Talathel rushes the remaining fungi, aiming to bring it down.
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Tragershen's lightning bolt definitely gets the rearguard scouts, but how many of the other three does he manage?
The blackened corpse of one of the scouts hits the ground hard.
The other two caught by the coruscating lightning whimper and look over their shoulders fearfully at the wizard.
Talathel's spear strikes the dangerously fresh mushroom that is currently fighting Lolz.
Aurora positions herself so as many of her combative allies are within 15ft. of her, then casts Guidance on herself. A spark of energetic overflow pulses out to her allies in range.
Lolygert looms over the last two unpitted mushrooms without pity...his massive sword cutting the air....and hopefully one of them!
Spotting the flash of bluish light and the following crack of thunder coming from the hall, Anzath lets out a controlled exhale, and rushes back to the fungus front with a hasted charge.
Bedlam watches the stinking goblins scurry off into the darkness. Wishing he had a magic missile to shout at the darkness (and having a sudden thirst for a Mountain Dew), our slightly injured dwarfhulk reaches into his pockets for two vials. He drinks one.
He looks at the cleric.
Be just un flesh wound!
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The fresh mushroom lashes at Anzath as she approaches:
It misses, but she does not. Lolly does, though.
Gelver swings his sword:
As the prone mushroom stands, it is buried by AOOs from the party and perishes.
That leaves one active mush:
It locks onto Lolly:
The priest of Cayden might mutter a thanks to Nethys--Aurora's blessing keeps him safe.
The goblins disappear behind the formerly locked door.
Bedlam still bruised, battered, and broken, drinks another Extract. He takes out a third.
He doesn't seem exactly happy.
Talathel steps up to stabbing range of the mushroom grappling Lolly and begins to stab it repeatedly, though taking care not to also skewer the large human.
Talathel ends the most active mushroom. Three remain in the pit.
"Stand back."
When the coast is clear, Anzath will pluck a bead from her necklace of fireballs and toss it into the pit.
After Anzath drops the mic, the room fills with the delicious aroma of grilled mushrooms.
Bedlam looks longingly into the pit....
Talathel looks around the room, ready to strike should he see any enemy sneaking towards the group.
Trag rushes back into the room. "Some of the goblins are escaping. Do we pursue?"
"No. We regroup and restore ourselves first."
The party pants and perspires--and takes stock of their diminished number. Adelie is gone, and his wolf with him. Ippolit is stable, but badly mangled. Goblins have spotted you. It'd be a normal day in the depths, except that day and night have no meaning in a place that has never known the light of day...
Bedlam would like to find the Pool of Healing....
As the smell of roasted mushes washes over Lolygert's nostrils, he breaths deep, sheathes his sword and fetches his flagon from his belt.
Bringing the frothy brew to his lips, he takes a deep, deep sniff of the air , then shakes his head, "I wish everything down here smelt so good when we killed 'em! "
With a heavy sigh, Aurora makes her way to Tragershen to begin casting a lesser restoration on him.
She shakes out her hand. "We need to find somewhere safe to rest, at least for a few minutes, and I can pray for some more mending."
"There's the secret room on the level above. There's the brute's room back there that the locals are supposed to avoid, if they don't know he's dead yet. Or we can check this cave a bit further to see if it leads somewhere where we can shelter." Weak, tired and depleted, Tragershen doesn't seem to care which way we go.
bedlam will lead the way back to the secret room above for the group to reevaluate their life choices....
"I do not object to resting in the secret room above.", Talathel states, keeping alert for danger on the way.
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Anzath inspects the spot where the violet tentacle wrapped around her arm, her skin and muscle rotted away. She agrees to find shelter with haste, but not before looting the goblin bodies.
Trag will use detect magic and detect poison on the goblins, and detect magic where the fungi were. The shriekers on the higher level had a good scroll with them!
The goblins had some useful equipment. You killed one leader and two scouts, so you get:
4 potions of cure light wounds; 2 potions of invisibility; +1 studded leather, +1 dagger, shortbow, 40 arrows; thieves’ tools, 2x masterwork studded leather, 2x masterwork dagger, 2x masterwork shortbow, 40 arrows, and 50 GP.
Anzath and Tragershen's rummaging among the shrooms turns up a magic ring...
Anzath suggests maybe they can sell the goblin sized stuff to Brand. She quickly stuffs everything into a sack, let’s Trag hold onto the ring, and high tails it out of there.
The party scuttles up the stairs, Ippolit presumably slung on Bedlam's spacious shoulders (or Lolly could handle him, or something!). The ghast's secret room opens for you and you all tumble in. You should be safer here, but who knows.
When they arrive at the secret room Aurora would like to take the fifteen minutes to pray and fill her two spell slots that had been left open with a pair of lesser restorations — one for Tragershen and one for Anzath, focusing on their Constitution damage.
She'll then pulse out a channel energy for some light healing.
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Aurora's magic washes over the weary crew, setting Anzath to rights and chipping away at Tragershen's ills.
Tragershen slumps down heavily in the secret room. He nods thanks to Aurora for her ministrations, but otherwise settles in to recover.
Bedlam empties every healing potion he has; but the dwarf still looks rough.
Complaining about them being a bit old, the dwarf then takes an hour to brew a Mutagen.
Talathel takes first watch, still being hale. He will take trance later.
Equally unharmed, Lolygert moves about , trying to bring cheer to all, sharing the contents of his everflowing flagon with anyone who wishes...
He joins Talathel on the first watch, or the second watch if need be...
The party settles in to rest. May they find the rest they need, and not the eternal variety!
Table adjustments: 3=goblins, 2=ghouls+cultists
The goblin scouting party returns after making its report and begins combing the tunnels for the party's whereabouts. They don't have the Survival skill to make it easy on themselves, so they mostly just sneak and look around. The leader sends one of his scouts out ahead and follows from a distance.
The scout sees the secret door.
Talathel doesn't hear the goblins outside. They prepare to attack. The leader and two of the lower-level scouts drink potions of invisibility, the leader taking one from the last flunky. This goblin is posted in the hall and instructed to join the battle as soon as the cover has been blown.
Then, the goblins open the door.
Despite catching Talathel off guard, the goblins aren't as quick to react as the elf. Talathel, you see the door swing open, but there's nothing in the doorframe.
Tragershen, as a Diviner, dreams a strange dream... something is watching him in the darkness. His eyes flicker open.
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Tragershen has a premonition of the door opening, and then violence. Vague and unclear, but certainly violence. When his eyes flicker open and he sees Tal's head turn towards the door, he reacts without any fanfare.
Trag casts glitterdust targeting it past Tal so that it comes right up to Tal without engulfing him. Still prone.
Bedlam jumps up with eyes red and a bit of drool in his beard.
Talathel calls "GOBLINS!" as he stabs at the nearest goblin and makes any ingress into the room a hazardous one.
Anzath reaches for her bow and gets to her feet.
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The poor goblins are hit by the glitterbomb:
The scout that opened the door is not blind--the leader and the other scout are. This combat might not take very long...
Blind as a bat.
Talathel's attack fails to hit the goblin scout who opened the door.
Lolly stands up!
Ippolit stands up too!
The Three Blind Goblins then act. The leader yelps and shouts,
Weerar, dagaalyahanno! Xoog yeelo oo guuleysatid!
The leader then attempts to feel his way down the passage, sneaking so his soldiers don't notice that they've been abandoned.
The one goblin who can see shouts, Madaxa ayaa isku dayaya inuu urogaado!
The blind, shiny goblins panic and turn around. The one that opened the door (and that can still see) also moves away and down the passage, dodging Tal's AOO. He easily outstrips the boss and his companions.
As such, when the surprise round ends, the party is not confronting an insidious and invisible foe--but what they see is the same. An empty doorway.
Bedlam decides to go against his nature. He stays put.
May need to report dem ta da Community Committee.
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Lolygert stands there puzzled, "What Goblins? "
When even Bedlam is seeing the sense in staying put, Talathel moves up to the door. He quickly closes it, slowing down at the last moment so it does not bang. Then gently, he finishes closing it, and steps away, resuming his watchful stance.
"The ones who just ran away. They ought not to try again for a while."