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Narcizia, Seara, Tyrithe, Volco:
There is a small bag which has rolled under the boiler. It appears to have burst open and it's contents are strewn about under their: smallish spherical objects, about 15 of them. Knowledge (planes, arcana, or dungeoneering) DC15:
These are extremely rare planar creatures called "Zoogs". Spiteful, nasty creatures with a taste for the flesh of sentient beings, zoogs lurk in the shadowy, moldering places of the world. Often mistaken merely for otherworldly animals, zoogs possess base intentions and vicious demeanors that set them apart from lowly beasts. Knowledge (planes, arcana, or dungeoneering) DC20:
Otherworldly Touch (Ex) A zoog's natural attacks can strike incorporeal creatures as if they were ghost touch weapons. Spoiler:
A left...a right...right...down...right...left, and you find yourself outside of a large door marked "Boiler Room". perception at the door DC15:
You hear scuttling, perhaps of some small rodents, beyond the door. if you open the door: You step into the dark room. A shaft of light floods the area from a small window at the far end. The light is colored a sickly yellow, by the fog outside. Mighty iron boilers crowd here, their pipes piercing the walls and ceiling. Shadows and rust fill the narrow gaps between the cold tanks...
questions Winter can answer in RP!:
Where are we? What Asylum?? Who are you?/Why are you here? Who are we?/Why are we here? Why don’t you leave? Who is in charge of the asylum? Why are there monsters in the asylum? What do you know about nightmares in the asylum? What is this "eye" Adria keeps talking about? Meet some of the people taking refuge here:
Airwynn Savoia (CG female human Kellid survivor) Baisily Harbour (LN female human Varisian survivor) Bates Yopchick (LN male human Varisian survivor) Brenton Lieklan (N male human Varisian survivor) DaNae Foulkes (LG female human Varisian chapel guard) Denman Winoparess (CN male human Varisian) Loic Ulsohnen (N male human Varisian survivor) Maeve Kostenbau (CN female human Kellid survivor) Mura Yopchick (N female human Varisian chapel guard) Naysa Walika (NG female human Varisian chapel guard) Tolman Leolies (LG male human Garundi chapel guard) Vaustin York (LG male human Varisian chapel guard) captain Vaustin (CR1 Human Fighter) look at the altar:
It's made of more than a ton of black-and-white granite. You sense holy protection coming from it. Must be something holy underneath it, though moving the massive altar appears impossible. check out the small alcove on the west side of the chapel:
Although this chapel is devoted to Pharasma, a small shrine to Desna appears here. You can tell there is magic emenating from this spot too, spreading throughout the chapel. search for treasure in the chapel:
In general, these items are available whenever your party returns to the chapel... -Candles
(once you find it) look more closely at the Shrine to Desna: The shrine of Desna is fragile, its focus being a delicate, 2-foot-tall porcelain statue of the butterfly-winged goddess, posed in a dance amid silks and stars.
You all high-tale it back into the hospital, slamming the door behind you. Just in time too, for a moment later, a giant grey "leg" appears overhead, and begins descending out of the mist. It lands in the courtyard, lingers a moment, then lifts again, disappearing into the fog. It leaves a crater sized footprint, at least 15ft wide, and as the creature moves away it can be heard making strange noises... Aloooo! Alooooooo! This call is answered by similar calls from farther out in the abyss of yellow fog. The two men in the bushes are now motioning for you to hurry across the courtyard and enter the chapel...
Normally you would view her words as ramblings of in insane girl. You wonder what it means about your own sanity since you understand her ramblings perfectly! Eventually you come to a door leading to a square courtyard, surrounded on all sides by the hospital. Peering through the glass in the door you see:
-a garden -Yellow mist -A small, free standing chapel building, in the center of the courtyard, built in the Pharasmic style. perception DC14:
In shrubs by the front entrance to the small chapel, you see humanoid shapes. perception DC17: The humanoid shapes seem UN-monsterous. They are men, who look fairly frightened. They hold bows an peer nervously around at the mist. The appear to be standing guard.
Winnova's holy water splashes all over the beak-like monster. It howls in pain! Ungebrochen hacks at the entrails as best he can but it's hard to get a clean shot in without cutting Seara's leg off! Seara continues to kick, but to no avail. Volreg's colored stone flies down the hall, trailed by a streams of magical purple and green light...if only it had hit the target! And it's too bad it didn't, for the monster continues to drag Seara even closer...
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Volco's fire splashes on the beak-mouthed intestine monster, and Tyrithe's arrow hits it's mark. But Seara can't break free of the slippery wet intestine-ropes.
GM Rolls:
Seara throws the hand to the ground, where Undebrachen and Narcizia make short work of it. But in the mean time, the writhing vicera slither closer, until they can reach out...and grabs Seara's feet! From deep in the burst corps' pe'vic area, a beaklike jaw emerges, slobbering and biting. It looks like it's fixing on dragging Seara toward this beak with it's "intest-anticles" --------------
GM Rolls:
Hit! plus Gottcha! Hit!
The first hand is small, and both Seara and Narcizia have trouble hitting. This hand successfully crawls up Seara's leg, and latches on to her shoulder! The other hand gets fire bombed by Volco. You fancy you can hear a squeal as it begins to burn. The burning hand skitters backward in fright, away from the fire and steel, trying to hide next to the writhing "tentacluar" guts. But it takes an AoO swing from Narcizia followed by an arrow from Tyrithe, and dies miserably. The guts begin to reach out, spreading over the squares between you. You are not sure how far they can crawl... MAP UPDATED. --------------
Tyrithe's arrow lands in the BEHEADED's forehead, ripping said head off at the neck, under the force. For a moment there is silence. Then the creatures GUTS burst out of the gaping neck-hole! The guts rip the body apart, releasing the undead hands, which now begin to move toward you on spidery fingers. Writhing like tentacles, the guts snap and whip about. It does not look like they can move away from the burst corpse, but they are completely blocking the hallway. Gross!
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Haha, I had a jaw drop initially too when Tyrith hit my s&xy horror-doctor with a +10 shot! That high attack bonus is coming entirely from Bullseye shot, which has a ton of pre-reqs, so it's probably true Bullseye shot is a naughty feat to give a first level character for free in an archtype... BUT it's a fair archtype and we are 15 pt buy with no stat below 10, so I don't see any game balance issues. Also, Tyrithe is doomed to doing nothing but shooting arrows for the whole game unless he multi-classes, so I think it's fine. Might as well shoot them well! I don't have Weapons Master Guide book. Seara, are there any offsetting STAT restrictions on the archtype in the actual book that the PFSRD misses? Or does it look like Bullseye shot is intended to be offset only by forcing Roleplay restricts, like "thou shalt worship Iomadae?". Roleplay restrictions in exchange for stats is a dangerous direction to take Pathfinder in my opinion. What if our party accidentally reads a secret book that accidentally unleashes a 29th level Armor-Eating aeon on Iomadae, and accidentally kills her???
In the rubble up ahead you see what looks to be a zombie. But he/it is buried waste deep in the rubble. He hisses and his teeth chatter after you, and his fingers try to crawl their way toward you, hindered by the dead weight of the arms they are attached to. It looks very odd. Perception DC11:
Though his HEAD and HANDS seem to be animated, the rest of his body is just dead weight. Weird. Inteligence DC10:
You can see it obviously can't reach you unless you are standing within 5ft of it. You could basically step around it and continue down the hall. Right? Knowledge (dungeoneering or religion) DC12: You know this monster is actually 3 separate undead entities: a BEHEADED, and two CRAWLING HANDS. But they are still attached to a body, one which has not been animated for some reason. You've never heard of this happening before.
You make your way carefully through the asylum halls, guided by Adria the Schitzo-patient. Most rooms seem empty and untouched, but every once in a while you find a room whose furnature are torn to shreds and cubboards broken to pieces. Adria always walks on the opposite side of the hall from such rooms. Eventually you round a corner and find rubble in your path where a wall and portions of the ceiling have collapsed... and a nightmarish horror like none you've ever seen...
Tyrithe searching the hallway:
Tyrithe does a quick search in a few rooms but finds nothing...until he looks out a window in one room: You are on the second floor of a building. You see a garden down below. But that's about all you can see, cause the world out there is completely shrowded in a sick yellowish mist, much like the mist from your dream. Anyone looking out Tyrithe's window...perception DC15: There are shapes, like this, moving in the mist. Creatures mabe? But if they are creatures, they are massive! For they are at least as tall as the window you are peering out of.
Volco's Heal Check:
Obviously this is mental illness. Some form of schizophrenia is Volco's guess. Volco's pretty sure she's probably suffering from auditory, perhaps even visual hallucinations. Tyrithe's & Winnova's Perception Checks:
There is nothing special about the women other than that she's dirty and could use a bath. There is soil in her tangled hair. Winnova's Sense Motive Check: Winnova does not sense anything sinister about the young women. More than anything the women evokes a compassionate response in Winnova's throat chakra area
Instead of risking climbing the furnace shaft you talk it over and decide to take the steps Seara has found (east). At the top of the steps you find yourself in a long asylum hospital halway (running North-South). To the LEFT (north) you see ward rooms, and a door at the end of the hallway. It looks exactly like this. To te RIGHT (south), more ward rooms, and a window at the end of the hallway. And also...A naked young women cowering and muttering nonsense to herself. It looks exactly like this.
As the last drop drains form the needle into her neck, Narcizia slices the Doctor's arm clean off. Having taken a scalpel and arrow in the chest it's more than she can bear. Screaming in pain and backing away, she is broad-sided by Ungebrochen, his axe sinking deep inter her chest. Her eyes glaze over, and the terrible being falls to the floor. Inspect her body to see if she's really dead:
You observe a final puff of yellow vapor issue from her lungs. After that, she does indeed appear dead. Poor women. What could have transformed a kindly medical doctor into such a monster? treasure:
Seara and Volreg prepare to strike, while Winnova tries to get a good angle. Narcizia waits for the bottom of a heart beat, steadying her aim. Tyrith looses another shot, which the monster-doctor takes in the chest! . That's when Volco tosses a bomb. But the "Doctor" dodges with eerie supernatural speed (). Only a small lick of burning liquid singes her coat...
//edit// The Doctor flings open the metal door. She's got a 2 ft long bone saw in her left hand and a cartoonishly large syringe in her right, which glows with a green liquid.
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