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"I'll take the wand, Ting," Sefu says. "Let me see if I can identify its potential use." The magus takes the wand, if offered, and gives it a once over, turning it about in his hands and muttering intelligible words under his breath.
Sefu scratches his head and offers the wand to one of the other casters. "Sorry, I can't quite zero in on its specific properties," he says. "Perhaps one of you could take a look."
Hearing the sounds of battle, Sefu works his way around and through his companions until he standing at the back of the chamber with an unfettered view of the skeleton. The magus conjures necromantic positive energies into his free hand and stretches it toward the alchemically resurrected fiend, hoping to return the skeleton to its eternal slumber.
"Well placed blow, Hans!" Sefu says, wiping the blood from his gleaming blade with a cloth from the alchemist's workbench. Though the barbarian's technique was unformed, it was certainly effect. With all threats destroyed, the magus casts detect magic and searches the room for anything of interest, whether of the academic or financial nature.
Once again, Sefu's khopesh sizzles with arcane energy as he steps into the chamber intending to cut down the zombie before him. However, upon breaching the corridor, the magus spots a strange man - the likely originator of the fire bomb that struck Alexos - and so he turns on a dime to strike at him with his shining blade.
"A true warrior fights with steel, alchemist!" Sefu shouts.
Sefu watches as Hans and Ting reduce two skeletons to piles of bone as he dashes past them. Stopping beside Felicitas in the middle of the long chamber, he conjures an orb of positive energy, which sizzles and flares around his outstretched fist. "Come out from hiding and meet your true end, abominations!" he shouts down the hall at the remaining skeletons.
@Ting - You don't have to do a beginning adventure like "The Confirmation" to have an official PFS character. That said, thematically its nice if it works out that way. "The Confirmation" has a specific boon that is helpful to brand new characters and provides early access to a decent selection of inexpensive magical gear. Most of my PFS characters, however, did not start out with a beginning adventure and I just consider them as having completed their Confirmation before ever being dispatched on their first mission. Usually I'd say you shouldn't move someone's token unless you know they don't have regular access to the map. I know that I will post my exact movements and ask for help if unable to move my token myself. And sometimes I just forget to move.
Hearing that the trap will reset, Sefu hustles into the central chamber. "Ting may be on to something," Sefu says, pulling some trail rations from his backpack. "Let's see if this is enough to trigger the trap." Standing a good six feet away from the statue closest to the tengu, the magus tosses the pouch of dried fruits and meat at it, hoping to trigger the trap.
"I can take a look at those potions before we enter the unseen passage," Sefu says, accepting the bottles if and when they are offered to him. The magus casts detect magic on them and then scrutinizes their contents, holding each up to the light of his wayfinder and gently swirling them about.
"This one," Sefu says, handing Ting the first bottle, "Is an elixir of love. Careful who you give that to. And this is a potion of eagle's splendor. A sip of that might even make Hans a palatable conversant."
Sefu takes a quick step behind Ting, taps himself with his wand of shield, and hitches back onto his haramaki. With khopesh in hand and magical shield floating before him, the magus calls out to the creature and his companions. "Make way," Sefu says. "Let this lustful stain taste my blade!"
shield 9 more rounds ...
"I assure you this sword is where any resemblance or connection to my father begins and ends," Sefu says, somewhat haughtily. "I would, however, be happy to take a look at those stones for you." The magus takes the stones in his hand and casts detect magic on them. If he detects any magical auras, he'll maintain the spell until he's able to identify their nature. Finally, he'll apply his expert's eye to them to infer their purpose and properties, if any.
Once he recovered from the stink released by the bloated (and now bisected) zombie, Sefu takes a closer look around the room.
"Appears as though the necromancers devoted to the sin of gluttony prepared a welcoming party for those who enter this chamber," he says. "This ossuary is full of surprises - I only hope most are more pleasant than this one."
First Room
"I believe you're right, Felicitas," Sefu says, taking a closer look at the circle on the ground. "I can try to identify that scroll for you once I'm finished investigating this circle. It appears to be some kind of protective seal against evil. I fear something terrible might have been released from it here, where the circle is broken." Second Room
"I had heard of extravagant tombs - even some magically enhanced, but nothing I've ever seen compares to this!" Sefu says, entering the lavishly decorated room. "Alexos, surely you jest. This room is as real as you or I."
Sefu accepts the potion and holy water, shrugging off his displeasure with all the divine connotations of the items and mission in general. "I can follow behind Ting Tang," the magus says, flipping open his wayfinder and activating its light. Sefu draws his khopesh and enters the ossuary behind his companions.
Sefu assesses the words and appearance of his companions - a Northman and a Tengu. Between the two of them and running an errand for a bunch of priests, this mission was already bursting with new experiences for the young magus. He only hoped working with Hans and Ting Tang would be more tenable than wearing the yoke of Pharasma. "Well met, the both of you," Sefu says, extending a hand of welcome to each in turn. "And I can assure you I will not get in your way when it comes to traps, Ting Tang. I tend to stick to fighting, though I have a few surprises up my sleeve. Spent quite a bit of time at the Occularium in Manaket learning the arcane arts before being called into family service with the Pure Legion. My duty to family and nation fulfilled, I am now free to spend my time as I choose. Obviously, I chose a different species of service altogether in the Society."
"And you, Alexos," Sefu says, gripping the monk's wrist while filling the man's hand with his own. "Completing such a dire task is made warmer by the company of familiar faces. But what of our new companions? What experience will they bring to cleansing the dungeons of the Ossuary and revealing its terrible mysteries?" The magus lets out a sigh of relief when the church's representative dismisses the notion that the Society would be responsible for removing the bodies. Recovering religious relics for the sake of study was one thing, but participating in any divine sacrament was abhorrent to Sefu's very nature as a veteran of the Pure Legion.
"Seems like a dangerous favor to ask the Society," Sefu says. "Let us hope there are enough findings of interest within the Ossuary to justify such a task. Tell me, what nature of monsters or threats should we expect to encounter within the dungeon? And why clear them now? Surely the church has had ample opportunity to rid its lower level of such evil."
I LOVE Crypt of the Everflame, so much so that I am currently running it PbP on this very site. I would still love to play it, but would need to keep my character knowledge and player knowledge separate throughout, which would be hard to do. Sefu, however, is not the puzzle-solving sort, so he could just take a back seat when faced with that kind of stuff.
Just wanted to take a moment to compliment Touchy. He is the best portrayal of a low charisma character I've ever seen. Most people just dump a stat and then forget to have that come out in their roleplaying. I love how Touchy's personality is more defined by his low charisma than his stronger stats. Plus, the creep factor with him is a welcome bit of humor to my day. Looking forward to more adventures with him.
"Touchy, thank goodness for your quick thinking," Sefu says. "If it weren't for that tanglefoot bag you threw, I don't know if we could have stood toe-to-toe with a minotaur and lived to tell the tale!" Sefu will take a closer look at the minotaur, both out of curiosity and to make sure it is indeed dead. "Curious for such a beast to be lumbering about here on the island," he says to himself, crouching for a closer look.
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