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It is my calling to protect just as a shepherd is called to protect his flock. I can not nor will not leave them until I know of their fate. If you have been able to watch us then you are able to see other areas of the complex. Where are the colonists we seek and the source of their imprisonment? As he speaks his brow glows with purpose as Abadar’s symbol shines brighter revealing his calling.
Kragg reflexes steps back as the face appears before him on the pin panel. Who are you and what is there to talk about? If you were expecting us, then you should be able to state my name and purpose here. sense motive As he is engaged with the pin panel he walks back and forth past the pin panel trying to figure out if he can be seen from the panel or from somewhere else.
Kragg will go investigate the panel since he was able to read the one up above hoping that it is similar enough to understand what is going on.
sense motive While it seems that Kragg is able to understand the woman she does not fully comprehend what he is saying back. He tries once more to let her know that he will return after dealing with the big fish and it is safe. linguistics After that he moves to Lolito by the door. The big fish could be a shark as well instead of the aboleth. We saw some before up above remember. Before Lolito gives himself a hernia trying to force the door open Kragg removes the piton that Lara used to wedge it closed. That might help a bit. Looking around he asks, Is everyone ready?
Kragg will try to communicate with the woman by speaking slowly so they can read each other’s lips. We will once it is safe. Enemies around. Are there more of you?
25 needed for Derym 7 charges total After the healing Kragg walks along the floor following Lolito to the east.
Kragg pulls free his wand of healing offering it to the others that may need it to patch up some of the damage they received before heading over to the 2 alcoves. Detecting Magic he stands back observing the area without touching or trying to manipulate it.
spellcraft w/ guidance Looks like they are secure and safe from the water for now. Once we are patched up then I say we head east and see where that hallway goes before we open these doors. Lara, you able to keep them from opening behind us and getting trapped between 2 forces?
Will get a post up tomorrow once I get done with call shift and work. Bad week sorry
Kragg realizes that his damage is minimal on these creatures so decides to try and influence the fight in other ways. Trusting in Abadar's protection he tries to force black north into a flanking position between Alyn and Lara. reposition maneuver cmb vs cmd The creature was too slippery to get a good maneuver on and likely left Kragg floundering in the water.
Kragg uses the blessings of Abadar to move freely in the water as he steps up to attack black. full round attack for
If Lolito takes out yellow then the octopus will focus on grey, if not then octopus will go for the pin. Yellow maintain?
Attack on grey? bite for plus fort save poison
Kragg takes the haste effect to gather himself for a full round of attacks against the purple people eater. +1 short sword attack w/ flank and haste for
If purple was taken out by Lolito then move to flank against orange and only 1 attack...
well kragg didn't do much but the octopi look like they have 2 of them grappled
Kragg has just enough time to finish his spell before the fight comes near him. Once his prayer is answered he calls out to the party to try to use less lethal means if possible. These might be the colonists that have been mutated by the Aboleth. I am not sure if we can reverse the process! Don't risk yourselves though by holding back. summon celestial octopi! summoned octopi:
N Small celestial/ fiendish animal ( aquatic ) Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision ; Perception + 1 DEFENSE AC 15, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+3 Dex, +1 natural, +1 size)
Speed 20ft., swim 30 ft., jet 200 ft.
Str 12 [16], Dex 17, Con 14 [18], Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 3
Ink Cloud (Ex)
Jet (Ex)
Poison (Ex)
Smite Evil/Good (Ex)
One octopus smites yellow and full attack
One smites orange and full attacks
Kragg then moves forward with haste to strike purple with the flat of his blade. attack for
So what is the party's thoughts movign forward on spells that Kragg should have prepared? With this being an island campaign do I just keep a 3rd level slot empty in case we need water breathing? Once we know what we are doing or going then use 15 min to prepare whatever is needed for the day? I already do that with a 2nd and 4th slot.
[b]Not sure Lolito but maybe... knowledge gamut as well...
Seeing the host arrayed before them Kragg intones a powerful blessing from Abadar to bring in some allies into the fight.
Is everyone healed up? if not use my wand of cure light to top off before we head down
Witht he passageway open before them and the depths unknown Kragg takes it upon himself with his faith in Abadar to lead the party down. He takes a moment to cast extended bull's strength to bolster himself. He also channels power enhancing the protective elements of it. Stay close to me if we find the Aboleth. Abadar's protection will keep the aboleth from affecting your thoughts.
Kragg also waits to see if Aoinse has any I formation about how to open the path forward if the ioun stone doesn’t work.
I have been blessed by Abadar with the ability to channel many miracles from him. I can protect us all from electricity damage for a short period of time. I will also create a circle of mental protection around myself that will aid against any spells and abilities from the Aboleth. I would think it safest for you to be in the rear then next to Lara and let the rest of us be in the front when we meet with the enemy. Kragg uses the pearl of power 3 to get back circle of protection evil. He then uses the scroll of water breathing when the group is ready to enter the water. Before they arrive at the audience chamber he will cast protection from energy electricity and the circle of protection.
Kragg maintains a solemn pose as the talk of fallen gods is discussed. There is much that we don't know and much has been forgotten and lost during the ages between your time and ours. What happened to the 'lost' gods we may never know. It may be like Lolito suggests and they sacrificed themselves to spare Golarion. It may be that upon Earthfall so many of their followers were killed that not enough were left to worship them and they faded away or left voluntarily. Its possible they were weakened by Earthfall and were destroyed by others gods. The gods themselves my not be lost but knowledge of them is. Unfortunately, we may never know the full truth. Hopefully, though, with your knowledge we can piece together enough that we can understand more. That is an interesting idea Lolito but one that I would pose to Aoinse. What are your plans once we remove this Aboleth? Would you remain here at this temple or would you like to accompany us to our town and meet with Thame. Thame is one of the most knowledgeable people on Azlanti lore that we met. The 2 of you would have countless hours of conversation I am certain. More pressing matters lie before though. Aoinse, we are unfamiliar with your creation and your abilities and limitations. Are you able to go into the water safely? Other creations we have met here have attacked us with electricity and fire. Are you able to do the same or protect yourself from such blasts?
Been dealing with holiday family and weather myself. Hopefully will be able to post on Thursday.
Kragg marveled at the intricacies of the creature in front of him. You are simply amazing. You knew there was a passage of time yet did not know how much had passed while dormant. As for the date it is ___________ . Are you willing to travel with us as we root out this evil Aboleth. That way we have teh opportunity to talk and exchange information while we look for our missing people? In particular I am interested in the room below that has multiple statues in it.I know that they must be the gods of the Azlanti but I can not place whom all of them are. I know of Abadar as he is my god but he rest perhaps you could help with. At the mention of the ritual room Kragg thinks back to what they explored previously. I believe that you have filled in a gap in our knowledge. We were able to inspect that device earlier and Lara even put a stone in the slot to try and activate it. However, without the power restored nothing happened. I am certain that should we head there now the secret open will be revealed! Kragg also asks Aoinse about some of the other confounding aspects of the complex. Do you know what the mask is for int eh alcove to the south? Or who has wielding the sword in the room furthest to the south?
Kragg will translate for the others whom may not understand Azlanti. In return to answers Aoinse, Well met indeed. I am Kragg and we are here looking for both knowledge and wisdom. Tell me please, what is the date today and what is your role here?
Kragg nods the affirmative, Yes, I have one other miracle in scroll form. Should we need it I will gladly cast it but I am hoping that we are able to figure out much here before we need to enter the water again. Depending on how long this takes us we may even need to rest once again and I can pray to Abadar for the blessing directly.
Kragg emailed at the exuberance of Lolito like a young dwarf lad first time picking up a pick axe. Go ahead lad and have at it.
detect magic and spellcraft on the ioun stone w/ guidance Hold Lolito, I am not finished yet with this construct. You wind that key it may reanimate and attack us. There is more that we must do besdies just repair the damage to it. Before Lolito turns any key though he brings the completed construct to the programming room. Hooking it up to one of the alcoves he uses his gloves on the control panel to fully understand how to reprogram the construct to obey orders only from him or the party. Once that is accomplished then he will let Lolito turn the key.
Craft clockwork with guidance After tinkering for a bit and studying the different pieces available to those that look broken Kragg realizes he doesn’t have a perfect sense of what is going on but does feel that he may yet figure it out at some point. This is the most complex thing I have ever seen. It might take me longer than we have to get a good grasp on the construct. I am pretty certain with the gloves though that I can reprogram it safely.
Kragg feels the thrumming beneath his feet and when he touches the walls. This place is alive almost now. Quite different than when we first arrived. I agree that we need to go back to the other areas and look around. Specifically, we need to go back to that room where the the partial golem was and see if we can't now finish it and bring it to this room. With the power back up and the control panel functioning we can reprogram it to our needs and tell it that we are friends and to only take commands from us. It may know where the colonists are even!
While I am working on the golem creature, if the rest of you want to go together to search the complex for anything that may have changed, go ahead. I have been blessed by Abadar with a miracle of transportation if I need to flee quickly.
Kragg will pull out his wands of cure light wounds to heal the party as he also looks at the display that originally said not power. Hopefully he gets anindicationof what it says now. That is the first of many steps to repair and reprogram any thing that may stillbe functional in the complex.
Assuming that Alyn and Trick take out green with their frenzy of attacks Kragg moves around the center column around to flank with Derym and Lolito.He draws upon the blessing of Abadar to speed his movement to get into position and still make a single attack. +1 short sword for
Kragg uses the power bestowed upon him by Abadar to protect himself as he moves in to support Lolito. As he moves he equips his shield to grant him better protection.
Once in position he attacks the green golem like construct. Attack +1 shortsword for
I am here just trying to figure out what is best course of action.
Kragg moves up 30ft just south of the doors as he hears the sounds of fighting break out from the room that was shut down before. Once there he readies until Derym moves up and then casts blessing of fervor upon the party. Almighty Abadar grants us your blessing and fill my friends with your holy power that we may cleanse this place and continue our search for our lost comrades!
Shrunk my token down to medium size and moved just out into the hallway as that seems like the likely destination once Lara flipped the switch.
Indeed Kragg hurries along to see the characters and if the readout that once read no power reads something else.Well done Lara. Let’s see what wonders this place holds if the Aboleth is not here.
That is true.I guess I was thinking that we all would be in our positions prior to Lara flipping the switch. Then we could see if there were any changes immediately and how those changes were implemented. Maybe we should go in pairs then?
Kragg hears the conversation and Lara’s valuable insight. I agree that we should try flipping just one of the switches. Since we have cleared the complex of threats and found no Aboleth, we are in no hurry. If you want to flip 1 switch I will check the room just outside this one. Previously it said no power. Let’s see if one switch does the trick. Derym you can check the room where we fought the leader and see if anything happens there. That still leaves the room with the mask and the forge. Alyn and Lolito…any takers? So if this works out the way I hope and pray to Abadar it does…Lara flips the switch giving power to the control room. The forge is heated by electricity allowing us to make some replacement pieces. We use those on the clockwork device and reprogram it from the control room. Then we figure out what it knows and use it to help protect us or lead us to the Aboleth. We still need to figure out what the mask is for and how to get the sword free from the statue along with identifying a host of other magics items.
Kragg will also casts detect magic as normal to scan the area for auras.
C1. This fountain looks like it was a religious cleansing fountain. Priests who lived in houses within the temple complex must have entered the cathedral through this corridor. Before going to the sacred areas of the temple, the priests likely washed their hands and faces in the fountain. In many religions this kind of ritual of cleanliness and spiritual purity represented leaving behind the secular outside world. Sturdy, ornate columns line this wide corridor, but cracks mar their surface and a few of them have fallen into pieces on the once fine marble floor of the cathedral. At the south end of the corridor, water spurts out of a broken fountain.
C4. To the north is a room that appears to be an ancient vault. Battered steel chests lie scattered across the floor of this vault, their contents strewn throughout the room. The thick stone walls are reinforced with steel bars and look nearly impenetrable, but the door to the vault has been torn off the hinges.
C7. The smell of oil and grease fills this room, where armor- plated statue heads, limbs, and torsos as well as gears of all sizes have been placed on stone shelves. A nearly complete body consisting of similar gears and armor plates lies face down on a stone table with a large key embedded in a clockwork mechanism in its back.
C8. Hall way fight
C13. Stone shelves on the walls of this storage room are full of jars and vials of different sizes. A sweet but musty smell hangs heavy in the air. (FAILED PERCEPTION CHECK)
C14. Kragg moves into the water, barely keeping his head above the water as he goes down the stairs. the door is completely submerged, and Kragg is able to swing it open. The room beyond is fully submerged, and pitch black. Luckily Lolito's floating stone lights up a small area around him.
C15. the water is still, though cloudy from the blood. the secret room looks empty. it appears to have been a storage room, but whatever was stored here was clearly not waterproof, and very little of it remains after untold years. it was maybe being used as a guard post for the skum and little else.
C18. At the far end of the side corridor stands a statue depicting a hooded figure with four arms. Her armor and mask are sculpted to give her the appearance of a woman, but the spaces between the plates of armor reveal that her body consists of clockwork gears. One of her arms is extended, pointing an accusing finger at a statue at the opposite end of the hallway, closest to the door you stand in. The other statue, standing in a semi-circular alcove behind thick steel bars, depicts a stern woman with no mouth.
C19. On a large dais occupying the central position in the room is a statue of a man sitting on a throne and holding a hammer in one hand and a closed book in the other, but the statue’s head is missing. Beside it stands another statue, and four others yet remain standing among the crumbled remains of other statues that litter the floor.
The group spends some time studying the statues, unfortunately their historical knowledge of ancient pantheons is not great. Lolito guesses these might be ancient gods, which sounds right to Derym and Kragg but the two struggle to remember the names or domains of these gods and goddesses.
C20. A statue of a warrior wrestling with a giant serpent stands on a two-foot-high pedestal in this columned hall. The serpent is coiled around the warrior and has locked its jaws around her upper body. The woman holds her sword high, ready to strike the serpent’s neck again. She has cut nearly all the way through, and only a thin piece of skin keeps the head attached to the long, sinuous body. Magical light radiates from the blade of the sword, illuminating the statue and the chamber. Jagged columns of coral stand among finely carved marble columns. The remains of the south wall lie in broken pieces, allowing full view of the ocean beyond.
That is a great question Alyn. The room north of us was originally needing power in order to program the mechanical creatures there. This may be the power we need but I don't know how to control it yet. Unfortunately I was not focusing on the mechanics of this place as I was worried more about the Aboleth that seems to either have escaped us or was never here int he first place.
Kragg still detects magic in this room as well and once discovered what Magic’s there are and seeing no exit he moves on to another area looking for the elusive Aboleth.
Go ahead with the last robe Alyn. I already have a quick runner’s shirt that I am currently blessed by Abadar to be wearing. When the door is opened revealing the store room Kragg performs his obligatory scan with detect magic.
Kragg oohs and aahs as he determines the magical qualities of 3 of the robes. Lara, this blue silk robe with the silver eye is a mnemonic vestment and would be most useful by you I think. It would expand your spellcasting abilities as long as you have a scroll handy. Derym, the shocking robe might best for you as it would a hands any electrical spells you cast while wearing it. It also grants you some electricity protection. It is the wool robe. Lolito and and Alyn, I am not sure which one is best suited to the white shirt with silver eye. It alllows the wearer to once a day be free of any hindering effects upon your movement. The 4th robe I am not sure what it does so it may something suitable to one of you or be generically helpful.
Kragg will try and identify the cloaks magical properties and also see if he can recall if the garmets would match any Azlanti god’s motif. Spellcraft checks
4 of these cloaks are magical but I don’t know yet what properties they may have or if they are associated with any Azlanti deities or notable historical figures. Know host
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After giving the sword a solid yank Kragg agrees with Lara. You are right that the right person may have to be the one to retrieve the sword. Whom that may be though I do t know yet. It would have to be someone with the same ideals as Savith. Given enough time I may be able to work it free but again that will have to wait till we have time In the new room Kragg sweeps it with detect magic before moving to the far set of double doors. He lets Lara check it for traps before opening it in hopes of finally finding the Aboleth.
Kragg frees the sword from the statue before retreating with the others. There is no sense right now in picking a fight with sharks when we still have an Aboleth to deal with. Is there anyway to lock this door though to keep someone or something from coming in behind us? Know nature
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Detect magic and spellcraft on glowing sword Amazing. This statue is none other than Savith, heroine of Azlant during the serpent wars. This statue commemorates her last act of beheading the serpent god. However it was a fatal final blow as the fangs pierced her skin poisoning her and leading to her death. I am not sure if therebb be is a greater archeological find than this here. Scholars all over the world love the chance to see this statue in person not to mention all the others in the room north of us. If only we could reinforce the wall to keep the sharks at bay.
I do not have any means of tracking or locating anyone in the water. However I do know that it is impossible to be invisible while in the water as the water is still displaced and you would then see an empty bubble of space moving past you.
Getting up from his kneeling position Kragg will follow Lolito south to the next room.
Kragg smiles in joy at the depiction of his god. This is great sign. Abadar is present in this place. Moving over to the statue Kragg kneels before it saying a prayer. After a minute he gets back up turning to face the party. I am not sure about the rest of the statues but tradition holds that Abadar claimed the domain of law once Amaznen died. It is possible that the statue missing its head could be Amaznen and its missing head is representative of its death. Beyond that I am sorry but I have no other information for you.
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