Is there anything in the dead end besides the dead and ended sinspawn?
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Ioxeia peers down curiously at the dead creature as she wipes her spear-blade clean, fascinated and horrified by its bizarre features. "Sinspawn, you said, Gabriel? Some sort of mage-bred aberration? It certainly qualifies for one of the freaks Tsuto's journal mentioned." Behind her mask, the elf's nose wrinkles briefly in disgust.
"I'm afraid we should tread carefully and expect more of these - he did use the plural." It's a nasty bit of work, but I wonder if we should drag it upstairs once we're done here, and see if between the town's libraries and sages we can get a better idea of what these things do, she muses.
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Chimaeryus looks the ranseur over then throws it haphazardly back onto the ground.
I'll pick it up on the way out.
He then takes a moment and stares blankly at the Sin-spawn, realizing that this mage-bred abomination probably had more in common with him than his allies ever will.
"Whatever that thing was, it was resistant to my magic."
His gaze is broken as Thorfinn steps into view.
The dwarf wipes his axe clean on the creature. "No one hurt? Let's go." Thorfinn returns to the next tunnel to the right and follows it.
Throfinn moves up the hall and takes the next right. The tunnel continues a bit before coming to an actual paved room rather than carved out dirt and rock. The original purpose of this chamber is unclear, but large mounds of rubble lie strewn on its floor. You enter the room where the wall to the west has been torn down.
Thorfinn enters cautiously and peers around the room, looking for anything of interest.
Gabriel makes sure his crossbow is set and follow along.
Gallus will remain beside Thorfin his glaive held at the ready.
The room mainly full of rubble and junk. There is a door that leads to the north.
Thorfinn listens at the door.
The dwarf shrugs. "Nothing moving back there. Ready?" When everyone else gives some indication of readiness, Thorfinn opens the door.
Gabriel nods to Thorfinn.
Gallus lines up behind Thorfin ready to reach past him with hisglaive should something burst forth.
Thorfinn opens the door.
Gabriel thinks out loud a bit"Just got to scratchin' my noggin a bit about what's been going on. Help me out with the details... Goblins attacked Sandpoint, and the crypt got raided. We found some evil in the glassworks, with more goblins and have followed the trail down beneath."
Gabriel pauses for a moment before continuing.
"I wonder where this all goes, or at least how deep the hole is."
Gallus grins Here I thought it would be Gabriel who would want to study that book more thoroughly. Interesting. Gallus gives Ioxeia a mischievous grin as he turns back to the task at hand.
Thorfinn pays no attention to the mating habits of longshanks of any sort. "Crypt was raided to get what was left of the dead priest, for his foster daughter. Bad business, that, turning on your family. Like Tsuto, killing his father."
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Recalled by Thorfinn’s seriousness, Ioxeia drops her facetious tone. “It is a terrible thing, and it’s likely to get worse. Beyond robbing Father Tobyn’s crypt, the plan seems to be to perform a profane ritual to fuel some sort of transformation in his daughter, to be completed by dedicating the entire town to the Mother of Monsters. There’s also a something calling itself Malfeshnekor that needs to be freed from a binding, apart from any number of goblins and assorted ilk.”
“Depraved cult, capering idiot vermin, other pawns with low cunning… like to like, monster to monster, it appears,” she concludes, voice hardening with contempt.
Opening the door you find a hallway that stretches 15ft to the north before turning back to the west.
The laconic dwarf shrugs and heads north.
The tunnel turns to the west and continues before turning once again to the north.
Thorfinn continues along the tunnel to the corner and looks north.
The tunnel goes north for a bit before opening into a room. A red marble statue of a strikingly beautiful but, at the same time, monstrously enraged human woman stands in the middle of this room, her stony expression twisted in fury. The woman wears flowing robes, and her long hair is held back from her face by an intricate headdress of hooks and blades. In her left hand she carries a large book, the face of which is inscribed with a seven-pointed star. Her right hand holds a glittering metal-and-ivory ranseur. To the west it appears that this room opens back into the tunnel. There is a door to the north and stairs leading down to the east.
The dwarf looks up at the statue. "Hm. Any of you recognize her?"
Gabriel shrugs, "Sorry guys, doesn't ring a bell, lemme check out that statue for a sec though."
Gabriel will cast detect magic, concentrating if necessary.
"Hmmm, it's not magical either, lets take some notes and move on."
After taking notes, Thorfinn leads the way back to the tunnel, then heads north.