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In a low rasp, Ghul orders the creature to banish itself. He then crashes down upon it with his shield, and readies to defend the counterblow!
◆) Raise a Shield
◆) Demoralize
◆) Strike
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↺) Glimpse of Redemption
↺) Shield Block
~) First to trigger
Unifax will place his head beneath Ghul's arms - together, they will stitch their sustained wounds - they invite Hadrimos into their circle - a healing trance that lasts 20 minutes...
◆) Lay on Hands (+6 @ Unifax/Ghul)
~) Refocus
◆) Lay on Hands (+6 @ Hadrimos)
~) Refocus
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Debris fills this area. The scars of a battle long past mar the walls, both from physical weapons and magical attacks.
You find the remnants of a book under a broken table against the east wall. Most of the pages have been torn out, but the first few are present, written in crisp, clear Common. Though some of the phrasing is antiquated, you can read it without any trouble.
The incomplete notes are the first portion of Alystair Caskwater's journal. He seems to have been a self-styled monster hunter and warrior. His name has been lost to history and is unfamiliar to even the most scholarly PC. The writings detail Alystair's plan to travel with his retinue to the Netherworld to take on a mage native to that plane who was suspected of weakening the barrier between planes and attacking some rich patron on the Isle of Kortos centuries ago.
DC 15 Society/PFS Lore
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Seem like he came here to give it a good seeing to. And I've never heard of him either. Maybe Seshuun has. I'll ask her when I get back.
The smell of rotting offal and blood fills this room. A spout of blood flows from the north wall into the pit below. The pit is half full, blood and offal making a viscous, stinking stew. A carving on the eastern wall depicts a giant figure raising a massive stone from the sea and an island with it. The carving also shows a reflection beneath that raised island of a shadowy land emerging as well, as if reflected in the sea, only the lack of the giant figure and the massive stone indicates this is more than a reflection being depicted.
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Clutching his holy symbol to Mother Vulture, Ghul kneels, his rusted armor creaking to accommodate the movement, and whispers a prayer that what has stewed here be prepared to be distributed into the soil back on his home plane.
"We must empty this pool"
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"Stand back. I know just what to do. It is sucking the very life from us. If I clog the intake port with some of this dead material, it should mask the life energies and keep it from finding ours and drawing from it."
Achurius collects some entrails, long since past their prime and stuffs it in some holes. The room responds by trying to expel the material, but Achurius holds it firmly in place.
"Anyone have any ideas how to keep this abyssal contraption from spitting this out? I can't just stand here forever."
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Achurius counteracts the energies. The supernatural smell of offal in the room decreases after a few moments, and you can make proper note of the inscriptions on the far wall.
DC 14 Arcana/Occultism or DC 8 Netherworld Lore
You may take a rubbing or document the inscriptions in this room if you like.
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"Only one way to find out. Keep looking. Also the only way we are getting out of this place."
Achurius is anxious to get moving. Even with the plug in place, the room smells gods awful. the thought does cross his mind that they should probably sift through the crap to see if there is anything hidden, but no way he's going to suggest it except as last resort.
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Signs of another battle fought long ago are in abundance: scorch marks cover walls made of uneven stone, slashes from blades and arrows scar the walls further in, preserved in this collapsed extraplanar demesne. The fighting here seems to have been much more intense than in the earlier chamber.
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Ghul examines the overlooked document.
"Another torn page in the rubble" he reads it "Another journal page of Alystair Caskwater's" he keeps reading "They continue to hunt the mage across Shadow Kortos, and through the dark reflection of the Uromaz Citadel" narrowing his eyes "The last entry indicates that they planned to trap her within by collapsing the citadel above into a massive pile of rubble to kill her and return home"
Looking up, he examines the stonework above him, as if it will suddenly collapse.
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A long corridor exits into a much larger chamber, its north wall filed with an enormous carved stone mural, this time of a great battle against a draconic foe. Depicted within the mural, a great many faces stand behind a singular individual, weapons raised as a dragon attacks. The hands raising weapons behind the hero are skeletal in nature, and their faces skulls. Stairs descend to the west, a sturdy door made of a black metal of some sort stands to the south, and a slim corridor exits to the east.
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Achurius joins Tempest Storm is his academic pursuits.
"If you do not mind, could you all hold off on moving forward until we finish this? Who knows if we will be able to get back here if we don't."
He also casts Read Aura on the mural to get a sense of things. And the door, just in case.