X5: To the Temple of Death - IC

[Dragonwriter]

Jex focuses his mind on his shadow companion. Eissun moves with greater speed and tries to freeze the blue-robed man's blood with a trio of swift attacks.

[sblock=OOC]
Jex uses Master's Bidding to give Eissun an extra attack. Eissun uses Full Attack against the mage, 3 attacks at +8 touch for 2d8 damage each.
Please don't forget Eissun is Large with 10-ft. reach. Might help Flank for Aram, and keeps the mage threatened.

Jex AC 18, HP 59/59; Umbral Touch has 69 rounds remaining
Fundamentals (usable 3 each): Caul of Shadow, Black Candle, Arrow of Dusk (x2) (used 2/6)
Lvl 1 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each): Life Fades, Carpet of Shadow
Lvl 2 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each): Flesh Fails, Black Fire (used 1)
Lvl 3 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each: Umbral Touch (used 1), Clinging Darkness
Lvl 4 Initiate Mysteries (1 per day each): Shadow Evocation, Warp Spell
Reach Mystery: used 1/2; Extend Mystery used 0/3

Eissun AC 12, HP 75/75; Incorporeal
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[kinem]

[sblock=ooc]DW, thanks for the timely reminder on size and flanking. The brown robed guy is flanked, though not the armored guy. This assumes that Eissun can see the brown-robed guy through the doorway, so he can threaten AOOs and thus flank; not entirely clear from the map but I'll assume he can. The mage didn't draw an AOO because he cast his spell defensively; he didn't need to roll for it.[/sblock]
While Eissun helps distract the brown-robed man, Aram mounts a vicious assault with his twin scimitars. Despite having one of his blows mysteriously deflected, three strike true and Aram aims them at the man's vitals. Although the man is clearly a skilled warrior, he goes down under Aram's slashes and begins bleeding out.

Eissun swiftly swings at the blue-robed mage, striking him twice but not bringing him down.

Fuller casts a spell and touches Aram, closing some of the desert warrior's wounds. (ooc: heal 29 pts; Aram hp 67/82)

With the mage silenced and the brown-robed man down, the armored man chooses to retreat, despite giving both Aram and Eissun the opportunity to strike him as he moves. He moves through the doorway (and through Eissun) and closes the door. The door is a solid-looking wooden one.

[sblock=Eissun]The mage presses the bottom of the west wall and it swings aside. He then exits through the secret door, leaving it open for the armored man to follow. Eissun scores another attack of opportunity on the mage. There are two more creatures in the room beyond.[/sblock]
[sblock=map]

XXXXX........
XXXXX........
X..XXXXwwXX..
X..XXXX..XX..
X==XXsss.XX..
X.*XXcc..XX..
$.EI|.GJ..~..
X.EEXMAT..~..
X..XXeF[.XX..
X==XXb...XX..
X..XXXX..XX..
X..XXXXwwXX..
XXXXX........
XXXXX........

| = closed door
ww = shuttered window
~ = broken window
~

[ = coffin
c = chest
T = table (in sphere)
b = bed

A = Aram
G = Girgal + Ripclaw (in sphere)
e = small earth elemental
J = Jex (in sphere)
F = Fuller
EE = Eissun
EE

* = silence 20' radius center

L = blue-robed man
I = armored man
M = brown-robed man(dying)

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ooc: PCs to act

 

[Rhun]

Aram steps forward and aims a vicious kick at the door, trying to knock it open.

 

[kinem]

Aram strikes the wooden door hard; hard enough, he feels, that it should have broken way, but it didn't.

 

[Walking Dad]

Girgal and Ripclaw are unable to help the others from inside the sphere.

 

[Rhun]

"Now that is a door," says Aram, impressed by the sturdy workmanship. He turns his gaze around the room, looking for something heavy to block the door with.

 

[kinem]

ooc: Eissun to act

The room contains a table with chair, the coffin, and some chests that could be moved.

 

[Dragonwriter]

Jex continues focusing on enhancing his shadow elemental companion, only sparing a glance at Girgal and Ripclaw. "Can you break this? My shadow magic won't, before you ask me."

The shadow elemental, meanwhile, tries to frantically point at the spot where the blue-robed man entered the secret door. After a second of doing this, it seems the shadow gives up and follows its previous instruction of attacking the blue-robed man.

[sblock=OOC]
Jex keeps giving Extra Attack. If Eissun catches up to the blue-robed man, he'll attack. Too bad Extra doesn't kick in on a Standard attack... Oh well.

Jex AC 18, HP 59/59; Umbral Touch has 68 rounds remaining
Fundamentals (usable 3 each): Caul of Shadow, Black Candle, Arrow of Dusk (x2) (used 2/6)
Lvl 1 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each): Life Fades, Carpet of Shadow
Lvl 2 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each): Flesh Fails, Black Fire (used 1)
Lvl 3 Apprentice Mysteries (2 per day each: Umbral Touch (used 1), Clinging Darkness
Lvl 4 Initiate Mysteries (1 per day each): Shadow Evocation, Warp Spell
Reach Mystery: used 1/2; Extend Mystery used 0/3

Eissun AC 12, HP 75/75; Incorporeal
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[kinem]

ooc: Eissun and his gestures are not visible to the rest of the party.

[sblock=Eissun]As Eissun chases the mage, it opens him up to a swing by the armored man, but his incorporeal nature protects him as the sword passes through him.

Entering a larger room, he strikes the fleeing mage, but it's a glancing blow and doesn't bring the man down. The blue-robed mage, who has drawn a stick from his robe, withdraws carefully and moves beyond the range that Eissun can be apart from his master, toward a door at the far end of the room.

The armored man follows the mage, running through Eissun, which opens the man up to attack. Eissun strikes him but again the wounds are not very serious, and the man makes it through.

The two strange creatures in the room make no moves.[/sblock]
Fuller casts another spell and touches Aram, starting a further slow healing much as he did outside. (ooc: lesser vigor; Aram hp now 70)

 

[Rhun]

Aram drags the table over to block the door, and begins heaving the chests on top of it. "It may not be much, but at least we'll get some warning should they return this way."