Cut off from the entrance Keil curses and draws his short sword. Waiting for one of the creatures to draw near, the shadowy man swings his weapon at an opportune moment catching it on one of its many legs.
Arlok double moves down into the hall.
"Get behind Arlok and Vargrenz. Let creatures come."
Brok points his thumb at Arlok and agrees "What he said..." as he lets the big man past.
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Viewing this as an opportune time to get a good meal, Varg moves past his companions and takes a swing at one of the centipedes, not really caring if they get a nip at him in the process.
Move: move forward to where he is.
Attack:
Damage:
With a massive swing, Varg completely misses the bug, but, from the appearance, you think he might have actually damaged the floor with his powerful swing.
Stupid food. Slow down so I can get you.
Centipedes. Let me at 'em. I'll crush em. The also taste good cooked.
"How do you cook them master Varg?" - the wizard seems suddenly interested - "Would you need their chelicerae? I believe I may have a use for them" - he ponders.
Keil continues his dance with the centipede but for second lets his mind entertain the thought of boiled centipede, "Remove the venom sack, add butter and a splash of lemon."
Praetor steps forward to assist his new ally and crushes the centipede harassing Grezzor.
Arlok lumbers towards the room while Malzii and Keil both strike blows against their respective centipedes. Vargrenz eagerly lends his aid to the cause yet overeagerness costs him here in this case.
Brok lets the big guys deal with the vermin infestation.
He'll keep an eye out for other dangers and keep his crossbow ready.
Grezzor is almost completely blocked from sight, so he leaves the fight to those melee capable in the group.
Raaz Al'Zuul hacks at the centipede as it lunges towards him:
Grezzor slays another centipede with his magic, while Raaz has some difficulty with the one pestering him. He does manage to wipe away the venom before it gets too deep into his body. Brok steps away from the combat electing to watch the group's back.
The remaining centipedes press their attacks on you, joined by a straggler that joins the fray.
; miss
; hit
no...attack hits.
; miss
Keil once again feels a prick on his skin and the venom threatends to enter his bloodstream.
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Varg growls:
Can't bite a dwarf. You may not like me, but I'm gonna love you.
With that, he once more begins swinging his gray clublike hands:
Attack-FoB: <-- +1 from Guidance
Damage:
5-foot step if possible to get to another centipede if first is squished.
Attack-FoB:
Damage:
Crit Confirm:
Damage:
With glee, Varg essentially desiccates one (or two) of the bugs.
Vary calls out from where he is making a poor showing of how to whack centipedes:
Cook in the shell. Crack and open.He pauses, while preparing to try to hit the centipede again.
They might be poisonous to you though.
"Ah..." - Grezzor mutters as he attempts to unleash another ray of frost at another centipede.
"Perhaps the poison can be removed?" - he ponders still.
"BaaHh!" Keil is not pleased with himself. Spitting at the insect the shadowy man swipes at it with his sword cutting the pest cleanly.
Arlok moves into position.
"Arlok protect friend goblin Brok. Need guide."
w/Reach
Vargrenz displays his combat prowess as he slays two of the centipedes by himself and Arlok easily dispatches the last remaining one. The rest of you watch the mosaic closely but no more centipedes appear.
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Varg moves about the room, checking the centipedes. When he finds two or three that are mostly intact, he gathers them up and strings them together, after which he slings them over his shoulder.
He then looks at several other members of the group.
Much better, and tastier than those disease ridden rats you seem to prefer.
Varg will then move over to the mosaic and carefully examine it to see if there are any more centipedes within, and also what caused the wall behind it to be soft enough for the centipedes to be able to burrow in.
Perception:
Unfortunately, his mind is on the tasty dinner he is going to have, and he does not really pay much attention to the wall or the mosaic.
When the coast seems to be clear, Brok peeks back around the door to see the carnage left over from the vermin attack.
Seeing no danger, he monkey-waddles over next to Vargrenz and pokes at the mosaic with his sword.
"Was it just a nest hidden back in there?"
Grezzor's attention is actually more focused on the mosaic itself, as he shuffles his memory to try and garner some meaning from it.
Wiping the bug slime from his sword onto his cloak, Keil mutters in a foul language before vigorously shaking his wounded hand in the air. While the others stare at the mosaic, the fetchling flexes his fingers to restore some sense of normalcy as he resumes his examination of the door. Having not noticing anything suspicious prior to the centipedes, Keil frowns, grasps the handle and opens the portal.
A closer look behind the mosaic reveals the stone wall beyond is crumbling and not in very good shape, partially due to the age of the wall and also the effects of water seeping over the cracks, not to mention the efforts of the centipedes who have converted it for their nesting ground. You do see signs the nests go deeper into the walls and ceiling than even your enhanced vision can detect. You find no signs of any valuables in the nest area.
Brok moves over behind Keil to back him up as he opens the door to the south.
Raaz Al'Zuul cleans the wound made by the centipede with a little water and rubs some ointment he pulls out of his backpack over it.
HE collects his things and continues following the scouts:
"Lead on Brok and Keil. Let's clear this level before we go deeper."
"Τίποτα όμως ζωύφια παραμονεύουν περίπου! Άνευ αξίας παράσιτα!" she grumbles in a tongue unfamiliar to most of the group. "All okay?" she continues, switching back to Common. "Yes? Good! Stupid bug bites not slow us down," she nods resolutely as Brok and Keil open the next door.
Grezzor follows suit, shrugging in disappointment that nothing really great was found in the next of the centipedes.
"Там ничего не осталось делать, но топать их - до тех пор, термо не более" - he replies to Malzii.
"There is nothing left to do but stomp them - until there are no more"
Brok opens the unlocked and un-trapped door and sees an oddly shaped room on other side. Covering each wall of this room are several tapestries, although you can see they are worthless due to their rough cloth and crude sewing. The tapestries do depict the outside of the dungeon — the demon-mouth which conceals the stairway down into this level. Around the demon-mouth, a battle appears to be raging between a small army of human archers and a larger force made up of ogres, who are led by three black-robed figures wearing helmets decorated with curling ram’s horns. These leaders are apparently human, and each one carries a mace topped with a metal skull.
From the door, Grezzor observes the depicted image with curiosity - "Interesting"
With his usual suspicious sneer, Keil enters the room and begins to look around.
Brok crouches and scans the room for any danger.
"Humans and ogres fighting each other, wonder why?" he muses aloud.
Varg's remark causes Keil to turn to Arlok for confirmation before throwing in his 2 cp, "Humans have a superiority complex...think they own everything."
Studying the tapestries closer you realize the humans must be worshippers of Orcus judging by their rainments and the ogres are following their ordersunder their command. The human archers must be forces arrayed against Orcus, perhaps members of the Army of Light when they pursued Orcus's army to the Forest of Hope.
Brok finds a couple of items as well: a concealed pit trap in the northeast corner of the room and a secret door in the far wall of the southern alcove.
Brok marks the pit trap with chalk. "Be careful of this, don't want to find out what's in the bottom of that hole."
Then the bandy-legged little goblin monkey-walks over to the secret door to listen for sound behind it and check to see if it is locked.
"Well, if you don't..." While Brok leans his ears to the secret door, Keil frowns then approaches the trap the goblin had marked. Kneeling at the edge, the fetchling begins to careful look for and dismantle the triggering mechanism.
Brok checks out the secret door, which is nothing more than a sliding stone block, and hears nothing on the other side. Meanwhile Keil believes he has jammed the hinged mechanism thereby disabling the pit trap.
A corridor greets you on the other side of the door. After scouting ahead for a ways Brok is able to see one branch loops around back to the hallway you came from, while another one winds its way further south. Several doors also provide access to areas you have not explored.
Once it is declared safe, Grey marks the secret door and the outline to the trap with chalk.
"Odd place for a hidden door." he muses.
"I would say loop around left, and explore this section" - the goblin wizard suggests.
Assuming noone objects, Brok follow Grezzors suggestion and heads down the hallway circling to the left.
He moves cautiously, looking for danger as he goes.
Then he stops in front of a door, checks it for traps, and sees if it is locked.
If clear, he signals to the rest of the team to join him.
Keil follows along cautiously double checking the goblin's skill but finding nothing to add, He's good.
Malzii looks over at Grezzor with some surprise, her eyes narrowing as she studies him once more. Something seems to shift slightly in her demeanor and she smiles, looking pleased.
"Είχες δίκιο - είστε πολύ διαφορετικό από το λίπος ένα," she replies. "Έχετε πάρει το χρόνο για να μάθουν τη γλώσσα των Μεγάλων Ones και μου αρέσει ο τρόπος που σκέφτεσαι," she nods towards the remains of the centipedes. "Νομίζω ότι θα πάρει μαζί πολύ καλά!"
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Grezzor bows shortly to Malzii - "I believe the same" - he offers.
"Это было не просто , но , как я мог не узнал один из самых древних языков в существовании ? Я освоил это столько, сколько возможно, и теперь я могу только прогрессировать дальше, если я могу найти другие листы , вне от тех, которые я узнал от" - the wizard comments - "Или , если я найти учителя"
"It was not easy, but how could I not have learned one of the most ancient languages in existence? I have mastered it as much as possible, and now I can only progress further if I find other writs, outside from those which I learned from"
"Or if I find a teacher"
Raaz Al'Zuul carefully follows the scouts, but does not pass through the secret door until they give him the 'all clear' signal. He watches for any critters coming down the other side of the secret passage to ambush the scouts.