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With the big brutish ape down, the small tik taan idol attempts to hide behind the 20-30 apes in the room.
That doesn't work. Musani sees it easily.
The heroes approach it, with only one thing in mind: whittling
Pokes, bashes, and stabs happen to this poor construct, which looks like a mix between the pillsbury dough boy and Moana's Kakamora. After the first hit, the idol stiffens up, pretending to be 'dead'. You don't buy it. With Tanaka's big swing, and Overtu uncomfortably close behind him, the idol turns into thousands of toothpicks. Musani makes a clever retort, while Plisskin looks at the idol and says The name's Plisskin. Call me Snake.
Once the idol is destroyed, the mist in the Blakros Museum fades out. You untie poor Nigel, and he professes his eternal gratitude to all of you. Nigel says he will go visit the loving Adril Hestram 'that very night' to make amends, and open the doors to the museum to anyone the society deems worthy.
Once the heroes are all ready to leave, they give each other a high five right before the credits roll
Tanaka double slices the giant ape. Once slice cuts the legs off, the other cuts the head off. Tanaka then poses in a (insert complicated pose name that only sfounder knows) position!
A long hallway leads to this grand hall, wherein the Blakros Museum shows off its finest collections. Mock vines cling to the walls and hang from the fifty-foot-high domed ceiling, and huts of grass are strewn about the open area. At the center of this sprawling chamber, a miniature replica of a traditional Mwangi ziggurat rises out of the mist to a height of nearly twenty feet. At the top of the ziggurat, a rail-thin elven gentleman is strapped to an altar, his bare chest painted with strange sigils and monkey paw-shaped blots of paint.
This simple room of unadorned stone is piled floor to ceiling with boxes and crates, allowing room for only a few small corridors between these towers of dusty, mothballed exhibits.
He begins to babble and cry loudly about he went mad and killed his lab partner Sheg. The crazy man, named Maldroog, dismembered his pal and stuffed him in a lavatory hole. You see a set of (p00py) keys in the stall
These public restrooms seem to be for the use of visiting clientele. Several stalls are here and a huge cesspool below collects the offal. Mad laughter echoes in this cramped stone chamber. The stench of sewage battles the cold of the mist, but through the haze can be seen smears of blood across the floor, walls, and ceiling, as well as the doors of several stalls
Inside the bathroom, you see a crazed man yelling at everything.
ROUND 1
Musani - GO
Tanaka - GO
Overtu - GO
Blue
Plisskin
Red
Kn:Planes DC 12:
Vargouille
Kn:Planes DC 17:
Kiss (Su)
A vargouille can kiss a helpless target by making a successful melee touch attack (this provokes attacks of opportunity). A kissed opponent must succeed on a DC 16 Fortitude save or begin a terrible transformation that changes the creature into a vargouille within 24 hours (and often much sooner; roll 1d6 separately for each phase of the transformation). First, over a period of 1d6 hours, all the victim’s hair falls out. Within another 1d6 hours thereafter, the ears grow into leathery wings, tentacles sprout on the chin and scalp, and the teeth become long, pointed fangs. During the next 1d6 hours, the victim takes Intelligence drain and Charisma drain equal to 1 point per hour (to a minimum of 3). The transformation is complete 1d6 hours thereafter, when the victim’s head breaks free of the body (which promptly dies) and becomes a vargouille. This transformation’s progress is paused by sunlight or any light spell of 3rd level or higher, but stopping the transformation requires remove disease or a similar effect. The transformation is a disease effect. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a +4 racial bonus.
Poison (Su)
Bite—injury; save Fort DC 12; frequency once; effect damage caused by bite can only be healed with magic if the spellcaster succeeds on a DC 20 caster level check; cure 1 save. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Shriek (Su)
Instead of biting, a vargouille can open its distended mouth to shriek. Those within 60 feet (except other vargouilles) who hear the shriek and can clearly see the creature must succeed on a DC 12 Fortitude save or be paralyzed for 2d4 rounds or until the monster attacks them, goes out of range, or leaves their sight. A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected again by the same vargouille’s shriek for 24 hours. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Tanaka's eyes are drawn to the huge monstrosities of bone scattered throughout the room. Creepy boooga boooga masks and assorted weapons line the walls.
Overtu does not pick up any auras initially, but then can detect 4 small very weak evocations, one in each corner of the room.
After any healing gets done, you go to the next door. Tanaka opens it
A large placard above the entryway to this hall reads “Hunting the Beasts of Legend” in great block letters. This gigantic chamber is relatively free of mist, and darkness is held at bay by braziers of radiant light. Behemoths occupy these halls, great taxidermy nightmares such as a two-headed bear easily taller than an ogre; a great desiccated beetle, its carapace larger than the face of the clock tower of Absalom’s Clockwork Cathedral; a massive specimen of chimera, its jaws open in a mock roar; and an assembled skeleton of a tyrant lizard. The walls here are studded with strange masks, staves, spears, and other implements of long forgotten cultures, most likely used in ritual hunts of the beasts preserved here.
The sturdy cabinet opens up. A disheveled man steps out. Oh thank goodness. Thank you for saving me. A blue mist filled the museum and just made my associates Kadarnik and Yannis go crazy. They beat up Milgen, and coming for me next. I blame those weird idols. I smelled something wrong with those hideous monkey-faced things as soon as Lugizar brought them out. I've a nose for trouble, I do! No one listens!
He continues to blabber on like a scaredy cat for a while, but then he pulls out a sack of 500 gp and rewards you.
Tanaka slices up red pretty hard, and he goes down unconscious. As he falls, you see the intense blueness from his eyes fade down to a normal color, as if a force left his body.
Plisskin axes blue, and he also falls over with the same effect as red.
Both unconscious.
Off initiative.
You hear heavy breathing and teeny shrieking coming from within a cabinet.
As the party moves in the room, they are surprised by 2 humans that look like they are on a very special drug. Their clothes are ripped and they look all animalistic.
Surprise round
Blue falls on Pliskin and attempts a slam attack
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Plisskin hears some whimpering inside the room. You open the door.
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The door to this chamber was once a pane of expensive frosted glass, which now lies in broken shards on the floor. Within, several desks lie overturned, papers in disarray, and chairs smashed to kindling. A sturdy steel cabinet sits against the back wall, its doors much battered and dented. The mist here roils near the floor and ceiling, creating a strange patch of visibility stretching from knee-height to a few feet overhead. The smoky tendrils flow up and down the walls unnaturally and savage visages swirl to life, fanged mouths agape, before
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