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Esmeralda comes out of her practical blur with a nod, gathering her surroundings yet again. She'd been in deep thought since they'd left the spider encounter with what to do with Penance, but she wasn't about to point that out. "I'm of the distinct impression that the majority of these things are always trouble. But if you want, I could request Penance investigate before one of us did? Unlike the rest of us, he's expendable by virtue of reconstitution tomorrow, though I'm sure it'll cost me dearly... again." she says with a smirk. She crosses her arms as the Eidolon walks forward, hefting his greatsword.
I am, most definitely, still here. I've just had a really rough patch in my life as of late, in addition to what I told the other games. I don't know why the message didn't go through on this one, however. I thought it had. Basically it was a lot of college anxiety, divorce, depression and a bit of unneccesary "Father breaking my computer" shenanigans... Though that said! The new computer is awesome and I'm back.
"Worst comes to worst, Kascio, you crawl out ass first, and I give you a gentle slap of Infernal Healing." she says with a slight chuckle. "'Sides. Can't be too bad. I mean, if there's 2 of them, at worst, there's an egg sac. Pretty sure you're capable of not bursting that." she says with a grin, knowing full well that was a terrifying thought. Swarms were something no one wanted to deal with today. "Oh that reminds me! Faedrin. How injured are you, exactly?" she asks, running her fingers in circles around her thumb.[/b]
"Penance, if you actually hit this one there's a gold in it for you." Esmeralda says coyly as she casts Guidance upon him again.
The sound following it was... something, but she wasn't able to see the blow land, and therefore, wasn't actually sure if it had done any damage. Certainly sounded that way, however.
As the spiders come out, Esmeralda quickly directs Penance towards them by pointing her finger towards the sound of combat. "A bug problem this time. Glad you can hit those, yeah?" she says with a smirk. As he passes her she touches him with a guidance spell, followed with, "It's a shame I can't enlarge you on these stairs." she claims.
A resounding, deep "Hmm..." is heard as Penance goes upstairs and passes her, dragging his sword the length of the way. Finally once he gets to the top, he 2 hands the enormous sword and brings it down on the second spider.
Unfortunately his lack of enthusiasm is palpable.
"Fantastic! Now we have to deal with more swarms of things that weapons don't work against... Hear that Penance?" she asks as she looks to the Eidolon, which looks at her and shakes it's head. "Yep. Useless again!" she says with a chuckle. "Well... if we don't want to deal with swarms, we could atleast check somewhere else in this damnable pillar of filth, no? It's not like this is the only path."
"One still has to wonder why they felt the need to drown such a place in Illusory walls... I mean. It's been ages, hasn't it? Wish there were some way to tell how long these spells had been here, because, from what you folks said some time ago there wasn't a caster among your first foray. Correct?" She asks as she strolls into the room with penance close behind her, after realizing the bracelet was worthless given present circumstances. "Right... That aside, where to now?" Esmeralda asks as she looks around.
"Area spells would have came in handy there, but, I'm not big on offensive spells, unfortunately. Penance is my offense, and, well, he can't kill tiny tiny things like that. We'd be wise to prepare for those sorts of things in the future..." she points out as she walks up to them. "Everyone alright?"
In a deep, rumbling baritone, Penance audibly says "M'Lady, they've fled." at which point Esmeralda ceases her running, and begins to walk back, eventually coming to the pool to watch the people come out of the water. "Thank you penance." is all she says as she walks by the Eidolon, and it begins to follow her again. "Seems we wiggled our way out of this one, didn't we? As far as assault magics are concerned, I have none, and I'm dreadfully sorry for that." she explains.
"Right. I'll see what I can find. Be careful!" she says as she turns on her heels (somewhat literally) and flees up the stairs as far as she's able to go. "If penance is injured beyond repair, I may come back worse for wear." she points out. "Though we'd all do well to run!" she says as she makes her way up the stairs.
"Unfortunately, I lack any such spell. If there are many, then shielding will do you little... Penance could take point, but I don't want to risk losing him so early." She says as she tosses the towering lug a glance, obviously in deep thought. Without much else to go on, she proceeds to touch her own forehead, casting Guidance on both herself, and then on Penance. "My best idea is to increase penance's size and let the girth of his sword do the work." she points out.
"It's no surprise a bunch of petty thieves such as them weren't able to figure this sort of thing out." she says with a slight chuckle. "Well, on the bright side, if the doors haven't been opened then I guess we'd best begin looking around then, shall we? Probably some trinkets lying around..." she says with a wry smile.
Esmeralda walks down the stairs with a bit of a scowl. "Tut tut, it seems as though penance and his irrevocable bulk took a clean blow on accident. A damn shame, that..." she says as she drags her hand along the wounded, sizzling skin within his cloak. She rubs her fingers quickly and splashes some water on them to stop the acid, however, before it can sear her fingers. "Strange creatures, were they not?" she asks, looking to the rest of them. "Penance is good to keep going, otherwise I would unsummon him. I could also heal him, but he's yet to take a substantial blow... and I've also yet to see someone give true reason for him to release his bandages." she says with a wry smile. Kascio: You're fully aware that Penance is capable of not only doubling in size, but also gaining a magical shield. Wounded he may be, but useless he is far from being.
As Esmeralda walks over and taps Faedrin on the shoulder for yet another of her guidance spells;
She looks to penance as he's subsequently harmed. "Penance. Crush that."
Immediately, Penance raises his bastard sword, swinging it down and allowing the weight of his weapon to do the bulk of the damage. Did it hit, she wondered? These slimy things were so watery she could hardly tell.
Walking a few feet to the left as everyone begins to start towards their first actual engagement, Esmeralda smirks as she quickly taps Faedrin on his shoulder as he descends the stairs, whispering an incantation beneath her breath.
As she finishes that, she spins her hand around to the other stairwell and points at the gelatinous bulbs that seem to be causing trouble, and nods her head towards them. Penance lets the bandages fall from his enormous weapon and proceeds forward down the stairs, carrying the weapon clumsily down the stairs as he lets it bounce down each one.
Penance: "Penance" Biped (Claws) NE Medium outsider Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +5 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 17, touch 11, flat-footed 16 (+1 Dex, +6 natural) hp 17 (+2) Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +3 Defensive Abilities evasion -------------------- Offense -------------------- Speed 30 ft. Melee 2 claws +1 (1d4+2) and . . Large Masterwork Bastard Sword +5 (2d8+6/×3) and . . unarmed strike +6 (1d3+4 nonlethal) -------------------- Statistics -------------------- Str 19, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 11 Base Atk +2; CMB +6; CMD 17 (can't be tripped) Feats Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword) Skills Bluff +5, Perception +5, Sense Motive +13, Stealth +6 Languages Common Other Gear Large Masterwork Bastard Sword -------------------- Special Abilities -------------------- Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only). Evasion (Ex) No damage on successful reflex save.
Sighing with a bit of daunt in her tone, Esmeralda follows them, with Penance behind her in the main back. She'll opt for the middle, if she can help it. Looking at the preserved things, however, she can't help but detect magic. With a soft tone under her voice, she extends a finger in the direction and starts to look around.
"Listen and... The eyes. If it's just something that involves rewriting the words to involve Alaznist, and wrath, for that matter... then..." She trails off for a moment, placing her hand to her lower lip and tapping it for a moment. "Perhaps Inlets?" Though Silent does sound oddly more appropriate."
Esmeralda curts a smile as the group begins to put together the code. "I don't see what silence would have to do with wrath, but I've yet to help in the solving of said puzzles, so I know little." she points out. "What do you suppose solving this one does? Cools down the door?" she asks, pointing at it. "If that's the case, what we're looking for is likely inside, and apparently the tower girls were too foolish to actually access it, fortunately." she says with a grin as Penance nears the group dragging his sword across the ground.
I assure you, I've no such thing. Though I do admit to a condescending demeanor. That aside, even if that were the case, I'm afraid that's just my grating personality. I'll not be apologizing simply because I meant no true offense in the first place. If you're pride can't take that, it's unfortunately your problem." She says rather coldly. With a smirk, however, she somewhat tilts her head and places a hand on her hip. "Frankly speaking, my only vice is that I'm avaricious, and it shows in my Eidolon. If you want the scientific explanation, you're able to take more hits than this fragile, yet delicate, lanky body of mine. Hence the jokingly placed adjective." With a pause, she continues. "Is that enough to appease you?"
"Fairly speaking, Dareon, it wasn't exactly an insult. Although out of everyone here you seem very sensitive to insults, even if they're not exactly meant to be such." she says with a sigh. "I rely entirely on Penance during a fight, you're aware? But it stands to reason that those of you who are far more... vigorous, would be in front." she explains with her arms crossed as Penance stands next to her with his bastard sword on his shoulder.
Esmeralda lost what little grin she had as she walked into the room with them and took note of the commotion. "Walls are one thing, but this place is pretty ruined, isn't it?" she asks, looking towards Penance, who shrugs. Looking back to the rest of them, she smirks. "If these are all over the place, it'd be best to just avoid walls altogether, or at the least prod our way through the rest of the place." she states as she receives a gold from her pouch. "Penance" The enormous shrouded Eidolon looks to her with above-average enthusiasm in it's red eyes. "Take that enormous sword of yours and tap around as we traverse forward. If we make it out of this reasonably enough, there's another gold in it for you." she explains. "Though, that depends on whether we still want to be stealthy. I for one, do not want to fall through a floor... but then again, with my locale in regards to the rest of you unfortunate meaty types during a scuffle, I don't much have to worry about that. So what have you?" she asks the rest of the party.
With her Eidolon resummoned and it's sword nicely placed back in it's appropriate hands, Esmeralda ventures with the rest of them. However, as the majority of what seemed valuable has been looted from the rooms so far, she abstains from really giving any of them a closer look, save for the large statue of the unknown figure. She gives it, at best, a courtesy glance, however, as she knows next to nothing about historical significance and seems more worried about what kind of price it could fetch. Unfortunately, again, it seems far too large and far too heavy to be concerned with, but she makes a mental note of it all the same while following the rest of the group silently.
As penance Dissipates in the distance, Esmeralda looks to the rest of them as she seems to remember something of rather astute importance. "One of you is going to have to catch his weapon before I let him fully dissipate. There's no sense in going over to grab it if he can just gently toss it, but the thing is awfully bulky." she points as she whispers the order in Infernal. "Actually I'm foolish. He can merely toss it whilst it's bandaged. Shouldn't hurt too much..." she says as she braces to catch the weapon.
Having caught it, she allows the Eidolon to fully disperse and proceeds to resummon him immediately, using his sword on the ground as a focus, keeping her chanting to a whisper as she tries to remake the symbol upon her forehead. Penance: "Penance" Biped (Claws) NE Medium outsider Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +5 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 17, touch 11, flat-footed 16 (+1 Dex, +6 natural) hp 17 (+2) Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +3 Defensive Abilities evasion -------------------- Offense -------------------- Speed 30 ft. Melee 2 claws +1 (1d4+2) and . . Large Masterwork Bastard Sword +5 (2d8+6/×3) and . . unarmed strike +6 (1d3+4 nonlethal) -------------------- Statistics -------------------- Str 19, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 11 Base Atk +2; CMB +6; CMD 17 (can't be tripped) Feats Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword) Skills Bluff +5, Perception +5, Sense Motive +13, Stealth +6 Languages Common Other Gear Large Masterwork Bastard Sword -------------------- Special Abilities -------------------- Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only). Evasion (Ex) No damage on successful reflex save.
As she watches Dareon fall over, Esmeralda looks back towards penance and shrugs. "Fairly certain the big lug can do better than that, at least." she explains. "Wonder why they even have this here, don't you?" she asks, looking at the others. "Seems a bit treacherous. The rat girls pretty capable on their feet or something?" she asks, trying to learn as much as possible.
At the very least, I've got shield, and I'll likely take mage armor in the future. Essentially I'll have an AC of 19. Honestly Mage Armor would have been a better choice, but Esmeralda is going to avoid combat as much as she can when it breaks out as she is extremely frail. She's likely to enlarge Penance and then get the hell out of the way, knowing what she needs to by communicating with her Eidolon or just listening in general. I chose Shield because I was worried about magic missile, honestly. Penance is the exact opposite of her, however, and I'll be making it a point to keep him alive with Infernal healing and whatever else is necessary. It can help everyone else out too. I'd love to turn it into a wand, but I'm just as likely to take to brewing potions to help everyone else out, or I would, if Dareon wasn't already an Alchemist. I'll probably take to craft wand when I can get that, though, assuming I don't find something else. Honestly I'm just focused on keeping Esmeralda alive.
Awaiting her turn, Esmeralda cringes. She'd not been used to this sort of... display of dexterity in her travels. Where she had Charisma and Penance's brute strength, she certainly lacked in grace, that was for certain, and she was far from confident in traversing the expanse. The fall was also a rather... prominent deterrent. Awaiting her turn with the ring, however, she admired it for a moment, enjoying the look of it and knowing it was worth something. Alas, she had to share. With that thought in mind, she turned to her Eidolon. "Penance, you'll be last. Worse comes to worse I can just summon you from the aether again and pay you for the mess up... that said, don't mess up." she says as she points to the ring. Taking a deep breath, she does what she can to cross the bridge. Provided she's about to fall, Penance will reach out to grab her as well, like a good Eidolon. Tapping herself on the center of her chest, she traces a rune about it that glows a soft blue.
Penance: "Penance" Biped (Claws) NE Medium outsider Init +1; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +5 -------------------- Defense -------------------- AC 17, touch 11, flat-footed 16 (+1 Dex, +6 natural) hp 17 (+2) Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +3 Defensive Abilities evasion -------------------- Offense -------------------- Speed 30 ft. Melee 2 claws +1 (1d4+2) and . . Large Masterwork Bastard Sword +5 (2d8+6/×3) and . . unarmed strike +6 (1d3+4 nonlethal) -------------------- Statistics -------------------- Str 19, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 11 Base Atk +2; CMB +6; CMD 17 (can't be tripped) Feats Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword) Skills Bluff +5, Perception +5, Sense Motive +13, Stealth +6 Languages Common Other Gear Large Masterwork Bastard Sword -------------------- Special Abilities -------------------- Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only). Evasion (Ex) No damage on successful reflex save. |
