Reuniting the Band

Starker:”Your insights from the fell creature’s insides should be given special weight. I am moderately concerned that you hear sword-voice in your head telling you what to do. My aunt received romantic advice from a yam and needed to be restrained … but, who am I to judge?  I will drop the Wall when we are ready. Might I suggest that two of you go to intercept it should it flee south?  But I leave battlefield tactics to those more skilled among us. “

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Starker:”Your insights from the fell creature’s insides should be given special weight. I am moderately concerned that you hear sword-voice in your head telling you what to do. My aunt received romantic advice from a yam and needed to be restrained … but, who am I to judge?  I will drop the Wall when we are ready. Might I suggest that two of you go to intercept it should it flee south?  But I leave battlefield tactics to those more skilled among us. “

 Xymox looks at Mournblade with a raised eyebrow.

(My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.)

Do the party members with the underground lifestyle know where we are in relation to the tower?

No one has a dead reckoning like skill.  Things are also a bit disorienting inside the Kaorti cyst.  Best guess is bottom left of the map.

Starker to The Company:”There are now three of the kaorti in this room. They are repairing damage to the … plumbing? Arteries?”

"Let us be about it, i hypothesize that these works are create more of these creatures. We should prevent them and continue to diable this evil engine. Tyr hath judged this place damned!" Looks sternly about with his eagle eye goggles.

Kragen looks over the basin, then pulls a vile of holy water. Says a prayer to Tyr and blesses the basin will pouring a knuckles worth of water in the basin. Pauses to see the reaction.

If the things react and start dieing, he co tinues until all are vanquished.

Once done, moves to the mouth of the previous entrance with Tyrs Gaurdians still about.

Kragen invokes the Bringer of Justice and pours holy water into the basin.  It immediately erupts into a cloud of acidic vapors.  Kragen DEX save = 13, success.  He takes 5 acid damage.  The swimming beasties seem unaffected.

Another swims up and leaps out of the basin.  It immediately bursts into a cloud of dark green-grey goo.

Seeing the arrival of Kragan, the three kaorti abandon their work and begin to leave.

"Mage Starker, how long do you have until your wall of force dissapates?"

Then to the company "i sensed the best way to stop this infernal workings, we need to address the source. Do we know if that lies.in the room those vile beasts were attempting to repair?"

Starker:”Five minutes or so, or until my concentration flags, whichever passes first.”

Would you still like someone to cover the south exit to prevent the repair crew from fleeing?

Erbert nods and agrees with Trokarl.  "I think we need to kill the rest of them as we encounter them, and break their machine.  I don't know if we have anything more powerful available to explode this machine, something on a time delay would be nice... but we should press on to the source, wherever that is."  He looks to the others, since they seem to have otherworldly knowledge about this place, and thoughts that have intruded into their minds, giving special insight.  

"Let's take care of the repair crew.  Perhaps these ones that jump out haven't formed their little protective chitinous shell yet... they can't withstand our world until they do so.  If we break all of their little pipes, perhaps all of the immature ones would die at once..."  

"I concur we need to take care of the rest. We should also check out that creepy glowing eye and the chest it's staring at."

Are the tunnels still webbed? If not Chadwick will start making his way to the other kaorti.

Kragen to The Company

"As much as i would like to destroy those vile creatures" points to kaorti who have retreated from the device "we ned to find the source"

"Suggest we continue heading west, i think it gets us closwr to under the tower. We may find the source there. Leave the oom with the chest for later. I fear we need to make haste." 

Then moves him and his guardian spirits towards the west corridor.

One action from everyone…..

(( Taking this round by round now. ))

Erbert walks back into the room with Starker and readies to cast shatter on two of the kaorti, including the machine in the center of the room, awaiting Starker to drop his wall of force.  "Ready to light them up whenever you are, Starkie."  Erbert turns his head to the side and gives a snaggle-toothed smile at the fellow wizard, with a grin on his face.  (Blue circle on the map)

Starker:”Starker, please, not Starkie. I will try a chromatic orb, perhaps with Thunder as the damaging effect?  Then I will run away.  On the count of three, with the same understanding that I will steadoly count 1, 2, 3 and when I would reach 4 if I continued the tempo I will drop the wall and we can fire our bolts.

one … two … three … drop wall, cast chromatic orb L2 at

kaorti1, (then 8, then 9 if bouncy enough)

to hit 11 <sad trombone sound>

runs away

Trolkarl and Xymox actions?  The Axis of Tyr has already spoken.

Xymox will wall/ceiling walk down the corridor to the south as stealthy as possible, to ensure that no baddies try to flank the group.