Garnult casts Bless! and draws his Weapon.
Everyone has +1 to hit and +1 vs fear.
Tolbert tries to force his way out of the creature's grasp.
"I'll help Tolbert! You must taste good to these desert denizens."
Warren then moves to be on the opposite site with Tolbert, if possilbe without an AoO and then attacks.
+Bless-PA
+Bless-PA
These massive lizards are fully-natural beasts, with no particular exotic abilities beyond what you've already seen. Their venom is not directly life-threatening; its effects are gradual, meant to slow - and possibly paralyze - their prey over time so the lizard can catch up to it if it flees after being bitten.
Garnult gears up, Tolbert flails ineffectually, and Warren slices into one of the lizards, wounding it badly! You'd bet another hit of that caliber would drop it.
Damage tally:
Wizard-eater: 12
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Cassidy will attack the closes lizard, unless she can get to the one chomping on Tolbert without provoking.
Cassidy slays the wounded lizard, freeing Tolbert from its grasp!
The other two turn on the clear threats: one to Cassidy and one to Warren!
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They both get chomped!
Warren stays free, but the other lizard clamps onto Cassidy's arm!
Tolbert lubes up the bard.
"That hurt you lawyer loving, future briefcase!"
Warren then attacks the lizard that attacked him for all he's worth.
Garnult steps up and attacks the lizard Eat hammer!
Cassidy will attempt to get out of the lizard's mouth.
Warren cuts one of the lizards, and Garnult follows up with a hammer blow!
she' tries to escape.
Cassidy wriggles free of the lizard's jaws!
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The lizards snap their jaws at the party, but their targets dodge out of the way!
Damage Tally
LizardA: 12
LizardB: 0
Tolbert maneuvers to the side and unleashes a blast of colors at the lizards!
The wounded lizard hisses and begins staring blankly upwards!
Aha! Good show Beetle! Garnult calls as he attacks the lizard again
Garnult catches nothing but air, but Cassidy downs another lizard!
Warren moves over to the remaining lizard and attacks it.
Warren lops off the head of the remaining lizard, then gives it another stab for good measure!
A brief look at the area suggests that you just toppled half a house on top of a lizard nest.
Warren has a smile of satisfaction on his face as the last lizard falls. He then looks at Tolbert "You don't look good. Let me see if I can help."
while Tolbert's getting healed up, Cassidy will inspect the collapsed building.
Garnult heals the wizard Tolbert
An inspection of the half-collapsed house reveals that this structure was entirely taken over by the lizards as a nest, using a hole in one of the walls to get in and out without disturbing the structure. You'd guess that it's been left alone by sentient creatures for quite some time.
"Let's save the chapel for last. And maybe the store will have some wine left."
"No getting drunk and disorderly Tolbert. The town sheriff may have to put you in the drunk tank for the night." Warren then laughs and heads to the store.
Approaching the store, you see that it's about 30 feet across and 20 feet from front to back. There's a front double-door, and a smaller door on the side that faces the chapel, near the back corner. The sand-dusted windows reveal only darkness within; Garnult's dwarven eyes see mostly bare shelves and a service counter, but the windows are all in front so there may be more that can't be seen from outside. The visible space is smaller than the whole building, and through the windows Garnult can see an interior door which probably leads to a storage room.
Tread carefully...probably some more wizard eating lizards in there...
"Aye"
Garnult moves to the front door and opens it
Opening the door reveals a barren, empty room. There are no decoration, no furniture, and shelves lie bare and dusty. It's clear that whoever last owned this store took everything with them when they left. (Either that, or someone sacked the placevery thoroughly without breaking anything in the process.)
The door to the back room, which you speculated to be a storage area, appears to be locked.
Garnult needs no light...so I never assume someone is casting it for me.
Cassidy lass, can ya see bout this door?
"Hmmm. I'll see what I can do."
Cassidy will whip out her tools and try to unlock the door.
Her initial attempt failing, Cassidy realizes that this is actually a pretty decent quality lock, and it takes her a couple of minutes to get it open. It seems the lock was newer and in better condition than the rest of the building.
Opening the door to the storage room, you can see where there used to be wall-mounted shelves that were later removed (but carefully, to avoid structural damage). Free-standing weapon racks line the walls in their place, but all the racks are empty. In the floor is a wooden hatch with an old, faded sign that reads "Wine Cellar".
Oh boy. A cellar...but hey Tolbert it has wine! Garnult says with a grin.
He walks over to the cellar door and pulls it open if no one objects.
Warren readies himself to attack if anything jumps out or is below.
Opening the hatch reveals a short ladder into the cellar; the distance is short enough that someone standing below could hand things up to someone reaching down from above, but deep enough that only the tallest of humanoids would have to crouch while in the cellar.
The entrance/ladder seems to be in a corner of the cellar, but you can't see much beyond that from up here.
Nothing jumps out at you.
"Well, who wants to go first? Warren or I with a light. Or have Garnult go down and see with his dark vision? I guess Tolbert's likely to be out of the question."
I'll go. Garnult heads down the stairs into the cellar.
Clambering down into the wine cellar, Garnult sees a disheartening lack of wine racks. Instead, four straw mattresses line the floor, and a few basic supplies sit along the walls (a couple of boxes, a lantern, some very basic metal dishes/cookware, etc).
A couple of heavy picks (the tool, not the weapon) lean up against one of the walls, next to a large hole that opens into a crudely-dug tunnel. The tunnel extends several feet before making an abrupt 90-degree turn. Dim light is spilling through the tunnel from beyond the corner, suggesting a well-lit room a good distance away. Voices can be heard faintly in the distance.
Garnult gestures for the others to follow him.
Warren enters the tunnel behind Garnult quietly.
cassidy will follow.
Cassidy will move forward to search and spy.