Cybele sees the armor animating first and throws a dart at it, but it pings off the metal and lands on the floor.
Meiki touches the sprigs of mistletoe woven into a band around his neck and speaks an ancient phrase. He points at the armor and you see the metal begin to emit heat waves. (Cast heat metal on the armor) 9 fire damage
Seraphina attacks the armor, and scores a solid heat with an expert swing!
The armor clamors as it moves, banging and grinding like a vengeful spirit of a fallen knight. It tries to slam Seraphina with both spiked gauntlets! Attack 1: 17 Damage: 5 : Attack 2: 23 Damage: 7
Round 2: Cybele(-0) : Meiki(-0) : Seraphina(-7) ; Armor(-18) When Meiki casts his spell, it triggers the eldritch energy permeating the mansion! (Eldritch Surge: 1 - The air becomes heavy and malleable. The space in the room becomes difficult terrain. While in the room, creatures have a flying speed equal to their walking speed.)
Cybele sends an arrow through the doorway and past her ally to strike the animated suit of armor.
Seraphina reacts with muscle memory and engages a full-on attack, landing a solid hit on the armor!
Meiki keeps the heat on...causing another 8 points of fire damage.
The armor crumbles to the ground, quickly ending this combat!
There are three suits of armor still standing in the other corners - this one animated when Seraphina stepped through the door and next to it. There is a slean suit 10' south of you, and the dustier ones on the eastern side of the room. (Map)
Seraphina backs to the door they came through, "Shall we head downstairs and see what the crystals are all about or head upstairs to see if we can stop this guy? Either way, we probably don't need to be making any more noise on this floor."
"I think we should probably go see what we can do upstairs since he is hurting travelers." Cybele explains. "But our crystal business is important too. Tough decision. Maybe if we can convince the guy to think about what he's doing, he can be of assistance."
Meiki consults the hand-drawn map again. "OK - if we want to go up, it looks like there are two sets of stairs leading up - the tower room where we came in, and the main entryway. Tower?" (if you want to use the tower then read the spoiler - if not - don't =)
A cold wind blows down this tower staircase. The stairs climb 20 feet to the next story and the same-sized room with a window to the west and a door to the east. The stairway continues up to the third floor.
Seraphina nods as she figures a decision has been made. "Tower it is then. C'mon, lets get going and hope that no one heard that skirmish with the armor."
She starts walking up the stairs and pauses on the second, if no one stops her, she just looks in the room, making sure it is empty then continues on up to the third floor.
You climb another 20' of steps to the 3ed floor and a larger room than the previous two floors - this one is 25' x 20'. Rubble lies scattered across the floor where part of the roof has collapsed, revealing the sky. Perched atop the rubble is a hunched figure wrapped in a cloak. It gazes at the sky, unaware of you.
Cybele takes in what appears to be some sort of collapse of this part of the structure, had some sort of accident happened.
"Hello? Are you alright?" She calls to the figure. She starts to walk closer as she does so, tip-toeing around the rubble the best she can as she approaches the figure.
(Sorry, it's finals week this week, dont let me hold you guys back if I take to long to reply!)
The hooded cloak slowly turns to look at you - a one-eyed creature you've probably never seen in person but may have heard about. "I am Zala Morphus, mage and stargazer. Why are you disturbing me?"
DC13 Arcana check to know what it is. Higher scores will reveal more information.
The creature is a nothic. Most times, a nothic is content to watch, weighing and assessing the creatures it encounters. When driven to violence, it uses its horrific gaze to rot the flesh from its enemies’ bones.
DC15 Arcana:
Dark Oracles.Nothics possess a strange magical insight that allows them to extract knowledge from other creatures. This grants them unique understanding of secret and forbidden lore, which they share for a price. A nothic covets magic items, greedily accepting such gifts from creatures that seek out its knowledge.
DC 18 Arcana:
Cursed Arcanists.Rather than gaining the godlike supremacy they crave, some wizards who devote their lives to unearthing arcane secrets are reduced to creeping, tormented monsters by a dark curse left behind by Vecna, a powerful lich who, in some worlds, has transcended his undead existence to become a god of secrets. Nothics retain no awareness of their former selves, skulking amid the shadows and haunting places rich in magical knowledge, drawn by memories and impulses they can’t quite understand.
Lurkers in Magical Places.Nothics are notorious for infiltrating arcane academies and other places rich in magical learning. They are driven by the vague knowledge that there exists a method to reverse their condition. This isn’t a clear sense of purpose, but rather an obsessive tug at the end of the mind. Some nothics are clever enough to realize that this is merely part of the strange lesson for their folly, a false hope to drive them to seek out more arcane secrets.
Seraphina smiles as Cybele reaches out to the creature. Caution is not this ones forte.
Arcana: 1
Ha! Of course.
Sera just looks at the creature, never having seen one of these before. "Well, as my friend here said, she wanted to be sure you were ok and I was curious as to what you were doing?"
Cybele continues to approach with a perplexed look on her face. She'd never seen anything like Morphus before!
"It looks like you've put a hole in the entire corner of this room, Morphus!" As she gets closer she curiously picks up and flips through any books in the vicinity. Skimming through pictures, and foreign words and lettering.
"This is incredible, some of these languages are like a work of art...." She says as she flips through, only looking through one book for a second before putting one down and flipping through another.
"Do I look like I'm alright? I've been transformed into a nothic! That's why I'm looking to the stars - to find a way to get back to my true...stop touching those! Have you no manners?!!? Kids these days..."
(Sorry, I missed this! and she wasn't planning on opening the door, was just listening for others in the house, oh well!)
Initiative 5
"Shoot! Didn't mean to do that! Yes, hopefully we can dispatch it quick..." she says in a hushed tone. Unsheathing her longsword she attacks:
Attack: 18 Damage: 9
Initiative order Round 1: Cybele(-0) : Meiki(-0) : Seraphina(-0) ; Armor(-0)
Round 2: Cybele(-0) : Meiki(-0) : Seraphina(-0?) ; Armor(-18)
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(Shortbow hit: 21 Damage: 7) Cybele swears as the dart flings off. She takes out her bow and hopes something more forceful could pierce the being.
She aims for the statue's head and releases the arrow.
Seraphina attacks again with her longsword, now in the heat of the battle, stealth forgotten.
Attack: 10 Damage: 12
Round 2: Cybele(-0) : Meiki(-0) : Seraphina(-7) ; Armor(-18)
When Meiki casts his spell, it triggers the eldritch energy permeating the mansion! (Eldritch Surge: 1 - The air becomes heavy and malleable. The space in the room becomes difficult terrain. While in the room, creatures have a flying speed equal to their walking speed.)
There are three suits of armor still standing in the other corners - this one animated when Seraphina stepped through the door and next to it. There is a slean suit 10' south of you, and the dustier ones on the eastern side of the room. (Map)
Love God. Love Others. Any Questions?
Seraphina backs to the door they came through, "Shall we head downstairs and see what the crystals are all about or head upstairs to see if we can stop this guy? Either way, we probably don't need to be making any more noise on this floor."
Meiki shrugs - "I'm good either way."
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"I think we should probably go see what we can do upstairs since he is hurting travelers." Cybele explains. "But our crystal business is important too. Tough decision. Maybe if we can convince the guy to think about what he's doing, he can be of assistance."
Meiki consults the hand-drawn map again. "OK - if we want to go up, it looks like there are two sets of stairs leading up - the tower room where we came in, and the main entryway. Tower?" (if you want to use the tower then read the spoiler - if not - don't =)
A cold wind blows down this tower staircase. The stairs climb 20 feet to the next story and the same-sized room with a window to the west and a door to the east. The stairway continues up to the third floor.
Love God. Love Others. Any Questions?
Seraphina nods as she figures a decision has been made. "Tower it is then. C'mon, lets get going and hope that no one heard that skirmish with the armor."
She starts walking up the stairs and pauses on the second, if no one stops her, she just looks in the room, making sure it is empty then continues on up to the third floor.
Cybele follows just behind Seraphina. She pauses when Seraphina stops, and also listens. She then continues to follow her lead.
Her shoulders tense more and more as they ascend. Growing more nervous to meet this stranger.
You climb another 20' of steps to the 3ed floor and a larger room than the previous two floors - this one is 25' x 20'. Rubble lies scattered across the floor where part of the roof has collapsed, revealing the sky. Perched atop the rubble is a hunched figure wrapped in a cloak. It gazes at the sky, unaware of you.
Love God. Love Others. Any Questions?
(What do you want to do? The figure does not seem to have noticed you...)
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Cybele takes in what appears to be some sort of collapse of this part of the structure, had some sort of accident happened.
"Hello? Are you alright?" She calls to the figure. She starts to walk closer as she does so, tip-toeing around the rubble the best she can as she approaches the figure.
(Sorry, it's finals week this week, dont let me hold you guys back if I take to long to reply!)
The hooded cloak slowly turns to look at you - a one-eyed creature you've probably never seen in person but may have heard about. "I am Zala Morphus, mage and stargazer. Why are you disturbing me?"
DC13 Arcana check to know what it is. Higher scores will reveal more information.
The creature is a nothic. Most times, a nothic is content to watch, weighing and assessing the creatures it encounters. When driven to violence, it uses its horrific gaze to rot the flesh from its enemies’ bones.
DC15 Arcana:
Dark Oracles. Nothics possess a strange magical insight that allows them to extract knowledge from other creatures. This grants them unique understanding of secret and forbidden lore, which they share for a price. A nothic covets magic items, greedily accepting such gifts from creatures that seek out its knowledge.
DC 18 Arcana:
Cursed Arcanists. Rather than gaining the godlike supremacy they crave, some wizards who devote their lives to unearthing arcane secrets are reduced to creeping, tormented monsters by a dark curse left behind by Vecna, a powerful lich who, in some worlds, has transcended his undead existence to become a god of secrets. Nothics retain no awareness of their former selves, skulking amid the shadows and haunting places rich in magical knowledge, drawn by memories and impulses they can’t quite understand.
Lurkers in Magical Places. Nothics are notorious for infiltrating arcane academies and other places rich in magical learning. They are driven by the vague knowledge that there exists a method to reverse their condition. This isn’t a clear sense of purpose, but rather an obsessive tug at the end of the mind. Some nothics are clever enough to realize that this is merely part of the strange lesson for their folly, a false hope to drive them to seek out more arcane secrets.
Love God. Love Others. Any Questions?
Seraphina smiles as Cybele reaches out to the creature. Caution is not this ones forte.
Arcana: 7
Ha! Of course.
Sera just looks at the creature, never having seen one of these before. "Well, as my friend here said, she wanted to be sure you were ok and I was curious as to what you were doing?"
Arcana : 5 (HAH)
Cybele continues to approach with a perplexed look on her face. She'd never seen anything like Morphus before!
"It looks like you've put a hole in the entire corner of this room, Morphus!" As she gets closer she curiously picks up and flips through any books in the vicinity. Skimming through pictures, and foreign words and lettering.
"This is incredible, some of these languages are like a work of art...." She says as she flips through, only looking through one book for a second before putting one down and flipping through another.
"Do I look like I'm alright? I've been transformed into a nothic! That's why I'm looking to the stars - to find a way to get back to my true...stop touching those! Have you no manners?!!? Kids these days..."
Love God. Love Others. Any Questions?
She sighs in exasperation. "Why are you here? If you are only here to disturb me, then I ask you to leave. I have serious business to attend to."
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