Rowena takes 10 for her Stealth check of 48.
After appearing in the stairwell behind the secret door leading down, you wait until Rowena appears and you let her in. Quintus is closest to the door so he is about to approach it to let her in, when Kelkzar quickly grabs his arm before he steps onto the platform. There is a very faint symbol here. Kelkzar is unable to know what it is, but points it out to Rauno. Studying it, he identifies it as a greater glyph of warding spell, though he does not know what it will do without having read magic available. It will prevent Rowena from joining you unless it is either dispelled or set off.
DC 21
"I can try to dispel it, unless any of you have better ideas."
Quintus casts dispel magic to rid the glyph. He feels the spell resist his magics, but his force of will and faith bolster and the glyph soon fades from view.
Rowena comes soon after and you let her in. Descending the stairs to you come to another wall. Kelkzar out front soon finds the means to open that secret door, leading out into a small room.
This square room contains three plain wooden coffins. Two coffins lie along the south wall, while a third has been placed in the north part of the room. Several empty sacks are piled near the third coffin. Before Kelkzar can move any closer into the room, the three coffins open to reveal a nearly skeletal zombie, save that it is infested with writhing green worms that bulge and drip from its eyes and mouth. These three creatures are the same as you fought in the basement of Blackwall Keep.
- Trevor, Quintus, Rauno, Rowena, Kelkzar, Spawn
AC 11 T 9 FF 12 CMD 16
Trevor moves first not caring if these undead creature hit him and he moves past Kelzar and attacks the creature
*Hit*
Quintus easily resists the creatures' aura, then raises his well-worn wooden ankh high and calls on Sarenrae's power to strike down the undead.
1 Round
1 Round
Seeing the undead abominations again, Kelkzar snarls "Looks like we found the first part of the secret." Moments later the fires of Ragathiel's fury cloud Kelkzar's eyes and he steps into the room slashing his falchion furiously against the first of the spawn.
Rowena moves forward and tumbles into the room, ending up in the square two east of Trevor.
Then she swipes at the southeast spawn's legs to up end it.
Kelkzar slices the near him killing it outright in his first blow and moves further in making a solid wall of defense after Rowena slides in next to him.
Rowena slams her Bardiche into the undead creature crawling with worms as it stands, but it withstands the blow, steps towards her and tries to bite her, but is infective.
The other remaining spawn tries to bite Kelkzar, but it too is lumbering far too slow after Quintus's channel interferes with its abilities.
- Trevor, Quintus, Rauno, Rowena, Kelkzar, Spawn
AC 11 T 9 FF 12 CMD 16
Trevor steps back and lays to waste the remaining two creatures.
Combat Over
With Quintus neutralizing the Spawn with his channeling, the undead creatures go down easy.
"We don't have much time. Let's get moving. Were any of you hurt?"
The passageway leads to the east and branches to the north. Both lead to a door.
"Kelkzar, do you see any sign of people having come through here recently?"
"Strange. I remember those unkillable zombies being a lot more unkillable before."
"I too am unharmed and you're right about the "unkillable" zombies. I'll take a look Quintus."
Trevor clasps Rowena on the shoulder and says with a smile: "Well, your fighting skills have improved tenfold; this whole series of events has offered great lessons and forced us to step up and be counted..."
His thoughts immediately turn to his great lost love Rafan, and he blushes slightly as mixed emotions collide within him.
He blurts: "Ok, let's move on then?"
Kelkzar sees that most of the foot traffic is between the previous room and the one to the east. He sees nothing to the north.
Rowena grabs Trevor's hand, staring deeply into his eyes, searching for the cause of the blushing. Not really finding it, she returns her own shoulder clasp and small smile.
"Can't tell who or what has bn here Quintus, but unless they fly all the movement is between here and the room to the east. I don't see any traffic leading north. Keep following the path more traveled?"
The cleric nods. "We want to find Lahaka, and we want to find evidence against Raknian. That means looking where people are, or have been."
"Very well. Let's see how badly they're trying to keep out visitors." Kelkzar moves to the door and checks it for traps.
Kelkzar opens the door. The air in this large hall is particularly noisome. The northern wall is almost completely covered by the remains of a wooden bookshelf, whose contents have long ago crumbled to dust. The southern part of the aisle is occupied by dusty pieces of ancient, ruined machinery that may have once comprised sets of semi-automated combat dummies.
Inside the room are six more spawn and another creature that has a thick tangle of discolored entrails that clings to this lurching skeleton’s torso and winds upward to loll from its jaw like a clawed tongue.
- Rauno, Kelkzar, Quintus, Enemies, Rowena, Trevor
AC 11 T 9 FF 12 CMD 16
AC 23 T 15 FF 18 CMD 30
Lovely...
"It's a mohrg!"
What's a mohrg?!
Rauno webs the room carefully keeping the front Spawn free.
"Yeah, I've heard of them before. Thanks for the webs to keep that tongue off us Rauno."
Kelkzar tips his head back and roars a challenge at the undead, then takes a step forward looking to cut his way through the first pair of the spawn. He swings his falchion in a nasty backhand against the one on his left, seeking to separate its head from its body. Then slowing the arc of the blade, he swings it back in a forehand.
Kelkzar chops through the first Spawn of Kyuss and nearly finishes off the second with his follow through. If it hadn't been covered with those worms, Kelkzar might have chosen to bite down on its throat!
Quintus up before the Spawn!
Quintus moves up to just behind Kelkzar, murmuring a prayer to Sarenrae. In response, a gleaming scimitar appears in the air beside the wounded Spawn and slashes at it, but misses.
(Escape Grapple)
SoK #3 (by the doors) initially is caught in the webs, but manages to wriggle out and reach for the door and opens it.
(Escape Grapple)
(Move)
Sok #4 (South of #3) also gets out of the webs and moves forward to Kelkzar, ready to bite and infect him with worms.
(Move)
(Escape Grapple)
SoK #5 steps towards the open door and instantly gets caught. It struggles again with the webbing and breaks free, but its progress has been halted for now.
(Move)
(Move)
SoK #6 moves through the webs with ease reaching Kelkzar as well.
(Move)
(Move)
The Mohrg has no problem moving through the webs, however it has to take a roundabout route to get around the machinery so makes little progress to get to the rest of you.
- Enemies, Rowena, Trevor, Rauno, Kelkzar, Quintus
AC 11 T 9 FF 12 CMD 16
AC 23 T 15 FF 18 CMD 30
Rowena spends a Ki point to give herself a speed boost, and zips around Kelkzar. She also activates her boots as she she tumbles around the spawn.
She ends up 2 squares north and 2 east of Kelkzar. She grabs the spawn they currently flank.
She hurls the spawn into the spawn next to her.
The two spawn still in the webs are hurled back each ten feet, webs torn asunder, while the spawn she threw ends up in front of them. All three end up prone.
She frantically wipes worms off her hands.
When the spawn she threw stands she takes a swipe at it with her bardiche, and if it approaches her, it can't take a five foot step so the movement will provoke also.
Trevor makes a face as Quintus just steps in the spot he was about to take to support Kelkzar, but smiles when Rowena clears some space. He moves quickly behind Kelkzar and stands beside Rowena.
From there, he lashes at the spawn facing Kelkzar, his fauchard whistling as he swirls it in a deadly arc.
Easily dodges the Spawn and throws it into the web into another one knocking them both down. Travor moves in behind her and kills the other spawn that Kelkzar hit before.
*miss*