"The greater evil lies ahead of us, friends."
Etienne recites a short prayer.
"Let me be the gauntlet about Her fist,
Let me be the sword at Her side,
And the enemy shall be defeated forevermore."
Talacyst peers into the dark passage ahead of him, saying, "Should we seize the moment and continue this way, then?"
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After travelling about forty feet another passage veers off to the right again. You can see ahead that the passage you were travelling finishes to a dead end. The passage to the right leads directly into a room. You can tell right away that you are leaving the roughly carved out passageways into a room carefully built chamber by someones hands of ancient. In the center of the room is a red marble statue of a strikingly beautiful, but, at the same time, monstrously enraged human women, her stony expression twisted in fury. The women wears flowing robes, and her long hair is held back from her face by an intricate headdress of hooks and blades. In her left hand she carries a large book, the face of which is inscribed with a seven-pointed star. Her right hand holds a glittering metal and ivory ranseur......
Talacyst notes the ornate statue, and after considering it for several moments decides to err on the side of caution. He works a simple spell to sense magical activities in the area...
An arrow notched in her bow Vraelyn stands guard as she waits for those more skilled in the matters of the arcane and traps to look over the room.
Taking a moment to load his crossbow. Talam, eager to check the room, makes his in behind Etienne.
Etienne surveys the area, alert for any threat. He guards the entrance from where the party came from, to ensure that the group is not attacked from the rear.
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Its quiet, no unnatural sound can be heard except from the little sounds coming from your group as you move into position. The room is as you see it, nothing out of the ordinary but the old statue. Talacyst sends out his arcane senses, looking for signs of magic but comes up with an empty feeling from the room. After a bit of time passes you pick up in the distance, as you all stand ready, a faint rippling of water can be heard as you all strain your hearing trying to hear any possible threat. Its coming from the long hallway with the stairs..... It just sounds like normal water moving its course. To the north a door. To the east a long hallway with small flights of steps heading up and then another door. To the south a passageway with two more passageways leading off it to the east.......
Talacyst sends out his arcane senses, looking for signs of magic but comes up with an empty feeling from the room.
Talacyst releases his focus, and, steadying himself on the wall, says, "There's no magical traps here, at least. And the statue isn't magical either."
The wizard looks to his party, silently asking which way they should go.
Black leaf is tired of standing waiting for someone to make a call. Without saying a word Blackleaf moves toward the long hall way and up the stairs.
"Looks like our path is set" Talam smiles as the elven barbarian begins down the hallway.
Talacyst looks at the door, then nods to Talam. "This will be your area of expertise, I think."
"We got your back."
With nod to Talacyst, Talam goes to work. "Shouldn't be too hard"
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The door is an easy mark for the halfling who takes a minute to check if there are any dangers, finding none he easily opens the lock and the door itself. Inside you can see a small circular stone pool lined with skulls, smears of what looks like blood mar the pool's rim in places. The room itself is small and circular (15 by 15) with the pool in the center there is only 5 feet around it. On the opposite side of the room from you is another door.............
"Foul corruption and blashphemy! Touch nothing!"
"There is no need for divination to conclude that we are in the presence of evil."
Etienne steps into the room, sword and shield at the ready. "Shine the light into the darkness."
Blackleaf sneer at the unholy room and makes a sign to ward off evil before heading toward that door.
Talacyst takes care to follow the other, more combat-oriented adventurers into the room. He leans against the doorframe just inside the chamber, bow in hands, trying to keep quiet.
Making his way through the room, Talam starts on the next door.
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As Etienne lets Talam pass who is heading toward the next door, a hideous creature with distored human head suspended from leathery wings drops out of the darkness, you can see in place of hair, it is crowned with writhing tendrils and its eyes burn with a menacing green flame. Its heading directly at Talam's head...Blackleaf notices its and gives a warning shout. Talacyst sees it second and joins in the warning yell. Vraelyn who is still out side hears all the comotion coming from in the room but also hears a disturbing noise from behind them....
Talam hears the warning, but so consumed with fear is unable to move fast enough.
"I got a bad feeling about this", he mutters under his breath.
Vraelyn tenses at the comotion from the room but keeps calm. "There is something behind us also, I'll investigate" She calls out certainly to the group before stalking off in the direction of the other disturbing sound with her bow at the ready.
Talacyst sees the thing dropping out of the shadows, but he too is so startled by its sudden appearance that he hesitates for a crucial moment. Regaining himself, gets ready to help in any way he can.
Blackleaf seeing the halfing in danger roars into action, dropping the torch and slicing into the thing with a sideways chop
As Etienne lets Talam pass who is heading toward the next door, a hideous creature with distored human head suspended from leathery wings drops out of the darkness, you can see in place of hair, it is crowned with writhing tendrils and its eyes burn with a menacing green flame. Its heading directly at Talam's head...Blackleaf notices its and gives a warning shout. Talacyst sees it second and joins in the warning yell. Vraelyn who is still out side hears all the comotion coming from in the room but also hears a disturbing noise from behind them....
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Init Order:
Etienne
Vraelyn
Flying head creature
Talacyst
Creatures behind Vraelyn
Blackleaf
Talam
Vraelyn sees out of the darkness approach two creatures that look similar to the one you fought earlier, both moving at the same pace, a slow steady pace but both see their destination directly in front of them.................
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The flying evil head swooshes by Talam's head and circles around, it opens its mouth and lets out a terrible shriek. Everyone in the room knees shake and their heart pounds faster with fear. Your ears throb with pain, you can't think straight, your feet won't move and your eyes never leave the creature......
The creatures pause for a moment but they continue on after a few seconds toward Vraelyn......
Smite Evil Attack vs. Flying Critter; Damage (1d20+7=22, 1d8+4=9)
"By the light of Iomedae, I smite you!"
The unnatural presence and screams of the creature badly disrupt Talacyst, though he struggles to maintain both his bodily health and his concentration.
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The shriek freezes Talacyst, Blackleaf and Talam with fear, they stand there looking at the creature, unable to move, they just stare at the creature in fear. Etienne however is not effected by the shriek and send forth some of his divine power at the creature sending it flying into the wall behind it, killing it with no problem. The two monsters approach and attack Vraelyn who is standing ready, she somehow dances around all of the monsters attacks and stands there with a smile on her face. With the creature dead the fear wears off from the heroes......
Obviously a little shaken from the bloodcurdling screech and the task of fighting off the two creatures alone Vraelyn's arrow flies wide but she quickly notches another and prepares to shoot again.
Frustrated after losing control of one of his precious spells, Talacyst decides to avoid risks and instead fires an arrow at one of the creatures .
Blackleaf moves in with a wild swing at the closest one.
10 to hit, 7 damage
Shaken, but not out Talam moves to flank one of the monsters.
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As Etienne is finishing off the evil in the other room, the rest of the group rushes out to help Vraelyn with the monsters attacking her. She shoots another one of her deadly arrows at the monsters but misses wide of the mark. Talacyst turns around from the room and fires off one of his own arrows but also misses. The creatures attack taking swipes at Vraelyn with their deadly claws, only one hits her raking its claws along her arm(5 hps dam). Blackleaf enters the fray with his trusty axe and makes an attempt to kill these ugly creatures. His axe fails him tho. A small form goes tumbling out of the room and into the melee, swinging his blade as he comes up but judged the distace wrong and comes up short.
Vraelyn gives a tiny yelp of pain at the wound she sustains from the attack but quickly silences herself with a slight frown as the others rush to help. Stepping back and away from the creatures she unleashes another arrow.
With a bellowing yell Blackleaf charges toward the creatures ax high as his legs pump with might to close on the monster/