Tauriell's lips form the words 'Oh, s@&%', but they don't come out anymore. As she turns to stone.
Abomentolor's eyes become narrow slits as he angrily thinks of what he is going to do to this creature.
The Agathions both cast holy smite.
But the medusa shakes most of the effekt.
Gwenhwyfar moves closer and casts Hold Monster on the medusa.
Hold monster doesn't work on the medusa.
Abomentolor casts fire, in concentrated rays at the medusa. Then he turns away.
Jimmy charges
His blade bites
Jimmy has no idea what that snake haired woman is. But he stabs her properly. Together with the two fiery rays that hit her, she is badly wounded. She steps back and casts a spell on herself.
Gwenhwyfar is at a loss what to do. She definitely needs a shopping tour in Magnimar to get some spells useful in battle. She leaves the room to be no longer subject to the petrifying gaze.
But the Agatheons continue to use their abilities.
Abomentolor tries to figure out what spell the medusa cast, but has no clue. This clueless expression is saved for those to come as he turns to stone.
Jimmy focuses on the beasts demise as he fights amidst the statues of his allies
Jimmy stomps the medusa into the ground.
As the fight is over the agathions ask "How else can we be of service?"
As it gets silent Gwenhwyfar asks "Is it over?"
"Well there isn't much of this thing left anymore"
Gwenwhyfar comes in and takes a look. "This didn't go too well." she concludes after seeing Tauriell and Abomentolor standing there in stone.
"It went better than it could have."
Gwenhwyfar looks through the belongings of the medusa to check for magical stuff.
"There is a dose of stone salve that can end the petrification for one creature. But we have three!" she states with a mix of relief and worry. As there is an easy way to fix that, but not for all.
Noticing that the Agathions didn't get an answer yet she tells "I thank you for your help. But I don't think there is anything else you can do for us now."
The agathians bow and disappear.
"Tauriell said, this is easy to fix. Mrs. Heidmarch can do this." Gwenhwyfar gets up and moves over to Abomentolor. "You get that armor and the dagger and everything that looks expensive. Maybe we need the money to fix that."
She moves the gnome statue over to Tauriells. "He is heavy." she pants. She grabs both statues. "Don't go away." Then with a word Gwenhwyfar, Tauriell and Abomentolor are gone.
A moment later Gwenhwyfar reappears. "You got everything?" she asks before grabbing Jimmy and Koriah. With one more word all appear in front of the tower. Gwenhyfar raises into the air and knocks at the window of the tower to get Casamir downstairs. Once all are together she speaks another word and together you appear in the office of Venture Captain Sheila Heidmarch. Gwenhwyfar, Jimmy and Casamir in the flesh and Abomentolor, Tauriell and Koriah in stone.
Hearing some noise from the office, and knowing, that Mrs. Heidmarsh is not in there Margaret comes into the room. "What are you doing here, and why did you bring statues... Oh, are these... I'll inform Mrs. Heidmarsh that you're here on urgent matters." she tells and leaves again.
After a few minutes she comes back and tells "Mrs. Heidmarsh is in a meeting at the moment. She asks you to wait for her. Here in the office, or in the salon, or where you like. You want some tea?" Margaret seems to loose her cool around the statues.
Gwenhwyfar sighs and looks at the statues. "They won't run away. But I could. This is no situation where I'm good at being patient." she tells.
"It's okay Gwen. They will be fine."
Gwenhwyfar leans on Jimmy. "Should be easier than getting you back. But seeing them in stone..."
After about half an hour Mrs. Heidmarsh comes into the office. She closes the door behind her and takes a seat behind her desk.
Looking at the statues of Abomentolor, Tauriell and Koriah she sighs. Looking at Jimmy and Gwenhwyfar she comments "You did well. No one dead so far, and all in my safe office."
After a pause she asks "What happened?"
"We were fighting ssome woman with snakes for hair and next thing everyone is statues. Gwen ran out the room when she saw what happened to the others but I was too close to the woman so just did what I could to end her."
Casamir explains what happened at Windsong Abbey from the start until the Pathfinder group arrived to sweep through the evil invaders. He tells that Ardathanatus is behind all that and that he still roams freely in the abbey.
"That's a whole list of problems then. The petrification is pretty easy. We just need to call in a favour and hope that Master Leis Nivlandis isn't too busy."
"But what did you do with that Medusa? That snake haired woman? Because Ardathanatus is probably able to raise her. If she is with him. As a medusa is a really strong ally, it might be worth it for him."
"And even if he doesn't or you can prevent that, you need to prepare better to face him. I don't want this to become the standard for our meetings. Mrs. Heidmarch analyses the situation.
"We got this stone salve from the medusa. But only one dose." Gwenhwyfar tells.
Mrs. Heidmarsh starts writing some letters. One she hands to Casamir. "Bring this to Bevaluu Zimantiu at Cynosure Tower. She for sure wants to know what happened to Windsong Abbey and might be able to help."
For the other one she rings for Margaret and hands her a letter. "For the head of the Stone of the Seers. Not many can cast the spell needed to revert that, but he should be."
"And now it is waiting again. I suggest in the meantime you familiarize yourself with the kind of enemies you faced so far to be better prepared next time."
"Yes, I need a better spell selection. I'm almost useless when fighting such enemies." Gwenhwyfar tells.
"This is the first time we have truly fought enemies that are capable of disabling us without it being by trying to kill us. That I can handle... We aren't prepared for this type of combat." Jimmy says exasperated. "There must be some way to defend ourselves from these types of attack." he says to himself
"Let us visit Lini. Maybe she has an idea or some item that will help us." Gwenhwyfar suggests. "Also we can sell the stuff we brought in case we need the money to get this fixed." she tells pointing to the statues.
"Good idea." Jimmy says shouldering the large burlap sack
As a shortcut, Gwenhwyfar dim doors herself and Jimmy to the shop. "Hello Lini, we need your help."
"And you get to sell us things."
"So you're buying for a change instead of selling?" Lini asks with an ironic grin. "See what you find, almost everything is for sale."
"Both I think. We need something that could protect us from being turned to stone. And I need some useful spells." Gwenhwyfar tells.
"I can tend to the sick and patch up the wounded and a lot of useful stuff. But in combat there is not too much I can do. You got some scrolls I could learn spells from?"
"This is all the stuff we found so far, do you want any of it?"
"No idea who would want that holy symbol. But maybe as decoration? The rest looks like standard stuff. No problem selling that." Lini replies.
"As for scrolls, I'm no expert. My collection is by no means complete."
"Hrmpf" Gwenhwyfar voices her frustration.
But then her face brightens "Remember that half orc woman on the peninsula where the Lady's Light is? She might have some spells I could learn."
"She might do. Lets finish here, head back to the manor and then head there."
"We can't do today. We'd have to wait for tomorrow." Gwenhwyfar replies. [b]"I'm out of far travelling spells.
"We can't wait too long. Mrs Heidmarch was right about the possibility of the medusa being brought back."
"But if today isn't an option, tomorrow it is. We just need to be prepared in case things aren't quite the same as we left them."
"What would we bring as a gift for the woman? I have no idea what she'd like. Just to make sure, she doesn't throw us out when we visit." Gwenhwyfar muses.
"Hmmm, food always goes down well doesn't it? Maybe we go see if Lini has something interesting depending on how much you want to spend?"
"That is a good idea. Maybe a fruit basket from that place we visited once." Gwenhwyfar tells excitedly.
"We could take some of Abomentollor's ale too, in case she doesn't have too much of a sweet tooth."
"That's a good idea. Let's collect a basket full of tasty things you won't get at the Ladies Light."
"Let's." Jimmy says with a smile, taking her hand and leading her shopping