This brick-walled room is fifty feet long and twenty-five feet wide and the ceiling stands twenty feet tall. Abandoned metal braces, likely once used to hold up shelves of items, are studded along the north and south brick walls. A fresh, new-looking wooden door is closed on the south wall. The entire room smells of unwashed flesh and possesses a faint, sickly-sweet odor. The room is unbelievably hot, a sharp contrast to the cold brewery above. Makeshift shelves stand on east and west ends of the room, some of them sparsely filled with books. A large, round wooden table sits in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs. Along the entire length of the north wall are stacked cages, jars, buckets, bottles and various bits of masonry, all teaming with a wide variety of insects.
Three men sit at a table playing cards, and look up to see Dulcinea as she comes off the stairs. The jump up to deal with their intruders.
Lini can do little but hold on as Droogami bounds over the tables and hurls himself at his prey.
Dulcinea and Thessaly moves into position as Darathys and Kayanor launch failed attacks (too much armor).
Droogami leaps across the room, Lini bouncing around like a rag-doll, and manages to bite one of the men, although the wound is not significant.
Titus commands his little snake to attack, and it doesn't really need too much prodding.
The man with the red shield picks up his fine warhammer and swings at Droogami.
The other armored man grabs his similar weapon, and makes an attack against Darathys, but the table gets in the way, causing him to hit nothing.
The man in the green robe casts a spell.
Ydresus is now able to attack one of the biped its master asks it to bite.
SSSsssshhh
The snake manages to bite the blue man even though Darathys' weapon cannot. Meanwhile, Kayanor and Thessaly put down the man in green quickly.
Droogami continues his assault, as Lini attempts to heal him with her wand.
Droogami bites the red man and drags him to the ground, slashing him with one claw as well, once he is down.
Ydresus continues to bite the man
The prone man stands up (AoO from Droogami, maybe Thessaly) and attacks the cat.
The man with the blue shield tries to slam his warhammer on the snake.
Both men are not having a good day.
Kayanor's arrow does hit, sinking deep into the man's leg.
Ydresus continues to try to bite the two-legued creature.
With these last attacks, both men are heavily damaged and surrender.
"Toss your gear and tell us what's beyond. "
Kayanor flicks his bowstring, "spare no detail."
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The men drop their weapons, and offer no resistance. They can see how the wind is blowing.
"What do you want to know?"
After some basic questions and answers, you confirm that this is an underground Shadow Lodge, and these guys are members of the group. This lodge was founded by Caggrigar, a Shadow Lodge member of ill repute who, after establishing the lodge in Irrisen, traveled on to the Worldwound in search of a dark and powerful artifact
The green man, they explain, is currently in charge here. His name is Vermund, a loyal Shadow Lodge agent and former Pathfinder. Vermund believes whole-heartedly that it is his mission to protect the wilderness and values the cleansing nature of all blights—even humanity. He lived his early days wandering the Verduran Forest, killing loggers, farmers, and anyone else who dared harm the land. Now, he keeps creepy collections of insects.
They are currently waiting here for Runa White to return, and also a Melkorka Skur, who you gather was previously left in charge. She apparently took a large party of "the good agents" off on their own mission deep into the northern reaches of the Realm of the Mammoth Lords in search of an ancient weapon hidden inside a frozen keep. They have heard Vermund muttering about "eggs of white dragons" but they don't know what that means.
"Past those doors is the barracks, and then a storage room where Glorfan keeps the slaves."
"Yah. Glorfan. You'll have to deal with him if you stay. He is some nasty goblin experiment of some sort. Yah, he'll be tough. And he's mean too - likes to torture the slaves he is keeping."
The green man had a potion of cure moderate wounds; Other Gear masterwork hide armor, masterwork sickle, sling with 10 bullets, 700 gp
The other two each have studded leather, heavy wooden shield, masterwork warhammer, dagger, 44 gp
I think Droogami is down a few hp, Darathys and Kayanor also have minor injuries, and the snake is down 1.
You open the door and see a small square room with a passage open on the other side.
Luckily, Thessaly notices that there is a trap just inside the door. It looks like a 30' deep pit, with the bottom filled with insect carcasses.