"Alright, alright! Just don't hurt us!"
Aside from the six red chili pepper cookies, they also find 14 gp and a barkskin potion in this room.
"We were charged with creating the replica Shory Diamond. We have finished and given it to our sister, Tisbah, before the auction." she tells them truthfully. "We are awaiting instructions if we are ready to leave this place." she adds and does not talk anymore while she cares for her brother who has just woken up.
The group presses on to the hallway.
This is a 20-foot-tall marble hallway with red and gold pillars stretching from ceiling to floor, and presently occupied by large crocodiles. They bare their teeth when they see the Pathfinders, ready to attack them!
PARTY CONDITIONS: ---
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
➤ Sianfinn Duuslan |
➤ Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
➤ Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
➤ Kanbashii Tora |
⠀⠀➤ Catnip
Pampla (Blue)
Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red)
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Tieri's eyes go wide at the periodontal panorama for a moment, before realizing that this is not a game. Maybe he'll get to keep a sample at least.
◆ Stride
◆ Step
◆ Snagging Strike
If this hits, target if off-guard until the start of my next turn.
Tieri gets closer to Red and is shocked! He easily snags the Red Carcaras. Glenda snaps it with cold water but misses the second time.
Bashii joins Tieri and is also electrified. He then claws at it.
PARTY CONDITIONS: ---
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
BEFORE YOUR TURN
❗ Tieri the Tooth Faerie: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 1 E damage ❗
❗ Kanbashii Tora: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 1 E damage ❗
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
➤ Sianfinn Duuslan |
Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
Kanbashii Tora |
⠀⠀Catnip
Pampla (Blue)
Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red)
Deosil sees that he's lagged behind
♦Stride toward his allies
♦ Sing a Courageous Anthem
♦ Target &
vs Blue
fire damage
◆ Stride
◆◆ Produce Flame
Deosil encourages allies and sticks an arrow at Red.
Sianfinn ball of flame misses.
Pampla Blue bites Kanbashii.
Kanbashii AC 19
Kanbashii AC 19
P damage
It then attempts to Grab him with the same mouth!
vs Kanbashii's Fortitude DC 15
PARTY CONDITIONS: (1 rd): +1 status bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
🚩 BEFORE YOUR TURN 🚩
❗ Tieri the Tooth Faerie: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 1 E damage ❗
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
Sianfinn Duuslan |
Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
Glenda Tickleberry |
Deosil |
Kanbashii Tora | Grabbed by Pampla (Blue) |
⠀⠀Catnip
Pampla (Blue) | Grabbing Kanbashii
➤ Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red)
Jessa raises shield but also gets electrified since she is within Red's electric aura. Her longsword misses to hit her target though.
Red bites Tieri!
vs Tieri AC 20
P damage
It also tries to get a hold of him.
vs Tieri's Fortitude DC 17
The crocodile tucks its legs and rolls rapidly, twisting Tieri!
vs Tieri AC 20-2 fr Restrained (OG, Immobilized)
P damage
PARTY CONDITIONS: (1 rd): +1 status bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
🚩 BEFORE YOUR TURN 🚩
❗ Tieri the Tooth Faerie: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 1 E damage ❗
❗ Jessa Stanton: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 2 E damage ❗
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
➤ Sianfinn Duuslan |
➤ Tieri the Tooth Faerie | Restrained (OG, Immobilized) by Red; Prone |
➤ Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
➤ Kanbashii Tora | Grabbed by Pampla (Blue) |
⠀⠀➤ Catnip
Pampla (Blue) | Grabbing Kanbashii
Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red) | Restraining Tieri
Both blasts from Glenda misses to hit.
Tieri easily Escapes from the grasp of Red The kobold gives his target a snagging strike, but it is still standing.
vs 1 E damage
vs 2 E damage
PARTY CONDITIONS: (1 rd): +1 status bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
➤ Sianfinn Duuslan |
Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
➤ Kanbashii Tora | Grabbed by Pampla (Blue) |
⠀⠀➤ Catnip
Pampla (Blue) | Grabbing Kanbashii
Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red)
AFTER YOUR TURN
❗ Kanbashii Tora: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 1d4 E damage if you end turn in Red's Shockodile Aura (10 ft) ❗
Bashii calls for help, but his claws miss hitting in both instances. He is also electrified.
force damage vs Red
force damage vs Blue
PARTY CONDITIONS: (1 rd): +1 status bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
Sianfinn Duuslan |
Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
Kanbashii Tora | Grabbed by Pampla (Blue) |
⠀⠀Catnip
Pampla (Blue) | Grabbing Kanbashii
Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red) |
Deosil will fire his bow and then call upon his ancestor's magics to see how resistant Blue is to Electricity
♦
♦♦
Blue: vs EA
Deosil hits Blue and electrifies the same.
With Bashii grabbed in its snout, it tucks its legs around Bashii and rolls rapidly, twisting him!
vs Bashii AC 19-2 fr being Grabbed
P damage
The croc then drops Bashii on the ground. It then lets out a puff of fire, burning Jessa with fire damage (DC 16 basic Reflex save), and can't use it again for rounds.
PARTY CONDITIONS: (1 rd): +1 status bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects
TERRAIN FEATURES: The marble hallway is 20 ft high.
MAP LINK: ENCOUNTER MAP
OTHER NOTES: ☘️ - Hero Points.
🚩 BEFORE YOUR TURN 🚩
❗ Jessa Stanton: DC 16 basic Reflex save vs 11 fire damage ❗
CHARACTER IN ➤ BOLD TYPEFACE CAN ACT! STRIKETHROUGH NAMES ARE ELIMINATED.
➤ Sianfinn Duuslan |
➤ Tieri the Tooth Faerie |
➤ Glenda Tickleberry |
➤ Deosil |
➤ Kanbashii Tora | Dying 2 (Prone) |
⠀⠀➤ Catnip | Unmanifested
Pampla (Blue)
➤ Jessa Stanton |
Carcaras (Red) |
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Jessa ducks behind her shield and avoids the fire entirely. "Fire and lightning? What are these things?"
With Bashii down within the sparky aura, taking this beast down takes on a new urgency. If she hadn't readied her shield after the last fight, she could try shoving it back... but it's so big, she's not confident she'd succeed, anyway.
Best just to bring it down.
vs
Jessa easily evades the fire. She then slashes the croc, not once, but twice.
Tieri quickly comes to help to bring Bashii back to life. He also treats his own wounds.
Tieri the Tooth Faerie (31/36 HP) [2☘️]
Glenda Tickleberry (42/42 HP) [2☘️]
Deosil (18/18 HP) [2☘️]
Kanbashii Tora (15/26 HP) [1☘️] | Wounded 2
Catnip (15/26 HP) | Unmanifested
Jessa Stanton (33/34 HP) [2☘️]
Continuing on, they arrive at a simple staging room in the lair. Northern stairs lead downwards into the darkness of unfinished tunnels
To the right of this room is an office. The door is locked.
In a velvet purple sack, there’s a total of 11 gp.
This is a cramped room containing a plethora of outfits, disguises, and props for impersonations. Included among these are extra sets of waiter clothing, wigs, false credentials for various occupations, and more. It also contains blueprints of the glass auction cases with notes and illustrations notating how Tisbah could use her psychic abilities to extract the Shory Diamond and replace it.
This alchemical lab was used to create forgeries of the Shory Diamond, with failed prototypes found scattered about the room. It was also used to concoct the additive that Faqhir used to put Wisad to sleep, and evidence is found in scattered notes written in Faqhir’s hand.
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"I can look at that, Tieri." Jessa stows her sword and reaches for her medical tools.
Jessa offers to try the key in the locked door if nobody else does, but she's clueless about the papers.
"Anyone good with locks? I can try to force this thing open if not, but it won't be subtle. Or I can try it. I'm.. okay with locks. Better with force, though."
"Okay. Well. That's all pretty decisive, I'd say."
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Glenda starts giving everyone strawberries and oranges to heal up. Or rather Fishy does.
"Fresh produce for everyone. Eat up!" (2d6+4 healing when consumed)
"Maybe we should try the key from earlier for the lock? If the key fits, it must open!" Glenda says, using it to open the door.
"There's a chest here. Well I'm not good with Thief stuff for that chest!"
With everything opened, searched, and learned about, suddenly everyone hears a voice that looks like they are hearing it directly in their minds.
“Of course, I should have suspected it would be Pathfinders deciding to interfere in other people’s business.” The voice lets out a sigh. “Listen, please. I do not wish to fight you. This isn’t your auction or your money, so you have no reason to care about what happens. Stop your interference here, let me finish what I’m doing, and we can all move forward like nothing happened. I’ll forget your meddling, and we can even split some of the profits at the end.” The voice sounds familiar to Glenda and Tieri, it is Tisbah's.
The closer they are to B3 area, the clearer the voice.
Glenda tells the voice to join them stop Faqhir. She even shows them evidences from Faqhir's room, that, even though they are together with this heist, time will only tell that Faqhir will eventually betray her. The group also presents Faqhir's past criminal activity and betrayal.
Tisbah sighs.
"If you don't know, I am here to bid on the Shory Diamond but is actually working with Faqhir to steal it. I am the leader of a group of displaced geniekin from the poverty-stricken Surakpor district. I have tried to break into Niswan politics in order to get support and resources for the district while acting as a “political consultant” but has been rebuffed at every turn. I blame Wisad and the zaiwara’s office for a recent humiliating endeavor that resulted in grievous injuries to my family. When I was approached by Faqhir to steal, sell, and split the profits of the diamond from this auction organized by Wisad, I hastily agreed, hoping to obtain both funding and revenge." she explains.
"But hearing your argument, it looks like Faqhir will even betray me." she adds.
Then there's silence. "Alright then, I will help you speak against Faqhir, turning him into the authorities and ending his schemes." she says and then moments later, the Pathfinders seesthe Shory Diamond rolling on the floor toward them.
After the Pathfinders have stopped the heist, they confront Faqhir and contact the city authorities. Faqhir initially acts oblivious, but gives up his charade upon the presentation of evidence and is escorted away while cursing both Tisbah and the Pathfinders. Wisad wakes up, recovers the Shory Diamond from the Pathfinders while thanking them for their services in bringing the awful examples of Niswan citizens to justice, and completes the auction of the Bridal Set and Shory Diamond.
Nazreiha wins the Bridal Set, though not without significant fight from a healed Brasshorn. Pikkry is impressed, apologizing to Brasshorn, and offers to help Brasshorn find a new bridal set with the help of his cousin’s network. The Shory Diamond is won by an unnamed Maurya-Rahm, though both Pikkry and Nazreiha bid on it.
The busy night winds down, and all the esteemed guests begin to depart on their menagerie of mounts full of stories of an eventful night. Nazreiha, seated upon her palanquin, approaches the party with a smile.
“Before you leave, masters and madams, I wished to personally thank you. I was unexpectedly impressed by your capabilities tonight. Truly, a fine showing. I shall be keeping an eye out for you and the Pathfinder Society both. I am glad to have met you and I look forward to exchanging more stories the next time we meet. Until then, do try to stay out of trouble.”
When the party returns to the Niswan lodge to share their information, Venture-Captains Rashmivati and Safa thank them profusely for their hard work and promise to be in contact as they chase these new leads to the identity of the Benefactor.