Put me down boy! I can run on my own.
As soon as she is back on her feet, Laneth moves away from the cube and pulls out her bow.
In contrast to Lanneth, Yorikata enjoys being dragged along. It reminds here of the times her father held her up in the air, running around to make her 'fly'. As Lanneth pulls her bow, Yorikata curses herself for not bringing a ranged weapon herself. As a fox that never was an option though.
Lanneth's shot lands in the cube, a small spout of green acid sizzles the floor.
Yorikata pick up a stone from the rubble and throws it at the cube.
Dain opens the door and enters the room, aiming to come up behind the cube.
Everyone runs around hoping to not allow the cube to get on top of them, Yorikata throws a stone and more acid spews out of the cube. It continues down the tunnel towards where Yorikata stopped to turn and throw.
The cube makes it's way out of the tunnel and slams at Balder
Balder drops Yorikata and pulls out his mace avoiding the cube and swings his mace at the green ooze.
"Have at thee beast of jello!"
Yorikata averts her face and hold up her hand in a protective gesture to avoid the splash of the jello.
Dain moves up to make jello dessert
The Ooze takes some more hits and more drops of acid hit the floor in a sizzle.
May you melt in the sun you block of slime! Lanneth curses at the thing.
Lanneth finds her hex is ineffective on this creature, there is no mind for her powers to scramble.
Yorikta stabs at the thing.
Gran't' moves back towards the other room, seeing that the cube has made it's way through the pathway.
Most acid falls from the cube onto the floor as the group surrounds the cube, being rather straight forward in its approach, the creature tries to engulf Balder.
Balder seeing the cube loom over him and not being fast enough, he instead smashed into it with his mace as hard as he can!
"Aaargh!!"
As the thing moves towards Balder, Yorikata also uses the opportunity to stab at it again.
Dain watches the cube slop all over the floor. Well that was interesting. Maybe we can scoop it up and use it as catapult ammo
I wonder if you could breed them to shoot live cubes from a catapult. Landing a couple of those in the middle of an army could be interesting.
Lanneth ponders this idea as she scans the items that fell out of the cube for magic.
Now that it is dead, we can search the room it was in. Dain does so.
a scroll of hold portal in a steel scroll case (worth 50 gp),
a masterwork chain shirt, a falchion, a star
rose quartz amulet worth 75 gp, and coins
totaling 20 gp, 95 sp, and 144 cp.
The remainder of the room holds nothing of values, the floors are slightly slick but very clean, the now destroyed statue has been mared by the Ooze and the acid plus being pushed to the floor. With that you have cleared out the Plague house.
Yorikata ogles the chain shirt.
Well it looks like this was mostly a dead end. Let us get back to town for some rest.
"Well, Othdan told us they are here at night. It might be interesting to see who they are." Yorikata suggests. "But getting back to town is a good idea. How late is it? There is the funeral of Rodrik this evening."
I forgot about them coming at night. let us try to clean up the area as best we can and then see who gathers here.
I agree. There is something going on here. The boy heard voices, and we were almost killed, most likely because of exploring this place. I would like to stay here and see if we can spy anyone tonight.
"You want to wait in here? I'd like it much more to hide outside and watch who is coming." Yorikata objects. She is not comfortable playing the sitting duck, when who knows how many or what enemies will come here.
Yorikata is right that Rodrik's funeral is tonight, right now the time is about noon since you came back after breakfast this morning. The group cleans up a bit, putting the statue back into place and closing doors that were closed to begin with.
Dain uses his expert nature skills to reset the traps.
I am not attached to this location, I'm open to wherever you all want to be.
Yorikata helps Dain to reset the traps.
Don is able to reset the traps after a few misshaps, the group heads back upstairs and back into town. Omast can be seen with a few citizens still trying to clear off the graffiti and the town appears to be going business as usual
"I'm visiting the Sanctuary, to ask the clergy about this blood god." Yorikata tells and takes the turn to the left right behind the gates to town.
Looking around the building she searches out the head priestess, but she'll ask any of the clergy who stops her at her search. "We found this thing on a dead half orc in the plague house. Can you tell me what deity belongs to that, what it stands for and who generally the worshippers are?"
Dain goes with Corgikata to make sure there are no attacks like what happened at the inn.
"Probably best we stick together, especially after what happened last night." Balder tells Dain as they walk.
Yorikata looks to Lanenth. She looks worried. If this is kept as standard procedure from now on and they even all share a room at night this might become uncomfortable and incompatible with her sleeping habits. She needs some time with Lanneth to talk about that.
Lanneth goes with the others to the sanctuary to hear about this blood god.
Sensing the worry through the link, Lanneth pipes up absent mindedly:
Yes, sticking together for now is a good idea. But at night, I'd still like to keep in different rooms. One for boys and one for girls. I'd really rather not be woken up because you youngsters are loudly playing together on the next bed over.
Lanneth creates a picture in Yorikata's mind she'd like to unsee immediately. Her face is stuck between horror and laughing out loud. Besides her not having wasted a thought at romantic engagement, her minimum requirements for a guy includes ownership and regular use of a grooming kit. Which reminds her that she needs to get one herself, now that she is living in human form. Licking herself, won't do the job anymore.
The high priestess looks at the holy symbol that Yorikata hands to her, "This is Nulgreth, he is followed by the most bloodthirsty of Orcs, they bathe themselves in the blood of those they kill. His followers do not take prisoners but prefer wholesale slaughter." Tyari shutters a bit at the thought of the Orc God.
The group heads to Clamour to check on Katrezra, upon arriving Sara Morninghawk motions for you to go into the shop. Katrezra is there sorting through some items in a almost hidden corner.
"Well young ones what did you find out about the death of poor Rodrik?"
He clearly stumbled onto something in the old plague house.
He explored it and ended up dead.
We set foot in it and were attacked the next night.
So what can you tell us about that place?
Dain lets the talky types take care of this.
Yorikata produces the holy symbol also to Katrezra. "We foudn a dead half orc there, who wore this."
"And we freed Othdan, who fell in the hands of some, that use the place at night."
Balder stands and watches as they talk. At mention of the blood god he says ”Orc followers. Hmm think the orcs are planning something?”
"It was used to house the victims who contracted a plague over 100 years ago, it burnt down from a fire that started in the chimney killing all those inside. It was then rebuild but burnt again mysteriously a couple years after and has been abandoned since."
Katrezra looks at the unholy symbol, he slowly reaches out for it but pulls his scared hand back quickly.
"Filth that item, it should be destroyed before it can find its way back to his flock."
Yorikata holds the item out to Sara "Can you melt it and make something useful from it?"
"I would rather burn it down and bury it deep in the ground instead of letting it be known that it was ever something evil." Sara says