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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6305039" data-attributes="member: 2525">Session 25April 10, 2014Present: Noah, Max, John, and Matthew Atherton (Yea, the rogue returns!)The battle was on with the massive water elemental from the clear pool!Not wanting to get too close, at least initially, most of the party attacked with ranged weapons. Rapidly it was discovered that ordinary weapons did little to harm the creature (though still had an effect) while magical ones seemed to do more damage.Meanwhile, Sling grabbed the dropped end of the rope and started to haul the chest further away from the water.As the chest slid by, Hollin jumped out of it's way as he slashed away at the elemental. To his shock, three more smaller watery creatures arose from the pool! These ones looked different than the behemoth, appearing as floating jelly-fish creatures with water tentacles.Fortunately for Hollin, his nigh impenetrable armor held out well, as he soaked up (literally this time) attack after attack from the water things.But the huge elemental didn't seem to be taking much damage. Frustrated, Milo decided to bring out the big guns - three gouts of flaming rays struck towards the thing, with two striking true! Steam poured off it as it reeled under the fiery attack. Father Rivers followed up with his own smaller flame attacks, as Bear, Luther, and Hollin chopped it down to size. Finally, it sank into a pool of sickly gel-like water, immobile at last.But it's littler jellyfish friends remained, and the battle continued. Slink considered throwing some alchemist fire into the fray, but thought better of it and opted to pick the lock on the chest. POP, as the lock slid open so easily from Slink's quick manipulations that it was as if Slink had made the lock himself. Inside he discovered two items: A human-sized set of leathery armor covered with many shells across the torso and pinkish coral at the seams, and a well-made leather waterskin with similar pinkish coral at the cap.Meanwhile Milo hit one of the jellyfish creatures with a frost spell, and it momentarily froze! Taking advantage, Luther struck the thing with both ends of his glaive while Bear attacked with both his battleaxe and simitar, and the thing shattered. Similar attacks, along with Hollin, brought the final two creatures down, and the battle was finished.The group took a breath and recovered their strength, while Milo concentrated to identify the two items which glowed magical under his examination. It took some hours, but eventually he was able to determine that:The armor was indeed magical (+1), and it also floats well, and the wearer is able to swim well in it (advantage on any Strength: Swim checks while wearing it). However, for some unknown reason, the armor also makes it's wearer more unduly confident - feeling a sense of invulnerability while wearing it (though such a sense is not overwhelming and still subject to normal logic - like being hit as a sign it's not indeed invulnerable). Slink decided to put the armor on, and felt exceedingly confident with it.The wineskin is an everfull wineskin, and always refills (within one hour) with tasty wine. Milo asked for that, but Slink and Father Rivers thought maybe that was not such a good idea at the moment.After the identifying was complete, the party moved on to examine the blue, still pool. Milo and Slink took point on this, as others held back. Slink eventually noticed that it was not in fact water at all, but instead a sheet of some sort of metal. Milo explained that it was magical, but he was not sure what was magical about it.After some testing, Slink determined it was a thin metal sheet, and something was hollow below it. Father Rivers examined it was imbedded in a slightly raised section of very hard rock, and flush with the surface in a circular sheet. Slink then placed a cup of silvery liquid, then the boiling liquid, and finally the clear liquid from each of the other pools, on the surface of the blue steel sheet. In each instance, the water removed from the other pool turned to plain clear water on removal within a couple of seconds, and had no effect on the metal.Slink and Father Rivers tried to lift the sheet of metal, to no avail. Slink shot an arrow at it, and it merely bounced off. The party opted to move on for now, and come back to the metal another time.Moving on to the south, Slink took point, in his new confidence. In fact he was so confident he just kept going, until a giant fire elemental arose right in front of him from another of those brass face-plates embedded in the ground!The party moved back into the clear pool (which was shallow enough to stand in) and tried to lure the fire elemental into the pool. It stopped at the edge and did not enter. Meanwhile first two more, and then a third and fourth, fire elementals appeared over their own brass face-plates further back into the room. But these were different from the giant, appearing as almost floating bonfires in the air. Sometimes the bonfires would simply disappear, and Milo Slink and Milo speculated that they seemed to be disappearing and reappearing between our prime material plane, and the plane of fire.Luther and Bear didn't seem to care one way or the other, as they pressed the attack along with Hollin.Magic worked well against the creatures, but mundane weapons seemed to again struggle against them. Water seemed to do a bit of damage, but not a particularly large amount. Father Rivers was able to fight fire with fire - but only because it was divine fire, and not the real stuff.The battle was a bit tougher than the water elemental encounter, but still the fire creatures fell to sword, axe, and glaive like any other. Slink got a few sneak attacks in, as Rivers blessed the party and Milo fired magic missiles into the things. Stepping back into the water seemed to help, as none of the creatures would voluntarily cross the water, and the party was well able to control the battle that way by holding the creatures just where they wanted them. Before you knew it, the battle was won, and the party moved to the far shore to see what they could see.There, they found two more pools, and a cage.The first pool was a syrupy golden liquid with a burnt odor, churning slowly, with swirling black oily substances sunken throughout it.The second pool was a luminous and opaque blue liquid, the depth of which could not be discerned visually.The cage held a white angelic-looking statue. The statue could be seen to move and was talking, but could not be clearly heard from this far back in the chamber and would need to be approached for communication.[Everyone should be present for next week, with hopefully Jason back as well, and possibly Matt Atherton again as well][ATTACH]61829[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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