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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9851016" data-attributes="member: 27780">The githyanki was absent and the sniper was extremely late home due to snow problems, so this wound up being a pretty short session. They continued investigating the sarcophagus in the boat in area 34, setting off the two traps along the way. The priestess and githyanki took mild damage from that, but the illithid fighter inside the coffin was annihilated by the binder dropping down on it before it could even get out of being flat-footed. However, they then all rolled extremely poorly on their attempts to investigate the inside of the coffin and did not find any of the treasure despite knowing OOC there must be some, even making several rerolls. Having messed that up, the conventional means of getting through the secret door to room 35 were ineffective, they tried both lockpicking and blasting to no effect. However, while the locked doors themselves may be completely invulnerable, the surrounding walls are not, so the sniper used another disintegrate to carve out a 10x10 chunk around the side that would let them get to room 35, which still means they've missed a decent amount of treasure from area 34, but at least kept the whole adventure from stalling. Of course, doing so set off the ominous recorded message and the swarm of summoned insects, but a combination of the githyanki summoning amnizu to fireball them and mass inflict from the priestess soon finished those off. They turned their attention to the big sarcophagus in 35, this time actually showing a bit of caution and detecting the wall of force before it expands explosively. The sniper used a scroll to disarm the wall of force without touching it, which meant the elephant-headed guardian inside went straight to combat instead of glowering at the party through it for a while. The binder went into full shredding mode, but this turned out to be the kind of creature with high AC & DR that she fares poorly against. The githyanki added a couple of dire boars to his selection of summons ready to attack, while the amnizu used their int-draining touches, which would be very effective if it failed its save, but since it would only fail on a 1 or 2, that was very much a gamble, and it made all its saves this time. The priestess used her whip to trip it, which prevented it from attacking in the first round, instead using its elemental summoning power to put an elder water elemental in room 34 behind them ready to attack. Second round went similarly, with everyone whiffing against the guardian while the githyanki and boars fought the elemental with minor damage on both sides. The guardian managed to stand up and use it's sword once, which petrified one of the amnizu. In the third round the binder was reminded she had invested in a wand of wraithstrike for exactly these kinds of situations and used a charge from it, which let enough of her attacks hit to take off half the guardian's hp. The others didn't have any real effect on it again though, and on its turn the guardian managed to petrify the other two aminzu with its full attack though, which means if it survives to the end of next round there's a real possibility some of the PC's might get stoned. Will we finally finish this adventure next week, will this be their ignomious end, or will they win, but have to do another run in and out to fix the petrified PC's, which requires solving another puzzle in itself in this dungeon?</blockquote>

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