Dantes smiles at the effect of his fireball. Now unwilling to harm his crewmates, he switches to his reliable wand.
Wand of magic missiles, damage to cyclops 3.
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Dantes layers his magic over Faengrim's new ability. He points and speaks. A spinning sparking bead darts from his finger to the giants' firepit, then explodes. Fireball, , DC17 reflex save for half damage[/dice]
Dantes looks at the map, avarice clear in his face and posture as he examines the addition to it. "As you command, captain. Since we have this lead to the treasure, the giants serve no purpose to us anymore, and can be extinguished."
Dantes, the very model of dwarven greed, steps forward. "I wish to be more clever than I am already."
Not for an instant did Dantes consider giving up a wish. His eyes narrow a little with suspicion at those offering it, even his own captain. Perhaps he has been charmed? No matter. Dantes' mind reels at the possibility. Perhaps the cyclops treasure he's hunted for years? Or perhaps just the cleverness to find it and keep it...
Seeing the vicious wound that Faengrim inflicted, Dantes triggers his wand again, hoping the arcane darts will be enough to finish the creature. Wand of magic missiles, damage .
Dantes begins to panic when he is suddenly so grievously injured. Before he can figure out how he's going to hide or flee, the graceful Riori is beside his relieving his wounds and his dread. He murmurs "My thanks: to the half-elf before he draws a second wand. Engaging its magic, several arcane duplicates of Dantes appear around him. Using wand of mirror images. Creates images.
Content that the fighters have the battle well in hand, Dantes continues to wheedle away at the gargoyles from a safe distance. Wand of magic missiles at gargoyle 2, damage
Dantes tries to drop a wounded gargoyle to reduce their numbers.
Dantes strikes at one of the gargoyles that looks most severely wounded (number 4).
Dantes steps over to Faengrim and casts a spell on him. Casting fly on him. Knowledge check
Dantes continues to bombard the creature with magic missiles from his wand. Damage
Dantes readies his wand and fires two magic missiles at the strange mass. Even as he does, he searches his memory for any clue as to what it may be. Magic missiles damage .
"Perhaps, but we still need to explore on the other side. I can cast a spell upon you that will allow you to fly for several minutes. Long enough to ferry all of us across the... suspect area." Dantes eyes the floor where Faengrim is indicating, not seeing the trapped floor that he seems to have spotted.
While Doc looks over the fresh carcasses, Dantes checks around for any latent arcane fields that might indicate a lost treasure.
Dantes looks frustrated. "These brutes hardly seem to be the worthy successors of their illustrious ancestors. Hopefully we can still find a bounty of their legendary treasures here."
Dantes turns his wand on the next cyclops, softening it up more for his crewmates inevitable strike. Magic missiles from wand at cyclops 3, damage .
Dantes pulls out a wand, and uses it on the seeing cyclops (number 4). Magic missiles, damage
Dantes casts magic missile trying to finish a cyclops that is wounded.
"I'm not much on fooling people, but I can pass for a convincing cyclops, I think. At your command, captain." Dantes poises to cast a spell when the captain indicates it is time. When ordered, Dantes will cast monstrous physique II, taking on the form of a cyclops. First, he'll try the door in case it is unlocked and unbarred. If it doesn't open, he'll pound the door a couple of times and say "Hey, let me in!"
Dantes readies a wand and uses it to fire two magic missiles at one of the cyclopes. Cyclops 1 takes
Dantes taps his captain, hardening Chumtooth's skin to help his survivability.
Dantes reads the note in the cyclops language, and then repeats the message in the common tongue for the others. "You are to go west to the lookout tower and remain there until I send for you. You are being punished, remember that!" He looks at the others and says "It is signed 'Shaija'."
If this is the lookout tower, that means we could head east and see where they came from.
One of the bodies bears a note, scrawled on a piece of parchment, written in an incomprehensible language (unless one of you reads Cyclops).
Dantes takes the parchment with shaking hands. For decades he has sought the secrets of the cyclops. Now, perhaps, a sliver of it has come to his hands.
Dantes casts bulls strength on his captain to help him finish off these brutes.
Dantes is filled with joy bordering on maniacal glee! "Cyclopes! The stories are true! True!" Then he promptly disappears.
Dantes has 20,802.5 gp in magic items. That's 14,690 gp in permanent magic items and the rest in wands and scrolls.
Dantes keeps his eyes trained on the statues as they approach. He is trying to determine who they depict, who made them, or both. Knowledge (history)
When we level up, I can take some steps to work that issue. Steps: For 11th level feat, take Additional Traits. For the traits, take Dangerous Curiosity and Clever Word Play. Add 8 skill points and I should get a UMD of +16 to use some clerical scrolls and wands.
Dantes continues to pummel the beast with arcane darts. Damage
Dantes keeps his wand pointed at the blinded trike, this time he uses it for its intended purpose, discharging more magic missiles at the beast. Magic missiles, damage
Something along those lines, O captain, my captain?
Dantes points his wand at the uninjured triceratops, but does not utter the command word. Instead, he recites a spell, using the wand to guide it. A stream of sparkling dust streams at the dinosaur, blasting in a sphere when it hits.
Dantes tells his captain "I'll try to keep this one distracted. Help Faengrim take down his."
Seeing that one of the beasts is well wounded, Dantes draws a wand and tries to finish it off.
I totally get it. Take all the time you need.
Dantes readies his wand and uses it to send two magic missiles at the enormous beast as he stays in the relative safety of his captain's shadow.
Dantes' first instinct is to cast fly to get above these creatures, but he quickly recalls he has already used that spell. Trusting in the brute strength of his captain and first mate, he darts behind his captain and augments Chumtooth's prowess.
"Perhaps a creature from the time giants ruled..." Dantes looks at the prints as well.... .
Dantes readies his wand of magic missiles and sends two arcane darts at the injured harpy. Harpy #3 takes force damage.
Dantes hovers in place when he sees the harpies swarming his captain. Hoping to chase them away, Dantes utters the words of a spell at points. A noxious green cloud erupts from thin air, engulfing his captain and the harpies.
Dantes curses under his breath when the two start climbing. He waits below, hoping it will turn out to be nothing and he won't have to make his way up. But when Chumtooth sounds the alarm, he knows he'll have to go up. With a quick spell upon himself, he begins to float up to where the sound is coming from.
"Yes, I would agree finding the stone would be wise, it it does exist. But what do we do with him? He attacked us once. If we leave him here bound, he would be easy prey for anything that comes along. Unbound, he may threaten again. Perhaps bound and taken with us?" Dantes sneers, implying the other choice; put the wretch out of his misery.
When the sound of battle abruptly stops, Dantes approaches the fallen enemy. "Huh. A man, down here? We didn't see another vessel. How long do you think he's been here? Do you think he's alone?"
Dantes moves away from the others, hoping his invisibility will protect him while his brutish allies make quick work of him.
Reflex . Dantes clenches up when the jolt hits him, dropping him to one knee. He starts to recover quickly, aided by Carmelia's enchantment. He reaches out to his captain, sending through him an augmentation that should help him against a similar trick.
The cowardly wizard in me wants to say 'no', but since I was doing a detect magic sweep the position makes sense. Unless a lot of time has passed, he should still be invisible. If that matters.
"Of course." Dantes casts detect magic and carefully scans the room for auras.
Dantes turns invisible and steps behind his captain, ready to augment him if hostilities start.
Dantes stops and mutters a spell. He cocentrates for ten seconds. Twenty. Then he speaks. "Your senses are uncanny, indeed." And then he relays to her what his spell determines about the trap (or traps).
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