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Dotting for interest. Leaning toward a non-caster, since I am currently playing two. I will have a hard time passing up goblin.
I agree, Moira, I just didn't want to disappoint. I'm narrowing it down between a zen archer (seems like a good fit, but a bit one dimensional), and an admixture wizardly blaster type. He seems more fun, but also more complicated.
Hey guys, just a wandering mercenary here who might be stumbling into you soon. I'm playing in another of dust's games and he let me know you had a slot to fill. A barbarian might be coming along with me. Dust suggested that a ranged support might be helpful. Have you guys noticed an area that needs to be addressed. Any suggestions of what you would like to see?
Lini looks down at the ground and kicks some rocks. "I'm glad you were here. I couldn't have beat that thing by myself, for sure!" She then wishes you luck, and says she must be on her way. Following Chalmer's suggestion, the rest of you gather what you can, and head back to the museum. A delegation from the Pathfinder Society is meeting with Nigel Aldain when you return. You draw a few stares, with your clothes shredded, stained red, and smelling of salt water. Nigel is ecstatic to see you, however. He thanks you profusely for avenging Anumet's gruesome murder and collecting the key to Ralzeros's mysterious chamber, which the Society collects to lock away for the time being, much to the disappointment of Nigel. "More investigation needs to be done before this key will be ready to be fitted back in that thing." The Society rep explains. "In the meantime, I think it's time for you lot to head back to the lodge. I'm sure Venture-Captain Dreng will be wanting to hear your story over a few rounds." He concludes as he slaps you on the back and heads for the exit.
Feel free to role-play your way our, but this concludes this very difficult mission!
As Kebrin begins to blink, he notices that his wounds are beginning to heal. He sees Shirin move to Chalmers, as she applies some healing magic to him as well, although he is not yet blinking. Meanwhile, the summoned creatures, and large cat, continue to brutalize The Devourer. As the earth elemental lands yet another solid blow onto the chest of the creature, it finally caves in. Dust wheezes out of it's lungs as he says, "The portal..." with his last breath. He crumples to the floor just as Kebrin and Chalmers begin to regain control of their bodies. "Droogami and I watched that dead thing enter this tower." Lini says. "This place has served as a natural home to the reefclaws and other creatures for a long time. I was afraid that dead thing was going to ruin it all. Then I saw you guys go in after him and decided we had to help. That was a close one!" The room you are in seems to have been some sort of library. Now that you are not fighting for your lives, you see that ancient non-magical scrolls line the walls. The undead creature, itself, has magical scrolls and wands on it's person. The most interesting item is a scroll case with the same designs you saw earlier on the door to Ralzero's magical chamber, the Ineffable Pattern. The copper colored metal of the scroll case seems to be of equal hardness to steel, if not mithril. You know that the folks back at the Blakros Museum would be bery interested in it.
Shirin's elemental rises from the stony ground and pummels two granite fists into the undead creature, with a dry crack, as dust rises from it's cloak. The gnome finishes whatever druidic spell she was weaving and an eagle appears accros from her cat friend with a screech as it seeks to flay the creature, landing a viscous bite, plucking out one of the creature's eyes.
Taking advantage of the momentary lapse of attention, the snow leopard continues to claw and scratch at the creature, scoring a couple of hits of it's own. Grabbing his leg in his teeth again, the cat shakes, but is unable to drop him again. Still, congealed blood flies everywhere!
Enraged at the new attackers destroying it's body, The Devourer quickly lashes out at the bird and cat, knowing that it can't paralyze rock.
Missing every single time. Lini, the gnome, then reaches out a hand toward the webbing. Fire engulfs her hand and then quickly spreads out along the strands, as the disappear in a puff. Shirin feels the heat wash over her and the ends of her hair gets singed, but it is gone before it becomes a worry.
Kebrin 4/11 2 rounds
From behind Shirin, a cat the size of a common dog jumps over her and the webbing to place itself in front of the undead creature.
Bites it's leg and gives it a jerk, tripping the creature! Behind Shirin comes more aid! A female gnome, with green hair calls into the room, waving her arms in a mystical way. "Your unnatural state will not be allowed here!" and she continues casting a spell.
The undead creature stubbornly plants his hands on the ground and moves to get back up, providing an opening for the cat to get in another bite.
Kebrin 4/11 3 rounds
Kebrin, you are also stuck for 4 rounds. 1v1.
The Devourer runs all of his options through his head. Seeing two opponents standing side by side, he contemplates one of his tried and true spells, but then decides since they are both right here in front of him, and one is paralyzed, why not make the other one paralyzed?! Then there will be just one more.
A bite and a swipe both score hits on Kebrin. Worse than that, His blood begins to slow...
Kebrin 4/11
Shirin, You are up. I will need another escape artist, or CMB, check for you to get out of the webbing.
Chalmers and Kebrin take very different approaches in clearing the heavy webs, but both find success. Chalmers makes it into the clear as Kebrin halts to check on Shirin. The web also crawls up the wall above the entrance. As Chalmers turns to check on his companions, He feels a presence behind him just as a horrid undead creature appears and he is attacked.
A flurry of strikes fly out at the warpriest, but only one claw manages to do damage. Chalmers, I need a fort save Or you will be paralyzed for rounds! Initiative:
Kebrin 11/11
Kebrin is up. I'll say You can continue moving out if you want, Kebrin. Check free.
If you're looking to move into the room, I'll need you to make a combat maneuver check or Escape Artist check.
Chambers, who I am guessing is up front, notices that the floor at the top of the stairs is sticky with large spider webbing.
Climbing up the rock slide caused within the staircase feels slightly intimidating, with it's close confines and choking dust still permeating the area. The rocks are secure, however, and each of you make it up with no trouble. The room you enter looks like a vault, containing crates and shelves stocked with countless papers, scrolls, times, and other wizardly items. No other door leads out.
perceptions:
Placing the sigil in the relief of the mosaic causes the wall to magically divide creating a doorway to what was once stairwell. Unfortunately, debris now fills the stairway and as the door opens rubble spills into the room creating an unearthly racket. As the rubble spills forth, you see that there is now enough room to climb up the choked stairway.
As you consider your healing needs, you conclude that you now have all of the pieces needed for a mosaic on the first floor. You have not been able to deduce what will happen when the pieces are inserted into the mosaic, but it did radiate faint transmutation magic.
As the heroes regroup, the statue flails wildly at Chalmers. It completely over looks the earth elemental, thinking that it had previously destroyed it. Oversight ultimately led to its demise with a will-timed crit! Crumbling to the ground the tower level becomes fairly silent after the crashing booms of battle. Looking closer at the ruined statue, You notice that one of its eyes is a small Ruby while the other one is a silvery piece of jewelry. This piece of jewelry seems to fit into a sigil found by the group earlier. The other statues in the room also seem to have Ruby eyes that you could probably loose.
More chunks fly off of the statue! It toddles for a moment, seeming as if it is about to crash to the ground in a heap, but manages to hold itself together. Righting itself, it takes two sweeps toward Chalmers.
Missing twice! Heroes up! Chalmers (12hp)
The statue continues to flail at the elemental.
Smashing it to bits and bits. Heroes up!
Chalmers (11hp)
Chalmers and the elemental continue to chip away at the statue. It looks as though it could still take quite a few more hits. Speaking of hits, He continues to flail.
Missing both times! Chalmers (-5hp)
The elemental that the statue just smashed just reappeared! Not that he has feelings or anything, but this pisses him off!
So wild is it, that neither slam finds it's target! Chalmers (-5hp)
The statue comes out no worse for wear from the latest exchange. Swinging two more times, he looks to finish off his foes.
The elemental dissipates into a cloud of dust as the stony fist pummels it. The swing at the enlarged Chalmers is a swing and a miss. Chalmers (-5hp)
Botting Kebrin Kebrin continues to stabbity stab stab from flank position.
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Earth Elemental
Kebrin
Both Kebrin and the the elemental At least one o the two drop. [b]Chalmers (-5hp)
The statue escapes unscathed from the heroes latest flurries and continues his windmills.
His first swing connects solidly with the dragon, knocking it unconscious. The second skips off Chalmers armor. It's sure to leave a bruise tomorrow, but no lasting damage. Chalmers (-5hp)
Chalmers (-5hp)
Chalmers chips a bit more away at the statue while Aurax tries to grab it by the arm. His claws scrape right off the stone, however.
@Shirin : acid splash will work on it all day long, enlarging Chalmers world help with his damage, you know that you're crossbow bolts will not affect it. Not trying to tell you what to do, just illuminating what Shirin would know.
All attacks, save an errant crossbow bolt, find purchase on the stone man. Unfortunately, none seem to do any lasting damage. Unconcerned with Kebrin and Chalmer's strategic flanking, he continues to flail.
Chalmers (-5hp)
Heroes are up!
The statue, now near surrounded, swings wildly left and right. First swing at Aurax
Second at Kebrin
Chalmers (-5hp)
Heroes are up!
Chalmers continues to chip away at the animated statue as Kebrin dances around it to score off his own chip. Chalmers (-5hp)
Chalmers (-5hp)
I love that the eidolon is the one carrying on the technological conversation.
The statue, silent as...stone, pumps two stoney fists at Chalmers.
One fist glances off of his armor, but the second hits with a deep thud. Chalmers (-5hp)
I can’t edit the slide. Can you double move Aurax please. Thanks I moved Aurax for you. I also set the permissions to anyone who had the link can edit, and I also sent a link via discord. You should be able to move yourself now, I would think.
Chalmer's hammer lands flush with the statue's chest. The solidness of the hit echoes up the haft of the weapon and into Chalmer's arm, numbing it momentarily. He sees that some of the statue did chip off, but not nearly as much as he'd hoped. It was like hitting stone! Chalmers
Kebrin finds no signs of danger or traps. All of the statuary in this large hall seem ordinary, if not worn. As Chalmers enters the westernmost room, the statue directly west of him jolts to life. It's head swivels toward the warpriest as it silently steps down from its stand.
Roll off!:
Bold are up!
Chalmers moves forward 20' and sees an open doorway to his left, or a larger opening straight ahead.
Moving forward 30 feet or so, the statues all seem to stare ominously at Chalmers, but none of them make a move toward him. All remains quiet. Too quiet.
You see five statues within the long hallway cutting through the length of the tower. All are in different states of disrepair. There is an opening to the left behind a missing statue, and another chamber further to the west holding yet more statuary.
Nothing seems to be moving, making noise, or threatening. Let me know you wish to proceed.
With Aurax having a climb speed, I'll speed things up and say that he is able to get to the next level and assist in pulling the rest of you up. It takes some time, and creates some bruises, but eventually you all make it to the next level.
You are safe for the moment. Nothing jumping out to get you, but you do indeed see a number of statues not far from here.
The amulet with the two small holes do not radiat any magic, but the wayfinder and torch both do, of course. The statues on the second floor can be reached by the worn rope in the first room. The ceiling here is twenty feet tall. Moving at 1/4 of your speed, I'll say it will take 2 checks to get to the top at a DC of 15. Once at the top, it would be possible to pull the next person up.
Chalmers retrieves the wayfinder and golden amulet. The amulet seems to have two small holes bore into it, indicating that two additional pieces
Also scattered about the floor is an ivory map case, an everburning torch (easy to spot!) and a cold iron longsword sheathed in a jewel encrusted scabbard. This appears to be the remains of an adventuring party, and indeed the papers within the map case confirm this. Within, is an accounting of what happened to 'Daling's Delvers' as told by Daling himself. The group was accosted by reefclaws at the entrance, but was able to drive them off. They were then beaten up by animated statues on the floor above them. They had to leave one party member for dead and retreated back down here. While resting, the party bickered about what to do next, and soon the tide came back in and trapped them!. With the tide, came another reefclaw, and they were unable to drive it off. They retreated into this room to die. Daling still bickering with Ekiekito about what the golden sigil was intended for and where the other pieces might lie.
I'll give Shirin a little more time to join in before finishing this room.
After Shirin rights herself, following the hectic grapple scratch, the party moves toward the dryer of the two exits. To the north. Less likely that something will jump out of the water to get you when there's no water! Scattered bones and equipment lie strewn about this chamber’s
DC 10 Knowledge (religion):
The mosaic’s central figure as Nethys, the god of magic. DC 25 Knowledge (arcana):
The
lesser figures clustered around him depict noted wizards of ancient days
Taking a quick peek through the southern door, leading to the creatures watery burrow that it emerged from, shows an empty space. Nothing of note can be found there, leaving you with the choices of the northern and western doorway. The doors having rotted off long ago. The doorway to the west seems to lead into a rather large room, partially under water. The door to the north is smaller, dry, and a hole in the back wall seems to lead to another space.
Although she had not yet been harmed, it seemed certain death to stay and fight these creatures. In favor of self preservation, the young merrow releases Shirin and flees the tower the same way you just entered. After it's mad dash, sloshing through the sea water, it is now eerily quiet. There is still the doorway to the south, partially under water, to the west, a bit of water there, and a dry doorway to the north. There is also the rope leading up and through the hole in the ceiling. Although the rope starting to turn green you think as long as you go just one at a time it could be climbed. dungeoneering 15: the hole was where a spiral staircase once ascended and descended. The rubble at the base of this floor tells that there was yet another floor below this one. The floor below looks to be buried and not only rebel, but also water.
Well, it must have been something you said. This young creature seems absolutely terrified!
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