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Skill Challenge, Establish a safe camp/haven in dangerous territory, 3 Successes/1 Failure/1 Secondary Skill available. As a former resident of Grimmglimtë in the Lands Beneath the Surface, Mylistra is no stranger to beetles and other insects as a foodsource. They were never a favorite. And...

Skill Challenge, Establish a safe camp/haven in dangerous territory, 2 Successes/1 Failure/1 Secondary Skill available. Mylistra pops a dried pear into her mouth and chews. "See, Toriq? Perfectly good." Toriq returns the witch's gaze, noting the black swirls in her eyes. And then Mylistra's...

Skill Challenge, Establish a safe camp/haven in dangerous territory, 2 Success/0 Failures/1 Secondary Skill available. The formerly-desecrated space may be cold and inhospitable, but at least it's dry, and the fire provides some cheer and takes the edge off the numbing dampness. But when you...

Skill Challenge, Establish a safe camp/haven in dangerous territory, L3, C1 (4 Successes before 3 Failures; DCs 9/13, 1 Secondary Skill); 1 Success/0 Failures/1 Secondary Skill available. Where before there were a few stars twinkling above, now reigns a thick grey-black. The wind kicks up...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias successfully completed. Rewards: XP = 300 (Level 3, Complexity 2 SC) /4 = 75 XP per PC and you've earned the first success in the umbrella skill challenge. Further, this is your second completed encounter since your previous...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 5 Successes/2 Failures/1 Hard DC available/1 Secondary Skill available. The dominating power of the Demon Lord of Undeath cast out and the siblings healed by Sehanine's clement touch, nothing remains but the inevitable...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 4 Successes/2 Failures/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. Surely he doesn't mean to do it. But Jendi raises his staff and strikes his sister a blow to the side of her head. The Halfelf wrestles free from the...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 4 Successes/1 Failure/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. As one, you crest the stairs onto the platform. An odor that transcends scent rises from the fouled earth piled in the center. Putrid. Blackness itself...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 3 Successes/1 Failure/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. Nemo's countermeasures are sufficient to negate not only the residual necrotic energy of the pillars but also the lingering malevolence of the Altar of...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 2 Successes/1 Failure/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. The roiling gore subsides. Abaddon's blood no longer lingers as a weakness to be exploited by the malevolence infesting this place, absorbed into the...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 1 Success/1 Failure/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. The malevolent force within the armor may have been compelled out of its protective shell, but it is not yet vanquished. Smoky tendrils like low-lying mist...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, 0 Successes/1 Failure/1 Hard DC available/2 Secondary Skills available. Whatever force animates the armor reaches down with its mailed gauntlets, withdraws the ceremonial dagger from where it is embedded in the poleyn. Then it...

BITA-BOUSSEH staggers still under the ferocious attack of the Meenlock Stalker. Darkness at the periphery of her vision. She blinks several times. Shakes her head to clear it. This is her one remaining chance. She feints stumbling back towards the Astral Singularity, hoping the creature's alien...

Before I forget about responding to these: Jendi's looks like a perfect candidate for a Major Quest (re-establishing his standing within the Order of the Ebony Tower), with possible obstacles en route! Toriq's, of course, will require your specifying of temples, fanes, corrupted natural locales...

Skill Challenge, Cleanse the Sunken Vault of the Taint of Gulthias, L3, C2 (6 Successes before 3 Failures; DCs 9/13/21, 1 Hard DC, 2 Secondary Skills, repeat use of same skill steps up DC Easy -> Moderate -> Hard -> Hard +5). Stakes: Success means the taint of Gulthias, vampire necromancer, and...

Encounter (Combat + Skill Challenge) Successfully Resolved. Rewards: Combat Encounter: Gulthias (L3 Elite Controller (Leader)) 300 XP, Abyssal Portal Hazard (L3 Hazard) 300 XP, Grasping Zombie (L1 Brute) 100 XP, 5 Decrepit Skeletons (L1 Minion Skirmishers) 125 XP, Blood Streams (L1 Hazard) 100...

With Gulthias's turn next, it can take a double move to escape, essentially ending the combat encounter. Thus, I gave @Nephis the option of how to proceed: Skill Challenge to chase down Gulthias before it escapes the Sunken Vault? Skill Challenge to consecrate its grave so that it cannot be used...