[e20 PF] And with strange aeons...

[fireinthedust]

[sblock=ooc]Sorry for the delay. I'm back now.

We need a new fighter. I'd prefer someone to take over Gerhardt, at this point. Any suggestions?

I'm going to proceed as if Hedron, Thaddeus, and Xanfire have fallen towards the darkening clouds. Thorn can join them, but I want to know if she's doing something like, I dunno, plane shifting back to her lair somehow. Ditto Malacarus.[/sblock]

Hedron, Xanfire and Thaddeus set off in freefall towards the dark clouds a mile away. Even without air, there is a rush as they hurtle forward.

The great clouds get closer and closer, being a solid, misty shape in this otherwise limitless expanse of what can only be described as mental energy. Somehow the clouds must be interrupting the calm of the Astral Plane, a plane where nothing exists unless it is thought into being.

[sblock=the nothing]

(closest nice pic I can find)[/sblock]

As you get closer, you see that a mist precedes the clouds. The mist gets thicker and thicker until, before you realize it, you're surrouned by a haze that is thick enough it's hard to see through. Large blocks of what look like stone, tall naturally-formed pillars, appear at irregular intervals sticking out of the mist-banks.

Then a flare up of lightening bursts inside the main cloud body. The clouds like up in purples, blues, oranges and blacks. Black-colored light, the concept itself makes your mind reel. For that moment, however, it illuminates a shape in the heart of the cloud body: some kind of collection of thick shapes, either a structure... or a creature.


Do you:

a) pause outside, landing on one of the massive free-floating rock pillars and investigate, or
B) go directly into the cloud mass itself?

 

[Scott DeWar]

B. (turn to page ....)

 

[WarlockLord]

Malacarus, figuring that leaving a devil around is ample payback for his treacherous former subordinate, follows Hedron into the cloud mass.

 

[jackslate45]

With a nod to the rest of the party, Xanfire will follow the group into the strange cloud. With his sword and shield at the ready, he hopes they are not walking into an ambush.

 

[Shayuri]

"This is ridiculous," Thorn mutters. "We don't even know what it IS!"

But the others were going, and if Thorn knew one thing, it was that she did NOT want to be stranded on the astral plane alone.

So she followed them. What else could she do? Rapier in her right hand, magic wand in the other, she 'tilted' her frame of reference, and 'fell' after her team...and Malacarus, of course, whom she now owed one to.

(OOC - Readying weapon and Wand of Darkness, and following!)

 

[fireinthedust]

As the party goes deeper into the strange misty cloud, you pass by the giant stone monoliths floating in it. They are covered in strange designes, some of them pictographs, others full statues of strange creatures of colossal size. There isn't enough time to examine them for more information, however, without stopping the present course of action; the Broken Eagles decide instead to rush straight in!


Going into the main mass of the cloud, it is clearly of immense size: the slocer you get to it, the more it's the size of a village, a city, a metropolis! There is some kind of psychic feedback here as well, like white noise in your thoughts: a hum, a crackle, or perhaps the sound of a wave extended indefinitely without the pause between rushing and withdrawl: a continuous rush. It's slightly distracting.


Getting closer to the clouds, you begin to see they are pregnant with tiny dark shapes, like ragged tadpoles or fish, or not unlike ghostly shapes that you've seen coalesce and swirl together in haunted houses and what have you, back in Golarion: shapes in tattered robes that seem to be swimming in and out of the misty embankments of the giant cloud.


As the party enters the mass of clouds, your are suddenly swarmed by these robed shapes: about the size of a man, but covered in tattered robes.

OOC: Okay, let's roll initiative!

 

[Scott DeWar]

hedron speeds past the pictographs, instantly regretting taking a slower approach in.

 

[Aldern Foxglove]

"Ah, I don't suppose you fellows are going to tell us where the book is like civilized people? Do we really have to go through the formalities of crushing your inept attempts at harming us first." Thadeius sighs wearily.

 

[jackslate45]

Knowing that something far more scarier than what faced them before was coming, Xanfire holds his sword and shield at the ready.


[sblock=Xanfire Astral Plane Stats]
HP 300
AC: 46/ T: 19/ FF 43
Init: +3 / CMB: +24 / CMD: 47
Fort: +22 / Ref: +14 / +27

Evil's Bane: +1 Ghost Touch/Holy/Spell Storing (Dispel Magic) (GMW: 42hrs) +31/+26/+21 1d8 + 14 (15 Base + 5 Enchantment + 1 Focus + 1 Competence+ 9 STR)
AC: 46 (10 + 14 (Mithril Full plate Armor: 9 Armor + 5 Enchantment) + 8(Shield: 2 Shield + 1 Feat + 5 Enchantment ) + 3 Dex + 5 Natural + 5 Deflection(Shield of Faith 42 21 Hours) + 1 Insight)

Evil's Bane: +5 Ghost Touch/Holy/Spell Storing(Dispel Magic) GMW :42 Hrs
Light of Iomedae: Inactive

Divine Bulwark: +1 Ghost Touch Determination (MW + 4 Enchantment) 1x: Breath of life < 0HP;
Divine Protection: MWK Mithril Shield (MV + 5 Enchantment)

Divine Presence: 20 Rounds
Aura of Menace: 20 Rounds
Touch of Good: 13 Uses
Touch of Glory: 13 Uses
Channel Good Energy: 5 Uses (10d6, can choose up to two targets to not receive healing)

Spells Prepared(4/7/7/6/6/6/6/5/5/5, +1 slot 1+ for Domains DC 20+ Level CL 21)
0 Detect Magic, Stabilize, Light, Create Water
1 Divine Favor(d), Divine Favor x2, Protection from evil x2, Comprehend Languages, Shield of Faith, Shield of Faith
2 Bless Weapon(d), Grace, Lesser Restoration x2, Spiritual Weapon x2, Weapon of Awe, Resist Energy,
3 Prayer(d), Prayer, Wind Wall, Dispel Magic x2, Magic Circle Against Evil, Magic Circle against Evil
4 Holy Smite(d), Divine Power, Blessing of Fervor, Spiritual Ally, Death Ward, Magic Vestment (Extended), Magic Vestment (Extended)
5 Righteous Might(d), Quickened Divine Favor, Cleanse, Breath of Life x2, Commune, Greater Magic Weapon(Extended) ,
6 Undeath to Death(d), Dispel Magic (Greater), Heal x2, Owl's Wisdom(Mass) x3
7 Holy Sword(d), Restoration (Greater) x3, Extended Blade Barrier, Extended Planar Adaptation
8 Holy Aura(d), Quickened Divine Power, Quickened Spiritual Ally, Quickened Blessing of Fervor, Discern Location, Dimensional Lock
9 Gate(d), Heal Mass, Quickened Cleanse, Quickened Righteous Might, Energy Drain, Miracle

Other Items
2 Spell Pearl of Power x4
Gate Spell Component
Winged Boots
90,000 gp in Diamond Dust

To Buy:
Spell Focus for Holy Aura, Diamond dust for Miracle. Both at Temple
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[Shayuri]

Thorn looks around, frowning. "You know what would be funny? If this was just some random nucleus of evil in the astral plane, completely unrelated to any book or pan-universal threats, and we were risking our necks for nothing. That would be...so...funny..."