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Gortek hangs back a moment as Coptidel recognizes these constructs as necrophidius. Although the necrophidius is a mindless construct with no particular ability to comprehend the complexities of good or evil, these sinister-looking constructs are often crafted by evil or macabre creators seeking to imbue their guardians with a frightening aesthetic. Being constructed of mostly bones it seems quite weak against bludgeoning strikes.
His meteor hammer seems very effective as it shatters through several bones along the coiled snake body.
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BOLD: GO!:
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➤ Avonatha │
Coptidel │
➤ Frogger
⠀⠀➤ Piney
➤ Amarië │
Necrophidius (Red)
Necrophidius (Blue) │
Necrophidius (Green)
Necrophidius (Yellow) │
Necrophidius (Pink) │
Barad │
Gortek
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The elven wizardress move forward 5' and then begins to chant Ast reaer toes tonthei as a glob of acid merges from her hand to strike at red
acid splash 3rd lvl cantrip, crit
Heightened (3rd) The initial damage increases to 1d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier, and the persistent damage increases to 2.
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Avon splashes a bit of acid right into the skull of the wounded construct It sizzles and pops as the acid burns holes clean through the skull.
At the edges of the pit Frogger leans down and sends a shock into a pair of the constructs below.
Amarië steps around and sends a more powerful shock of her own into the pair.
The mindless constructs twist around to bite at Coptidel and Piney as the remaining three try to climb out from pit.
Alas noone takes any damage as the bites all miss and the constructs climb higher out of the pit.
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➤ Avonatha │
➤ Coptidel │
➤ Frogger
⠀⠀➤ Piney
➤ Amarië │
Necrophidius (Red)
Necrophidius (Blue) │
Necrophidius (Green)
Necrophidius (Yellow) │
Necrophidius (Pink) │
➤ Barad │
➤ Gortek
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Frogger continues with the electricity. "Let's see if this works again. I'm a bit rusty though."
◆◆ Cast Electric Arc on Pink and Yellow.
"Hey Piney. How you doing over there, buddy? Think you got this?"
◆ Command Piney - Strike twice
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"Frogger, I think you've got the right idea!" Amarië then casts electric arc onto Pink and Red, before taking a 5ft step behind Barad.
"I think you are much more suited for the front line than myself!"
(◆◆) Cast Electric Arc on Pink and Red
(◆) 5ft step behind Barad
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Barad acts quickly and decisively, stepping (◆) into the space Amarie left, then lowering his head with determination as he brings his flamberge down on the green-tinged creature with a power attack (◆◆).
(If applicable)
Briefly, over his shoulder, "Of course, m'lady."
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If an opportunity to attack (↺) arises from one of these enemies, Barad will take it, prioritizing enemies that have already been heavily damaged.
(If applicable)
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Coptidel looks around his companions with a confused face. His hireling did say that their bones were brittle, right? So why doesn't everyone use bludgeoning weapons?
When all you have is a hammer.He sighs.
This fling of thought passing, Coptidel returns to his fight. Since they are constructs, using the energy granted by the good gods would be a waste of time. As perfect Iomedae is, she is sure to understand.
Copidel finds two opportunities to swing his Meteor hammer.
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Barad and Amarië swap positions as their styles have complimented each other for some time now. Barad's blade shatters through half of the skeletal frame as it sends cracks through the skull with the powerful blow.
Gortek's axe absolutely destroys the construct as several bones fling back into the pit.
While Piney misses both Frogger and Amarië continue to send small pulses of electricity into the pit.
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BOLD: GO!:
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➤ Avonatha │
➤ Coptidel │
Frogger
⠀⠀Piney
Amarië │
Necrophidius (Blue) │
Necrophidius (Green) │
Necrophidius (Yellow) │
Necrophidius (Pink) │
Barad │
Gortek │
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The elven wizardress begins to chant again, her words filled with power and her movements bending arcane energy Ast thrhindon rupitrue melndor as a slick sheen of grease begins to cover the pit between 5 and 3.
You conjure grease, with effects based on choosing area or target.
Area All solid ground in the area is covered with grease. Each creature standing on the greasy surface must succeed at a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check against your spell DC or fall prone. Creatures using an action to move onto the greasy surface during the spell's duration must attempt either a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check to Balance. A creature that Steps or Crawls doesn't have to attempt a check or save.
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Seeing that her spell has worked, she chants once more and a mystical shield protects her
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Avon covers the sides of the pit in a thick sheen of slippery grease as the necrophidius begin to slip.
The sharp bones seems to barely have a decent hold in the stone walls as the constructs hang on tight. Coptidel's hammer quickly removes another of the constructs as it's body can't hold together any longer.
The remaining three try to leave the confines of the pit.
The necrophidius reaches for the surface just as it slips on the grease and plummets back to the bottom of the pit. Much to all of your amazement the construct falls much, much slower that it should.
The mindless construct squirms back up and begins the climb once more.
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BOLD: GO!:
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➤ Avonatha │
➤ Coptidel │
➤ Frogger
⠀⠀➤ Piney
➤ Amarië │
Necrophidius (Blue) │
Necrophidius (Yellow) │
Necrophidius (Pink) │
➤ Barad │
➤ Gortek │
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Barad nods his head to Coptidel, admiring the elf's swift strike even as the young human aasimar slides his left hand to the heavy pommel of his two-handed blade, pulling it towards him as a counterbalance to gain momentum for a new strike (◆) at the pink-hued creature:
...followed by a second strike (◆) at the same target:
He then whispers celestial words in arcane cant to cast Shield (◆) from his invested and Wayfinder-slotted Aeon Stone (Hardness 10).
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With his foe (Red) downed, Gortek moves to the other side of the pit and tries to hit the creature that has nearly succeeded in climbing to the top of the pit (Blue), again by using his two hands with his War Axe.
◆ Stride
◆ Strike with Dual-Handed Assault (against Blue)
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With one of the constructs drawing near the surface Barad deftly slashes it back down into the pile of bones below as Gortek shifts to the opposing side and destroys another.
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➤ Avonatha │
➤ Coptidel │
➤ Frogger
⠀⠀➤ Piney
➤ Amarië │
Necrophidius (Yellow) │
Barad │
Gortek │
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Avon's acid weakens the construct as Coptidel dives into the pit, his meteor hammer shattering the final guardian.
Coptidel lands on a pile of bones below.
Frogger and Coptidel notices something strange about all of the bones. There are four types of skeletons in the pits: Medium humans, Small tailed reptilian humanoids with a snout, Small ratfolk, and Large four-armed humanoids with a broad build and prominent lower tusks.
Coptidel is pretty sure that these are common species from the fourth planet out from the sun, Aikiton. In addition to the humans, you identify ikeshtis, ratfolk and shobhads. Furthermore, you realize they all died of starvation.
You explore the rest of this area, but do not find much of interest. Since it is secure, you can spend ten minutes refocusing, healing or doing other things while traveling on to your next destination. If you need any supplies, Zendel with the supply caravan, is always able to sell you things.
As you are walking back through the hallways, a small yellow rabbit hops into sight, gesturing frantically at the hallway it emerged from. Once spotted, it bounds away, back the way it came. This is one of the routes you have not explored yet.
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Barad breathes a bit easier after the fight and after offering to assist (aid another) any medics among the team, flipping the mask of his helm up to give him a better field of view. "I concur. Judging by what Avonathalanthalasa says, it could be trying to fetch us."
He will stay on-guard if the group moves forward on this, but will try to be less on-edge.
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Once the last enemy is destroyed, Gortek takes a deep breath and calms himself down (Rage ends).
He looks around to see if anybody is hurt and then looks down the pit.
He helps the others investigate the area and, as soon as he sees the rabbit, tries to understand better the situation:
After hearing Amarie’s suggestion, he agrees with that:
‘Let’s find out what’s going on with this rabbit!’
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Gortek looks toward the brunette elf:
’How do you know that the rabbit’s master is still alive, Avo? Do you sense his presence?’
Gortek thinks for a moment, frowns a bit and declares:
‘And is it really unknown territory or more so Pathfinders’s territory? I thought that the maze of the open road was a gift from a very old elf Druid to the organization?’
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From my understanding of the connection between a familiar and their owner, myself being a specialist with familiars, Wysiwygg Gortek, the link is severed at the death of the Master. The familiar will then revert to being a normal animal.
At the same time we do not know where or when we are at. The gravitational fields worked differently in the room where we battled the Necrophidii.
And as an aside, it is either Avonathalathalasa or Avonatha, not Avo
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The bouncing rabbit is traveling swiftly down the halls ahead of you. You quickly lose sight of him, though Frogger manages to spot bits of shed yellow fur at key moments to keep you following the rabbit.
As you are following the rabbit's trail, you catch sight of the errant familiar. Suddenly, the rabbit's ears perk up and it stops, eyes wide and body frozen in place.
Avonatha realizes immediately that the rabbit has tracked a dangerous predator. Sure enough, you all hear the sounds of tearing meat and a couple of low growls, then more tearing meat. Then everyone spots a large bear up ahead, gnawing on the body of a dead Pathfinder.
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It takes several minutes of Frogger coaxing the bear down a different avenue so that the rest of the group will pass. Though after some time the bear becomes a bit indifferent and doesn't seem to care about you at all as its belly is quite full now.
The rabbit leaves with you, and continues taking you through the tunnels. At the end of the tunnel you see a dwarven female Pathfinder, swaying in exhaustion and dripping blood from obvious bear wounds. She stands in a square not moving her feet at all. "Stop!" she calls, holding out the palm of her hand out for emphasis. "My name be Gloma, and I be a right idiot. I've likely killed myself, and I do not want it be on my conscious you die too. My partner and I, we ran smack into a cave bear. It killed him, and nearly got me, but I ran here..."
She points down at her feet. "That be the pressure plate I stepped on like a damn fool. If I step off, it will set off a nasty, nasty flensing trap. I be barely alive now..." She points at the rabbit. "I sent Topaz to find help. If you can disable the trap, wonderful. If you cannot... Could you take my will and testament?"
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Coptidel is ready to sacrificed himself for the need of others.
Then, Avona suggests using a conjured animal with equivalent weight. Coptidel feels relieved.
Still, he want to be prepared for a mishap. He use a Wayfinder of rescue.
He also go close to do a champion's reaction.
"Everything will be okay. We have a plan. It will be okay." reassures Coptidel.
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The group prepares as Avonatha summons a small riding pony oto the pressure plate. Gloma looks back cautiously as the group waves her onto them. Taking a few shaking steps she runs and makes it to safety around the corner.
After roughly a minute the pony disappears back to where it came from as the group is on standby to protect the pony and make sure it comes out of this completely unharmed and without a scratch on its body as the pressure plate lifts. Dozens of long blades spring up from the floor, ceiling, and walls slicing into the open air. With the pony gone it remains unharmed. Gloma begins to cry as her shaking hands thank you. "I thought for sure I was dead. Thank you so much."
You wave farewell to Gloma and Topaz. With the Pathfinder rescued, it's time for your group to start exploring again as you are not afforded much time.
You travel through the twisting and winding hallways, hearing a low moan. "Uby, Uby, wake up!"
As you rush forward, a tiny bat-like humanoid paces back and forth, tugging his long ears. “Oh, no, no, no! How will I get her—Ack!"
The little bat-like humanoid leaps back, and studies your entire group with wide eyes. After his eyes dart back and forth a couple times, he points at your wayfinders and starts jumping up and down. "Uby, wake up! We are saved! We are--" His ears droop again, as he looks down at a crumpled fellow bat-thing that is clearly unconscious.
He strokes her head and looks up at you. "You are Pathfinders, yes? The ones who use the maze? Yes! Wonderful! I am Paxle! I live in the Maze of the Open Road. Something strange has happened! My friend Uby and I sensed something off with a portal, so we left to investigate. We found this strange place and an even-stranger device. It was a ball of metal and glass with many moving parts. The device gave us fun visions! But after Uby's last vision, she didn't wake! Come, Pathfinders! Enter the vision and save her!”
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As Amarië starts to speak up in opposition, she startles at Barad's words, then starts looking behind her for Bentley. Cooing for him, "Bentley... Bentley, come on, give me the copper piece... I have some nice treats for you in my bag..."
Reaching into her bag, Amarië pulls out a trail ration, and starts holding it to distract the raccoon, oblivious to the other actions going on around her.
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"I, Paxle, will lead you through the vision!" Paxle picks up his unconscious friend, clearly straining under the weight as he rocks back and forth, trying to regain his balance. "Follow me!"
Frogger recognizes these pair of creatures as Nykteras, or bat sprites!
The desperate sprite leads you to a chamber with a small glass orrery keyed with numbers and letters written in a language you do not know. "See?! Ball of metal and glass! Very pretty! Pieces move! Visions come!"