Your wounds will slow you Smoke. I should treat them. Hold still. As the cleric examines all his wounds, she pays particular attention to the last one delivered by the strange foe, wondering if there is any chance of disease.
Converting her Bless spell to a heal she closes some of the barbarian's wounds before closely checking the last claw hit bandaging it as best she can.
Cadas looks closely at the scratch wound but sees no sign of infection, disease, or discoloration at this point. It looks like a "clean" wound and the cure spell binds it effectively.
As the group continues up the main cavern, they see it opens on the right again, into a stone room. A statue of some kind is placed in the center, and three side passages lead off from here. The cavern also continues north, but from here it looks like it dead-ends after about another 20' for so.
Smoke nods to Cadas. "Thanks. I think it didn't like me."
Rogar holds his hands up, then motions for the group to move forward. As they approach he points out the statue.
He listens carefully for any sounds in the room.
Perception
Before he slowly enters.
Curious, Tinuviel looks at the statue.
Cadas too considers the statue, wondering if it might hold some religious significance.
This room differs from the cavern you were in. The stonework here is fitted, the finish fine -- as fine as any dwarf craft. It is also old. Just how old is hard to tell, the air is actually fresher than in the caverns, and there isn't mold or ruin about the place, it just feels...old.
The statue in the room is a red marble figure of a strikingly beautiful, but at the same time, monstrously enraged human woman. She stands in the middle of the room, her stony expression twisted in fury. The woman wears flowing robes, and her long hair is held back from her face by an intricate headdress of hooks and blades. In her left hand she carries a large book, the face of which is inscribed with a seven-pointed star. Her right hand holds a glittering metal-and-ivory ranseur.
Looking down the corridors that lead from this room, with his darkvision, Rogar can see the north passage ends in a door, the east passage leads to some stairs ascending, and the south passage leads to two more side passages to the east.
The statue faces towards the eastern passage. There do not appear to be any compartments or traps on her. It is not an icon of any religious figure that Cadas has ever seen before.
These old ruins are festinating. Cadas states flatly. And I would love to explore them completely. But That is not our current mission. Shouldn't we focus on the train of goblins, if we can follow it, that is.
"Let's continue up the stairs then."
Conceding that this might indeed be related to the goblin troubles Cadas follows.
Tinuviel continues as well.
Onwards!
The eastern passage, which leads up the stairs, turns out to go for about 100 ft with landings in between several courses of steps. The steady climb eventually ends in a door.
There are no footprints or tracks to follow on the finely crafted stone floor.
The door does not appear to be trapped or locked.
Water ripples quietly in a circular stone pool lined with skulls in the center of this small circular room. As you enter, glowing scribbly writing appears and disappears on the wall to the left. On the far side of the room near the opposite door, a winged horror floats gently in mid-air, it's gaping mouth filled with teeth, a mass of tentacles hanging just below it's stubby body.
The thing growls, intent on making you it's next meal.
Washing Pool - Round 1
25 Robin
10 Rogar
10 Smoke
7 Cadas
6 Tinuviel
5 Creature
"This is a Vargouille, an evil extra-planar abomination, be careful, its bite is poisonous, it has a petrifying scream and its kiss could possibly turn you into a Vargouille. Kvothe, stay close, dear"
Boo sticks her fingers in her ears.
Unsure what the creature is, Cadas is pretty sure it is unfriendly and targets it with a Stormburst.
After attacking she will move back to get out of the fighter's way IF there is a spot she can move to.
Rogar grabs moves forward around the fountain and swings his shield at the accursed thing.
If that hits I do
Bludgeoning
What's its range. Cadas asks as she also plugs here ears. We better be ready to move forward and help Rogar in case he is petrified.
Washing Pool - Round 1
Seeing the floating head and hearing Tinuviel's encyclopedic description of it, Robin fires an arrow in it's direction, but his aim is shoddy and the hallway is crowded, and the flying thing avoids it with ease.
Rogar, meanwhile, leaps at the vargouille smashing it with his shield and causing it to cry out in pain at his bash.
Tinuviel, tired of waiting, throws an acid dart. Because acid dart attacks never ever fail.
for miss damage.
Smoke charges forward quickly, ducking the acid dart from Tinuviel. "Argh!" he declares, apologizing for throwing off her aim.
The young barbarian leaps through the air, landing beside the monster and swinging down on it with all of his strength. The first blow misses, of course-- but then the spectral klar rears again, and Smoke swings the sword up haphazardly, trying to bisect the creature on the upswing.
Washing Pool - round 1 - concluded
Smoke lets his base rage flow through him at the sight of the monstrous outsider. He leaps at the floating thing, his sword coming down on it's body with tremendous force at the same time the spectral klar penetrates the thing's toothy maw.
The vargouille falls to the floor, it's lifeforce spent.
End of Combat
The spiky writing on the wall faded soon after you saw it, and there is no trace on the wall (even with magical detection) of it any longer. The pool is shallow and was clear, but blood and gore from the vargouille's corpse fell and marred its surface. After a minute or two, the pool instantly clears removing all traces of the former blood stains.
Robin spills a few drops of his own blood in the pool and they cloud the pure water for a minute or two, then the pool magically refreshes and the evidence of the blood drops is gone.
Curiosity satisfied for now, Robin tinkers with the door, and eventually tells the group that the door appears to be lock and trap free.
"Careful fool," Rogar chides the halfling. "No telling vat type of foul magic lies vithin that pool."
Rogar looks around the area and turns to Cadas and Tin.
"How are you two holding up?"
"Well, thank you. How are you? You have been taking the brunt of our enemies' wrath" Tinuviel says appreciatively.
Boo thinks about Rogar's words and decides, actually if any can tell what sort of foul magic lies vithin that pool it is I.
She casts Detect Magic.
I am well, thanks to your and Smokes quick work of that creature.
The pool radiates transmutation magic and the spell effect is very like purify water, but the magic is a little different, older maybe, than what Tinuviel has ever seen or heard of before.
Assuming you eventually open the door, you find a passageway leading to more stairs going up. As you slowly climb, you all hear the far-off sound of a howl echoing. It sounds very distant, and coming from possibly below you.
After only about 15 feet, the passage ends in another door.