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Mrs. Book stays at the lever, waiting for an opportunity to pull them it and mess them up.

"Maybe. If someone were to slip in there invisible using the potion we found, he might be rushing off to find another route and we may be able to recover him. Dangerous, but I think it is worth a try."

I agree. I tried identifying them in this post but I do not think we ever got results and we forgot about them.

True that.

Yea, I forgot about that wand. So she is not entirely useless, just mostly so.

Iladora is permanently blind, so I can't do a whole heck of a lot until we can find a way back to town. I can use my wand on those who need urgent healing, but that's pretty much it.

I think the risk of trying to return back is that he will follow us and get to set the stage for the fight. He is going to be low on spells and such, just as we are, and we beat him up pretty good, though he probably has some potions to heal himself up. If anyone has some healing potions or wands, we need to use them now. Mrs. Book has her Wand of CLW (currently on loan since she has to make a UMD to get it to work), and 2 Potions of CLW. She is completely out of spells but does have some acid flasks to fight with. That's it. Pretty close to useless in a fight, which is why she is manning the lever.

With Iladora blind, Lybrim dead, and Mrs. Book next to useless, maybe we should retreat.

Thoughts?

Good thought, Mrs. Book! As a reminder, the lever has three positions: up (+), neutral, and down (-). It's currently in the up position. When in the down position, it rotates 90° counterclockwise from where it is now, so the passage joins the two minus signs on the map. When in the neutral position, it rotates 90° clockwise from where it is now. Short version: you can't trap him in the cylinder, but once he's in it you can cut him off from where you are by setting the lever to the neutral position.

Yea, I knew that whatever position she puts it in, there is an exit route. I just want it to NOT be towards the PCs. So either he runs back and flips the lever again, and then tries to get through the same corner again, hoping Mrs. Book is not there to flip the switch again, or he takes a different route which is long. Either way he wastes a lot of time and we get to recharge some HPs.

Mrs. Book readies an action to flip the switch once she knows their opponent is in the swivel area.

Mrs. Book has a Wand of CLW she can lend you.

I plan to try to close the way into our area when I hear/see him passing through. If it works it will buy us more time. If someone could heal folks while that is being done, that would be great. I think if we stall him long enough to restore some of our HPs we should have a good chance at defeating him.

You might want to stay near the door since we are all coming that way.

No, Mr.s Book's action reversed that. Now you are able to retreat. In fact...

"Hurry Up, Iladora. The way is open for now, but the megalomaniac can close it again."

Mrs Book dashes to the lever and pulls it, to try and reverse the orientation.

Mrs.Book taps Vir with a charge from her wand.
UMD: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 20
healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Then heads off towards the switch, realizing that a 50/50 chance at using the wand is not worth the time.

Are Iladora and Blitz further west?

Echo that!

Mrs Book swaps wands

Mrs Book catches up with the others and goes about swapping her wand of magic missiles for her wand of CLW (or whatever part of that she can manage in 6 seconds).

Mrs. book likes the idea of running away and joins the mad dash with the other panicked PCs, barely able to keep them in sight.

Before running she yells out, "Iladora, everyone is booking it! Get your arse out of there while you have your head attached. The metal man is down."

Mrs. Book fires off another charge from her wand, fully expecting to have to book it away to make sure there is at least one survivor.

force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

Next action depends on what happens when and if it explodes.

Mrs Book backs away (51 step) and blasts the machine. This time, since it seems to have an unhealthy obsession with hurting HER, with the magic missiles from her bonded item.

force damage: 3d4 + 3 ⇒ (2, 1, 4) + 3 = 10

Mrs. Book does not have a lot of options and keeps on zapping the automaton.

force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

I put Mrs. Book back to where wse could get to. From that location she will smack the Automaton about a bit again with her wand.

force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Hah! Take that dice bot!

I was stuck thinking she was 4th level and cheated myself. So I need to give myself one more missile...

force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Somehow I knew I was going to roll a 1!

I do not have a third level wand. The last missile came from her spell reserve. Check out the resources block on her character. At this point the only spell slot she has left is from her arcane bond. I was heavily debating with myself whether to use it or not on the automaton but decided against it. I hate having absolutely no spells left.

Mrs. Book sends a magic missile from her wand into the automaton.

force damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Not impressive, but every little bit counts.

"Be careful. It will probably explode when we destroy it."

spellcraft: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (13) + 9 = 22

No spoiler for me :(

Mrs. Book nails Klargosh with a magic missile, doing

force damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (1, 4) + 2 = 7

It's not much but it is usually reliable!

Mrs. Book books it trough the cloud while holding her breath and slips into a corner she hopes will provide safety.

"Vir is down? Oh dear!"

When it comes to paying, we can all pitch in on a raise dead or restoration spell. I don't know if we can contribute prestige points, but I am fairly sure we can contribute cash.

Mrs. Book, who has no idea what is going on in there other than the shouts, feels her nauseousness wearing off and grabs her wand of magic missile.

Mrs. Book downs the antitoxin and waits for the last of the nauseousness to pass.

Mrs. Book will be using her move actions to get an Antitoxin out of her backpack and take it in preparation for her next voyage through the cloud. Not sure if she can take an antitoxin while nauseated, and if not will take it once the nauseation has passed.

Everyone could retreat to the 'safe room'. If we were a sensible bunch that is what we would do!

*cough* *gag* *wheeze*

She will spend her only available action, moving, by circling with her head bowed.

As she will until the nauseated condition runs out.

Mrs. Book will pull out a scroll of expeditious retreat and cast it.

I know. Mrs. Book is not a front liner and she needs to get out of the cloud. But there is no room except in front or way in back. I think. The cloud is not being shown on the map so I'm guessing here. Besides, she thinks the right move is to retreat wand wait the cloud out. She's not going to be much use anyway with he spells just about exhausted.

DC 18 fort save: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

Using 1 star GM reroll

DC 18 fort save: 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 7 + 1 = 14
"Rush him my arse. I think we should wait until this cloud clears."

She joins Lybram in his suffering and backs out into the previous room.

aid Corbrae: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (5) + 10 = 15

"Truly, as a teacher, I am always interested in historical events and these should be recorded."

Mrs. Book peeks around the corner, not liking what she sees. She hopes he will be reasonable but does expect it.

She waits, ready to attempt to aid any move to convince him to allow the hell knights in peacefully.

I think the door is at the green star and we will need to mess with levers to get there.

REar is perfect.

Not really interested so I'll skip the roll off. 1 minute of searching sounds good to me.

Mrs. Book sports a thoughtful look as she muses, "Hmmm. I just have this feeling that the center of this place is where we will find the biggest challenge. I suggest that if anyone has potions or spells to prepare themselves for a big battle, they should use them before we go through the next door. Unfortunately, I do not. I doubt my protection from evil scroll will be of much use against these automatons, but, then again, something must be controlling them and maybe that person is evil?

"In any case, we should move on to the next door. Got any more of those electrical bolts, Viridian? They seem to be quite effective."

Yet another brace...

force damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (3, 2) + 2 = 7

"Well, the missile spell I shot at it seemed to work as did the magical lightning. Maybe it was a more specific resistance? I'll consult my notes."

After a lengthy pause she says "Aha," and points at some writing in her notebook.

"What he said was that it took damage normally from what he could tell. He did mention that it was harmed by fire and force and normal damage, but that's all he knew."

Mrs. Book is running low on spells but casts a magic missile anyway. She then gets a wand of summon monster ready.
force damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 2) + 2 = 6

"Everyone OK? If anyone has any buffs going we should press on before we search."

Mrs. Book scurries along, hugging the walls using her spider climb until she reaches the corner of the room. With a few hand gestures she sends a brace of magic missiles at the nearest (red) automaton.

damage: 2d4 + 2 ⇒ (2, 4) + 2 = 8

Mrs. Book pulls out and reads a scroll of spider climb.