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Hearing the cries for help, Nal dashes around Elsha and skids to a halt at the edge of the rift. Nearly falling in herself, her arms windmill and she manages to flip her body like a squirrel to maintain control. Once steady on her feet, she ties a bowline with the rope Elsha had secured to the column and tossed toward the rift. Once the yellow-clad Pathfinder has hooked their legs into the loop of the rope, she heaves them up with all her might.
"Hang on! You're next!" She grunts to the dark blue clothed Pathfinder dangling nearby.
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ROUND 1:
Scratch
Franzine
Elsha
Azu
Whitegourd
Nal
Scratch fights his way to the edge and hauls Pink out of the pit!
Franzine sets her legs and hauls not one, not two, but THREE pathfinders from the pit!
Elsha moves closer and gets ready with a rope to catch anyone in need!
Azu?
Whitegourd summons a giant fly, who swoops in snag a slightly disgused but grateful grey Pathfinder from the column!
Nal uses Elsha's secured rope to help haul Yellow out!
SAVED: Pink, Light Blue, Black, Purple, Yellow, Grey
Azu hauls Green up with a superheroic effort!
ROUND 2:
HEROES MAY ACT!
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Scratch helps pull the exhausted Pathfinders from near the edges of the rift "Back away from that thing else its gonna suck us back in time! Ain't no one wantin' to go back to the 80s n them silly hair styles."
Scratch starts circling the rift widely, working his way towards Azu and the last stranded NPC.
Azu hauls to the rift's edge and is able to drag the final dangling Agent from the rift. A copper coin falls from the Pathfinder's pocket and Azu has a front row seat as it plummets into the rift and is shredded through all time. He shudders to think what that would have done to a person!
“The rifts are pulling us into the past,” Jirneau counters. “We need to force the Eternity Arch to seal these rifts, or we’llbe stranded here!”
Step one: Connect! To connect with the Eternity Arch, a creature must Interact to touch it. As you do, you take mental damage, DC 18 basic Will Save!
Step two: Attune! To attune, you must make a DC 19 Fortitude save as a single action while connected! On a success, it attunes to the Eternity Arch. On a failure, it becomes clumsy 1 (or increases its clumsy value by 1, to a maximum of 3) as the Eternity Arch temporarily ages it. Once a creature is attuned to the Eternity Arch, it can attempt to manipulate it.
Step three: Manipulate! To seal the rifts, the PCs must gain a total number of Manipulation Points equal to twice the number of PCs. A character attuned to the arch can attempt a DC 18 Arcana, Nature, Occultism, Religion, or Thievery check by spending 2 actions with the concentrate and manipulate traits.
Let's take this by Rounds. We'll keep the Rift initative order!
ROUND 1:
Scratch
Franzine
Elsha
Azu
Whitegourd
Nal
[ooc]Heroes are up for Round 1! Assume you begin standing adjacent to the Arch!
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"I knew it! We're all gonna be stuck wearin' them skin tight pants n fluffin' our beards out like crazed monsters!" With that fear firmly planted in his soul, Scratch reaches out into the arc, trying to bend it to his will.
If this don't work we're gonna need all the explosives we can get...
Heritage: Death Warden Dwarf
Source Core Rulebook pg. 35 2.0
Your ancestors have been tomb guardians for generations, and the power they cultivated to ward off necromancy has passed on to you. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a necromancy effect, you get a critical success instead.
Oh come on Torag, think of the beards!
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Franzine darts 88 miles per hour to the arch. She grabs hold and 1.21 gigawatts of power flow through her and makes her long blond hair stand on end. Her eyes rolling back into her head, she sputters and convulses from the ginormous amounts of energy flowing through her body.
Sounds erupt from her mouth as she tries to keep her hold on the Arch.
"Bbbbtthhh.... Gggrrrbbbtthhh... Pthhhrrrr... Bbtthhhhhh..."
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"Augh!" A flash of memory passes through Nal's mind of another time her mind got hurt doing stuff. Pushing through the pain, she forces her will into the Eternity Arch.
Finally, it "clicks" into place, and she can feel what needs to be done to close the arch. It's like a complex trap, but I can tweak this part here...
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Watching his teammates touch the arch and recoil in pain, Elsha is hesitant.
Finally, after they've all gone he works up the courage to approach it...
He does not resist, and the pain racks his head violently. Still, he holds on to attune...
It only gets worse as, through the attempts of his will and persistent rejection by the arch, his arms and legs start to feel like jelly.
ROUND 1:
Scratch
Franzine
Elsha
Azu
Whitegourd
Nal
Scratch, FRanzine, Elsha, Azu and Nal connect!
Scratch, Franzine, Azu and Nal attune!
Elsha spends his last 2 actions trying to attune!
Scratch tries to manipulate, but fails, spending 2 actions. Franzine spends 2 actions and succeeds fabulously! Azu spends 2 actions and succeeds! Whitegourd tries to keep their friends alive! Nal spends 2 actions and succeeds!
Round 2: Suddenly the ground heaves and bucks beneath your feet! The ground shakes violently.
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Scratch rides out the quake like he done it before "Reminds me of that time I rode that feral pig back to town, straight to the BBQ!"
Hero Point
Scratch switches gears, seeing if the Nature spirits will be more helpful... he gets a sharp rebuke of NO! "We ate the pig, it was the star of the show..."
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“Done!” Heraxia shouts. “Get out of here before—” Heraxia’s words are cut off as she disappears completely, shuddering back into existence a few moments later with a tear-streaked face. Looking confused, she shakes her head, then eyes the vault door with determination. “Seal me inside the vault, then go!”
As the surviving Pathfinders flee through into the Maze of the Open Road, Venture-Captain Armeline and Eando Kline hurry to the vault door, dragging it shut and sealing Heraxia inside the ovoid chamber.
Pathfinders gather inside the Maze of the Open Road, bloodied but alive. As time passes, nervousness flutters through the crowd. Suddenly, Armeline and Eando tumble into the Maze, panting from exertion. “It’s done,” Eando grunts.
“Wait,” Armeline interjects. “We need to give her time to leave...” After a few minutes, Armeline steps through the portal that led to Akiton. She returns moments later, smiling. “It worked! The Maze of the Open Road is repaired. We did it!”
A cheer goes up among the Pathfinders.
“It’s time to go home.”
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The surviving Pathfinders travel through the Maze of the Open Road, back to Woodsedge Lodge. As medics tend the wounded and fresh food circulates among the returning heroes, Venture-Captain Armeline Jirneau takes the podium. “Congratulations, Pathfinders! Each and every one of you has performed exceptionally, showing bravery in the face of danger and teamwork throughout uncertain, desperate, and—let’s face it—downright strange events. You should be proud of yourselves.
“On behalf of myself, Heraxia, and the Pathfinder Society, thank you for your efforts. I can’t tell you what will happen with Heraxia and Felise, but your deeds here today will echo into an unknowably distant future. And as for the present, well, I’m sure everyone back at the Grand Lodge will be eager to hear the tales of what you have accomplished here today.”