Zachary's last arrow misses, but only because the hobgoblin he was aiming for is no longer standing, having dropped unconscious to the floor.
yel: 30 dmg
Miso moves forward as Jennix vanishes; he is accustomed to the nija's trick, so he moves to ensure the ray from his wand doesn't inadvertently hit him when he fires it at Yellow!
Miso's ray of fire leaves the hobgoblin smoking!
yel: 57 dmg
Terflynn whispers a mixture of wild feyspeak and ancient elven in an attempt to ensnare the mind of a nearby foe and draw it into its final slumber.
Jennix takes a step to the north, calls on his luck, and begins attacking the yellow skinned hobgoblin, then attacking the red hued hob if his counterpart goes down.
Terflynn puts one of the hobgoblins to sleep and Jennix knocks the other unconscious! The last one howls in anger and charges Miso!
The lone hobgoblin doesn't stand much of a chance though and you quickly take him down!
To the north you find nothing but empty chambers. To the east grotesque carvings of sex, gluttony, violence, and oppression decorate the walls of the chamber, seeming to leap from the walls themselves. The broken bodies of a half dozen humans, their flesh seared, hang among the vile imagery. Luckily Jennix notes that there are several pit traps in this room and directs everyone around them.
Beyond this there is a ledge and corridor decorated with more vile carvings. To the east, stone stairs climb to a balcony lined with pillars. Beyond this is a hallway where broken bodies, some of which seem to have died where they were tormented, line the walls amid carvings and figures of torture and anguish.
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Not until it is too late does the party hear the sound of breaking bones in the hall and soon you feel a spirit moving through you. . .
The corridor ends at a stone shelf perched above a large cavern. A shaky-looking wooden ladder climbs down from the ledge to the floor of the cavern. The overwhelming roar of a waterfall to the east of the ledge echoes across the huge chamber. Below you see a few camps of hobgoblins.
Miso resists the spirit that moves through him, though the entire dungeon beneath the pagoda has clearly disturbed him more than a little. He tries to ignore the carvings, and is only too happy to beat up on the hobgoblins to take his mind of the images they depict.
Jennix creeps along the passage, staring with barely concealed horror at....everything. In the hall, Jennix's body shudders as the sound of breaking bones resonates in hall. Shaking his head as if trying to get water out of his ear, Jennix's face betrays confusin for moment, then he seems to become calm, more calm than usual.
Moving across the room, Jennix gets down on his hunches and examines the makeshift bridges across the chasm.
As the party moves down the hall, Terflynn studies the carvings with academic curiosity. Once into the untrapped corridor, the elf even stops to take a charcoal rubbing of some of the imagery. "Hm, I've never seen this exact style before..."
As the sound of cracking bones resonates in the hallway, Terflynn notes a spirit's feeble attempt to possess him. He mentally dismisses it and carries on. He steps off the ledge and lands lightly on the floor, noting the formation of the cavern.
The cavern seems mostly natural, although spots like what seems to be a kitchen room to the east have been carved out or flattened for special purposes. Past a grand chasm you can see a structure: A stone keep sits on an outcrop of rock in the belly of the huge cavern. Several of its walls have clearly seen better days—the structure sags in places, and heaps of rubble line the keep’s flanks. From the building’s roof, which almost touches the ceiling of the cavern itself, a stone bridge arches across to a precarious rocky outcrop high above the cavern floor.
Miso moves up alongside Jennix. That appears to be our destination, he says, looking about the cavern for anything lurking or unusual.
A bridge to an outcropping. Curious. Perhaps that is where we should start, rather than on the ground.
Zack follows behind the group, picking off any hobgoblins that decide to initiate hostilities.
As you cross the chasm and approach the dilapidated structure underground, a hill giant comes around the corner of the building. "Oy! Buto! Bring Tonkatsu and the kitties! There's little ones here they might want for dinner!"
Terflynn smiles slightly at Miso's comment. "As far as I know, I am the only one who can start in the air."
The elf considers the bridge with a learned eye and waits for the ninja's assessment. His eyes wander across the bridge towards the structure ahead, almost as if he sought to cast his gaze within.
Jennix quickly casts a spell, vanishing, then moves closer to the corner of the building, drawing his weapons along the way, and coating Deadly Kiss with blue whinnis poison.
Miso sticks the wand of lightning bolt in his teeth as he pulls out another wand (flame arrow) and taps Zachary. This would appear to be the bed in which your own river lies, my friend. The Kellid then drops the wand in his hand and retrieves the other one, taking a five-foot step forward and entering Dragon Style.
Jennix disappears as Miso enhances Zachary's arrows in anticipation of the fight!
Terfynn takes a moment to concentrate on his weight and the air around him until his feet lift off the ground. He rises 30 feet into the air to look down on the combat from above.
"Thank you friend." Zack says as he takes aim and looses on the first giant around the corner.
Zachary easily drops the first hill giant before it can even react! The next hill giant moves out and hurls a rock back at Zachary for his insolence!
A large and ferocious boar follows the giant around the corner and starts making for your party! It is followed by three hungry leopards!
Zack shrugs off the glancing blow from the boulder, takes aim on the second giant, and returns fire.
Jennix steps up to the big boar, calls on his luck, and attacks the beast!
Miso moves forward to support Jennix, and opens his mouth as if to shout. Instead of a voice, however, a line of acid spits forth at his foes!
Terflynn offers rest to his enemies, a last, welcoming sleep.
Jennix, Miso, and Zachary quickly put the giant and the pets to rest!
You make your way to the structure and up to the second level. The floor of this open chamber runs with filth and refuse and swims with scores of cockroaches and rats, as well as over a dozen pigs. A huge table rises crookedly from the waste, holding the putrid remains of a huge feast on a tarnished silver salver, including a half-devoured pig’s head with a hand thrust into its mouth leering out from the center of the revolting meal. Numerous war trophies hang from the walls, while countless rusted weapons dangle on hooks from the ceiling above. The stone stairs continue to stagger upward in the southwest corner.
A large hobgoblin is in this chamber eating and guarded by three other hobgoblin warriors. The swollen belly of the large hobgoblin is matched only by his fury when you ascend the stairs.
Zack steps into the room and attempts to stop the larger furious hobgoblin before he can rise.
Terflynn hexes a front hobgoblin with deep drowsiness.
Terflynn puts one of the guards to sleep as Zachary peppers the leader with arrows! All three hobgoblins still away rush on Zachary to put down the deadly archer!
"When you come that close it just makes you easier to hit." Zack snidely remarks while continuing to fill the greataxe wielder with arrows.
Jennix steps east and attacks the purple hobgoblin.
Another pair of arrows from Zachary is enough to drop the leader to the ground, cold dead. He then turns to the next hobgoblin guard and easily puts it on the ground too. Jennix sticks his katana in the next hobgoblin's side!
Terflynn hexes the last standing hobgoblin in an attempt to coax him into a shared fate with the other.
Terflynn puts the last hobgoblin to sleep!
Miso hands the jingasa and the cloak to Jennix and asks to claim the belt. He also suggests that Zachary take the +1 thundering greataxe and the MW composite longbow .
The Kellid hands Terflynn the potions and baubles while placing the samurai armor into a sack and slinging it across his back. I am familiar with the smaller goblins of Avistan, Miso says, but less so with these larger creatures that resemble them.
"They are similar enough, just stronger more brutish versions of them." Zack responds while taking the items handed to him.
Terflynn takes the largest potion and hands off the other cure potions to his companions, keeping one for himself as well. "You're going to need these, something tells me." Terflynn nods as the others equip themselves, then looks around at the room and the doors, thinking, estimating size, and pondering an idea. "Hmmm..."
Jennix nods and takes the proffered items, dinning the cloak and hat. "Everyone alright? Where to now?"
The spiral stairs stumble to the roof of the keep, which lies barely ten feet from the cavern ceiling. A narrow walkway clings to the rooftop and eventually reaches a stone bridge that gracefully arches from the roof of the keep to a small stone balcony on the far cavern wall.
The bridge ends at a narrow shelf of rock high above the cavern floor. At its rear, a corridor descends steeply into the rock.
The thundering roar of another waterfall fills this chamber. The water falls from a subterranean river some ninety feet above to the north, plunging into a cold, deep lake. On the far side of the lake stands a crooked pagoda, carved with the forms of twisted animals, as if in mockery of the pagoda in the daylight high above. A raised drawbridge hangs from the front of the pagoda.
Two greater water elementals are bound in the waters of the lake and as you approach they try to stop your crossing!
Zack takes a step back before unleashing a hail of arrows onto the leading elemental.
Zachary's arrows tear through one of the elementals and send splashes of water gushing out of its front and back!
Terflynn hexes Zachary's chosen foe and curses it to share it's fate with that it brings upon others.
Terflynn kicks the elemental while it's down, so to speak, but neither seems to mind as they slosh forward and attack Miso and Jennix!
Miso's maw emits a line of acid at the two , hoping to drop the one already injured.
DC 16 Refl save for half
He then spends a ki point (Swift action) to add +4 to his AC for a round .
Terflynn hexes the other creature as he did the first, then steps back and rubs his mittens together. "Mind your positions, gentlemen."
Miso's acid somehow reacts with the water and causes it fall off of the elementals as Terflynn gives the other a taste of his own medicine.