[Living Pathfinder] Little Rock of Horrors

[Scott DeWar]

"Most Pecuiliar"

Heinrich observes the room in it entirety, the focuses on the mossy patch. Gioccho, is the moss your doing? It seems to have a purposeful shape, is that a pentagram? And everyone, do not go near any thing quite yet."

He takes out a copper coin and starts flipping it in the air like he was getting ready to choose heads or tails, but he only catches it, and not looks at the result.

Waiting for answer from Giocchio.

 

[GlassEye]

The moss does seem to have grown in the pattern of some obscure arcane shape that Heinrich recognizes from his study. He wonders what it is meant to contain... or maintain. Without further study, however, he won't know exactly what it means or what might happen should he tamper with it.

"I don't know anything about this moss. It wasn't here..." Giocco trails off when he hears the voice from below. "Oh, gods, it's my Da!" The boy visibly pales.

The man allowed to pass by Tagaiwi comes up the ladder and stares 'round the room shaking his head. "What have you done? What have you done?" As he crosses the room to examine the tainted light the crystal focuser lurches and bathes Giocco's father in a flash of green light. The light seems to infuse his body and he stops in his tracks. He makes a gurgling sound and then with a horrific tearing sound his head rips itself from its body, sprouts wings and an obscene array of tentacles and flies up into the air shrieking.

OOC: Initiative, please.

[sblock=Perception DC 10]The body lying on the floor still twitches.[/sblock]
[sblock=OOC]Current hit points

[U]Character         AC  HP  InHand/Condition[/U]
Pari              17  [color=yellow]12[/color]   scythe/none
Tagaiwi           14   [color=orange]6[/color]   ----/none 
Garnet            19  12   waraxe & shield/none
Mariah            15   8   bow/none
Heinrich          12   6   crossbow/none 
Ashleigh          16   [color=yellow]5[/color]   none/none

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[Scott DeWar]

inishkative

"Was im Namen aller, die heilig und gut, nur passiert ist?

Stay avay from die licht!"

[sblock=crunchy]
k. Arcana: Identify what the creature is/anything else
Spellcraft: figure out what kind of transformation just happened
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[Maidhc O Casain]

Pari springs into action at the first sign of trouble . . .

[sblock=Actions/Rolls]Actions will depend on what else he notices with his perception check, and what he knows about the creature.

Initiative (1d20+2=21)
Perception (1d20+10=26)
Know (Nature) (1d20+7=20)[/sblock]

 

[mfloyd3]

Garnet's jaw drops in horror at the transformation. "The body!" She shouts. "It's moving!"

OOC: She critted her Perception roll. This scene will be indelibly seared into Garnet's memory.

 

[GlassEye]

Neither Pari nor Heinrich know anything about the creature: there is nothing natural about it and Heinrich’s studies haven’t encountered a horror such as this yet. In addition, since there wasn’t any actual spellcasting Heinrich can’t be sure what sort of transformation has taken place. He thinks it could be some sort of polymorph effect but that it is much more likely to be a necromantic transformation. However, Heinrich is convinced that the moss, grown into its arcane configuration, is key to the maintenance of whatever power the firelight flashing through the crystal focuser has.

While Pari can’t figure out anything about the creature (although the twitching body does resemble tales of zombies that he has heard) he does notice the moss: at first glance it seems totally natural except for its unusual growth pattern and the location and speed of its growth. His keen eyes notice that the tendrils of the moss sway in time to the flickering of the fire.

OOC: Mariah, Pari, then Heinrich are up...

[sblock=OOC]Initiative Order/Current hit points

[U]Character         AC  HP  InHand/Condition[/U]
Mariah            15   8   bow/none
Pari              17  [color=yellow]12[/color]   scythe/none
Tagaiwi           14   [color=orange]6[/color]   ----/unable to get into the fight 
Heinrich          12   6   crossbow/none 
Lanterna Sr Head  15  19   ----/none
Lanterna Sr Body  12  12   ----/none
Garnet            19  12   waraxe & shield/none
Ashleigh          16   [color=yellow]5[/color]   none/none

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[Maidhc O Casain]

Unable to place the creature accurately, Pari quickly decides that a straight up assault is the fastest way to resolve the issue. He charges the creature, transferring his momentum into a powerful swing of his scythe at the end of his short run.

[sblock=Actions/Rolls]Drop Combat Expertise and Charge the critter (moving to J5).
To Hit (1d20+4=16)
Damage (1d6=3)

AC: 14 until he acts again. If by some chance this thing is a aberration, ooze or vermin he gets an additional +1 TH and a +2 Dodge bonus to his AC from his Warden of Nature racial trait.[/sblock]

 

[GlassEye]

[sblock=Mowgli]Attacking the flying head or the twitching, still prone body?[/sblock]

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

[sblock=GlassEye]The head.[/sblock]

 

[Scott DeWar]

""Giocchio, Please concentrate on my questions, Is the fire your doing? Was it a part of the spell? Did you draw the pentagram on the floor?"

He contemplates how to safely douse the fire while waiting for a reply to his questions.