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The only room left with anything of import is the one to your South East, and it is not combat.
Stone shelves built into the walls here store books, ledgers, and other documents. A desk with an oil lamp provides space for a solitary researcher to investigate the materials.
The records the dwarves brought with them on their journey proved to be too heavy to continue carrying, and so the dwarves created a repository in this hall. While many of the materials crumble when touched, what remains provides a picture of a life disrupted.
You uncover a a picture of the calamity that affected the city. Several ledgers remain that show bustling trade in both Raseri Kanton and Jernashall prior to 3980 ar. Diaries speak of a well-functioning, thriving society with little mention of unrest until a volcano erupted and forced the inhabitants to flee.
In 3980 ar, the volcano Torag’s Crag erupted in a sudden, cataclysmic event that came to be known as the Rending. The volcano had begun to show signs of impending eruption in the early 3900s, but the dwarven kingdom of Tar Khadurrm around and under the mountain ignored the warning. Tar Khardurrm’s underground capital city Jernashall was overwhelmed by magma flows, and its sister city of Raseri Kanton, on the surface, was destroyed when it fell into the open earth. This led to a great decline for Tar Khadurrm, which descended into bickering and fractured alliances until it finally collapsed almost 500 years later.
The dwarves of the Five Kings Mountains would go on to rename the mountain Droskar’s Crag, after the reviled god of cheating and endless toil. Over the following centuries, the caverns beneath became home to exiles and wandering monsters, and the mountain picked up another ominous name: the Pallid Peak.
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On our way to the Sunken Halls. You take another 8 hour rest on the way.
The Sunken Halls
At the bottom of a lake, the entrance to the Sunken Halls offers underwater passage to a worked stone room beyond. Before you enter the water, the Society provides each of you with a potion of water breathing. Past Society expeditions have placed a guide rope that leads directly to the entrance to the mapped chambers, enabling you to reach this area without rolling a skill check.
You see a passage leading South.
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Tandang also drinks the potion of water breathing provided to them. He also helps Plantina drinks her own from a tiny bottle. They proceed underwater. "Woah." is all he can say as he can see himself breathing underwater. "This is so cool. My first time really." he says while looking at Plantina swimming and floating aimlessly. He grabs him before she could wander farther from them. "You better stick with me. Ha!" He puts her into a loose pocket in which the leshy hides, only revealing her head. He also draws his weapon shield, though not sure if it is actually needed.
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Moving things forward, you move into the room to the South.
Faintly glowing algae tints jagged stone walls in a green light.
A fine silt that clouds the water with every movement covers the bottoms of the chamber, though it settles seconds later.
Clearly manufactured steps start at the base of the floor and sink to deeper waters in the flooded room to the east.
This room is 20 feet tall, but all but a sliver of air near its ceiling is filled with still water (DC 10 Athletics to Swim). The rough stone wall provides natural handholds that you can use, so long as you are careful not to grab onto anything sharp. While adjacent to the walls, you can use the handholds to Climb instead of Swimming (the DC of the Athletics check to Climb along these handholds is 10).
Well-crafted but oversized steps lead down from this area to another cavern to the east.
Each step goes down by 5 feet.
The jagged walls have been sharpened to an edge from the teeth of the creatures that live here. Any creature or object Pushed into the walls takes 1d6 piercing damage.
Big Lobster thing 2 moves over and swipes at Miss Sorbet
◆ Stride
◆ Strike
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◆ Grab Miss Sorbet
Reefclaw Venom (poison) Saving Throw DC 17 Fortitude
Maximum Duration 4 rounds;
Stage 1 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (1 round)
Stage 2 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round)
Big Lobster thing 3 moves over and swipes at Lendaru
◆ Stride
◆ Strike
◆ 2nd Strike at Lendaru
Reefclaw Venom (poison) Saving Throw DC 17 Fortitude
Maximum Duration 4 rounds;
Stage 1 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (1 round)
Stage 2 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round)
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2
Big Lobster thing 3
Miss Sorbet (-12 HP & DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-5 HP & DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Dalea Obova
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I assume Miss Sorbet is attacking the Lobster thing that had grabbed her.
Miss Sorbet feels like the poison is starting to affect her, but then she get s a strange feeling of Deja Vu and the poison clears her cotton filled veins.
She ducks out of the lobsters claws and attacks the creature that had held her, hitting it slightly.
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-3 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3
Miss Sorbet (-12 HP)
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-5 HP & DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Dalea Obova
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Elduin steps forward and mentally yanks a piece of sharpened stone off the wall and impales Big lobster thing 3.
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-3 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3 (-9 HP)
Miss Sorbet (-12 HP)
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-5 HP & DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Dalea Obova
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Eltis heals Miss Sorbet.
Big Lobster thing 1 moves over into the only gap they can see and swipes at Lendaru
◆ Stride
◆ Strike
◆ Grab Lendaru
Reefclaw Venom (poison) Saving Throw DC 17 Fortitude
Maximum Duration 4 rounds;
Stage 1 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (1 round),
Stage 2 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round)
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-3 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3 (-9 HP)
Miss Sorbet
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-9 HP, Grabbed & 2* DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Dalea Obova
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Tandang hits one of the lobster-esque creature with a chilling ray, perhaps trying to chill it for later use in a bisque?
The puffy fish moves up but does not see an opening to attack the party.
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-3 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3 (-9 HP)
Miss Sorbet
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1 (-6 HP)
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-9 HP, Grabbed & 2* DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Poison)
Dalea Obova
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Dalea successfully maneuvers to distract one of the Lobster creatures. Her first strike hits the creature, wounding it.
Lendaru fails to resist the first lot of poison from his wounds, but manages to fight off the second.
Then Lendaru charges his Greatpick and lashes out at Lobster thing #3, striking it twice. It drifts toward the surface, lifeless.
As a stuffed animal, Miss Sorbet seems particularly inviting as a target for the Lobster creature.
◆ First strike at Miss Sorbet
◆ Grab Miss Sorbet
◆ Constrict Miss Sorbet, DC 17 Fort save to avoid
Reefclaw Venom (poison) Saving Throw DC 17 Fortitude
Maximum Duration 4 rounds;
Stage 1 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (1 round),
Stage 2 1d6 poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round)
Initiative
Round 2
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-11 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3 (-9 HP)
Miss Sorbet (-4 HP DC 17 Fort save or Reefclaw Venom, DC 17 Fort save or 3 constrict damage)
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1 (-6 HP)
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4
Lendaru (-9 HP, Grabbed & Reefclaw Poison Stage 1)
Dalea Obova
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Elduin telekinetically damages the Puffy Fish and Lobster thing 1, and they aren't strong enough to resist.
He then stabs at Lobster thing 1 with his spear. It appears the spear catches the Lobster thing in a vital organ, as it momentarily shudders and begins to float upward lifelessly.
The poison settles in to Miss Sorbet's stuffing? but she manages to squirm enough to avoid the squeeze.
She struggles to get out of the Lobster thing's claws, but can't quite get away. She does manage to energize her invention, but misses with her attack.
Eltis casts a spell on Miss Sorbet to make her less appetizing.
Initiative
Round 2
Bold may act
Big Lobster thing 2 (-11 HP)
Big Lobster thing 3 (-9 HP)
Miss Sorbet (-8 HP Reefclaw Poison Stage 1 and grabbed by Lobster thing 2, Sanctuary DC 17 Will save to attack her)
Eltis
Elduin Nerifiel
Big Lobster thing 1 (-13 HP)
Tandang Boreas
PuffyFish 4 (-4 HP)
Lendaru (-9 HP, Reefclaw Poison Stage 1)
Dalea Obova
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OK Pathfinders, the staff at the Pathfinder Base camp will cure your wounds and resolve any remaining Poison issues overnight.
You saw the entrances to both ways forward earlier. Please review what you learned and let me know which path you wish to take, the Temple Route or the Caravan Route.
And no more underwater combat.
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The Temple Route it is.
This is a dark area with 10 foot ceilings, so some of you need lights.
After passing a number of empty rooms in the Northern part of the temple,
Something has torn the stone tiles from this room, exposing red-streaked white soil beneath. Sections of the wall have collapsed or been torn apart, changing the room from the typical, straight lines of worked stone to a more organic shape almost like that of a skull. A sickly green altar radiates light from a fire etched into it.
There are several hostile creatures here.
Initiative
Round 1
Bold may act
Eltis
Miss Sorbet
Tandang Boreas
Wet Fiend 3
Dalea Obova
Fiend 2
Elduin Nerifiel
Lendaru
Fiend 1