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1-3 Western Guardroom:
Another empty guardroom, adorned only by an L-shaped stone bench in the southwester corner. 1-4 Lower Storeroom:
this room once held many months of provisions in case of a siege. A minotaur lies impaled in the floor, a spear protruding from his body, looking as though he died yesterday, but covered in dust. He bears a mark upon his arm, a tattoo of a white horse skull with three burning green eyes. 1-4 : DC 20 spellcraft:
a faint aura of transmutation magic remains here. you think it likely the area is under a preservation spell to stop food from spoiling. it has likely acted to preserve the minotaur's corpse. the spear impaling him is a normal nonmagical spear. 1-5 pillaged quarters:
this room probably quartered a dozen people, though it was ransacked, and seems to have changed little in the last eighty years, besides gaining a coat of dust and countless cobwebs. 1-6 blasted room:
there's nothing here but ash, blast marks, and a few bits of refuse. looks like the remnants of a very powerful fireball or equally destructive magic. 1-7 pillaged quarters:
this room once quartered eight people. though ransacked, you take your time searching and manage to discuver a small coin purse that was missed, with 31 gp and an elixir of truth. 1-8 wrecked room:
this room has space for a dozen, with broken bunks and moldering personal effects. nothing of value. 1-9 The Death's Head Tavern (west wing):
in not-terrible shape. though this place looks ransacked, the sign still hangs, and it doesn't look like much fighting took place in this section. you're not builders, but it seems like it would only take a few hundred gold worth of common supplies from Farholde to make it a working tavern. there's even a fireplace! 1-10 The Death's Head Tavern (north wing):
the bar and a small grill are in this wing. 1-11 quarters:
this wrecked room once housed a dozen or so people. now its full of broken bunks and moldering personal effects. there's nothing of value here. 1-12 quarters:
another wrecked room. nothing of value 1-13 quarters:
ransacked and abandoned like the other rooms. you manage to find with careful searching, what looks like a poorly scribed journal of some sort, written by a Brother Zander Trask. It would take about three hours to carefully read through the journal. not being too pressed for time, you have a long read. Forsythe sets up his gear in the tavern and does some crafting while three or four of you pour over the journal.
1-14 quarters:
ransacked and abandoned, there's nothing of value or note here. 1-15 quarters: full of broken bunks and moldering personal effects, the room looks like it once housed a dozen people.
1-23 Capture Cell:
This chamber is a mess. there's a cage made of stout iron bars that run floor to ceiling. it looks like a pit trap above would dump people into the cage here, below. But now everything is in disrepair. The pit trap's cover is gone, leaving just a chute up, and the lock has been broken beyond repair, so the door to the cage here simply swings open.
over by area A, three heavy iron rings are set in the wall. perfect for hanging manacles to hold prisoners, but there is nothing there now. 1-24:
This room is empty. Ash notices a long dried spray of blood in the southeast corner of the room. 1-25 torture chamber:
the room lies in a tanlged and neglected pile of metal and splintered wood, though it looks like it used to be a grand torture chamber. about 6000lbs of metal and wood here, ruined. it looks like if it were properly replaced, this would be a great place.
1-26 holding cell:
A stout iron door with a small barred window controls empty to this plain stone cell. The once-fine lock is smashed. Inside the room are metal rings set in the wall that could secure manacles enough to restrain either 14 medium prisoners or 10 medium and one large. rolls:
1-2 eastern guardroom:
the chamber is empty, its got a long stone bench built into the north wall and tell-tale broken bits of barrel wood hint that once guards holed up here, ready and provisioned to guard this entryway for prolonged periods. but now there's only emptiness and quiet. 1-20:
whatever this was, its empty now 1-21 the trophy room:
the wall is discolored where trophies long hung, and the plaques beneath the trophies still remain.
1-22 smithy: This chamber contains a forge in an almost functional state. there are bellows, a forge-fire, and an anvil here all in fine shape, if dusty, and disused. There's a bin for coal, but over the years the coal has gotten wet from leakage through small cracks in the wall and humidity.
Stone Salve (3 doses)
This chamber looks like it once stored the weapons and armor of the guards of the temple. Now its empty, holding little more than a few broken racks. A door leads back around, likely to some of the arrow slits seen in the longer corridor. Broken glassware and alchemical equipment litter the floor, papers, vials, jars, most smashed. On the far side of the room, lying on a stone slab in the center of the chamber is a metal man. a former alchemical golem. its braincase smashed. You recognize that though its damaged, it may yet be repaired. an image of the Alchemical Golem it strikes you that animating it and having a servant would be great. If you had more servants, you could even take over this place, and post guards, sentries and the like throughout the temple. The room lies in shambles, what might have once been a desk has moldered after being splintered into pieces. Two doors lead out of the chamber. some search and knowledge rolls :
to fix the alchemical golem:
The hall seems clear. Leo jogs forward, ducking down a bit at the low wall. Since he already makes a lot of noise moving at full speed in full plate. He whispers back over message : I see three doors, and the hall splits off left up ahead. you wait and observe a bit, and then Ash gets impatient and runs up to him.
You walk up a wide set of stairs a hundred feet, after clambering over the debris at the base of the Horn. You cautiously ascended the stairs, leaving you at this landing. Ahead you see six arrowslits on both the east and west walls. Forty feet into the passage a solid stone half-wall rises from the ground, which could easily conceal two men. Perception DC 20: Closely examining the passage, you can tell that its clearly seen many battles. there are small nicks and traces of long dired blood everywhere in the stonework.
puzzling on that one, you can probably figure out that treants have Treespeech, allowing them continual speak with plants he probably talked to the trees around him, that are playing telephone and talking to other trees to convey his message.
examining his body, you find that melded or carved to his trunk there's a bit of wood that looks like brass, or possibly his tree grew over it, a holy symbol to Mitra in the form of the light bringer revering him for the sun. It radiates some magic, but seems to be growing fainter. spellcraft DC 25: he had a permanent resist energy cast, the symbol was apparently tied to the effect.
With that he crashes to the rocky forested floor. his twigs snapping, the fire starting to spread better after his passing.
piety & temperance want to act again before jurak goes?
[r2]: [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo] [r3]: [19: forsythe], [17: ash], [19:edwin], [17: piety (delay) ], [14: jurak],
[r2]: [19:edwin], [17: piety], [14: jurak], [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo] [r3]: [19: forsythe], [17: ash],
[r1]: [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo]
the treant moves up 15 ft. and slam's edwin's weapon into the rubble of masonry around the ground. [sunder]
you can post your discriptions when you're set in the Gameplay thread as well.
i would presume another fireball/arc, but its apparent that not all of the fire did as much damage as it was supposed to. the treant is scorched and did take a lot of damage from the attack, but not all.
its a second late as you realize he's doing something, communicating somehow. You said you were closing to talk with him, if you both moved up thats fine. you can get within burning arc . that'll be your surprise round , earned bluffing him. edwin and everyone advancing might have seemed a bit too obviously threatening. you could have activated or buffed with a minute per level buff in anticipation before going out and talking. If its a round per level buff rounds passed.
it does seem to damage him, though not as badly as you'd hope. initiative:
[r1]: [19:edwin], [19: forsythe], [17: piety], [17: ash], [14: jorak], [14: neji], [13: temperance], [7: leo] jorak and neji tied, jorak won the roll off.
yah, semi closed.
expectation is about 1 or 2 posts a day. slow roll long campaign ( probably be about 8 months to a year before we finish book 1 of reign of winter. )
fly you fools
semi -closed recruitment. just listing for my players to chime in and confirm enrollment.
I shall summon aid. I speak regularly with the trees. One moment and I shall call to her. We will need her if further evil is upon us. his barren branches russle as if in a breeze, a breeze that seems to carry and shift from tree to tree, like a strong wind blows them, though no wind touches any of you It is done. In a few days she should join us with what allies she can muster, and then we can mount an attack upon them.
Have you returned from vanquishing the Boggards? Their cave has been quieter than usual of late. Congratulations on wiping out their festering scourge where I could not. Mitra shines on your fair deeds.
yeaaah, its too bad leo survived. i was kinda hoping this would be his death scene. I got excited when it was a lightning elemental and the scenario detailed what happens if you fall from the platform. =)
you've explored everywhere you know of. The only places left to go are either down, avoid/confront the treant, and clear/climb past the debris on the stairs up to the east entrance, or the west entrance ( two different sets of stairs, not one that diverges and goes up to both ), or fly down to the central entrance. by the end of the few hours thoroughly searching up here at the top of the spire, you're sure there are no hidden passages or any other way in or out, other than 400 ft. of stairs and back down to the boggard's entrance, or flying out the balcony here at the top.
Where can we find a Death Priest of Vetra Kali? Also, too bad Victor got himself killed, he'd make a good sacrifice. Now we have to find "the blood of the Victor". Do we know any descendants of that guy? unsure where you'll find that. There are probably descendants of the the death cult still living in Farholde, you could possibly track down one of them, if that would satisfy the ritual. Since the ritual calls for "one of the Victor's own blood" later on, it seems possible that a descendent would qualify. if not, the ritual won't start off properly, and you'll know once you try. right?
Ash spotted "openings" in the spire when he was flying back up with Leo's body. one in the Eastern side of the Horn, one in the Western side of the horn ( those accessible via narrow treacherous stairs that are covered with brush and overgrowth and rubble, but lead up via stairs that wind around the Horn ), and a Central entrance that seems accessible only via flight. there's a landing ledge. On the side view version of the map , i've circled those three entrances in grey and tried to label them.
Have the boggards clear the stairs: You remember the Treant letting you in to the tunnels because you lied and said you were there to clear out the boggards (or something to that effect). They're enemies. If they try to do that work, especially after losing their last chieftan, they may not survive the encounter. Scry on the whole place and find another entrance: two problems with it: The eye hasn't been activated for scrying, it hasn't been steeped in the blood of a sentient creature. doing it with one of y'all would deal 2 con damage. Second, scrying on the areas you've been in already would be easy, you know the location and you know eachother. Scrying is creature-centric. you need to scry for a creature. You can observe a creature at any distance. If the subject succeeds on a Will save, the spell fails. The difficulty of the save depends on how well your knowledge of the subject and what sort of physical connection (if any) you have to that creature. Furthermore, if the subject is on another plane, it gets a +5 bonus on its Will save. Paizo forums search seems to corroborate that there's no spells for scrying on locations, just creatures. Since you don't know if there are any creatures in the spire, you couldn't scry on them even if you did activate the Eye you have.
The statue in the sanctum looks like this. Completely out of place is the heavy silver chains that bind the altar, wrapping around the statue. The chains are connected toa heavy argent seal pressed with the holy sunburst of blessed Mitra. here's what the Horn of Abaddon looks like from the outside.
the ritual:
a link to the dirges of apollyon doc, so you can reference or make comments there.
The elemental dissipates, the spark released, into mostly pure mystical energy. a fine blue and yellow crystals like grains of sand rain softly to the ground.
Ash flies back up with Leo's battered body. Examining it, he seems stable, surprisingly. then folds his wings away. He's not a great flyer, so it is slower ascending, takes 2 minutes for him to return as he flies up , circling the spire as he rises.
"Asar was a mercenary captain. Once, he was an adventuring companion of mine. But we parted ways after acquiring a large horde of treasure. I'm sure he felt cheated, and so he came back to attack the town. And I rose to stop him. " I don't know who these outsiders were. Townsfolk use this trapped crypt as a coming of age test for their young, who seek to leave for an adventurer's life. to test their mettle. But bandits found the tomb, though they only took two amulets, buried with Asar and myself. These amulets were part of a key that opened up the great treasure vault we plundered so long ago. The amulet, when pieced together with the third, show the way to the vault. The last piece was with Iramine, an elven sorceress that was part of our group." "Asar was likely woken when his amulet was disturbed. His dark energy corrupting the crypt, raising the dead interred here. But his dark spark is at rest again, where I can keep him in check. "
[r3]: [6: Temperance ], [6: Piety], ? [r4]: [32: elemental], [19: Ash], [18: Leo], [9: Forsythe], [6: Neji], [3: Saio ], [16: Edwin (ready) ],
oh he hid it in a spoiler, lol overlooked vanovar's swing. With cyrix's powerful swing, the skeletal Asar crumbles to the ground. the blue spark of unlife fading from him. Standing around, catching your breaths, you have time to check on Dimira, who you determine to be alive and stable, but unconscious. When you revive her, she tells you about the horrible Asar who kidnapped her, questioning her, until she fell unconscious As you gather her, and one of you goes to light the lantern you brought with you from the Everflame above, its warm radiance a gentle surety in this suddenly hostile crypt, a spirit stirs. Transparent, like gauze catching light, hanging from nothing, the spirit stirs from the beir of Kassen. Rising up, it whispers across the void.::Thank you for putting an end to Asar. :: The spirit reaches into his sarcophagus and produces several items, proffering them to you as thanks. a satchel, his shield, a glistening blue gem, and a scale each from his armor. ::These scales will grant you my boon in your hour of need:: lingering for a moment in admiration before fading from view , returning to his eternal rest.
Searching around the rest of the crypt to make sure its safe, you find a dead man wearing gray robes and an iron mask over his face, the stench of rot tipping you off to his body. You figure he was strangled here about three months ago. k. religion 15:
his mask indicates that he's a follower of Razmir, the living god whose cults have sprung up all around the Lake Encarthan region. The dead man has a few items of interest on him, a map that seems to lead here to this crypt, along with a note that reads "The amulets are entombed with Kassen and Asar", a wand of magic missiles (CL 3rd, 22 c.), bracers of armor +1, a horn of fog, 354gp in newly minted coins, and a spellbook with the following spells: spellbook:
2nd - false life, levitation 1st - cause fear, enlarge person, expeditious retreat, mage armor, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement cantrips - all wizard cantrips from the core rulebook The journey back to Kassen is somber and uneventful. Roldare is thrilled to see Dimira again and seems to recover most (but not all) of his sanity. You find a celebration underway in your honor when you return to Kassen. Mayor Uptal is there to greet you at the gates, but his joy at your return quickly turns to horror when he finds out what's happened. The news quickly spreads throughout town, and the harvest celebration turns melancholy. The grand feast is still held in your honor, but words are spoken of the townsfolk who were slain by Asar, and the brave heroes who ended the menace and brought Roldaire and Dimira back alive. Many dig deep into their cups to help forget that they've lost friends or loved ones, and plans are made during the dinner to return to the crypt and bury the slain townsfolk in the local cemetery. Cygar, the local pathfinder representative, stops to talk with you during the somber celebration, telling you about the pathfinders and listening to your tale of coming of age and horror.
[r3]: [6: Temperance ], [6: Piety], [r4]: [32: elemental], [19: Ash], [18: Leo], [9: Forsythe], [6: Neji], [3: Saio ], [16: Edwin (ready) ],
Rowanne manages to hit Asar.
[r4]: [21: cyrixs], [15: vanovar], [18: venja], [r5]:
( he already rolled a 23 on his turn, so he catches it. )
[r3]: [16: Edwin ], [6: Temperance ], [6: Piety], [r4]: [32: elemental], [19: Ash], [18: Leo], [9: Forsythe], [6: Neji], [3: Saio ]
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