shortly after the room the hallway leads towards a wall and continues to the right and to the left. To the right is a room with a door at the farther wall.
To the left the way splits up once more with stairs up to the north, stairs down to the south and another hallway on the same level to the west.
"Where to now?" Abomentolor asks.
"I prefer going upstairs." Niamh replies.
So the group walks upstairs despite the fact that they know the shard is deeper into the crow. At the top of the stairs is an empty room with a bare stone floor.
Two vaguely humanoid, deformed figures with waxy, almost liquid flesh that hangs from their twisted bones in ropes stand guard here; each is armed with a spear and attack the party on sight.
Niamh lets Abomentolor and Jimmy the precedence. She walks behind them. "Your turn again."
Abomentolor runs up the stairs and places himself behind the ugly creatures waving around his dagger.
The creatures stab at Abomentolor as he passes them.
"At least no one can blame him for lack of engagement." Tauriell says before following up the stairs stabbing one of them.
The creature drops to the floor. The other stabs at Abomentolor again.
Abomentolor takes a step to the side to stand directly in front of that thing. "Your turn. Stab it to death." he says to Tauriell looking with a evil grin at the poor devil.
"Why can't it be giant spiders again." Jimmy sighs as he charges the other thing
Tauriell wants to take a step to the side too to finish the other devil. But instead she bumps into Jimmy.
"I guess I'm lucky I wasn't faster."
Both creatures are dead now. The room has a door to the west. Nothing else.
"What do you think is behind that door?" Niamh asks. "The one with the best idea may open it. I bet there's a devil with butterfly wings inside."
"I guess I'm lucky too. If Jimmy thrust that thing in as deep as the last time I would be impaled too. Please aim high if you stab enemies that I'm flanking." Abomentolor requests.
"What would be the best? The most absurd one or the one closest to reality?" Tauriell asks.
"The most creative. Oh, and my devil is surrounded by glitter." Niamh says with an amorous expression on her face. "And it's shape is the same as the shape of a horse!"
"Ok. Something horse themed." Tariell replies thinking about something.
"I bet we'll find a nightmare blowing fire out of it's nostrils with glowing hot horse shoes that shoots lightning from it's eyes."
"Congratulations!" Niamh says enthusiastic. "Your guess was the better one. So you are allowed to open the door." She tells Tauriell with a bow.
"No I don't want. You open the door." Tauriell replies.
"You are such a sissy!" Niamh teases Tauriell and opens the door.
A red statue of a beautiful woman holding nothing anymore stands in the center of this chamber. Slime cakes the floor. A dead abyssal larva lies on the floor.
"Are we going downstairs? We entered this room before." Niamh says and closes the door again.
"No. I'm done asking you where to go. I want to go to the east." Abomentolor replies and walks down the stairs and then to the east.
"Then we have to go downstairs unless you learn to fly. Then you don't need to walk the stairs back down." Niamh says and forbears to call him blockhead.
Tauriell takes a look into the room. She then picks up one of the spears from the slain creatures and puts it into the hand of the statue. "It looks less silly this way." she tells Jimmy.
Then she follows Abomentolor downstairs and to the east. Easily closing up on the short legged gnome she casts the open cantrip and opens the door just in front of his nose.
As the door opens five more of these goo flesh covered skeletons come into sight. They turn towards the door with their spears and wait.
Abomentolor jumps to the side to make way for Tauriell or Jimmy. "It's such a shame. All of them lined up and I can't burn them."
Tauriell readies herself to step out of the way and towards an attacking thing and stabbing it with her sword.
The Nupperibos just stand there and wait what happens.
As no one charges her Tauriell relaxes and asks "What are we going to do now? I don't see myself running in there and they don't seem to want out either."
"We could just close the door again and take another way. Then everyone is happy. We don't have to say it anyone." Niamh suggests.
"That's lame. I thought more along the lines of 'What could we throw in to end that in our favor.'" Tauriell gives back.
"Well. My usual ideas don't work here. How about we throw Jimmy in?" Abomentolor suggests.
"Let's try something else. These suckers are so lousy maybe I can get them with my bow. Would you help out with some inspiration Niamh?"
Tauriell gets some arrows out and starts shooting at the nupperibos.
"Sorry. Now I'm out of arrows." Tauriell states after dousing them in arrows for a few rounds.
Tauriell downs three of the devils and hurts one quite badly. Two of them are still standing around as dumb as always.
"Show off" Niamh mumbles while playing.
"I'm done. Now it's your time to shine." Tauriell smiles at Niamh.
Niamh gives Tauriell a glare. She walks into the room and lets many lights dancing around in the room.
The two nupperibos attack Niamh.
Tauriell follows Niamh in and stabs at the already damaged thing.
The nupperibos drops dead. The other one tries to stab Niamh again.
Niamh slips behind the thing and takes her dagger into her hand.
As the nupperibos still has it's damage reduction the stab has no effect.
Tauriell stabs the remaining nupperibo in it's back.
The last nupperibo drops dead.
"You're welcome." Tauriell says. "But I compliment you. You're great bait."
"Everything for you, my dear." Niamh says with a sepulchral voice.
The room has two doors. One to the south and one to the east. The smell of the sea is strong in this room, and salt encrusts the floor in a trail leading from the south door.