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"If one of these shriezyx made its way here, perhaps there are more lurking about. We should consider ourselves warned." "I am willing and able to continue on, but I believe we must take these poor kidnapping victims back to civilization first. They are in no condition to face even the smallest hazards that stand between them and the city above."
"Ah, no. But are there more hostiles down here that you know of?"
Molasbar will step back out to the main area so he can see where Lockerbie last was. Is he still there feasting?
Molasbar notes Aurie darting ahead and mutters "Has she always been that fast?" He follows behind, still struggling to get a good line of sight on any enemies not being devoured.
Acrobatics check Molasbar drops clumsily from the edge, but hits the ground rolling. He pushes himself up to his feet and readies his bow, stalking forward to get a line of sight to the creatures.
Molasbar crouches down, hangs off the edge, and then drops down to his feet. Climb,
"If we survive this, we'll check in on her periodically to make sure she is well."
"We should make it clear to her that he is no longer among the living. We have seen with our own eyes that he died."
Before Aurie goes in to deliver the news, Molasbar does his best with prestidigitation to clean her up and diminish the odor issue. When they return, Molasbar will lift the his everburning torch high and let the more able lead the way back to where we'll meet up with Lockerbie.
"I think we should retreat for the moment and deliver the locket. Should we fail down here, the locket becomes lost again and the poor widow learns nothing."
"Can you tell us what she looks like, and where she lives? Or, at least, where she lived when you last knew?"
While Molasbar won't conduct an extensive search, he will swim above the wreck and use his active see invisible and detect magic to scan the wreck overall for anything obvious.
Molasbar swims just a little closer before he casts a spell and lobs a bit of acid at one of the reefclaws. Casting at the injured reefclaw, ranged touch attack , damage
"Ah, yes. I have it here." Molasbar pulls out the everburning torch and holds it aloft as they go into the water.
GM, I'm not sure if you saw my question buried in the roleplay texts. Can Cimrodel or I take 10 to spellcraft to cast from the scroll? The DC of the spellcraft check is 23, and we both have a spellcraft of +13. That means taking 10 would give us an automatic success (barely).
Molasbar says "Cimrodel, I will let you do the honors." He tucks the scroll he was holding in his backpack, then leans the pack against the wall. "The spell won't protect any of your belongs from the water, so if something concerns you" he gestures to his backpack "like my spellbook, it is best to leave it here." Molasbar looks thoughtful at Shathee's question. "The spell itself does not tell what to expect when the spell comes over you, and I have never seen it in action myself." He pauses then adds "I have spent the last century reading and listening to every story, tale and account of adventures that I could find in the libraries of Kyonin. Some tales said it felt like you were suddenly suffocating when you try to breath air. Others said it filled your lungs with water, which felt as natural as a breath of cool air. However, if my time with the lot of you has shown me anything, just tales of adventure are a poor substitute for true experience. Which I guess we will acquire shortly." With that, Molasbar casts two spells in preparation. And then he orders "Wisp, stay here."
Examining the second scroll, Molasbar nods as Cimrodel delivers his assessment. "That is all true, except for one detail. If you look at the accents on these symbols here, it indicates plurality. The caster may touch more than one during the execution of the spell. That tells me that the power of the spell can be pushed to more than one person. I'd estimate that all of us could benefit from one scroll's power for an hour. That would leave us a second scroll to use if we fail with the first, or to add to our spell trove if one suffices."
Perception
"Yes, Captain. Thank you." When he says that though, he is looking at the ailing Aurie. He says to her, concern clear on his face, "Do you need to sit? Do you need to get to a cleric?"
Molasbar narrows his eyes at how quickly the sinspawn's have closed with Aurie. He concentrates on trying to predict their movements to avoid shafting his own friend. Prescience To hit , damage
When the first sinspawn emerges, Molasbar sends an arrow at it. To hit , damage Edit: Possible crit! Confirm... , additional damage if applicable
"If we can move forward here with foreknowledge of what lies ahead, it is only to our advantage. It is certainly a delay to investigate the sunken vessel, and it may not be easy to find a single locket in the wreck of a ship, even if the tides haven't taken it away. But if there are indeed undead on the wreck, they are a hazard to the merchants and fishermen of the city."
"I believe we are all willing to help in this task. But first, there is something rather pressing that brought us down here in the first place. We were told of a woman found by the entrance we came in. She had been deposited there with her memory stripped from here. Is that anything you might know about?"
"Do you know how long you've been down here." Molasbar swallows hard, feeling an odd sense of sympathy for what should be a clear undead menace to be slain. "Um, do you have family we might tell of your fate? Or something we could bring you to make this existence more tolerable?"
"Indeed, Shathee. We should follow. Just be wary of other perils along the way." Molasbar stashes his bow and takes up the torch from the ground, holding it aloft for extra light.
When the creature strikes Doc so viciously, Molasbar flinches and takes an involuntary step back, almost going off the walkway. He steadies himself and draws back his bow. Having had little luck hitting the elusive eel, he focuses on his divination studies and tries to predict where the eel will be. Prescience To hit with arrow, , damage Edit: Let's sub in that 16 for the 14 and see if that connects for him.
Molasbar draws back his bow again, trying to skewer the creature with another arrow. to hit, damage.
Knowledge (arcana) With the splashing of the moray's attack, Molasbar knows they're going to be losing any chance to surprise the sea shanty singer. So he tells the group "A cave moray! It can strike twice as far as you are tall, and it isn't bothered by the dark." He shoots an arrow at it. To hit , Damage
Perception Molasbar nods to Shathee, acknowledging that he hears it too. He quietly murmurs a spell . He opens his pouch and tells Wisp, his thrush familiar, "Inside, my friend.". Once the bird is safely tucked away, he readies his bow and waits for a warrior to lead the way.
Molasbar lets Shathee get a few yards of lead before following.
Just to document it, the spells I was able to copy over from Anthalusian Quest this go around were: Vanish, Abundant Ammunition, Air Bubble, Liberating Command, Protection from Evil, Detect Charm, Identify and Magic Weapon.
Molasbar grimaces as he sees Doc and Cimrodel easily illuminate the area. He murmurs to no one in particular "I became a Pathfinder and an adventurer because of the hundreds of tales and ballads I've read and heard of heroes and their exploits. Clearly, none of them prepared me for the practical minutia needed to be successful." He looks around the platform by the light the others are providing, looking for any pertinent clues. Perception
Molasbar looks off in the distance, considering the options. Finally, he says "Yes, the sewer does seem the more pressing lead. While I dislike leaving the pylon off for now, I believe we were reaching places untouched for some time. We should be able to pick up there again when we've checked the sewer."
Wow. That's 26 spells you have that I do not. I can take 10 on the spellcraft check to understand them, so I'd automatically succeed. That still means it would take 26 hours to understand all of them, and 28 hours to copy them. It sounds like we are tentatively planning on going back in on the morning of the 4th. If I spend one day crafting a cloak and two days copying spells, that would be eight first level spells I could copy. Beyond burning hands, I do have some spells that you do not that you are welcome to. Those are: Detect Secret Doors, Gravity Bow, See Invisible and Glitterdust. GM, I have all the prerequisites to craft the cloak of protection +1, so that should be a DC 10 spellcraft check, which I can take 10 on pretty easily. The material cost would be 500gp, so the time to make it would be the minimum 8 hours. Does that sound right?
But that's still more than a day for each flask, so I guess I won't do it because no one wants to sit around for a week just to get a small discount on alchemist fire. Ah well. Oh, I don't know about that. I am thinking a few down days might be good. I'd like to craft a cloak of protection +1, and maybe some scrolls.
Cimrodel: Here are the spells I currently have:
1st level: Burning Hands, Enlarge Person, Detect Secret Doors, Feather Fall, Grease, Mage Armor, True Strike, Unseen Servant, Shield, Gravity Bow. 2nd level: Glitterdust, See Invisible. I’m planning on keeping the See Invisible/Glitterdust combo for my 2nd level spells to help the party with invisible foes. As I mentioned, I am looking at adding Feather Fall as a regular 1st level memorized spell, but I am open to suggestions on the others. I do want to scribe a few scrolls. I want Grease available in case I need to help someone escape a grapple situation, and Burning Hands to help out with swarms. Of course, you’re welcome to copy any spells I currently do have.
Market bargain I'm okay keeping items that are useful or just fun. If we do keep the ring of feather fall, I'm thinking Shathee or Aurie should take it. They are most likely to need it with Shathee's scouting job and Aurie's exuberance to engage foes. That being said, I'm thinking I'll start memorizing feather fall as a standard carry for me.
For the sale of items recovered, is it okay to go ahead with getting half the value of the items, or do you want to role play out sales and purchases? Do any players want to hold onto any of the items recovered (obviously, we'll keep the Shard!)?
We'll head back down. Have we tried the door at the north end of C1 on the map?
Spellcraft Molasbar raises a hand toward the barrier, but doesn't touch it. After a momwnt of concentration, he says "It is some sort of arcane barrier. Not unlike the darts of force we've seen Cimrodel use to great effect. There is some... strangeness to the magic though. Some variation. What that does I cannot be sure without some experiments."
"What are your intentions here, now that the imp and Baz are gone? What will you do here?"
As the group starts on towards the weeping lemure, Molasbar avoids both pillars. He says to the group "Remember, as sympathetic as crying may make the lemure, it is still at its base a devil."
Since Aurie has kindly shown the runes are not magically trapped, Molasbar looks closely. "They are Thassilonian. They read 'Does true power lie within the one or the many?'"
Molasbar tells Doc "I'm going to try and cut it off!" He then darts to the east.
Fort save Molasbar flails about in the bat swarm before trying to bolt away from them.
Concentration check for burning hands .
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