You pass into a chamber covered with strange organic filaments, attached to pale pink ovoids.
With Ace and his familiar's help, Ixrul recognizes them as the eggs of a Locathah, fishlike humanoids who generally abhor combat.
Entering a smaller adjaent chamber, you see what you can presume to be their mother.
She is shackled to the wall, her legs savagely hacked off and crudely sewn shut.
Likewise crude "tattoos" have been carved into her orange, scaly flesh.
She looks up as you enter, but looks down again soon after, listless and obviously resigned to the fact that no matter who you are, it can't be good for her.
"Sandy, mind if you do that poor thing a favor and heal it a bit?" Ace remarks at the forlorn fish-thing.
"Why?"
"It's beyond my ability to mend, Ace. Besides its permanent injuries it's in perfect health."
"Eh, I just wanted to see if it will help us along or something."
"I doubt it."
Switching to Aquan, Ixrul calmly asks the creature if it can understand him.
It looks up at Ixrul and nods.
"Ask where is Krelloort."
Ixrul will translate for the others.
"In his chambers, probably." she bubbles.
"Where is chambers?"
"Excuse me if I can't give you directions, I've kind of been tied up." she ays, a spark of anger appearing in her eyes.
A sudden spark of viciousness appears in Ixrul's eyes. "It would be wise to be respectful."
"Kill me, don't kill me, it makes no difference."
Ixrul laughs merrily. "I can assure you, it makes a huge difference."
All the cheer drains from his face,and he turns to his compatriots. "Well, no use for it springs to my mind. Shall we put it out of its misery?"
"You are correct. The sweet release of death is far preferable to languishing in a sahauagin dungeon, fored to do nothing but breed and be tortured for the rest of my days." the spark in her eyes has fanned to an angry flame at this point, and she gnashes her teeth in fury...though not precisely at you.
Jrahk nods. "Cannot bring with us anyway."
He draws his falchion.
"I do not need my legs to swim." she points out.
"Fine," Ixrul says in Aquan.
Turning to his compatriots, he continues in common. "Bloodlust must not rule reason. Break the chains. It could perhaps earn us an ally."
Once freed, the matriarch moves about the room laboriously, gathering up her eggs.
"Despite your threats, I owe you a debt. I will repay it." she says simply, ad swims off with her eggs in tow.
"Odd creature, but I'm glad we could help it."
"Hmph."
We will continue exploring.
The next chamber appears to be some sort of feeding hall. 11 Sahuagin (three outfitted in fighting gear) are frenziedly devouring 6 locatha and an equal number of moray eels.
Despite you not even attempting stealth, they are entirely unaware of your presence.
Ixrul starts casting SM III.
Ace twiddles his thumbs as he watches the summoner go about his business.
Jrahk waits for the wizard to do his thing.
Small water elementals appear, and begin to go about the simple task of murdering the Sahuagin. They will focus on the unarmored ones first, only moving on after one is dead.
Jrahk charges at one of the armored Sahuagin.
Lucy remembers she's here.
And uses her element of surprise to go rage straight at an armoured foe.
Ace charges in and guts a baddie
Ixrul's elementals slaughter 3 unarmed, unarmored, elderly and infirm sahuagin!
Jrahk kills one of the actual threats, as does Lucy. Ace injures another, and since they can't possibly beat Lucy's initiative, Lucy slaughters the last.
The remaining sahuagin flee in terror!
Ixrul and company kill some more helpless creatures. Moving on.
Three tunnels branch off this large chamber, one to the west, one to the south, and one to the east.
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This leads into a chamber filled with seaweed.
There are sounds of things moving about inside.
Yar. Objects can be damaged just like anything else.
Ace does exactly that.
Ace cuts a 15 foot wide swathe through the seaweed. You can now see slightly farther.
Among the seaweed are several very surprised Sahuagin, one of which is now bleeding profusely.
Lucy (23)
Ace (21)
Sahuagin
Ixrul (16)
Sahuagin
Sahugin
Sahuagin
Sahugin
Jrahk (10)
Sahuagin
Sahuagin
Sahuagin
Lucy and Ace, you're up. Currently you are only aware that there are three Sahuagin.
The elementals swarm the injured sahuagin.
One of the elementals punches a Sahuagin so hard he coughs up a lung.