Shriek cleans the blood in his sword as the creature falls to the ground. He smiles back at Orell "Some fancy holes there two friend. Grrroar!"
Helping Yasmin to check the rooms, the half-orc heals himself from the open wounds.
"The northern door, then!"
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Searching the room the monster came from you only find a breastplate and a +1 cruel Medium voidglass falchion on the beast. Going north and looking in the small room, it contains old supplies used for
bookbinding and writing. They are not of value.
The western door opens to an indoor camp. This otherwise empty room contains three bedrolls and evidence of something like a campsite. Carefully looking around, you find nothing of interest.
The southern door is more interesting. Metallic coffins with vents in their lids form a line along the southern wall of this room. Numerous large stones are heaped atop the westernmost coffin, and a foul smell of decay fills the air. The ceiling is low, making the space feel cramped. Looking through the coffins, one is occupied with the body of a dead half-orc.
"There must be a good reason why that coffin is covered in large stones. Seems like whoever did that was afraid that whatever is in there might come out. With that mummy we faced earlier I am inclined to agree"
"Good idea Orell" Shriek moves to the dead half-orc body and checks it for anything of interest.
If nothing happens he moves to the eastern corridor with the rest of the party and into F19.
Yasmin shrugs "Don't say I did not warn you" and readies her weapons
"There is nothing else left here, grroar!" Shriek starts moving through the eastern corridor "Let's check what lies ahead in the next room"
Once reached F19 door, he let's Yasmin examine it for traps, then opens it and moves in.
"Let's see what is behind this secret door!"
Yasmin has her rapier out and is ready to enter the hidden chamber.
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You open the secret door. A recessed mesh of iron g ridwork crisscrosses the northern end of this room. Hundreds of tiny blue runes have been painted inside of each of the small squares formed by the
grid pattern. A long-dead figure lies slumped against the wall
to the northeast.
As you enter the room, a creature of air and fury runs at you as fast as it can!
Shriek tries to recognize the creature while he moves forward to an attack position and slashes at the creature while holding up his shield.
Yasmin steps in and attacks the creature
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Round 1, FIGHT!
Orell Destiny: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 SHOTS TWICE!
Finn Lochlan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Yasmin: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 Jumps into action
monster: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 flurry of things!
Samuel Soulkeeper: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Orell doesn't spend time thinking, he spends time shooting. Shots twice, hits once. The arrow breaks off in the beast but didn't do as much damage as expected.
Yasmin hops right into action. She hits hard and nearly confirms the damage but misses. Still a strong hit the bounces off the creature.
The creature then responds with a brutal flurry against Yasmin.
Samuel takes the pragmatic approach and leans its a Belker. It has DR5/-. He then misses on an attack on the demon.
Round 2, FIGHT!
Yasmin circles around, waiting for Shriek to do the same and then quickly hits with her swords and also tears a chunk out of the demon with her bite.
Shriek steps to the side trying to set a flank for Yasmin sneak attacks. He then hacks at the creature "A Belker! Groarr!"
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Round 2, FIGHT!
Orell Destiny: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24 SHOOT HER! SHOOT HER!
Finn Lochlan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
monster: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 flurry of things!
Samuel Soulkeeper: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 SLICE!
Yasmin: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12 delay and attack AGAIN!
The creature then responds with a brutal flurry against Yasmin.
Samuel then moves into position and slices hard into the beast.
Yasmin then moves into position hitting hard all three times!
ROUND 3, FIGHT!
"We need to end this fast, grrroar!"
"What do you think we are doing here, playing with it!?" Yasmin says while she attempts to place her rapier where it is supposed to hurt
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Samuel and Yasmin warm it up, Orell gets real mad, and then knocks it down! Orell fills it full of enough arrows to kill it. It falls and dissipates into the air.
Looking over the room, The withered and rent body lies in the northeast. The priest's robes are rotten, but a pouch at her side still
contains a scroll of cure critical wounds, a scroll of flame strike, a scroll of protection .from energy, and a scroll of summon monster V.
You find nothing else in the room. Where would you like to go next?
Shriek picks up all the scrolls, giving whatever ones Finn is interested in to him "I will keep the rest"
"Let's keep exploring" the half-orc moves to explore F21 and F22, letting Yasmin check for traps first in the door.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll check for traps"
"That's certainly ok for me Finn! Grooar!" the half-orc seems happy as he waits for the door to open.
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You carefully continue into the room with stairway. It descends to haunted dormitory (area F14) and ascend to the bell tower gallery (area F25).
You put assenting into the back of your mind and move into the last room on this floor, and move into the kitchen. It appears to have been used recently, though the strange stains and smells don't seem like they were created by preparing food. A cauldron of bubbling fluid sits atop a small fire burning in one of the fireplaces. You search the room with Yasmin's monster bonus and find someone used this room as an improvised alchemical lab. The fluid in the cauldron is a strange alchemical catalyst she created as a side effect of another experiment.
Otherwise the room has nothing of value. What do you want to do next?
"So what have you uncovered Finn?" Shriek also uses detect magic in the cauldron.
"Let's move to the upper area of the tower bell"
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looking at the material in the pot, you are unable to identify what it might have been. Undeterred, you move on, and enter the bell tower. Scattered about this room a re coils of thick rope and three large bells. There is no cei ling-merely the steeple of the monastery's bell tower high above, accessible via a spiral stair to the south. A long rope dangles down from above, attached to the great bell sixty feet overhead.
"After I have checked for traps"
"Yeah, let's look what is past that southern door. Grrroarrr!" Shriek points the door and starts searching the room while Yasmin checks the door for traps.
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Carefully checking for traps, you find it safe. You then enter the room A wooden veranda runs around the edges of this atrium. A large planter, overgrown with various shrubberies and plants, grows in the center of the area under the open sky. Staring up into the sky you see a moon naga lost in thought. As the door creaks, the trance is broken, but she only stares deep into you and says, Oh! Pardon me, but have you heard word from Szangi? He's not emerged from his lair since his last visit to that little human village, and I worry for the dear!
"Szangi?" Shriek tries to quickly think and find if he has heard this name before or guess what the naga might refer to.
"We might know him... but... before we explain us we need to know who are you and your relation to the dragon" the half-orc tries to be sympathetic to the naga, trying to avoid conflict if possible.
Yasmin stands befuddled at the naga's non-violent reaction.
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As soon as Samuel says the name, the naga snaps to attention "No! I mean Mighty Aeteperax! Don't tell him I said that! She looks at you with shame and horror in her eyes.
She then looks at you after you try to talk to her, You're not here to hurt him are you? She then begins mumbling and rocking back and forth while waiting for your response.
"No, we just happen to be mushroom hunters" Shriek looks serious at the naga while he adds "Would you like him dead? What is this place?"
"As Shriek said, we are to get the mushrooms. Did you see any?"