Waking early and doing his morning workout routine Bastien joins the other after a hearty breakfast.
"What shall we do today?"
"Go talk to a grindylow queen, I think. We have more questions for her today than we did yesterday."
If your ready we can proceed there now.
You proceed back to the grindylow cavern and this time make it all the way to the open area inside whitout any encounters. You reach the chamber were the grindylow queen was before and find her waiting for you here with all her remaining guards (8 grindylow soldiers)
"Your back already? I was not expecting you to return so soon." she says.
Deranthil deposits the dead shifter at her feet and waits for another to speak. His attempt at diplomacy does not go well.
"We didn't expect to find your spies trying to hide among us."
"You figured that out a lot faster than the last group did but it wont do you much good. Just means they will resort to force rather than cunning...Skum soldiers! No need to hide get in here and kill them, they are a treat to your masters plans."
Three green frogmen come in at the back of the cavern. They look about the same size and build as a man but bulkier. know Dungeoneering to identify. +5 since she said their name.
Roll init.
I'm at work now will make a map tomorrow.
"Skum. Damn, you're ugly." The archaeologist makes a disgusted sound. "Take a break, ugly."
[ooc]Cast Hideous Laughter on the closest skum. DC 14.[/dice]
Skum are the most prolific and successful of the countless races created by the aboleths to serve as slaves. At the height of the aboleth empire, skum were legion and their armies waged many wars upon the land, yet now that the aboleths are in decline, skum have been set loose to manage on their own.
For the most part, the skum have been less than successful at this endeavor, and today they exist in a shadow of their previous multitude, most of them dwelling deep underground in slowly crumbling ruins left standing only because their enemies have lost interest in pursuing the now-won war against these fish-like humanoids. Skum have even lost their own name—only the most erudite and wise of their kind remember that they were once known as the ulat-kini. Today, most identify themselves with the racial epithet applied to them by the surface-dwellers—“skum.”
Sckum soldier save
He just barely manages ot shake of the effect after almost sucombing to it.
The 3 of them charge forward to attack with tridents.
attacking Bastien (2) and Dio.
The grindylow seems content to watch for now.
Rest of you can act.
Bastien feels the burning sensation of the sting of the trident.
But alas, it is now payback time.
Deranthil casts Shield and moves to flank, tumbling to try to avoid an AOO.
Gizmo doesn't quite understand the relationship between these skum and the grindylow, but figures this is a mystery that can be solved after most of them are knocked out.
Shaking his head at the creatures resistance to his spell, Jordy imbues himself with a tiny bit of magical energy as he racks a bolt and takes aim at the nearest skum.
Diomedes slips to the side of the attackers trident, and tries to smash its head in.
But his balance is way off and the attack sails past the fishman.
Bastien swings but misses, derantil moves into position, Gizmo trows his bomb and many grindilow shriek in outrage when one of their own is hit and goes down. Jordy shoots but misses (assuming a -4 for shooting into meele) Dio also misses.
The skum continue to attack targetting Derantil Dio and Bastien.
Three of the grindylow decide to move in and attack goig after Joshua (the only one they can get too)
Your go you can all post again.
for some reason my map got corrupted and when I try to open it it says unsupported format gonna look into redoing it.
Joshua attacks one of the grindylow and orders Albert to attack as well.
Flanking with Bastien, Deranthil puts his short sword through the enemy between them
Diomedes swings again.
Jordy racks another bolt and fires at one of the grindylow who had charged forward, hoping to take it down.
Bastian attacks again.
Josha and Albert each take down a grindylow.
Derantil stabs the skum in the ribs.
Dio attacks a fresh skum and hits dealing minor damage.
Jordy takes down another grindylow.
Bastien attacks the same skum as Derantil and he goes down.
The grindylow queen holds up her hand summons a torrent of water that slams into Jordy and tries to push him into the water.
Bull-rush
The blast is not enough to do any damage or move him but is strong enough to knock him down prone.
The grindylow hang back after seeing so many fall.
The two Skum attack Bastien and Dios unconcerned over their comrades demise.
Your go again.
Not even bothering to get up, Jordy pulls out another bolt and aims at one the skum fighting Dio.
Moving around to flank a skum diagonally with Diomedes, Deranthil sheaths his short sword into a tender part of the enemy's anatomy.
If Gizmo can bomb one or more skum without damaging anyone else, he will.
Joshua and Albert move in and try to attack the Skum.
Diomedes gives Deranthil a fierce grin of thanks.
Derantil attack took down a second skum, one is still standing.
I think we were just missing bastien.
Diomedes moves on the last skum.
Sorry yes I saw your post and counted it as your action when counting.
Gonna move on anyways.
Bot Bastien he attacks the last skum.
A solid blow it goes down.
The Grindylow queen raises her hands.
"Enough, we surrender. Spare our lives and I will tell you all I know."
Deranthil stays his sword for now and responds Speak then, and we will weigh what you provide against your previous treachery.
Jordy nods at Deranthil. "Please, queen, proceed."
"Hmm were to start...There is a woman, human I believe she is a powerfull mage and she claims to serve the aboleth and she claims the aboleth want slaves. She has ugothol (the shapechangers) she uses as spies and skums are her soldiers. I made a deal with her we would capture slaves and bring them to her and in exchange she wouldn't enslave us. Four ugothol and three skum were left here to keep and eye on us and now you've killed them all so I plan to take whats left of my people and flee as far and as fast as we can go. If you wise you would do the same."
And where is this woman? Do you know her name and what she looks like?
"She makes her base in an old ruin in the northern part of the island, she called it "the observatory" we have never been there as it is too far inland but it is were the skum take all the prisoners."
"And how many of these slaves have you provided?" Gizmo has a clear sound of disgust in his voice.