Arloric draws his sword and goes after the others, beginning to sing.
"Green trees bending stand with us, Carrock enduring, valorous..."
The minotaur is where you expected him, standing before the door. He lets out a chilling scream and assumes a defensive position.
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"But will he be left alone? Naught but blood and shattered bone..." Arloric continues as he advances towards the foeman, giving his allies space to charge in.
She casts haste on as many of the party as she can focuses on the melee members.
Buoyed by Telerin's spell, Uriel charges the minotaur.
Crit?
Kelly screams, half as a war cry, half in shock at how fast she can move suddenly. She circles the monster until she's opposite Uriel, then dives in with abandon.
Still singing, Arloric charges with Uriel!
The minotaur defends against all of you, without trying to attack. He even reacts to Kelly's attack from the back!
But even like that, he is hit by Kelly and Arloric (even is the damage is very low) before Uriel connects mightily against it, making it scream in pain!
Seeing that his defensive stance was not enough, the minotaur let out a cloud of abyssal smoke from his mouth, darkening the place!
"...left of all he hoped to save...Where are the warriors once called brave?" Arloric sings, smirking as his blackened eye can see just fine in the dark. He presses the attack!
Alexa moves in and goes for a stab. Her eyes can see in the dark as well as Arloric's.
The halfling keeps slashing at where she last saw the monster.
Sario stuck at the back does her best to aid her allies.
As they draw weapons and advance on the enemy, Darya extends a nimbus of light from her core, washing over her companions and filling them with the Power of her Faith.
As the swirling abyssal smoke plunges them in darkness Darya's voice rings out, echoing through the room. "I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!!"
Calling out to the higher planes, the aasimar warrior summons an angelic spirit that bonds with her, her halo manifesting, then blazing even more brilliantly as her entire body seems to erupt in golden flames, shedding light without heat. Similar flames erupt around those close to her, spreading her divine protection.
Uriel attacks again, his limbs quickened and his spirit buoyed by Telerin's spell, Darya's light, and more besides.
Between all of your attacks you make short work of the Fiendish minotaur. Now a door stands on your way.
Arloric stops singing just long enough to take a strong sniff and shout "Smells like a storm! Get that door open, but be ready to face lightning magic!"
Then he resumes the song.
"The men we once called brother...Children of a common mother..."
Alexa tries to open the door.
It's locked. Probably barred.
Alexa whirls on Arloric. "Get it open!"
Uriel slams his armored body into the door, hoping to just smash it down.
A solid hit, but the door doesn't open...
"Use that Mace it should burst the door down in no time." Sario says from the back still on the stairs a bit.
Knowing time was of the essence, Arloric hastily grabs for the chime, hoping to every god and his mother this didn't waste it!
The ringing of the chime sounds like a heavenly chorus, clearing the evil miasma of the fort and blowing the door open with force.
Besides it... the final challenge...
She will cast resistance on everyone but will cast resist elements on Uriel for lightning
Looks like it is 10 resistance
This circular room's original purpose is unclear, but now it seems to be a trophy hall of some sort. A low stone pedestal sits on the floor in the middle of the chamber under a domed ceiling. Atop the pedestal is an iron, barbed cage-and within the cage sits a chunk of softly glowing white stone, the same you saw in your previous scrying.
The largest surviving fragment of the Kenabres wardstone. The key for abyss to bring the wardstone barrier down and invade the rest of Golarion, dooming all of its inhabitants to an eternal night of madness and torment.
And Jeslyn is there to defend it. She only needs to keep you at bay for a dozen of seconds more.
Jeslyn Image
As soon as the door opens she lets out a powerful spell, making dozens of black tentacles spring from the floor trying to grab your characters!
"I'll drag your sould to the Abyss! You will never reach the wardstone in time!"
Alexa easily slips free of the tentacles--and makes a beeline for the wardstone!
Alexa avoids the tentacles with incredible dexterity and gets to the wardstone cage, a surprised look at Jeslyn face.
"YOU! You are supposed to surrender to us!"
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The only acknowledgement Alexa gives of Jeslyn's statement is a brief glare of pitch-black hatred before turning back to the wardstone cage.
The Wardstone fragment is big. Like small man-size. You probably won't be able to carry it. The cage doesn't have a door or a way to extract the wardstone. But you can reach for the wardstone if you want to touch it, as the cage has ample space for it.
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Kelly struggles futilely against the conjured appendages
Alexa has no idea what is happening, or how to stop it...
Uriel shrugs off the tentacles and charges forward. Looking Jeslyn in the eye, he says "By Ragathiel, this day will be your last!"
Arloric begins singing anew, even as the tentacles try to crush his voice out of him.
"Brothers far and brothers near...are you overcome with fear?"
He struggles but fails to escape.
She won't be able to break the grapple either.
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'This we were not ready for." Sario says as she struggles in vain.
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