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They check the door and move on.
The next room has a door on the left, a door at the end of a passageway, and four cells down that passageway. They are made of stone, with iron bars. In one cell is a long haired man holding a paint brush and paint bucket. He is huddled in the corner of a room staring at a painting on the ceiling. In another cell is a large Taurian. The other two appear to be empty.
Alzar has one of the men at arms check the locks, and they all appear to be open. They start with the one with a Taurian, but as the door is opened, the illusion of the bullman has disappeared. The next one is the one with Gaston D’Amberville, silently staring up at the moon he painted on the ceiling. He is not responding to any stimulus. They search the jail and find nothing. Forward or left?
Left. They have entered a long long room, with another door on the same side that they entered, just down about 60-80 feet or so. This room contains a large number of metal vats and cauldrons. Some contain frothy and loathsome liquids. Magical symbols are engraved on them. There are many shelves and tables holding flasks, and vials of various liquids. Standing in a silent row, naked, are four human-like beings, unmoving. They close, and suddenly, the beings move and spring to attack.
A crossbow hits one for 2 damage. A dagger misses. They arrive. Battle ensues. The magen go first. The first and last one miss,. The second one hits Aleigha and tries to charm her. She fails her safe, and drop her sword and removes herself from combat. Another one (a caldron) hit Alzar for 4 damage and wraps him in flexible arms, that secrete acid. Alzar orders them to concentrate on the charm one (a hypnos). Estaish hits it for 5 damage, and Dryshik breathes in and hits. For 4 poison damage and blindness damage.
The next round arrives. Estaish kills the charm one. Alzar cannot damage the one grabbing him, and the men-at-arms are freed to shoot another one not by Estaish and Alzar. The one on the far right sticks out its hand, and casts lightning bolt at Alzar for 11 damage and a failed save. The other one misses. Alzar takes 9 from the acid oozing. The crossbow bolts fly in and they hit the demos one for 1 damage.
18/51
Alzar orders a new target – the one squeezing him. Alzar is squeezed for 7. The Demos hits Estaish for 2.The other misses.
6/24
11/51
Estaish hits the caldron for 7 damage. A Mist Ball flies in for 3 damage and a blinded caldron. One crossbow bolt hits it for 6 damage and another rolls a 1 and hits Alzar for 2.
9/51
Aleigha has shaken off the charm from the dead guy and is back next round. Alzar orders Estaish to withdraw. They win init. Aleigha misses. Crossbows hit once for 5 damage, and it dies.
Aleigha takes 12 from a lightning bolt.The Demos misses.
16/28
Alzar stabs with his staff at the jaw of the galvan and cracks it for 6 damage. Aleigha adds 9. Everybody else misses. The Demos is running after Estaish and swings at him – hit for 3 damage. The galvan misses. The Demos falls from crossbow bolts. They are almost out of crossbow bolt s(5 shots left each) and Alzar orders them to hold their fire.
3/24
The galvan reaches out and lightning bolts Alzar for 12 damage, saved to 6. Alzar smashes him for 8 damage and it falls.
XP – 170 each of the six of them.
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