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Ash, try to control yourself in here...so much wonderful alchemy to play with...

Thank you Ash, you prove to be useful as always. Let's do the 3 rooms in the hallway going left to right and then the many rooms in the courtyard, going right to left.

Cool, a new place to explore! Meatshi---Leo, can you run up there hon and make sure everything's clear?

Yup. Let's explore the crap out of this place.

Detect magic, then spellcraft:
Spellcraft: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27

Um, I would think of all people YOU would recognize a spell effect meant to protect a target from fire damage. It's a permanent resist energy spell tied to this holy symbol thing. It's fading now because it wouldn't persist past his death. That's why he was so hard to burn.

It doesn't explain why he was able to cast a fancy "call my allies immediately" spell.

Uh huh. Well you should've given me a chance to question him and learn more about this ally. Now we just know he has an ally, we don't know shit about this "her" and so it's going to be hard to predict/plan for what bad thing is coming our way.

Hey, I just wanted to understand what we were dealing with. I didn't know the jerk had some magic tree spell to autosummon his allies. Why didn't you tell me treants could do that?

Yea, only DC 16 on that entangle, so he isn't caught in it.

Well, my favorite magic doesn't even work on trees, so what do you expect? Like seriously, the only thing that might help is I can entangle him in vines. He's a TREE. That's like his life. Ugh. Whatever. entangle!

Temperance casts Entangle, trying to put it far enough behind the treant to leave him 5-10 feet from the edge of the effect.

Oh shit, just noticed this. I'm the worst at checking both threads. I've been enjoying the slow-roll campaign and kept expecting it to eventually die, but have been happy to keep going as long as it does. I post in downtime at work, so not really a burden for me.

Ah well, some old douche always screws it up, might as well be Alan. If we keep going in whatever form, I'm in. If you guys crank of a new campaign in whatever online form, also in. If not, I certainly have plenty of other games and such so won't be too sad about this one.

Almost 2 years, my longest running campaign!

Opening discussion.

We've got a dhampyr cleric?
A dhampyr summoner?
A barbarian?
And I don't know what else.

Before walking outside:
I have an idea. We were worried (or was it just me?) about someone noticing he's missing. Maybe I can find out.

I adjust my appearance slightly. I favor my leg as if I've been recently injured, but also brighten my clothing and appearance to the point that I look almost Aasimar. A glowing savior of the downtrodden and all that.

After Jurak addresses us:
Thank you, mighty Jurak, you are too kind. We slew the boggards, but only confirmed that they were the least of our concerns. They have been in correspondence with an evil cleric leading a cult of Vetra-Kali and he plans to re-conquer this shrine and break the seal. One of the boggards admitted that there is a ritual that would undo the seal and that this cleric knows of it. He is aware of your presence and said that "you can leave the tree to me, my god will love a sacrifice of living wood!".

You are the guardian of this shrine. How do you raise allies in times of peril? What happens if this evil destroys you? Are there further safeguards to protect the seal? We want to help, but fear this evil is beyond any of us...

Bluff: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (17) + 19 = 36

I think we should just go kill the tree. He's increasingly likely to become a liability. I can't imagine we'll be able to explore this whole place AND spend 222 days performing an evil ritual in his guarded shrine complete with multiple human sacrifices without him noticing.

Hopefully his presence won't be missed.

And I figure a true believer of Mitra will be pretty easy to get ahold of. Lots of those on this forsaken continent.

So we should fully explore this upper level (A, B and C). Looking for any unholy artifacts. Also, do we see this Silver Seal? Does it look like this is his Sanctum? Do we know what the Tears are? I'm guessing, some kind of pestilence or disease given the nature of our Daemonic host...

And tracing back to the previous level, I see a reference to "East", "West", and "Central", were those other paths to explore?

Where can we find a Death Priest of Vetra Kali? Also, too bad Victor got himself killed, he'd make a good sacrifice. Now we have to find "the blood of the Victor". Do we know any descendants of that guy?

Well, maybe he'll think I'm funny the second time around?

Hideous Laughter again, this time with feeling!

My little snake familiar will unmeld.

Dig around in my pack for a scroll of feather fall.

He does so, grabbing it out of a scroll case and holding it out to anyone that wants to grab it.

Alright, well lets see if he thinks I'm funny...

Tempy casts HL on the elemental, DC 23 Will Save, but he gets a +4 from being a different type.

Do lightning elementals have a sense of humor?

She laughed at me being startled when we were in the fight, but at least I don't have blood all over my clothes now.

A few castings of prestidigitation just to be sure. Then she fixes some of Piety's stains with a few more castings and twists the simple magic to brush out a few wrinkles. Piety ignores her, not even realizing Tempy is preening her. Tempy notices people are staring a bit...

It's not that I'm vain. But we need to present ourselves as competent and powerful. So, I need to look completely untouched by anything that has come at us so far to confidently convey that we are a force to be reckoned with. And you should all do the same.

I can draw my dagger. And then I can screech because this big monster just appeared in front of me. Then I can look slightly embarrassed b/c I lost my cool. Then I can move up a little and look tough b/c I'm not scared of some daemon. Seasoned adventurer. It just startled me.

Then I can ready to blast it with more magic missiles if it looks distracted (has used up it's AOO).

Oh, I can do that! Let me move in.

Double move

Yea, I'm just going to sit back and keep an eye on things. Make sure no one sneaks up the stairs or...um...yea.

Next level I need to learn haste, that's almost always useful

Always with the invisible seeing, flying, mind-affecting immune monsters...

I'll take out my wand of shield and tap myself with it.

Licorice and sausage? That's weirdly specific. Are you made from Victor's soul pieces, demon guy?

Yea, he kinda yelled it at the top of his lungs, I heard him. I was kinda intimidated.

Not to be a downer, but didn't you just say something about a deadly breath weapon, Leo? Why are you all clustering in the doorway?

Hey, Fourtythousandscythes, can you tell us what killed these guys? Or what they were? Or anything else useful you could divine from your decades of messing with icky dead things?

Ha! I made his day. I love being god's chosen.

Oh, and frog-king, did you know about this door?

A secret door, Ash? Well, which one of you big strong guys...
Tempy pauses and looks at the psycho little gnome, emaciated undead cleric, fast talking swordsman, scrawny little tiefling alchemist and strangely familiar nerd girl with a big spellbook in her hands and realizes that "big strong guys" is an increasingly inaccurate description of her party.

...well, I guess not so much big strong guys as...well, whatever. Who wants to open this door and stick their head in? Because it sure as @#$@ isn't going to be me.

Ugh. If you have the spell, why not just say so before I spend all that time thinking? You're as annoying as my younger sister of the same name and personality.

I can cast a scroll of gaseous form, but I don't have one on me. They're not cheap. I think a spell of that power usually costs around 375 gold. I've actually heard of a special robe that would allow me to cast a spell from a scroll as if I already knew the scroll. But I haven't seen one in stores and it's probably still out of my budget. Still, at some point I should be able to help with that! Maybe we can try something else? I can reduce someone's size, but not that small. But maybe enough to stick a head in? Um...let me see...

Speak up, you old frog! I expect you have knowledge or power that will be valuable to us, or you wouldn't be here in the bowels of this shrine.

Who are you elder boggard? We were not told we would have servants here, but if you can prove yourselves valuable then we will happily stop the culling of your people.

Tell us of your purpose here, and how you are going to aid us in our unholy quest.

I'm a bit confused. Who is who? Who was the concubine? There are 2 crone things we were fighting (white and blue), are one or both of them dead? Was one of them the concubine? Are Kumada and Kumanda different characters or was one just a typo? Did all the frogs melt including the big demon frog? The king was the guy we smashed earlier, I think I have him clear, but a bit confused about all the ladies.

Um, looks pretty crowded there between the sickness-wall and the poison frogs. Think I'll keep my distance from that mess.

BUT, I think I can just catch a glimpse of the crone down the way (corner to corner, I think I have LOS) and I bet she'd love to hear my newest joke about the frog prince eating his crone mom-witch-thing.

So yea, I cast HL on the crone, DC 23 and she gets no bonus I believe b/c she's also humanoid.

I'll just move up to get away from this damned veil.

Still difficult terrain through here? If so it's a double move and that's all I'm doing this round

In between violent vomiting:
I told you not to ask for harder fights, Edwin!

Shutup Edwin, the gods don't typically favor those that ask for "real battles".

Yes, sorry. The bigger, scarier one that attacked Neji and I have line of sight to. Thought I'd said that but def did not. :/

Alright, well I'll move up and we can see how scary these frog things are when they're laughing on the ground.

Hideous Laughter, DC23; and since it's the same "type" as I am, the humor translates pretty well and so s/he gets no bonus on the save!

While Tempy is also frozen in time because, once again, she wasn't paying attention to her surroundings, her internal dialog is:
What is he stabbing at? What's that gargling sound? Glad these martial types always get the drop on things, but I guess I should help...I hope these frog people can laugh...

Seeing everyone else put in earplugs, Tempy follows suit. She doesn't know anything about boggards but she knows when it's probably smart to follow the herd.

Tempy decides to get in on this one...
Victor talked about how he used to walk the earth and plant apple seeds. Maybe this was one of them? If so, he had much more latent magical ability than he realized. If the seeds he planted grew into tress, can you imagine what would happen to his physical form now that he's died?

Facepalms...
Oh great tree guardian, yes, The Victor charged all good citizens of Mitra with the defense of this land, and as my friend has said, darkness is growing and we believe that agents of evil are trying to get past you. We found this map that we think belonged to a scout for these evil forces. It led us here. We feared that this minion of malebolge had succeeded in their goal and so rushed to intercept them. But we are overjoyed to see the holy guardian is still here.

It seems he failed, but as he was only a scout, we fear greater forces are at work here. How can we help here?

Stupid mind control immune plants...I have to like...use my diplomacy and stuffs.

Bluff: 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (3) + 19 = 22
Diplo: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (15) + 15 = 30+2 f/ Saio, so 32!

Kn Nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

Subtle there, red. I used to hang out with some treants, they're not all goody goodys. You fight them like you'd fight a tree...with axes rather than clubs.

Alright, this thing seems pretty focused on it's stomach. Maybe I can distract it for a round...

I pull out my scroll of summon enormous monster, er, minor image and "summon" the largest bison anyone has ever seen. It's huge, it looks like it's wounded so it can't run, and it's practically dripping with delicious bison-ness. It makes that sad bison-stuck-in-the-mud noise. No self-respecting apex predator could turn this sucker down.

I need to learn haste or fly, will pick that up next level or something. As it is, I'm well configured for fights against humanoids, sentient creatures, creatures with weapons and creatures small enough to fall into a pit. But not huge non-sentient lizards.

Over message:
I hope this works Edwin, sorry if it doesn't, but I'm worried that thing is going to try to eat you!

And then I cast grease on Edwin so he can better resist any attempts by that dino to grab him. I also move a little closer and try to keep out of it's path in case it tramples or something.

I don't think T-Rexes actually trample, but figure that as a combatant that has no idea wtf this giant lizard is, I'd worry about being trampled.

Despite being startled and thrown from my horse, looks like my turn is near the top of the order, so:

On my turn I will shake my head to clear my senses, cast invisibility on myself and then stand up and 5 ft step away from the T-Rex.

Kn:Nature to ID this thing: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Nope, no idea what that thing is.

Oh, and I need to know which way I fell.
1 is due west: 1d8 ⇒ 1
Cool, I fall towards it.