Drahlneep stands behind Jeji, watching the doors carefully and glancing behind him occasionally.
The doors slide open revealing a large room. This sprawling chamber contains many desks, tables, and chairs arrayed before a number of broken pieces of equipment and machinery. The dried residue of liquids spilled from smashed containers creates a heavy stench in the air, and pieces of glass litter the floor.
The black scaled kobold pokes his head in the room
Yes yes, no want baddies come behind us! ohhh, big machines.
Jurno uses detect magic to see if any magical aura's are in the room.
Who goes in, who goes in?
Can I make head or tails of the various equipment?
Wheezing slightly, the oracle peers in and consults the strange storehouse of information he's been gifted with.
"We all go in. Spread out and look around, but be wary. There is glass on the floor."
Drahlneep moves to the center of the room and keeps his eyes open while the others look around.
Perrik looks with concern at the russet mold covering the scar. This can't be good. He attempts to cauterize it which knocks it back, but it seems to have moved into his whole body!
The kobolds move into the smelly room to the occasional skitter of kicked shards of glass. There looks to be several workbenches and alchemical gear though everything is in ruin now. THere is the stench of death and rot, but the kobolds soon find that not everything is exactly dead: a pair of wobbly pustule-like blobs roll toward you. They are only about knee high, but nasty looking with short bristly hair.
Jeji:
Jurno:
Kricker:
Drahlneep:
foe:
With a throaty growl, Drahlneep launches himself at one of the moving blobs, hoping to drive his spear deep into the mass.
The oracle calls on hidden powers and empowers the party.
Kricker takes aim at the one not yet engaged in hand to hand and fires his musket.
He then stows his gun away.
Jeji draws a bomb and follows Kricker's lead, hurling the bomb at the same blob.
Kricker and Jeji lead off the assault with a bullet and a bomb. Both score a direct hit on the most distant blob and it doesn't seem to like it. The thick fly-like hairs scorch and it seems to hesitate before slithering forward again.
Drahlneep charges the closer one and jabs it like a boil releasing clear fluid mixed with creamy puss. It flails ineffectively at the pointy spear that poked it, but the burned boil rushes Drahlneep smashing into his knee and covering him hip deep in vile, smelly ooze.
AH! Bad Ooze-slime things! back!
Jurno raises his hand and a neon green bolt similar to lightening flies into the ooze closest too Drahlneep
Perrik stabs at the nearest blob, scoring a small nick on it!
Kricker will draw his greatsword and charge the one he shot at.
AC 14 due to charge...
Jeji rushes up to stand beside Drahlneep and stabs at the blob with her own spear.
A flash of green energy arcs from Madtail to the burned blob. Kricker follows hacking into it with a heavy overhead slice. The thing splits in two spraying viscous fluid everywhere! Before the other kobolds can tell what has happened, they jab the other blob and it explodes as well. ;
Perrik shrieks in pain and disgust as the globs of putrescent slime cover him.
Jeji gasped as the acid splashed onto her. She was able to dodge most of it, but enough landed on her scales and began to burn.
Kricker drops due to massive acid damage and gets space herpes to boot.
Perrik calls healing power into the fallen cleric.
Caught at Ground Zero of the pustules' death throes, Kricker falls covered with caustic burns and festering ooze. Fortunately, Perrik is on hand to revive him.
Drahlneep grins down at Kricker as he regains consciousness. "Welcome back. Now you two are truly with us." He chuckles while glancing at Perrik. "Those of us who survive this mountain will emerge ready to take on the hateful soft-skins."
Urk, that hurtsss. Now I understand why you two were so badly beaten up when I arrived. This place is dangerous.
After making sure the blob things are truly dead...
Gather around and I'll try to make us all feel a bit better.
"That was close" Jeji said as she moved over to help Kricker up. She closed her eyes as the soft glow of the healing light flooded into her body, knitting wounds and restoring scales. For a brief moment, she was somewhere else. Back in the tribe's den. Sitting on the soft, muddy floor of the warren, she was watching her clutch-mates play. Then it all faded away.
She blinked several times and looked around like she was lost. It took a minute for her to remember where she was. "Uh, spread out and look around."
Jeji slowly moved around the room looking for anything of value.
The kobolds look around mindful of the broken glass and festering puddles. The place is a mess and if there was anything of value at one time, it has long since been destroyed.
"Jurno, you do magic? Can you tell what these things do?" Jeji pulls out a wand and three scrolls and holds them up.
Jurno looks over the items. Perhaps-Maybe, lets see them, lets see them.
He looks over the scrolls first, muttering Yes, maybe, no, no...yes! no.
Before looking at the wand last.
The scrolls are exciting in that they are nothing that Jurno has seen before. Oh, he recognizes one, unseen servant. The others take more time. One is divination... detect something... yes, the blightburn! The other, also divination, but related to the strange TEK that occurs in the ruins of Numeria.
The wand is a popular item that he recognizes: a wand of magic missiles though it has been quite well used with only 15 charges left.
Sarahthenal has been looking over the things discovered by Drahlneep (5d20) identifying a scroll of unseen servant and a wand of magic missile.
Different thought-words from scrolls, ones Jurno never seen maybe-possible put new thought-words in book. The magic stick is one of, er, oh, ah! Magic missiles yes!
Perrik casts a cure on Drahlneep, then another cure on Kricker.
Thank you friend, I feel much better now. Though I think we should proceed with caution as we have used up much healing already today.
Kicker takes out his gun and reloads it for the next fight.