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"Probably quicker to just let them read it, but I could prep that book copying spell tomorrow if we can find enough spare book binding supplies." Nik shrugs, scratching his cheek.

"Good news, Jek: reading time is over. Let's offer that bubber a few more coins." Nik exclaims suddenly.

He pauses, peeking at the hedgehog's cards.
"Who's been helping the stuffed toy?"

Knowledge (planes): 1d20 + 24 ⇒ (1) + 24 = 25

Nik gingerly places his loaded crossbow on the ground, leaning it against a nearby bookshelf. He can't settle in to focus on the text, however; the books floating through occasionally turn out to be too distracting.
"Barmy bubber really was barmy." Nik concludes, probably missing something important.

After marginally helping Xibalba from under the other bookcase, Nik reloads his crossbow and also follows.

Nik fires his crossbow at the kyton.
Xbow +Mwk -into melee: 1d20 + 10 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (16) + 10 + 1 - 4 = 23
Cold iron+silver piercing: 1d10 ⇒ 3

been a busy week ^^;
Also, the biggest bookshelves between rooms are crossable via mirror, right? I moved 25', probably. Some of that might be squeezing...? Also, does it look hurt in a way that deathwatch could detect? That's one of my few CL1 items xD

Nik moves past bookshelves to flank Jazriel.
"Someone needs reinforcements?"

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20
"Uh- Rinika? Wait-! Er- nevermind..." Nik says, reaching out a hand as he notices the chain too late.
With any luck he'll just lumber over and we can still ambush him...
Nik thinks to himself as he levels his crossbow in that general direction.

"Right. Let's find the book and see what we can get out of it. Probably cures the thing in Arcadia too, if our other stops are anything to go by." Nik says with a nod.

"That barmy bubber from Blurophil told us about that book. Probably something good in there if someone else wants it too. Also, what curse?" Nik replies, scratching his cheek.

"I mean, we could just go look." Nik suggests.
"...Er- anyone have rope?" Nik adds, scratching his cheek.

"Rilmani? Who're they? I don't need any trouble." Nik says almost reflexively.

"Think anyone would get mad if we just snatch a book?" Nik wonders aloud.

"Think any of the big mirrors match any of the books? I'll grab one to wave around the fun house mirrors in case that works." Nik explains as he looks for the most creative-sounding or creativity-teaching titled book he can find before saving Jek from as much of the books as he can.

seeing as we passed 3 fun-house mirror rooms on the way, I think we go visit those and wave the random book Nik borrowed before continuing to new rooms?
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After that, continuing with the right-hand rule, we can make it to the bottom-left most 5 next.

"Do any of the mirror books have titles like the paper books?" Nik asks, looking at the cover of the book being held up to the mirror before looking at the covers of some of the mirror books.

"Backwards?" Nik asks. With a shrug he tries to look at the reflection of the words in the mirror. A hale and hearty (instead of bleached and leathery) mirror-Nik matches Nik's movement from within the mirror...

"As long as the janitor isn't an Unseen Servant we might. Though normally you'd need higher magic than what works here to make such a thing permanent." Nik shrugs.
"Let's go visit that door we skipped back there?" Nik suggests.

I'm thinking we go to room 4. Looks like it's the only one... yay right hand rule?

"What's tempting about these weirdos." Nik asks while gesturing to a mirror-Nik that's only bones. Then he passes by another mirror and pauses a moment to reflect before continuing.
"Right, well, me neither..."

"Huh. I guess you gotta make do when you can't use the good stuff." Nik says, scratching his cheek as he puzzles over the magics.

He seems too busy straining his brain box to ask anyone about actually picking the lock.

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

"Woah woah woah- hold on a second Jazriel. No need for martyrdom today. Thanks for the demonstration of 'knocks back'. I think I saw something when- er- you- er- stabbed you?"

Deja-vu. We really need pronouns for these sorts of things.
I wonder if I should ask how he feels about healing via the blood of baatezu...

Nik tries to wave Jazriel away from a second strike as he approaches to investigate the panel closely (casting Detect Magic just in case).

I just realized that my Deathwatch goggles are CL 1, so I guess I can still see how injured everyone is xD

"Think I should take a look for portals?" Nik asks, looking around to try to guess where the mirrors are pointing.

Are most of the mirrors pointing light at a particular place? Or pointing everywhere but a certain place? Just hoping for a light/dark pattern....

"Maybe digging? Normally I'd just remove the door, but magic isn't so strong here..." Nik offers, looking at his allies for something more hopeful.

Maybe something related to those mirrors? Nik thinks quietly.

"Yup. The thing you see when you look over the one of the edges. I don't recommend looking down from up, though." Nik nods, already moving towards the bright mirror slowly as he readies his crossbow (just in case).

"Ugh. I need better transportation for my shamblers." Nik explains as he scratches his cheek and looks up at his huge sized "friend".
"Just wait here, Zombington. Play dead until we come back." he says to the zombified glabrazu.

He the walks carefully up the creaking stairs.
Acrobatics (take 10): 10 + 7 = 17

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Once through the archway, Nik tries to orient himself.

Survival: 1d20 ⇒ 13
"Huh, maybe Zombington being too big was a good thing after all." he says, noticing how close they are to the spire.

"...Maybe we try the shiny mirror first?"

"I- you know what? Yeah, that'd be terrible. Stitching corpses together into new shapes is also that sort of thing, isn't it?" Nik agrees.

Matching the above order:
1 is unclimbable 2 is ridged: 1d2 ⇒ 1

"Well let's go to that 'Unclimbable Mountain', then." Nik shrugs.

"... Oh yeah, uh- thanks for the reading." Nik adds before leading the way out.

Wisdom: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (2) - 1 = 1 lol... sounds like Nik

"Well, 'The Unclimbable Mountain' sounds very tall, but 'The Ridged Land' sounds narrow. I figure we should check one of those doors for the library place first. On the other hand, maybe we've seen enough books for Jek's next ten lifetimes. Should we go for 'The Swirling Realm' and hope that we can find a priest to help us out?" Nik suggests, taking pity on Jek for once.

Welcome back!

Nik gives Xibalba a peery eye when she finds the book.
After he sees the cover, he wrinkles his nose and raises no complaint before he finishes sorting through the horrifyingly boring other books.

Partway through the search, Nik replies to the fortune teller.
"I think we'll take you up on that. Be nice to prepare for a particular thing instead of everything for once."

Perception: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (5) + 11 = 16
"Yeah, like book thieving. I called dibs, by the way." Nik adds, pointing a finger of accusation very half-heartedly at Schrodinger's Catgirl.

Nik looks through the covers of the books as quickly as he can manage, hoping (quite unreasonably) for a hint like the stash of books from Jangling Hiter.

Nik sniffles a couple of times and clears his throat.
"Good stuff." he explains with a couple of exaggerated blinks.

"Uh- where were we? Oh, books?" Nik asks while scratching his cheek and looking around.
"Dibs on the books." he adds as he leads the way in.

Then he notices (again) the poor missing oracle.
"Oh right, the oracle." Nik says looking around for other people to doff this problem onto.

"Uh- Jek, you're good at carrying. Rinika, you're good at getting on top of bookshelves. Maybe Rinika can cut and Jek can catch? Er- please and thank you."

He turns back to the oracle.
"Hi, I'm Nik by the way." Nik adds.

Nik uses his gloved hands to brush glass out of the way before reaching around and opening the door.

He leads the way in.

Will: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (10) + 10 = 20 Alas, if only he had had Guidance xD
SR 17 if it's a spell :D

"I don't see a lock. Maybe..." Nik says thoughtfully while scratching his cheek.

Nik turns towards Xibalba.
"I wish someone would dispel the magic on that door." he wishes.

"We'll definitely not be turning ourselves in. We're not that barmy. If you're barmy, that's on you." explains while pointing accusingly at the tip of Rinika's tail.

Nik pauses a moment.
"Eight-toes? Didn't he disappear after trying to kill us?" he asks.

"Maybe the spot ain't all bad "

Will vs fear: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (1) + 10 = 11

"WAH?!" Nik explains as he sprints back outside and cowers behind his largest zombie yet (Or farther if the ghost follows or can be seen from there)

Something about a Necromancer running away from an undead tickles me just the right way.

"Did I just... see a ghost...?" Nik says, incredulous.

After Rinika heads in, Nik decides he's the best ghost buster and he should probably do something.

He steps into the doorway and reaches out with his Power Over Undead (DC 20 will if that was an undead and it is within a 30' burst (not spread)

"Well, if nothing else, we can grab the gem..." Nik suggests.
"Think it'll be trapped?" Nik asks in Rinika's general direction.

Nik leads the way to the oracle's house, hoping for clues...

"Maybe this is the real problem." Nik suggests.

"Maybe the iron-shadow is just about apathy? The dusties would love this." he muses.

"Come, Zombington." Nik orders after it's clear they won't get any more alcohol here.

"I was hoping the strangler had a hint, but that was a bit of a bust. If anything we might've made it more boring around here." Nik says, looking around.

"Or- would the strangler count as uncreative? He did seem to like his schedule..." Nik speculates, scratching his cheek.

"Oh- uh- thanks." Nik replies, scratching his cheek.

"Oh- uh- me. You don't have a thing about not killing killers, do ya?" Nik replies, wary.

"Well sounds like he scrags then scribes. Thanks, I guess." Nik says while scratching his cheek.

With a shrug, Nik starts walking in roughly the direction of the tavern.

"Wait one piking second. Whaddya mean? What was he up to?" Nik calls after Jaspan, suddenly giving her a peery eye as she sods off.

"I'll uh- howbout I trade you a little healing for the dark of it?" he adds.

Then Nik looks over at Khikril and back to Jaspan.
"Or Skee can patch you up." He adds, jerking his head in Khikril's direction.

"Maybe the tavern with Zombington and the golem? Barmy bubber from the pub was right. Should've taken our time getting to Myress." Nik suggests, gathering scrolls and scowling at Jaspan.

He sighs and scratches his cheek.
"To answer your question a little more clearly, we're the cutters that kept your name outta the dead book. We're headed that way." Nik explains, pointing roughly towards the tavern.

"Scrolls?" Nik asks, popping his head out of hiding.
He takes a few tentative steps closer before joining in the pillaging of what once belonged to Myress.
"Finders keepers!"

He pauses a moment to look around for the rest of the party.
"Also... what's wrong with wizards?" he asks Rinika pointedly, as he begins examining another scroll.

Welp, Nik has highest initiative, might as well go first...

Nik watches Rinika drop and land with a dull thud.
"NOT LIKE THAT!" he explains shrilly before another thin, green ray launches from his fingertip and tags Myress.

Disintegrate (DC 23)
Ranged Touch: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
Damage on failed DC 23 fort save: 24d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 5, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 6, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6, 1) = 79
Damage on successful DC 23 fort save: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 4, 6, 3) = 18

Pretty sure that reflex is before your turn, so if you wanna wake someone up and/or blow someone up, this should help...

Nik hesitates a moment as Khikril gets trapped and Rinika passes out. He decides that more firepower helps more in the long run. A thin, green ray springs from Nik's pointing finger.
Ranged Touch vs Resilient Sphere: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24 Now I'm sad I'm not disintegrating the guy xD
The ray hits the globe that just formed around his feathered friend, freeing Skeessannak'khikril.

Need to know what/who to disintegrate xD

This turn I'm buffing Rinika, but next round I might want Black Tentacles; is there a place Nik can target with Black Tentacles that is at least 25' off the ground and within 20' of Myress? Maybe the building is over 25' tall?

"Hey! Let her go!" Nik shouts before casting Grease on Rinika's armor.

"What do you mean 'all your kind'? Don't like tourists?" Nik shouts up.

CMD 24->34 vs grappling, I think that means he has a 75% chance of letting go if he doesn't switch to both hands?

I love action economy when it benefits me :D

Nik casts Curse, Major (DC 23) on Myress. 50% chance of no action if he fails his save. Also, he doesn't have SR, does it? D:
"Jek? Er-" Nik begins, then he remembers their new wish granter.
"I wish Jek were all better." Nik calls up, hopeful Xibalba can figure it out.

Does SR 17 help? I guess I'm not really a target maybe...