I just am not able to catch up here. Too busy nowadays it seems. Sorry guys, I think it best if I just back out of this one.
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Man, I'm having a hell of a time keeping up with this campaign. Sorry all. Finding the time to keep up to date on this one is becoming increasingly more difficult. Please bot me as needed, and I'll try to catch up sooner or later.
I won't be making it, but meeting up with online RP buddies sounds fun. Dang.
"Hmm, interesting. I wonder just what we'll find at the end of this path." Leo whispers as they group continues.
Leo stays with the group.
"Radgar's wife, hmmm..." He says, thoughtfully.
Leo peaks over at Cindy's map, curious. "It might be worth checking out. Rilumin?"
"Oh, this place." Leo says from his position somewhere in the middle of the group. "There was a large group of shadows here earlier. Best in on our guards, but of course we already all are." He finishes this sentence with a glance to the muddled Cormick. "You are on your guard, aren't you?"
No craft alchemy here. Serelina prefers real magic.
Ian:
"There aren't enough miracles of restoration to help all of you punch-addled punching-bags." Leo grins beneath his smoked glasses at Hezrog. "But if you tire of him this way, I know some people that could help, for a cost." Leo hits Ian with another couple charges of his wand + , and then resumes his place in the middle of the group.
Leo will go up to Serelina. "Wizard Belefini, not too harmed I hope?" he says, touching her with his curing wand.
For the next round he'll approach Ian and use his wand on him.
"Ian, are your senses still with you? Do not make friends with the undead!"
Delaying.
Leo full moves toward the left side of the room, staying behind Morvae as he moves.
Leo walks up to Cormick, now that there is no threat right near him, drawing his wand and hitting him with a charge of it.
"Feeling okay?" Leo asks, a bit concerned.
Leo delays his initiative (Waiting for Morvae to get hurt, or the undead to approach Leo)
Leo casts seering light at the Speaker, and then quickly moves behind Morvae.
Moving to J-27
"These black monks will be problematic. They can attack us without weapons, using their bodies. They can steal our wits, making us foolish, as well as knocking the sense out of us. I've read that once we are stunned, they can... Steal your breath. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I DO know that they need the breath of the living to stay functioning. They aren't like other undead that can just shamble around for eternity. Black Monks confirm that people have been down here, either to bring them living to feed off of, or this area has accidental explorers frequently enough to sustain them." "How did your crew get down here?" Leo asks the Merchants. "Was there an unguarded entrance regular people could get into? Maybe the homeless looking to squat?"
DM: Oh, before I forget again, I wanted to do a knowledge check on Horus, and his church.
"Careful..." Leo warns as people begin to move forward. "These may not be empty..." his voice is low, warning but hushed.
Leo bestows his protection touch upon Ian again for the next minute(+2 to saves)
"A couple of spells I think would be helpful. I usually let my team be the aggressors while I focus more on being otherwise useful. Down here, however, it might be beneficial for me if I take on a more... Direct method against undead." He shrugs and grins a bit self-consciously. "More spells like the one I cast earlier, though hopefully this time our enemies won't resist its affects." I'd like a spot in the middle of the pack for when we enter.
Leo speaks up before everyone leaves the room. "actually, since I've got an idea of what we're facing down here now, I can prepare additional spells to help us. Think we can spare 15 minutes? I'll make myself much more offensively capable against undead."
Leo laughs softly, sheepishly. "Sorry, Master Hast. I tend to sing when I'm trying to concentrate. I'll try to keep it from getting too macabre." he shrugs. "It's difficult to keep the good poems from coming to mind, especially considering the atmosphere here, but I'll try." Moments of searching later, and his voice begins to whisper out once more.
He thinks about his old friends in the library, and wonders where they are now. Surely, no where quite as dangerous. "Well, nothing else in this room... That ring is interesting though. It could be useful. Where to next?"
Leo is surprisingly unfazed by the blood splattering him as the thing dies. He enters the room with the others, combing through the room using the help of detect magic as well. "Fiery tales of cinder and haze, caught in the rapture of 10 bloody days, with frightened young Childes and red-running rain, we all must submit to our unending pain." Leo sings softly to himself as he searches around the room, the lyrics from an old poem he read.
"A creaking old door that leads us to hell, miles of blight pimpled land up ahead, we could tell we were strangers to death by the smell, 10 wicked steps further on 'til we're dead."
For this turn I'll channel energy.
If retcon is needed and allowed: Leo casts Burst of Radiance centering the blast to keep it from affecting anything but the swarm, if possible. It must roll a reflex save (DC 18) or be blinded for rounds. If it succeeds, it is only dazzled for the same, instead. Assuming it is evil, damage that ISNT reduced at all by a successful save. x1.5 = 22
Will Save for half: 17, assuming it's using my wisdom. For the next round, I'll attack again and five foot step back to give Serelina better blasting distances.
Leo gives Cormick a nod with his hooded head. "Right you are" He reaches down to arm himself, but instead of grabbing any kind of weapon (of which he appears to be armed with none), he grabs one of the several wands at his hip, near his scroll cases and brandishes it like a sword while moving up besides the guardsmen in the doorway.
"Get it's attention. Try to keep it off of me." Leo says to Ian.
Leo's shield goes dark (revealing the tower's symbol painted upon it beneath its former magic glow), as he touches the elite guard's weapon, which glows brilliantly. He then touches the guardsman himself, bestowing his with the Protector's Side. Ian feels magically bolstered.
"Nethys protect you." Leo says, and gives the guardsman an encouraging wink.
Leo looks at the creature with curiosity and some sadness. "We should go. It might be a mad idea to linger around it too long. If we wish to help it, then leaving its presence to finds its remains sounds like the best we can do" Leo begins gently guiding people onward, away from it.
Nervously, Leo begins to babble a bit. "I wish I knew what room we were looking for. If only we had a map... Hey! I wonder if the library has a map of this place, the building plans? I doubt they'd have any secrets on it, and secret necromancer lairs are probably as off-map as it gets, but an overhead of these catacombs could be helpful..." He'll assist anyone looking for traps/secrets as they go.
"These have been empty for some time." Leo speaks up. "Master Hast, I asked earlier about what we do if we run into these dead, animated and hostile... Do we have any reason to avoid destroying them? Are they honored dead, or maybe part of this seal in some way?"
Leo stays quiet, and just waits to follow with the group's decision. DM: Leo will continue to watch the interactions, just keeping an eye on the merchants for any deceit. He doesn't expect any, but would hate to find out the merchants have been paid off by the thieves, or for some other reason turns out to be enemies. Sense motive +16
Leo keeps an eye on Hast from behind his hood and dark glasses, unsure if the master is capable in a fight in addition to wielding magics. Some people just can't keep their wits in a scrap. Staying near the back and holding a glowing, round shield, he appears friendly if inscrutable. He lets Wizard Bellafini do the talking.
Before descending...
"Master Hast, what should we do if we encounter any raised raised dead down there? You know, Like before?"
He follows the other in his place as they go.
I think I get it, thanks!
This last meeting just confused the heck out of me. I've skimmed through it a couple of times now, and I just can't retain the info. Someone care to break down whats happening here?
Leo listens to the exchange, bemused and confused. He falls into place behind his comrades and keeps up.
Leo asks if he can buy spare diamond dust while they are here.
Getting a wand of lesser restoration is currently outside of my price range, but I can pick up a couple uses of diamond dust for use in a pinch as I can cast regular restoration to fully heal ability damage
While discussing the likelyhood of falling back, Leo complains/voices an idea. "Destroyer's SIDE we are too busy for this. I'm all for helping look into a threat against our library, but we've got so many other threats out there to deal with that this may have no connection to. I don't suppose we can petition the tower for a... B TEAM, could we? Get another group or two trained up to look into the issues we just don't have time for? Sure, they might not be able to respond as effectively as we can, but we can't respond to every oddity on our own!"
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