Oorgatch stares at his blade. "What the heck? Now that you are enchanted against the incorporeal you don't want to hit?" He just shakes his head as his sheaths the blade.
"How is everyone doing? Yan? Sendoski? Scarred One, I can try and help Yan, if you help Sendoski."
"You look better boy, but that ghost did something to your head, your reactions are not as good as they were. You seem slower a bit. We would have to handle it, but even my blade can't cure it now."
Scarred One begin to search the room and look at the lamps
Upon further inspection the lights do not seem to be more remarkable than other magical light. It's unclearly exactly why the ghost was struggling so much with them.
What was going on in here?
Yan looks with horror at the body.
While the use here is clearly more recent than some other bits of dungeon, the corpse has likely been here for months.
Interestingly enough if you pull a chain attached to a slab, the slab folds down, dumping any contents down a 40 foot or so shaft into a room below.
It does appear that fleshwarphing experiments were once performed here.
Yan grimaces, hoping Sendoski wouldn’t do exactly what he did. He steps near his friend and looks into the abyss, hoping nothing looks back.
The debris falls down. It's hard to see much through the shaft but they do seem to drop into a single room into piles of suspiciously clean bones and bits of rusted metal. There's no movement or response however.
The shafts are jagged and rough enough that if you wanted to you could probably climb down one of these if you were trained.
Scarred One looks down the shaft "Clean bones huh? So something is feeding down there, lets hope that with lack of new meat it did not last."
He slowly limps towards other door trying to check it for traps
No traps, but there is the sound of creaking rusty chains coming from the north.
Yan moves to the door. When everyone is ready he opens it with Scarred one.
The room beyond the door features rusted iron chains hanging from the ceiling of this room, each ending in an oversized manacle.
The octagonal eastern end of the room contains a circular pit covered by a rusted iron grate, it does not look safe to stand on.
Torn bolts and scrap metal dangle from the ceiling above the pit. Piles of scrap fill the four alcoves that open off the wide hall that constitutes the room’s west end.
A tall blue creature similiar to one a level above, wrapped in chains looks your direction, her gaze lingering on Oorgatch's chain whip before she stage whispers "Pain" and lunges in your direction.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Big Blue
Scarred One
Sendoski
Yan
Oorgatch looks at his team mates. "I got an idea."
Oorgatch moves up next to Yan and gestures at the doors across the way.
Of course he fails at this, but he then parries.
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She totally ignores Oorgatch, moves up and swings one of her many chains at Scarred One.
Yan helps protect Scarred One and enfeebles the Kyton. Scarred One does however bleed.
It then lashes out at Yan.
But can't hit there.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Big Blue Enfeebled 2
Scarred One (67/72) Bleed 1d6
Sendoski
Yan
Party is up!
+ 1d6 bleed.
We've bested one of your kind before.
Critical Success Your marshal's aura increases to a 20-foot emanation and grants you and allies a +1 status bonus to attack rolls and saves against mental effects.
Success As critical success, but your aura's size doesn't increase.
Failure You fail to enter the stance.
Critical Failure You fail to enter the stance and can't take this action again for 1 minute.
Then he tries to trip the Kyton using Assurance
Oorgatch shrugs as he is ignored. He then moves to tumble in.to a flanking position.
He fails to get past, but also is missed by the chains.
He then tries again
He then stabs, trying to finish things quickly
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Yan inspires allies and lands a hit with his scarf.
The follow up trip is ineffective though.
It takes a pair of tries but Oorgatch barely gets in and just scrapes by some damage on a miss.
Scarredoski are up!
Scarred One steps closer and smashes his shield at the creature
"Go back to whatever hell you came from!"
Scarred One lands a solid blow and then raises his shield
"Wait, wasn't this one weak to silver?"
Scarred One hits with the shield and raises it for protection.
The Kyton resists magic in general and gets frightened by Sendoski's Evil Eye but only has minor regrets
Sendoski sees the dead face of his brother where the Kyton's face should be and it disturbs him.
Growling "Pain the Kyton continues to ignore Oorgatch first staring down the frightened Sendoski.
The Kyton then attacks Yan with a rust chain before moving back.
It can't connect though.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Big Blue (-24) Enfeebled 2, Frightened 1
Scarred One (65/72) Bleed 1d6 (Fort DC 21)
Sendoski - Frightened 2
Yan
Yan raises his shield and moves in, trying ro draw the AOO so scarred one and oorgatch can get in there.
Choose:
- The ally is unharmed by the triggering damage.
- The ally gains resistance to all damage against the triggering damage equal to 6. After the damaging effect is applied, the enemy becomes enfeebled 2 until the end of its next turn.
- Yan will make it stupefied 2 for the same duration if it's a caster or looks like one
Yan hits again, it'll take more to stop this fearsome foe though.
Yan remains unafraid, thanks to the Evil Eye.
Oorgatch moves around to flank, tumbling through as he goes.
Now, with a flank, he mutters, "Ignore me, will you?"
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He then tries create a diversion, indicating something must be coming up from below the grate.
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The whipping chains clip Yan as he moves up.
Oorgatch tumbles up, hits with the branch, creates a diversion and the Kyton still ignores him.
Scarred One looks at the creature trying to understand if ti is the same kind as before
Then he reaches for primal magic and sends a bolt of flame its way
"How do you like flames?"
Scarred One knows that it is indeed another Evangelist Velstrac. Weak to good/silver and immune to cold. This one doesn't seem to be regenerating like the one above but does have an odd connection to the chain whip from above.
Despite his hit the Kyton continues to ignore Oorgatch, glancing at the grate she moves to the other side of Yan and shoves him...
On to the grate, which collapses under his weight.
If Yan falls, it's 40 feet/20 damage.
Whether or not Yan Grabs the Edge, the rusty winch above crashes down atop him, dealing and on a fail or worse dislodges your grip (DC 24 basic Reflex save). (You can try and grab the edge again.)
I'll describe more details below if needed.
With Scarred One being frightened the Kyton then glares at him.
With the evil eye not maintained the Kyton ceases being frightened and enfeebled falls off.
Initiative:
Oorgatch
Big Blue (-62)
*Scarred One (65/72) Bleed 1d6 Frightened 2 (Will DC 21)
Sendoski - Frightened 1 (Kyton Concealed) Stupified 2
Yan (53/73) Haste 1d6 Bleed Stupified 2
Party is up!
Yan grabs the edge, but the metal grate rips him off the ledge. No —
He falls into the dark.
Yan falls about 40 feet total into a rust and grime filled octagonal chamber. A wide hallway leads to the south where an acrid smell not entirely unlike beer wafts from. The ceiling is about 15 feet up (then a 25 ft shaft). Other than the debris from the rusty grate and winch and splattered bits of Yan, the room is empty.
Yan sighs. He stands, sheathes his weapon, and lays on hands himself.
He looks at the wall and flexes his fingers, getting ready for a long climb.
Yan's bleeding wound lets out one more splurt before closing.
”Oh, no. ” says Oorgatch as Yan falls, still not understanding why he is being ignored so fully.
Trying to finish things quickly, he stabs again with his finisher.
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He then stealths draws the sword cane, should it be necessary.
he then sets up his parry.
"Pain..." is the last word that escapes the Kyton's lips before she falls to the floor dead.
Scarred One shake it off a bit, then walks to the dead body and smashes it for good measure with his shield. He curses with Orcish
"I am afraid that we could have lost Yan. There is not knowing how deep that shaft is."
"Yan!? Yan! Are you all right?"
Scarred One takes out knife and begins healing himself, making the scarres a bit bigger and visible
When Yan climbs up he pats him on the shoulder "I never doubted that you survive that fall! Let me see your wounds."
While the elder orc heals Yan, Oorgatch tries to fix the broken pick
After 30 minutes he finally has it right.
”Ready move on, all?” he asks, followed by, ”So, why did it ignore me? Nothing else has so far?”
It's easy enough to help Yan up, Sendoski doesn't find anything magical or valuable in the alcoves.
By the time all the healing is done, even the stupefied has worn off.
After healing Yan, Scarred One asks
"Shall we go next to those alcoves to the west?"
The alcoves contain worthless non-magical scrap.
Yan refocuses. I may have taken a knock on the head. I think I'm ready. What about the doors right here?
Scarred One moves to the double door north and opens them
"Let's have a look what it's behind the door number three"
Opening the door reveals a room full of splintered furniture and rusted scraps of metal. Three cells line the south wall, their bars only a few inches apart. Each cell contains a heap of rotted flesh and shattered bone.
The locks on the doors have long since seized shut, but could be forced open or picked.