Zyblina might let slip that their new companion is a monster too
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"Please do not be alarmed, good sir. I will show myself. After all, I'll be here for hours with your permission." Zek speaks as clearly and "educatedly" as he can, watching hiss "ss"es and "z"s and watching for contractions and simple words, using long words. Unless Shanda stops him with some pretext, he will slowly remove the hood and then cloak.
Zek waits for Shanda to introduce him; they should've agree on how earlier. He offering his name without revealing himself yet "My name is Zek'Karis."
Zek doesn't know about that rhyme you found, but someone did mention it so I've put in game reminder to it. DM, Zek is going to the sage, we can try to find out something before time runs out. Someone should get a priest ready for burial
"Someone mentioned a prophecy? Or a riddle? Is there anything in there that could be asked?"
"How will getting yes, they know how fire started, help? Ask if it was intentional.ornif it was set by a warden? The other you can ask if prisoners set the fire."
Will the skull know that the body fell afterwards? Probably better to ask if there was already body down there?" Zek suggests Turning to Cole, he shrugs
"Miss Shanda, would you introduce me to the sage so I can start?"
Research might take more than couple of hours and the wraith *might* have seen some cultist. Probably not, there would be dead people.Fully dead I mean
If we want to risk waiting until we know more to ask something specific then we have to go to the sage and hit doctors books and notes immediately. We could ask something about the cult, since there is no answers except for yes/no we need to assume few things:
If you had any indication which one of 2, 3 or 4 it is, we could ask "Are the cultists trying to release <whatever>" - I don't remember exactly, but doctors book said he researched some evil
Zek looks confused for a moment
Then understands what happened
"I'd like raw or barely seared meat and mammal juice, please."
"I can try spirit speak, but maybe Sergei is better? What do we ask? I used to do research at the temple before all this, I can go to the sage if someone will introduce me."
"We found several cursed items...well, not really cursed that we know of, but locked in a vault that someone tried to get into. And at least one of them was property of one of the restless." Zek'Karis tries to explain "We also put one haunt to rest. And have a possible idea to pacify the other. The story seems to be that the fire was intentional and malicious, someone locked people up there to burn. We should research the items, look for inmate property records and maybe their judgement and crimes."
"Uh, hello, miss. I am..." Zek'Karis perks up at a familiar voice
"Also, Marcella, I just recalled you asked about Pharasma. She is a goddess of final judgement, guide of the departed souls, lady of mysteries. She opposes creation of undead and shackling of souls, I believe it is her that set me on this path."
Zek grows restless qs they approach the town and at some point disappears from the group. As they trudge into the house, he somehow manages to be there. Not the best work of unseen movement, but enough not to raise alarm in the people.
Calming strike is my stunning fist...no more today
Zek relaxes, then follows the ritual with Sterling
He looks at Zyblina, cocking his head like a bird
But average 14 damage won't kill anyone...24 might, but its 1 in what ? 1500?
Humbug! That means we used that wrongly for years. Our logic was: You cannot use OA, therefore you don't threaten. That is covered in flanking rules and total defence separately (yes, that doesn't include when you spent your OAs, you still COULD do it if you had any) Sorry for the interruption
Zek'Karis keeps his hand on the furnace. "I cannot keep concentrating endlessly. Could any of you study the haunt or talk to it, try to find out what happened? Or take enough water that we try to quench that other one. Once I release it, it will surge again."
Untrained, required lots of luck
The black shadow remains near the pacified haunt, concentrating on keeping the manifestation quiet. "Tell me, good spirit, what happened here. How can I make the pain go away?" he murmurs keeping a steady stream of monotone senseless chit-chat drone to aid in his own concentration. While not expecting an answer, he is ready to be surprised. Haunts are hardly ever predictable.
I think Sterling cannot do full defense and flank at the same time. Flanking requires that you threaten a square. In total defense, you cannot make opportunity attacks so you do not threaten any squares. If you want to flank, you have to take some flak :p
Zek moves forward toward the haunt and slaps the furnace. And the heat stops building.
I second (third, fourth) that the items should remain here, they are safer in the vaukt and one of you can maybe castbalarm, glyph or something?
Zek'Karis locks the vault and rushes after the cleric
Not fair due timezone advantage :D I'll let someone else decide since Zek just rushed by everything following them
I disagree - taking anything out may cause problems for the town. And we will return. At least, not taking anything before we know more. Let's try to clear the first level with some water from the pond. Start with the basics... So my vote:
Also, sorry for metagame guess, someone will have enough arcana or spellcraft to guess it in-game, I'll speculate less - It would be pleasant surprise to have something totally different ;) Given opal and maze, it might be advanced version of haunt syphon too
I understood that the gem is crushed, but the opal bottle isn't OOC I'm guessing some kind of magic jar or similar magic, possibly already filled with a soul OThers I'm not so sure about and the vault already survived someone trying to get it. As long as we hang on to the keys, we can leave everything inside.
"One of these symbols is Pharasma. Maybe channelling would help?"
He looks over the other items, weapons aren't interesting enough, but the gem...and black one too. This would be great for his hoard. But all magical items are dangerous so he just barely contains himself "When we identify everything, I'd like to claim that black gem if it is not overly useful to any of us. Aren't such games used by the necromancers to raise undead? It may not be safe to leave it here."
"The dead sometimes keep an image of themselves as they think of themselves rather than real thing. It might simply be that he had identity bound to the axe. A warrior, maybe magical axe, an executioner? He reacted to the fire, this may be a hole for the irredeemable, but he may have jumped...but that means someone else restored the grate afterward. And possibly took the axe" Zek'Karis takes the keys, nodding, but all the cells here are open so he just check each of them to see if they are in some way distinct and puts them away. "There was definitely a bad fire here. The haunt above, it was a whole lot of them in a fire. What could we do to 'extinguish' it? Would some form of water, lots of water, help? Maybe that floating trick can bring water from the lake outside?" he muses
Not many spells were used and melee can go whole day. I'm against losing a day, but we can return up and try to release the haunts. And those runes around the prison, just so we know what we're against (assuming they are keeping something in)
Not many spells were used and melee can go whole day. I'm against losing a day, but we can return up and try to release the haunts. And those runes around the prison, just so we know what we're against (assuming they are keeping something in)
Ummm, healing first? :D
Zek'Karis sits down heavily and curls next to Bastion, panting still. Despite that, he shows all too many teeth in a manic grin. "That one was weird! And not normal wraith!" he adds to Zyblina. He takes another look and scrambles to his feet.
He looks around a bit, but doesn't join Cole in looking for several minutes, as his combat tension drains and muscles recover from the jolt of adrenaline. He then gets up with a sigh, more of a hiss, as the wound on his shoulder still hurts; he rejoins Cole in looking around, but he is still distracted by combat and Zyblina returning.
AD&D, 2nd level on an graveyard Island, researching undead...and we find a wraith. My cleric needs 19 to turn it, I get lucky...do we run? No, we chased the thing trying to Hurt it. We, the players, didn't know it cannot be hurt, but the characters did research undead and we manage to convince our (equally inexperienced) DM to reverse TPK
Another furious assault, but even with the blessing and flanking it seems more of the attacks pass by the wraith then through it. But bite catches some substance and the second claw adjusts at the last moment, little body twisting almost unnaturally to bring it into correct position. Little dragon seems to put everything he has into this last feverish assault <+1 attack vs undead, +1 bless +2 flank>
Like weapon finesse and dex to damage feats...I know, I don't have to like it :)
Feat tax
Channel should heal and harm, it sucks if you make a mistake and heal everyone in the encounter :)
"This thing heals from our blood! Cleric!" Zek'Karis shouts as he nods to his new flanking companion. "Let's bring this thing down quickly!" Yet another whirlwind of snapping jaws, lashing tail and swiping claws, but with little effect. What little wisps of protoplasm is taken away will just heal with the next blood. <+1 attack vs undead, +1 bless, +2 flank>
Hear, hear!
And the dicebot hates me :)
Zek hisses at the undead and turns into veritable whirlwind, twisting and turning, clawing, biting, even his tail seems to be a weapon. <+1 attack vs undead, bless>
Still bad luck with the dice roller :( I assume this isn't just some haunt that can be pacified? :)
I'm not aware there is anything to grab either :)
The trick is to read only GMs posts :) I've went through everything over the last two weeks so:
New arrival goes by Cole if he lets him, melding quickly in the darkness ahead.
"Let me go first."
"Before we go, could you quickly summarize what each of you do? You are obviously blessed by Pharasma. You, with the big sword, hit things until they stop moving. The orc here is...a mage? And the lady is the scout?"
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