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Agia tries to persuade them to move away from the half-orc.
"The rocks are falling on the prisoners! We need to do something," Agia cries.
Agia frowns. "Pictures? Where? She moves up to Xochti and examines the pictures in the strange spheres.
"Be wary of the children. I know they need our help, but they are not themselves with these things implanted in them. They could be dangerous," Agia warns darkly.
"We need to work out more," Agia puffs as she helps the others haul the cavalier back to the walkway, "Now, what's through that door that's so important it had to kill anyone who tried to enter?"
Agia grabs the rope and tries to help pull the cavalier back onto the ledge.
Agia touches Aden's shoulder with a whispered 'good luck.'
"Those things in their heads keep control of the prisoners, somehow. They can't do whatever they want and might fight us if we try to bring them out. If we could find the thing controlling them, we can break that hold and maybe get them out easily!" Agia calls to the others as she coughs and backs with them from the jar tower.
"I don't like this one bit." Agia continues to back away, casting guidance on a nearby ally.. say the Madwand... if she has time. She has her trident in hand and ready for trouble.
Agia backs away from the green cloud, towards the way the party entered. "Is there another way out?" She mutters a quick prayer.
"This person... gods.. should be dead. We were too late. But it's not dead..." Agia gags.
Agia advances carefully to the table to check on the prisoner and the things in the jars.
Agia nods. "Keep a good eye on them, though. Don't want them dropping on our heads unexpectedly. Did you happen to bring an umbrella?"
"If the worms take us, there will be nobody to save the children, and nobody who even knows. We can deal with these things later, when we know more about them, lady dwarf."
"And let the worms at us? Are you crazy, woman?"
"There are? Inside those pretty crystals? Nice spot, Durgen. Let's avoid being underneath them."
"Sorry, guys, I left my rope at the well. Unless somebody untied it and brought it with, that's ten gold gone," Agia says glumly.
"We need to go upstairs and take care of them. Onward!"
Agia looks at Aden in despair. "It will take great chirurgical skill to preserve their lives. I cannot do it. The sickness in the abdomen can be cured easily, but the thing in the head..." Agia shakes her head. "They are suffering horribly, though they cannot speak."
Agia's face grows stormy and she looks at her companions. "This is more than just harmless games. Look, somebody has planted a creature in her head, here in the back. You can see it. I do not know what is going on with her stomach, but it can't be good. I'm surprised she is alive." GM: With that heal check, can Agia tell if the thing can be removed?
Agia will wait a moment until she is calmer, then take a closer look at the movement under the woman's skin.
"I'm sorry for your suffering," Agia quavers, "Come back with us, out of this place. We will get you help."
"Oh no you don't. Stay back. What's been done to you?" Agia prepares to swat away the prisoner's grope without attacking them.
"Something has been done to them, physically. Whatever it is is not magical. Which makes this even creepier." If any one of the prisoners is removed from the others, Agia will approach them slowly and carefully. She'll stop about fifteen feet away and ready her trident to strike if they attack. "Hello? Can you hear us? Are you well?"
Agia tries to figure out what is up with the prisoners without getting too close.
"Bah. The chains are magical somehow, but I can see nothing about whatever has gotten under the prisoners' skin."
Agia casts detect magic and takes a good look at the nearest prisoner... but from a distance of, say, 35 feet.
Agia points to a series of little piles of human bones dotted across the cave. "I wonder what made those. Keep a sharp eye out. Big guys in front?"
"That's better than my solution," Agia chirps. "Let's go!." Agia peeks into the cave to survey it before entering.
"Not anymore. I can tomorrow!" Agia replies enthusiastically.
Agia glances from Xochti to Durgen and back, then narrows her eyes skeptically. "Well... I guess." She steps to the barrier and gingerly touches her fingertips to it, chanting a soft prayer.
Agia shakes her head. "Not really, unless you count positive energy as an elemental force. Some do, some don't."
Agia winces. "So that's what it does. Are you alright, Durgen? Can you stand? I guess we go back up and climb down on the webs if we want to reach those kids."
Agia shrugs. "If you like!" And moves back to about 25 feet away from the crystal.
"Ugh. This might be dangerous, but I'm not sure. Can anybody dispel it?"
"Magic, hang on." Agia concentrates and tries to figure out what it is.
"Now what?" Agia grumps. "Hang on, let's be sure it's not enchanted."
Agia watches the monstrous arachnid chomp on Madwand and realizes that almost everyone is hurt from [i]something/i] - including herself. Before things get any worse, she hustles to a spot between the two groups (Madwand/Aden and Durgen/Xotchi specifically - I don't see that Hashar is hurt?) and calls upon the power of Hanspur to heal their wounds - except for the big spideys.
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