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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1234279" data-attributes="member: 945">The party stood in this small room, wondering what might await them behind the doors, and further into this complex.  "This place is already bigger than I imagined it to be", Rath admitted.Hesitantly, Dzintra approaches the double doors.  Let me check these out.  "I think I can offer a better, safer solution, Dzintra", Rath says, "I can go through those doors without opening them, and come back to report what is on the other side."  Casting a Blink spell, Rath stands at the edge of the doors, and appears, and then disappears as he walks through the doors.On the other side, Rath peers into the darkness with his darkvision (which he cast earlier), and sees two large statues.  Immediately, when Rath appears in the material world, the statues eyes brighten, and they peer on him with unrelenting anger.  Just as quickly as he came in, Rath pushes himself backwards, back through the doors during his ethereal state.  "There are...", Rath states, while in the material, his voice trailing off into nothingness as he vanishes into the ethereal."two gole...""golems...""on the...""other side.""stone go...""golems...""big on...""ones."With that, the party turns to the doors, as they can now hear the sound of stone footsteps landing on the floor.  "Thud!"  "Thud!"The party makes preparations.  Mournax says, "let Ivo and myself in front.  Get behind us!""BOOM!" goes the door, as a large stone fist slams into it from the other side.  "BOOM!  BOOM!" again, with a thunderous slam.  The doors are visibly jolted this time.  "It won't take long for them to bust through that door at this rate.", Nytor observes, casting a Prayer spell."BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!", the door is compromised, and the party can see the large construct on the other side.  Mournax bears his full weight down on the creature, chipping away a goodly chunk of the creature.  Ivo, seeing Mournax's damage, adds his own, cleaving away at the lower torso with his axe.  In turn, the golem's respond by unleashing a magical effect on Mournax, who begins acting very s-l-o-w-l-y, despite this, his swings his axe around for full force again on the first golem.  Rath, acting quickly, encapsulates the first golem in a globe of force*.  "That golem can not harm us now, take care of the first one!"  Nytor slides up and calls upon his deity for the blessings of strength, and unleashes a horrible fury into the creature with his mace, though it seems his mace just isn't hard enough to penetrate the enhanced stone of the creature, though his now considerable strength does manage to chip away a chunk of the beast.  Soon, the creature is reduced to a pile of rubble.  It crumbles down to a pile of rock and dust into the floor.  The second golem, unscathed, pounds on the walls of the bubble encasing him.  "It won't hold him forever, but we can regroup and bear down on him when I drop the sphere."  Mournax waits a bit, and the slowness that was affecting him earlier goes away.  "That's better.  I didn't like that one bit."  "Let's get ready", Rath advises.  The party moves in, around the encapsulated golem.  "On my mark, when I drop this, everyone attack.  - Now!"  With that, Rath drops the sphere, and everyone lays into the golem.  It responds with an attack on Mournax, who faces it, who takes the blows in stride, and the party responds in full again, reducing this creature to a pile of mere rocks like his brother.    On the other side of the room, a doorway leads into an adjoining dark chamber.* There was much debate about whether or not Otiluke's resilient sphere would affect a golem - who have magic immunity.  I decided to allow it.  I ruled that it was not directly affecting the golem, much like a wall of force could be used to stop a golem, a resilient sphere could work in much the same way.</blockquote>

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