Baarnabas finds his equipment on one of the dead Badders.
The group marches through the southern tunnel to the south, shining your torches and after about 20 meters you come what would be best described as an X-intersection,there are two tunnels going to the mostly south but one slightly southwest and southeast and then another tunnel going northeast.
Ba-a-a-arnabas looks around at the floor and the walls.
Which way looks the most traveled?
He examines the area for tracks and other signs of wear and use, trying to get an idea of which passages are most frequently used and possibly any hints to what they contain.
Keep right, so southwest.
Ba-a-a-arnabas
Kalina
southwest it is as Adney holds a crossbow at the ready
southwest it is as Adney holds a crossbow at the ready
"The pa-a-a-ath to the southwest is less well travelled tha-a-a-an the other. Is that good?"
Brathas will stick with the group.
I'm all for getting out of here with the haul we already have. But I've also heard enough children's stories to know better than splitting up. That never ends well.
A look of concern crosses Kalina's face, but she stays with the group.
You travel as a group southwest according to Maeve and Adney's lead for about 12 meters until you see an alcove to your right. Or you can continue following the main path southwest.
"I wonder why this is here? Wha-a-a-at do you think is down there?"
Check the alcove
You walk into the alcove.
As zou walk in the alcove, Deyemis tail catches on a vine. everyone except Deyemi is able to aVOID THE falling debris as he is buried in rocks and dirt neck high taking
Deyemi, you really know how to bring the place down. Maeve pushes a rock aside and offers a hand to Deyemi.
After a bit of help cleaning off debris Deyemi shakes off and has a toothy grin and will help to inspect the area and clean it away
After clearing the debris, you find nothing of import. You continue in the general direction of the tunnel. You follow the tunnel as it winds in southerly direction. As the room opens up in front of you, you can see that this room is lit by two torches and has a ceiling height of almost 3 meters.Located in this chamber are 4 cloth dummies of human type figures on stands, a dozen or so large, flat pieces of wood
with hack marks in them, some medium-sized rocks, and a 3
meter circular roped off area in the northwest corner. In the northeast corner you see a badder practicing with his battleaxe on a dummy. Cutting chunks of cloth with swing after swing.
Deyemi
Maeve peeks around the corner and decides to get things started with a mental blast.
Then again, maybe she'll just stare at rocks for a few seconds...
Ba-a-a-arnabas turns back from the corner, having spotted the badder.
He says quietly, "Whatever we do, we don't want this one to raise the alarm."
Deyemi charges the badder using increased speed to close the distance in the blink of an eye jumping on the guy and biting and clawing him
Adney startles seeing deyemi rush across the room and snaps up his crossbow aiming and firing at the badder high
He drops that one and brings up the second loaded heavy crossbow to bear
Kalina watches with wonder as the team moves to the attack. The weapons and tactics they used were foreign to her, but the intent was clear. She swiftly brings her spear to bear and charges the badger-man, trying to flank with one of her allies.
(assuming the flank was successful)
Deyemi moves to attack is only successful on his bite and Adney scores a hit with his crossbow.
Kalina also hit it with her spear.
The badder turns and swings out of reflex at Deyemi miss
INitiative PCs , Badder
The badder swings his axe at deyemi miss
and also bites him miss
Pcs
Deyemi continues his savage attack!
Adney pulls the second crossbow aiming at the badder trying to get a clear shot and fires when its there!
Kalina stabs again with her spear, again maneuvering to flank if possible.
(assuming the flank is successful)
Ba-a-a-arnabas is startled by the ferocity of Deyemi's attack. His eyes go wide.
"Uh..."
These people rescued you! The least you could do is contribute! He thinks.
He tries to maneuver to a spot where the Badder cannot see him coming.
He grits his teeth, and lowers his head. His cloven feet dig in for a moment, and he calls on an ancient god of bravery and death-defying feats:
"JERRONIMOE!!!"
Head down, he charges at the badder the moment he sees he has a clear run at him.
With the others running in to engage, Maeve stands back against a wall and keeps an eye on any other entrance to the room.
That's using your head!
Deyemi savagely attacks himself not getting his other claw out of the way. But inspite of this he connects on the badder twice.
Kalina hits the badder.
Baarnaabbaas charges and misses the target but luckily stops before smacking into the wall.
Adney whiffs almost striking Deyemi in the process.
Round 2
At this point a group of 7 badders walk into the room
Initiative PCs , Badders
The large one donning a plaid kilt with metal armor with a big W on it puts his right claw to his temple and MHAC on the whole group in melee, you take cold damage so Deyemi, Baranabas and Kalina
The badder on Deyemi attacks him hitting for damage
Another wearing a tartan and leather armor moves to attack Maeve miss
And one moves to attack Adney hit
The other two throw spears at Kalina and Barnaba hit
hit
The two are standing in a way where you couldn't melee the leader without killing them first.
PCs
Deyemi growls fiercely at the crowd and takes some damage thinking hey you made me bleed my own blood!
He continues to attack axe man
I told you we should have left.
Maeve attacks the one in front of her. First she activates her force field, before swinging with both weapons at the badder that had the sheer audacity to attack her!
Kalina reels with the impact of the spear, stabbing at the badder nearest her with her own weapon.
(+2 if flanked)
Ba-a-a-arnabas' mouth twists into a snarl.
"Na-a-a-a-a..."
An easy fight just turned into a hard one. No sense holding back now!
He reaches into his knapsack and pulls out a strange-looking object. It is made from grey metal and is pitted with age. It seems to be comprised of two parallel cylinders with a larger cylindrical casing in the middle and a handle at one end.
"Here's a bla-a-a-ast from the pa-a-a-ast!"
His right hand goes to the handle and the other pulls the casing back and forth with a heavy *click!* He pulls the trigger, points the tubes at the nearest standing badder, and...