"Lady Pharos, can I wish to make this shaitan my slave?" Davod thumbs at the bound. "Or is that subject too taboo to consider?"
"I would prefer not to. There are many bad ways that could go wrong and I want the wishes to fix this place. Unless there is a spell that does that... planar binding? Sasha would that spell work?" She states rather plainly.
A bit unsure she states, "I, or any of us don't have the understanding of such spells. We would likely need to do a wish just to get that knowledge."
Then suli holds up his hands in surrender. "My humblest apologies. To all present." Davod bows to the angry bound shaitan.
"So, shall we ditch these two in a cave while we clear the island of gnolls?"
"Sorry, beautious creatures", Davod said to the bound sphinx and shaitan. "But we will safely leave you up here, while we deal with Obheresk."
Aukan's Warband drags the two bound creatures out of the sun, then begins to climb down to meet the forces of Obheresk.
westernmost pillar, concealed behind a graven relief of a
criosphinx. A DC 25 Search check finds the cache, which
contains 1,500 gp, 6 tiger eye gems worth 10 gp each, a
topaz worth 1,000 gp, a potion of lesser restoration, and a
blue crystal wand of false life (CL 3, 17 charges).
She takes her time looking for a way in... It takes her about 10 minutes and she finds that a 10-foot-diameter area lacks the faint inscriptions found elsewhere.
She takes her time and identifies the work of stone shape and wall of stone to cover something up.
She looks over at the golden skinned Shaiten and asks, "You have some abilities to weaken stone or metal right? We can beat you again or you can open the door."
He looks at the group and asks, "Do we have a way to get through it. I can start smashing..."
The golden skinned Shaiten nods her head waiting for the gag to be removed at least. She is obviously intimidated by Sasha.
Something on the western pillar catches Davod's eye. The suli takes out his dagger and pries open a hidden cache.
"Thank you for your blessing, Lady Desna!" Davod smiled, showing the others.
"Nice find Davod! What did you find?"
She walks over and bumps into Davod. She playfully says, "Another reason we keep you around."
She removes the gag with her dagger in her other hand. "Any funny business and we pummel you again."
Hesitantly she states, "Yes I understand. Yes I can shape the stone, we normally open it at night. Remove my bindings and I can shape the stone for you."
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With her hands free she sighs. Then casts the spell to shape the stone clearing a path to enter.
You do notice that there are no stairs or ladders. There is a 60 foot drop.
Sasha takes the rope and ties it to the rope around the gold skinned shaiten's foot bindings. She offers the other end to Aukan or Kazko. "Okay I am going to free your arms now. Slow and steady..."
He hands the rope over to Kazko and flies in with Sasha in his arms.
Alexandria offers to hold Kazko and help with the rope. "Yeah we are keeping her with us." She flies down slowly with the group on her. Leaving Davod to his own carpet.
"Those are not outsiders."
This bizarre, sixty-foot-wide chamber suggests the interior of twin
six-stepped ziggurats set base to base; the floor drops away in
five-foot-wide tiers mirrored by similar tiers in the ceiling above.
A shaft extends up from the ten-foot-square area at the highest
point above, while hanging in midair in the center of the chamber
is a blocky structure some twenty feet across, covered in an
intricate lacework of tiny, glowing, golden Terran runes, giving a
dim light to the entire chamber. At the widest point of the room’s
perimeter, where the two inverted ziggurats join, stand four large
stones. Yet in this strange chamber, perhaps the strangest sight of
all is the figure imprisoned in that floating stone block—a snakelike creature with a feathered reptilian head and delicate humanoid
arms seems to have been fused into the block, coils of flesh and
lengths of arms protruding here and there from the stone, its head
partially encased with only one closed eye free.
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Although no shaitans guard this chamber,
the room is far from unprotected. Two deadly constructs,
beings created of stone and shaped vaguely like gorillas
covered with jagged stony spikes, stand vigil in this
chamber. The ground and stone around them ripple and
extrude spikes, almost as if the latter were infecting the
nearby stone with their presence.
large constructs
Defensive Abilities construct traits;
Low-light vision.
Darkvision 60 feet.
Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, morale effects, patterns, and phantasms).
Immunity to bleed, disease, death effects, necromancy effects, paralysis, poison, sleep effects, and stunning.
Cannot heal damage on its own, but often can be repaired via exposure to a certain kind of effect (see the creature’s description for details) or through the use of the Craft Construct feat. Constructs can also be healed through spells such as make whole. A construct with the fast healing special quality still benefits from that quality.
Not subject to ability damage, ability drain, fatigue, exhaustion, energy drain, or nonlethal damage.
Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects, or is harmless).
Not at risk of death from massive damage. Immediately destroyed when reduced to 0 hit points or less.
A construct cannot be raised or resurrected.
A construct is hard to destroy, and gains bonus hit points based on size
DR 10/adamantine;
Seeing the creature with Alexandria she states, "Oh those are Spikestone Guardians, large constructs, likely keyed to a ring or item that controls them. They have damage reduction unless you are using an adamantine weapon. They are resistant to most elements, force if you have it. Immunity to all mind-affecting effects and has no discernable anatomy."
A bit forlornly she states, "Yes, like she said they are Spikestone guardians you will have to destroy them..."
Round 1
"Force got it. Sasha and I will take this one you handle the other one team!" Aukan orders and charges towards the guardian in the north. He throws Sasha over his head after she goes invisible. Then he lands before it. His hands before him ready to take a pummeling.
Round 1
She casts vanish and is flung over the guardian with ease. She lands with grace though no one can see her... but the construct!
She probably gets slammed once. Then attacks with one dagger.
Round 1
The Stoneguardian attacks Sasha more and misses every time.
The other one is still waiting for enemies to get close.
Round 1
She double moves down to the top of the ziggeraught. Letting Kazko go and still holding the rope and shaiten.
"Nice find Davod! What did you find?"
Davod open the bag for the goliath warlord. "Some nice coin and items. There looks to a wand of some kind. A puzzle for another time, I bet."
She walks over and bumps into Davod. She playfully says, "Another reason we keep you around."
The suli returns the smile to his hot paramour.
Round 1
Impressed by Sasha's rope use, Davod readies his weaponry. "Most of my weapons are best for enemies with living biologies. I shall try to flank as best I can. Lady Pharos, call me if the shaitan becomes more trouble than she's worth!"
Round 2
The suli maneuvers behind one of the stoneguardians, and strikes.
Round 2
Round 3
Round 1 - 3
Davod waits for Kazko to get into melee before dropping from behind carpet dropping him off behind the construct.
R3
Davod is able to strike and damage the construct on the third round helping Kazko take it down! Kazko gets more attacks in on the construct but it returns the attacks with equal ferocity. By the end of the 3rd round the construct is a pile of rocks. The rocks seem to be moving on their own and quite a few of them jump on you both! The individual stones appear to be fleas, a swarm of fleas!
Also at the end of Round 3 you see another Spikestone Guardian emerge from the door.
Round 4
Round 4
"Look! Another one!" Davod points out the rising Spikestone.
The thief positions himself to flank the construct.