Castle Amber: A D&D Adventure

Lynda readies to fire more holy arrows, aiming for the silver avatar.

"Someone get that foolish bear out of there. How he's still alive is beyond me."

Rob casts Mislead on himself. Rob's false clone continues to keep up the appearance of singing a bardic magic song, while the real Rob, now invisible, moves over behind Azedarac, planning for an opportunity to slip silently past the whirling blades to maybe rescue Wren, or perhaps launch some kind of sneaky attack when the opportunity arises.

"Right.. time to switch tactics. Everybody move to the left! Even just a little! Thank you!"

Harvey reaches into his pocket and pulls out a thin, brittle bone. When I bought the thing it seemed kind of silly, but now it might give us a chance.. or maybe the whole thing was a con, hehe! The assassin snaps the bone between his fingers, covering himself with the magical contents of the bone's hidden chamber.

A quick check reveals it working as advertised. Excellent. Then the other part must be true too. No way of knowing if it'll last..

He moves to the position that Azedarc has hopefully vacated by now and waits for the right moment..

Harvey vanishes into a cloud of dust.

Kalar focuses divine power into his holy symbol, then makes a tearing motion with his hand. He causes large parts of the ground in the room to sink downwards, then reforms that sunken stone into various tall pillars which bloom like mushrooms towards the ceiling. As they bloom, they form arches, supporting the weight of the stone above. Near the ceiling, he'll have the stone spread out, sealing the portal with a couple of feet of stone. He deliberately makes sure that the ground is left rough and uneven, making any movement across it difficult.

Spell Used: Greater Stone Shape, can move and shape 140 cubic feet of stone.

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Azedarac manifested a large black polearm in his hands as well as three more that floated about him, "I've prepared this just for you, monster."

Dan vanished. Harvey vanished as well. Lynda missed with her arrows. And Rob continued to sing on Stumpy, while actually sneaking around on foot near Harvey and Azedarac.

Kalar stepped forward and entered a deep trance. "Release your grip on your mortal coil now and I will reward you handsomely in your afterlife," said a voice in the dark void Kalar found himself in briefly. It sounded like the demon he had dealt with before. While in the trance, Kalar cast a spell, bringing forth large pillars of iron. The pillars had small jagged barbs on them and as the pillars reached the ceiling, jagged bars filled the area in front of the portal. A briar patch of iron quickly blocked the portal, cutting off the eerie purple light it had been giving off. Kalar existed his trance to find a spell he had cast had once again manifested as a much more powerful version of itself.

Wren, the nude bear, vanished. The kython around him looked confused but quickly regrouped and headed towards the doorway blocked by the blade barrier. The avatar of the seventh level of hell flew towards the ceiling nearest the doorway. It splash a large amount of acid from it's goblet on the wall and also iron barrier on the ceiling. The iron barrier and marble wall, both slowly began to melt away.

The kython nearest the blade barrier sprayed Kalar with poison. The poison splashes over Kalar's armor, but also manages to sink into Kalar's flesh, sapping his strength.

The mouse, the frog and Arden the ghost all begin to gather near the casket, away from the fighting.

Kalar takes 5 str damage.

Rob uses his Stone of Stoneskin on himself, while trying to figure out a safe way past the whirling blades without needlessly expending a teleport.

He has no idea that Harvey is doing something similar

Harvey smirks somewhere in the darkness at Azedarc's words. The assassin had prepared something for the demon as well. Only I prefer surprise parties, he thinks to himself, readying the bow and readying himself for what comes next.

He fires an arrow (one of the firey ones, not the slay living.. damned false advertisement) at the avatar of the seventh hell with all of his roguely-precision and psionic focus. Then, tapping into his long neglected psionic training, he burns mental energies to will himself immediately back to a state of focus before firing again.

I detailed this manuever in OOC, if any part of it doesn't hold up, forget the casting of hustle and the second psionic focus. He'll just take a full attack action and expend his psionic focus.

Kalar ducks behind the wall, well out of range of the kythons. To the voice, he says "I will have to decline your offer, there are still things I have to do."

He pulls a scroll from his pack and activates it, cleansing himself of the damage dealt by the poison.

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Lynda continues to fire holy arrows at the avatar.

The hero's arrows all struck home. No screech came this time. A serious look shot at Lynda from the avatar. In a flash, the silver monster flew over the barrier of blades at Lynda. It struck her with it's hideous flail. A warm itch filled Lynda's body. She dropped her bow and found her arms very heavy. She was stunned.

Azedarac took his chance. He dove at the beast, striking it with his many lances of vile darkness. The arm holding the wand was destroyed, with the wand falling to the ground. All the focus that had been on Lynda was now focused on Azedarac. A slight but sharp chill filled the room.

Out of nowhere, one of the kythons imploded. Another already injured kython tried it's luck with the blade barrier. It was shredded to pieces. The others lined up to best shoot their poisons and barbs at the heroes. Kalar, while hit again, was able to resist the poison this time around. Stumpy was not so luck. Struck by a poison barb shot by one of the kythons, poison was now sapping Stumpy's strength, making him quite weak.

The stone wall and iron barrier above the door smoked and fizzled. Bits of mostly melted stone and metal dipped from above onto the whirling blades below.



Stumpy takes 1 dmg (and 10 str dmg)
Lynda takes 23 dmg (and is stunned)

Harvey returns his attention to the kythons, focusing himself and then letting a slay-living arrow fly towards the nearest one.

False Rob keeps singing, while backing Stumpy up.

Invisible real Rob darts towards the avatar and hits it with a blast from his Flute Of Irresistible Dance.

For now, Kalar lets Azderac take care of the avatar. He instead turns his attention to the kythons. He clutches a fist towards one, willing a cancerous growth to form within its body.

Reached Necrotic Cyst, Fort 20 Negates

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"Work arms, god dammit!" Lynda shouts in disdain. "What's wrong with me?!"

Lynda decides to retreat until she can feel her arms function again.

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Ardan looks to the mouse and the frog.

"There must be something I can do...I..."

Ardan feels bitter emotions surge up within him.

"I should be the one fighting alongside these people! I should be throwing punches, attacking creatures, with stories and treasure from the adventure that I should of had! I shouldn't have died in the castle, I should still be alive! There has to be something I can do as a ghost, I won't sit here and watch the world move on without me! What's the point of existing if I'm useless?!"

Ardan rushes forward towards a Kython, brandishing his candelabra in a moment of passion.

Lynda finds that she is completely unable to move and has no choice but tostand and watch as the avatar of the seventh level of hell unleashes a flurry of attacks at Azedarac. It stuns him with it's flail, scalds him with it's acid, and slashes at him with it's sword. Azedarac look's badly injured. Rob rushes in and begins playing a magical flute. The avatar of the seventh level of hell can't help but dance. The avatar's eyes were focused on the invisible Rob as it danced.

Then one of the remaining Kythons bursts into flames. The other received an undead cyst from Kalar and death by an arrow of slaying. At that same moment, Arden's ghost rushes towards the Kython. As it died, Arden's ghost enter it's corpse. It was very dark and cold. Arden found his body very heavy. That's when Arden noticed he had a body.

The ceiling had melted even more at that point. A small kython managed to get through. It eyed the frog and mouse with hungry eyes. The hole forming in the wall above the door was getting deeper.