"And how many of her pets would you say?"
"I don't know. They run around here everywhere. Could be five, could also be ten." the girls answers.
"Well I think you should run along before Tauriell puts an arrow in you." Jimmy says
Gwenhwyfar walks around and stabilizes all the girls. She leaves out the rats and the wererat girl, that looks still like a rat.
"You mean I shall come with you?" the girl asks, the horror showing on her face.
"Indeed, in front of us."
"But I'm almost dead already!" she replies looking at the arrow stuck in her chest.
Tauriell grabs the arrow and yanks it out. "If you don't like it, I take it back."
The girl let's out a scream and passes out. She drops to the floor.
Gwenhwyfar's face is contorted with pain as she feels with the girl. Looking at Jimmy she asks "Shall I bring her back on her feet?"
"Lets, it's the kind thing to do." Jimmy says with a smile to her
Gwenhwyfar lays her hand on the girl and with a glow the wound starts to close.
The girl opens her eyes with horror, fearing the worst with Gwenhwyfar's and on her shoulder. But as she notices it's Gwenhwyfar and feels the pain vanish she relaxes a bit.
She then looks back and forth between Jimmy and Tauriell the fear clearly showing in her eyes.
"You don't need to be afraid of me." Jimmy says with a smile. "Gwen and I are the only reason Tauriell hasn't killed you. Once we have found what we are looking for we might even have a job for you."
The girl gets up and moves to have Gwenhwyfar between her and Tauriell "Where should I go?" she asks.
"Showing us the way to your boss would be a great place to start." Jimmy says
The girl leads you to the south through another room. There stands a statue of a woman armed with a ranseur. There is a makeshift table with a hooded lantern on it. She leads further to a stair leading down. One story lower a long narrow hallway leads to a door. The girl opens the door and leads the group in.
She then points to two doors to the east. "There."
Much more interesting is a huge set of double doors in the west. The massive pair of double doors dominates the western end of this spearhead-shaped chamber. These doors are made of a silvery metal decorated with images of burning eyes that look inward toward two sets of runes carved onto the face of each door. The walls bear the remains of complex mosaics that once covered much of them, but which has crumbled and collapsed in heaps of colored tiles and debris around the edges of the room.
The runes on the doors look much like the ones on the paradox box.
"Well those doors are interesting, but I dont want anyone stabbing us in the back while we work on them. Shall we end the tower girls and then sort this out?"
"Do you want to go first this time?" Abomentolor asks. "I'm running short on fire."
"only if you give me some mage armor and Gwen wards me." Jimmy states matter of factly
"That's easy." Abomentolor replies, taking out the magic stick and waves it at Jimmy. "Have fun. But that's not really better than the armor you find on every girl here."
Gwenhwyfar wards Jimmy. "Be careful."
"None of that stuff would fit properly." Jimmy says, "Tauriell, are you ready to put an arrow into the first thing that gets anywhere near me?"
"If she has rats stay clear of them. If you don't want to stab them one at a time I need room for my fire." Abomentolor states.
"Compared to Abomentolor you look rather paranoid. Less talking more stabbing please." She gives Jimmy a wry smile and nocks an arrow.
Jimmy indicates for Gwen to open the door and charges past her diagonally into the room, making sure there is a clear line of sight through the doors for Tauriell
As Gwenhwyfar opens the door Jimmy rushes in. The room is shaped like an X. Guess where the two doors are. Jimmy enters the room facing the wall opposite the door. Turning around he sees a wererat surrounded by six dire rats.
The wererat was obviously expecting the breach of her room as she has a short bow in her hands and lets an arrow loose.
The arrow is deflected by the magic armor. The rats are not prepared and stare at the intruder.
Shouting out the door "There are six of those damn rats and the wererat in here." Jimmy says as he crouches and sets his spear against a charge, readied action to attack a charging creature.
Tauriell opens the other door for Abomentolor "Fire away."
Abomentolor walks in and gives the usual performance this time singing "And it burns, burns, burns, like a ring of fire. Like a ring of fire." Doing his gestures he casts burning hands.
The wererat easily evades the flames, but four of her pets are turned into burnt meat and the stink of burnt fur fills the room.
The remaining two rats cirlce the gnome and try to bite him.
But they fail.
The wererat takes a step towards Abomentolor and attacks him with her bladed scarf.
But misses too.
Jimmy tries to focus on the death of the large rat and charges it
Tauriell takes a step through the door. She shoots at the remaining rats.
But this is not her time.
Abomentolor sends a fiery ray at one of the rats.
"Oh sh*t. What a waste."
The wererat is dead before she even realizes what happened to her. As she hangs on the spear through her chest she transforms back into a human woman.
The rats attack again one Abomentolor
and the other one Jimmy
Gwenhwyfar walks into the room and whacks a rat.
Or the floor.
Tauriell takes out her mace and joins Gwenhwyfar's game of whack a rat.
Jimmy extracts his spear from the ribcage of the naked woman and stabs the remaining wererat.
Abomentolor moves away. "You finish that rat alone. I'm not wasting more of my fire on that."
All enemies are dead. Outside the room a lonely Tower Girl sneaks out the door and runs away.
As the threat is gone the group has time to look around inthe room. Several pieces of furniture decorate this room, the modern furnishings clashing with the ancient carvings of Thassilonian wizards crafting deformed monsters from dead bodies decorating the walls. Luxurious crimson Varisian drapes have been pinned up in an archway to the southeast.
The sound of wind and waves wafts in from the east of the room. On the table is some treasure spread out. Various gems lie there
Under the bed is a pouch containing 18pp.
There is a secret door in the wall.
The clothed body of Ayala cariies tanglefoot bags (3), masterwork studded leather, +1 bladed scarf, masterwork composite shortbow (str +1) with 20 arrows, climber’s kit, grappling hook with 50-foot silk rope, masterwork thieves’ tools, second-story harness.
After surveying the room Jimmy spots the pouch under the bed and bends down to grab it, opening it up he sees the platinum pieces and whistles slightly, he also moves over to the table to inspect the treasure there. He places the pouch on the table with the other treasure. "Gwen, I think we may have enough gold here to buy our manacles." Jimmy says with a smile. He then attempts to determine the value of some of the furniture and such in the room, and the most valuable piece of treasure in the pile.
In addition, there are several journals on the table, written in Varisian. They provide details on Ayala’s history with and plans for the Tower Girls, including her increasing frustration at Natalya's betrayal.