Embyr coughs and winces as the smoke disperses. Noticing the displeased look on Saersha's face, she cringes. "I'm sorry, ma'am--I... I have problems with bats."
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"Bats, bombs, and blushes - looks like we got the whole gamut of the letter 'b'," says Azura.
Sighing Saersha replied, "I understand, just remember that they are at least as scared of you and they won't bother you if you don't give them reason too." She stroked Embyr's shoulder gently, "It's over now so let's not worry about it."
Embyr looks a little better after Saersha's comforting touch.
"So, uh... I noticed there were a couple of doors off of the bath before the bats got involved. Should we explore those next?"
"Sounds like a plan." Ryn says striding up to the others, the scorched remnant of a torch in hand. "Everybody okay?"
Ulfr is behind her, slightly smoking. I'm good.
Ryn frowns as she notices that Azura, and Searsha and Ember for that matter and bleeding from numerous small scratches all over, though the former tower girl less so. "Damn, you're still bleeding! We need to get you all patched up." she says tossing the torch aside and moving over to Azura with concern.
About that time Ada walks in with Zev and hears that the other girls are a little injured. "Everyone stand close together." She channels positive energy.
”Thank you, Miss Ada.”
Following the passage the bats were guarding, the party finds a room whose floor is coated in bat guano. Stalls divide the western wall, and a stone bench & fountain stand to the east.
”Hey I think there’s something...” Zev sluggishly says as he moves over to the fountain. Reaching in he pulls something out before realizing what it is and dropping it on reflex.
Turning to the others he offers a sheepish smile before carefully picking the item back up. ”It’s a bracelet.”
"Yup, definitely need a long hot bath after this," Ryn utters as they enter the dropping filled chamber. "Anyone able to check it for magic?"
Ada will examine he bracelet with detect magic. "I'll look into it."
"Yes..." Azura says before she completes a brief cantrip.
Saersha felt the healing power wash over her and her wounds mend. The bats hadn't truly done much to her and the scratches were healed up. The damage to her clothing not so much and she resolved to deal with that when she had the time.
As they moved into the room the bats had guarded she looked around and cast her spell to see magic when Zev picked up the bracelet. She stepped forward with the others and said, "Just hold it up for all three of us to examine."
Azura leans forward and "hmms," but says, "I'm not sensing any magical powers from it."
"Maybe just something left behind by whoever we here last then." Ryn muses. "Looks pretty tarnished so it's probably been here for a while."
"Might as well bring it anyway," says Azura. "Maybe it'll shine up into a nice bauble."
"Yeah, I'm sure it'll look rather pretty once it's clean and polished." Ryn replies with a smile.
Zev hurriedly nods and offers it up for Azura, or anyone else, to take.
As the party starts to explore to the west of the baths, they hear a small *aCHOO!* followed by a sniff.
Entering the short stone corridor ahead, the party spots a squat blue humanoid no bigger than a gnome, but with a large blue head that looks like it wobbles about on its stumpy neck. A trail of grey mucus drips from its nose to its spindly fingers, and it growls in irritation as it shakes its hand about.
When the party enters, it stops growling and stares at them with milky white eyes that look like they're about to bulge out of their sockets. Then it starts to tremble.
Ada shrugs. She has no idea what the creature is. "Um hello. Are you ill?" she asks it.
Ryn studies the odd little creature for a moment, trying not to make a face at the oozing snot on it's face and hands. Trying to look somewhere else, the gladiatrix peers past the little creature and notices what looks like a secret door off the spiraling staircase.
Entering the room with the others Zev holds up his hand peacefully towards the small creature.”Hello.”
As they continued on their way Saersha was surprised to find the small creature sitting there. It was unusual that it would be down in these formerly sealed ruined and it made her wonder if there was another way in and out of the place that they were as yet unaware of. She wasn't sure what he was and so decided to stay towards the back and see what happened.
The bug-eyed creature shrieks in terror and starts running down the staircase behind it.
As the creature takes off Ryn focuses for a moment and sends her shield hurtling into his back to ricochet off the back of it's head, knocking it out.
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There's a *CLONK* as Ryn's shield hits the back of the creature's head, dropping it before it can get very far.
"I figured if he was running to warn someone or something that probably wouldn't be good for us." Ryn says as she goes to pick up her shield. "He's only unconscious."
"Nice shot." Zev calls out as he walks over and picks the creature up by its legs. "Anybody have any idea what it is?"
"I have no idea. she shrugs.
”Hmm...”
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"Wow! That was a really nice shot," Azura says, adding emphasis.
Ulfr just shrugs.
"Thanks." Run answers with a wink. Looking over at the creature she shrugs as well. "I guess we can tie them up while we explore and release them before we leave unless we find a reason not to."
Zev nods and begins to tie the creature up with any avaible rope.
The unconscious, snot-covered creature is soon trussed up.
Ulfr sees what's behind secret door number 1!
The stone door slides aside to reveal a long stone hallway opening up to what appears to be a pier of some sort--the room consists of a ledge looking out over a long chamber filled with seawater ten feet below. The ledge winds along to the northeast, leading to a wooden plank that serves as a bridge to the top of a stone pillar. A bucket with a second board over it sits atop the pillar.
Ulfr carefully investigates.
"That's odd," says Azura, scrutinizing the pillar and bucket. "I wonder why someone left that there? Is that bucket attached to a chain or something?"
Dead bats? In a bucket? There's something really weird happening here.
"Maybe they're lunch for the little blue guy."
Yeah that would make sense I guess. If he lives down here he has to survive off of something." Ryn says after a moment's thought. "Given the way he freaked out when he saw us I'd say the Tower Girls never made it down this far. Anyone know if it's high tide or low right now?"
Zev shrugs. "Dunno, I'm still new to the whole 'body of water bigger than a lake' thing. I might have some snacks left I can offer him if he wakes up with us still here."
Ada is confused by the bats in a bucket, and doesn't look like she wants to stick around just in case something else comes to eat the bats.
Looking at the little blue guy she says, "It's an ugly little thing. I wonder if it will talk to us if we stick around until it wakes up. Otherwise we should keep going and see what else we find."