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Hopefully they didn't see her.
Henri's doing that Bless trick her father does.
And Argoni knows they are wights.
Uhhh... let's toss the holy water and get lucky.
& 1 good splash damage
It's the thought that counts.
Swayaah emerges from cover and roars at the Red Wight.
>Intimidating Glare<
Oh yeah, this is going just great.
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Not having much luck devising any sort of plan Swayaah changes her target, tossing a holy water at one of the wights. The vial misses as it splashes the the single wight.
Argoni knows they are undead wights but seems to recall little else of their deadly capabilities. A thick mist forms around Argoni as he tosses a fire pot at the wights as well. The pot hits the undead right in the chest as fire leaps between the pair.
Meadow commands Silence to continue assaulting the skeletons, but try as the owl might it fails to get past scratching the shield. Meadow uses her rapier to first crack one of the skulls and then burst it in half as the skeleton falls.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Argoni
Meadow
⠀⠀Silence
➤ Aldonza
Skeleton (Pink)
Henri
Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
Wight (Green)
Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
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Aldonza smiles at the approaching wights. ”Ah, a new audience!”, she declares.
”You come in from the cave,
Beside a babbling brook,
But now you doomed your slave,
Because I…”
She turns to the skeleton, and throws her hammer at it.
”…made you look!”
She then draws the sword from her marotte.
vs wight’s Will DC
B, +3 with Panache
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Aldonza has just enough panache but fails to end the performance on a high note.
The lone remaining skeleton heals slightly as it fights back against Meadow.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Argoni
Meadow
⠀⠀Silence
Aldonza
Skeleton (Pink)
➤ Henri
➤ Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
Wight (Green)
Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
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Henri looks at the area where the wights came from.
Henri cannot know anything about the area he finds at the moment. Anyway, he sustains the Bless spell for everyone around him.
"I am not sure what that place is, but I feel it has something in it." he shares to them.
◆◆ DC 19 Religion about the Barrow
◆ Sustain a Spell, Bless
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Henri sustains his spell as he tries to figure the barrow's secret out, but can't come to any significant conclusions. Yakuthiel fights back but can't get past the steel shield.
The pair of wights raise massive bastard swords high into the air as they leap onto Argoni.
The wights miss as one continues to burn, just before the flames snuff out. Unfortunately their wounds continue to heal from the necrotic energy of the Barrow.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Argoni
➤ Meadow
⠀⠀➤ Silence
➤ Aldonza
Skeleton (Pink)
Henri
Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
Wight (Green)
➤ Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
"Screech!" Silence shrieks his agreement and moves in for the kill.
extra damage on the first hit.
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Argoni flinches as the attacks come, but then he looks down at himself and checks for wounds. "Ha! Ha!" He laughs at the wights when he finds none. The feints at throwing another bomb at the wight, then whirls and tosses it over the group's heads at Pink, before then hurling another pot of fire at the wight with his other hand. "Ha! Like that?"
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Swayaah can't seem to gather enough thoughts to form reasonable information on either the barrows or the wights. Though she does manage to slightly frighten one of them.
Argoni knows that when a wight dies it makes one final spiteful attack to whomever is nearby before perishing. Argoni tosses bombs to either side of him burning both wight and skeleton alike.
Meadow sends Silence in as both her blade and the owl smash into the shield. The shield begins to show signs of cracking as Meadow's blade deflects into the sunken eye socket, killing the skeleton.
With the skeleton taken care off all that remains is the wights. Aldonza meets the head on, her sword cane stabbing through its chest.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Argoni
Meadow
⠀⠀Silence
Aldonza
➤ Henri
➤ Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
Wight (Green)
Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
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Yakuthiel thrusts his blade back and forth into the undead. It delivers wounds that would have killed any ordinary living man, but yet the dead still move.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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Argoni
Meadow
⠀⠀Silence
Aldonza
➤ Henri
Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
Wight (Green)
Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
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Henri's spell incinerates the wight as it collapses to the ground screaming and twitching before falling still once more.
The remaining wight continues to heal as it slashes its bastard sword at Argoni once more.
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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Argoni
➤ Meadow
⠀⠀➤ Silence
➤ Aldonza
➤ Henri
➤ Yakuthiel
Wight (Red)
➤ Swayaah
DC 26 (crit success), second success by another PC, or DC 18 as second check after first success:
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Argoni screams as the wright stabs him with a dark blade and he feels the life being drawn out of him. The halfling scrambles back, away from the wight, as he fumbles into his satchel. He comes out with the ghost bomb and hurls it at the undead. Then he grabs another and throws it; it turns out to be a lightning bomb and electricity rocks both the wight and Swayaah.
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He could have chosen to back out from the Wight he just attacked but it is too late that the enemy takes the chance to connect with him with a final act of sacrifice, he thinks. Fortunately, he is able to resist the effect of whatever is done to him.
This time, he disperses positive energy to heal himself and the others that are hurt, and harm the undead that is within it.
◆◆◆ Cast a Spell, Heal, HP for self and allies (Argoni, Meadow), and same positive damage vs DC 19 basic Fortitude save from undead within 30-ft emanation.
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Your combined efforts are plenty to kill the wight for good.
As you look down, you can see the component parts of the thing reforming… it will take a while, but the undead here will reform unless you can somehow sanctify this area.
The barrow is the source of the necromantic energies — it's a curse! It was stronger… much stronger… when Voth was here but has weakened over the centuries. It's weak enough now that you could break the curse permanently if you can do so while the undead are vanquished.
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Henri does not hesitate to check the barrow. After defeating the last wight, he quickly crosses the river through the fallen log and approaches the barrow where the wights come from. Feeling the necromantic energies emanating from it, he thinks it is wise to maybe suppress it or eliminate it with positive energy. "Let me try to handle this." Henri tells the others while motioning them to follow him, just in case more wights reveal themselves and attack. And with that in mind, he disperses a burst of positive energy nearby the barrow and sees if it works.
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Henri and Swayaah perform a ritual, with the help of the rest of the party, and suddenly the sunshine seems a bit brighter, like a cloud moving away from the sun. The bones of the undead cease coalescing, turn to ash, and float away on a breeze.
The site is now permanently cleansed.
★ -- ★ -- ★ -- ★
Inside the barrow, you find your prize: it's filled with valuable coins, jewelry, and gems. You feel fine taking them now that the area is hallowed once again.
A stone has been pried loose and then set back in its place… backward. Hidden inside, wrapped in waxed cloth, is a small, brassy knob with a rotatable viewport. The cloth also has an encoded note from Gregaro Voth written on it. It contains a secondary decoding cipher and a request that the future generations of Pathfinders cleanse this barrow, as Voth was unable to do so when he was alive.
With the primary cipher, it's clear that the log is hinting at a fourth site, but the Pathfinder Society won’t be able to confirm its existence or location until the documents have been fully decoded.
★ -- ★ -- ★ -- ★
Soon enough, a Pathfinder transporter arrives along the trail you marked and uses teleportation magic to carry you back to the coast and the Risen Albatross.
Venture-Captain Stella Fane smiles as she clinks her glass full of run against each of yours. "Once them eggheads figure where to go next, ye shall indeed receive an offer to participate!"
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Swayaah kneels and is has a lot to be thankful for.
Her father is free.
Her mother's rage is calm.
Even Fae seems to be helpful without being clingy.
If Shelyn is listening, thank you. For everything.
She feels serene. And the land agrees with her.
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Back on the Risen Albatross, Swayaah takes a shot. "Oh man, that's quite a kick! We wiped out some undead, solved a mystery and... I still don't know anything about Serpentfolk!"
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Henri is relieved that their efforts to cleanse the barrow made it hallow. He helps collecting and recording the treasures they found, noting them to their report for the Society. Back to Risen Albatross, he joins with the venture-captain for the success of their mission. "The log hints another site and I hope the Society allows me to participate in the mission once the Society is able to decode it and chooses to explore it." he tells the venture-captain.