Eovar continues moving to join the tall elf on the platform. "You are a disgrace, don't you know that?!" Nathatel calls out Eovar. "But I will spare your life just in case you change your mind or be a lost cause!"
Insteading of attacking Eovar the zealous tall elf blasts Khaldan with icy ray!
cold damage
He then raises his shield.
The Lemming Rat runs around the platform and bites Miss Sorbet!
Dretch gets down and casts Fear at Elias!
Party Conditions: Evil Interrupted (see below);
Inspired Defense - The next time an opponent would critically hit a PC with an attack roll, they instead get a regular hit against the PC.
Turninf Tides - Once, each PC can roll twice and take the better result on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. This is a fortune effect;
Ritual Effect - Roll twice and get a better result on their next saving throw.
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Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
➤ Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP)
➤ Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (10/15 HP) | Protective Ward (5-ft emanation)
➤ Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging) (21/21 HP) | DC 16 Will save vs Fear (see below)
➤ Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (26/26 HP) | Critical Success Overdrive
➤ Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
➤ Geshko (☘️ 0/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀➤ Animal (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
Lemming Rat (Blue) (- HP)
Dretch (Black) (- HP)
Nathatel (Red) (- HP)
Eovar - available
Elias - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Eovar - available
Elias - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is frightened 1.
Failure The target is frightened 2.
Critical Failure The target is frightened 3 and fleeing for 1 round.
Elias is easily Frightened 2 by the spell. His attacks is also a miss despite being at Rage.
Khaldan summons an animal that flanks the Lemming Rat. It bites and grabs the same.
Party Conditions: Evil Interrupted (see below);
Inspired Defense - The next time an opponent would critically hit a PC with an attack roll, they instead get a regular hit against the PC.
Turninf Tides - Once, each PC can roll twice and take the better result on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. This is a fortune effect;
Ritual Effect - Roll twice and get a better result on their next saving throw.
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Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
➤ Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP)
Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (10/15 HP)
Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging) (21/21 HP, 2 temp HP) | Frightened 2
➤ Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (26/26 HP) | Critical Success Overdrive
➤ Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
➤ Geshko (☘️ 0/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀➤ Animal (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
Lemming Rat (Blue) (-8 HP) | Grabbed (FF, Immobilized)
Dretch (Black) (- HP)
Nathatel (Red) (- HP)
Eovar - available
Elias - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Eovar - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is frightened 1.
Failure The target is frightened 2.
Critical Failure The target is frightened 3 and fleeing for 1 round.
Miss Sorbet pokes the rat once, enough to skewer it through. She then heads toward the elf.
Geshko shoots squarely at the elf. "How dare you, you filthy human!" Nathatel exclaims at Geshko after blocking it with his shield spell.
Meanwhile, Mibli makes the platform slippery for the elf.
"Ha! That is all that you can do against me?! Poor puppy." Nathatel chides Mibli.
Eovar's words bite but not his spear imbued with magic, unfortunately. He cycles the same magic for later.
The Rat attempts to escape the euryptid's grasp.
The rat is able to escape. It then bites the euryptid back!
The sight of fright makes it vicious, causing it to attack the frightened but raging Elias!
slashing damage plus evil damage , and 1d6 persistent bleed damage
The dretch is very happy of what it just did to Elias. It continues moving past the dying Elias and attacks Miss Sorbet!
Nathatel is also happy with what he just saw, almost ignoring what Eovar just said. "Do you see that? That's what your lowly friends deserve! Mwahahaha! Because we are the superior race! We are destined to rule the whole Golarion! But I will deal with you later when all of your friends are dead." he then walks out of the grease
easily and pokes Miss Sorbet with his spear sparkling with ice!
He hisses in frustration with that failed attempt to connect!
Party Conditions: Evil Interrupted (see below);
Inspired Defense - The next time an opponent would critically hit a PC with an attack roll, they instead get a regular hit against the PC.
Turninf Tides - Once, each PC can roll twice and take the better result on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. This is a fortune effect;
Ritual Effect - Roll twice and get a better result on their next saving throw.
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Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
➤ Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP)
➤ Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (10/15 HP)
➤ Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging) (0/21 HP) | Frightened 1; DC 12 to recover vs Dying 2; DC 15 Flat check vs 1d6 persistent bleed damage (from Vicious Criticals) at the end of your turn
➤ Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (26/26 HP) | Critical Success Overdrive
➤ Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
➤ Geshko (☘️ 0/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀➤ Animal (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
Lemming Rat (Blue) (-8 HP)
Dretch (Black) (- HP)
Nathatel (Red) (-12 HP) | Geshko's Prey
Eovar - available
Elias - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Eovar - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
After getting closer, the creature sustained by Khaldan flanks the dretch and slashes it.
Elias also attacks the dretch in retaliation. He tries to frighten it but to no avail before raising his shield.
Eovar brings a thunderous attack, deafening Nathatel for a while. His another strike misses though.
Miss Sorbet pokes Nathatel to show how to do it, the first one hits!
Geshko flies arrows at Nathatel after commanding Animal to join the others on the platform.
Party Conditions: Turning of Tides - Once, each PC can roll twice and take the better result on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. This is a fortune effect;
Ritual Effect - Roll twice and get a better result on their next saving throw.
ENCOUNTER MAP
Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP)
Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (10/15 HP)
⠀⠀Euryptid (AC 15) (9/9 HP)
Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging) (11/21 HP)
Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (26/26 HP) | Critical Success Overdrive
➤ Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
Geshko (☘️ 0/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀Animal (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
Lemming Rat (Blue) (-20 HP) |
Dretch (Black) (-17 HP)
Nathatel (Red) (-24 HP) | Geshko's Prey
Eovar - available
Elias - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Eovar - available
Geshko/Animal - available
Khaldan - available
Mibli - available
Miss Sorbet - available
Mibli moves and sends electricity, which Nathatel manages to avoid some damage.
Nathatel drops his spear and draws a pendant made of dark green crystal. He then activates it to open a portal of some sort. "The preparation is done! And you are all gonna witness it!" he exclaims before he enters the portal which suddenly vanishes.
Dretch, on the other hand, flees also after seeing that the elf is gone.
Khaldan (10/15 HP)
Elias (11/21 HP)
Miss Sorbet (26/26 HP)
Mibli (20/20 HP)
Geshko (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀Animal (11/11 HP)
The assault on Folien is soon broken, and demonic forces begin to fall back. Without knowing where he escaped to, though, the victory is an uneasy one.
Shortly after Nathatel flees, Fola Barun approaches, accompanied by Marilindae and several other townsfolk. The town’s defenses have the upper hand for now.” When they learn of Nathatel’s escape, a small group led by Iarrin, the silversmith’s apprentice, organize into a scouting party.
”Rest and recover for a while while the scouts look for Nathatel.” Fola advises the Pathfinders. Several of the townsfolk, led by Marilindae, offer their assistance.
”Let me help you.” Drawing a large blue gem from a necklace around his neck, he intones a prayer to Yuelral. With a flash of light, the gem is consumed, and a wave of energy washes over them.
In addition to Marilindae’s magic, several grateful merchants are among the citizens accompanying him. They offer each of the Pathfinder one common magical or alchemical consumable item .
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"Well...that could've gone better, but it could've gone worse," Mibli huffs. As Marilindae offers her assistance, Mibli's eyes grow wide. "You can...do that? Oh, I'd love to see it, please! I have a feeling I'll need all of my magical reserves that I can muster!"
"And, um...I'll take a spare healing potion, if you have any," Mibli remarks when the merchants come around with some wares they can afford to give up to the cause. "You can never have too many ways to mend wounds," she adds brightly.
Ever eager to help, the shoony soon turns her attention to helping with the search for Nathatel. She considers what they already know and what they've seen him be capable of.
He's got magical skill, but he said we were going to witness his preparations. That means he's still in the area somewhere, so that portal can't have taken him too far. He's probably expecting big search groups and maybe even divination magic to find him, but probably not individual folks skulking through the woods.
With that in mind, Mibli decides to take a more subtle approach and carefully pulls the hood of her cloak up and over her head before attempting to blend into the shadows...
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"I find no satisfaction with him still on the loose. What other terrors and shame will he bring upon our people. [small]Malvic...I wonder if you too are somewhere here helping the Pathfinders.[/small]" Eovar says before muttering to himself and walking over to those pulling energy from the ley to bolster his reserves.
As he sits cross legged, he breathes in the latent magic to refocus his powers.
Eovar adopts a stealthy posture as he whispers to his comrades.
"He may have eyes in these woods, we cannot all go charging through. I will go with a smaller party of our quietest to get our bearings in the area before returning back with information." Eovar says as he leaves to quietly scout nearby.
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"He got away, how frustrating!"
During the 10 minute break he will find a pleasant place to sit, then drinks the newly acquired potion.
Feeling quite refreshed he will then pull out his spell book and spend the time studying to regain his focus.
Once done he will join in the hunt for Nathatel, having a careful look around the town for recent signs of the megalomaniac.
The group is having a hard time locating the elf that escaped though. Hopefully, the scouts Fola sent will have a piece of good news to bring about the elf's location.
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Geshko checks Animal, calming him down from the battle and feeding him a snack.
He offers his Healers Tools to anyone who can make the Medicine check.
Appropriately enough, Geshko takes a Weapon Potency Crystal from the Cleric of Yuelral.
"Thank you for your help." He says quietly. "I'm going to see if I can find where he went."
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“On your feet, Pathfinders!” Eando Kline shouts, gathering the assembled agents where they sit recovering from the battle. “That smith’s apprentice is a sharp young elf and spotted Nathatel through a window in the temple to Yuelral near the center of town. What’s worse, they said he wasn’t alone. They had to duck out of sight before they could get a good look at his companion, but... well let’s just say they described lots of horns and teeth and such.”
“That temple is a center of powerful magic keeping this region of Kyonin safe.” Viore Ciobanu adds. “I don’t know what that traitor and his companion are up to, but I fear the ramifications could be dire. We must hurry to reclaim the temple!” With that, he leads the assembled company quickly to the temple, the exterior of which seems largely unaffected.
Eando glances carefully at the front door then, satisfied that it’s safe, he throws it open to reveal a shocking sight within. The peace and beauty that once filled this space have been utterly destroyed, replaced by carnage, death, and destruction. Bloody animal pelts lie discarded and draped over smashed and broken pews, and elven corpses lie crumpled in the aisles. Around the room, bright, colorful crystals have been smashed, littering the ground with razor-sharp shards. What were once large sets of wind chimes in all shapes and sizes are now twisted and rent scrap metal and broken wood. The walls drip with fiendish sigils painted in blood.
“Ah, there are the meddling outsiders this fool was mewling about.” A cruel voice calls out from the front of the temple. Standing behind the temple is an imposing figure, her jaws and antlers dripping with blood. She holds a cruel dagger with a jagged, blackened blade aloft in one hand, the other pinning the elf who led the assault outside to the altar. “Thank you for delivering my sacrifice to me.” She says, grinning down at the struggling figure on the altar. “You all played your parts perfectly.”
“Serraleth, no! This wasn’t our deal!” The squirming figure cries. “You need me!”
“You’re right, Nathatel.” She says, plunging the dagger into his chest. “I couldn’t do it without you.”
As the elf’s blood drips down the sides of the altar, a sphere of sickly green energy springs up, surrounding the dais. As Serraleth begins an incantation, tendrils of black energy begin to flow in toward the altar from the desecration throughout the temple. Viore quickly hurls a spell at the fiendish figure, its effects splashing harmlessly off sphere of green energy.
“It’s no good,” Eando Kline shouts. “We have to bring down that shield if we want to stop whatever it is she’s doing! At least we seem to have interrupted before she could finish whatever it was. That should give us an advantage in trying to stop it. Pathfinders, fan out. Do whatever you can to cut off the flow of energy to that thing!”
“We must bring down this accursed barrier!” Viore growls, clearly frustrated, as he casts another spell which fizzles against the sphere. “Do whatever you can to weaken it, and whatever you do, do it quickly!”
Elias - ???
Eovar - ???
Khaldan - ???
Geshko - ???
Mibli - ???
Miss Sorbet - ???
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"You'd think that would be obvious," Elias agrees. He grabs the end of the nearest bench--or, they call them "pews" when you're in a cathedral, don't they? He isn't sure why it needs a special name.
Regardless, he grabs the end and forces it up against the edge of the barrier to put pressure on it. Shoving the furniture around is probably disrespectful, but... well, it doesn't seem to matter at this point.
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"Well that was a quicker betrayal than I expected, but it was always going to happen!" Khaldan will agree.
Khladan will then set to examining how the barrier has been formed and how it might be linked to the ley lines of the town.
"Hmm, yes if we add crystals here and here it should reduce the energy inflow..." he will muse.
Eovar - Success, 1 Barrier Point
Khaldan - Success, 1 Barrier Point
Geshko - Success, 1 Barrier Point
Mibli - ???
Miss Sorbet - Success, 1 Barrier Point
Miss Sorbet looks for objects that might help weaken the barrier. Geshko helps out by knowing and countering what powers demons have in general, attempting to do something against it. Elias bonks spews and furniture in the cathedral onto the barrier to break it or something. Khaldan puts crystals and utilizes their powers to counteract with the barrier. Eovar aims for the weak points he is able to find on the barrier as well.
"I can sense the barrier weakening, but the energy feeding into the ritual must be cut off before it will fall," Venture-Captain Ciobanu tells them. "Go help with efforts elsewhere in the temple while I make sure your progress made here isn’t lost." he adds and dismisses them.
After the Pathfinders' attempts to weaken the barrier, black tendrils of dark energy snake along the walls and floors, spreading out from the altar at the front of the temple. Everywhere the tendrils touch, crystals grow cloudy and opaque, paintings char and blacken, and the statues and carvings on the wall writhe and twist into hideous new forms!
ENCOUNTER MAP
Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
➤ Geshko (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀➤ Animal (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
➤ Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP)
➤ Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (15/15 HP)
Armor (White) (- HP)
Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (26/26 HP)
Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging') (21/21 HP)
Dagger One (Red, Tiny) (- HP) | Flying 5-ft above ground
Dagger Two (Blue, Tiny) (- HP) | Flying 5-ft above ground
Khaldan infuses Geshko's weapon with magic. He also knows that the armor is an animated armor. Like normal objects, he knows that an animated armor has Hardness. It can be broken with a critical hit or if its HP becomes less than half.
Geshko might have overheard about this type of creatures, animated daggers in this case. They are constructs that has immunities to bleed, death effects, disease, doomed, drained, fatigued, healing, mental, necromancy, nonlethal attacks, paralyzed, poison, sickened, unconscious, in addition to Hardness they possess.
Geshko assigns Red Dagger as his prey and shoots it, critically hitting on the first attack, breaking the dagger into half.
White Armor advances and slices Miss Sorbet!
slashing damage
ENCOUNTER MAP
Other Notes: ☘️ - Hero Points
❖❖❖CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT!❖❖❖
Geshko (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +1 vs Prey's Attacks) (20/20 HP)
⠀⠀Animal (AC 16) (11/11 HP)
➤ Eovar (☘️ 2/3) (AC 18) (16/16 HP) | Delaying
Khaldan (☘️ 1/3) (AC 16, 17 w Shield) (15/15 HP)
Armor (White) (- HP)
➤ Miss Sorbet (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18) (17/26 HP)
➤ Mibli (☘️ 1/3) (AC 17) (20/20 HP)
➤ Elias (☘️ 1/3) (AC 18, +2 w Wooden Shield raised, -1 while Raging') (21/21 HP)
Dagger One (Red, Tiny) (- HP) | Flying 5-ft above ground
Dagger Two (Blue, Tiny) (- HP) | Flying 5-ft above ground