Jominda throws a bomb too, but she throws her bomb past the monster, over the bridge and into the waterfall, where the explosion is drowned by a huge amount of water.
"Dammit!" Jominda curses as she sees her wonderful alchmistic artwork going to waste.
Kendra closes the door to keep the rustmonsters out.
The rustmonsters eat away at the doorknob and the hinges of the door.
"I will hold the door closed, if you can kill them via the windows." Herm looks at Harold and Kendra.
Harrold rummages through his collection of alchemical items and finds what he is looking for. "Get out the way. They will destroy your equipment. I will try glue the door closed to give us some time. We can prepare to attack as one when they enter."
The third rust monster skitters about as no metal is in reach anymore.
Jominda throws another bomb. What else should she do.
The rust monster hit directly by the bomb is reduced to shreds and the remains smolder with a small flame. The other two are caught in the blast and take some damage too.
Herm moves his hands and feet as needed till Harrold has the door glued shut.
"Jominda is out there by herself, We have to help." Herm looks around for a way to shoot out of the building.
Shooting through the window would be hard, as the windows are narrow and the angle is not helping. But as Jominda flies besides the bridge, she is not in immediate danger.
The rust monsters, with no metal in sight and fire and explosions thrown at them, decide to go back into the building they came from.
Jominda throws another bomb after the oversized bugs.
Another rust monster is brought close to death. And the other burnt a bit more. But another thing happens. With the explosion, the house breaks down on one side, the rusted metal beams below giving up, one corner of the building drops down a foot, breaking the stone bridge off.
"How do we open this door now Harrold? Once I guess that Jominda has taken care of the Rust Monsters." Herm put his bow away and picks up his hammer flustered that he cannot help out.
Jominda is hit with shock as the building threatens to fall into the waters below. She flies back to the door and knocks for the others to let her in.
"You pull on it hard enough." Harrold replies.
"Or we could chop it off, but would need to be a lot more careful."
"Jominda, fly around to the back, we'll let you in there!" Kendra yells through the door, and starts moving towards the front door.
Jominda does as told and waits for Jomnda to open the heavy metal door at the main entrance. "What have you done to the back door?" she asks out of curiosity.
"Harrold got it shut up tight" Kendra explains. "Until we figure out what we want to do, I figured it best we keep it closed."
"At least no one accidentally wlks on that bridge now. I think that house over there might fall into the river below. I wouldn't suggest entering it." Jominda warns. "And I didn't get the rustmonsters. They disappeared into the building."
"Do you think we all could fly somehow past that ruined house?"
"Flying is not something that I do." Herm informs the ladies, "How badly damaged is the house? Do you think if I took my armor off I would be fine to engage the creatures?"
Kendra jokes "If we do go and explore that house I'd better prepare mass featherfall."
"And mass swimming. Falling into that waterfall could be your death, even if you don't break your neck." Jominda warns.
"About the monsters - there is not much left of them."
"Do you think we should take the fight to them?" Kendra asks to noone in particular
"We could clear them out then they are not at our back." Herm responds
"I need a snack first." Jominda tells lookingat Kendra.
"I'll prepare something quick." Kendra grins. She walks into the pantry to get some ingredients.
Jominda combs her hair and puts on her make-up to become her old self again, while waiting for Kendra to finish whatever delicious goods she prepares.
Kendra returns from the kitchen with a mix of grilled meats and grilled vegetables. She invites everyone to eat with an energetic "Enjoy!"
"Mmmmh, that smells delicious! Thank you." Jominda praises Kendra's food. She takes a seat and indulges on the delicious meal. As she has eaten the first bites she asks "This Schloss is really infested with a lot of strange things. What do you make of all this?"
Kendra purses her lips in thought. "It would seem like a castle, with several defensive positions in a row, that has fallen both under attack and in disrepair. But for the rust monsters to host there and the trolls to have taken root, some time must have passed I think. More than the fresh food would suggest."
"How would you measure how long the trolls were here?" Jominda asks. "But I'm more worried that we found no human inhabitants yet. Do you think they moved out? Maybe this Schloss was abandoned already."
"Thomas came here, do we know how long he was in Lepidstadt before he was captured?" Herm asks as he eats.
"I have no idea" Kendra admits. She purses her lips and creases her eyebrows as she is deep in thought for a moment, before suggesting "We could gather some items to make a large banner, with the text 'anyone alive up there' or 'Thomas, we're here' and stick it on the roof of the building."
"This sounds fun" Jominda replies. "What are we going to use? Bedsheets? And what paint?"
"I think we need to press on. I will take my armor off and we shall deal with these beasts then press on into more of the house." Herm moves over to Jominda and Kendra to get their assistance at taking his armor off. Once that is complete he will set his hammer by the door and start to pull the door off.
Herm manages to open the door, even without destroying it. To beat the rust monsters might not be a big challenge anymore, but getting to them is. There is a two feet gap between the arc of the bridge coming from the manse and the damaged house. And it is not sure how much weight the arc will carry without the support from the other end of the bridge.
"I see now that we may not be able to get across. Any suggestions?" Herm asks
"Flying? Jumping over?" Jominda suggests.
"Would you be able to carry us while flying?" Kendra asks.
"Nope." Jominda replies. "But I can try for you if the bridge holds."
She runs over the bridge and jumps over the gap.
"See, easy!"
Which immediately draws out the remaining rust monster. The other one lies burnt and dead inside the room.
It attacks Jominda.
Kendra immediately forms a green orb in her hands and throws it at the rust monster.
She yells a warning at Jominda.
"Get in the air Jominda it is behind you" Herm yells as Kendra throws her orb
Kendra kills the beast.
Jominda pulls her armor away from the rust monster just in time. "Puh, that was not clever." she tells herself.
"So now we just need to get across." Herm looks at the rickety bridge.
"That is not the only thing." Jominda objects while looking around. "Because to move on, we would have to cross that rope bridge too." she explains pointing to the construction swinging in the wind.
This large workshop is crammed with alchemical equipment, but an explosion of some kind has ripped away the western wall, leaving a large gap in the floor and wall open, now wreathed with scaffolding. It looks as if a stone bridge once connected this building with another on the far side of the gorge, but only a slender rope bridge now hangs between the two.