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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4764807" data-attributes="member: 46559">Round 10, continuedTander slips towards death, but the gravehound's corruption falls away from his wounds.  (first failed death save)Atreus recovers.  Woe tries to stabilize Tander, but fails.  He gets a potion ready, just in case.  Palindrome amuses himself with the prisoners.  (this is the round where he ties Arnest up, I believe)Round 11Tander's condition takes a turn for the worse.  His complexion takes on an ashen pallor.  (second failed death save)Atreus tries to help Woe, but his hands are still shaking from his own brush with death.  (No time to bash Arnest yet; he's still conscious)Woe quickly pours the potion down Tander's throat before the cleric can slip away.  In his haste, a few drops of the potion spill onto his spear, which has come to rest against a heap of the red powder making up the ritual circle on the ground.  There is a bright flash and a whiff of ozone as arcane energy sparks from between the spear, the drops of magical fluid, and the remains of the incomplete ritual.  When the spots dancing in front of Woe's eyes clear, his spear has changed.  The head now appears to be made of a translucent bluish material, and sparks flicker and arc continuously inside of it.  A portion of the red diagram has burned away, leaving gray scorch marks on the floor.  (it's now a +1 Myrdroon's shard spear)End combat.[sblock=status]Tander  7/29, 2 failed death savesAtreus  6/24, one failed death saveWoe  35/40 Palindrome  18/27, one failed death saveResources used:* Tander: 8/8 surges, channel divinity, beacon of hope, AP, Cure light wounds, divine glow, healing word x2, second wind* Atreus: 7/7 surges, healing potion, positioning strike, AP, blinding barrage, second wind* Palindrome: 7/7 surges, healing potion, Phantom Chasm, AP, grasping shadows, second wind* Woe: Surge 8/11 surges, crushing surge, AP, steel serpent strike, healing potion[/sblock][sblock=prisoners]I'm having a little trouble sorting out the order of events in which Palindrome and Atreus do things to the NPCs, and who stops who at what point.  I think I'm detecting a consensus to leave them bound and unconscious, but otherwise undamaged, yes?  If so, we can take it up there.  If not, you can always mutilate them again later.[/sblock]While Palindrome recovers from his abortive grand exit, you have time for a good look around the room.  It is largely featureless and utilitarian, but there are a few nooks and crannies of interest.  On the altar are several small piles of ritual components arranged in a circle around the remains of a central larger pile that is nearly gone.  The central pile is clearly the same as the powder on the floor.  Next to the piles of powder is a dagger with a blade made of some smooth, black metal that exudes a faint charnel reek, like the corpse of the gravehound.  On the northern wall of the room is a bookshelf with a scattering of well-thumbed books on religious topics.  At one end is a different sort of book, hand-written with many empty pages.  Inside are detailed descriptions of several rituals.  [sblock=loot]Assuming you take at least a short rest -- you'd be crazy not to -- you can identify the dagger as a +1 Deathstalker dagger (AV p.67).  The book is a ritual book containing descriptions of Eye of Alarm, Water Walk, and Secret Page.  And of course this is the point where you'd identify Woe's spear.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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