After the very wet night, Liam made certain he wears one of the cold weather outfits. He then tries to identify the few unidentified items in their possession.
"If there's anything here we can use as a make-shift torch we could also light that, then we have more than one light source. And although it will be a burden, it's best to take her inside with us. Don't want her to run off now do we."
The group decides to lug the bound sorceress with them down the stairs. The winding stairs go go about 30 feet, stops at a small 10' landing then winds back down upon itself another 30 feet. After another landing and downwards turn, the group now stands at the bottom and there is a 20' x 20' area at the base of the stairs and a sturdy wooden door on the western wall.
Bathe moves to the door and looks it over for traps
If it does not seem trapped he opens it
Balthe, cautiously looks over the sturdy wooden door, and it appear to be a sturdy wooden door. With a little muscle, he opens it. The room beyond is pitch black, except for the light provided by his companions light sources.
Balthe sees a natural stone tunnel, going beyond his line of sight. What he can see, is dust. It appears that this area has not been disturbed. A rough guess would be at least a decade, perhaps longer.
Bathe gestures for the others to keep up and he moves ahead, moving quietly as he can
stealth
Balthe cringes at the echoing shooshing
Balthe walks along, with the light from Wulfgar barely illuminating the way. Too bad Wulfgar is noisier than a hornets nest. Luck for Balthe, there are not hostile threats down the first tunnel. At the end, he sees into a barren 20 x 20 room. Down the tunnel that goes north a bit, then takes another turn east.
Bathe continues forward, this time taking 10 on stealth and percep
Nils will follow along and take rear guard.
Liam followed along as well.
At the edge of his vision, Balthe can see a pool of a shiny substance. It appears to be moving, ever so subtly.
Init tracker: round 1
Liam: go
Nils: go
Me:
Balthe:
Wulfgar:
This is a mercury ooze. Created by some bizarre and broken arcane experiment in ages past. The inflict their food with mercury poisoning, and if not treated the unfortunate soul goes insane. Standard ooze traits, and have the special ability "grab"
"Don't know it is, but it sure looks odd. "
"Don't know either, but I think you don't want to touch it."
Liam moved forward, preparing to lash out at the creature if it moved closer.
Init tracker: round 1
Liam: readied attack action
Nils: go
Me:
Balthe:
Wulfgar:
Nils will move up and slash at it. (He doesn't know any better).
rage, power attack
Sorry, didn't check the map.
Nils will just move up some.
Init tracker: round 1-2
Liam: go (round 2)
Nils: go (round 2)
Me: double moved
Balthe: go
Wulfgar: go
The silvery ooze moves forward, ever so slowly. As it approaches Liam, he lashes out at it. He easily connects with the less than nimble foe.
Damage:
ooze: 11
Liam stepped back and lashed at the creature twice more, keeping up his defensive posture.
Init tracker: round 1-2
Liam: posted round 2
Nils: go (round 2)
Me: double moved
Balthe: go
Wulfgar: attack and hit (ooze cannot be crit, sorry)
As the ooze, moves forward, Liam has enough time to lash out again, and he easily hits and takes another chunk of goo off the metallic creature.
Wulfgar moves forward, and takes a mighty swing with his sword, and this time a large hunk goes splattering against the wall next to him.
Damage:
ooze: 40
Bathe moves up and punches the goop
for
Liam steps back after Balthe punches the goo. The first whiplash almost kills the creature, who hangs on by a few gooey strands.The second whiplash ends the threat, and it dissolves into a silvery puddle.
The group goes into the room beyond, and it appears to be a small alchemical laboratory and library. The bookshelf appears to be lined with book, albeit dusty, dirty, and slightly mildewy. Topics include alchemy, planar travel, magical created creatures using various methods, and oddly enough philosophy.
In the worktable, there is one scroll of neutralize poison, one scroll of wall of ice, 2 vials of acid, and 1 tanglefoot bag.
Search the room carefully (take 20).
33 perception.
Balthe flops open a philosophy book, curious as to what itnis about
Liam looked at the books about magical created creatures using various methods, curious if the thing they fought was in there.
Nils checks the entire room, from top to bottom and looks for any hidden niches that may exist, Sadly, there are none, the magical scrolls and alchemical goodies are all that there are.
Liam, skims a book regarding magical beasts and how they are created. He happened to turn to a page that explains a mercury ooze, and how to combine some magic, and alchemical reagents and with any luck you will create an ooze, that serves as a very good deterrent to any incoming hostility.
Balthe opens the philosophy book, and skims it as well. He finds a passage that reads, "However, there is a limit to the amount that we can change the world. Our habitual thinking runs deep, and even if we free ourselves enough to imagine new possibilities and new futures, our external circumstances may stand in the way of realizing these possibilities. The futures that we imagine will always collide with the reality of the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
Liam put the book back and put the scrolls in his backpack.
"With a bit of work, these books might be salvageable. But let's first see what else we find here."
"Yeah, might as well keep looking around. Nothing important in here but the obvious. "
Balthe wraps his book in whatever cloth he has. Shall we move on? assuming so out the next door and take 10 on stealth and percep
The group continues on. The pass a small pool of water, but nothing jumps out at them. Around the corner is a pile of trash, soiled goods and there appears to be nothing salvageable from the pile.
Balthe come to a crossroads of sorts. To the right, he sees a long hallway, that goes beyond the light shed by Wulfgar's glowing sword. To the left, goes another long hallway, which appears to have small alcoves, with stone busts of a strange creature. It is part reptile, bat and overgrown worm.
"Not sure I want to see what they modeled those statues on. "
"Let's start with the creepy statue area. Might as well get it over with. "
The group heads down the western tunnel. They pass the alcoves with the weird statues.
Upon reaching the end, past the final statue, Nils can see a pile of bones in the northern corner of the room beyond.
"First that ooze, now these weird statues. What is this place?"
Liam moved along with the rest, whip firmly in hand.
Liam is unsure what the statues are...other than creepy as hell.
Nils will take some time poking around in the room with the bones.
Balthe stealths around the corner, seeing what there is to see
stealth
As the group explores the pile of bones, from behind they hear incessant babbling and incoherent gibberish.
Init
Init tracker:
round 1
gwen: done
Balthe: go
Liam: go
Nils: go
Wulfgar: go
me:
doh
will