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Strengthening his temporary control of his body, the elf shouts, "Necalli, assist Astrid! Take out those creatures at the vanguard, I'll back you up shortly!"
After the bird rounds the pillar as per his orders, Amada turns to his own allies. "If I go unconscious, I trust you'll be able to get me back up; help the others and then deal with me after." Giving them a brief nod, the elf rushes past them onto the ledge.
As Amada balances on the cliff, the elf dons a shaky grin. If you like my body so much, how about we go for a ride, fellow traveler? Then, with somewhat shaky step, the elf falls off of the walkway, arms outstretched in freefall.
Landing with a loud crunching of bone, the elf coughs up a bit of blood before wiping his smiling mouth. Now we're both stuck down here. Your move, wretch; have fun using this cripple's body.
◆ Hunt Prey: Red
◆ Command Animal: Necalli
--◆ Fly
--◆ [if second Fly is not needed to get within Flank with Astrid, do a strike, otherwise Fly again to enter flank] Strike:
◆ Balance:
vs prone
Amada manages to stay in control once more-- this time focusing his attention on Red whom he recognizes as a Stygira. They are known for being blind and can only see through the gemstones they hold. Ro manages to fly in position bite the Red Stygira and finds it to be rather hard. Only part of the damage goes through...
Meanwhile, Amada plummets downward. The Invidiak starts to separate itself from Amada, screeching in his ear though it doesn't manage to separate from Amada completely before they hit the ground. . The creature then fully removes itself from Amada's barely-alive body and strikes at him with an frigid claw that opens a fresh wound...Amada starts bleeding out.... The Invidiak then begins slowly flying upward
Astrid's opportune strike takes advantage of the previous hits and strikes the White Stygira perfectly to make it shatter in place
Zac: -12, Drained 1,
Greezgux: -9, 10 temp HP
Astrid: -68, Slowed 1. Drained 1,
Jakoby: -28, Hunt Pink, Drained 1.
Ro: -35,
RedStone: -4,
Quinoline:
Amada: 0hp, Dying 1, Hunt Red, Drained 1,
Necalli: -25, Drained 1,
PinkShadowDemon: -76, Bloodied,
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Greezgux safely crawls down the walls after Amada's prone form. "You dead?" He asks. Seeing the shadow demon stir Greezgux points his ring at it and blasts it with the force of a ram.
+ 10 feet push
HP 68/82; 10 Temp HP (Vital Beacon Active)
AC 26 (27 w/ Shield; Clumsy 1 AC 26/25)
Resistances (Resist Fire 5 | Self and Adjacent Allies Resist Evil 3)
Spells (1) 4/4
Spells (2) 4/4
Spells (3) 4/4
Spells (4) 2/4
Focus 1/2
Hero Point 2/3
Mosquito Witch Doll
HP 40/40
AC 26
Items: Necklace of Fireballs II
Decanter of Endless Water
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Our ulfen hero watches Amada take the plunge "By the beard of..." she can't finish the curse, caught so off-guard - but recovers a moment, and looks towards Astrid "I wouldn't do that, but I mean..." again lost for words.
Turning her attention, she returns to the situation at hand "Boy" she reaches into her pouch and produces a small vial with a sticky substance inside "Elf" and, placing it in his beak, points to her fallen comrade 45 feet below her.
◇) Release one hand from Spiritbreaker
◆) Interact to draw "Naturalist" Moderate Healing Potion
◆) Interact to stow it upon Ro
◆) Command Ro to bring it to Amada
◆) Fly to Amada
◆) Administer to Amada
With Necalli providing the distraction needed, the shield maiden is able to successfully bash the Red Stygira and then slice off another chunk of rock.
The blast of force that Greezgux aims at the Invidiak seems to hit it but the creature was prepared and doesn't move! .
Zac's first shot misses the shadow creature. His 2nd arrow finds his target but bounces off of the Red stone creature whose stony form seemed unharmed. The third arrow gets lost down the massive colossus's abodmen.
The Red Stygira is determined to take down Astrid and swings two heavy claws at her, though both of them are no where close to hitting the ulfen warrior. Re-evaluating its position, it steps away.
Quinoline:
Amada: 0hp, 3d8+10 healing, Hunt Red, Drained 1,
Necalli: -25, Drained 1,
PinkShadowDemon: -76, Bloodied,
Zac: -12, Drained 1,
Greezgux: -9, 10 temp HP
Astrid: -68, Slowed 1. Drained 1,
Jakoby: -28, Hunt Pink, Drained 1.
Ro: -35,
RedStone: -20,
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Waking up with a start, the elf glances around to see the face of his savior, letting out a surprised laugh. "You're... certainly more resourceful than I'd expected, aren't you?"
Taking note of his surroundings, the elf spots the shadow demon that had entered his body above him. "Ha! Afraid to finish the job, are you? Can't even kill as frail an elf as I? I expected more after all we'd been through together!" Trying to stand up but finding the task difficult with his splintered shins, Amada grabs up his meteor hammer from the ground and readies himself for the creature before screaming a threat in Celestial. "Know your true adversary and face me, wretch!" Amada waits with confidence, eager to see if he was able to draw the beast's attention back to himself.
◆ Interact to draw Ghost Touch Silver Meteor Hammer from ground.
◆◆ Ready: [Trigger: Shadow Demon enters my reach with the Meteor Hammer; Amada will Strike the Shadow Demon.]
Feel free to Hero Point reroll the attack if the attack gets triggered.
Quinoline nearly let go of the ghost charge too soon but took a moment to calculate the Pink Shadow's path and lobs the ghost charge directly at it. The bomb explodes and emits positive energy that infuses to the incorporeal's form. . The perfection of Quinoline's calculations is awe-inspiring and reassures the party that the battle has nearly been won as the Pink Shadow creature's form nearly withers into nothingness.
The Shadow creature ignores the prone elf and continues it's ascent and then blasts a wave of sonic energy at Zac and Quinoline The positive energy sticking to the shadow creature continues to harm and cling to it
Zac: DC 26 basic reflex or will save (your choice) or take 16 sonic dmg, Drained 1,
Greezgux: 10 temp HP
Astrid: -48, Guidance, Slowed 1. Drained 1,
Jakoby: -8, Hunt Pink, Drained 1.
Ro: -35,
RedStone: -20,
Quinoline: DC 26 basic reflex or will save (your choice) or take 16 sonic dmg
Amada: -56, Hunt Red, Drained 1,
Necalli: -25, Drained 1,
PinkShadowDemon: -87, Near Death, enfeebled 1 until Q's turn, 4 persist positive
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Greezgux continues to scale down the wall as he reaches out, healing Amada.
Back up above the tiny mosquito witch opens the plug on the decanter once more and bursts it against the stone creature.
+ Push 5 Feet
HP 82/82; 10 Temp HP (Vital Beacon Active)
AC 26 (27 w/ Shield; Clumsy 1 AC 26/25)
Resistances (Resist Fire 5 | Self and Adjacent Allies Resist Evil 3)
Spells (1) 4/4
Spells (2) 4/4
Spells (3) 3/4
Spells (4) 2/4
Focus 1/2
Hero Point 2/3
Mosquito Witch Doll
HP 40/40
AC 26
Items: Necklace of Fireballs II
Decanter of Endless Water
The sonic energy heads directly towards Quinoline and Zac who fail to get out of the way. The energy, focused mostly at Quinoline, violently blasts them with what sounds like a amalgam of of shrieking voices.
Astrid continues to slowly chisel through Red's solid stone body
The stream of water from the witch doll's decanter hits Red and simultaneously cuts through the stone body while forcing it back. The Stygira gets pushed into Necalli and then loses its balance; nearly falling but grabs the edge of the stone ramp.
Zac shoots two perfectly aimed arrows in rapid succession--The first arrow hits the shadow demon in the throat and the creature stops moving. It instead begins falling and parts of the creature dissipate into nothingness while mangled pieces of demon flesh fall to the ground.
The second shot hits the Stygira though mostly bounces off of the hard skin . Zac follows this up with a perfectly aimed shot that hits the creature in the torso leaving a massive crater in the side of its body
Jakoby: -8, Hunt Pink, Drained 1.
Ro: -35,
RedStone: -62, Bloodied, grabbed onto edge (flat-footed)
Quinoline: -32,
Amada: -20, Hunt Red, Drained 1,
Necalli: -25, Drained 1,
Zac: -16,
Greezgux: 10 temp HP
Astrid: -48, Guidance, Slowed 1. Drained 1,
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"Nice shooting there Zac - Let's double down, no?"
Seeing the Shadow Demon destroyed, Jakoby switches weapons and prepares to focus fire.
◆) Stow Spiritbreaker (Katana)
◆) Draw Regicide (Longbow)
◆) Strike or Balance
"That's it boy - get in there too!"
Ro makes the same flight as described above...
The creature pulls itself off the ground, and steps toward the door to find solid ground. It then takes a ferocious swipe at Necalli but just misses the Northern Hawk-Owl who manages dodge out of the way!
The Stygira stands next to the matching stone doors at the top of the spiral ramp. a collection of rock chiseled away and a massive crater left in its torso indicate it doesn't have much fight left in it.
Quinoline: -32,
Amada: -20, Hunt Red, Drained 1,
Necalli: -25, Drained 1,
Zac: -16,
Greezgux: 10 temp HP
Astrid: -48, Slowed 1. Drained 1,
Jakoby: -8, Hunt Pink, Drained 1.
Ro: -35,
RedStone: -62, Bloodied,
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Safely balancing across to the other side, Jakoby draws a bead and let's two arrows fly.
◆) Command Ro
◆) Hunt Red
◆) Hunted Shot
As above.
Ro will use ◆◆ to Fly up 60 feet
Instead of Commanding Ro, Jakoby will Stride to the closest square near Zac and/or Quin to obtain a clear shot.
Ro will use ◆ to Fly up 30 feet
Jakoby also recognizes this as a Stygira, and remembers learning about their one weakness: cold iron. With prey clearly in sight, she fires two arrows. The first arrow hits the crater that Zac exposed earlier and adds to the creature's injury! The second arrow is powerfully shot but fires astray and hits the central column Ro then flies 60 feet up the chamber.
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Necalli swiftly moves to continue flanking with Astrid before tearing into the foe with her beak as best she can.
◆ Fly
◆ Strike: vs FF
Necalli's expression is one of annoyance, unsure of what is keeping her partner. She'd have to berate him later.
Quinoline's bomb flies true and staggers the creature; Astrid moves in and slices through the creature leaving it with a single pebble in the torso connecting it's lower and upper halves. Necalli then rips the pebble out and the party watches as the creature collapses. It's head and body become motionless and its legs plummet into the depths of the collussus' abdomen. The rocks make a loud crashing sound as they are added to the rest of the rubble below.
At the top of the ramp you see the closed stone doors, and there does not appear to be any immediate danger within the colossus's abdomen.
The wound has been bleached of color and the blood has turned a dark grey. The arm is very stiff and doesn't appear to get better while the party begins healing efforts.
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"This is stone rot. It will slowly spread to the rest of your body and you're going to die in an hour. Fortunately, I happen to know the cure, which is a lesser sea touch elixir."
Quinoline will expend one of her infused reagents to make a lesser sea touch elixir, which tastes like seawater but at least heals Astrid's arm back to normal.
Also, Astrid has a 20' swim speed for the next 10 minutes.
"You're welcome, I'm glad I could be of help" she says, in response to Astrid's tearful, blubbering gratitude.
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"This is stone rot. It will slowly spread to the rest of your body and you're going to die in an hour. Fortunately, I happen to know the cure, which is a lesser sea touch elixir."
Quinoline will expend one of her infused reagents to make a lesser sea touch elixir, which tastes like seawater
but at least heals Astrid's arm back to normal.
Astrid stares skeptically at Quinoline's tincture then shrugs and drinks it all in one mighty gulp. She grimaces and retches but manages to keep the concoction down.
"Good gods Quin! Are you trying to poison me? This is the most foul brew you've created yet. Couldn't you at least have mixed it with some mead?"
She coughs several times before settling down.
You're welcome, I'm glad I could be of help" she says, in response to Astrid's tearful, blubbering gratitude.
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Puzzling it over shortly while in the process of setting his own bones, the elf briefly adds his own take to the discussion. **"Well, either Quinoline's solution works, or we can try sunlight. Can't recall the proper solution to a Stygira's curse at the moment, but considering the firestorm above us, Quinoline's solution may be our only option for now."**
With a pop and a grunt, Amada continues his work with the others.
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, Captain. Not going to die, but not looking good either. You oughtn't feel right until you get 8 hours in the sun. Maybe try this?" she whips out her pipe and stuffs it with fresh herbs, quickly developing a cherry with flint and steel, and passes it to her "It's like sunshine in a bulb!"
"How do you feel now?"
"Well - it was worth a try..."
Either way, she sits down and enjoys herself some herbal remedy, watching as Ro is given a second, more experienced treatment for his burns "You are a skilled medic, elf!" then adding after a thought "Say, I saw you go pretty fast earlier - any way you can use some of that magic as a temporary solution to Astrid's Stone Curse?"
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If it's a disease, Quinoline can make antiplague with any leftover reagents at the end of the day or at the beginning of the next day.
Jakoby: -2
Ro: full
Zac: full
Quinoline: full
Greezgux: full
Astrid: -13
Amada: -1
Necalli: -2
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If Astrid is healed / recovered from drinking seawater, Quinoline is ready to go.
Either way, she sits down and enjoys herself some herbal remedy, watching as Ro is given a second, more experienced treatment for his burns "You are a skilled medic, elf!" then adding after a thought "Say, I saw you go pretty fast earlier - any way you can use some of that magic as a temporary solution to Astrid's Stone Curse?"
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"Is that an Epic Poem you got there, Captain Astrid?" noting the rolled parchment.
"Maybe you could read it to us so we may draw from it some inspiration!" her red eyes giving away perhaps the playing of such lyrics in her own imagination as the party prepares to cross the threshold into the next room...
...either way Jakoby runs to the front of the marching order, Spiritbreaker first!
Jakoby opens the stone doors revealing a walkway that leads up inside the stone robes of the Colossus up to the back of its immense neck. The curving path rises up twenty feet from the stone door, leading from the chest cavity up to the door into the back of the statue's neck. From here the party can overlook the surrounding region and see the havoc wrought by the demoniac's ritual. Rain of fire off in the distance demolishes ruins and continues to set groves of red bruorisvi pines ablaze.
Further, the high winds previously felt on the ground floor can once again be felt as the group steps outside.
Focusing on the stone ramp Zac sees a pair of enchanted caltrops that blend in with the masonry You think you may be able to squeeze around it, or you can try disabling it
Jakoby also notices further up the ramp there is a weak section of the masonry that could be ready to collapse. Similarly you think you can avoid this section, though you also could try to stabilize it.
Next to the weak section of the ramp, there is a seemingly clear path and doors attaching to the back of the Colossus's neck
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"Is that an Epic Poem you got there, Captain Astrid?" noting the rolled parchment.
"Maybe you could read it to us so we may draw from it some inspiration!" her red eyes giving away perhaps the playing of such lyrics in her own imagination as the party prepares to cross the threshold into the next room...
...either way Jakoby runs to the front of the marching order, Spiritbreaker first!
Astrid gets a thoughtful look on her face.
"It's not an inspirational poem, it's just a spell, but hmm...I'll have to think on this some more."
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Quinoline carefully picks apart a path through the caltrops.
Arriving at the broken masonry, Quinoline mumbles something about disposable culture and how people don't repair things any more.
"And NO SAXOPHONE IMPRESSIONS!" she yells at Astrid, seemingly randomly.
Without any flapping arms, Quinoline makes quick work of the repairs.