"There is naught here but rotten food...and does anyone else hear that? Scraping, from the closed pantry. And from below the floorboards. We should leave..."
There could be someone hurt in there. Ojore argues. One of us must look. Does anyone have a torch? If so light it and hand it to me and I will look.
"No. I can see in the dark well enough. Light could attract all manner of beasts. Just cover me."
Godwyn goes forward towards the pantry...and pokes it with his axe. If nothing happens he will very carefully use his reach weapon to open it.
no rush I guess
Slightly quicker than the insects Ojore calls out a warning and bashes at the nearest one with his club but cannot connect.
Grimacing in disgust, and with pain, Godwyn brings his foot down and squashes the nearest centipede.
The druid turns a little green as the poison course into his system. Still he manages to swing at the creatures and bashes one.
Flavius will try to whip one of the bugs. He will move forward 10' and whip away.
power attack
Seeing the front line handily take down the creatures, Damiel just stands back and lets anyone else walk into the room and kill the last one.
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Gundar goes into the room and purees the last centipede without much fuzz.
You examine the kitchen, finding nothing valuable until you check the wooden trunk in the corner. It contains a healer’s kit, two bottles of antiplague, two bottles of antitoxin, four bottles of bloodblock, and two sunrods, as well as bandages, wood alcohol, needles, thread, splints, and herbal tinctures worth a total of 100 gp.
"Good items to have. This must have been where the wounded was patched up." Damiel waits for one of the stronger folks to take the items and stow them.
"One more door to go" he quips as the group heads off to the last courtyard door and he listens, checks for traps and works on disabling any found. Damiel then stands aside as his want, and lets the warriors enter first.
Flavius will head in.
"Well, we may need to clear out the spider swarm. I have a spell that may affect them, called sleep. If one of you opens the door to where the spiders are, I could cast it into the center of the room. They will be asleep for a minute, and we could either search the room or have several of you attack at the same time" suggest Damiel.
"Bugs are immune to sleep spells and other mind affecting stuff. That won't work. We need to find a way to burn them out. "
"I have a fair bit of oil and a few torches. If we can coordinate throwing the oil into the room with the spiders and then lighting it with the torches, perhaps we can be rid of the swarms. I am a bit concerned about burning down the whole fort though. "
He is unable too...
"We have a druid here. I say we let him druid. Let's pick a defensible position and rest here for the night. Once he has communed with...well, whatever it is druid's get their power from, he can kill them with fire. Or, failing that...we could throw some corpses in there to distract the swarm. Then, with a torch, I could go in and get the key."
"I have no objection to that. We can then hold the oil in reserve. "
"If we are going to rest for the night, the room in the North West corner seems to have no other exits besides the one. That would be a defensible position. However, I will accede to the warriors take on that.
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For me, a nice room at an Inn would suit me more."
I agree. A good strong, defensible room will be good. Since Godwyn and I see best in the dark, perhaps we take watch over the darkest part of night. Does anyone need healing?
I have a minor wound. If I can rest it should be find by moving. Have we explored everything but the spider room? Lets at least check the bodies and the well before we rest.
Head over to the well and take a look.
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A sturdy stone well sits before the northernmost wall of the fort. An empty bucket hangs from a pulley over the dark shaft. A well-used small dagger is embedded in the waterlogged bucket.
The well descends 30 feet, and is large enough to climb down.
You move to check on the bodies here. Both bodies have been gnawed by scavengers, and suffered the effect of exposure and the sun.
You take a defensive position in the tower, and the night passes uneventfully, even as the noises from the jungle seems loud and threatening, and a strong rain pummels the ruined fort for a couple hours in the night.
An overcast morning welcomes you.
Well
Bodies
Up bright and early Flavius gets his stuff together "Time to deal with all those spiders. "
Well:
Damiel looks at the dagger, "It is a Song'o blade. There seems to be a lot of that tribes weapons left." He takes the dagger and puts it into his belt.
Courtyard:
"Well this is interesting. This is a Song'o hunting spear, and it was stabbed into the bodies after they were already dead. The woman is a priestess of Adabar. That is his holy symbol, and it is a golden one. We can return it to the temple when we get back to town." He takes the holy symbol and stows it. "Gundar, do you want to say a prayer or something over her?"
Next morning:
"Righto Flavius. Lets head back up the stairs."
This well is wide enough to climb down. Should we investigate it?
I agree with you Damiel. These people were dead before the were stabbed with the small spearl. Someone continues to go out of their way to implicate the Song'o.
"It's a well...I wouldn't send any of us down there for all the gold in town. As for the Song'O, what do we know of them? We might want to inform them of someone trying to implicate them. They might know something of our foes."
Gundar stands on his tip-toes looking into the well. he squints but doesn't see anything.
"Gundar, do you want to say a prayer or something over her?"
Why yes, I would. He then recites the standard dwarven prayer of the dead removing all the dwarven specific references. When he is finished he opens his eyes. If anyone has anything to add, feel free.
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You go up the stair and into the last room. On the way you find the box you couldn't open was moved towards the window, but seems like the grippli wasn't unable to take it out.
The flies seem ever more than yesterday, and the big spider is hidden. There is also much more cobwebs than yesterday.
Flavius will have an oil flask ready in hand to toss in if necessary.
The druid sees the large spider and casts his spell since he is able to hold it for a full minute. He then says There and throws his spear at the large spider.