"Well, I must say, I have never seen such critters before. They were certainly not friendly. Is everyone ok?"
Yes some damage was taken I believe.
When your ready let me know and we will proceed to the next encounter.
"Anyone hurt?" Diomedes asks.
Perhaps these creatures has some treasure? At least let me recover my bolts. Deranthil says as he searches the ares, looking up as much as on the ground.
[dice=Perception]1d20+8
Roll 50% on each bolt a result of 49 or less means the bolt is broken.
You recovery your bolts but find no treasure here.
Gizmo checks out his wound, and then mixes a few ingredients and drinks it down.
Bastien points ahead. "There is still so much to explore!"
Cursing his bad luck Deranthil finds his two wayward bolts but both are broken. He asks I better get a charge from the healing wand.
The wand helps, but only a little. Seems his luck is holding.
You gather up ahead and reach the end of the cavern. At first it appears to be a dead end but then you notice a crack that leads into another chamber. The entrance is tight and you will need to squeeze inside one at a time.
This looks dangerous. Deranthil notes. Shall I send in dancing lights ahead of us? I cannot see in the dark and with a light I cannot sneak in.
"By all means," Diomedes says with a wave of his arm.
The rogue conjures 4 globes or pale light and sends them in advance of the group. He loots to his party to see who will follow the lights first.
Gizmo steps back, not wanting to volunteer for lead position.
Diomedes looks hopefully to the guy in the heavy armor.
Bastian looks doubtfully at the narrow gap but shrugs.
"Either I have to undo my armor and redo it afterwards or I will need some help. Does anyone have a grease spell prepared?"
"If you have to take off your armor anyway, I can go first. I can do something to fool anything that's on the other side and I'll let you know what's on the other side."
You don't need to remove your armour. You just take a -4 penalty to dex while squeezing and move at half speed.
Silent image to make the passage look empty works.
Assuming Bastien goes first?
You squeeze into the passage and on the other side there is a chamber were you spot two adult chokers.
They haven't notice you yet thanks to the illusion spell.
Bastien quitely and quickly dons his armor again.
Deranthil follows.
Diomedes gives Jordy a thumbs up as he squeezes through the crack.
Assume you get a surprise round on them.
Deranthil casts snowball at the nearer of the two and uses it to sneak attack the creature.
Jordy shoots his crossbow at the same one Deranthil just hit.
Waiting for the ranged fighters to do their attacks Bastien charges the wounded cloaker, thrusting his blade deeply into it.
Jordy and derantil hit but Bastien and Dio missed.
One is staggered it attacks the closest person (gonna say dio)
+grab
The other does a full attack on Bastien
+grab
+grab
*grab applies only if the attack hits, if your grapple you take the grapple damage. You can only be grappled once so ignore the second grab if the first grapples you.
Your go.
"Watch out for those tentacles!" Diomedes says, perhaps unnecessarily. Again he tries to bash the nearest choker.
Jordy racks another bolt and fires at the staggered, wounded cloaker.
Derenthil raises his crossbow and fires at the choaker not in melee.
Bastien is grappled and draws his kukri to attack.
Joshus moves up and slings a stone at one of the beasts.
You can two-hand any non-light one handed weapon. So no on the kukri.
However your attacks are enough to drop the two chokers.
You check the room and find it is filled with items stolen from the colony. Liqueur in particular seems to have been to their liking.
You find a sack that contains a porcelain tea set, haphazardly thrown into the sack such that three of the teacups now have broken handles. There is also a steel flask full of whiskey etched with an elaborate “R,” a silver mirror with a rose motif worth 150 gp, a set of five wooden six sided dice in a wooden cup capped with leather covering, two defoliant bombs, four star candle fireworks, a thunderstone, a meridian belt, and a wadded-up shield cloak.
The belt does not change the type of action required to activate a ring (for example, activating a ring of invisibility is still a standard action), but allows the wearer to easily switch between the constant powers of several worn rings. While the belt is worn, having a ring in the buckle counts toward the attunement process of certain rings (such as a ring of sustenance) even if the belt isn’t used to make that ring active during that attunement period. value 1000 gold.
Jordy points at the flask. "Could be R for Ramona. She might like her flask back. Though I wouldn't want to drink from it without giving it a good wash first, after those things have had at it." He looks around for other passageways out of what seems to be the chokers' main lair.
Alright if I carry one of these bombs. the rogue asks.
"Go right ahead, Derenthil."
Diomedes helps ransack the place. "Is everyone prepared to continue?"
You've cleared the caves. There is nothing hostile remaining here.
"So, let's take all this back with us, shall we?"
Gizmo is particularly interested in the poison bombs and the fireworks.
"Now what?"
You grab the stuff and return to camp to get some rest.
"We should return to the village and take a rest. We need some time!" Bastien is quite exhausted and needs some time!
There is no rush at this stage your next mission is more or less to explore the island and there is not set time limit.
Jordy nods at Bastien. "We've earned at least an afternoon and a night to ourselves, that's for sure."