All That Glitters

[Anastasia]

"I'll live," Cresiel says, shaking his head, "We still have to find Duran, can you continue?"

Xandra merely eyes Cresiel a moment, "I shall endure as well, I was not harmed. The Eye seemed disinterested in me, despite my spells dealing considerable harm."

[Nephrite]

"I won't have any lasting injuries." Moore says as he taps Cresiel once.

Another Heal for 150.

"Yes, though, give me just a moment. I don't want any of this running out at an inopportune time." Moore says as he takes a breath again and sings for a moment.

He's refreshing Inspire Courage, Greatness and Heroics. Not rolling the nonlethal damage because he's just going to cast Refreshment at the end of it. He can accomplish this in two rounds, for reference. This also means Xandra gets a fresh 8d10 temporary HP as well as Moore. Cresiel still has his 100 so he doesn't.

[Anastasia]

Healing and refreshing your music all happen without incident.

Ball is ever so momentarily in your court, since anyone who challenged the Eye before you died horribly.

[spoiler]

Cresiel
HP: 507+100/680
Spells Active: Tyche's Touch (CL30),
Bonuses:
Negative Conditions:
Resources Used: Mass Death Ward, Burst of Gloryx3, Healx3 26/30 holy fury.

Xandra
HP: 510/510
Spells Active: Tyche's Touch (CL30),
Bonuses:
Negative Conditions:
Resources Used: 4 11th level charge, 1 12th level charge.

Mass Conviction (+4 morale bonus to saving throws) (CL19) (190m)
Mass Surefooted Stride (can move through difficult terrain with no penalty. What??? they might run into it) (CL30, 30m)
Surge of Hope (CL30) (30m) (+4 morale bonus on attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls) (it does saving throws too but that's really pointless with conviction)
Life's Grace (CL19)x2 (Cresiel, Xandra) (19m) (protects against ability drain and all that jazz, armor is treated as ghost touch)

[23:32] <Nephrite> roll 18d4 nonlethal
[23:32] <Serith> Nephrite roll for Serith < 44 > [d4=2,4,2,2,2,4,1,4,1,3,3,3,2,3,1,4,2,1]

He'll bolster the three of them with Inspire Heroics for +12 morale bonus to save (doesn't stack with conviction but it's only temporary) and a +12 dodge bonus to AC. This lasts a total of 60 rounds, i.e. 10 minutes.

Right before they leave he'll also cast Haste.

Cresiel will drop Mass Death Ward, CL 27th. He'll drop Shield of Warding on himself for +5 sacred Reflex and AC.

Moore will also toss in a Superior Resistance to both Xandra and Cresiel. (+6 resist bonus to saves) (CL30)

+16 morale bonus on saving throws against charm and fear effects and a +16 morale bonus on attack and weapon damage rolls

Recitation, (+2 luck bonus to AC, attack rolls and saves.)

[Nephrite]

"Let's continue on." Moore says with a nod as he goes to the doors again.

[Anastasia]

There are two doors going deeper in, both of them locked and standing next to one another.

[Nephrite]

"I never did manage to master that spell that just opens locked doors." Moore says with a mutter. "Xandra, do you have anything that will get us through these quickly?"

[Anastasia]

"I do. His name is Cresiel," Xandra smiles faintly, stepping aside.

Cresiel nods and steps forward, "Which door?"

[Nephrite]

"I have a feeling they both lead to the same place. Let's say Right." Moore says.

[Anastasia]

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Massive impacts rock the door as Cresiel slams it again and again, until it collapses off the hinges in a broken heap. Ahead is a narrow hallway going down, down and deeper down yet. Only a few sputtering torches light the way.

[Nephrite]

Moore takes a breath as he steels himself for whatever's next. He heads into the passageway, keeping an eye out for anymore ridiculous tricks.

They really better not have another one of those dumb floating planar breach orbs.

[Anastasia]

Down you go. Down and down and down into the dark, into the cold and into the empty earth. Down you go to a place where warmth seems alien, deeper yet as...

Perception.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 71

[Anastasia]

Xandra and Cresiel will take 10 here.

You can hear it - faint. Wails, cries of pain, panting. Horrid sounds, the stuff of nightmarish fever visions, the children of the battlefields of war.

"Steel yourselves," Xandra says, "I fear we come into the Sharran's dungeon. I have heard of the nightmares Sharrans inflict on those they capture. You saw a glimpse of it at with that hostage, and I dread what we will see, and pray that we can bring them to a place of healing and mercy."

[Nephrite]

"Once we deal with Duran, they'll all be free, in one form or another." Moore says as he continues along.

[Anastasia]

Thus you go down. It is a long hall, doors on either side, only tiny slits through them to see within. Here lie a good dozen humanoids of various stripes, all slain by obvious blunt trauma. Smashed heads, broken bodies. They are stripped down, nothing left on them. Nothing is in the hall, either, save for the bodies.

From the rooms you hear those cries, those terrible, terrible cries.

"What...?" Cresiel breathes, "Why are...?"

"Is Rumbling Slide raiding the Sharrans for treasure?" Xandra murmurs aloud. "So greedy as to taken the bloodied robes from them?"