”That might make some sense. ”
He ponders the burial rituals that he learned from Desna and her followers.
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Shade just stands there, dumbfounded, and a little chewed upon. ”Um, ok, Phaed, calm down. We all know you weren’t quite yourself for a while. “Um, should we be putting these brains to rest?”
filled out, with a new PFS2 character! Because now I have to play Shade more...
Shade avoids being swallowed! He worries some that the mouther is going to kill him before they can take care of Ioseff, but the ghost is doing terrible damage to his friend, so he just tries to channel Desna's will.
"Desna! Don't abandon us!"
"Cat's out of the bag, Phaed. Do you really need the mask?"
"Desna will have words with you, Ioseff! And so will Phaed!" Shade attempts to escape the grab.
Failing to get out, he chooses to attempt to heal Phaed.
”Sorry, Phaed. Hopefully the Song of Spheres will help us save you in the end. ” He casts a spell, focusing through the Starless Scope.
He then casts guidance on Tuco!
”Desna’s tool, you mean. And,, yes!”
Shade raises the newly found scope to his eye, peering through it at Ioseff.
Starless Scope:
Critical Success The creature is unaffected, and the starless scope's lens shatters. Success The creature shines with starlight for 1 round. During this time, the creature can't be concealed if it is visible. If it's invisible, it's concealed rather than being undetected. The creature takes a –1 status penalty to saving throws against divine effects while it shimmers with starlight. Failure As success, but the creature also suffers an additional effect. An incorporeal creature loses its incorporeal trait as long as it shines with starlight. Any other creature becomes slowed 1 as long as it shines with starlight. Critical Failure As failure, but the duration of the starlight is 1 minute, and the status penalty to saving throws against divine effects increases to –2. He then casts guidance on Pavo.
With a gasp, Shade carefully pulls the telescope from the skeleton's hand. "Could this be it?" A tear falls from his eye. "Desna, at long last, I... we... have recovered the Starless Scope!"
Shade moves up, avoiding the green ooze, and investigates the corpse. "What did you do, Ioseff?" He looks around, "I wonder if that's the frame for the Void Mirror? Now that we've set it up already." "Oh, and there's some brains, maybe the ones we need?"
"This has to be it. Let us prepare a bit. "I have a magic weapon spell, and a disrupting weapons spell memorized, as well as a heroism spell. I think we should probably use them all. "I suggest that I give Tuco the heroism, and Pavo the magic weapon. I can charge two weapons with positive energy, but I think that they shouldn't be mine. "What do you all think?"
"So, do we have Fulvia's ring yet? It will protect the wearer from Ioseff! Might be good to give to Phaedria when we find it."
I have leveled, too.
Skill Feat: Ward Medic
The blessing of your deity heightens your healing ability, making your mundane healing work as if by magic. When you succeed at a Medicine check to Treat Wounds, your action gains the divine trait and you heal the maximum amount for the 2d8 (or 4d8 on a critical success). If you have an ability that adds additional dice to your Treat Wounds, you still roll those normally. So, this only works on Treat Wounds, but still seems good enough.
Shade dreams overnight about Fulvia.
"Please, let us know what we may do to prevent this. As it happens, we have recovered a Starless Scope, perhaps the last one in existence. We have 3 lenses as well!"
"Why, yes. The Song of Spheres is my patron, my guiding light. I would love to talk to you about the Order of the Starless Night, if you would be willing. "We're working on restoring you as best we can, but I fear that whatever has happened to you has left you in an unusual state."
Shade thinks for a moment as well, but cannot recall anything.
"A professor of astronomy, Faldur? I also have more than a passing interest in the stars, and of the moon. Mother Moon teaches us to gain inspiration from their freedom."
"If it is a surgeon that is needed, I am your man. By the light of the Song of Spheres, I can help make you whole again."
"That's 'Desnan'..." mumbles Shade.
Shade quickly grabs the spare lens, wondering now if he has enough to risk using it. Probably not, he thinks, as this is a rare and precious thing. ”Are any of us likely to do alchemical crafting? Or at least have the skills to identify alchemical items should we come across them?”
"Huh? What?" Shade is obviously confused by what has happened to him, but he doesn't seem to let that bother him too much. First, he concentrates on his starknife, which is still around.
He then attempts to bandage himself, but fails.
"Her brains, scrambled as they are, will remain in her skull." Shade sustains his spiritual starknife, which attacks Ixirizmid.
He then Steps, and patches up Phaed.
Shade's eyes go wide as he sees Pavo let loose with his own signature spell! 'Pavo is truly blessed by the Song of Spheres!'
"No one is getting any brains today." Shade starts by using Battle Medicine on Pavo, who is lying right next to him.
Then, seeing that Pavo is no longer in critical condition, he casts Spiritual Weapon, targeting Ixirizmid
"The Song of Spheres has spoken!"
"You really don't want to piss our Phaed off." explains Shade. "And you should really let my friend there go. I don't think this will turn out well for you." He shakes his head. 'We tried talking, Desna. Why are we in this horrid place?' "Desna, purge this vile being from here!"
He then raises his shield!
"Yeah, again, no." says Shade. "Maybe you could let us know where you've dropped off all of the other brains, so that we can give them, their final rest?" He just stands there, shaking his head, shivering a bit.
"Sounds good to me. What's the worst that can happen?"
Thanks for the history recap! That does help. Now we just need to recall what we've done, and piece together what we have left.
Shade walks behind Phaedria and takes the knives out of the table, and properly sets the table. "So, we've recovered the Starless Scope, and we've killed that undead brain collector, among other things. We should probably deal with that room with the paintings still. We've avoided it since that one time, right?"
"Pavo, my friend, I think that unless we figure out what is going on here, this manor is going to kill us all. Mother Moon grant that we are more successful than this corrupted place." Shade heads to the library to start some research on a new subject, Asethana Xarwin.
As he dreams that night, he continues thinking about what he has learned.
Shade takes Phaedria aside for a bit, to help her with her confusions. "You are Phaedria, our inspiration." He does his best to help her with her issues.
Shade process of healing with Pavo. ”You don’t look so good, my friend. ”
With Pavo not on deaths door, Shade will agree to move back up to the kitchen, where he takes the time to heal everyone up.
"Yeah, again, no." says Shade. "The Song of Spheres protects her own." He then casts a spell, and a spiritual starknife flies from his hands to attack Yianyin!
He then casts guidance on Pavo.
He moves to get a better line of sight, and then casts divine lance
"I don't think so." Slowed by the aura, he chooses to case a single spell.
Shade moves in.
"I don't think we will be doing that."
"Yes, that is very unusual. One wonders what Mother Moon is doing there." He looks to the problem. "The ladder might be a good idea."
"How is everyone feeling?" asks Shade, as he thinks about what spells he has left. He will then work to bandage everyone up with Continual Recovery. 90m of healing rolls: 10: 20: 30: 40: 50: 60: 70: 80: 90:
"Will this thing never die?" grumbles Shade. "Desna, bless us with your silver light!"
Shade again just channels the blessing of Desna.
"I, for one, am not volunteering to be that body." Hold on. She actually was at 35 because she got medicined for 9. She crit failed for 28, putting her at 7 HP. She then Soothed for 22, so she is back at 29+15=44.
Seeing as folks are now hurt, Shade goes back to his old-standby. Casting heal as an area of affect spell!
With more targets, Shade starts by casting disrupt undead again.
He then attempts to patch up Phaed with battle medicine.
"Ow! I need to remember I have a shield!" cries out Shade.
Not knowing what it is, Shade cast disrupt undead on the mass of bones.
And the he casts guidance on Phaed.
Shade hurries to stop Phaedria. "Phaedria, that's you." he explains. "While you love treasure, you love living too. Here, please stay with Abelle for a bit, while we make sure that it is safe."
"Yes, Phaed, I am sure that you are." says Shade, trying not to be too sarcastic. "Say, I think that there is some magic in here... in that pile of bones. Abelle, could you stay without our celebrity here, while Tuco, Pavo, and I check it out?" Shade casts disrupting weapon on a weapon of Pavo and Tuco, each. Just in case.
"Begone haunt. Just go away." He then wonders if there is something else he can do...
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