Seven Days to the Grave [DMOOCH]

[lostsole31]

R20T16: Iluvar looks around anxiously considering the options. "Pharasma aid me!", he pleads. He looks first at Vivino, and sees that Vivino is "Fragile." That's enough for him to Vivino. Luckily, Rolth was paying attention to Vivino and Jolistina has a hand crossbow out for him to do that without trouble. Iluvar than puts his hand on Vivino, and the CMW effect goes to give the alchemist 21 healing.

R20T13: The end comes for one of you. The first of a possible many. Iomedae is merciful for he does not feel the bite of the actual passing.

Iluvar, you feel something ... a little strange. Like some type of energy you were connected to that was faint has ended.

R20T11: Adelaide, you are still feeling effects of fear. What do you do?

Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer on deck, Harsk in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors tripped, poison expended; won't reset until R18T23.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade in hand. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. 3 BLEED!!! UNCONSCIOUS!!!
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal).
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Swarm of Rats: 21.1. (27:27).
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. SHAKEN til R21T22.1.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.
Gray Maiden (Red): 5. (24:24). 19 arrows. Bow and longsword on deck. Tied up. DELAYING!!!
* Arms tied to sides, but shield in hand.
* POISONED: Weakened (CHA track), -2 CHA checks.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (1). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R20T11: "Se..see you at the Elevator." Adelaide's voice waivers just a bit when talking to Harsk. She chants a spell and then disappears.

R20T5.5: A terrifying roar comes from the west. Stalking out of Harsk's mist from that direction is a very gangly chumanoid that is upwards of 14' tall, but can't weigh more than a sturdy normal human. It looks like its skin is covered in pockmarks and pustules, and in place of a head is something that looks like a horse's skull.

R20T5: The Gray Maiden, tied up in the far western room screams in mortal terror as a rats come up from one side, and though distant she sees that inhuman horror in the vat room all the way to the east.

End of Round 20 ...

There is a flash of cold, blue light and loud sound that everyone sees or hears, at least indirectly. However, what is seen next is only seen a little by Branwyn, but otherwise mainly by Harsk and Allen. In a combination of a DC Comics boom tube and a Marvel comics Bifrost riot of colors a figure appears only a few feet from Allen! All around the figure there is a circle of popping and hissing from now fast-melting frost that killed all of the rats that Branwyn spent so long summoning.

The creature looks around, and notices Allen cowering in the elevator. A voice calls out from her somewhat vulturine head. "All of you, will now die. Flee now while you can, for I shall leave none that stay alive. For either you are aligned with those who killed my master and his wife and made their five children orphans," and she continues but this time glaring at Allen, "or you were too incompetent to protect them. Test not my mercy, for like the Lady of Graves, I have none. And my heart, frozen and hard like Her own."

Begin Round 21 ....

R21T29: Harsk suffers signifcant visible pain again as the downward pointing tusks grow and thicken, now at a size that is comparable to an animal or predator of his size, not a dwarf. He sees death from two sides and looks to Iluvar and says, and like a person having trouble speaking with these teeth, not quite used to them, "In the name of the Forgemaster, man, what have you done?"

He casts a healing spell that glows on his hand, trying to touch Telgarana. It doesn't work, but now there are only two images on her.

R21T26: Telgarana suffers 3 bleed.

R21T24: Rolth, seeing the situation take a strange turn from both east and west, calmly drinks a small vial, and then takes out a dagger of exceptional make ... no mere chirurgeon's tool.

R21T23: Vivino rages against his paralyzed condition on the floor, but is otherwise impotent.

R21T22.1: Jolistina steps away from Iluvar and casts a spell on herself, turning invisible.

R21T22: Allen, you take 3 bleed. It's Lilim! But she has promised to kill everyone that sticks around for she will have bloody satisfaction for the death of Fathi al-din and Hulya. But she did take a step away from you. What do you do?

Branwyn/Lurk on deck, Iluvar in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade in hand. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. 3 BLEED!!! UNCONSCIOUS!!!
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R71T22.1.
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. SHAKEN til R21T22.1. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.
Gray Maiden (Red): 5. (24:24). 19 arrows. Bow and longsword on deck. Tied up. DELAYING!!!
* Arms tied to sides, but shield in hand.
* POISONED: Weakened (CHA track), -2 CHA checks.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (1). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R21T22: Allen shivers at the creatures arrival, taking a deep breath to address it. "I will live the rest of my life with the guilt of their deaths, along with those of my comrades. I am weak. If it pleases you, you may take my life, but please do not kill my comrades here. The monster in the farthest room, the Darakhul, and the elven woman with the crossbow are the three biggest threats. It is likely either the woman or the monster that killed Phi and the others, while the Darakhul was what nearly killed me and my closest friends. I am waiting here for others to escape with me."

"All I see...." says Lilim to Allen...

R21T21: Branwyn curses as he hears the long-awaited rats that were finally coming to his pipes' call ... die some unseen, horrible death. He bolts through the open doorway to the north, Lurk on his shoulder.

R21T20: Iluvar looks at life leaving Telgarana and tries to use the stabilize spell. The spell doesn't seem to work as Telly is continuing to bleed.

R21T11: Adelaide, your studied target is Jolistina, and because she stepped before casting a spell, you can tell where she probably is. One good thing is that you regain your wits enough that you are no longer shaking from being scared. What do you do?

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"Hey," says Dr. Davaulus, "that bird-guy probably has a good idea. Sneak around the north end while your fool friends distract the others. Just make sure he goes through that door first."

Newcomer (Lilim) on deck, Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade in hand. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. UNCONSCIOUS!!! 3 BLEED!!!
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R71T22.1.
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.
Gray Maiden (Red): 5. (24:24). 19 arrows. Bow and longsword on deck. Tied up. DELAYING!!!
* Arms tied to sides, but shield in hand.
* POISONED: Weakened (CHA track), -2 CHA checks.

OOC
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (1). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R21T11: With the cover of invisibility, Adelaide casts a spell to help her allies. Adjacent to Harsk, a magical chanting can be heard. Upon completing the spell she takes off after Branwyn through the door to the north.

R21T9: "... are the words of a coward," Lilim continues, "who - while his words may be correct - was no less wise for having spoken them."

The frost of her entrance is gone, leaving a disgusting mound of dead rats. She steps over to the tied up Gray Maiden. "I have fought your sisters in the Lady's Light. I offer you this simple mercy."

She draws her right hand behind her in an upward moving arc. As she does so, a long pole extends from both directions of her now closing grasp. By the time her hand has wound directly above her, a blade forms from the outermost portion of the haft that arcs. At the three-quarter-point, this strange creature is now replete with multiple, now visible accoutrements about her. And at the final downward stroke, the downward stroke of the black scythe with a liquid-silver blade stabs directly into the Gray Maiden's skull ... killing her outright, cutting the woman's scream off abruptly.

R21T5.5: From the opposite end, the monstrosity simply teleports right into the midst of the central room, cutting off one of the doors from a quick exit.

End Round 21, Begin Round 22 ...

R22T29: Harsk touches Telgarana, and the spell finally goes off, stopping her bleeding and giving both 18 healing + 18 NL healing. He then steps over to Telgarana, who is waking now, and lifts her - opening himself up for the attack she would have had to endure had she gotten up under her own power. The skull-headed monstrosity bites Harsk in his upper left arm for 13. Harsk screams in pain as his wounds have only been increasing. "Wake up, girl."

R22T26: Telgarana, you groggily shake your head after having sensed consciousness and gone in a 90-degree angle. It takes a second for you to realize that Harsk has you propped on your feet. Your black bladed katana is on the floor. Rolth Lam, Jolistina Susperio, and some horse-skull-headed monstrosity are here, with that monstrosity having you in reach ... should you reach for your sword. That said, the world is swimming slowly about you, telling you that you are hopelessly concussed ... or under the effects of a haste spell. You do note that looking at your arm there are a couple after-images, so mirror image is still working. To the east, some new player is here, and you clearly see this weird, somewhat vulturine horror pull a black scythe with a flowing silver edge out of the skull of the Gray Maiden who was tied up. The Gray Maiden is unmoving. When you linger a little bit in that creature's direction, Harsk says, "NOT a friend."

What do you do?

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26.
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R71T22.1.
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R22T26: Telgarana blinks awake and assesses the situation. She attempts to cast a spell defensively, thinking to herself, "Will Desna smile on the desperate this day?"

Fizzle. No. No, she will not.

She knows better than to tempt Fate twice, so she takes a careful step ... *gulp* .... right next to the 14' tall horror.

R22T24: Rolth smiles, seeing Telgarana moving. He calls to her in his rattling, dry wheeze of speech, "What pretty hair you have, dear. Colored, obviously, as lavendar is not a true color for an elf, and you don't appear to have a bloodline to have made it. But Jolistina can tell you that a little bit of makeup goes a long way for art. You will make a lovely zombie. Hold on, though. I have some business to attend to."

From where he is, he steps a little to the west to line himself up perfectly, and using the full length of his freakishly long arms, he goes to slit Vivino's throat, doing 7 mod Vivino's neck. It's only a very thin line of blood one what was obviously an attempted coup de grace, and the skill with which Folth did the cut makes one thing a lot more opening of his throat would have occurred. "Interesting. I will have to study that one more once I have him on the gurney. He seems to have resisted my bloodletting cut."

R22T23: Vivino, you learned an important lesson today as you managed to resist what could have been far worse. And that is your organ preservation has even hardened your arteries ... but in a good way. You are still paralyzed, do you use spontaneous healing again? Also, you see Jolistina clearly, but unfortunately have no way of communicating that information.

Jolistina on deck, Allen in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26.
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R71T22.1.
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R22T23: Vivino finds that while he can't even control his adenoid muscles in his throat enough to growl, at least his incredible control of autonomic systems still functions, even if voluntary systems do not, and he fast heals 5. All things considered, being paralyzed is like a little rest ... if it weren't for the fact he was still burning rage.

R22T22.1: There is a whizzing sound right by Telgarana as another image is ripped from her. 15' to Telly's east, just inside the western room, Jolistina is standing there and fast-reloading her hand crossbow. She gives a good laugh, "Ahahahah! Ohh, your mirror image foiled my invisibility. Too bad that is one less layer of protection against Big Ugly!"

R22T22: Allen, you suffer 3 bleed. You are still scared. What do you do?

Branwyn/Lurk on deck, Iluvar in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26.
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f):
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R22T22: Allen will remain here, waiting for others to come join him. After Lilim walks away, even though she can probably still hear him, he responds to what she said. "I've lost two teams already. I'm the only one who survived this fight last time. And I was one of the only survivors of the fight that led to me meeting Phi and the others. All I really want is to complete the mission we set out on. But I failed again. I don't even know how many of my comrades this time will make it back. I repeat. Please do not kill my comrades. They had nothing to do with the deaths of that family."

R2T21: Branwyn goes over and unlocks the door that Adelaide had locked a minute ago.

R2T16: Iluvar, you have a haste on you (again). To add to things, you are pretty sure you thought you heard a woman casting spells to the south of you, but somewhat distant and out of sight. What do you do?

Adelaide on deck, Lilim in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26.
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): (xx:xx).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R22T16: "I fear we need to go. Make haste to leave.", Iluvar orders his companions. He then moves to pick up Vivino, but doing so opens him up to attack and he gets slashed along his head by Rolth's claws for 8, and bitten in the left shoulder by the big monster for 16. Iluvar wasn't but barely wounded before and can take it, but when he goes to lift Vivino with his gear, he finds that it is a herculean effort and starts to move westwards.

As soon as he gets past the double doors, figures on the double doors attack him and his charge. A scythe from the door trap slashes Vivino for 8, but misses Iluvar. Iluvar moves around the first dead Gray Maiden and out of reach of the strange creature with the scythe and gets just inside the elevator ... a large mass of dead rats making travel difficult the last way.

R22T11: Adelaide, Branwyn just unlocked the door you locked a minute ago, but you can't get in to actually open the door until Branwyn moves out of that door-alcove. What do you do?

Lilim on deck, Khu'gdoc in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!! CMW currently on hand.
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26.
* Black Blade Strike til R20T26. AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. AOO used.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!! CARRIED by Iluvar.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (28:28).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. RS. AOO used.
* Swarm of Flies will linger til R20T5.5.

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Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

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[lostsole31]

R22T11: Adelaide delays, waiting for Branwyn to open the door.

R22T9: The newcomer flies into and sets down in the elevator right in front of Allen. "Your words are ash in your mouth, as your body will soon be ash. And you, you are not your friends."

She swings her scythe upwards on a reverse strike into Allen's right calf and shin with a combination of brute force, extremely sharp weapon, and soul-sucking energy. Allen puts as much as he can into mitigating as much of it as he can with his resilience, completely burning out his psionic reserves and still taking 17 after that strike. Allen doesn't stay standing so much as he slams back into the elevator's wall for support.

"This is how they died, isn't it? And you lived? You mewled for mercy, thinking your groveling, craven words or mien could change what was going to be."

R22T5.5: Telgarana hears the monster's thoughts. In fact, EVERYONE hears its thoughts.

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"I smell your hypocrisy, your bland desires for that which is 'good.' That somehow if you live a life of restraint and kindness, it will be one of meaning.It will not stop the doom that faces us all. The doom that even now your paladin friend succumbed to."

It then begins its onslaught. It bites Telly right on the face at the jaw with a crit. Telly resists having her jaw broken initially, but the shredding effect on her face still does 22, and as weak as she is that is still enough to make her fall. It attacks the dwarf, missing with one claw but slashing Harsk in the knee with the other for 10.

End Round 22, Begin Round 23 ...

R23T29: Harsk just touches himself with the healing energies on his hand for 13 healing.

"Hey, big guy!" calls Harsk to the monster. "We didn't put you in those tanks. We didn't kill your pals. You want some payback now that the goody-elf is down, fine. But lash out at whose responsible. This cultist and that aproned man. They were behind it all."

He looks down at Telgarana's unconscious form, possibly dead, still bearing a damned image that would like as much foul him if he tried to help her. Though she cannot hear him, he gets out a wet, croaking. "Sorry, girl. You fought well, but I can't save you. May your patron preserve you."

And with that, he attempts to escape the gauntlet of enemies.

It is ... an unimpressive attempt. Truly. Harsk slips on some of the blood that slows him down as he tries to recover. The monster bites him in his big, clumsy foot that slides away from Harsk from Telly's earlier blood pool, though not as strongly as it could for 9. He gets past, though, and with Rolth having focused on Iluvar previously, the hasted Hask hustles hurriedly hence from horror. And to a new one. He gets to a corner behind an elevator. "I don't know any of these people until today. I have no more strength to fight. But the Big Ugly, Rolth Lam, and Jolistina are going to be a lot of a fight. Come with us, so we may avenge our two fallen when we come back."

R23T24: Rolth Lam takes an extract, seemingly ignoring the monstrosity behind him and moves into the entrance room, standing astride the Gray Maiden that Vulture-Lady just killed.

R23T23: Vivino, do you use your last bit of spontaneous healing while you're paralyzed (and held like wee bairn in Iluvar's arms)?

Jolistina on deck, Allen in the hole ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!! CARRIED by Iluvar.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ???
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (28:28).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11. DELAYING!!!
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. AOO used.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R23T23: Vivino growls in his head with frustration.

R23T22.1: Jolistina steps away from the big monster and casts invisibility on herself again.

R23T22: Allen, you suffer 3 bleed, and now are barely standing. What do you do?

Branwyn/Lurk on deck, Iluvar in the hole, Adelaide delaying ...

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Northern trap reset. Eastern doors reset, but poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!! CARRIED by Iluvar.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* Been playing pipes of the sewers for 3 rounds.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, DELAYING!!!
Iluvar: 16. Crane style. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (28:28).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11. DELAYING!!!
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. AOO used.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R23T22: Allen shakes a little, and starts to calmly walk out of the elevator, not acting rushed as he speaks to Lilim. "Don't kill me in this elevator. Don't let my corpse ruin the others escape. As for me, I should have died long ago. I accept this death. Just...please make this promise. My life is worthless, and I feel like I only survived to make sure that they can be avenged. You avenge their deaths, and I will die." As soon as he finishes, he turns back toward Lilim, holding his arms out unflinchingly, closing his eyes as he awaits his death.

She lets him walk shakily out of the elevator. With difficulty, because of rats, and he turns south to get in the nook by the elevator ... the one with the torch.

R23T21: Branwyn, with Lurk on his shoulder, opens the door and moves out. A scythe removes one of Lurk's images, but does 8 to Lurk. And with that, the entire entryway ... all of G1 (but not the elevator) is filled with a dust. Harsk sees it coming and avoids it. Allen puts his face uncomfortably close to the flames of the torch, so that the poison dust is burnt away. However, Branwyn and Lurk both fail. Each take damage to their sense of self and are Weakened.

Branwyn ties to acrobatically continue, as does Lurk, but his coughing makes his acrobatics super under par. Rolth lashes out at the bird, just missing, though. The farthest he gets is on a mess of rats, though, because Iluvar/Vivino and Lilim are the in way.

R23T16: Iluvar, your momentary strength gives and you unceremoniously drop Vivino on the elevator floor next to you. You are hasted, and standing in a thick clump of dead rats (difficult terrain) in the elevator. This newcomer is garbed as a Pharasmin and nearly killed Allen outright, but then let him walk out of the elevator without striking when she had a chance. Everyone is converging on the elevator to escape. Carrying Vivino took you out of crane style. You are still feeling heroic, and protected from fire. What do you do?

Blue cultist on deck, Lilim in the hole, Adelaide delaying (and Branwyn opened the door) ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!! CARRIED by Iluvar.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til R
Allen: 22. 3 BLEED!!! SHAKEN til R24T24!!!
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Protection judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to AC). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (28:28).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11. DELAYING!!!
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (26:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5. AOO used.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R23T16: "Pharasma give us your aid and lend me your grace," Iluvar beseeches his deity. He shuffles through the rat bodies and reaches out to Allen, casting a spell and touching Allen. A soft, bluish-white light goes from Iluvar to Allen.

R23T12: Blue cultist has come out of the westernmost of the two doors to the southern room in the art gallery, and gets up to the opened double doors.

R23T9: "Very well, fellow Pharasmin, I shall only gainsay his life ... and yours ... if you still are here when I am done." She simply picks up and flies by an act of will to the far NE corner of the room.

"Darakhul!" she calls in challenge to Rolth as something happens to her movements that are not unlike some of the party's own at this time. "Undead filth. Urgathoan thug. Aberrant putrescence mimicking the form of a man. I am Lilim, former bodyguard of Fathi al-Din and Hulya al-Din. The orphans they sired shall know tonight their parents' deaths have been answered. I am the bearer of the Shard of Greed, Pharasma's servant, and your doom."

R23T5.5: The Big Ugly moves west, and attacks the cultist with a bite on her left upper leg for 15. The woman, shocked at this turn of events screams in pain.

End Round 23, Begin Round 24 ...

R24T29: Harsk grows and thickens again before withdrawing into the elevator.

R24T24: "What are you?" Rolth asks Lilim with as much curiosity in his voice as an apathetic drudge can muster. "I can't wait to open you up to find out what makes you work. But first, just a moment, please, I want to make sure one of you doesn't escape again."

He steps away from Lilim and casts a spell at Allen. Allen looks like he is fighting something internal ....

R24T23: Vivino is still paralyzed ...

R24T22.1: A woman's voice is heard casting, and three bolts of arcane force come from the east to just rip through Big Ugly's resistance to hurt him for 6 force. Jolistina appears again as she darts into the art gallery and north into the north-central room.

R24T22: Allen takes 3 bleed, and drops to the ground while then taking 3 healing, which also stops any future bleeding. He is prone on the ground and lapsed consciousness only briefly, and he may feel fear, but he is no longer shaken.

Allen, roll a Will save. Assuming you are successful, what do you do?

Branwyn/ Lurk on deck, Iluvar in the hole, Adelaide delaying ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Allen: 22. Lend judgment til R30T16 (healing, fast heal 3).
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes. Lend judgment (healing) on Allen til R30T16.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (13:28).
Adelaide: 11. Bow in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11. DELAYING!!!
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R24T22: Allen had some choice words for Rolth, but Rolth's mind overpowers Allen's own and shuts him down so that in an entirely different way than Vivino, Allen finds himself completely paralyzed in place!

R24T21.5: Hearing the door open and commotion in the next room Adelaide will make her way to the elevator. Her hasted speed helps her greatly, and she safely squeezes in right by Vivino and takes the elevator key into hand. Invisibly, Adelaide's voice is hard calling out from inside the elevator cabin, "Everyone, gather in! I'm here with the key."

R24T21-20: Branwyn acrobatically gets into the elevator, but Lurk doesn't fare so well ... again. Branwyn seems to fight off the poison, but Lurk continues to be affected, and then Rolth slashes her for 7, and now she plops to the ground in a mound of rats, paralyzed.

R24T16: Iluvar, you fast heal 3. What do you do?

Blue cultist on deck, Lilim in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24. AOO used.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Allen: 22. Lend judgment til R30T16 (healing, fast heal 3). PARALYZED by hold person til R32T24; Will DC 20 each round to end!!!
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!! PARALYZED til R31T20!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes. Lend judgment (healing) on Allen til R30T16.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (13:28).
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R24T16: Iluvar says, "No more of us are going to die here. Get going!"

He picks goes to pick up Allen, and Rolth claws the back of Iluvar's right knee for 7. And now Iluvar feels what Vivino felt, as his whole body begins to stiffen.

Iluvar, roll a Fort save ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe as well. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24. AOO used.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R25T23!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Allen: 22. Lend judgment til R30T16 (healing, fast heal 3). PARALYZED by hold person til R32T24; Will DC 20 each round to end!!!
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!! PARALYZED til R31T20!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes. Lend judgment (healing) on Allen til R30T16.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Blue Cultist (f): 12. (13:28).
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (4). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R24T16 (Cont'd): Besmara is in league, no doubt, with Urgathoa here in the latter's fane. For no sooner did Iluvar promise no more dead among his side, then in the very act of compassion meant to save the strange elan from his doom, Iluvar now may just share it. For faster than Iluvar can even get out any other word his body practically petrifies from the pain of Rolth - a creature Iluvar never took the time to assess - and his strange claws.

And now, a petrified Iluvar stands over a petrified Allen.

R24T12: Blue doesn't even know from enemies now, looking up at the monster that escaped and hurt her so badly. But she is also as insane as her brothers and sisters lying dead in the other rooms. "No, creature, you were brought to this world to serve Urgathoa, and you will serve me as Her representative!" she calls while casting a healing spell on herself for 6.

R24T9: "Necromancer, for I recognize your trappings, so!" the Newcomer gets Rolth's attention. "Test your powers on me, if you dare!"

The newcomer brilliantly and aerobatically places herself in front of Iluvar (and Allen) and attacks with her scythe, though it impacts against a force field several inches from him.

R24T5.5: The large creature gives a deep chuckle before everyone hears its insipid voice in their heads.

Spoiler: Big Ugly's Telepathy >>> Everyone

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"Oh, I imagine you did quite well in distilliing my kin's contagion-bearing properties. But that was the use Urgathoa had for us, wasn't it? I am guessing, if fate decreed I should be free, then it means that Her work is done. And so ... is yours."

And with that, he bites downward to bite the cultist in the left hand for 15. She screams in terrified pain. A claw tears across her chest, ripping open her breastplate and stopping her screams, holding her in place, as the other claw bears down through her shoulder and lungs and together he rends her body to lie in a gory puddle.

End Round 24, Begin Round 25 ...

R25T29: Harsk drops his battleaxe at his feet, takes out a vial, and drinks it, getting 15 healing.

R25T24: Rolth recovers from all of the people doing activity around him. He then steps right up to Allen. "No, insect. Not this time. There will be no pile of false ash left behind. I will not be denied."

He slashes Allen's leg at the femoral artery with a coup de grace. Lilim attacks, but her scythe seems to chop through Rolth, only for Rolth's apparent position to have slightly changed and her scythe goes through nothing but air. Rolth's skillful knife, however, finds its home. Allen, though paralzyed, slowly sinks into a relaxed, non-paralyzed pose, a sign to others that he is dead, not merely unconscious.

R25T23: Vivino, the paralysis finally ends with a tingle! You actually did not see Allen get murdered just now, though you did hear Rolth's speech. You are prone, you've been raging this whole time, and you are hasted. Also, you are "squeezing" now that you are awake, in the same space as Adelaide, and she has a key on a lanyard in her hand, with her hand poised towards the control. You may need to crawl to stand up and the two eastern squares of the elevator are difficult terrain due to a pile of dead rats. Also, Iluvar is paralyzed, and just outside the elevator. What do you do? Do you keep raging?

Jolistina on deck, Adelaide in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!! PARALYZED til R31T20!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes. Lend judgment (healing) on Allen til R30T16.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R25T23: Howling in freedom and frustration, Vivino crawls out from underneath and stands in the open space in the elevator. "Thank you for getting me this far in my state. Here is hoping we can repay the favor. Hopefully we can still save as many of our fellows as possible. "

Vivino sees Telgarana way on the other side of the "art gallery," but Allen is nowhere to be seen.

R25T22.1: Jolistina's actions/ movement/ position are unknown.

R25T11: Adelaide, you have the key in hand, and Harsk, Branwyn and Vivino are in the elevator. Iluvar is paralyzed just outside. You can't see Allen. Telgaran's fallen body is far to the east ... past Big Ugly.

Spoiler: Adelaide

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"You want to stall. You want to hope somehow that it will all work out," says Dr. Davaulus, standing betweeen Harsk and yourself. "But that is how this will only get worse for you. Jolistina is still out there as well, waiting to take pot shots at all of you. Insert the key, Adelaide, and we can all get out of here ... heal up, and come back for vengeance."

What do you do?

Branwyn on deck, Lurk in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active. False life.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. Sitting on Branwyn's shoulder, POISONED w/ Ungol Dust til R27T21!!! PARALYZED til R31T20!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. Carrying Vivino, but STR revets to normal on his next round.
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes. Lend judgment (healing) on Allen til R30T16.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus.

[lostsole31]

R25T11: From the empty space in the elevator comes a tearful voice, "Illuvar... I... there's nothing I can do...."

Adelaide uses the key to activate the elevator and initiate their retreat. There's a pain in her chest and Adelaide is thankful for the small grace of being invisible so no one can see her in this moment. The lattice door to the elevator drops down, so the party can still see outside, but gain improved cover from without (and vice versa). Meanwhile, the door schlomps onto a lot of dead rats, but not enough that it keeps the door from securing.

R25T21: Branwyn, hoping himself safe in the elevator's cabin, has a perfect view of Rolth. He castsa spell at the horrible man, and there seems to be some type of magical dissonance, as an unknown spell is ripped away from him.

R25T20: Though impaired by the poisonous dust from before, Lurk manages to throw off any further effect, but is otherwise badly wounded and paralyzed on the floor outside the elevator cabin ... away from her master's reach.

R25T16: Iluvar, you fast heal 3. Are there any purely mental actions you think of that you can take while paralyzed?

Lilim on deck, Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Displacement til R30T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! PRONE!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. PARALYZED til R31T20!!! PRONE!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!!
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R25T16: Iluvar is a dedicated monastic AND inquisitor of the Church of Pharasma. Should he die down here, fighting in a place unholy and dedicated to a goddess at odds with his own in seeking the corruption of life and the perversion of the quietude of death, it should be a death well earned. Still, realizing that death is upon him, he relinquishes his need to heal, which is no more than a desire to cling to life ... something which his religion tells him is only a fleeting thing. He relaxes his body's hyper-active autonomic function, and prepares his mind, body, and soul for what is to come, purifying it through internal prayers. Though he was facing down and south and can't quite see things as well as when he was fighting, he at least has time to think about what he's seen thus far....

"... entered the room," continues Vivino.

R25T9: Of her three scythe strokes, two of them were noped by Rolth Lam's illusory protection, whereas her bite and two talons from webbed feet all miss as well. She shifts around and away from the now exposed Iluvar and the elevator.

"Currently just inside..."

R25T5.5: Big Ugly concentrates on Rolth, and a more impressive fizzling of Rolth's magic seems to occur, and Rolth then seems to once again shift illusorily, but without being struck by a weapon, it is apparent that his defense has fallen.

"...this room, right..."

End Round 25, Begin Round 26 ...

R26T29: A sound of something tightening is heard from Harsk, and again he seems to be in pain. He drops his battle axe and steps into Vivno's space amongst the pile of rats. Totally squeezing and completely poor defense. The thing with Harsk, is that unlike a normal spellcaster, his magic doesn't require obvious shows of action or loud intonations. He calls upon the part of his mind that allowed his brother's spirit to come to him, and reaches through the bars to touch Iluvar, giving him 12 healing, before retracting hand and arm back inside the elevator cabin.

Harsk looks to Vivino even as the latter is speaking and whispers, "I know it don't sound right, but reach through and tip him over."

"... by the northern..." Vivino continues anyway.

R26T24: With the monster having torn away his favorite defense, Rolth is much more hesitant to attempt the same murderous stroke on Iluvar. He doesn't completely forget him, though. He stabs Iluvar in the chest with the dagger for a devastating 29, but Iluvar doesn't fall. He then slashes at Lilim, his dagger barely scoring her Blackjackets uniform. Rolth's mouth opens wider than expected and bites at her, scoring the breastplate she wears underneath. With his claw attack, he misses badly enough that Lilim almost was able to turn it back against him.

"... door." finally completes Vivino.

R26T23: Vivino, you are currently sharing the same space as Harsk (squeezing), and there is a spot empty behind you. You are raging. Harsk just whispered something to you, and you could reach through the bars of the elevator front and do that if you wanted, then step back into that empty spot. What do you do?

Jolistina on deck, Adelaide in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Lurk: 20. PARALYZED til R31T20!!! PRONE!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!!
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R26T23: "We should save who we can, dead or alive. There are two right outside the elevator," says Vivino. he reaches through the bars. Even then, it is a super clumsy attempt, but with no capacity to really resist, Iluvar topples onto the ground.

"I hope you know what you're talking about, Harsk," Vivino adds on, grumbling, as he moves to the back of the elevator.

R26T22.1: Vivino is the only one to see Jolistina walk right up to the elevator door and aim her crossbow at Branwyn at point-blank range, killing nothing more than a bolt stuck into the back wall of the elevator by Adelaide's head ... and one of Branwyn's images. Jolistina appears, and as the elevator begins to rise, she smiles and gives her horrible, mocking laughter. "This was fun! I can't wait to play with you all again!"

R26T11: Adelaide has to keep the key engaged (FRA) as it is a dead-man's switch. Iluvar doesn't see their departure, but Branwyn does get to see Iluvar's fallen form and the cabin sees what limited they can of the combatants before the elevator begins its lift skyward, traveling up 10'.

R26T16: Iluvar, when you first feel Vivino's clawed, rough hands on the nape of your neck, you didn't know what to think. And then when he tipped you over so simply, it was if the raging idiot thought he was doing you a service, though you DID hear Harsk's whisper (just barely). But when you land on the stone floor, you see the measure of the plan. You see, a body is rigid when paralyzed, but that doesn't mean it can't be manipulated. It still responds to gravity, just as your autonomic systems continue to operate. When you got thrown to the ground, it didn't just knock you down, but your limbs and every part of you went down .... in accordance with gravity. While you are no less paralzyed on the ground, it LOOKS like your body went limp, when it just means that your limbs collapsed downward ... possibly making it look like you might have succumbed to the chest wound that Rolth gave you as a delayed reaction.

What strictly mental actions do you perform? Do you still keep purity judgment?

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Lurk: 20. PARALYZED til R31T20!!! PRONE!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Healing judgment active (Fast Healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

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Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R26T16: Iluvar thinks about his situation, thinking about his sandals, but then remembers that he has to be already moving before invoking the sandals power. He continues to study what he can of Rolth, even though he doesn't have the luxury of turning his hand or refocusing his eyeballs.

R26T11: Adelaide, what is a "key" is actually more of a specialized hidden button that you inserted. But it is a dead-man's switch, and requires you to continue to depress it for the lift to continue operating. Do you continue operation so it can begin going up? (Last round it began to engaged, and closed the lift door.

Lilim on deck, Khu'gdoc in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). Invisible til ....
Lurk: 20. PARALYZED til R31T20!!! PRONE!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
* Impaired: A character impaired by Charisma poison doesn’t add his Charisma bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as lay on hands) and doesn’t gain bonus spells per day from his Charisma. He takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Charisma-based rolls. A Charisma-based caster reduces his DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast his 2 highest levels of spells.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Purity judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to saves). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 21. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R26T11: Adelaide continues to hold the lift key so the elevator begins to rise, and soon all that is seen is the wall of the passing hewn shaft.

Also by now, the bodies of rats .... while making an awful message ... is now diffuse enough that it no longer creates difficult terrain ... either in the lift cabin or outside the lift entrance below.

R26T9: Lilim maintains a defensive posture, full attacking Rolth. She came close with one scythe attack, but otherwise it seems that Rolth's defenses are too powerful for Pharasma's champion. Before she steps behind a corner.

R26T5.5: Seeing that Rolth is as dangerous as he is, and has his psychotic lapdog, Khu'gdoc throws in to temporarily aid Lilim against his former captors. He seems to send Lilim a message, and she looks to him and nods. Then, with more concentration, again he seems to rip away magic from Rolth, specifically his shield spell.

End Round 26, Turn 27 ...

R27T29: In the cabin, Harsk continues to swell and grow another inch in height and several pounds of mass. He puts his crossbow away and concentrates after the pain of that bodily change, and gets 19 healing. "Sorry so focused on self, but I ain't good unless I heal. Got no more of that, though."

R27T24: With Lilim around the corner, Rolth takes another extract and then crouches down to lap up about a pint of Allen's blood. "Dammit! And here I thought he was a spellcasting insect, not just a psionic one."

R27T22.1: "Bye, bye, birdy!" says Jolistina, performing a coup de grace on the raven (Lurk) with a hand crossbow bolt to the head and then a quick reload.

R2721-19: Branwyn uneasily relaxes for only a second before he perks up and sadly croaks. "Lurk is dead. My raven friend is dead."

R27T16: Iluvar, what do you do?

Also, Vivino, is there anything you do in the cabin? Do you keep raging?

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal).
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Purity judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to saves). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R27T16: Iluvar doesn't do anything outwardly.

R27T9: Lilim seems to be waiting for something.

R27T5.5: Khu'gdoc steps forward and breathes out a noxious cloud of corpse-bloated, biting black flies into the room! Somehow, Jolistina manages to avoid the initial slashing onslaught entirely. Rolth possesses unholy agility, but still is slashed for 8 mod + sickened. Allen's body is entirely flensed, with every bit of gear and coin he had being consumed. The torches in that area are destroyed as well, though that little harms most of the active participants. Iluvar is unable to move out of the way, and takes 24 + sickened as well. The external lift chamber door (that stays on this level and is not moved) is likewise destroyed.

End Round 27, Begin Round 28 ...

R28T24: Rolth is infuriated as he is in this darkened cloud of flying, biting, filth. He casts a spell carefully while in this murk, concentrating and bringing forth a wan blue light on his left hand. He steps forward to get the daemon and Lilim in reach and out of cover. It seems he dosen't realize the flies will present a continuing danger, or doesn't care, but moves deftly enough to keep from any clump of flies from really getting at him.

R28T22.1: Jolistina, for all of her fell powers, does not count darkvision among them, but disappears into the northern room.

R28T16: Iluvar, the flies tore you up, and they will continue to do so again. Still, your low profile to the ground might help you.

Roll a Ref save. Note that your Ref save is adjusted to a DEX of 0. Normally when immobilized you don't get a Ref save, but I am giving you some love her with the above rationale.

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In the cabin, Vivno queries, "Adelaide, can you make the elevator go back down? We can still grab and hopefully save the two that were next to the elevator doorway. Or can you stop it here? I can climb down to save them. Hopefully they are still distracted by whatever was going on."

Of course, there is no way to "climb down" apparently as the only egress is the closed elevator door, and it is near-flush with the wall.

Adelaide, how do you answer? Do you keep the elevator going?

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. Chill touch on off hand has 8 touches remaining (Fort DC 20, CL +8). SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal).
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Purity judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to saves). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (20:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R27T5.5.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

Adelaide replies, "I can't, I just can't risk it going so wrong again. I thought we knew what we were in for ... but it was so much worse."

Adelaide continues to raise the elevator.

Harsk simply puts his battleaxe away wordlessly.

Vivino ceases raging and slumps to the elevator floor. Then plaintively, as with a a small girl's voice, he gives a soft sob and whimpers, "We could have saved more..." Then Vivino will clear his throat and with his now normally voice returning will say, "What she said. We shouldn't have left so soon."

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R28T16: Iluvar takes 12+sickened from the flies zipping all around.

R28T9: Lilim looks around the corner to the grease spot .... all that remains of Allen. "I was so wrong, and I am sorry, Allen Phan. Truly this Rolth Lam was worthy in terror to kill my master and his wife, for I have made no headway against him."

She takes to the air while moving around the corner, but she isn't particularly aerobatic. Rolth touches her with the blue hand to do 3 mod negative energy, as it partly draws out her life force. With that failure in not opening an attack, Lilim than takes her time and shoves the prone, paralyzed Iluvar into the empty lift shaft with her following.

R28T5.5: Knowing the blonde mortal is likely coming around the other side to flank him simply disappears from Iluvar's view.

End Round 28, Begin Round 29 ...

R29T24: Rolth moves south out of Iluvar's sightline from the back of the lift shaft, and there are sounds of battle, including what sounds like the fizzling away of magic.

R29T22.1: Jolistina appears from the west, having gone around, and gets up to the double doors. Seeing a jumble of bodies in the elevator shaft and not wanting to step where the flies are, she casts a spell that sends three bolts of arcane energy to the south.

R29T16: Iluvar, you are paralyzed and prone at the back of the elevator shaft, the Newcomer flying just off the ground after having knocked you 10' back into the current position. Through a thick cloud of angry flies just outside this temporary safe space, and your life force dangerously low. What do you do?

Spoiler: Iluvar

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You are allowed to take last round's actions, thoughts, intents as well.

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal).
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Purity judgment active (+2 sacred bonus to saves). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9. DS.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (18:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.
* SWARM OF FLIES will disappear R32T9.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R29T16: Iluvar switched to healing judgment previously, for a total then and now of 6 healing.

R29T9: Lilim puts up a hand towards Jolistina, and lets loose with a blast of ice and frigid air that hits Jolistina's left shoulder for 7 mod cold. She then flies northwards, leaving a prone, paralyzed, and hopefully believed-dead Iluvar all alone.

R29T5.5: Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer suddenly appears behind Jolistina to the west in the art gallery, garnering a squeak of surprise from her.

End Round 29, Begin Round 30...

R30T24: Rolth moves back into view, just outside of the swarm of flies.

R30T22.1: Jolistina steps back and casts a spell defensively on herself that Iluvar recognizes as false life.

R30T16: Iluvar, you FH3. Still paralyzed. Do you do anything?

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Do the inhabitants do or say anything else before the lift gets to the top, beyond controlling the lift? (Vivino, Adelaide)

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!! Displacement til R37T24.
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). False life.
Iluvar: 16. Haste til R28T11. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!!
* Healing judgment active (fast healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Status (via Lucius) for 7 hours. Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9. Haste til R30T9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (18:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.
* SWARM OF FLIES will disappear R32T9.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen.

[lostsole31]

R30T16: Iluvar concentrates on his body, checking in with his internal balance, so should he be unparalyzed, his external balance will be maximized.

R30T9: When next Lilim is seen, she is no longer moving at extreme speed, her own haste effect having worn off. Her own fly speed is prodigious (at least right now), but she doesn't move as one on a higher order of speed than the rest of the world. She flies into the art gallery. Iluvar only spies for a quick second as she flies from north to south of his limited LOS into that room. She didn't have a scythe anymore, though.

R30T5.5: Khu'gdoc steps back and mentally tears away more of Rolth's magic. For yet another time, Iluvar sees Rolth's form shift place a foot or two (mother-f*#&er had three displacements throughout this battle, one ran out, and Khu' dropped the other two).

End Round 30, Begin Round 31 ...

R31T24: Rolth casts a spell, taking an amber rod out of his apron, and a lightning bolt shoots forward and just barely manages to burn through the daemon's resistance. Still, the monster is preternaturally fast and minimizes exposure, and only ends up taking 3 mod electricity.

R31T22.1: Jolistina casts a spell on herself, turning invisible.

R31T16: Iluvar, you are no longer paralyzed!!! You are prone, fast heal 3, feather balance is now active, you are still feeling heroic, and protected from fire. What do you do?

Lilim on deck, Khu'gdoc in the hole ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24. Long Arm til R85T26.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). False life. Invisibility til R81T22.1.
Iluvar: 16. PARALYZED til R31T16!!! PRONE!!! Feather balance ki power til R40T16.
* Healing judgment active (fast healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (15:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.
* SWARM OF FLIES will disappear R32T9.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen Phan.

[lostsole31]

R31T16: Iluvar realizes the climb isn't difficult because of the chain (not rope) pulley system for the lift system, and the sandals would help with a good start, but he would still have to dedicate a second or two of time before the end of movement to situate himself safely on the rope so as not to hope to catch it.

Spoiler: Crunch

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Rope against a wall, which the chain is equivalent to here, is a DC 5. Ridiculously easy, and you could accelerated climb for 20' automatically.

As far as the sandals. You would need to spend a MA to "climb" to safely hold onto the chain at the end, or else you suffer a chance of just falling and missing the chain, as grabbing the chain is not FA climb check.

R31T9: The newcomer is now seen flying, heading right for Iluvar. She tries to juke, but fully expects to fail (which she does) as Rolth then slashes at her with a claw. But it slams hard through her breastplate and is stopped by the thick skin she has. Lilim continues and gets into the back of the elevator shaft with Telgarana slumped over one shoulder and Telly's sword in the other hand. The newcomer must have gotten lucky, because Telgarana still has an image remaining.

R31T5.5: Khu'gdoc closes a door to the north that he is next to. He concentrates on Rolth again. Rolth's arms de-lengthen, going back to normal proportions for a "man" of his size. The daemon then steps back a little.

End Round 31, Begin Round 32 ...

R32T24: Rolth casts a spell, a beam of darkness shooting from his finger to be absorbed ineffectually by the daemon. Rolth closes on the daemon some.

R32T16: Iluvar, the newcomer is here with Telgarana carried. You are prone. What do you do?

Newcomer on deck, Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer ...

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). False life. Invisibility til R81T22.1.
Iluvar: 16. PRONE!!! Feather balance ki power til R40T16.
* Healing judgment active (fast healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (15:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.
* SWARM OF FLIES will disappear R32T9.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade on floor. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* AP +3 keen til R24T26.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen Phan.

[lostsole31]

R32T16: Iluvar speaks to the tiefling, "It appears you are helping us. I am making my way up and can heal the one you carry as soon as we can clear this area."

He then does an accelerated climb up the rope, getting to a height of 20' but also climbing in darkness.

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In the elevator cabin, the lift has come to a stop. Does everyone pile out?

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). False life. Invisibility til R81T22.1.
Iluvar: 16. Feather balance ki power til R40T16. Sandals of light step active til R42T16.
* Healing judgment active (fast healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (15:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.
* SWARM OF FLIES will disappear R32T9.

ELEVATOR
Harsk: 29. Crossbow in hand (loaded), battleaxe dropped. Haste til R28T11. SICKENED til R27T5.5!!!
* Obscuring mist til R88T29. Barkskin for 70 min (+3 enhancement to natural AC).
Vivino: 23. RAGING!!! Haste til R28T11.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration. 3 NEGATIVE LEVELS!!!
* Mutagen active for 70 minutes. See invisibility for 69 minutes.
Branwyn: 19. Wakizashi sheathed. Mirror image til R80T21. DELAYING!!!
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11. Bow and elevator key in hand. STUDIED TARGET is Jolistina. Haste til R28T11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days. Mirror Image (3 images) til R85T11. Shield til R88T11.

OOC
Telgarana: 26. Blade carried by Lilim. Mirror images (3 images) til R87T26. KO'd.
* FUMBLE [BATTERED]: -2 all skill checks and saves for next two hours. Heal DC 20 check removes this condition.
Queen's Physician (Blue): 25.5. (-1:45). STABLE!!!
Queen's Physician (Red): 25. (-3:45). STABLE!!!
Green Cultist (f): 2. (-4:28). STABLE!!!
Brown Cultist (f): 1. (-8:28). STABLE!!!

DEAD
Cultist (5). Gray Maiden (2). Zombie (28). Wolf zombie. Dr. Davaulus. Allen Phan.

[lostsole31]

R32T9: The Newcomer faces upwards and at an angle, trying to be careful not to clip Iluvar. She puts the black-bladed katana in her hand in the hanbo of the one she carries. With her free hand, she then lets loose with a flash of energy that forms .... not as a spell ... but as if a tiny doorway were opened at her hand. Caustic fluids billow forth to catch the back of the lift cabin's floor even as the newcomer steps closer to the edge of the shaft, doing a base of 22 acid, and eating through the metal of that 5' square, but not all of the wood.

R32T5.5: Iluvar no longer hears the heavy swarm of flies from below. But he *does* see a thick shadow suddenly appear below, indicating the Big Guy is standing right at the elevator shaft next to Lilim.

End Round 32, Begin Round 33 ...

R33T24: Sound of casting and magic spell below.

R33T16: Iluvar, you are 20' off the ground, and the bottom of the elevator cabin is 20' above you (40' total distance). What do you do?

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Northern tripped on R22, poison expended. Eastern tripped on R23, poison expended.
Rolth Lam: 24. Dagger in hand. SICKENED til R37T5.5!!!
* Shield til R94T24.
* Mage armor. DEX mutagen active.
Jolistina Susperio: 22.1. Crossbow loaded (normal). False life. Invisibility til R81T22.1.
Iluvar: 16. Feather balance ki power til R40T16. Sandals of light step active til R42T16.
* Healing judgment active (fast healing 3). Heroism for 50 minutes.
* Protection from energy [fire] for 50 minutes, absorb 84 fire damage.
Lilim: 9.
Khu'gdoc Plaguebringer: 5.5. (15:160). Cannot breathe flies again until R37T5.5.

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Administrative Follow of Conditions ...

Harsk: xx.
Vivino: 23.
* POISONED: Weakened, -2 CHA checks. He cannot recover past weakened without heal or restoration.
Adelaide: 11.
* She is dominated by Dr. Davaulus for 10 days.

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Dane casts his spell twice, putting himself, Lem, Harsk, Seelah, and Vivino in a type of intuitive hunting pack as far as tactics go.

Vivino doesn't find any weapons left behind.

Adelaide, when you get to the elevator, there's a 5' diameter hole in the bottom of the lift cabin from where Lilim came through. This means that everyone will NOT be able to "squeeze" on the way down, but you have to have two groups. The first group should be defensively capable of holding a "beachhead" at the bottom while one from that group (probably you) then operates the lift up to get the rest and come back down. This means it might be a REALLY hairy proposition for those down below.

What do you do?

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Adelaide: x.
Dane: x. Drinking companion in hand.
* See invisibility for 70 min.
Harsk: x.
* Shared training [Improved Outflank] for 70 min.
Lem: x.
* Shared training [Improved Outflank] for 70 min.
Lilim: x.
Seelah: x.
* Shared training [Improved Outflank] for 70 min.
Vivino: x.
* Shared training [Improved Outflank] for 70 min.
Biter: x.