Alton scoots back roughly five feet to get out of the creature's reach before firing off a ray of searing hot energy to distract him as he gets up going to charge him once he catches his breath.
"Rekhit, hit Arasmes once with the wand now!"
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The creature bites at Alton as he stands up, but the force of his protections keeps the teeth from doing damage. Though with the simple contact he takes some acid damage.
With Alton's scorching ray the creature burns and lays still as the blood boils off and the body breaks apart slowly as it burns. With the prescence of another spell the runes and lines on the floor glow red once more but nothing happens yet. The glow stays and does not dissipate.
if hit then grab
They can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, the body's blood becomes acidic as well as any other fluids apart of the body, they have to consume flesh to stay in the material realm. Some have grown to gargantuan sizes and mutate every time their size category grows. Positive energy is their weakness but if near magic for a certain amount of time they can become resistant to magic and different elements.
"whew, got any spells left after that? Also, what do you make of these magic lines?
"Rekhit, continue to use the wand until he is restored then give the wand back to me," he streaches "that fight was more chalanging than expected, took a bit out of us, eh?" The imp grumbles something in infernal "look we're in enemy teratory I don't have time to ask so I order, get to work, and you can have a saucer of saki when this is over"
Grumpiness of his familiar felt with, Alton looks down at himself and frowns at the grime covering his regal figure, he decides to remove the pieces of puesudo insect first, his gloves actuate and hundreds of tiny blades slink from the gloves making surgical precise cuts in his skin not seeming to flinch as his skin knits back together closing up at the removal of the barbs he then takes out a rag and removes a large portion of the grime from his body
Satisfied he has made himself as presentable as he can afford to take the time of he then sheathes his sword and examines the magic circle
Taking out his Traveler's Any-Tool, he flips it around to extend a small blade from one articulated arm and a small pair of tweezer-like grips from another, and goes to pull the remains out of his shoulder.
Putting that away, he pulls out a small vial and drinks it.
unless something Alton sees when he checks for traps persuades him otherwise he tells his companion about what he noticed with the blood moving, and keeps studying the scircle for another 6 seconds
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About a half minute goes by still nothing happening. Then the red runes and lines explode with arcane magic leaving behind the bits and blood in the center of the room starting to take form of another creature. Many bat like wings cover its body. The wings make it look bigger than it really is for it is still small, about the size of two of the bloodsuckers put together.
if incapable of disarming the trap in time alton flanks it with his imp
"have you any ideas where our comrades are"
"nice work on that weird blood magic trap. Our comrades... the little one is stoking the flames of the forge, and Azulth was hopping around on the broken rafters when last I saw him, hopefully he hasn't fallen to his death."
"Phooie, I do so hope that the little one does not cause then to explode" he muses"but our comrad might be hurt, our first responsibility is to him let's go to where you last saw him and try to work out where he is from there"
"Yeah, let's check on him, then inspect the rooms of this level. Then head downstairs. Maybe before heading downstairs, get the others to set up shop on this level to guard our backs and get to their work?"
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Arasmes and Alton make there way back to the chapel ready for a chance of a pugwampi barrage. None comes though, now standing in the center of the chapel what do you do?
If you follow them they take you to the edge of the upstairs, point bows down at your two friends, shaking their heads and pointing bows at them. Waiting for your approval or not.
Azulth watches the miming and shakes his head. "I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR WEIRD LITTLE FREAK SPEECH!" When they start motioning him to follow, he throws himself out of the throne and joins them. At the stairs, he shakes his head. "No, those are out friends. They're cool." He peers over the side and waves.
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"king rat... there are worse things to be. Just keep the misfortunate buggers away from me."
"Still can't remember my name, it's Alton, not that hard to remember" he mutters
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"Sure... but maybe send those things to scout below... I dont want their aura around me."
"--yeahI'mgettingthere--" You see Azulth shrug and scratch his head.
"Just throw one down there and point? I dunno."
"" With that, Azulth attempts to push the nearest of the pugwampis off the rafters to the ground below.
As the little gremlin creature falls through the air and crashes to the ground, Azulth looks pointedly at the others and jabs his scimitar at it. "Uh, follow?"
"If they're like the others they speak gnole and undercommon, the latter of those I also speak"
"Oh, well then. Maybe Azulth should bark orders and Alton can be his royal interpereter."
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With the easy trip of two of the pugwampis and pointing at the floor the rest of them head down as well. Once down and Alton interprets to explore for the group the little gremlins head off in different directions soon they are bringing back items for the group.
Three pouches they bring you...
Twenty long wirily sticks, a box of a dozen tinder twigs, five pint glasses, a jug of wine, and a small cask of ale.
A half wheel of cheese, a salted ham, two loaves of bread, a knife, seven thunderstones, two alchemist's fire, two sunrods, two smoke sticks and a note saying, 'Go back back to the safe room and take a day to rest and enjoy the light show. With the room being Hallowed all should be fine.'
Five foot long card board tubes which smell of burning powder each are 2 inches in diameter, three boxes with fuses that come out at one of the corners each has an arrow on the side and instructions that say, 'arrow aimed at the ceiling then light the fuse', and a 10 foot long hemp rope with extra small cardboard tubes tied to the side of it back and forth with a fuse that comes out on either end of the rope.
Baris the halfling follows the last group with the package, "Umm I thought we were killing these vermin what's different?"
"They seem to have elected our comrad to be their leader, we are reassessing what to do at this juncture" he says goin through the pouches, taking the alchemists fire and one it the thunder stones.
"We should probably kill them before returning, I believe that was a condition of the success of our mission."
"Yeah, they're kinda creeping me out, too." Azulth slashes his scimitar through the air a couple times. "Plus I'm pretty sure I told that hot girl that we'd deal with them. Who was she, again?"
"Well that seems a consensus, all for the killing of the pests, bar one abstention" he says pointing at himself briefly "but perhaps we should get them together make sure we have everything valuable removed from here"
"yeah, and trap them in fire."
"Do any of us other than myself have any fire magics? " he looks to his comrades each in turn.
"Given time, I could make some fire flasks. That's about it."
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After being ignored again the halfling leaves, unless attention is given.
The 'vampire' has seemed to dissappeared, Jellissa is with the horses waiting for the all clear sign or something, the expedition awaits your return to move into this location, this being the closest location likely habitable to use as an outpost until the town can be claimed.
"They seem to have elected our comrad to be their leader, we are reassessing what to do at this juncture" he says goin through the pouches, taking the alchemists fire and one it the thunder stones.
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The halfling sticks around interested in what you are doing but gives you and the pugwampis plenty of room. He obviously does not like the filthy gremlins.
The pugwampis all collect in the chapel watching and waiting, they all have weapons but most are stowed in belts or lay on the ground nearby. The last ones come down and no more show up for several minutes. There is just over 17 of them.
"There is the Magmin but it is uncontrollable." The halfling offers when Alton asks about fire and looking at the other two humans.
"Magmin?" Arasmes asks of Baris.
"Yes, you know the creature of fire that came out earlier, it is in the forge right now." Baris says slightly confused why Arasmes is asking, it would make more sense if Azulth the one he does not know had asked.
"Magmin? Sounds like magma. Wonder who names those things, they could stand to be a little more original." Azulth comments offhandedly. He swings his scimitar a couple times and looks to the others. "Well, now what? We wanna get that fire thing over here, or just slaughter these guys? Maybe try and just force them out, they're kinda harmless, even if they're ugly and annoying."
I think that first we should wring every bit of valuables we can from them, see if they have any gold or magic items, a group this size it's at least possible tha they have some
"These vermin?! Really, well why don't you tell them to do that then? They seem to have followed your orders so far." The halfling says with a bit of skepticism.
"right whatever we do we should get on with it, these creatures are driving me crazy, such foul smell, they must bathe less often than azuluth"
Azulth gives Alton a look and raises a finger, then puts it down. "Yeah, you're right, they do smell. Should we just start slashing, then? Sounds like the fire thing isn't gonna work, and we can just find anything valuable later on. I can't really tell them anything complicated."