Embok moves ahead of the group to check if the door is safe.
Perception:
Embok looks over the door, searching for any sign of unsafe passage, and doesn't see anything that looks dangerous.
"All clear. Someone do the honours."
"May Sarenrae heal our wounds."
Burst for
Charles opens the door.
Link to the new map. Place yourselves around the door and give me perception checks.
Perception:
Behind the door you find an immense cathedral type room. There are rows of pews...stained orangeish brown. The alter at the front of the room has shallow indentations where bits of flesh and pools of blood collect. The walls are lined with torture racks or sexual devices, you are not sure which. Tapestries of Zon-Kuthon adorn the walls, and various pictures of mutilated bodies are intermixed with the tapestries. What once were people look now like gross puddles of flesh with bits of metal and gems implanted into their mass. Teeth and ears at different locations on the body. The worst is a picture of a child, or something the size of a child.
There is an acrid and metallic smell in the air.
Perception:
Stealthing inside, if possible:
Embok, you notice two large fireplaces with ROARING fires...but no wood or coal feeding them.
As you look around and up, you see an inverted dome made of a black glassy substance. It looks like it is masterfully made and one solid piece...there are no visible lines separating any pieces.
"This is an unholy place. Be on your guard."
None of you see anything more than Embok.
Silas and Thomas, can you put yourselves on the map? Also, all of you feel free to explore the room.
Silas grunts his thanks for the healing and sidles forward to the middle of the room, looking about curiously.
Mari will remain hidden (or so she hopes), moving to the end of the pew. She'll keep her eyes peeled for any sudden movement.
Stealth
Perception
As Silas moves to the middle of the room, a sucking sound draws attention to the ceiling. The black inverted dome ripples and shakes itself, then starts to fall.
On it's way down it's flat side melts into itself and the mass forms a new flat side, aiming at the floor and the dwarf.
On the left side fireplace, the fires burn brighter and crackles louder than before. Tongues of flame start to lick out of the fireplace...
Init
Reflex
Init
Init:
d8 Hit Die.
Base attack bonus equal to 3/4 total Hit Dice (medium progression).
No good saving throws.
Skill points equal to 2 + Int modifier (minimum 1) per Hit Die. However, most oozes are mindless and gain no skill points or feats. Oozes do not have any class skills.
Traits: An ooze possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature's entry).
Mindless: No Intelligence score, and immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects). An ooze with an Intelligence score loses this trait.
Blind (but have the blindsight special quality), with immunity to gaze attacks, visual effects, illusions, and other attack forms that rely on sight.
Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning.
Some oozes have the ability to deal acid damage to objects.
Not subject to critical hits or flanking. Does not take additional damage from precision-based attacks, such as sneak attack.
Proficient with its natural weapons only.
Proficient with no armor.
Oozes eat and breathe, but do not sleep.
Silas easily skips back, avoiding the black mass descending.
Fire
Embok
Tom
Mari
Silas
?????
Charles
Elyza
Black Mass
The fireplace on the right gives a fiery roar and something made of flames steps out. It moves next to Mari and slams its fiery fists down.
Embok attempts to shoot the fire thing with the crossbow.
Attack:
Damage:
The bolt flies true at the fire elemental, but it opens a hole in it's body and the bolt passes through harmlessly.
Fire bolt to black mass
Ranged touch
Fire damage
and moves up a bit
Reflex
"GAH!" Mari expulses. whipping her head back and forth, looking in vain for a firehose, she yells out, "Battle plan Baked Alaska!"
Thomas' fire bolt slams into the pudding mass, briefly firing the creature, but it does not seem to do much harm...
"But I love pudding!"
As the fire bolt flashes brilliantly for a brief moment, you see under the thing's...skin, for lack of a better term...teeth, eyes, ears, and limbs stuck inside it.
Silas, having basically no idea what to do with himself, decides to see if he can use these pews to push the pudding around faster than it can eat them.
Silas moves past the pudding, narrowling avoiding it, and pushes a pew to the right with a grating sound.
The fireplace on the right gives a familiar roar and out steps another being of fire. It moves next to the cleric and slams down...
But misses the holy man.
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Charles makes a five-foot step and swings his greatsword at the creature of fire.
"Can i hurt that black mass? Does anyone know?" he yells.
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Elyza uses the last of her mythic energy to enchant her weapons again. Firing at the southern fire elemental, , she misses wildly with the frosty arrow. Knowing the pudding has decent reach and beats things until it can digest them, she moves far away from it. Screech takes flight to hide in the rafters. "Mind or sight spells will not work on the pudding! My Color Spray, Burning Hands and Grease are going to be useless here! Even Acid Splash should fail against it."
Forgot the +1 for bard song, but it doesn't matter.
AC 16; HP 13; MP 0 of 5; Fort: +0 Ref: +2 Will: +3
Grr!! I can't reveal the more useful information about Black Puddings, like what NOT to do!!
Embok fires another bolt at the same elemental.
Attack:
Damage:
The black pudding rolls forward, right next to the cleric and slams down a huge mass of pudding...
The fire elemental roars in delight as the pudding squishes on to the "bright light of Saranrae". It brings its fiery fists down on Mari again...
Missing the bard. It then moves on top of the pew next to it, bringing confusion to anyone watching...until the pew starts to crackle...
Ref
HP 22-22-18=-18
All of Mari's spells will be useless against their current opponents, and she is less than effective in melee. Seeing Thomas almost engulfed by the mass in one blow, Mari will yell out, "Strategic withdrawal! Start making your way back to the door!"
Mari will tumble back, trying to avoid a blow, then shoot the elemental with her crossbow.
Attack
Damage
You hear a hiss as Thomas' armor melts away as the pudding covers him, constricting tighter and tighter...
Mari's skillful attempt at tumbling away from the elemental fails and it slams down again...
Dying: A dying creature is unconscious and near death. Creatures that have negative hit points and have not stabilized are dying. A dying creature can take no actions. On the character's next turn, after being reduced to negative hit points (but not dead), and on all subsequent turns, the character must make a DC 10 Constitution check to become stable. The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total. A character that is stable does not need to make this check. A natural 20 on this check is an automatic success. If the character fails this check, he loses 1 hit point. If a dying creature has an amount of negative hit points equal to its Constitution score, it dies.
Stable: A character who was dying but who has stopped losing hit points each round and still has negative hit points is stable. The character is no longer dying, but is still unconscious. If the character has become stable because of aid from another character (such as a Heal check or magical healing), then the character no longer loses hit points. The character can make a DC 10 Constitution check each hour to become conscious and disabled (even though his hit points are still negative). The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total.
Stable: A character who was dying but who has stopped losing hit points each round and still has negative hit points is stable. The character is no longer dying, but is still unconscious. If the character has become stable because of aid from another character (such as a Heal check or magical healing), then the character no longer loses hit points. The character can make a DC 10 Constitution check each hour to become conscious and disabled (even though his hit points are still negative). The character takes a penalty on this roll equal to his negative hit point total.
Embok's bolt strikes the elemental in the head causing it to shriek.
Staggered: A staggered creature may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can he take full-round actions). A staggered creature can still take free, swift and immediate actions. A creature with nonlethal damage exactly equal to its current hit points gains the staggered condition.