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Klara gets to craft a base more directly under the owl, and Yuan and Cragorn get to climbing and vaulting off of it. Before long they have the scroll out of owl's beak, which details research on transmuation.
Returning it to Alyreha, she is able to use more of her power to grant a second command word , granting themselves or an ally haste for 1 minute, though the extra action can only be used to Strike or Stride. This command word can only be used one by the whole group (any one party member).
Eight schools of magic. There is one bit of my research left. It has to be evocation. Separately, I fear whoever did the damage to the sensors in the upstairs rooms might still be hiding out in the tower. Did you hear anything up there while in the Transmutation room? I'll... let you decide what to deal with first, but be careful.
The central area of this room has pedestals with runes corresponding to acid, cold, fire, and electricity, with central runes placed for sonic and force. The walls of the larger portion of the room each have their own extravagant mural representing one of the four elements.
The northern wall is covered by the image of an enormous caldera of an unknown volcano, a vast lake of lava that almost seems to glow intensely. The southern wall displays a vast coral reef, and the light from the ocean’s surface almost seems to dance. The eastern wall displays a yawning cave, and the depths seem almost real. The western wall displays a fierce tornado tearing through an open field. The image somehow perfectly captures the fury of the intense winds. The western section of the floor portrays beams and circles along with complex equations, while the eastern section of the floor is covered in sine waves and elaborate musical notation. The ceiling above is painted with the four elements all blending, and the center piece is a brightly glowing evocation rune, crackling with energy.
As you enter, the rune above seems to activate, sending burst of cold air and beam of white magical light into the central squared off portion of the room. From it two seemingly elemental creatures emerge and they look quite hostile...
COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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The bold may go
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu -9
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Green
Blue
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Cragorn -4
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Klara is highly impressed by the halls view and beautiful, witching to stare and touch likely. So upon elemental creatures appearing she first wants to find out something about them.
And surely Klara thinks of how to be offencive distantly and if there is a good angle
The angle looks good so in a sudden swing the halfling unleash her Slingstaff and throws a stored stone out at the same creature Rose already shoot ..
Both of Rose's shots ricochet off of pedestals and bounce around the room before falling harmlessly. Until that moment all present watch nervously as the bullets speed this way and that.
However, the mist does appear to be taken aback by her glare.
Klara focuses on the creature Rose had aimed at, and determines that it is a mist stalker, an amphibious water elemental.
As she takes aim at the creature she notices that it is hard to pinpoint its exact location within the shroud of mist.
Her instinct is sharp in this moment and she catches the core of its form as it attempts to swirl ambiguously in the mist. It is pained by the bullet, adding injury to its insult (fear).
Shayna and Yuan are up!
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Yuan Wu is momentarily taken aback by the sudden appearance of what he can only assume are elementals. He quickly turns his attention to the nearest one within his reach .
Critical Success You remember the creature's weaknesses, and as you empower your esoterica, you have a flash of insight that grants even more knowledge about the creature. You learn all of the creature's resistances, weaknesses, and immunities, including the amounts of the resistances and weaknesses and any unusual weaknesses or vulnerabilities, such as what spells will pass through a golem's antimagic. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis (see below). Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Success You recall an important fact about the creature, learning its highest weakness (or one of its highest weaknesses, if it has multiple with the same value) but not its other weaknesses, resistances, or immunities. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Failure Failing to recall a salient weakness about the creature, you instead attempt to exploit a more personal vulnerability. You can exploit only the creature's personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Critical Failure You couldn't remember the right object to use and become distracted while you rummage through your esoterica. You become flat-footed until the beginning of your next turn.
Not quite figuring out more about this creature type, he nonetheless grabs a fulu from a pouch, attunes it to the creature and rubs it on his weapon. He then swings his asp coil at the target.
Grunting his frustration at his streak of bad luck (or was it karma as his master intones), he lifts up the buckler, hoping to seek some protection.
Yuan Wu grins grimly, as immediately in reaction, he strikes with his asp coil.
Yuan indeed does not figure out any more about this creature. He tries to find it in the mist shroud with his asp coil...
Yuan Wu can't find solid physical form in the shroud of mist.
The elementals stand strong in the face of the noise blast, seemingly unaffected by it.
The mist stalker swirls the waters of the mist shroud until they become more substantial than the air they occupy. It congeals, causing the mist aura to become difficult terrain.
Additionally, Cragorn feels the mist around him becoming even thicker.
The mist stalker swaggers forward, carrying the thick mist cloud with it. A thick, watery tendril manifests and just as quickly snaps at Cragorn...
It whips harmlessly past him in the mist.
The smaller watery wisp then approaches Yuan, snapping at him with two tendrils...
It's attempts are feeble, but Yuan does feel that the second snap of a tendril just grazes his body.
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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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The bold may go
Mist cloud: difficult terrain
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu
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Green -11 (frightened 1, concealed by mist cloud, mist stalker, water elemental)
Blue
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Cragorn -4 (DC 20 Reflex save or become immobilized)
Please remember:
* Make saving throws first in your post
* Concealment flat checks against targets in the mist cloud
* Difficult terrain the the mist cloud
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Cragorn manages to slip out of the solid fog, dropping his crossbow and drawing out his curved blade. He tries to move opposite Yuan Wu and use their presence as a distraction. but finds the going difficult and he isn't able to make it there. So...
He is unable to clearly target in the mist. Tarnation! This fog is thicker than the thieves in Riddleport!
Cragon wanders into the mist, but its swirling forms taunt him and misdirect his curved blade.
Meanwhile Yuan hears something whizz just by his head. Shayna's pebble flies into the watery wisp and while it doesn't make the expected noises of pain, there is clearly less of it afterward.
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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 2
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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The bold may go
Mist cloud: difficult terrain
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu
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Green -11 (frightened 1, concealed by mist cloud, mist stalker, water elemental)
Blue -9
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Cragorn -4
Please remember:
* Concealment flat checks against targets in the mist cloud
* Difficult terrain the the mist cloud
Klara seems tentative and reloads her weapon while moving about carefully.
Rose causes the frightened mist stalker to flinch, just before she unloads her pistol on it...
She picks the right shape out of the mists and buries the bullet deep in it.
As she inserts the next bullet in her pistol the water wisp catches her intense glance, and becomes even more frightened than the mist stalker.
Yuan Wu is up!
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Yuan Wu continues to study the creature nearest to him ...
Critical Success You remember the creature's weaknesses, and as you empower your esoterica, you have a flash of insight that grants even more knowledge about the creature. You learn all of the creature's resistances, weaknesses, and immunities, including the amounts of the resistances and weaknesses and any unusual weaknesses or vulnerabilities, such as what spells will pass through a golem's antimagic. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis (see below). Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Success You recall an important fact about the creature, learning its highest weakness (or one of its highest weaknesses, if it has multiple with the same value) but not its other weaknesses, resistances, or immunities. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Failure Failing to recall a salient weakness about the creature, you instead attempt to exploit a more personal vulnerability. You can exploit only the creature's personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Critical Failure You couldn't remember the right object to use and become distracted while you rummage through your esoterica. You become flat-footed until the beginning of your next turn.
Additionally, when you succeed at your check to Exploit a Vulnerability, compare the result of your Esoteric Lore check to the DC to Recall Knowledge for that creature; if that number would be a success or a critical success, you gain information as if you had succeeded at the Recall Knowledge check.
Yuan Wu grins to himself, empowered with knowledge on how to best take down the creature. He pulls out a fulu so crafted against this creature type to enchant his weapon, positions himself to flank the creature with Cragorn, then strikes.
He then raises his buckler for some protection.
Yuan Wu grins grimly, as immediately in reaction, he strikes with his asp coil.
Yuan knows that the mist stalker's worst save is Will.
Stepping into position he winds the coil and releases it at the mist stalker, removing another chunk of its form.
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The mist stalker thickens the mist again , and in particular Yuan feels it tighten around him.
It's now very focused on him and lashes out with a tentacle.
The tentacle whips past Yuan's buckler, slamming against his chest and racking him with pain. His vision goes to black...
The mist stalker turns its attention to Klara.
Finding her form, it sends out a clumsy tendril which misses her entirely.
The watery wisp, a little over-confident from the mist stalker's success, flails wildly at Cragorn.
The first time the tentacle unreels out at the dwarf the wisp misjudges where he is in the mist. Focusing, it's able to adjust and find the dwarf's true form behind the mist stalker.
but it can't seem to connect with the nimble dwarf.
COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 2
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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Reminders:
* Make saving throws first in your post
* Concealment flat checks required to target creatures in the mist cloud
* The mist cloud is difficult terrain
The bold may go
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu (DC20 reflex save; Dying 2)
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Green -32 (concealed by mist cloud, mist stalker, water elemental)
Blue -9 (frightened 1)
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Cragorn -4
Cragorn maneuvers around to the other side of the mist stalker but can't strike its form in the thick fog.
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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 3
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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Reminders:
* Make saving throws first in your post
* Concealment flat checks required to target creatures in the mist cloud
* The mist cloud is difficult terrain
The bold may go
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu (Dying 2, recovery check)
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Green -32 (concealed by mist cloud, mist stalker, water elemental)
Blue -9 (frightened 1)
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Cragorn -4
Rose indeed takes advantage of the water wisps fright and reduces its form further. The diversion after fools both of the elementals, creating another opening to finish it off with her next shot
After watching his form drop into the mists, Shayna thankfully locates Yuan and soothes his fatal wounds, restoring much of his life force.
COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 3
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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Reminders:
* Make saving throws first in your post
* Concealment flat checks required to target creatures in the mist cloud
* The mist cloud is difficult terrain
The bold may go
Rose -2
Klara
Shayna
Yuan Wu (-7, prone, wounded 1)
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Green -32 (concealed by mist cloud, mist stalker, water elemental)
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Cragorn -4
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Yuan Wu startles awake, immediately groaning as he realises he hurts everywhere. He quickly notices the continued raging battle, however, and swings into action.
Grabbing his asp coil from the floor, he leaps to his feet and swings his weapon again at the mist stalker.
Yuan Wu immediately strikes with his asp coil.
Newly rejuvenated, Yuan grabs his asp coil and stands to deliver it into the mist stalker. The creature looks like it's starting to lag some, grasping in the mist cloud around it and desperately struggling to gather some of it to replenish its form.
Klara takes a breath and applies a little patience before she gets in stance. Throwing the sling staff forward at the top and then whipping it back at just the right moment, the bullet speeds through the middle of the mist stalker, shattering the core of it's being!
The mist slowly dissipates from the room.
Seeking around the room, you find that the murals, all loosely and crookedly re-hung on the wall, skillfully hide the creases of hidden compartments. Unfortunately, those compartments are all empty!
You get the sinking feeling that the final piece of research is with intruders. Given all that you saw in the crystal balls, and with Alyreha's intuition, they are very likely upstairs in the wizard's tower...
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The stairs of this tower ascend 40 feet from the floor beneath it into a large circular room riddled with books, magical implements, and crafting equipment. The couches look well-worn and the northernmost of them is covered with unmade blankets, and several pillows, before a desk covered with a pile of handwritten documents and annotated books. The walls are covered with magical equations and geometric designs written in several different colors of chalk.
A tall, muscular shisk woman with heterochromatic eyes stands up from the northern most couch of the room. “Oh. There you are, Pathfinders. What took you all so long? I’ve been waiting for you all to get through those defenses and find the Arclord’s research for me. But now that you’re here, I’ll have to be taking whatever you have for myself,” she sneers. “Mother needs me to bring her that research so that she can cook some true names and mix them together. I don’t entirely get it myself, but I don’t have to. All I need to know is that you have what I need for mother, so I am going to take it!”
She looks over at a fleshwarp individual who seemed to be waiting at the ready and nods. It beings advancing on you with purpose...
Unfortunately I have to give that to the foes.
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The shisk woman deftly and quickly produces a crossbow, a bolt into it, and fires at the first target at the top of the stairs .
◆ Interact reload 1
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Rose feels a dull pain in her chest, and her breathing starts to become labored. Looking down, she confirms the bolt lodged in her chest, opposite her heart.
The shisk flashes a sinister grin...
The fleshwarp begins gesticulating with its long, spindly fingers while muttering an incantation in draconic. After a moment of the awkward droning it looks right at Yuan, and three glowing darts of force speed toward him!
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COMBAT TRACKER
Round: 1
Tactical Map
Active Conditions:
Before Your Turn:
After Your Turn:
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The bold may go
RED
BLUE
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Klara
Cragorn
Shayna Quickfingers
Rose Goldenoak -14
Yuan Wu -11
Shayna emits an inspiring tune from further down the stairs that begins to bolster her companions.
Rattled by the quick assault, Rose reacts quickly firing off of the shifting of her body from pain . She then catches its gaze and imparts emotional damage! While that sets in, she lodges the next bullet in its hand.
Cragon tops the steps, rounds the corner and puts a bullet through the middle of the fleshwarp. They drop to the ground unconscious.
Fine! I'll do it myself! The shisk snarls.
Klara follows to the top of the steps and sets her sling-staff in motion, pelting the shisk
Does Klara knows something useful about this woman?
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