Chapter 3.5: The Temple of Merikka

Round four, continued...

Aanbo clobbers Mok with his staff, but the Windreaper monk avoids his kicks.
Mok takes 7 non-lethal bludgeoning damage!

As Mok sways from that hit, Ember stabs him again with a swift rapier strike.
Mok takes 11 piercing damage!
As the blood sprays, Aanbo rolls his eyes and sighs; is no one listening to him?

Mok staggers, but continues to be focused on Lyrel with her flaming sword. Her teeth clack together as a punch connects with her chin.
Lyrel takes 4 bludgeoning damage!

Lyrel continues her dance of the flaming blade with Mok. It sure looks impressive how the green flames draw a curtain of flame before Mok's face. It doesn't hit him, but it continues to draw his attention.

Myrtha follows Chon, worried that Morton is taking a big risk by drawing the monk's ire but grateful that the warlock has occupied the monk's attention long enough for her to plunge her spear into his back.
Chon takes 7 piercing damage and dies impaled on Myrtha's magic spear.

Arya remains slumped on the tiles, her formerly-flawless olive skin pale in the lamplight.

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21 - Look Dead
20 - Morton (8/15)
18 - Aanbo (19/27)
13 - Chase (6/17)
13 - Chon Dead
12 - Ember (7/12)
12- Acolyte Asleep, Sanctuary (-1)
11 - Mok (-32)
10 - Lyrel (2/13) Mage armor
9 - Myrtha (23/30)
6 - Arya (0/19) Stable
6 - Ferranzo (8/8)
5 - Eugenios (8/8)

Round four, completed

"Stinky!" Ferranzo directs his scorn at Mok. "I hear they call you the ‘the skunky monk.’ They have to fumigate the temple every time you leave it. You’re known for your odor, not your order. Your foul trail is so strong you worry about tripping over it. Watch those stained feet of yours."
Mok is concerned; nothing She ever said involved his odor. He has always taken great pains on maintaining his personal hygiene; were people really talking about him behind his back?
Mok takes 2 psychic damage.

Eugenios forms another hand chill with the cold from the grave. It's been his go-to spell for apprehending suspects for years; when he sees the opening, he forms the hand almost automatically. The hand flies across the sanctuary and clutches onto the back of Mok's neck, immediately draining the life from him. Whoops!
Mok takes 3 necrotic damage and falls to the ground, shriveled and dead.

For having survived the fight with the cultists in the sanctuary of the Temple of Merikka, each PC gains 85 XP.

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21 - Look Dead
20 - Morton (8/15)
18 - Aanbo (19/27)
13 - Chase (6/17)
13 - Chon Dead
12 - Ember (7/12)
12- Acolyte Asleep, Sanctuary (-1)
11 - Mok (Dead)
10 - Lyrel (2/13) Mage armor
9 - Myrtha (23/30)
6 - Arya (0/19) Stable
6 - Ferranzo (8/8)
5 - Eugenios (8/8)

The party is in the sanctuary inside the Temple of Merikka with three obviously dead bodies (Look, Chon, and Mok), one not-quite-dead body (Arya), one sleeping cleric (the acolyte), and at least one nearly-dead adventurer (Lyrel). The large jade statue of Merikka looks down on you, glimmering in the lamplight. Several tapestries adorn the granite walls. Two open doors lead off this room - one to the east and one to the west - and two closed doors are set in the southern wall on either side of the hall leading back to the entrance/exit.

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Aanbo (19/27)
Acolyte Asleep
Arya (0/19) Unconscious, Stable
Chase (6/17)
Ember (7/12)
Eugenios (8/8)
Ferranzo (8/8)
Lyrel (2/13) Mage armor
Morton (8/15)
Myrtha (23/30)

Chase and Myrtha hog tie the acolyte, using another 6' of rope (Myrtha has 19' of rope remaining), holding him down as he comes awake. Eugenios searches the man as he struggles against his bonds with wide-eyed fear. Aside from his robe and sandals, the man has some prayer beads around his neck. His left arm has been branded with the spiral symbol high up on his biceps; the scar has mostly healed, suggesting either that he was healed with magic (the livid spear puncture scar on both sides of unconscious Arya's neck looks somewhat similar, though not as raised as the man's scar) or that he was burned weeks ago.

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Aanbo (19/27)
Acolyte Hog-tied
Arya (0/19) Unconscious, Stable
Chase (6/17)
Ember (7/12)
Eugenios (8/8)
Ferranzo (8/8)
Lyrel (2/13) Mage armor
Morton (8/15)
Myrtha (23/30)

Chase quaffs all of one healing potion. He has one remaining.
Chase regains 6 HP.

Eugenios forces the struggling man down and saws at his clothing, cutting off the sleeve of his robe to get an unobstructed view of the captive's mutilated biceps. Ignoring the man's terrified pleas, the gnomish investigator unrolls a sheaf of parchment papers, finds one that isn't already full of notes, and begins to sketch the spiral symbol. The others - most of whom are by now intimately familiar with the spiral symbol of the cult themselves - watch impassively.

Time passes as the party watches him draw.

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Aanbo (19/27)
Acolyte Hog-tied
Arya (0/19) Unconscious, Stable
Chase (12/17)
Ember (7/12)
Eugenios (8/8)
Ferranzo (8/8)
Lyrel (2/13) Mage armor
Morton (8/15)
Myrtha (23/30)