"Good thinkin', let's hunt it down."

Borimer takes off after Harak.

"You may want to be careful with that Kahan...we have no idea why it didn't go off...could be a delay or malfunction"

"I agree with Flint, best not to hang on to that ball I'd wager."

"If I can figure out how it works, maybe I can fix it and use it against her." Kahan replies, trying to see if there is anything magic about it, or if it's simply technology-based.

While some of the party dally with balls, Harak opens the door with Borimer's backing.

OOC: Did I not read about a new character in the room that is 'unknown' to the party?  An Elf by the name of Malissin?  Somewhere in thread 5 perhaps (he's already fighting alongside the party in 5a....but had never introduced himself)?  Maybe I just missed it though....


Flint takes up a position well behind Harak and Borimer readying himself for whatever ELSE may come through the door.

You move into the room.  As Kahan suggested, the falling orb was one of the traps of Esylia.  It is impossible to say when the orb was placed in its holding trough.

The orb itself is made of a hollowed out wooden shell (like a small coconut) with pieces that appear to have been glued or connected together by ridges.  There is a central column that had been depressed, such that there is an indentation on one side and a bulge on the other.  It is a lighter color than the rest of the 6 inch diameter orb.  The wood shell itself appears to be bamboo or something similar.

You notice that the numbers on the transfinite repeater have stopped changing.  (Remember that the 3rd and 4th numbers had been rotating.)  They have stopped at the number:  488367825798.  The rest of the numbers are the same as the previous transfinite repeater you noticed.

OOC: Please let me know how long you are hanging out or if you are on the move.  I am tracking the movements of Esylia and want to keep the movements/timing straight.

You move into the room marked 21.  There is a set of circular stairs going both up and down in the northwest corner, and a door in the south wall.  An ancient bronze statue stands against the wall, its vacant eyes watching you enter the room.  As soon as you enter, the bronze statue suddenly creaks to life, reaching out with its balled fists to begin attacking you!





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Kahan stuffs the orb carefully into his haversack for later inspection, pulling out his mace and moving to attack the statue.

His elf ears curling back in surprise and the thrill of imminent battle, Naj rushes to the front of group to engage the giant statue with his two handed sword.

Borimer meets the creature's attack with two of his own, Chianta's black blade only a blur.

Edmure stays back in the other room, but Chrisman rushes in with the wand of frost ready, moving out of the way to the corner where the stairs are at.

Flint rushes in alongside Chrisman (moving to the same corner by the stairs). Keeping his eyes on the new threat, he casts a spell at the end of which he points his fingers at the creature's feet and legs....a dollop of what appears to be butter drips from his fingers.

"Chrisman, Flint, watch the stairs. Esylia might be down there." Kahan states as he gets ready to attack the statue.

Harak will attack with his scimitar.

ROUND 1
Borimer attacks...and makes a staggering hit on the iron golem's head.  (32 hp dmg.)

Chrisman is moving to the far corner, but he cannot get out of reach of the golem, which gets an attack of opportunity...and hits Chrisman.  (Critical hit: 50 hp dmg.)  Chrisman is flattened by the attack and falls dead to the ground, the Wand of Frost flying from his hand.

The golem attacks Borimer but misses.

Harak attacks with the scimitar but it rebounds uselessly off the iron statue.

Kahan attacks with his mace but it also just scrapes the statue harmlessly.

Borimer swings again, this time making another hit across its midside.  (18 hp dmg.)

Malissin is standing in the back.

Naj swings his two handed sword, hitting the golem.  (Critical hit: 18 dmg.)

OOC: An awful lot of crits this round...

Flint has been casting, and a slippery layer of a fatty, greasy substance flies to the ground at the golem's feet.  The golem's foot slides from beneath it, and it begins to crash toward the ground, all 5000 pounds of it, toward...(randomly rolling here...)...Naj.  Naj dives...but too late (saving throw failed)...and his right leg is crushed by the falling golem.  (29 hp dmg.)

(Next round, golem can only engage in defensive melee while it rises.)
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Flint quickly fires off another spell by casting a small bit of iron powder at the statue, slowly pinching his fingers together in front of his eye and muttering an arcane word (sounds something like "Reducto").


Flint calls out "Sorry Naj, I had hoped he'd fall 'back' into the corner."
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Borimer exploits an opening in the construction's defenses to make three quick slashes at its torso and legs.

Harak again attacks with his blade.

Naj tries to push himself to his feet, grabbing his injured leg, and swinging down on the fallen iron giant.

ROUND 2

Flint is casting a spell.

Borimer gets three strikes at the statue.

The living statue is growing smaller as a purplish gooey magic springs from Flint's hands and covers it.

Naj swings but misses, falling down on his injured leg.

Borimer makes two mighty swings at the iron golem, hitting it both times.

Kahan hits it once with his Mace of Disruption.

Borimer and Harak swing simultaneously, Borimer hitting the golem in the leg, and Harak's blade slices through the metallic neck of the golem.  As its head hits the ground with a clang, the life -- if you want to call it that -- seems to seem from the iron body, and it crashes to the ground with a fall so hard the ground under your feet shudders and deep cracks are made in the flooring.


Just then, as the iron golem is finally still and the dust from the broken tiles settles to the ground, you hear a mighty yell from somewhere deep in the temple.  It is a man's voice, almost a rabid, insane voice, that yells, "You cannot escape me!"

Malissin stiffens, and then confides in you that it was the same voice of the lich monster that had been chasing him.

Flint, looking relieved now that the BRONZE Golem (OOC: everyone keeps saying Iron, LOL) has met it's end, moves to Chrisman's body, checks for any signs of life and asks "Is there anything we can do for Chisman?".  If not, he will check for anything useful on the body and then start looking around the floor carefully for the Wand of Frost that he dropped.  Once found and retrieved, he approaches Naj "Again, I apologize for the statue falling on you...I had really hoped it would fall back into the corner."

Borimer keeps Chianta unsheathed when the word "lich" is mentioned.  He keeps watch in the direction from which the voice originated.

OOC: You're right.  I think that was my fault because what I was using was different than what was in the published adventure, so I confused myself.  Luckily, I put the stats in my scratchpad before a battle, so at least those were correct.

Since you found Chrisman barely alive and starving, you really don't find too much on his body.  (The Wand of Frost was originally Draaz's, so Flint can take it back since Draaz was the resident mage and is now dead--unless party members have any objections.)

However, you do find Chrisman's spellbook.  Unfortunately, some of the pages are destroyed and some of the spells he used directly off the spellbook (thus making them disappear from the page), and a few are written in a foreign language.  But Flint can scribe from it the following new spells:

1st Level:

Hold Portal
Hypnotism
Wizard Mark

2nd Level:

Magic Mouth
Whispering Wind

3rd Level:

Gust of Wind
Item

In a sack, he carries:

30 Gold Orc Drakma

The voice originated from vaguely the direction you came from.  You ascertain that it was probably the room with the Time Ark as the lich passed over into your time.
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"Well, this will come in handy" weighing the spell book in his hand before putting it away with the others.  "Who's holding the gold?" looking to hand over the sack of Drakma.

"Looks like we have a few choices...we can go South" Flint points to the door they haven't taken in this room "Up" Flint points up the stairs "Down" Flint gestures down the stairs "or wait here for whatever is chasing Malissin.  We might want to find a more defensible position if we decide to wait though since this room has too many entrances"

"If we go south, may I suggest we open the door SLOWLY and check for strings and traps...perhaps block anything from rolling through the door with a shield and maybe let me cast a spell so that our scout can not be seen?"

Naj watches Flint look over Chrisman's body, and says, "At some point, we should also collect Grizz's things.  We just left him unceremoniously back there after the undead attack."