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That looks good to me Adarion. In my recent experience with SM II, earth elemental 2 is tops, especially augmented!
Sven nods, "yes, we can give blood offerings and kill the stupid monsters. They are weak and small, and stupid. We will kill them, and we will save Sandpoint a lot of trouble in the future. Maybe the well made the evil lady turn bad." He trusts Adarion and Bart more or less implicitly at this point. "So we kill the sinspawn. Then we go and fight the helmet. Then we go and kill that 'barghest', yes?" He sharpens his scythe as they walk. "Oh, and there's also a cave under the nettlepatch I want to explore - but we need to get swimming gear. Now I can turn into a big swimming beast and carry some of you weaklings if you'd like." He smiles toothily. Once they get back to Sandpoint, Sven will recommend they give the books at some point to the local expert, Brodert, and to show the corpses of the various enemies. He'll also recommend that they indicate that goblins shouldn't bother Sandpoint anymore, but that Thistletop is not to be visited.
Sven nods as others read the story and recount her tale. "I do not know this penmanship." As the others explain the situation, he nods along. "Okay, should we disable this thing then by summoning more annoying monsters? We should be able to clobber them one at a time. It would help the town maybe, and maybe the mayor could pay us more." He things, "it is sounding to me like the well deformed the lady's baby which made her crazy, and was also sad, so it would help everyone. It is unnatural."
Sven shakes his head at Bart, "I help animals that are hurt. It is my job." Sven leads the horse to the entrance and says to Gogmurt, "okay, we will come back later. Have a good day, friend!" He approaches Gogmurt and hugs him if he'll let him.
Sven grabs some of Naesehorn’s vegetables and offers them to the horse. ”Here, horse.”
"Hah, yes. Me. I am a druid." He looks confused, "Gogmurt, why don't you talk to it." Then he remembers, "oh you hate horses... that is confusing. They are animals, like your kitty." He shrugs. "I can talk to it a little if it is big." Sven will accept being led to the horse's area, and when the others are ready, he will have the goblins moved away from the horse's opening. "Horse. I am Sven. We want to let you out and feed you."
Sven nods, "okay, Naesehorn will carry Uvara and Gudada and we can drag her corpse along." He starts to pull everything, "Let's talk to Gogmurt after we seal everything up down here, yes?" Sven looks for a way to close seal both "secret doors" if he can. Once finished, as they leave, he finds Gogmurt and grunts, in Druidic "bad longshanks are all dead, but we are tired now. We will come back later. Can we look around on this top level for a few minutes? We do not wish to miss anything from their schemes. Please friend Gogmurt."
"If the people of town are missing anything, they will be less likely to send off their murderous ranger to retrieve it, yes? And maybe we can convince them to leave you alone, in general."
Sven grunts, "Okay, let us gather up all these materials from the witches and take the corpses of Gudada and Uvara back for burial, yes? We can fight the helmet later." He pauses, "I want to talk to Gogmurt too - maybe he will let us search around for any other clues before we leave."
Sven and Naesehorn solidly stand in front of the hall - waiting for something to come. When nothing comes, he looks confused. "Hmmm - a puzzle. It didn't follow us." He scratches his head. "What should we do, yes?" "Does anyone know what the wolf beast was? I want to kill it for killing Uvara..." He hefts his scythe.
Sven nods, and he and Naesehorn drag Uvara's body past the coin sculpture. Nyx follows behind and goes into the same room.
Sven steps over and with all of his strength pulls Uvara out of the room after stepping to the north himself slightly.
Nyx steps out of the room himself, and tries to draw the wand to heal Uvara, but notices she is not moving. Sven grunts, "you all run. Naesehorn and I will block the door." He hefts his scythe and glares at the beast.
Nyx sees that Uvara is very close to being dropped, so he rushes next to her to provide some emergency healing.
Uvara prepares to move in, and Sven searches for traps, spending a few minutes.
Sven cannot tell what the aura near the pit is. He tries to identify the candles.
"Is that magic a trap?"
Sven grunts, "okay, yes, safe right? At least the door. When we open this - let us take more precautions. Maybe there are more ghosts like before." Sven hands the key to Uvara and she plops it in, opening the door. They then step back and everyone detects from outside of the room.
"The skeleton seems to have belonged to a twoheaded man with an additional partial skeleton of a smaller man growing from the small of his back." Sven shudders, "blech."
"Yes, but whatever we do - there is a lock for a reason, yes? Let us be careful. May be treasure. May be monster. Nyx has detect magic, Uvara can maybe detect monsters. If a monster, we kill it. If a treasure, we take it for to have money, and power, yes?" He looks to the others for reassurance.
"Um, it is old, and maybe broken, and also this was maybe once part of the Thassilonian empire. Maybe important to them? Maybe it is not for fooling, as much as an honor-message or something." Sven and Uvara move to the next room and pop it open.
Sven nods, ”um, can you write this down? Maybe Nyx can? He likes writing runes. You smart people can look into it later.” Sven then looks for a key. Naesehorn looks for a vegetable.
Sven nods, "yes, though these monster people are not smart if they leave their special keys adjacent to special keyholes. Why even have a key!" Sven looks confused, and then Uvara pops open the north door.
Sven grumbles, "this is NOT treasure." He approaches the dusty hall, and says "old hall, Bart can look for old traps. I will look for scythes and plates." Uvara will follow close behind Bart and Sven, as Sven looks for Mechanical traps too.
Sven and Bart check the slots for traps, exhaustively then Sven fishes out some gold. "Stay back out of the room. Naesehorn and I are not injured - we will drop in some coins - maybe we will get more rewards." He shoos the others out of the room, and drops a gold into each slot. Uvara stands near him, ready to attack more enemies, should they appear.
”Okay Adarion, yes. It is a good idea to rest. Let us look around on this area for a little while first until our protection spells go away.” Sven leads everyone to the last room they didn’t search, and searches carefully and exhaustively.
Sven says "If you want. We will wait a whole day then. Want to wait?"
Sven points at the helmet. "A GIANT HELMET." He looks at the helmet, made for a giant. "I want to get it out but it is moving. Maybe a haunted helmet?" He hefts his scythe. "Let us hit it until it comes quietly?"
"Hah, carvings of treasures - maybe there is treasure in the bottom of the pool - a treasure room?" Sven looks at the bottom of the pool, hoping to spot treasure.
Sven nods cheerfully at Nyx, ”yes. Tomorrow I can help this too. Let us find more valuables and things to kill.” He slaps Nyx on the shoulder cheerfully and he and Uvara go to the secret door. After confirming it isn’t trapped from both Bart and his own rough senses, Uvara opens it and they start heading in. Sven will stay just behind Uvara, looking ahead for mechanical traps.
Sven sighs, "any way for us to fix Uvara's strength? She is beat up with shadow hurt." When nothing comes, he shrugs, "okay. Let us look for treasure."
Sven moves near Uvara while Naesehorn stays back, and Sven says to her "no no, you are not strong now, fight like this."
Uvara loops around and tries to get into a flank with Bart, with Bart's dagger obliging her.
Status: Negative Effects: None HP: 23/23 AC: 21 (Base 18, 2 barkskin, 1 ring of protection) Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Ring of Protection) Touch Flat-Footed 11 Spells Memorized . . 2nd— . . 1st—faerie fire, obscuring mist . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: 4 Strength damage HP: 19/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Shield Companion), Touch Flat-Footed 11 Uvara Negative Effects: 8 strength damage HP: 31/31 AC: 19 (Base 19), Touch 10, Touch Flat-Footed 10
Drained of most of her strength, Uvara tries to finish off the shadow she's flanking with Nyx.
Sven and Naesehorn, lacking any magic weapons, step out of the way of the bomb they expect Bart to throw. The shadows are no longer dazzled. status: Negative Effects: None HP: 23/23 AC: 21 (Base 18, 2 barkskin, 1 ring of protection) Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Ring of Protection) Touch Flat-Footed 11 Spells Memorized . . 2nd— . . 1st—faerie fire, obscuring mist . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: 4 Strength damage HP: 19/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Shield Companion), Touch Flat-Footed 11 Uvara Negative Effects: 8 strength damage HP: 31/31 AC: 19 (Base 19), Touch 10, Touch Flat-Footed 10
When the shadow near Uvara falls, Sven breathes a sigh of relief, and directs Naesehorn to step out of the center. Sven himself steps away, and shrugging at Uvara sheepishly, says "Sorry..." He summons a blast of celestial light which fills the room, and tries to burn away the shadows.
Uvara is spared the worst of the blinding blast, though she glares at Sven. Uvara moves to flank with Nyx and disable the Shadow near him, sighing at Sven for dazzling her.
Naesehorn makes a grumbling sound and tries to gore the shadow, but does nothing! Status: Negative Effects: None HP: 23/23 AC: 21 (Base 18, 2 barkskin, 1 ring of protection) Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Ring of Protection) Touch Flat-Footed 11 Spells Memorized . . 2nd— . . 1st—faerie fire, obscuring mist . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: 4 Strength damage HP: 19/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Shield Companion), Touch Flat-Footed 11 Uvara Negative Effects: 2 strength damage HP: 31/31 AC: 19 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 10, Touch Flat-Footed 10
Uvara doesn't dodge out of the way, but also doesn't seem badly affected by the fire effect.
Uvara steps closer to Sven to get out of the flanking position, and looks at the monsters.
Uvara quickly says, "try not to let them touch you, they can drain strength. Anyone who's strength drained can die and return as a shadow! Try holy water or magic!" She puts away her shield, and puts both hands on her bastard sword, hoping to cut down at least one, as quickly as possible.
Uvara at least gets slice into one of the horrible apparitions. Pleased with her success, the paladin points at the one she's hit, "focus on one -if we can! We can do this!" Status: Negative Effects: None HP: 23/23 AC: 21 (Base 18, 2 barkskin, 1 ring of protection) Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Ring of Protection) Touch Flat-Footed 11 Spells Memorized . . 2nd—burst of radiance . . 1st—faerie fire, obscuring mist . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: None HP: 19/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 13 (Base 12, 1 Shield Companion), Touch Flat-Footed 11 Uvara Negative Effects: None HP: 31/31 AC: 19 (Base 20, 1 shield companion), Touch 10, Touch Flat-Footed 10
Uvara moves up carefully after Sven and Bart say there are no traps. Sven tries to look for magic, and look around for stuff of consequence.
He whispers, "we are in a spooky area,"
Sven does his morning preparation of helpful spells, barkskin for himself and Shield Companion for Naesehorn.
"Hmmm, coins and skeletons. I do not know what this is." He holds his scythe at the ready to go and attack once the door is checked for traps.
Uvara takes the bastard sword, but the remainder of the stuff is available for the others to use. Sven sighs, "damn, okay. Let's clean up here and cover Gudada. We can come back later. Where else are we going?" Sven and Uvara lead the way to the room where the witch was, and they wait for Bart to start scouting for traps.
Sven wipes his eyes, cursing "damn her... she took down our friend. For nothing." He kicks the pieces of her corpse, and sighs, "this are all evil - I am glad we killed them. They deserved worse!" He grimaces, and stomps, then calms down a bit. "Is everyone else alright? Let us heal and then finish exploring here."
Sven breathes heavily as he slices another bad guy in two with his scythe, then looks back to see if everyone's okay. Remembering, he quickly approaches Gudada, and tries to stabilize him. "I do not have any healing. Quick, get Nyx up. Gudada! Wake!" He shakes Gudada.
Which obviously doesn't work. Tears rim his eyes, "friend, wake up. It is not your time." Sven sits on the floor with Gudada. Naesehorn comes over and nuzzles him, briefly.
Sven loses his spell!
Uvara and Sven both take the full damage.
Seeing as how the villain dropped her sword, and how everyone needs a game-changing attack, Uvara attacks and then moves to give Sven a chance to swing.
Uvara steps away, and gives at least one other person a chance to attack. Sven, seeing a last chance before everyone dies, approaches the enemy, trying to drop her, swinging his scythe.
Sven glowers at the disarmed woman, daring her to retrieve her bastard sword from the ground. If She Picks Up Sword - AOO from Sven:
Naesehorn grunts from nearby. Status: Negative Effects: HP: 4/23 AC: 4 (Base 18, 2 barkskin, 1 ring of protection) Spells Memorized . . 2nd— . . 1st— . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: None HP: 16/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion)
Uvara steps up to attack her enemy.
Sven mutters something, and begins casting a spell.
Naesehorn moves in, but can't get into the room, so she waits around the corner should Uvara fall. Status:
Negative Effects: HP: 13/23 AC: 20 (Base 18, 2 barkskin) Spells Memorized . . 2nd— . . 1st— . . 0 (at will)—detect magic, grasp, guidance, light Naesehorn Negative Effects: None HP: 19/19 AC: 21 (Base 20, 1 shield companion)
Uvara swings at her enemy, using the power of her faith in Ragathiel to attack. She steps to the side to allow another combatant.
Sven can't do much, so he looks through Nyx's items for a healing spell. "Adarion, drop the wand near Bart."
Naesehorn can't get in to engage.
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