been gifted and picks up Cawlo on the way. His armor squeaks terribly at this point. ”Me too Cawlo, me too.”
He turns around to his crewmates. ”Y’all coming?”
"You bet your rusty sword!" Lavanna follows Jadren. This was her life, salt on her face, wind in her hair. There was a vast ocean to explore, and what better than with her favorite motley crew.
"Try not tow wreck this one, Lucky" she teases Kaako "Third time's a charm?"
She looks towards Elsir now, and speaks to him for perhaps the first time this whole adventure "Gotta say, I feel a little bent out of shape for being so easily baited" pointing to Cawlo "I guess the old captain knows us better than we know ourselves"
To Kaako and Elsir "You coming?"
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Kaako hops in victory as the giant skeleton crumbles to pieces.
Aye!!! We did it, mates! We did it! Ha ha!!!
He laughs with his beak open wide and shakes his head in triumph to his companions.
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His eyes light up when they reach the chest. Awe turns to disappointment as he looks into the chest.
Then Cawlo speaks in the Captain's voice...
His eyes go wide again in shock as he stares at the glorious sloop.
*Blink, blink*
Is... is it real? Not a mirage or trick of illusion?
He turns and looks at his companions.
*Blink, blink*
He gives hugs and handshakes all around.
No more drinkin' me sorrows away in a seedy dockside tavern. We got adventurin' to do, mateys! Cawlo, lead the way!!!
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With hands on his hips, he stares up at the ship.
What do we name her? Seein' that we destroyed that big ol' skelly, how about "Rattlin' Bones"?
He turns to see what his companions think.
*Blink*
Kaako scampers up the rope ladder to the deck then scurries his way to his usual spot aboard the ship -the crow's nest. With a hand blocking the sun from his eyes, he scans the horizon (*blink, blink*) then calls down to his companions.
It's perfect!!!
He waves his tricorn hat to those below.
Captain Jadren! There be land to the southwest and mountains to the north!
Where to!?!
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The room can nearly feel the explosion of Elsir's brain as he sees the chest is empty, then again after he scans it for possible illusion magic. No treasure? But.. but.. the RING! He quietly leaves the room for a few minutes, only coming back in after he hears Cawlo's recorded message about trading the treasure to save their skins.
That.. makes a lot of sense now. "I... I really needed that gold. This cursed ring is killing me, and if I don't raise the money to get it removed then I'm done." He tugs on the blackened band uselessly.
"Looks like I'm stuck." He turns and salutes Jadren "Chief magical officer Elsir reporting for duty." He quips, almost cracking a small smile before patting Kaako on the back "Great name, but have you ever thought about The Invisible Genie... really sneaks up on you if you give it a minute..."