Niamh starts playing her violin.
The three derros attack her again.
"Out of the way!" Abomentolor commands.
Tauriell slashes at the other derro who stabbed her from behind.
"Let's see how you like that." She says with a grin as she steps back to be out of the way for Abomentolor.
Abomentolor approaches the group of derros Tauriell put so nicely into position and exhales a cloud of flames.
Jimmy runs to the edge of the balcony and jumps, attempting to land on the derro which has not been attacked yet.
Jimmy then stabs at it from the floor after focusing on its demise,
The derros try to evade the flames.
The worst hit derro ducks away successful, but is staggered anyway. The second one Tauriell cut doesn't look well also and the third one, a female derro, flees after getting her burns.
The other one flees too. Only the staggered one stays wide eyed, mouth open in shock and horror.
Jimmy lands on his behind as it is too hard to jump this height in heavy armor.
Beside him shrieks a dire rat which he kills with all his might.
The female derro runs into a adjacent room to the west and slams the door shut.
The other one runs into a room to the south.
Abomentolor exhales the rest of his fire at the staggered derro as the others are out of his reach.
"Take that." he spits at the downed derro.
"Let's hurry to end this cowards before they use up the healing potions we would get otherwise! Abomentolor demands. He follows the one that Tauriell hit.
"I could use some healing before we follow them." Tauriell states towards Gwenhwyfar.
Gwenhwyfar approaches Tauriell casting a heal spell and with a golden glow on her hand touches her shoulder
"Is that good?"
"It is better but not good" Tauriell replies.
"Then let's try again" Gwenhwyfar says and uses her heal hex on Tauriell.
Tauriell tries herself with the healing.
"Now I'm fine again." Tauriell explains. "Shall we check on our favorite gnome?" she asks looking where he went.
As Abomentolor follows the derro to the south door he comes into a corridor that splits and ends in two equally sized square rooms—a bedroom to the northeast and some sort of abattoir to the southwest.
The derro fled to the northeast room where he grabs some kind of spear.
Under the ceiling hangs a creature that looks like a black stalactite.
Abomentolor stops at the entrance of the square room and shoots a ray of fire at the derro.
"Ha! Got you."
The derro already cut and burned falls to the ground.
"Note to self, armor does not protect from falling."
"Are you hurt?" Gwenhwyfar asks worried.
Tauriell walks after Abomentolor to see what he is up to.
Abomentolor walks into the room to check for valuables and other interesting things.
Niamh stops her playing and looks around. As she can't see the others she tries to follow their noises.
So Niamh jumps with a somersault from the balcony and walks to the others.
An alchemist’s lab sits on a table in this bedroom. Also some strange device.
Once per day, an extraction scarificator can be used to extract and concentrate one of the four bodily humors from its target as well. The humor to be extracted can be adjusted as needed, and must be immediately poured into a potion vial or the extracted humor is lost. Extracting a humor takes a variable number of rounds—as soon as the victim has taken
a total of 6 points of damage in all from the bleed effect, the extraction is complete. For 24 hours after extraction, this purified humor has an additional effect, functioning as one of four potions as listed below (all function at caster level 3rd).
Black Bile: potion of lesser restoration
Blood: potion of cure moderate wounds
Phlegm: potion of calm emotions
Yellow Bile: potion of rage
Also a umbrella like creature falls from the ceiling and attacks Abomentolor.
The gnome's half head and left shoulder disappear under the umbrella as the creature takes hold on him.
"Aaargh! Get off you bastard." Abomentolor shouts.
Tauriell hurries to see what has befallen the gnome this time.
And with her blade she slashes at the stump that stands above the mantle.
The darkmantle lets go of Abomentolor and clumsily flies back to the ceiling hiding in a corner.
"You think I let you get away with that? Think again! Abomentolor shouts.
And he gets even more furious as he misses.
Tauriell takes a dagger and throws it at the beast.
"See that is how it's done. And stop trying to steal my kills!" Tauriell jokes.
The darkmantle falls from the ceiling to the floor with a splat.
Niamh appears in the door. "There you are!"
She looks around.
The room to the south has several haunches of meat kept at a freezing temperature. The wall is in one place covered with a brown substance.
"Abomentolor don't burn anything down here please." Niamh tells Abomentolor and stays away from the brown substance. "If you want to kill it you have to freeze it!"
"Why not? Don't you want me to have fun?" Abomentolor asks while checking on the lab equipment casting detect magic.
"Whoa! Check that! You can use this to create potions out of people! How sick is that!"
"You can try to burn it..." Niamh replies with a grin and walks out of the room "...but let me go out please. And stay away from the brown mold."
Tauriell takes a look at what Niamh meant with her warning.
"Why should he be careful with fire?" Tauriell asks Niamh.
"It grows bigger with fire." Niamh answers.
Gwenhwyfar listens carefully to what the others discuss. She then asks "Wasn't there another one of these small creatures we should look for?"
"Yep. Shall we look where it went?" Tauriell replies walking back to the large room. As the others come along she opens the door to the south.
This square room seems to serve a dual purpose as a bedroom and a torture chamber. As Tauriell opens the door the female derro commands Fenster the Blight to attack.
"High Fenster! Nice to see you."
"Do you mind if I talk to your new friend?"
Abomentolor also tries to bypass Fenster.
With mixed results and then casts burning hands at the derro making sure Tauriell is not in the cone.
Fenster punches with his fist at Abomentolor
The derro tries to evade the fire
and is successful. But that doesn't help as with the burn from the start of the fight in the large room she falls unconscious.
Niamh looks pleased to see Fenster. "Hello again. I haven't seen you for long time." She greets him.
"Oh, hello. Nice to see you. How are you?" Fenster asks.
"Thank you. I'm fine. And how are you? I hadn't expect to see you here"