Well done team... I think something foul, magics of the longshanks sort happened to this gob. Be careful what you handle in here.
He says making a great show of waving his hands and wiggling his fingers. He even mutters some mumbo jumbo for a moment to make it look like he was up to something...
Those things are fine i think perhaps I will need to make a more thorough examination out in the light but for now feel free to use those things.
He said already half bored with the monstrous gob. He was more interesting in what might have caused such a thing... that would be interesting indeed.
Puseater looks at the magic goblin, while shaking his head.
Now he worries about cursed things? Heh, let's see who laught more when another arm grows from his belly to help him with the large cursed stick he is holding.
What do you think the lids are hiding? Food for the Three of Seven? Shinies?
Asks the little gobling, while trying to remove one of the lids totally forgeting about dangers, monsters, traps or curses.
After searching the body, Tochack offers a brief prayer to the monstrous gobbo.
"Sticky, do you want to hold on this? Looks too bog for gobbos, but it's shiny!" the Sarenite says as he points to the .
When Pus tries to open one of the pits, Tochack stays right behind him, hoping that nothing jumps out.*
Each pit contains a single Zombie. If Auntie Targa was here, she'd probably die of happiness.
B10 - Blocked Stairwell
This twisting flight of stairs leads down to another level of this ancient complex. Unfortunately, it's completely blocked off by rubble.
B11 - Strange Chamber
This strange room is a fifteen-foot-diameter sphere. Several objects float in the room, spinning lazily in space - a ragged book, a scroll, a bottle of wine, a dead raven surrounded by a halo of floating and writhing maggots, and a twisted iron wand with a forked tip. Yet perhaps the most unnerving aspect of the room is the walls, for they are plated in sheets of strange red metal that ripple every once in a while with silent black electricity that seems to coalesce into strange runes or even words far too often for the effect to be chance.
Scroll - burning hands (CL 3)
Book - Lamashtu prayer book written in Abyssal (worth 100gp)
Wand - shocking grasp (28 charges remaining)
"Uuuuuuh..." Tochack stares into the Strange Chamber "Does it make sense that a room is evil? First time me thinks a room is evil.". He peeks warily into the room, but doesn't enter.
"Plays, can you tell us what those creepy floaty things are? Are they dangerous?" the grey gobbo asks the intelligent gobbo.
Plays's smart, he must know. He also brave, always works with books that steal words out of gobbos' heads.
Sticky is simply unable to resist the temptation of shiny, probably valuable, things just floating there. Just waiting. Not even guarded!
He bursts past the more cautious Tochack and snatches the sick!
Nothing bad happens! Sticky dances with his new stick and shoves it in his pack for later inspection.
He thought about chastising sticky about taking the stick so quickly... It was no doubt probably a magic wand of sorts and would probably be most useful in expanding his power. . . but the gob probably didnt have a clue how to use it, so he could always deal with that later... the book and the scroll however, those he moved torwards.
"Dont...touch the walls. It is some spell effect obviously, but im not sure the purpose. It might be a trap, it might be just cool visual effects dancing along the wall..
He ordered glad to be in a place that well... his answers were truly appreciated. Unlike like well most of his time in Licktoad tribe land.
No worries Brother Tochack, Just a wand no doubt, some sort of magic worded scroll and some strange book. It probably has weezard magics in it. I dont recognize the writing so I might have to study it to be sure. I think... this room is a ...
He paused blinking for a moment.
"Actually i dont know.We shoudl continue moving... just dont touch the red lectric walls unless you wants to end up a floaty dead thing like that bird.
He shrugged as if it didnt matter. It was certainly a mystery he could study at length later.
Sticky takes the wand back out when he finds out it's magic and starts turning it over and around. He wasn't sure where the magic was. Maybe he had to wave it around...
... but nothing happens. Hmmm. Maybe if he tried harder...
... so he waves it vigorously and screams some of the gibberish he heard Plays muttering earlier. The wand explodes in a cloud of sparks and light! Sticky flies back and lands near the door. He sits up with a huge grin. Every hair stands on end.
Sticky has magic blasty stick!
He covered his face with his hand and frowned for a moment. Sticky was going to kill himself... or them really at this rate.
"Can i uh.. see that wand Sticky, i might be able to get it to work right where you arent exploding yourself or us with it."
He said trying to diplomasize the disarming of the kleptgob. Though really, if he could surmise the command word and its usage he didnt mind teaching Sticky how to use it at all.
Sticky growls a little. The problem was that the kleptogob had a valuable something, and giving up valuables was simply not in his nature.
Lookie, no touchie! He allows.
Hey calm now, your my second best gob remember? you can keeps it I just dont want you blowing us all to peices
He said simply holding out his hand for the wand.
Sticky hesitates, but slowly surrenders the wand.
Tochack nods at Plays words, averting his gaze from the floaty written things.
Ah, we lucky we have Plays. Still, me still worried about those Birdcrunchers and that Seven Tooth monster gobbo be doing here, in place with scary black thunder-ed walls-
The goblin's pondering is interrupted by Sticky flying toward the door, missing him by an inch. "By Fire Hair's glowy firey scimitar! Sticky, you okay?"
Plays puts his prodigious brain to work analyzing the wand. After a few minutes, he figured out the command word!
Tochack sighs with relief when the wise Plays finds out the magic word to not make the wand go boom again.
"So, we finish exploring? There where other rooms on this floor, and me also saw other stairs. Maybe we find out who transformed Seven Tooth gobbo!" he asks the party, and moves out if everyone agrees.
Walking, the goblin holds his wounds with his hand: he felt that the Fire Hair would have granted him her powers for another time or two that day, but waited to do so in case his flock needed it more.
Me can still fight, but wonders why me can't do that healy thing other priests at the temple did... they prayed to Fire Hair and everyone around got glowy healed.
Since he has seen the first flying cursed item, Puseater was hidding in a far corner, just praying for his partners to not grow a third arm or just got converted in statues like the one holding the large spear.
But after a serie of BOOMs and wand use failures, the little gobling found himself rolling over the flor laughting.
Nyaahahaha, look, look, his hair smolders!
He handed the wand back to Sticky, hoping that he wouldnt go exploding them all anytime soon, with the appropriate command word. He didnt think it would work, but who knew maybe with enough practice he would figure it out.
So far nothing makes sense as to how that Gob got the third arm., their must be more here lets keep looking!
He said pointing torwards a direction they havent head just yet.
The tunnel widens here into what appears to have once been a small shrine, for the the northeast, steps lead up to a platform of gray stone. Sitting atop the platform is an ancient altar, little more than a jagged block of black marble with a shallow concavity on top of it. This basin is filled with what appears to be filthy water.
Sticky advances on the altar and examines it for anything valuable. So just about anything...
Tochack follows warily after Sticky: instead of concentrating on the altar (the cleptogobbo would surely find everything remotely shiny or valuable), the grey gobbo looks around the room.
If there was three armed gobbo, maybe there's invisible gobbos or something crazy like that...
For such an ancient ruin, this room is incredibly clean. There's barely even any dust! Clearly somebody's spent a lot of effort keeping the shrine neat and tidy.
Brrr, there is something unnatural in this room. Me don't like it.
Says the color-changing goblin, not used to tidy and clean places.
"Yeah, you right Pus!" Tochack nods to the kidney-lover, completely missing what he was trying to say. "If all room so tidy, why there's dirty water into altar? Very strange...".
After taking a deep breath, Tochack warily pokes the puddle with his scimitar, hoping that it didn't jump at him.
When Tochack pokes the water, ripples spread out from the sword point, extending until they reach the edge of the basin and disperse. In other words, nothing unusual happens.
Sticky looks unimpressed and promptly moves on.
He frowned as he looked about the room, He should have had the foresight to memorize more detect magics but to be honest he hadnt really expected their to be much their. Nevertheless this was strange enough that he muttered the words and perceived everything with an arcane light...
He slowly scanned the room, then his companions if anything sprang up all glowy he would of course focus on it to try and discern what exactly it did.
If Plays's magicky scanner doesn't ping, Tochack follows after Sticky and opens the next door.
This huge room looks like nothing more than an immense underground cathedral. Stone doors stand to either side of the main entrance, but beyond this, the walls are carved with strange spiky runes. In the center of the room is a large pool, with a ring of polished human skulls balanced on stone spikes arranged in a circle around the deeper midsection. At the far end of the room, a pair of stone stairways leads up to a pulpit on which stands a second pool, this one triangular and filled with churning, bubbling water that looks almost like translucent lava. Yet while wisps of what look like heat and steam rise from the strange orange liquid, the room itself is deathly cold.
A tiny demonic creature hovers over the pool and looks down at you when the door opens. With and expression of rage, she screams, "You will pay for defiling the Mother's sanctum!" Her words are not in any language you're familiar with, but you understand her perfectly. Pulling out a pint-sized dagger, she slashes her wrist and lets a few drops of blood fall into the orange pool. The liquid bubbles, and a sin-pawn emerges.
Combat Start
Sticky catches the worry and surprise on the flying thing's face and yells, Pool dims, looses power, and fly gurl not expect it! She be worried! Kill the bendyshanks!
His admonition is surprisingly inspiring.
"Mother's sanctum?" Tochack raises an eyebrow at the flying creature. Too far to charge the enemy this time, Tochack moves into the cathedral-like room: spinning swiftly, he prepares himself to attack.
With a suift stride, Puseater goes under the door's dintel, drawing his two dogslicers and geting ready to use them.
Defile? we not even started to do it! Here Play, the cursed gobbo will show you how to defile! Shouts the skinny gobling to demoralize the little flying thing. Then, whispering, he adds:
Uh, what is defile? you know you know??
YOU! What are you doing neath my Glassworks Flying moth!
He made a motion like he was picking his nose while quickly chanting at the motion of his flicking his finger at the flying creature a small glob of acid flew forth.
HP: 10/10
AC 13 T: 13 FF: 11
Spells memorized
0-detect magic, acid splash,flare
1- burning hands, burning hands, magic missle
Spells cast
0-flare, acid splash
1- magic missle
force missles 3/6
The sin-pawn charges at Tochack but stumbles over the shaft of its ranseur. The demon thing, meanwhile, flies closer and points a finger at Plays. "You will die first!"
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He blinked as he felt something cold... slide over him. He rolled his eyes at the strange flying thing.
Defile?It means to make unclean Pus...and really? Cause fear? pssh that spell is for children.
He moved forward and made that throwing motion, the streak of light impacting into the winged annoyances chest.
HP: 10/10
AC 13 T: 13 FF: 11
Spells memorized
0-detect magic, acid splash,flare
1- burning hands, burning hands, magic missle
Spells cast
0-flare, detect magic, acid splash
1- magic missle
force missles 2/6
The skinny goblin moves around tumbling to avoid the pawns of the creature, and once in his back, tries to stab it.
Again the tumbling takes its toll at the poor goblin who, dazed by its own sudden moves, strikes with the tip of his dogslicer at the floor, ruining it an making unable to penetrate the Sin-pawns skin.
Tochack prepares to strike the bentshanks, but its and Pus's stumbling distract him, making his hit not as effective.
Sticky, being unable to get to the bentshanks, does the next best thing and draws his wand! With a grin and a shout he screams the command word, and promptly explodes.
Plays! Yoo ... stoopid magic ... gobbo! You gives wrong ... word! Sticky screams between electrical twitches.
Plays smites the flying monster with a force missile, and Tochack carves a chunk from the sin-pawn's chest. The flying monster's wound begins to heal as she chants. When the chanting ends, three demonic eagles swoop to attack you!
Sticky is smoldering mad. And he's smoldering too, which does nothing for his mood. He screams in fury and dives at the nearest foe in a deadly temper tantrum.
The goblin, resigned, drops his ruined weapon while striking with its remaining dogslicer, stabing the aberrant creature in the groin, causing intense pain at it. Then, with a swift move, Puseater draws a shortsword with his, now, free hand.
Take pain, sin-pawn!
"eeeep" Tochack whimpers as the fiendish avian attack them. Trying to focus on one enemy at a time, he slashes at the Sinspawn.
you said it the wrong way Sticky, Its magic, Inflection is important!
He growled up taking a step back and waggling his fingers in a fan sprouting out magical words, a fan of flames leaving his hand and fanning out over the summoned eagles.
The sinspawn collapses under the combined assault of Pus and Tochack. Sticky bites one of the eagles, and Plays unleashes gouts of fire. An eagle disintegrates, and the other looks severely burned. The eagles retaliate with a flurry of talons and beaks, and it takes everything you have to dodge the assault. The flying demon thing, meanwhile, glares at Tochack. "You dare to attack my Lady's minion?!? Remain here to face Her wrath!" As you watch, her wound continues to heal.
New Round
Inexplicably, after the flying thingie glares at him, Tochack starts to spin slower, and slower, and slower...until he stands completely immobile.
Urgh.
Sticky tries again to bite the birdie, but doesn't even come close.
Hey stupid flappy bird... You use your magic on me!
Plays growled once more making a throwing motion at the flappy creature a missle of force rocketing out and striking it.
HP: 10/10
AC 13 T: 13 FF: 11
Spells memorized
0-detect magic, acid splash,flare
1- burning hands, burning hands, magic missle
Spells cast
0- detect magic, acid splash, flare,
1- burning hands, magic missle
force missles 2/6
Puseater attacks the nearest eagle with his two weapons, just looking at brother and his strange tactic.
Uh? Whats this? Are you practicing statue style? is it any good against birds?
Plays fires off two more force missiles at the flying monster. It takes damage but doesn't seem particularly injured. As you watch, its wounds continue to rapidly heal. An enraged Sticky bites his eagle. As he sinks his teeth into its neck, it disintegrates. Puseater swings mightily with his shortsword at the other eagle but misses. The bird, meanwhile, gives him a nasty peck before disintegrating. Tochack, meanwhile continues to struggle mightily against his magical shackles but is unable to break free until they vanish of their own accord. While all this takes place, the flying demon thing continues to scream insults to the "Filthy infidels who dare to defile Mother's Sanctum with their presence. New you will feel the sting of her teeth!" She pulls out a tiny dagger and hurls it at Sticky, striking him in the shoulder. Before he can react, the dagger flies back to your attacker, and she throws it into Plays' chest. A split second later, it flies back into her hand. "HAHAHAHAHA!!! Your pain pleases Mother. I will cover this room with your blood!"
New Round