Grenk initiative 9

Mal Initiative: 21

[OOC: Mephit's actual dice roll was higher]

Mal will bring up her crossbow and take two shots at the creature.

H. Crossbow: Attack: 22 Damage: 10

H. Crossbow: Attack: 12 Damage: 7

 Will attempt to knock the creature prone as well with a Maneuvers: Trip Attack - 2 Damage STR DC 17 or fall prone? (Not sure how it works on a flying creature)

Keshma : 3

Shot one Mirror Image roll : 6

Shot two Mirror Image roll : 6

The first shot rips through a mephit copy and it vanishes.  The second shot strikes the creature, it squeals in pain.  16...you knock the mephit out of the air and it lands with a thud on the ground, along with it's two remaining copies. 

The mephit hops back up into the air, and then points at Grenk and yells, "BLOAT BUG!"   Grenk....you feel your body grow heavier....and feel a little sluggish...but there's no other apparent affect.  (You now weight 50% more than you did before. No other impact to the game at this point.) 

Then it looks to everyone in the doorway watching and exhales a blast of blinding dust that sprays over everyone.  (Dexterity DC 10 saving throws for Keshma,  Mal, Badger, and Sickle.  If you fail you're blinded for 1 minute.) 

Sickle Init: 13

Keshma : 12

Sickle: 7

Keshma curses, dust in her eyes, "ARRRGG!!"

Sickle growls and motions to the creature....ice crystallizing around its body.   Mirror image roll: 14.  Con save vs DC 17:  4 or take 9

Another copy of the mephit vanishes. 

Grenk, then Badger.

Badger DEX save: 23

Luckily Badger still has papers in his hand, and he holds them in front of his face to block the dust spray.

(That roll was a 20-something when I first posted. Then I added the commentary and the roll changed to a nat 1.)

(That'll teach you to add commentary!!  Also, very weird, I've not seen that before.  But that's fine, you save, go ahead and take your action...)

Mal Dex Save: 11

 Mal ducks behind the doorway as the cloud of duct comes her way, This is going to take forever to get out of my hair.

Grenk just moves up and ignites his sword with fire.  "You made of paper?  That is lit."  He then stabs at the mephit twice.

Attack: 8 Damage: 6 + 8 fire damage

Attack: 17 Damage: 4 + 7 fire damage

Ooc: well that is not lit at all

Silas 17

Grenk's flaming sword strikes at the thing, his first blow sweeping away the last illusion, then his last blow just obliterating the creature.

A small black piece of chalk falls out of the air and drops to the ground with a clink. 

(It's dead Jim, out of initiative)

(Nah, I'll suck it up. Maybe the first roll was cocked.)

Badger coughs and wipes his face, trying to get the dust away. He calls forth a Fire Bolt and throws it blindly toward the creature, but stops when he realises the thing is already dead and he is now only likely to hit Grenk.

Repeat Dex save: 20

"You alright in there!" Silas shouts from outside, "If you are need of healing come out,"

Everyone clears the dust out of their eyes....and looks around.  The papers are all gone. Grenk is standing over a black piece of chalk on the ground.

Mal chuckles, "Who knew the monsters on the last level would be so easy to kill."

Grenk picks up the piece of chalk and holds it up to look at.  The looks at the lever and the chalk.  "Imma gonna draw a square around the lever.  If it works I can pull it, if not I'll do that shifting thing like I did back with the witches."

He the proceeds to the draw a square with the chalk around the lever and try to pull it.  If that doesn't work he will use his class feature to turn Ethereal for a round and pull it.

The square works perfectly. The lever become solid and grinding noises come from the door. The square lights up. The group moves to the next door. Keshmas stomach rumbles. 

The next door is the hexagon.  You unlock and open the door to reveal a large, cracked, six-sided mirror mounted above a stone shelf protruding from the opposite wall. Five unlit candles stand on the shelf, each made of yellow wax and covered with tiny black sigils. Scrawled on the wall above the mirror in dried blood are the words "PIGGY PIGGY PIGGY."

Badger isn't quite tall enough to see into the mirror, so he just looks around the room for anything else of interest, and casts Detect Magic. And reads the sigils on the candles if he can.

The five candles radiate magic...transmutation. Also though, he sees a sixth aura coming from under the shelf.  With his shorter stature, he can see a little slot.....a sixth candle seems to be tucked there.  The sigils on the candle are random gibberish. 

Aha! Badger exclaims as he reaches for the sixth candle. It seemed strange there should be only five. No doubt some trick to fool us into doing something dangerous. He hands the candle to someone else to place on the shelf beside the others. Urgh, what next? Light the candles I suppose?

"Light the candle and if that doesn't work, do something with the mirror?  What clues do we have besides mirror, candles and the words piggy piggy piggy..." he responds.  

He stops and looks at the mirror, "you know, there was a story in our order about girl who had a tragic death and her spirit became vengeful.  It used mirrors to transport but only if you said Bloody Mary three times while looking into a mirror.  This reminds me of that...  If lighting the candles doesn't work, I'll stand in front of the mirror and say piggy three times but you all must be ready to attack if a spirit is summoned."

Grenk is looking in the mirror when he says "piggy piggy piggy" while talking, and he sees a lever appear on the south wall.  He looks over at the wall and it's blank...but...in the mirror....there is definitely a lever on the wall.