Sounds good!
Sorrin moves past the standing creature's snapping jaws, positioning himself .
Step up, Songbird and let's finish this!
sorrin's blade slashes the beast, but it's still up.
Bri tries to make the sharkman less likely to hit her friends.
Ptahh attacks the wereshark with his long sword.
Ptahh's attack dispenses with the final awake wereshark that is in this area. There is lot of splashing int he water form the normal sharks looking for a meal, but your party is out of the water by now.
Astrianna doesn't see anything else trying to kill them at the moment, but keeps her bow ready regardless. "Figure out what to do with sleeping fish there before he wakes up. I'm going to investigate these barrels."
She moves over to the crates and barrels, checking their contents and trying to figure out what the weresharks were up to. Probably fish, or something.
Chell appraises the others of wounds and finds Sorrin to have taken the most damage this time around. The others' are superficial. She draws two scrolls first. Seriously, who made cure scrolls. Seems a waste of money. And then moves on to the lowest charged wand.
In about half a minute his open wounds have been reduced to a few scabs.
A quick look through the crates and barrels reveal the following:
- six crates of high quality silk (500 gp value per crate load)
- two barrels of Heaven’s Leaf tea (1,000 gp per barrel)
The dead creatures return to their human form and they have the following gear:
4 masterwork rapiers,
4 daggers,
4 light crossbow with 5 bolts,
4 studded leather armor
Sorrin, breathing heavily thanks the Chaplain once more.
As the others investigate he beheads the dead... Living ones were a hassle, hate to see undead ones.
Astrianna takes a moment to recover from her shark attack while looking over the goods.
She is pleased to find some Heaven's Leaf tea. "These leaves would be worth a hefty sum back in Shaw. I've had some before- absolutely divine. Perfect for relaxing on the porch on a hot summer day." The bard nonchalantly shoves the masterwork rapiers into her haversack while speaking. "Though... I'm not sure how we'll get them out of here. We may need to return later."
With the loot inspected, she searches for a way forward in the cave.
"Yeah, we'll have to come back later with a boat for this stuff. No point in carrying it around now."
That decided, Bri follows Astri.
After healing up a bit, decapitating a few weresharks, and appraising the value of the goods the group decides to push deeper into the cavern complex. After a while they come through an opening. You are looking at rock walls on the north and south and 15 by 20 foot pool of water directing in front of you. The rocky walls look like they have a few pits and rough spots for climbing, but you are not sure it there are enough to get to the other side of the cave. You realize that you need to cross the water in order to continue to the other side.
You hear muffled voices coming form the other side.
Those voices are a combination of whimpers and laughter.
"...Holy Blessing..."
Something over there...
Astrianna speaks in a hushed voice. "I hear whimpers and laughter... Perhaps they captured the crew of the ship they stole that silk and tea from? I doubt they have anything pleasant in store for captives..."
She sighs at the water, wondering what dangers it holds... "Let's cross this water and get a better look over the ridge, unless someone has a way we won't have to get wet again...
As the others become quieter, Chell manages to stand in the right spot for echoing voices to be heard from the other side of the rock wall. And what she heard confused her. Whimpering, laughing and possibly a ritual or casting. That couldn't be good but it also sounded like they had not been noticed. "I heard the words "Holy Blessing" and not in a good way," she says as quietly as Astrianna. "They don't seem to know we are here. I would like to keep it that way. I can allow someone to walk along the air as if it were solid ground. Would make less noise than swimming."
Give the magic to Ptahh. I can try to jump. I don't know if stealth will avail us much...
I'm more concerned with what lurks within the pool. Time is of the essence. Follow me.
Sorrin moves his head from side to side, loosening up. He downs a potion then attempts to leap across the watery gap.
The pool of water has a few ripples but otherwise looks calm. The voices are not any louder, but you are confident you were not heard. Sorrin limbers up.
Astrianna isn't sure if she can jump across the pool, or keep her footing if she landed on the other side. Before Sorrin leaves she casts Invisibility on the rogue, and Message on herself. "I don't think we can get across the gap as quickly as you. Go on ahead: We'll be right behind you, Message me if we should rush forward."
After Sorrin has leaped across the chasm she slips into the water, drawing her rapier as a precautionary measure.
Keeping her dancing lights in the back of the cave, Astrianna swims under the surface of the water to the other side of the pool and pulls herself up on the other side. The bard ensures she stays behind the 10' rocky outcropping for now.
Leaping across...
Chell nods at Sorrin's suggestion. For once he made a good one. She says a small prayer, holy symbol in hand, and touches his shoulder. She then pulls out a wand and says the command word, placing its power on him as well. "I sense something bad is happening ahead. You have to stop it."
Sorrin - invisible- but he knows he is flapping his arms like w2ings and kicking frantically as he slips slightly off the take-off. He is fortunate to land with a loud thud. Beads of sweat dripping off his chin.
Meanwhile, Ptahh is blessed with the ability to walk on air and extra strength. RD 1
Satsifies the warriors will make it across the pool Astri slips into the water and she gets that uneasy feeling that she is not alone.
Astrianna's elf danger senses immediately make her wary... She tightly grips the rapier and looks at the inky blackness below.
It's a shame they're half-elf danger senses.
Sorrin creeps along towards the voices...
Sorrin you notice the terrain curves and climbs a bit as you walk forward a good 60 feet with the subterranean cave. There is only a faint glow of light. Eventually your path ends at another pool, it's large chamber enter another chamber at least 100 feet long and 100 ft wide for yoru estimation. There is a ledge along the west wall of this chamber juts like a platform eastward (towards where you are standing) to the center of the water and stands just above the waterline. Rusted iron cages hang from the ceiling by chains. The water slaps the stone, black as midnight, and renders the depth of the pool indeterminate. there are cages hainging form the ceiling holding prisoners.
Several pirates in leather and two hideous, lumbering shark-men with white pupil-less eyes gather around a terrified young fisherman. Half-starved and clad only in tattered garments, he struggles weakly as the shark-men grab him roughly under the arms and hurl him unceremoniously into the water below. The boy thrashes wildly, desperate screams ringing hollow off the pitiless stone walls.
Ptahh walks the surface of the black pool as Astri swims towards the shore.
You swear you feel slithering brush your leather boots...long slithering. No that couldn't have been 4...no...6 foot long, could it? Then you feel a second area of water movement.
Bri and and Chell you catch a glimpse of one ...no...two long shapes just under the surface near Astri.
they look like sea snakes or something similar from you quick glimpse.
In the meantime, the others...
Initiative:
Bri
Eels
Chell
Ptahh
Astri
Astrianna sucks in her breath as she feels something slither past her legs. "Um. There's something in the water. Two very long somethings. Can someone... get me out of here, maybe?"
Bri will still give herself a minute of flight and zip over to where Astri is so that she can at least be able to target anything that tries to bother Astri.
Initiative:
Bri -flight and over astri
Eels
Chell
Ptahh - air walk and moved towards otherside.
Astri
RD 1: eels
One of the eels attacks Astri, it's wet slithering body wraps as it bites.
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The second eel does not directly attack but simply provides flanking for the first one.
Round 1
Astrianna suppresses a surprised squeal as an eel lunges for her in the water, the bard thankful it dumbly decided to bite the hard metal of her mithril breastplate. She puts her rapier blade between the beast and her body, pushing it away while she quickly swims for the shore.
The half-elf hauls herself out of the water, dripping and panting. "Blight-blasted eels nearly pulled me down. Were those... guard eels? Ridiculous." She curses in a hush voice, though her splashing has probably already made enough noise to alert the persons in the cavern over. Astrianna gestures to Ptahh calmly walking across the water "Ptahh, you should carry Chell to this side if she can't do that as well."
Chell reaches out towards Astrianna when the eel attacks "Watch,", but quickly remembers that they are trying to be stealthy and clamps her hands down over her mouth. Thankfully, after getting out of the water, she appears to be unwounded. "I...oh. Well I don't have another casting of that but I just realized I could have shaped the stone here to make a stone bridge instead. I think I want to save that spell though. Oh, maybe this." Chell reaches into a pouch designated for spell components and grabs a pinch of dust. She focuses on the component and says a few words under her breath. She then throws the dust out over the water. The water seems to flee from the dust moving up the walls and squeezing through the tiniest of cracks to get away.