Post by naerdith on Apr 17, 2017 10:33:57 GMT -5
Heroes: Aeronne the Paladin of Athena, Ichi the Monk, Mikhail the Psi, Tiana the Water Priestess, Malok the Mage, Low Dog the Totemic Warrior, and Tolus the Fighter
Having explored the exterior halls of the shrine, the party then wonders if they missed any key pieces in the statues. Moving through the halls to search all of the statues, they find nothing. Unfortunately, a group of slaadi do find the party. Tolus, Low Dog, Aeronne, and Ichi charge the group of Slaadi while the casters watch with approval. Tiana moves towards Malok, puts her head on his shoulder, and remarks that our people do good work and smiles. The slaadi do not last long and are easily dispatched. They do not bubble away though when they die, much to their surprise.
The party moves on to the first hallway. As they are walking down, Ichi spots a secret door with his special sight. Opening the door, they find three dead women. Tiana walks into the room adfter Aeronne searches for evil and finds none. They are truly dead and Low Dog recognizes them as selkies, but they are missing their weapons and nothing else lie in this room. Suspecting an ambush, Tiana asks Low Dog to see invisibility. Ichi mumbles that he can already see most things, but relents when Low Dog mentions not everything. Low Dog does not find anything in the room, but sees a secret door across the hall. Opening the door, the party sees a door propped up on one wall and a pile of bones in the corner. Tiana gets an idea and tells the party to stop. She then grabs Tolus and Low Dog to search the rest of the hallways that looked identical to this one. When they approach the stairs, everyone gets dizzy as the stairs should not exist like that. Low Dog is affected even more with the Detect Invisibility spell on. Tiana tells him to look away and leads him to the second hall. There are two secret doors in this hall. Emboldened by the success, they methodically move to each hallway, finding two secret doors in each. They then return to the party.
The three lawful party members (Ichi, Aeronne, and Malok) move towards the door to investigate while Tiana searches the pile of bones, not finding much of interest. A mouth appears on the door and starts talking a language no one recognizes. Tiana casts tongues and speaks to the door. It is a mimic that has been stuck here for some time. He wants out, but also wants to be fed. Tiana has Low Dog bring one of the Selkies in here and feeds it to the mimic. He returns the favor with a key piece. He asks her to take him out of here. She promises to bring him home with her. He then turns into a dresser and follows the party. Tiana sets up some hand signals to relay information to him as her spell will not last forever. She leads him to the room with the selkies and he eats another, saving the third on top of him as he turns into a table. Tiana pats his surface fondly as the rest of the party is slightly creeped out. The mimic also relays that there was another party, much crueler than them that visited them earlier. Assuming they looted the previous room's residents and the key piece they guarded, the party moves on. The next room has four gargoyles holding gems. Low Dog sees a secret door with the last bit of his Detect Invisibility spell and opens the door. Inside is a small box. Opening that, he finds a cloth wrapped bundle. He unwraps it and finds an arrow piece. Grabbing it, he suddenly feels weak. He walks to the door and takes some damage. Dropping the cloth as he thinks that is poisoned, Tiana grabs the key and places it into the chaos key. SHe then feels weak. Realizing the key was poisoned, she washes her hands and the key off. She casts slow poison on Low Dog while she searches to see if she has any antitoxin left. She does, gives him the last of it, and he feels better.
They walk to the next secret door with Low Dog and Aeronne leading and open the door. 14 wraiths are sitting inside over what looks like a dead party of adventurers. Aeronne attempts to turn the wraiths but feels that Athena's powers are weakened her and he cannot turn these undead. The undead charge as Aeronne and Low Dog attempt to hold a line. Out of desperation, Malok casts a fireball towards the back of the wraith line. The wraiths are damaged, but so is the party. All of the party makes their saves. Tiana realizes she will be no help here, casts invisibility to undead and moves around the corner to avoid any more friendly fire. She also calls the mimic over as he was hurt too. Hoping to take some out, Malok fires another fireball. The party again withstands the fireball which only takes out a few. A few wraiths make it to the back lines and attack Ichi. Tolus, using his flaming spear, defends Ichi who has not way to attack, but if furiously dodging attacks. Low Dog is his several times, but his Scarab of Shielding blocks the level drains with several charges. Malok calls out for who wants a lightning bolt. Surprisingly to Malok, Aeronne yells to target him. He does and the lightning bolt barely fazes the Paladin, but takes out the wraiths. Aeronne, seeing that Low Dog seems to have high protections against fire, calls out to him to be prepared and casts flame strike on his position to help clear the wraiths up. He takes out half of them, but his flame strike does a lot of damage to Low Dog, vaporizing two of his amulets. Feeling guilty, he helps Low Dog kill the last of the wraiths and gives him a Ring Of Cirulon as an apology. Tiana goes around bandaging and healing with Tolus and Mikhail. The party sees the ruined corpses and equipment inside the room, but find a steel short sword that survived. They also find another key piece.
The party wants to rest up to get more spells and heads back to the mimic's old room. They rest and after 4 hours, Ichi and Mikhail realize their minds are refreshed, but their bodies are not. They cannot rest her while in this shrine. Frustrated, they wake up the party and explain the situation. Tiana mumbles something about starting to dislike this place, but helps the party wake up. The party prepares to go to the next room on their list.
Having explored the exterior halls of the shrine, the party then wonders if they missed any key pieces in the statues. Moving through the halls to search all of the statues, they find nothing. Unfortunately, a group of slaadi do find the party. Tolus, Low Dog, Aeronne, and Ichi charge the group of Slaadi while the casters watch with approval. Tiana moves towards Malok, puts her head on his shoulder, and remarks that our people do good work and smiles. The slaadi do not last long and are easily dispatched. They do not bubble away though when they die, much to their surprise.
The party moves on to the first hallway. As they are walking down, Ichi spots a secret door with his special sight. Opening the door, they find three dead women. Tiana walks into the room adfter Aeronne searches for evil and finds none. They are truly dead and Low Dog recognizes them as selkies, but they are missing their weapons and nothing else lie in this room. Suspecting an ambush, Tiana asks Low Dog to see invisibility. Ichi mumbles that he can already see most things, but relents when Low Dog mentions not everything. Low Dog does not find anything in the room, but sees a secret door across the hall. Opening the door, the party sees a door propped up on one wall and a pile of bones in the corner. Tiana gets an idea and tells the party to stop. She then grabs Tolus and Low Dog to search the rest of the hallways that looked identical to this one. When they approach the stairs, everyone gets dizzy as the stairs should not exist like that. Low Dog is affected even more with the Detect Invisibility spell on. Tiana tells him to look away and leads him to the second hall. There are two secret doors in this hall. Emboldened by the success, they methodically move to each hallway, finding two secret doors in each. They then return to the party.
The three lawful party members (Ichi, Aeronne, and Malok) move towards the door to investigate while Tiana searches the pile of bones, not finding much of interest. A mouth appears on the door and starts talking a language no one recognizes. Tiana casts tongues and speaks to the door. It is a mimic that has been stuck here for some time. He wants out, but also wants to be fed. Tiana has Low Dog bring one of the Selkies in here and feeds it to the mimic. He returns the favor with a key piece. He asks her to take him out of here. She promises to bring him home with her. He then turns into a dresser and follows the party. Tiana sets up some hand signals to relay information to him as her spell will not last forever. She leads him to the room with the selkies and he eats another, saving the third on top of him as he turns into a table. Tiana pats his surface fondly as the rest of the party is slightly creeped out. The mimic also relays that there was another party, much crueler than them that visited them earlier. Assuming they looted the previous room's residents and the key piece they guarded, the party moves on. The next room has four gargoyles holding gems. Low Dog sees a secret door with the last bit of his Detect Invisibility spell and opens the door. Inside is a small box. Opening that, he finds a cloth wrapped bundle. He unwraps it and finds an arrow piece. Grabbing it, he suddenly feels weak. He walks to the door and takes some damage. Dropping the cloth as he thinks that is poisoned, Tiana grabs the key and places it into the chaos key. SHe then feels weak. Realizing the key was poisoned, she washes her hands and the key off. She casts slow poison on Low Dog while she searches to see if she has any antitoxin left. She does, gives him the last of it, and he feels better.
They walk to the next secret door with Low Dog and Aeronne leading and open the door. 14 wraiths are sitting inside over what looks like a dead party of adventurers. Aeronne attempts to turn the wraiths but feels that Athena's powers are weakened her and he cannot turn these undead. The undead charge as Aeronne and Low Dog attempt to hold a line. Out of desperation, Malok casts a fireball towards the back of the wraith line. The wraiths are damaged, but so is the party. All of the party makes their saves. Tiana realizes she will be no help here, casts invisibility to undead and moves around the corner to avoid any more friendly fire. She also calls the mimic over as he was hurt too. Hoping to take some out, Malok fires another fireball. The party again withstands the fireball which only takes out a few. A few wraiths make it to the back lines and attack Ichi. Tolus, using his flaming spear, defends Ichi who has not way to attack, but if furiously dodging attacks. Low Dog is his several times, but his Scarab of Shielding blocks the level drains with several charges. Malok calls out for who wants a lightning bolt. Surprisingly to Malok, Aeronne yells to target him. He does and the lightning bolt barely fazes the Paladin, but takes out the wraiths. Aeronne, seeing that Low Dog seems to have high protections against fire, calls out to him to be prepared and casts flame strike on his position to help clear the wraiths up. He takes out half of them, but his flame strike does a lot of damage to Low Dog, vaporizing two of his amulets. Feeling guilty, he helps Low Dog kill the last of the wraiths and gives him a Ring Of Cirulon as an apology. Tiana goes around bandaging and healing with Tolus and Mikhail. The party sees the ruined corpses and equipment inside the room, but find a steel short sword that survived. They also find another key piece.
The party wants to rest up to get more spells and heads back to the mimic's old room. They rest and after 4 hours, Ichi and Mikhail realize their minds are refreshed, but their bodies are not. They cannot rest her while in this shrine. Frustrated, they wake up the party and explain the situation. Tiana mumbles something about starting to dislike this place, but helps the party wake up. The party prepares to go to the next room on their list.