Kit is fairly certain this is a gibbering mouther, a horrendous creature that can incite madness by its laughter...
Oh. It's laughing. And it's opening its 'cage'.
The creature opens a well-concealed door in its enclosure and oozes towards the group, gibbering as it goes.
Min avoids the confusion, and decides to cast Enlarge Person on Hilde. "Move back everyone. She's about to get really big."
Dilwyn's eyes go wide as the cacophonous noise seems to intensify and multiply. "Lookout!" he shouts, eyes a little unfocused. "There's another one behind us! How did it get there?"
Outnumbered and scared, he attacks the new-coming Mouther with his staff, utterly convinced that Iskender is actually one of them.
Fortunately for everyone involved, his panic makes his motions stilted and unsteady!
Kit shakes off the confusion, but is unable to get into melee. He tries to shoot his crossbow at the creature instead.
Iskender will start inspiring courage.
Kit's crossbow bolt fails to penetrate the horrible thing's... hide? Membrane? Whatever it's called.
Hilde, too tired to get into a proper rage, chops it with her greatsword instead.
She slices deeply into the creature, though its rubbery body seems surprisingly difficult to cut properly. Its insane laughter rises in pitch as its many mouths try to bite Hilde.
Surprisingly, only one manages to harm her.
Kit tries again with another bolt!
And his bolt doesn't even come near the thing!
Hilde, still fatigued, attacks again, while trying to keep her distance, sickened at the creature sight.
Min lets loose with more missiles. "You ok Hilde?"
Hilde looks at Min and tries to smile, without quite achieving it.
Right, inspire courage it is. +1/+1. (At 5th level those become +2s!!!)
For round 2, let’s try and glitterdust the thing! We could use some 50% miss chances!
DC 15 Will Save
Hilde's attack carves more out of the horrid thing, while Min's missiles splatter little bits of it about.
Dilwyn, still confused by the crazed laughter, swings at Hilde.
But he's just as ineffective as before.
The Gibbering Mouther, badly injured and blinded, tries to retreat to a hole in the floor.
At the end of its turn, the beastie gets another save vs the blindness.
Hilde unsure if to keep attacking does so mostly by instinct as it retreats.
Hilde finishes it off, its laughter suddenly stopping as her weapon cleaves it in two.
Hilde looks around for something to clean her weapon, sick of the smell and sight of the ichor coating it.
Well, I wish I could say that that encounter was as funny as that mouther thought it was. Kit observes.
Hilde smiles widely at Kit's joke.
Iskender moves up to Hilde, ”You guys do realize that I can do other things besides sing, and heal Hilde, right?”
He touches Hilde...
Twice...
Hilde takes Iskender hand and holds to it while seeing to his eyes, as a way of thanks.
"You can tell the stories of Hilde's many kills. Min laughs. "Thank you. That could have been terrible."
She looks around the room, and casts Detect Magic just for fun.
Min doesn't notice much of anything.
”You guys do realize that I can do other things besides sing, and heal Hilde, right?”
I know you can drink! Kit adds.
He waits for Hilde to lead the way again.
Iskender faces Kit, and performs a sweeping bow, "drinking upon request sir!"
Hilde, feeling better, composes herself and moves to open the next door, after the others are ready.
These doors open onto an empty hallway, which turns the corner and ends in another set of double doors.
Dilwyn is still looking around wildly. "Where did the other ones go?" he asks, sounding truly flustered. "There were at least two more... weren't there?"
Hilde shrugs, and then moves ahead, ready to open the double doors, as soon as the others are in position.
Iskender nods that he is ready.
Min takes her place at the back of the group. "It always comes down to drinking with us doesn't it. I think Hilde took care of most of the enemies back in the hallway."
"It always comes down to drinking with us doesn't it.
Of course it does. The finer things in life! Kit says with a chuckle.
Hilde just shakes her head.
Hilde throws open the doors to be greated by the sight of a half-dozen klaven guns pointed directly at her. Behind them stands a bizarre four-armed being, holding a vial of chemicals in two of his hands. The room itself is empty save for two weapon racks along the walls, though various scorch marks and a strong chemical smell suggests at its purpose.
Hilde, half growling, and half laughing, launches herself against the fire line, transforming into her feline form at the same time.
But at the last second, tries to get past them and towards the bizarre four-armed being.
Kit will attack one of the klaven as he says to Hilde, Remember we might need him to help get us off this rock!
Kit, distracted, does not land a blow.
Lomrick mixes his two vials together and then swiftly stoppers one with a third hand before throwing it at Hilde.
It hits her squarely, shattering and spraying icy vapors in a cloud that engulfs Kit and Hilde but not the klaven.
Min breaths deep and moves forward. "I wonder if we bit off more than we can chew." She gets to where she can get several of the kaven, and Casts Burning Hands.
Iskender will cast hold person on Lomrick.
DC 15 Will save.
Hilde feels the chill on her bones, slowing her down.
Kit will keep attacking the klaven.
Dilwyn doesn't like their quarry chucking bombs, not one bit. "That's enough of that," he claims. Then, with a few gestures and words of request to Gozreh, he erects a wall of wind between the party and Lomrick, to stop him from making things more difficult while they deal with his flunkies.
Min's fire kills two of the klaven outright and injures a third.
Iskender can feel his spell fizzle.
Two of the klaven back away from Hilde and fire on Min.
Both hit her. The other two drop their rifles and attack Hilde with their claws.
The first nicks her, but the second tears into Hilde savagely, leaving a deep wound.
Kit then steps up and hacks one of the klaven that fired on Min, leaving it badly injured.
Min moves up, and casts Burning hands again.
Neither of the klaven Min burns go down, though they obviously get burned badly.