Getting tired of this stalemate, Thyra prays to Torag once more, adjusting her blessing from defense to attack, swinging into the enemy with fervor.
Swift Action: Switch Judgement to Justice (+1 attack)
Standard Action: Attack Yellow Trog
Hedran hears Thyra's prayer and nods his approval - "Let us finish this" - he growls at the companions around him, and swings hard at the troglodyte again.
Noticing Thyra suffering from the stench, Cameron steps away from the front line and whispers encouragement, "You can do this! Get em!" And perhaps a bit of the Lady's luck rubbed off on her!
With a target still before her Nessa cast her spell once more and sent another glob of acid downrange at the creature straight before her.
Sarai is getting worn down between the horrid smell and the continued failure to hit anything. She still keeps trying though even if it meets the same end.
Cameron calls out for Tyhra to wait, letting him giver her a small blessing before she attacks. The blessing pays off as she manages to finally land a blow again.
Hedran smashes the one in front of him and then steps up to make sure no more can filter in. Nessa tosses some more acid, but doesn't get close to hitting one of the trogs.
The troglodytes are seemingly having just as bad of luck as only one attack manages to connect with Thyra, and the ones throwing javelins, now at Hedran, both miss.
Thyra nods in thanks to Cameron as she continues her assault on the putrid trogs. "I see a bath in my immedate future," she grumbles under her breath, trying hard not to inhale too much of the stench.
Standard Action: Attack Yellow Trog
Cameron watched Thyra attack and he could see how badly affected she was by the stench. Truly it was awful and they'd all need to scrub themselves raw! Cameron could see that despite the power behind Thyra's strike she was going to miss so at the last moment he nudged her in what he hoped was the right direction!
"How many of you are there?!" - Hedran roars, as he continues his savage attacks - "Surrender fools! Haven't you lost enough warriors yet?!"
Sarai casts a spell this time instead of using her bow, the sickness doesn't seem to hamper her as badly this time as the brutal snowball kills the wounded troglodyte. Thrya tries attacking the one around the corner, but with the partial cover of the wall she doesn't connect even with Cameron providing some assistance. Hedran steps up and smacks the troglodyte with his morningstar. Nessa moves up to assist her companions lobbing some acid again.
She manages to hit this time, but only burns it a little.
The two other trogs look at each other. One in the front calls back something in a strange tongue as the one who hasn't seen any battle as of yet turns and runs off. The two remaining trogs attempt to attack Hedran.
Luckily with his magical enhancements Hedran manages to avoid all of their attacks.
"We've got a runner!" Thyra calls out, warning her friends. "Might be going for backup!"
Standard Action: Attack Pink Trog
"Let them run - we could use the respite" - Hedran snarls, swinging again and again.
Seeing enemies still moving Nessa sent another glob of acid at them.
Sarai tries her bow again, but the sickening smell takes hold once again and throws off her aim. Thyra warns the others of the runner, but there isn't a lot they can do at this point with the tunnel being clogged up by other trogs, so she attacks hoping to clear a path. However, just like Sarai the sickening smell of the reptiles causes her to bump into the wall and swing wide.
Cameron tries to help as he jabs his spear at the closest one, even with the partial cover of the cave wall he manages to hit the creature and put it down. Hedran steps up trying to hit the next one, but almost trips on the recently killed trog and just misses. Nessa lobs some more acid which hits this time burning away at the remaining trogs flesh.
The last one hesitates, considering running but decides to hold its ground. However, the fear of being the last one standing is apparent as the troglodyte lashes out violently but too chaotically to even connect with Hedran.
With the whole group focusing on the last one, they manage to eventually put an end to it after a long battle.
Not ready to believe that the fight is over, Thyra looks around for an attack from beyond the darkness. "Do we dare continue on?"
"We should. After we take a moment to catch our breath" - Hedran replies - "That was amazingly well done everyone. Thyra, I hope you take this as a compliment - you have the resilience of a dwarf" - he smiles and nods.
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Sarai eventually regains control of her stomach after a few minutes.
"I am uninjured--well, except for the fact that I can still practically taste those vile olfactory offenses. I've never smelled a privy as bad as those."
Looking around, she says "Once you are all ready, we can proceed."
Scouting protocol, 30' ahead
Cameron waits impatiently while Sari scouts, and asks "Did anyone get hurt? While undeniably smell they didn't seem to be all that good in a fight."
Checking these rooms where the trogs were the smell is still pretty horrible. There is little of value, each troglodyte carried a club and three javelins. Moving north the rough floor of this cave has been overspread with several strange, pebbly hides to form bedding of a sort. The general detritus of habitation covers the floor as well as a number of heavy (and quite empty) glass wine bottles. The same musty stench that pervades the tunnels fills this area as well.
Sarai leads the way scouting ahead. Heading down the southern tunnel she comes to a room where the eastern portion of this chamber has collapsed in a tumble of rubble and earth. The collapse partially obscures the chamber but does leave room to access the tunnel exiting to the south west.
Hedran grabs one javelin, and follows Sarai according to their agreed marching order and distance.
Once they are in the room, he takes a more careful look at the obscured portion of the room, before proceeding.
Thyra keeps her hammer at the ready, not convinced that the danger has passed. "We need to find a way to keep these creatures from accessing the Goblin."
Sarai moves up ahead of the group trying to keep quiet. She heads into the tunnel where the floor descends in a series of gentle terraces. There is a constant dripping or water from the ceiling and puddles seem more prevalent here, gathering in 6-inch-deep pools in many places before draining into tiny cracks in the surrounding rock. The tunnel continues to the northwest for a bit before opening into another cavern.
This cavern is bathed in a strange orangish-purple glow that seems to reduce visibility rather than increase it, and in fact, seems to inhibit other light sources as well. The glow comes from a number of large rock nodules placed at intervals about the room. The eastern portion of the chamber is occupied by a still, black pool whose surface reflects the strange light.
Nessa finally managed to get the stench out of her mouth from those undead things and said, "Ugh, remind me never to go down below ground like this again." As they continued on the harlot couldn't help but agree with Thyra and said, "Yeah, once we're done down here I think we need to collapse the tunnel."
Finding themselves in the next cavern with standing in the cavern with the strange black puddle and the lights Nessa looked at the puddle from a safe distance and said, "That is just strange, doesn't that water seem...wrong somehow?"
Glancing at Thyra and seeing her wounds, Cameron gripped his butterfly pendant as he whispered, "Desna, Song of The Stars..."
A sudden pulse of purple motes light which up close seemed to be stylized butterflies radiated out before lingering on Cameron and Thyra. They vanished suddenly along with most of the pair's wounds!
Cameron nodded to Nessa "Yeah, normal water doesn't look like that... I wonder if there's any enchantments?"
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Sarai chuckles at Nessa's words about this awful place. "I agree, darling--let us never go below ground again."
Still, her eyes could see in the dark given her ancestry, and she looks around the cavern. She is drawn to the pool, like the others. She casts detect magic and tries to determine what it is.
The pool does not seem to display any sort of magic, it just looks like a dark murky pool of water, likely oddly illuminated due to the nature of the strange crystals which are actively dimming the light in the room.
Hedran scans the strange rocks around them.
Otherwise he falls in line behind Sarai - "Come now, we may still find some fun down here. Who knows..." - the half-orc chuckles.
Sarai starts to move ahead quietly but doesn't get very far passing by the placid waters when all of the sudden the waters explode in a violent splash as two creatures lunge out of the pool to attack Sarai. These pallid, slimy, worm-like creatures are the size of a human, its mouth a sickening tangle of tentacles and hooked jaws.
One of the creatures manages to bite into Sarai as it catches her off guard.
Realizing that Sarai was under attack from something Nessa quickly spun and cast sending a pair of magical projectiles slamming into the nearest of the creatures.
Hearing the sounds of Combat, Cameron whispers a short but fervent prayer. His words made everyone feel like the had an edge and Lady luck was smiling on them.
Gripping his spear, Cameron advanced in the direction Sari had gone.
Cameron calls on Desna to bless himself and his companion as he hears fighting and Sarai scream in pain, deeper in the tunnels. He moves up to the edge of Thyra's light and he can hear the fighting just ahead but can't make anything out through the darkness. Nessa moves up as well, her sight unhindered by the darkness ahead she see the pair of creatures attacking Sarai and unleashes a spell, the balls of force slam into the nearest creature.
Before Sarai even has a chance to react the creatures violently lash out at her trying to bit at her as their tentacles strike out at her as well.
Both of the creatures bite into her again and one hits her with one of its tentacles and Sarai is looking in pretty bad shape.
HP: 26
AC: 19
Effects: Vanish
Hearing the commotion ahead, Thyra dashes forward, only to see Sarai on the ground, with the two strange creatures hovering over her. She swings the head of her hammer in an under-handed arc, so as to catch the beast under it's beak-like jaw.
Move Action: Move 25 ft.
Standard Action: Hammer attack
When Thyra advanced, Cameron was able to see what was going on and advance. He tried to sneak his spear past her to skewer the closest enemy but it was tricky - he really didn't want to stick Thyra by mistake and so his attack was easily parried.
Nessa chanted and gestured again causing another pair of missiles launching out at the nearest of Sarai's attackers and slamming in with unerring accuracy.
Sarai stabs at one of the creatures that had attacked her, but she finds her blade doesn't even seem to penetrate its hide. She steps back to get away from the second one. Thyra moves up as quick as she can to help out Sarai, bringing the light with her. She slams into the creature, but her weapon barely leaves a scratch on the thing, definitely not what she had been expecting after the solid blow.
Hedran casts a spell as he disappears and moves into the room. Cameron now able to see with Thyra's light, tries to stab past her, but he can't find a good opening and ends up missing. Nessa, blasts the closest one to her with magic missiles that slam into it and seem to do the full force of damage she would expect.
The one creature continues trying to eat Sarai, while the other turns its attention to Thyra who had barely injured it.
The one creature does a real number on Sarai, biting her and cutting her up with two of its tentacles. The one on Thyra also manages to bite her, but only hits her with one tentacle. Either way, both of the woman are looking pretty banged up, but Sarai looks like she is almost done for.
The sound of the things eating Sarai made Cameron feel sick. He had to do something and besides Lady Luck favoured the bold, so he sprinted past Thyra and Hedran and jumped over Sarai followed by a forward roll to avoid the tentacles.
Seeing how badly Sarai was wounded, he immediately dropped to her side and whispered a spell. His right hand started to glow with a gentle lilac aura, and he touched her causing most of her wounds to vanish!
Thyra takes note of the precarious position that Sarai is in. "Hold on Sarai! Hold out as long as you can!" She yells out to her companion. She then focuses her energy towards defense, muttering a prayer to be a bastion for her allies.
Standard Action: Deflection Aura
Nessa could hear the sounds of Sarai getting slowly torn apart and eaten and found this to be a blasphemy in the eyes of her goddess. Without thinking she cast her last spell of any real note and sent a pair of magical missile slamming into the beast chewing on the other tiefling.
Hedran suddenly appears next to one of the creatures, his does something that seems to 'activate' his blade as it begins to glow with a magical sheen before striking out at the creature near him.
He barely misses as the creature avoids the strike at the last second. Sarai backpeddles trying to put some distance between her and the creatures, dropping her rapier she pulls out her bow and takes a shot but ends up missing because she can barely hold her arms up with all the injuries. Thyra calls out a blessing of Torag as the others feel some divine energy infuse them making it so they are less likely to get hit.
Cameron deftly maneuvers around the creatures and gets next to Sarai to heal up the worst of her wounds, making it so she looks good as new. Nessa blasts the closest creature to her once again as it lets out a horrible sound in pain.
Preferring to stay in the water, the one creature that had been attack Sarai turns its attention to Hedran while the other still attacks Thyra.
Luckily for both Thyra and Hedran the creatures can't land a single blow.
Shifting her stance, Thyra goes on the offensive and swings her hammer towards the closest creature (red).
Standard Action: Hammer attack.