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Onye loops the aspergillum back on his belt and adjusts his grip on his pole-arm. "Should we make an exception and follow this path to see if we can catch whatever might lurk in this space by surprise?"

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Dhajan opens the secret door, and sees the door that his phantom mentioned just to the south. In the other direction, the corridor turns to the west.
Onye wonders if it is best to search the secret area or press on down the outer corridor.
Rule of 3 will apply - if three of you agree on a course of action then that's what will happen. If you are split down the middle, the first option to have received two votes will be used. (DFM does not get a vote ;) )

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"Actually...yes, I think we should. If there's anything lurking in the space then it might try to come after us from behind," Tsamara points out.

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“Let us go!“ Djahan says nodding to the two catfolk.

GM supervillan |

Deciding to make certain that the secret area holds no enemies that might ambush you, you follow Djahan into the hidden passage. With the door to the south being the most immediate concern, Djahan sends his phantom to investigate - and receives an immediate sensation of danger!
As before, when the phantom encounters hostiles we'll have a surprise round - the phantom, Djahan and the hostiles get actions.
Onye Dawon: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
PhantomDjahan’s Fractured Mind: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Djahan Ruuh: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Tsamara: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Demm: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Data: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Felix: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
bony: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
fleshy: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (5) + 0 = 5
bony vs DFM: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
Surprise round
Tsamara
Data
Demm
Bony White
Djahan
DFM
Onye
Felix
Fleshy Black
The bold may act! move or standard action.

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The phantom retreats back into the hallway.
Djahan 5ft steps forward and opens the door!

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The shambling corpse staggers forwards in the dark, reaching a ragged claw through the doorway....
black vs Djahan, partial charge, cover: 1d20 + 4 + 2 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 + 2 - 4 = 17damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
...only the doorframe prevents Djahan being clobbered.
When you can see the enemies (requiring a light source or darkvision) you can attempt these knowledge checks.
DC16
DC21
DC16
DC21
Round 2
Tsamara
Data
Demm
Bony White
Djahan
DFM
Onye
Felix
Fleshy Black
The bold may act!

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Data moves north 15' and fires a blunt arrow at the skeleton…
MW Composite Longbow: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 24
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d6 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 = 9

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kn religion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
kn religion: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
"Use slashing weapons against the fleshy black undead!"

GM supervillan |

Data's unerring arrow destroys the skeleton, shattering its skull; the rest of the bones clatter to the floor in a heap.
Demm and Tsamara are up!

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With the majority of her own magics being helpful in nature rather than destructive, Tsamara opts to hang back in the hallway to stay out of the way of the fighters. Still, she does take a single step forward to offer Felix a little guidance.
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Step forward & hit Felix with Guidance~

GM supervillan |

Tsamara offers Felix a blessing....
Round 2
Tsamara
Data
Demm
Bony White
Djahan
DFM
Onye
Felix
Fleshy Black
The bold may act!

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Djahan attacks the undead in front of him!!
MW Cold Iron Longsword (d8+4; 19-20/×2) To hit: Str+3, MW +1, BAB +1 ; Damage: +3 : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 111d8 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

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Onye moves past Djahan and the zombie's focus to take position within the room where he can strike unhindered. He swings his enchanted glaive at the undead.
Move (25 ft), Attack
Presumably triggering an AOO from the zombie unless it can't take them.
+1 glaive-guisarme: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 10
Magic, Slashing: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13

GM supervillan |

Djahan engages the zombie, but fails to cause any meaningful damage.
Onye darts past to bring his polearm to bear...
zombie AoO: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
...and whilst the catfolk warrior evades the zombie's grasp, in doing so he dodges too far and too fast, and he is unable to recover quickly enough to cut down the undead.
Round 2
Tsamara
Data
Demm
Bony White
Djahan
DFM
Onye
Felix, guidance
Fleshy Black
The bold may act!

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Can't get there, but Demm will move the dancing lights toward the room. I just can't access the map from my phone.
Why am fleshies and furries always run off where they cannot be helped?

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Felix moves into the room past his partymates, shifting his grip into his spear fighter stance as he goes, then taking a swing with the pointy end at the undead creature.
Spear/MH, Guidance: 1d20 + 4 - 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 4 - 2 + 1 = 8
Damage/MH: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Djahan's Fractured Mind |

The phantom delays.
The phantom stands in the back and shakes its head as it is unable to contribute to the battle in its incorporeal form!

GM supervillan |

Demm and his light show approach. Felix stabs at the zombie, but to no avail.
The zombie continues its attack upon Djahan.
slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Its fists flail against the tiefling's heavy armour.
Round 3
Tsamara
Data
Demm
Djahan
DFM
Onye
Felix
Fleshy Black
The bold may act!

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Onye makes another overly wide swipe at the zombie with his pole-arm.
+1 glaive-guisarme: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Magic, Slashing: 1d10 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

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The evoker scurries into the room before sending a bolt of positive energy at the undead warrior. "Why am you all playing around? No am fleshie gala party with dancing. This am work. Just destroy it so we am going about our business."
I believe my movement provokes an AoO.
Disrupt Undead vs Touch AC: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

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"Hmm...close quarters makes a lot of fighting harder, doesn't it?" Tsamara asks as she moves up and slips between Data and Djahan's phantom. "Especially archery," she adds as she taps Data on the shoulder to give him a little bit of guidance.
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Move to current map position & cast Guidance on Data~

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Djahan attacks the undead in front of him again and then 5 ft steps back!!
MW Cold Iron Longsword (d8+4; 19-20/×2) To hit: Str+3, MW +1, BAB +1 ; Damage: +3 : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 191d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

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Data nods in appreciation to Tamara and then makes an acrobatic move into the room…
Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
…and fires a cold iron arrow at black…
MW Composite Longbow: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 22
Cold Iron Damage: 1d8 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 2 = 9

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The fighter makes another attempt to strike the creature, his spear working back and forth in his hands.
Spear/MH: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (3) + 4 - 2 = 5
Damage: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11
Spear/OH: 1d20 + 4 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 4 - 2 = 10
Damage: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

GM supervillan |

Whilst Tsamara and the phantom hang back, the rest of you press the lone zombie and pepper it with attacks until it drops for the last time.
Combat over!
The two broken undead have no useful gear. The original purpose of the plain, stone chamber has been lost to history, but numerous footprints disturb the dust that covers the floor.
There is another door in the south-east corner of the room.
You'll need to let me know which way you want to go next - there's an open passage behind you or the 'new' door out of this room.

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"I think we should press onward," Onye says. "We should have nearly completed a full roaming."

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"Demm tad-draguni thinks we am should check door first. Make certain nothing hiding back there. Or maybe there am treasure."

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"I agree with Demm tad-draguni," Tsamara chimes in. "Since we're here anyway, let's go ahead and check it and have done with it."

GM supervillan |

The phantom passes through the south east door, and returns.
"A dusty room, empty save for heavy black curtains hung on the walls. The curtain conceals this door on the other side" DFM indicates the door it has just passed through. "Two sets of double doors are unobscured. The set to the west is of stone, and features a peculiar indentation."
From your previous explorations you can deduce where the double doors lead. Map revealed.

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"Since no sign of the body thieves, back through the other door?" he suggests.

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Djahan nods.
"Yes, back through the other door."

GM supervillan |

The other door? The secret passage that remains unexplored goes around a corner - not a door. I'm not sure of your intent.

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The other door? The secret passage that remains unexplored goes around a corner - not a door. I'm not sure of your intent.
The secret passage that remains unexplored goes around a corner ... that is what I meant.

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"That sounds good to me," Tsamara nods. "Slowly but surely, we're making progress!"

GM supervillan |

Confident that you know what lies to the south, you double back along the secret passage.
A stone spiral stair leads upwards, disappearing through the ceiling.
Ahead to the north Onye detects an acrid smell in the air...

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"There is something foul ahead," Onye says, wrinkling his nose and sneezing.

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"Stairs up? Hmm...I wonder if they just open up into another level..."
Tsamara's musings are interrupted when Onye mentions a foul odor on the wind. She tightens her grip on her weapon, ready for anything.

GM supervillan |

It looks to me like you want to carry on down the corridor - we'll do so later today, unless in the meantime you decide on something else.

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"If the smell belongs to something that hunts, we should deal with it now," the amurrun suggests.

GM supervillan |

Following your noses, you approach a chamber. The acrid stench of chemicals and reagents is strong, and the walls are marred by strange stains and scorch marks. Several tables are scattered about the room, covered in a bewildering plethora of glassware, alembics, retorts, tubes, simmering cauldrons, and smoking beakers full of brightly coloured liquids. Scattered pages of written notes in a crabbed hand lie strewn about the chamber. A large alcove in the northwest corner contains a bookshelf groaning under the weight of heavy, dusty tomes and scrolls. Three large glass vats stand against the eastern wall, filled with bubbling green fluid. Floating within the vats are three grotesque objects—putrescent corpses, tubes and wires embedded in their rotting flesh, their skin discoloured with decay and chemical stains.
A hunchbacked, haggard-looking man looks up from his books. He grasps a spear and says in a high-pitched reedy voice "Mr Marrow, my work is being interrupted! Show these unwanted guests the exit!"
An attendant zombie shuffles towards you...
Onye Dawon: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
PhantomDjahan’s Fractured Mind: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Djahan Ruuh: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Tsamara: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6
Demm: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Data: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14
Felix: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Mr Marrow: 1d20 ⇒ 13
ST: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Combat round 1
Demm
Hunchback (blue)
Data
Mr Marrow (black)
Djahan
Felix
Onye
Phantom
Tsamara
The bold may act!
DC11

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kn religion : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
”That thing is undead and the other one is human!“
kn local : 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

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"Why am you talk to fleshie zombie? It no am talk to you. Still, you am probably dangerous, so Demm tad-draguni stop you." Launching the last of his unerring arcane magic, two bolts slam into the deranged hunchback.
MM CL3: 2d4 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 + 3 = 13

GM supervillan |

Demm's bolts of force fly towards the hunchback - and are absorbed harmlessly by some invisible barrier.
"Tee-hee-hee-ha! Fools! I heard you coming!" The hunchback giggles. "Now rise, my minions, rise!" He gestures wildly, and one of the glass vats shatters as its occupant emerges.
"What are you?" the hunchback wheezes as he regards the phantom. "Not a ghost. Pity."
The hunchback hurls a flask...
bomb: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23cold damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
...straight through the phantom, to strike Data. A blast of cold injures the android and washes over DFM and Onye.
Data attempt a DC13 Fort save; if you fail you are Staggered for 1 round.
Phantom and Onye both get a DC13 Reflex save; Phantom takes 1 cold damage on a fail, 1 non-lethal on a success; Onye takes 3 cold damage on a fail, 1 cold damage on a success.
The creature from the vat staggers forwards and swipes at the phantom uselessly.
DC16
DC21
Combat round 1
Demm
Hunchback (blue)
Vat creature (green)
Data, -6hp, Fort save
Mr Marrow (black)
Djahan
Felix
Onye, Ref save
Phantom, Ref save
Tsamara
The bold may act!

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Fort Save: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Data reels from the cold but shakes off the shock effect of the flask…and responds by sending a blunt arrow at Mr. Marrow…
MW Composite Longbow vs FFAC: 1d20 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 5 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 14
Bludgeoning Damage: 1d8 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 2 = 5

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Reflex, Cat's Luck: 2d20 ⇒ (5, 9) = 14 +6
2nd Roll = 15
Onye leaps out of the way of most of the swiftly freezing fluid as it splashes. "What breed of human? And what are those other things?" he growls.

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The kobold eyes go wide with anger and disbelief. "No! You am cheater! Everyone knows using chemicals am no real magic."

GM supervillan |

Data's arrow strikes Mr Marrow squarely, but the zombie doesn't feel it. Usual DR
"Wait, my minions! That shade would not feel your caress" the hunchback instructs - seemingly in direct command of the undead.
Combat round 1
Demm
Hunchback (blue)
Vat creature (green)
Data, -6hp
Mr Marrow (black) - delay
Djahan
Felix
Onye, -1hp
Phantom, Ref save
Tsamara
The bold may act!