Selann touches his ring, using the ability to cast a spell, and disappears. Once invisible he moves into the room, scanning the area for any dangers before approaching any of the prisoners.
Benedic frowns. "It seems odd that this place would be guarded by such fragile creatures only," he murmurs. "What do we know about the flying creatures that took them? Can they become invisible to our sight? They may be out hunting for additional prey. We must rescue our people before their captors return to harm them further, but I do not think we should rush ahead without care."
Caliban nods, Well Greta, Tristan, what say you? Forward?
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Tristan nods in absolute agreement with Benedic.
Anyone got a Daylight spell in their pocket?
Greta cautiously moves towards the room Selann disappeared into. With her hammer at the ready she waits outside for some kind of report from him or his return.
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Junior and Amelia cautiously enter the... uh.. entryway where the prisoners are being kept and whispers, "We're gonna get you out of here hold on."
He looks at the fourth wall blankly, you know the one behind the statues in the room.
Benedic shakes his head. "I do not have daylight, though I do have invisibility purge, " he murmurs. "I could pray for the former, but it would take about three minutes. I think we must proceed with the tools we have now. I suggest we all charge in at the same moment and force our enemies to reveal themselves if they are still here."
Tristan whispers instructions to Junior on how to do it properly....
Caliban nods at Benedic, Solid plan, ready everyone? he looks to the others and holds up three fingers, counting down to 1 and pointing, the elf yells GO! at the appointed moment....
Junior is confused for a moment as Caliban calls for a charge. He complains, "Hey that's my job." He still trudges through the rubble.
Amelia follows in glancing around but sees no threats.
Even though she knows they should be taking this mission seriously, Greta can’t help but chuckle at the boys’ shenanigans as she follows them in to the next room. She keeps her hammer at the ready, just in case things get serious quickly.
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Selann becomes invisible, and searches the room for dangers.
The party senses something wrong, and their caution bears fruit, as a pair of otherwise nondescript statues are shockingly revealed to be Gargoyles!
Gargoyle A rushes into the sky to call out for reinforcements.
Gargoyle B charges a flat-footed Caliban. However, the party's caution pays off as Caliban manages to block the charge with his black blade.
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Junior uncannily fumbles with his ransuer at the surprise charge.
Tristan--finally--saunters into the crumbling, dank, dark chamber without a worry.
Easy as....shit!
Selann spots the gargoyles as the monsters move, one to attack and one to escape. He spins on the escaping one, not wanting it to get away and sound an alarm. The prisoners needed to be saved! Muttering the words to a spell he quickly fires a ball of magical ice at the retreating creature.
Round 4
Selann takes a quick peek at the future to better his fighting and attacks the gargoyle with his dagger.
Tristan suddenly gets the cool image of Selann doing his thing!
I feel like you been holding back...
Greta moves further into the chamber to get a clear shot at the gargoyle that attacked Caliban. She raise her hammer as she moves and imbues it with a shred of arcane energy. Without any magical aid to help her accuracy, she exercises more control in her swing than she often had recently.
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The Gargoyle seeks to take to the sky and call for aid, Selann attempts to stop the creature, unfortunately his cold iron dagger isn't enough to pierce depply enough into the stone for the kill shot. The Gargoyle gets into the air and calls out in Terran. In the courtyard, the uncanny sound of stone wings beating the air respond in return.
The other Gargoyle deflects Junior's reactionary strike with a wing.
Selann, frustrated he couldn't kill the gargoyle before it called for reinforcements throws his dagger with unnerring accuracy, and narrowly avoids what is essentially a falling statue that cracks open upon the pedastal it took off from. Pulling the dagger from the stone like the short king he is.
Greta races into the room swinging her hammer counterclockwise, and using the momentum, and the arcane charge to pull herself to the gargoyle assaulting Caliban, and there is a resounding KRKKW! as her briefly enhanced weapon strikes its stony flesh.
The moonlight is briefly eclipsed by bat-like wings, and then our heroes see perched atop the walls of the room, looking in through the collapsed roof. Four more Gargoyles. The first one that lands shouts orders in Terran. It is a sound like gravestones scraping together.
Tristan surveys the approaching reinforcements. Seeing the height divided by the circumference...
Shit!
The Inquisitor sighs. He then reaches down inside for his Mythic abilities to present themselves, as he strides purposefully inside!
Caliban deftly sidesteps the attack, moving deeper into the chamber, and spinning the blackblade from a hanging parry into a heavy-two handed slash at the remaining gargoyle on the ground he takes advantage of Amelia's position to gain a flank on the grounded creature
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Junior starts to beat his drum and begins to sing, "I could lift you up, I could show you what you want to see, And take you where you want to be." It goes something like this, this.
He waves at the oncoming horde of gargoyles thinking, Ready for you now.
If an ally has her own rage class ability (such as barbarian's rage, bloodrager's bloodrage, or skald's inspired rage), she may use the Strength, Constitution, and Will saving throw bonuses, as well as AC penalties, based on her own ability and level instead of those from the skald (still suffering no fatigue afterward). Inspired rage does not allow an ally to activate abilities dependent on other rage class abilities, such as rage powers, blood casting, or bloodrager bloodlines; the ally must activate her own rage class ability in order to use these features.
Amelia grips her glaive tightly the song driving her to new heights of anger. She is ready for the attack.
Benedic moves closer to the gargoyle in the center of the room as he feels the magic of Junior's music begin to affect him. He swings the legendary sword he wields at the creature.
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Tristan surveys the approaching reinforcements. Seeing the height divided by the circumference... S!+*! The Inquisitor sighs. He then reaches down inside for his Mythic abilities to present themselves, as he strides purposefully inside! The gargoyles perched upon the wall look nervously at each other upon seeing the inquisitor enter the room.
Meanwhile, Caliban deftly sidesteps the gargoyle's attack, moving deeper into the chamber, and spinning the blackblade from a hanging parry into a heavy-two handed slash at the remaining gargoyle on the ground he takes advantage of Amelia's position to gain a flank on the grounded creature. The gargoyle, unable to effectively defend against so many targets grunts in pain when the blade stabs deeply into his hide.
Benedic moves closer to the gargoyle in the center of the room as he feels the magic of Junior's music begin to affect him. He swings the legendary sword he wields at the creature, his magic blade cutting deep into its rocky hide. The gargoyle lets out a breath like the sound of an opening tomb, as it dies.
Junior starts to beat his drum and begins to sing, "I could lift you up, I could show you what you want to see, And take you where you want to be." It goes something like this, this. He waves at the oncoming horde of gargoyles thinking, Ready for you now.
Amelia grips her glaive tightly the song driving her to new heights of anger. She is ready for the attack.
Sosiel leans down and checks the unconscious soldiers.
"Not just unsconscious, paralysed. Clever ghouls. At least they're stable. Let's deal with these gargoyles, I don't have the magic to restore their mobility," he grimaces, "Once we take down these gargoyles this may be the safest place for them while we clear this compound." He grips his glave in preparation for the oncoming attack.
A shaken character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. Shaken is a less severe state of fear than frightened or panicked.
Selann moves over by Greta, then just waits for the gargoyles.
Greta, not realizing that Selann was looking for her protection, moves over by Benedic and Tristan in order to take advantage of Junior's magic. She begins to rock in time with Junior's rhythm as she goes, and her hair lights up like molten gold. She raises her hammer and holds it at the ready, preparing to strike the first gargoyle that comes into reach.
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The lead Gargoyle leaps into the fray, drawing attacks from Greta, her readied sweep from her Lucerne hammer slams the gargoyle into the ground, and she follows up leaving nought but rubble, ichor and bone.
A smaller gargoyle swoops in, attempting to snatch Selann, Greta's hammer and Caliban's rapid sword sweep cut the gargoyle out of the air before it can even approach the halfling.
Another gargoyle narrowly dodges Sosiel's glaive, and is punished for its over confidence with a critical strike from the cleric, and a flurry of strikes from Junior and Amelia.
The final gargoyle, heedless of his ally's deaths charges at Benedic, and earns a slash from radiance for his trouble. His goring horns finding no purchase against Benedic's shining armour.
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Caliban accepts Junior's rage fuelling song, looping around the combat to close next to Tristan on the last standing gargoyle, sweeping his black blade before him as the exxaggerated muscles of his elven form swell with fury..
Junior continues to drum and sing, inspiring his companions to new heights of anger at their wretched foes. Again he copies the technique of his friends and infuses the ransuer with a little bit of stolen magic.
If an ally has her own rage class ability (such as barbarian's rage, bloodrager's bloodrage, or skald's inspired rage), she may use the Strength, Constitution, and Will saving throw bonuses, as well as AC penalties, based on her own ability and level instead of those from the skald (still suffering no fatigue afterward). Inspired rage does not allow an ally to activate abilities dependent on other rage class abilities, such as rage powers, blood casting, or bloodrager bloodlines; the ally must activate her own rage class ability in order to use these features.
Amelia continues to dance fight spurred on by Junior and the others.
Benedic swings again at the gargoyle that charged him.
Greta debates trying to circle around behind the gargoyle to avoid the congestion of her fellow combatants, but with only one gargoyle left she decides to just take her chances where she is.
Tristan remains steady just appreciating his companions prowess in battle.
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Surrounded and doomed, the gargoyle is swiftly destroyed by our heroes. Leaving little but rubble and ichor behind.
After the heat of battle, this chamber becomes quiet with only the exerted breathing of the heroes, and the shallow breaths of the paralysed crusaders just rescued. In the distance our heroes can hear the muffled and distant sound of enthusiastic chanting and singing.
Taking stock of the space you're in, the sharp tang of musty, decaying straw fills this large stable.
Its easternmost wall has collapsed into a steep pile of broken
beams and rocks that blocks the way to the other side. A large
mound of discarded weaponry lies amid the rubble, a pair of large double doors are closed to the East.
Most of the weapons are broken beyond repair, but a few still
remain serviceable, including a masterwork battleaxe, a +1
longsword, three cold iron daggers, and a +1 cold iron longspear
Caliban looks around, quickly trying to find some way to hide the unconscious crusaders. Help me hide them? he asks the others.
While they hide the soldiers, Caliban asks, Should we clear all the other chambers before going to where the cultists obviously are? No surprises behind us?
”What if the chanting is some kind of sacrifice?” Greta asks with concern while helping to hide the paralyzed soldiers. “This isn’t everyone they captured… what if they’re doing something awful to the others? I think we should head for the chanting first.”
"Damn ghouls saliva is nasty stuff. Don't worry y'all they'll be fine in an hour. Amelia and Sosiel, do you want to watch over them while we look for the others?"
Amelia nods grimly, "Sure thing, but we won't be able to stand against anything more than a single gargoyle. If you hear my guitar you better run back here."
Taking heed of Caliban's idea she tries to maneuver the soldiers out of view.
At the final gargoyles fall, Tristan takes up a sentry rotation of their immediate area, as the others finalize the details.