Toad excitedly flips the pages, giving himself a paper cut. He feels compelled to hum a Goblin opera and watches with amazement as the wounds heal.
Wow now when king Zusgut clobbers me I'll feel better real fast. Like one of those big green people who heal up right away when you cut 'em. I forget what they're called, but they are hard to kill. Unless you got a torch or a sizzling bomb.
Vesperscale's voice comes out as more of a song than her normal words "I'm in pretty bad shape after that, but can probably push on if we need to."
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It takes several long minutes to to make sure everyone gets patched up, especially with Toadclobbers goblin techniques of sealing bleeding wounds with melted crayons.
Still in a bit of shock over your newfound powers you press onward into the tomb. Several stone coffins lie along the length of this large chamber. Each coffin appears ancient but bears carvings and decorations that remain relatively intact. A set of doors in the northern and southern walls lead out of the room. Larger doors allow passage to east and west.
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Aegis finds little of note in the room though the door to the far end. seems to shimmer as a magical shield of force blocks the path forward as it prevents contact with the door.
Peeking into the door to the north Aegis finds a library. Several large stone tables stand in this room, each spaced evenly. Shelves built into the wall hold hundreds of books, several of which lie open on the central tables. Doors in the southwestern and southeastern part of the wall lead in and out of this room.
Two monk warriors stand within the room talking in hushed but frantic tones. A small portal opens in her hand as freezing artic winds copletely cover one of the books in ice. The second monks body begins to fracture and break apart like a broken mirror as smoke and ash roil from within his body. "This isn't good Ximena. Look at me. I am a freak." His body breaks apart more in anger as he grows more and more hostile."[/b] As you enter the room the pair turn a bit disoriented from their new abilities and spring to attack.
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Monk 1 (Red)
Monk 2 (Green)
Vesperscale
Toadclobber
Tenpot
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Aegis sends the inkpot into the monk, bruising her shoulder. Injured the monk raises her hand to protect herself and as she does so a burst of artic air jets out through the portal created by her own newfound ability back at Aegis.
Aegis feels the chill, frozen air suck the oxygen from his lungs as the cold wind goes right through his clothing. The second monk ends up going through the eastern door to circle around.
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Monk 1 (Red)
Monk 2 (Green)
➤ Vesperscale
➤ Toadclobber
➤ Tenpot
(haunts, curses, and creatures of any type)
What color crayon… hmm cold is blue, or white… uuhhhhh…
Toad runs up to the monk who came through the door and attacks!
YAH!
Tenpot's draws his pistol in a flash as he reacts to monk's sudden aggression. "What's you're problem? I thought we were here to help." He quickly hops to the other side of Vesperscale, giving the monk engaged with Toadclobber the once over before taking aim and firing. He then quickly reloads his pistol.
Pistol: loaded
Ammunition Remaining: 48
Vesperscale moves across from Toadclobber and takes advantage of the flank to strike #2 with an empowered blow.
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Tenpot moves into range of the door and his pistol blasts a hole into the nearby wall as it misses. Aegis begins to throw anything nearby that he can as a large tome flings just past the injured woman. Tears stream down her face as she rounds the corner and finds her friend dead. "I can't control it. Please make it stop."
The portal continues to freeze everything it touches. She doesn't seem to be able to control the effect as her fist crumples in pain. It turns blue and begins to freeze in thin sheets of ice that build up more and more across her fingers.
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Monk 1 (Red)
➤ Vesperscale
➤ Toadclobber
➤ Tenpot
Uhh uncontrolled mutant powers are fun though?
Toad is confused but decides to help the poor guy and do nonlethal damage.
Vespercscale moves up and clogs the doorway as they take a shielding strike at the remaining monk.
Vesperscale follows up with a second strike.
Tenpot quickly reloads his gun, then pauses and sighs. "I don't know if we can stop it, but I suppose we'd better try not to kill you until we're sure." Lowering his gun, he instead pulls a mask down over his face, its features seeming to animate as he stares at her.
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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The woman seems visibly frightened, even more so when Aegis manages to swing the tome past her head once more. This seems to knock her out of her confused state as the strange portal cracks and folds in upon itself, rendering itself inert once more. She drops to her knees in exhaustion. "I am so sorry. Thank you for sparing my life." She glances over at Adabero's corpse. "Why did you come down here?" She looks back up with a tear-stained face.
"We're Dark Archivists yanked here by a smooth-brain book to kill the dirt shark! Sorry we clobbered your friend."
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"Not besides your way ahead has been warded with a powerful spell." She pulls a small chained necklace with a rune-shaped looking key from around her neck and holds it out. "This will unlock the ward, though you will need the second key from the monks in the room to the south" She holds it out with her good hand as the other one seems peranently disabled from the powerful magic she succumbed to.
"Let's go. Toadclobber makes his way to the room she pointed out.
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This plain chamber contains multiple beds along the southern wall. Two separate doors in the northern wall allow access to the room beyond.
A pair of monks were resting in this room when their own awakened powers manifested, astral projectioning in them far away. Unfortunately, their ability was too potent and their spirits are currently lost somewhere deep in the Antarkos Ocean, safe but unable to find their way back. While their bodies are alive, they are comatose and will remain so as long as they have their ability.
Tenpot looks around the room for a moment, then walks quietly over to one of the beds. Reaching down, he pulls out a small glass disc. "This seems like a focus of some sort. Maybe our key? We should check them as well."
Toad looks in his coloring book to reference the DOKtER chapter, which is full of scribbled spleens, gory hearts, squiggly guts, and noodly brains. Well, hopefully, that's what they are. Hard to tell.
With no other option you can only trust Smooth Brain Dr. Toad to heal you up!
"OK Tenpot." Dr. Toad inspects the sleeping monks while cross-referencing the pictures in his coloring book, hoping to learn more.
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Toadclobber determine's that the monk's bodies seem to be living and intact but their minds seem to be elsewhere as they reside in a comatose state.
Touching the pair of foci to the shield of force blocking the way forward it begins to slowly fizzle and dissipate allowing you to open the door.
This large hallway connects to other chambers in the area. The eastern hall has collapsed and is blocked by rubble.
Let’s go South.
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Heading south you peek into the rooms to the east and west as you slowly pass through.
This chamber contains several niches built into the wall. Each niche holds a body, most of which are fully decomposed.
★ -- ★ -- ★ -- ★
A number of bodies are lying in the various niches built into the walls in this room.
"Whatever it was didn't wake these dead at least." wryly notes Vesperscale.
Toad looks at one of the corpses and tastes a tin of gel he finds. "Yuck." He puts it back.
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To the west Toadclobber grabs a tin of gel. Seems Vesperscale speaks too soon as the pair hear a shambling groan to the east.
Glowing with a dull amber light, these odious creatures spawn from a combination of necromancy and fire. The trio of undead rise from their burial chamber and slowly shamble out the door and right into Toadclobber and Vesperscale.
Toadclobber is struck right in the side of his face as embers from the undead's flesh ignite getting in his eyes.
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Undead 1 (Red)
Undead 2 (Green)
Undead 3 (Yellow)
➤ Toadclobber
➤ Aegis
➤ Tenpot
➤ Vesperscale
"Aegis whyyyyyyy!"
Luckily Toad has seen worse dealing with firey props at the Goblin theater. He blinks away the soot and flips the pages of his coloring book:
Toad smears a cream-colored crayon onto his Toadslicer. "Smooth burn balm."
Tenpot hops back a step as he peers in at the undead creatures.
He pours a little tip of powder from a vial on his hip into the barrel of his pistol, takes aim over Vesperscale's shoulder, and fires at the red-hued monstrosity on the other side.
He then quickly reloads his pistol.
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.
Vesperscale opens with a gouging longsword strike.
Vesperscale follows up with a shielding strike, protecting herself with an arcane shield
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Toadclobber recognizes undead when he sees them and quickly attunes his weapon to have trace amounts of positive energy.
Toadclobber slashes his toadslicer across the undead, it seems quite effective as it the taut, burning skin splits apart with ease.
Tenpot follows suit and blasts a hole in the side of the undead's jaw, splitting it off from the body.
Vesperscales own blade splits through the creature's ribs twice more, shredding through the burning embers. The undead becomes unstable and explodes, sending fire and embers out 30 feet.
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Undead 2 (Green)
Undead 3 (Yellow)
Toadclobber
➤ Aegis
Tenpot
Vesperscale
Vesperscale ignores the exploding undead.
Tenpot gets a little scorched by the surprisingly large explosion, but avoids the worst of it.
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Aegis wings a piece of detritus right through the center of the undead, leaving behind a gapping hole. The force of the blow slams the creature back 10 feet into the door.
Crit for 16 + 1d6 Persistent Fire + Blinding Sulfur
+ 1d6 Persistent Fire + Blinding Sulfur
Vesperscale blocks the blow as both she and her shield take minor damage.
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Undead 2 (Green)
Undead 3 (Yellow)
➤ Toadclobber
➤ Aegis
➤ Tenpot
➤ Vesperscale
Toad again weathers all the bad things, thinking fondly back to all the horrific fires and explosions at the goblin theater.
OW OW OW!
After slashing twice, he scuttles back… badly hurt and on fire.
Tenpot, surprised by the intensity and size of the blast unleashed by the other creature's demise, quickly backs away before firing over Vesperscale's shoulder once more at the yellow-tinged creature before quickly reloading
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.
Vesperscale blocks most of the attack with her arcane shield.
Vesperscale then conjuers another biting spellstrike against yellow.
Vesperscale then raises their shield.
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Toadclobber slices the undead before scuttling out of harms reach, if even for a brief moment. Tenpots puts a bullet into the same creature's chest and both attacks are quite good, tearing through its weaknesses.
Vesperscale's blade sears in decapitating the undead, causing its body to explode in similar fasion hurting everyone around.
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Undead 2 (Green)
Toadclobber
➤ Aegis
Tenpot
Vesperscale