Dave shakes himself free of the paralyzing psychic attack from an alternate dimension and steps up to defend his Elven companion.
Two goblins go down to the might of the party! The last one tries to strike the cleric!
He misses and then dies from sheer fright!
The containers on the small tables in the main area hold mashed leaves, fungus, bark, and powdered roots.
Southwest Chamber: The goblins here were using a crude mashing, straining, and casking facility to create goblin wine. A dirty straining bin stands nearby, as well as ten 2-gallon casks of the end product.
North Central Chamber: The two goblin commoners that were in here were currently repairing dirty goblin armor with cord, iron needles, leather patches, and other crude implements of tailoring.
South Central Chamber: There were three goblins in here to monitor the health of a diseased giant rat, which is strapped spread-eagled onto a wooden bench. The rat suffers from horrible tumors that look woody and fruit-like. On a stand in the corner is a fancy crystal vial (worth 5 gp) that contains some sort of elixir.
Northeast Chamber: Extra weapon stores include five battered scimitars, six shortbows, and forty arrows.
Southeast Chamber: The room stands empty, and the caved-in back wall leads to a natural rift in the earth.
Look! Plants.
These, of course, look very familiar. We might make use of these herbs.
I'm certain that elixir would bring the same fate as befell that rat...
Find piece, Little One.
Dave gently slides a dagger into the rodent.
Dave gives mercy to the rat as he is able to identify a couple of the items throughout the area. Seeing that Morgran is injured, Erky steps into the area and heals as best he can.
Lebris agrees that they are plants.
Lebris will grab the arrows and will pour out the stuff in the elixir to keep the pretty vial.
after gathering this stuff, Lebris will move towards the southeastern corner to head down the rift
Glad that his Elven friend is safe, Dave follows at a respectable distance to keep his clanking from alerting monsters to the thief's presence.
Can Lebris see where the scorch marks are and do they appear to be coming from the ceiling or from the walls?
Lebris will motion Dave to come up to join him
Dave does and notes that the Northern passage that almost certainly leads back to where they arrived.
Lebris is unable to see any type of scorch marks or figure out if the source of the smell resonates from here or another portion of the passageways.
Once the party has gathered together, Lebris will take the first right and start moving that direction cautiously
If there are no objections from the rest of the party
As suspected by the insightful fighter, the hallway leads to a door that dumps back into the original chamber.
After seeing we are back where we started, Lebris will move down to examine the rest of the rift, before heading for the paved walkway of the southern tunnel.
If there are no objections from the party.
Dave follows
The rift widens, creating a cavern-like chamber. Small, two-foot-diameter holes riddle the node. A dim fiery glow shines out of one such hole.
Dave raises a hand of restraint, then wiggles his fingers to underscore the "fiery" nature of the glow, while raising his eyebrows in concern.
Lebris sees Dave's wiggling, and tries to sneak into the room to see if he can get a better look at the dimly glowing fiery thing.
Feyce is simply following the others.
Plan was to stay against the walls and get as close as possible, but staying quiet.
Lebris looks for the source of the glow but doesn't seem ready when the source presents itself! What appears to be a fiery legless lizard leaps from one of the holes in the ground and attacks the hapless rogue!
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The rogue falls in a smoldering heap to the strange creature! The enemy then retreats further back into its lair!
Dave dashes into the cavern, grabs (the lightly armored and less cumbersome than Morgran) Lebris, then retreats and dumps the smoldering elf at the cleric's feet.
There's some kind of fiery snake back there... but I have no idea what it's called.
Dave sends in the recovery team; himself! He has no idea what this flaming snakething is, however.
It's a fire snake. It's immune to fire and resistant to non-magical weapons but vulnerable to cold. If you touch it or hit it with a melee attack within 5 feet of it, you will take fire damage.
Feyce enters the room and fires a Ray of Frost at it. for plus its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of my next turn.
Have an ice day. Feyce chuckles to himself at his "humor."
Lebris seems to roll over and spasm at the elf's comment from beyond
The snake recoils slightly as the cold arcane magic strikes him! He doesn't seem to understand Feyce's joke, whether its because of a lack of understanding the Common tongue or he simply finds the quip to be more ridiculous rather than humorous is beyond the party's scope of abilities.
The snake then leaps forward to take revenge on the spellcaster!
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Erky then casts and revives the fallen rogue!
The cleric moves forward and casts Sacret flame Dex save 13 against the Fire Snake.
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That's it, no more Mr. Ice Guy. Snow long, reptile; Dave is going to sleigh you now.
Morgran lands his spell! The snake hisses its displeasure!
Dave wishes he had a magic sword and plunges headlong toward the fiery salamander threatening his friends!
Lebris will stand up a little wobbly, nod his thanks to Erky and fire an arrow cross-eyed at the fiery thing
Nah, I'll Disengage and move.
Hey, I just remembered -- I'm not a melee guy.
The fire snake takes on the assault of the fighter but manages to continue fighting!
The creature, enraged by Dave's attack, decides to try and penetrate the armor of the fighter instead of moving toward softer meat!
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Dave's armor protects him from the teeth of the enemy but not the heat, though the burn is mild at best.
Erky decides to heal the rogue some more.
THAT BURNS! This thing is HOT! Can someone just zap it while I keep it occupied?
Dodge.
A well-placed arrow from Lebris ends the threat! In its nest, the adventurers find two sapphires (worth 50 gp each).
Feyce (-6)
Dave (-6)
Lebris (@ 9 HP)
Lebris will move back to the hallway leading north, but will wait for Dave to go first.
The hallway that leads north ends in a door. You can surmise that this door will lead into the original chamber that you fought the gardener skeletons in.