Patches searches Hinsin while the others question him. Everyone "always liked" us. Hmm. Not enough to trust us apparently.
Ursion glares at the bard. "Wait, *we're* trying to get *you* killed? How is that supposed to work? Who marooned whom?"
"You think that was my decision? Hey, keep me out of it, I don't want to be involved with this dreaded treasure hunt any more. You want Lanteri? She went that way." He nods to the door in the room and continues, "Just keep me out of it, ok? She left me here to bleed, you think I'm happy with her? I'm in no state to chase her down though."
"Should we kill him?" Glubby asks of the rest of his mates. "Probably best to kill him so he doesn't sneak up on us later when I'm busy stabbing the Captain's eyes out."
Patches considers Glub's suggestion for a moment with his normal inscrutable expression.
"In his condition, about the only thing he could do is bleed on someone. I say let him go back to the ship. It will show the crew we can be merciful."
Leaving Hinsin, Patches casts a spell of cat's grace and heads toward the door.
Past the door that Hinsin pointed out in the wall, you move into an even larger chamber. This immense hall is grand in both scale and design. The room and attached southern antechamber measure over a hundred feet long from north to south. A raised dais sits in the center of the hall, flanked by two thick stone columns inscribed with runes from floor to ceiling. Two alcoves in the western wall remain dark and empty, and the northeastern corner has partly collapsed, scattering large slabs of worked stone and piles of dense rubble across the floor. More runes, similar to those on the columns, cover the walls and floor.
Vancid Creed, the artillerist from the Magpie Princess, stands among the rubble in the northeast alcove. "Why ya sick undead f~~+ers! Bad dreams! Nightmares! Rotting flesh! In my head! Too much!" He screams as he starts mixing a few vials of noxious compounds....
Don't even think about it.
Harold moves up and tries to stab the fella!
for plus
for plus
Ursion follows the polymath up and hits at Creed with the flat of his blade, taking advantage of the man's distraction to try to knock him out.
Patches doesn't waste time with warnings. Clearly something's messed with the man's head, but that just provides a good excuse to take him down. Drawing his blade he leaps forward and slashes at the mad pirate.
Harold, Ursion, and Patches are quick to react and start putting the pain on the ship's artillerist!
Glubby leapfrogs over the stairs onto the dais and hops closer to the artillerist as he tries to snare the man in his masterwork net. "Where is the Captain? Her eyes need a good pokin'!" he bellows.
Glubby tangles the alchemist up in a net and Vancid stumbles backwards away from Harold and Ursion and tosses his now-mixed vial at the two!
Saving her inspiration for a time when it is needed, Shoal marks the man as her bane, then moves due east, drawing her blade along the way.
As Vance struggles to back away, Ursion takes advantage of his distraction to land a punishing blow. "That's torn it."
Glubby leaps forward as he stabs at the man entangled in his net, keeping hold of the trailing rope. "WHERE IS SHE?!"
Shoallana offers her encouragement as Ursion works his blade past Glubby's net and into the crazed man's side!
for
4H strikes the man as he backs up but at the cost of being splattered by the bomb! He then steps forward to strike again!
for
Patches ducks some of the bombs explosion, though the smell of singed fur rises in the air.
"Hssss!"
He slashes his sword in fury.
Harold hits the alchemist twice but despite the man's entanglement in Glubby's net Patches misses with his attack.
Vancid moves away from Glubby's rapier but only babbles nonsense back at Glubby's question. Surrounded, he takes out an axe and swings at Glubby.
It does not take much more to take the man out then, as he is already very wounded.
Ursion takes the potion and drinks it down. "Any idea what made him crack up like that?"
Shollana pickss up the wand and smiles. "Come in handy, this will! Mine is just about finished!" Checking everyone, she asks. "Everyone ok. who's wounded?"
Ursion grimaces at the mostly-healed burns from Vance's firebomb. "I'm still feeling this a bit."
I could use a bit of that, thanks.
Shoal nods and taps her wand to Ursion.
"His cloak is mine!" yells Glubby as he divests the man of his reddish-brown covering.
As he straps it about his shoulders, Glubby moves up to Shoallana. "Healing please! Before eye poking!"
Patches claims a throwing axe and the tanglefoot bag, then accepts a touch from the new wand.
Once everyone is healed, Shollana moves to the eastern part of the room and peers down the corridor leading east, then moves south and peers down the one angling to the southeast.
Shoallana looks to the east and sees down the stairs to an octagonal room thirty feet across with a smooth domed ceiling twenty feet high. Each wall is set with a tall tarnished silver panel, as well as a dark mural of colored glass depicting an eye-each eye has a differently coloured iris. In the center of the room is a raised pedestal ten feet in diameter and three feet high. A thick layer of dust blankets the room.
The dust begins to stir as Shoallana looks on, though. Something begins to rise from the pedestal, a gleaming and colorful humanoid shape seemingly made of glass itself! A single glassy eye rests in the middle of its head and it hefts its feet forward to start climbing the stairs towards the undine singer!
Shoal's eyes widen as she sees the glass man coming toward her. Stumbling backward and up the steps, she stutters. "Eh, fellas? Me thinks I've woken up something, something bound to be ill-tempered." Taking her bow off her shoulder as she backs up, she says. "It looks big! Real big! Hurry up and keep it hemmed in this corridor! It won't much room to move around!" She then begins an inspiring tune about a man in a glass house.
"It has an eye! I can stab it!" Glubby yells as he leaps into action.
He will wait by the base of the stairs, around the corner, and tries to stab it as it walks past.
Harold will cast Bless on the party!
Patches steps closer to peer down the hallway.
"What is that!?" He looks to his companions. Grabbing a scroll, he casts a shield spell.
The party readies for the cyclopean glass monster to come up the stairs, which it does. As it comes out of the doorway, Glubby stabs into and but only does a moderate amount of damage. The golem turns its anger upon the grippli and swings at him!
Glubby gets punted by the creature into the air, but he tries to come down on the creature with his rapier, realizing the beast is too big for his net. "I'm coming for that eye! Harry! Move on the other side of it!"
"I'm guessing that Captain Lanteri didn't come this way." The Sargavan slayer takes a wide circle around the fight, studying the great glass golem from multiple sides and preparing to attack.
Glubby waits for Harold to leap into flank and then stabs at the golem,
Harold does as he is told and stabs at the creature himself!
for
Imbuing his sword with arcane power, Patches lunges at the golem.
Shoallana marks the construct, then fires a single arrow at the creature.
After the horrible shot, Shoal throws her bow down in disgust.
Harold hits the golem but barely scratches it! Patches then scores a single hit against the golem but Shoallana's arrow only bounces off.
The golem lurches forward and continues to swing at Glubby!
As the golem slams into the grippli, some of the glass breaks off in Glubby's flesh.
Ursion grins as the creature advances into range of a flank. Quickly drawing his second kukri, he takes a short step forward and attacks in a whirlwind of edged steel that sends shards of colored glass in all directions .
"One-eyed, glass man got ol' Glubby!" the frog says as blood pours down his side.
The frog lashes out at the golem with his rapier before moving to hide behind the catman.
Shoallana moves closer, loosening her sash along the way. As she reaches the golem, she whips the sash at its head, trying to cover its eye!
Ursion and Glubby work together to bring down the glass golem, leaving nothing but a pile of glistening shards!
"Twas a fine mess you lot made of it!" Shoallana says approvingly. "Now who needs a touch a' healin'?"
Ursion dusts bits of glass off of his sleeves and off his cap before shaking his head. "Didn't have time to cut me. Glubby's in a bad way, though."
"I need healing, Shoal! Heeeeeelp me!" Glubby says as he hops to her, leaving a trail of glistening red blood in each webbed print.