Surprised by the lizard's sudden attack of the paladin Lasciel sends a stream of icy frost shooting forward, her aim unfortunately off.
Jen's blow gave the lizard a bad limp where it was struck but it hissed at the failed attack Lasciel unleashed on it. Now that it saw more enemies to deal with its scales flared in anger. This lizard was no where near backing down yet...
"Wait!" He's not attacking out of malice. Ethyra calls out as she moves towards the giant lizard rummaging in her backpack for some dried meat.
The Monitor lizard hisses at Ethyra's attempts to communicate with it, clearly snapping its jaws in absolute aggression...
The Lizard moves towards Jen once more, ignoring Ethyra hissing at everyone around it. Though it clearly is favoring its side where Jen struck it before. Its tail thrashes wildly as it steps in and tries biting her again, nimbly avoiding her glaive...
It lunges and this time around its teeth connect, digging into Jen's flesh and dragging her into a powerful. Crushing embrace as the reptiel capitalizes on its bite and coils around lower body. Making attacks with her Glaive all but useless for now...
Jen rears back with a choked cry of pain before attempting in to punch the lizard in the face.
Jen's uppercut leaves the Lizard out cold, though its bite doesn't slacken as it stays latched to her side. Still coiled tightly around her waist and left leg...
Jen gingerly experiments with the solidly attached lizard to see how best to remove the beast without losing more of her skin. Completing this act one handed is difficult to say the least
" Would one of you give me a hand with this?"
Extending her claws, Lasciel steps forward to take hold of the unconscious lizard and slit it's throat.
Jen's disapproval is obvious on her face as Lasciel complete her act, the paladin having obviously not expected it. "I.. I guess that will work." the woman says with some small twinge of regret.
It was just an animal but still. I guess i'll have to be more careful what I ask.
With that done Jen sets about freeing herself again.
THe lizards body goes limp then, its jaws growing slack as its life ebbs away.
The stinking cloud lingers to the north and other routes are yet to be explored.
Jen catches the lizards deadweight to prevent any further damage from its jaws before putting the beast on the ground. The woman inspecting the damage dealt to her with a frown as she releases another burst of healing magic to knit some of the damage.
" Well looking in here this appears to be a kitchen of some kind. Perhaps specifically for curing meats? Regardless I am going to try one of the other doors unless we wish to brave the noxious cloud." Jen informs as she glances in the direction the fleeing mongrelman had taken.
" That way I think."
"It's as good a direction as any, and better than some." Lasciel says moving forward.
Jen presses forward into the new room.
In the southwestern part of this room, stout stone chairs surround
a block of larger stone that serves as a table. The table's top strewn
with bone dice and cracked clay jugs. Stained canvas pillows rest
on the chairs. A copper bowl filled with coals hangs from the ceiling, filling the room with warmth and an orange glow...
A hole in the ground in the southeast corner of the room drops down into area H6. A rope ladder hangs down the shaft-the ladder looks rickety, but is quite safe to use...
There is a door in the northeast part of the room as well, looking to be made of an older more worn wood...
Jen eyes the room warily for the warrior who had ran this way glancing between the rope ladder and door.
" Unless any of you disagree I am going to attempt to open the door next. I lack the skills to open a locked door silently so if any of you possess such skills they would be good to reveal now."
Jen scrutinized the door before giving it a hopeful wiggle to check if it was locked.
Dice and small figurines adorn the table, along with abandoned and toppled over cups that must pass for tankards for the mongrelfolk.
The door isn't locked and swings open somewhat freely, revealing a sharp drop into the unknown...
Closer inspection reveals a pit with a creature rapidly consuming what appears to be a recently disposed of corpse of a humanoid, though its flesh has decayed so much that it was hard to tell if it was human.
Jen winces on seeing the creature and slides out of the way so others can examine the pit if they desire. " I do hope that the escaped mongrelman went a different way. That is not a fate I would wish on anyone." The warrior then looking over at the rope ladder listening down the hole
"So I'm thinking we should be avoiding that thing." Lasciel says looking down at the creature.
"You tink? Maybe it likes long moonlit walks on da beach an cuddlen it look like a cuddler, no?" Jaeger says while looking over into the pit.
Jen's attempt to see what lay below nearly costs her as the familiar sound of a crossbow's line snaps as it is fired. She jerks back instinctively feeling the bolt skim the side of her cheek just as she did so. Her skin felt like it was rope burned but the bolt head narrow missed the underside of her chin. She barely spots a retreating tail when she snags a swift glance down the small shaft...