Kaelic draws his crossbow and fires a bolt at the creature.
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Kaelic fires, but just misses the creature!
Dagon fires his crossbow and reloads as he sings.
Dagon fires and misses as well!
Maffei follows the group's lead and misses as well!
Apparently, missing is infectious, because the hulking grioth misses with all of it's attacks as well!
Seeing his teammates struggle, Dagon lets his song waft, then steps forward and bolsters Juma's abilities with a spell.
"Hold still!"
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"GRRRAAAHHHH!!!!"
"Juma."
"What are you doing?"
"Juma."
"Stahp."
Kaelic sees the distressed fighter in distress and attempts to blind the giant (and apparently very agile) grioth.
Dagon continues to bolster his party!
Juma swings twice, but the creature easily dodges both blows!
Kaelic casts a spell, hitting the creature with a burst of light! The hulky grioth growls in pain, but appears only dazzled by the light!
Maffei steps southwest, hoping to set up a flank, while she slashes the creature twice, doing much damage, but it still stands!
The gritoh attacks in a fury, slashing Juma with it falchion, but missing a more deadly strike!
"Ow! Stop it! Stop moving!"
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"Dagon, use the wand or move out of the way!" Kaelic orders with his usual pleasant tone.
Juma strikes the grioth hulk, once, dropping it to unconsciousness!
"Yay! Now let's loot the body!" Kaelic cheers, then pausing. "Er, wait. Questions. Yes. So... how do you propose to wake this thing up without it killing us all?" he asks Juma, the self-assumed brains of the operation.
"Maybe by disarming him? And also taking away his weapon, just in case?"
Searching the brute, you find a +1 cruel Medium voidglass falchion and a breastplate.
"Alright, does anyone have any rope to tie him up so we can question him?" Kaelic says, much more assured now that his armor and weapon are gone.
"Juma's got some. Get to it, fighter man."
Juma adds the shiny new sword to the growing armory on his back, then pulls out the rope and starts tying.
"Now one of you two make yourself useful with that happystick while I'm doing this, okay?"
Kaelic produces smelling salts and hands them to the fighter after curing his wounds. "Use this to wake it up while I heal myself."
Juma takes a seat on the floor next to the grioth's head (or above it, from the prone grioth's perspective), then holds out his staff like a fishing rod, with the flaming end sitting about two inches above the monster's face. He then leans forward and uses the smelling salts.
Waking the brute, Juma speaks to the creature, but is only met with a stare. Then he hears a voice in his head.
"Oh, a telepath, eh? Neat! Now, you want to know why we didn't kill you? Because I think we can come to mutually beneficial arrangement. Now, use actual words so my friends can hear you as well. Thanks."
The creature stares at Juma for a moment, then says, in broken Common. "What you want with Glordath?"
"We want name of boss. Your boss."
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Kaelic takes this opportunity to investigate the area for doors under rugs and such.
"I serve the Great and Powerful Aeteperax!" The grioth repies with fervor.
Kaelic finds nothing of interest in the room.
"Yeah, yeah, the great and powerful Osteoporosis. I mean your boss's real name!"
"You know, that naughty word he doesn't like you to say."
The hulk shakes his head. "Me not know real name. Only the Great and Powerful Aeteperax!"
"Really? Because that would make you useless to us."
"More so than Dagon." adds the little gnome.
"I guess it's time to move on, then," Juma says, beheading the beast with its own sword. "Where next?"
"Grisly."
Kaelic checks the door to the north for traps. "You characters look around for money or something while I keep you safe."
Kaelic checks the door to the north and opens it to find a long storeroom. It contains old supplies used for bookbinding and writing. but nothing else of interest.
The corridor to the west leads to an otherwise empty room that contains three bedrolls and evidence of something like a campsite.
The room to the south contains metallic coffins with vents in their lids that 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.
"These are meditation coffins. The monks used them for fasting and sensory deprivation. It's not very common anymore. I'd say whoever was meditating in that one got a raw deal." Kaelic says, indicating the coffin with the stones on top.
"That looks like something you might do to keep an undead creature locked away... Moving on, then?"
"Yeah, good call Dagon."
"That's a thought. But what if the undead creature has treasure." Kaelic points out.
"Tell you what: if you go and open it up, and there's treasure and no danger, or danger that you can handle by yourself, then you can keep that treasure. If instead you open it up and I have to get involved, then any treasure is mine."
"We still have a bunch of alchemist's fire, right? Let's go see if anything is visible in there. If it's still kicking, we just pour fire on it until it's dead."
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Peering through the vent holes, you can see, and smell, the remains of a corpse.
"Helloooooo corpse! Are you awake?" Kaelic asks, poking at it with a dagger.
The room to the south contains metallic coffins with vents in their lids that 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.
Dagon detects no magic in the coffin, and Kaelic gets no reply.
"I think it's safe, but Dagon thinks it's worthless. I guess we can always come back and check it out. Maybe ask that druid fellow about it." With that, Kaelic draws his sword and mace before running off to get into more trouble.
"OK, moving on then."