Seren nudges Mel, whispering "Did we promise something to this guy? Why is he still here? He scares me a little bit ... After watching him eat those derro, i feel like he's eyeing me for dinner."
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"You cannot fit through the tunnels? Can you not tunnel?" Absinthe asks.
"No, your feeder tunnels are too small, and the way I got here," it looks back to the partially collapsed tunnel behind it, "fell over."
Then we will feed you until we can free you since you are our friend. Segang confirms.
"Friend?" the otyugh asks in a confused tone. "None have called me that before."
Seren nudges Mel, whispering "Did we promise something to this guy? Why is he still here? He scares me a little bit ... After watching him eat those derro, i feel like he's eyeing me for dinner."
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"Hells, I think we did...we said something about esh-fray eat-may, or something like that," says Mel quietly. "There are places that are open in the evening...perhaps we should lose a few coin to satisfy him."
"Perhaps we should find someone willing to open up that tunnel, rather... Our friend here is not a pet to keep penned up and may one day crave the company of other otyugh, after all."
Segang lets his spear drop lightly to the ground. and moves closer to the creature. I would call you friend. he says and extends a large hand offering to shake one of the creatures appendages. I am Segang. Do you have a name? I will go and have a look at this tunnel collapse. We are both strong. Perhaps together we can clear the passage. Lets look now, but if it going to take a lot or work then we must delay until we have dealt with the other reason we have come here.
To the group he adds This creature could be a boon to the town right now. I'm thinking it could help dispose any waste in a safe and sanitary way. This should reduce the spread of disease.
"As long as that does not include humanoid corpses, then yes," says Melianthe.
"Who says he's immune to the plague?"
Just stands to reason. Likely he can carry a disease but if he could catch one their kind would likely have never made it.
The otyugh stares at Segang's hand for a moment, then a long, snaking tongue slashes out of the creature's mouth and licks the hand. "'B'tahg'rlurp' some of my kind all me. The rocks fell in the tunnel when I came through, months ago. I cannot grip them to move." You realize the way could be cleared but needs picks, shovels and bracing beams (and probably a bit of engineering know-how).
"Why are you here, if not to bring food?" it asks after hearing your sidebar.
B'tahg'rlurp, we come here hunting the one that makes constructs and golems. He is evil and responsible for many deaths of our kind. We hope to kill him and any of his allies. This includes any of the small grey men that were here before.
"We can go get meat now," says Melianthe, "And then we will need a crew to clean out the tunnel. We cannot do it ourselves."
"None of the old feeders have been back here since you left. Just a couple of tall men. They didn't leave me food."
"Is his name really Bag o Burps?" Seren whispers to Mel again, disturbed at the goings ons but watching morbidly.
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"Close enough. What kind of allies...we should feed him the wererats," says the elf.
"Did we even kill any wererats?"
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I think who we are looking for is a tall man. What can you tell us about where they went and what they did.
"Did we even kill any wererats?"
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"We did, but we would be unwise to drag sewage-stained carcasses through the streets. The alternative would be to find a connection through the sewers to here."
I think who we are looking for is a tall man. What can you tell us about where they went and what they did.
The otyugh thinks for a moment, its eye pod blinking a few times. "They went through the tunnels. I couldn't follow, but they grabbed some things from the north east and then left."
"B'tagh'rlurp, we need to catch them quickly. Segang will leave his iron rations here, and then we will come back and get you more food. Thank you," says the elf somberly.
"What's to the northeast? Let's go check it out." Seren blurts hastily, eager to be away from the thing that eats literally anything.
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To the north east is the rest of the warrens and the underground laboratory. You find the rooms -- where you last encountered the derro necromancer and the carrion golem -- uninhabited, and more specifically, completely empty. It appears as though the otyugh's 'tall men' ransacked whatever was left behind... and not in neat fashion. Tables, benches and bookshelves are all overturned, thrown and, in some cases, smashed up. Litter is everywhere, but anything intact has been taken, leaving only broken detritus.
In the northern chambers, something caught underneath one of the tossed bed frames catches your eye. With a heave, you clear the wreckage. You cannot say if it was here at your last visit, or accidentally left by more recent visitors, but it strikes you as significant: a doctor's plague mask.
"Huh, didn't we have a hard time coming by one of these because they were all being used by the city doctors?"
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Hey Mel, did you loose this? Segang says pointing out the mask.
"I didn't leave it here..." Melianthe taps her own mask slung on her back. "Someone's been working with blood veil. The masks aren't a surety against disease, though...fools, should have found a lapsed cleric instead."
"Or a wicked deity's representative... Like one of Urgathoa."
Right. I worry that someone with a desire to spread disease was down here.
"Let's take this back and review the other clues again and see what we have. "
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"Let's drop some meat with our 'friend', the otyugh, or even just a wheelbarrow of garbage, and then let's go searching for doctors. Perhaps the Doctor we met with, Seren...you're thinking of him as well?" Melianthe arches an eyebrow.
I think the otyugh could be viewed as an ally of the city and is worth rescuing. Can we swing by the caved in area on the way out to see what is needed to reopen that area up?
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Yes, that's common knowledge.
"Let's drop some meat with our 'friend', the otyugh, or even just a wheelbarrow of garbage, and then let's go searching for doctors. Perhaps the Doctor we met with, Seren...you're thinking of him as well?" Melianthe arches an eyebrow.
"Yeah, Mel. Actually, given recent events and the lack of effective work on any of it, I think we should start with the Queen's doctor. Imagine if the ones supposedly supposed to be healing this are the ones helping spread it. No wonder we are having such a hard time of it. I don't understand the motive, though, so I struggle with that bit."
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Can we swing by the caved in area on the way out to see what is needed to reopen that area up?
You realize the way could be cleared but needs picks, shovels and bracing beams (and probably a bit of engineering know-how).
Segang is ready to go back to the surface. Yes, this does seem to point at a group of physicians, doesn't it....
"I think I heard something about a warehouse near the docks, called the Hospice of the Blessed Maiden."
By all means then lets check it out. I am in the mood for a fight.
Melianthe smirks. "It does beat investigating and worrying about the source of this damned blood veil. Let's go knock on some heads."