Tenpot draws his pistol and twists a small scope with an amethyst lens into place. He follows Aegis to the next room, peering into the darkness at the edge of the psychic's illumination through his scope.
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Illuminating the room casts an eery glow among the strange objects. Aegis leads the way out as he opens the door to the Conference Room.
A long table with equally long benches occupies almost the entirety of this conference room, files and papers abandoned across it. Documents and articles practically wallpaper the room, red string trailing between each, save for a floor-to-ceiling viewport that offers a view into the main warehouse. A set of maroon curtains offer privacy; though one is stretched across the viewport, its counterpart curtain is missing.
The heart of the Annex, this conference room was where formal mission briefings, brainstorms, and other activities would take place. A plaque containing the names of Archivists dead or missing in action rests to the side of the viewport; the list of names is long, with “Wendur Cricklee” as the most recently added.
Articles and reports from the Pathfinder Society cover the walls, connected with red string, perhaps you can gleam some information from it and the rest of the Research notes before this strange malevolent force gets too strong.
Vesperscale tries to connect the dots.
Tenpot scratches his head as he attempts to put the pieces together.
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The articles clue you inot a bit more information.
“At last, a lead. Historical reports of a town near Port Valen plagued by recurrent dreams of a white ox with a spinning wheel on its back. The reports are all clear—whenever the creature was unobserved, it vanished, to appear in another place. The townsfolk eventually tricked the creature into a cage, then assigned a pair to watch it at all times, holding it secure for a year and a day, before it eventually perished. Whatever we do, we mustn’t let him out of our sight.”
As another 10 minutes pass you feel the Weaver in Dreams force is getting stronger and stronger. A shockwaves pulses through the bulding as you hear glass shatter in the Research and Development room.
Vesperscale points to the north "Lets cross the hall and check out over there."
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Heading across the hall you find the Conference room. Circular tables and chairs fill this break room, one chair noticeably more worn than the others. Several burlap bags of brown rice, along with jars of dehydrated meats and fruits, rest under a table. The faint smell of coffee hangs in the air.
This lounge was an important place for archivists, where they would unwind after meetings or reinvigorate themselves to approach a difficult mystery from a new perspective or angle. In fact, so many cases were cracked over late-night games of drouge or a consolatory drink after a dead-end investigation that Archivist Vyi took to exclusively holding their mission briefings here, rather than the office or conference room, saying that the “spirit of the breakroom” would ensure the investigators never missed a clue.
An occult pamphlet on the nature of the Echoing Pale sits next to a half-drunk cup of coffee.
Yeah, more breaks. I like this plan.
"Ugh. I feel like we're going from room to room and not really getting any closer to figuring things out."
"Yeah, I think we might have to."
Vesperscale will work on the warehouse.
Toad goes back to the warehouse with Vesper.
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Splitting up you uncover another key piece of information as you uncover a new journal entry.
“The Weaver cannot be defeated. Whenever his mortal host is slain, he simply returns to the Dimension of Dreams, attempting again in a generation or two. I can’t let him succeed. I can’t expose my fellow archivists to this evil. I must seclude myself in the underground caverns, where hopefully, beyond the warding stones built into the Annex’s foundation, he will be unable to escape.”
★ -- ★ -- ★ -- ★
A rippling temporal distortion pulses from below as you hear a guttural and painful scream erupt at the same time from the most southeastern room of the facility. As Aegis is in the room he covers his ears from the sharp pain near him. A few years ago, the ever-bickering archivists Harachi and Ralt were caught in a blast of teleportation magic during the Transposed Mountain Incident, scrambling their bodies together as amalgamites. While they were brought back here for treatment, the two sadly expired. The ensuing psychic quake causes a minor temporal flashback that returns the echo of the amalgamites just before their death as it moves to attack Aegis.
★ -- ★ -- ★ -- ★
Though before you can react to much else Tenpots gets the sensation that there is something in the room with him as he researches the memory drive. He feels something invisible grab ahold of him as a great pressure begins to crush his mind. Looking back he spots a trio of sleek, dark niliths resembling hairless, emaciated tree sloths. It appears during one of the pulses that the containment field has failed.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
Tenpot
Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
Toad hustles back toward where he knows Tenpots is.
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Toadclobber hustles to the sound of something frightening happening. Aegis watches in horror as the par of screaming men's bodies sickenly split and rip apart like melted chocolate.
The pair of amalgamites begin to blink back and forth between this reality and the other they are trapped in. Part of this force breaks free harming Aegis' own form.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
➤ Tenpot
➤ Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
Peering into the failing containment field, Tenpot decides against staying in this room on his own. He dashes out the open door and into the hallway, where he sees Toadclobber rushing his direction.
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Tenpots recalls quite a bit about Nilith's resistances and weaknesses as he catches but a quick glance at them as he flees the door.
Aegis feels ill as he retreats as well, hurling a spiritual blast at the almagamation.
The Nilith's too begin to blink in and out of reality as they climb forth out of the broken containment field.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
Tenpot
Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
➤ Vesperscale
Vesperscale uses warp step to get closer faster and spends all 3 actions doing so.
Toad moves and tries to exploit vulnerability on one of the creatures in A8 (#2):
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Toadclobber recognizes the Nilith but doesn't recall any any known weaknesses.
The pair of Amalgamites reach the door. As they blink back and forth they both suddenly vanish, only to appear 50 feet away near Tenpots and Aegis.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
➤ Tenpot
➤ Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
Tenpot shakes off the sudden appearance of the horrible creature. He clears his mind of what he had recalled about the niliths, desperately trying to think of the best way to hurt this new threat as he fires his pistol at point blank range before quickly taking a step back while he reloads.
Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
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Aegis lets his power unleash, his psyche manifesting as whipping winds around him. He pictures a line across the area and then unloads with a telekineticc bombardment. His mind whips one of the tables on edge and pulls it crashing down in a line across the enemies.
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Tenpots can't recall any specific weaknesses and works on creating his own.
Tenpots blasts the shifting Amalgamite in the chest, causing it to shudder and warp.
Aegis whips a telekinetic storm through the hallway inot several of the now freed horrors.
The Nilith's push through the telekinetic storm as they play around in Aegis' mind. His mind becomes very muddles as the walls see to warp and alter themselves changing the layout of the rooms. As he looks about he sees nothing but Niliths all around him.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
Tenpot
Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
➤ Vesperscale
fail
Toad slices the Nilith 2. The steps back.
Vesperscale uses warp step to finish closing the distance before trying to skewer red with her longsword.
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Vesperscale and Toadclobber manage to wound both ot the obscurities as the Amalgamites aura has strange effects on your group.
The Amalgamites odd limbs batter down onto Vesperscale's shield and Toadclobber, though to be fair the goblin is probably used to it.
The lightly wounded Amalgamite near Toadclobber begins to quickly regenerate as the pair receive new bruises of their own.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Toadclobber
Amalgamite 1 (Red)
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
➤ Tenpot
➤ Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
Tenpot fires again at his amalgamite target, hoping to finish it off quickly before it can do any more damage. He quickly reloads, glaring at the monstrosity as he does, then sends another shot after the first
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Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
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Tenpots blasts a hole through the amalgamite as it tetters and falls to the ground becoming a statue once more. He then tries to deoralize the second Amalgamite with his prowess and bravery, though it seems completely unaffected. Raising his gun once more the second shot goes wide.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Toadclobber
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
Tenpot
➤ Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
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Having nearly wounded Tenpots Aegis' mind quickly snaps back to reality as the Nilith slowly climb in behind him, trying to break his mind.
+ Grab
+ Grab
Two of the Nilith's grab ahold of Aegis as the third one gets a decent grip onto Toadclobber. Tenpots quickly notces this and lets aout a loud sharp caw distracting the Nilith before it gets too deep of a chokehold on Aegis.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Toadclobber
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
Tenpot
Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 2 (Green)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
➤ Vesperscale
Vesperscale moves to flank Nilith 2 (Green) and strikes with a gouging claw.
to escape
Toad slashes at green….
+8
+8
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Vesperscale's gouging claw blade shreds through the Nilith's ribs letting the slippery Toadclobber wriggle free from its grasp and kill the Nilith for good.
The lone Amalgamite continues to regenerate. A strange sucking sound is heard as its melting limb sweeps across the air in front of it.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Toadclobber
Amalgamite 2 (Green)
➤ Tenpot
➤ Aegis
Nilith 1 (Red)
Nilith 3 (Yellow)
Vesperscale
Tenpot turns his attention once again to the nearest of the niliths. Taking a moment to bring them back to the forefront of his memory, he quickly reloads as he dashes to a spot with a better shooting angle, then fires!
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Your implement sings out abruptly, disrupting your foe. The piece played depends on whether the trigger was a Strike or Spell, and it applies to the triggering Strike or Spell, except where noted otherwise.
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"UNHAND ME! You !@#$%#%$^ I'll !$#%@%^ and your mothers @!#$%#$%&^%$&"
With magic unhindered by the grasping foes, Aegis unleashes a Blistering Invective.
He then blasts Red with a psionic burst: