After letting the enemy sorcerers break against his shield, Keliantharas extended his staff towards the disir and once more unleashing a mass of tentacles on the monsters.

OOC
Casting a Quickened Silent Extended Black Tentacles on the area marked on the map.

Today: Keliantharas Warden rolled 8 using 1d6+4.  Grapple Damage.

Today: Keliantharas Warden rolled 26 using 1d20+16.  Grapple.

Caitlin cast a spell and a small pea of fire was ejected from her finger. It landed in the webbed area and quickly engulfed several disir as well as a large portion of the web. The flames affected four of their opponents, but not as much as expected.

Keliantharas cast one of his favorite spells and a forest of black tentacles erupted in the same place where Caitlin's fire had just been.

Dialis cast another healing spell on Caitlin.

The toadlike dragon moved out of the tentacled area and breathed acid on them again. It was fortunately fairly ineffective, but still an important hit as it still injured three of them.

The fire one of the disir had started on the other side of the web, continued to spread.

Two of the disir just moved closer to them. And one disir fought its way out of the spells Keliantharas had cast on him.



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The yellow area is the web. The blue circle on the icon shows which ones can't move and orange is the one that's only entangled.

The blue circle protects against level 1-3 spells.

The green area is both the fireball and the black tentacles.

One and Black 2 failed their save against the fireball while the dragon and Black 1 made their saves.

The green circle of the icon shows who are grappled, Black One and Two in this case.


Caitlin healed 17hp. Lost 15hp. 35/72hp remaining.
Keliantharas lost 15hp. 17/48hp remaining.
Moonflute: lost 7hp. 49/72hp remaining.
Korzak: 91/98hp remaining.


Caitlin is Str -1, Dex -2, Con -2.
Dialis is is Str -1, Dex -2, Con -2.
Eucharista is Str -2, Con -2.
Keliantharas is Str -1, Con -1.
Korzak is Dex -2.
Moonflute is Str -1, Dex -2, Con -1.

Petra is Str -1, Dex -1, Con -1.
Athena is Str -2, Dex -3, Con -1.
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While Dialis' healing spells helped keeping Caitlin alive, they did nothing to counter the damage on her clothes and mundane gear. Frustrated and disappointed her friend was so slow to understand the mercenary took her wand and activated it, growing larger with every passing heartbeat. "Dialis! - Cast a protection from acid spell on me, or I won't last much longer!"

ooc: Cast 'Enlarge Person' from wand, for real now. Spear now has 10ft reach.

Keliantharas answered the pleas with a spell of his own, flicked out effortlessly before taking a little longer on a spell for his own benefit.  He wasn't quite panicking, though he wasn't liking the pace in which he was now throwing magic around.

OOC: Extended Silent Resist Energy on Caitlin and himself; Caitlin's is Quickened.

Both gain Acid Resist 20 for the next 2 hours 40 minutes

The group defeated the disir and the strange dragon that had fought with them.


[OOC: What do you do?]

"We should inspect the area to see if we can find any trace of the eggs," Moonflute says after it is clear the monsters are dead. She moves in and behins her search.

"Agreed, lets take a look around." Caitlin concurred.

As they inspected the area, they found 11 amphidragon eggs surrounding the hiddeous totem statue. Each egg was cushioned in mucus. Close by there was a closed chest.


[OOC: As a reminder, Lord Toede had lost 6 eggs.]

The mercenary stood thinking for a while as she regarded the eggs they had found. Did they split and multiply? Impossible. So the creatures had obtained more eggs from other places. She looked at the chest and was tempted to open it, but there was a risk it was protected by a trap. "Anyone seen Eucharista?" she asked, wondering if the short one had been scared off.

Slightly frustrated she cast a spell that might help her open the box.

ooc: Cast 'Mage Hand' to open the chest's lid.

Moonflute staands by, ready to heal Caitlin if the chest is trapped.

The lid opened without a problem.

Inside were a few disparate objects.

A small and delicate wooden box of curious workmanship.

A sword made out of a single crystal.

A fist-sized pale blue sapphire that was cut to look like a teardrop.

A dull gray prism with an illumination equivalent to that of a torch.

By this time, the entire group was back together again.

Keiliantharas flicked a drop of dragon acid off his hand in disgust.  Thanks to the ward he had tossed up around himself, the small quantity of the substance was more a cosmetic annoyance now than an actual nuisance.  He was intrigued by the contents of the box far more than the eggs themselves, but he seemed almost disappointed than no tomes were stored within.

"A moment."  He said, then cast his detection charm once more to closer view the items in question.  He similarly swept the loot gathered by the newest batch of foes, and their corpses in case any more subtle trinkets had been missed, and finally began examining the dragon corpse under the guidance of his spell and expertise for any samples that might serve a member of his order in construction or research.

OOC: Casting an Extended Detect Magic, spending the time needed to identify any auras associated with the magic items.

Anything on the defeated disir or dragon?

Lastly, he will try to identify the exact type of dragon and harvest any potential reagents.

GM passing a message.

Standing back, letting Keliantharas do his thing, the mercenary watched with keen interest...

Moonflute's eyes go wide when she sees the sapphire in amongst the other treasures. "Could that be? One of the Tears of Mishakal?" she asks at a whisper.

"...Hmmmm?  Oh, I suppose it might be.  It's quite powerful.  I would need more time to examine it."  Keliantharas replied without looking up, as he stated sorting through the corpses of the disir for the auras he detected on their persons.  "We -I- will need to examine the dragon egss as well, to see if they have also been altered."

The web burned away, the tentacles had already vanished, and so had the bubble that had protected them.
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Caitlin couldn't help her curiosity and carefully took the wooden box from the chest, inspecting it thoroughly and checking the opening mechanism. Putting it aside she used the same spell to open it, worried it might be trapped.

ooc: Taking the box 20ft away from the others and opening it with Mage Hand from the same distance.

Looking at it, it seemed as if a key was inserted in the lower portion of the right side of the box. But the lid didn't seem to have a lock.

Caitlin took it approximately 25 feet away from the others before returning to them. From there she used the partially translucent hand she had conjured to open the box.

As soon as the lid was fully opened, a haunting melody started playing and a figurine in the center of the box started spinning around its axis, as if it was dancing. There was a mirror on the inside of the lid that reflected the lithe female form in its unending twirl.

"Why don't we find out," Dialis responded to Moonflute's question about the sapphire. So she picked it up. And she started whispering prayers until the sapphire started glowing with a soft blue light with the intensity of a torch. Some of the light seemed to dislodge itself from the gem and lightly float into the druid.




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All temporary ability damage Moonflute had suffered have been restored.


Caitlin 35/72hp remaining.
Keliantharas 17/48hp remaining.
Moonflute: 49/72hp remaining.
Korzak: 91/98hp remaining.


Caitlin is Str -1, Dex -2, Con -2.
Dialis is is Str -1, Dex -2, Con -2.
Eucharista is Str -2, Con -2.
Keliantharas is Str -1, Con -1.
Korzak is Dex -2.


Petra is Str -1, Dex -1, Con -1.
Athena is Str -2, Dex -3, Con -1.
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Unaware of Dialis and Moonflute, the mercenary listened to the melody and smiled slightly at the twirling figurine. A musicbox, how wonderful. She thought and moved closer to inspect the box and its contents further.

Caitlin approached the music box.

And she turned the key-like implement on the right which cranked the music box so that it could play longer. And she examined it further.
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As the music played on, Caitlin wondered about the previous owner of the music box and where she had gotten it from. Did her parents gift her with it, or was it a lover who wanted her reminded of 'their song' and thus leave her a memory for the times he had to be absent? Of course she couldn't know, but it was an interesting thought. Subconsciously she picked up the tune and sang along without lyrics, just going along. It wasn't bad but not as enchanting as the music box itself, perhaps she was too intrigued by what the box could be hiding...

ooc: Perfom: Song (15)

Caitlin hummed along to the music of the music box and her humming was quite enjoyable.

She pulled on the winding key, but apparently, it was attached to the music box and couldn't be removed. Caitlin pulled out her knife and tried to do something to the music box with it.

Caitlin sighed in frustration, this was trickier than anticipated, or she just didn't have the skills required to open the box' hidden compartment. "Hey Eucharista!" she addressed the rogue with her small dog. "Would you be able to open the compartment at the bottom of this?" she asked, hoping the young woman would be deft enough to do what she could not do herself.