Darius will look to the rest and nod, " She is likely going to destroy this door and maybe follow us in, the spell likely doesnt have long. Just retreat to the next door once this one falls it should be relatively easy. "
Darius begins healing from the wounds.
Sledge steps to one side of the door, ready to beat the Erinyes as soon as she comes through the door.
Jones continues to run like a coward.
Everybody follows Darius' lead except Sledge, who stands by the door.
The tip of a swrd pokes through the door, but it still holds (barely).
Darius readies an action at the Next door to fire and arrow once she comes through the first door. His healing continued but stopped once his holy aura resumed.
Sledge readies a pummeling slam for when the creature enters the room.
Sledge heads through the door and sticks a table behind it, closing it once everyone is through.
The sound of splintering wood comes from far away, followed by a shriek of rage as the Fury realizes you've moved on behind another door.
After another 30 seconds or so, the Erinyes pops out of existence.
Mark on the map which doors you went through if you don't mind, in case it's relevant. Also from combat start to end you spent 11 rounds on your buffs.
Darius went back to the bridge slightly upset as the rope that Bulldozer had held dangled.. another one lost. " I'm hating this place already, but lets not let his sacrifice be in vain now "
On the other side of the bridge is a broken abutment. A statue of a beautiful nymph stands next to a pair of double doors. Above the doors is a stained glass window depicting a unicorn.
Opening the doors reveals a lobby, full of all manner of strange, alchemically preserved creatures, including a pair of ice
mephit wings, several large spiders, parts of a dissected giant slug, and the digestive tracts and proboscises of three stirges.
Darius finds three vials that have fallen off a table and rolled under a cabinet. Each are labeled as "Violet venom".
There are 3 doors, one on each wall of the room.
Darius looks over the vials and notes them for use. " Normally I would say to go straight to the source but there are many things that could be useful so lets try the bottom door and go clockwise shall we? " The Wolfin man seems jittery his nose sniffing at the air.
The skeleton of a sea cow dominates this room, hungfrom the ceiling on a set of iron rungs and held together by a steel frames. Numerous jars sit on shelves within the room, containing alchemically preserved octopuses, tubeworms, the head of a skum, a curiously repellenteel-like creature with fangs, and a strange, mermaidlike creature with the upper body of a monkey and the tail of a fish.
Everyone present can easily find a secret door which reveals a staircase leading up.
Jones recognizes it as a Ningyo. While it appears dead, Ningyo have an interesting physiology. Once killed, all Ningyo arise as undead creatures at night, then become dead again during the day.
" I guess we should take this secret door up though he clearly likes them for no particular reason " Darius checks for traps and moves up
Three dissected, preserved harpies sit in huge bell jars in this
room, along with jars containing four stuffed bats, the skeletal front legs and head of a griffon, and the preserved wing of a roc which is slowly losing its feathers. A ladder leads up to a trapdoor in the ceiling
No traps.
Darius checks this Trap door as well (Standard Detect Evil, Magic yadda Yadda) before going up as there seems to be nothing of value.
This is an attic, full of various boxes and crates, as well as a large chest in the southern portion of the room.
Darius checks the room with the previous precautions before shouting down to Jones, " Its seems we have a chest.. thats your specialty correct? "
The chest appears to be unlocked. No traps or anything else of particular value can be seen.
Darius opens the chest.
Inside the chest are two heads of women with snakelike hair.
The eyes snap open as the chest is opened.
One screams at Darius with an ear piercing, bone chilling sound.
The second floats a little bit and snaps at Darius' fingers.
But they taste nothing but air.
Samuel (22)
Jones (20)
Darius (16)
Medusa Head
Medusa Head
Zin (6)
Darius's fur stands up on end as he whips at one and bites at the other in his feared state.
Jones Studies the head that screamed, then moves to flank it with Darius while drawing his rapier.
They are undead flying Medusa Heads. They can unleash a sonic scream that scares their victims...
...And their bite can Petrify their victims (though only temporarily.
Darius grievously injures one of them.
Sledge breaks into a lightning-fast short-distance sprint and slams one of the medusa heads into the ground.
Samuel misses the first swipe, but his backhand catches the injured Medusa Head and crushes its skull.
The remaining Medusa Head tries to get revenge on its fallen comrade.
But it misses.
Darius switches his focus to the other head
The Medusa seems quite the worse for wear.
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