Desini casts Delay Poison on herself and will proceed to cast Delay Poison on everyone who doesn't already have it applied as quickly as she can.
Not sure if more than one round has passed since she casts Delay Poison on Xantanax, but if it has then she'll have cast it on Imrizade as well. Oh and given that Xantanax has already got the Delay Poison can we just assume he's moved and contained the beacon already...or does the gas have some other affect apart from poison?
Desini, hoping one of the more physically sturdy of the group will make use of the haste and hurry across to contain the beacon, holds her breath and hopes to stay conscious.
Desini lets her companions take advantage of the spells, topping herself up with a tap of Mage Armor. She shakes her head at Nigel's excuses. Typical book learned mages, always running out of their spells!
Desini gives the creature a prod with her wand of infernal healing to keep it from dying and to allow further study. Unless anyone has a better way of stabilising it that might not actually bring it back to life.
"If you think more time will help underssstanding the book, that sssoundsss fine to me." Desini agrees.
Stepping back to give the rest of her companions plenty of room to deal with the creature, Desini casts a spell to again help them finish off the fight a little bit quicker.
Desini has done enough study to know what this thing is either but she strongly suspects it may be from the Dark Tapestry and one of the creatures Zarta asked them to interrogate or capture.
"It arrived, did you sssay? From where...oh and when, er and how?" She looks to the creature with a glint in her serpentine eyes, completely fascinated by the horrific creature. "Does it anssswer quessstionsss, or jussst asssk them?"
She turns to the thing and ask as question as if to test this query out for herself. "Where are you from and why are you here?"
Desini hurries up to the student employees, speaking in a loud and quick voice that doesn't give them much chance to interject. "Ah, thank goodnessss we've finally made it! Run along now and tell your bosssess we're here and passss on our apologiesss for being a little late." Along just enough time for some blank looks but not enough for any real interjections, Desini continues, with a sigh. "You do know who we are, don't you? Never mind, they'll be expecting usss...quickly, now I did sssay we were late, didn't I?"
Bluff:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (7) + 17 = 24
Lies flow off the sorcerer's tongue like honey as she easily gets the students to do what she says and soon the group are face to face with the real bureaucrats of the Arcanarium. "Ah, good! Now we don't have a moment to wassste. That sssphere you sssold the Pathfindersss Sssociety a few weeksss ago...well it, ssshall we sssay 'malfunctioned'. We averted the dissasster but must sssee the other two itemsss at once. I trussst you'll be able to locate them for usss without any delay. We're worried that they might alssso be about to do sssomething nasssty!"
Desini listens to Zarta's instructions, joining her fellow Dark Archive members in some detailed study and analysis of the device. Not really one for rigorous study, the sorceress hopes she can takes notes well enough to satisfy her faction leader, who is well known as quite the demanding mistress.
"Do you think we can disssable the Beacon with magic, or will it need to be done manually?" Desini continues to move up next to Zarta, drawing her crossbow and casually letting loose a crossbow bolt into the swarm
"If the beacon isss the goal, bessst get there quickly!" Desini backs up her words with a quick spell to speed up the group, moving up beside her faction leader.
Haste on all six PCs, excluding herself and Zarta
Haste:
The transmuted creatures move and act more quickly than normal. This extra speed has several effects.
When making a full attack action, a hasted creature may make one extra attack with one natural or manufactured weapon. The attack is made using the creature’s full base attack bonus, plus any modifiers appropriate to the situation. (This effect is not cumulative with similar effects, such as that provided by a speed weapon, nor does it actually grant an extra action, so you can’t use it to cast a second spell or otherwise take an extra action in the round.)
A hasted creature gains a +1 bonus on attack rolls and a +1 dodge bonus to AC and Reflex saves. Any condition that makes you lose your Dexterity bonus to Armor Class (if any) also makes you lose dodge bonuses.
All of the hasted creature’s modes of movement (including land movement, burrow, climb, fly, and swim) increase by 30 feet, to a maximum of twice the subject’s normal speed using that form of movement. This increase counts as an enhancement bonus, and it affects the creature’s jumping distance as normal for increased speed. Multiple haste effects don’t stack. Haste dispels and counters slow.
Desini, an attractive young woman dressed in light clothes that reveal a generous amount of her smooth, olive-coloured and tattooed skin, rushes along with the rest of the group, the braids of her long, dark hair bouncing up and down on her back as she moves.
A glint of amusement flashes across her startling, serpent-like green eyes and a thin snake-like tongue flicks across her full lips. "I can hardly imagine a life without thessse rogue artifactsss. Lassst time it wasss water, this time wild plantsss. How exciting!"
Player name (as you'd like to have it appear on Chronicle): Greenclaw
Character name: Desini Inganni
PFS#: 74677-8
Day Job if any:Bluff (Caravan):1d20 + 17 ⇒ (11) + 17 = 28 Normal or slow progression: Normal
Desini winks to Chiguya and then suddenly bursts into tears. "I'm sssorry..." The sound of the shrieking voices suddenly blasts out in its deafening glory. "I can't take it anymore, thisss is horrible! Ssso embarasssing...and in front of the Massster of Scrollsss! Ssstupid kitssune has cursssed me. I need to be alone until thisss awful ssspell has worn off!"
Crying and in quite a state, the sorceress bursts out of the room in a rush.
Trying to concentrate and get the words of a spell out through the shrieking that emanates from her, Desini moves to get a line of sight to the kitsune.
The kitsune seems to have a wry sense of humour, so she pulls out a small tangerine and a crow feather from her pouch and waves them around in mock seductive movements while chanting (and shrieking).
Desini, as suspicious as the rest of the group is right now, looks at the scroll on the table and back up to 'Shaine'. "Sir, we believe that collecting the various pieces of a certain scroll is at the heart to solving the current watery problems befalling the archives and...ah, that looks like one of the pieces there on your desk. Would you mind if we...ah, had a closer look?"
Diplomacy:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Going over the words of her spells in her head, she waits to see how 'Shaine' reacts.
Desini emerges from the dark corner, wrapping what looks to be a mundane legal book in her cloak. Unusually quiet, she nods in agreement at the suggestion to head up to the Scriptorium.
Desini gives S'Slarn a charming smile, holding up the bookmark. "Oh, thisss little thing? Jussst part of a book the Paracountesss asked usss to retrieve for her. I wouldn't worry yourssself about it, sssweetie. Jussst a faction thing, you know what it'sss like?" She gives the Nagaji a wink with her own reptilian like eye.
Moving onto the Heritage Stacks, the serpentine-blooded sorceress casts Detect Magic into the darkness while inspecting the room.
Perception (take 10):10 + 7 = 17
"Oh, this looks to be where our little worm friend came from!"
Detect Magic on the scroll too if that helps gain any extra information.
Desini thanks S'Slarn for his timely healing and and now looks like she's back to her usual, enchanting self.
"Well the Massster of Ssscrollss sssent Virml...ah, that isss to sssay, the kitsssune off to the Ssscriptorium to transsscribe sssome sssoggy ssscrollsss, but who knowsss if he actually went there or headed off to caussse sssome other missschief?"
Looking Virml in the eye, she smiles at the young fellow. "Ssso, are you coming with usss, or did you want to head up and report what you know to Ssshaine directly...oh, and how are you feeling now? Need any more healing to get back on your feet?"Desini will offer a prod of her Wand of Infernal Healing if needed.
"Thisss water'sss ssstill flowing. We better get moving."
Desini then turns to Virml, speaking in a soothing, sibilant voice. "Ssso Virml, are you OK? Well, asss well asss can be expected given what you've been through. What HAVE you been through exactly? How did you end up in thisss predicament? We're not here to try and get you in trouble, but I fear trouble hasss found usss all whether we like it or not. It seemsss there isss a ssshapessshifting fox out there taking your form...pleassse leave no detailsss out from what you can remember, sssince you came down here into the Archivesss!"
Desini gratefully accepts the tooth from Oma and gives the tengu a hug. "Thank you! You're a pet!"
She then has a look at the items to see if she can identify any of the magical items. "Why, yes they are! Nicely spotted! That's a feather token and this one is a horn of fog, as far I know!" She shares the details of their magical properties with the rest of the group.
Desini snaps back to her right mind thanks to Chiguya. She wades through the water into some open space, before sending off one magic missile towards the annoying nixie and two for the nasty little fairy that stole one of her teeth.
Desini manages to shrug off the paralysis but is not too amused by having one of her teeth ranked out of her mouth. "How dare you! Give me that back!" Blood spits out of her mouth and her forked tongue flicks up to the gap where her missing tooth was.
"This is no laughing matter, you little thief...but I'll give you something to laugh about if you want!"
The sorceress attempts to cast Hideous Laughter on the fairy that attacked her.
Desini also pulls out a dark, gnarled wand from the sheath on her wrist. "I've got one too, although mine's a little nasssty. Sssome of you mightn't like it." She taps it onto her open wound, squirting a small drop of bright red blood out of its tip, which sizzles briefly and then causes the wound to steadily heal.
One charge of Wand of Infernal Healing. Anyone is welcome to use a charge of this at any time if they prefer the guaranteed 10hp healing.
She then gathers up the scrolls and deciphers them with a Read Magic spell, sharing their contents with the rest of the group. "So, where to next?" The sorceress points to the door to the Dictionarium, near where they fought the voidworm and the zombie vulture. "This one'sss the closessst, ssshall we ssstart here and work our way around?"
"Oh great, the 'worm' will be back? He wasss sssuch a little charmer. I missssed him!" Desini hisses sarcastically.
Grabbing a handful of ground dust, she spits out the words to a spell as she throws it up in the air towards the flying zombie, causing a shower of golden particles to rain down upon it. "Non vedu piu!"
Glitterdust (DC18) so as to catch the bird only.
"Thisss thing'ss ssso ugly, I'd almossst rather do thisss to myssself but let'sss hope thisss sssticksss."
Fearing that the group, least of all herself, aren't doing much harm to the undead vulture, Desini starts to wade around the bookshelves away from the zombiefied horror. "Maybe if we get out of its way, this thing will be happy eat the worm that it wanted...if it doesn't mind that it's already dead now?"
Each square costs 20' movement, right? So maximum 3 squares with a double move?
"OUCH!" Desini looks down in shock and anger as the little serpent-like thing slaps her. "Why you little..." Stepping back, she sends her magic missiles at the snake thing instead.
"Awww, isssn't it it cute!" Desini coos at the sight of the beautiful little serpent. As her eyes turn towards the sound of the croak and flapping wings, however, her pleasure at the sight of the snake is quickly replaced with disgust. "Arrgh, isn't that grossss!"
She immediately flicks her hand in the direction of the rotting vulture, sending three magical darts towards it.
Just to confirm there was nothing to be found upstairs in the room with the fish from Desini's perception check?
Desini also looks appreciatively at Diana's ioun stone. "Yesss, very nice. I never know what to get at the shopsss." Desini then pads down her rather small pockets on her skimpy clothing and comes up empty-handed. "If we decide to sssplit up, I might need to borrow a light"
Feeling a little more threatened down here in the dark, the sorceress' familiar slithers back onto her arm and dissolves into her flesh as ink once again.
Desini sighs in relief as the creature agrees to stop flooding the archives. "Nicely done! Shall we quickly search up here before we head back downstairs?"
With imminent danger seeming to have dissipated for now, the sorceress runs the fingers of one hand down the length of the serpentine tattoo weaved around her other arm. "Sssevessstra!" she croons as the ink comes alive in the form of a bright green viper which lovingly wraps around her shoulders and neck.
She then performs a once over of the room and its shelves in case there is anything needing saving up here, a piece of the scroll or anything else of notable interest.
