Poe tries to take out Green before he could do any more damage.
"Eat that, yeh sorry bastard!" he shouts.
Out of bombs Hinata turns to the stones she gathered throughout the area, she'd target the green if it was still standing after Poe's shot and the other if not.
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"Down, you sack of internal calcium structure!"
Hinata flings another stone at the last remaining enemy hoping this fight will be over quickly since she being out of bombs made her fairly useless.
Vingold goes for another trip!
Another mighty swing, Yizzik snarl as he attempts to behead the undead scourge.
Poe will try taking a shot at it, though being so low a profile is a problem.
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"Is that all of them?" Hinata asks still holding a stone in hand in case she had missed anyone, if she was content the fighting was over for now she'd take the time to examine the room more closely.
To make sure no most nasty surprises awaited them.
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Poe grumbles as he walks back over to Vingold and swats him across the back of the head lightly.
"What're yeh thinking, yeh daft bastard!" Poe exclaims. "Didn't yer mum tell yah not tah flirt with gals sportin' pointy teeth! Oi! Not tah mention she don' look like a right proper gal at all, what with her curly goat hed and narsty clip-cloppin' feet and the effin' need to shag in fronta the dead and lack of braided hair fer holdin onto!" he takes a breath. "It's like yeh jus' gon and left yer damn mind in the last room!"
"That's it... Ah gotta get yah a real woman to remind yah what being a dwarf's all 'bout. Ah know a girl with the purtiest honey blonde hair and two beautiful... Tankards ah mead tha you'd just love. And she can swing ah hammer like Torag 'imself gave her lessons!"
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Lilly picks up a skull rom one of the fallen skeletons by the base.
Holding it to face her, she holds a small talk with it.
"Not so tough now, huh?"
<No ma'am, i am sorry, i am humbled.>
"Let this be an educational session to you, understood, patient?"
<Yes nurse, i won't do it again...i'm sorry.>
"Good, off you go.", and she tosses the skull away, it bouncing away and rolling against the wall.
...."Oh, let's see what the ugly goat-girl has in this room."
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"You all went and attacked a lady I was courting and I'm tha one in tha wrong?" He rubs some of her brains off his boot. "Talk about a cockblocker."
Yizzik would give a heavy sigh, both arms dropping down and only loosely hanging on to his shield and axe. The fight had been a hard one, if still a short one. 'Ore than anything, her words of answering to someone else only brought him a slight feeling of dread. This wasn't over yet. "Sorry to deny you a mating. But I doubt it would have worked out well with this she-devil," he offered to Vingold as a small condolence.
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Lilly has a look around the room, and finds the following.
Next to the bed, you find a rough hand-drawn map of the surrounding tunnels, labeled with both the Redoubt and Davarn as well as a nearby location marked "Caravan."
Lilly is especially thorough in her examination and finds an old journal in a false-bottomed drawer in the beside table. It contains Delbera's firsthand accounts of her adventures.
Reading them reveals a very unsure and insecure young acolyte studying at the feet of Father Grandich. She left home to meet the calling of her god even as commitments to her family, friends, and community demanded she stay.
She feared that her choice to leave made her an exile, and that those she loved would never accept her back, and so she threw herself into loving and caring for the Rising Blades. Delbera reached out to protect and encourage her companions and those they encountered in their travels, and they in time grew fiercely protective of her as well.
Her accounts take care to describe their adventures below the mountains of northern Andoran and the Five Kings Mountains, when the Rising Blades fought a surge of undead crawling forth from the caves. Her fear becomes palpable in the journal as she describes the caverns—not dissimilar to her childhood home—as oppressive and evil. Her accounts focus on supporting and healing her teammates, and later doing what she can for the tiny gnome settlement they discovered hidden near Karexin's Tower.
Journals dated much later describe her return home and the fanfare that followed. Her final two entries can be read here.
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Thodir stumbles into the room, now recovered from the confusion Lilly had inflicted upon him.
"Oh, ya took 'er out!" He jumps around the fey woman's corpse. "She was a nasty one. Vile. Tried ta get me to do things to her. By Torag, ya couldn't convince me to do that even if ya paid me in mithral!" He chuckles.
"Well I think we're gonna make way back for Davarn. I found some spare weapons and tools downstairs .. and lots of dead duergar .. and gave 'em to my best guards."
He takes leave and leads the other dwarves back downstairs, singing something between a shanty and a hymn.
With Sarxa taken out and a set of keys in your hands, the locked doors on the lower floor with the strange red paint on them come to mind.
Hinata frowns at yet another failure as Lilly finds a ton of things she must have missed after the Dwarf mentions heading back with the others she would ask about aiding them further. "Shouldn't we travel with them? We are done here aren't we?" She asked hopefully.
"Did we find out where the Duergar came from? Or who ordered them ta hunt down the Axebringers?" Poe asks. "Cause I'm thinkin' that they'd just try again if we don't put a stop ta it at the source."
"She was a nasty one. Vile. Tried ta get me to do things to her. By Torag, ya couldn't convince me to do that even if ya paid me in mithral!" He chuckles.
"Yer all bloody mad." Vingold says with a roll of his eyes.
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"I've gazed between the stars in my dreams.....you'd declare him sane if you knew what is out there."
She smiles....."Would you like a glimpse?"
"So long as they travel through the areas we've cleared and remained armed, they should be fine on their own. We should decide if we should continue our search of this place or rest. I know magics can be draining and those bombs need to be made," he offered, giving the group a look over. His axe and shield could continue on, but from his time in the desert, he has learned sometimes it was better to rest when you could and should.
"Ah would like ta escort them back, but Yizzik's right; they can 'andle themselves." Poe says. "We should rest up, take some time to continue on. I want ta take care of who else is behind this affront to tha name Axebringer."
"So we're staying here?" She didn't really like the idea but wasn't about to leave them if they choice to stay. "I'll keep watch first then so I can start remaking the bombs I lost."
"Ah right, ah'll take second watch." Poe offers, reloading his weapon clips with fresh bolts.
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The brave souls you are, you take turns resting in Delbera's bed, sleeping for long enough that Hinata is able to reconstruct her bombs. The night goes without incident, save for the odd creepy slamming of a door in the distance or footsteps heard from downstairs. You awaken and put your gear back on, well-rested and ready to move on.
Lilly sits up, a vacant look on her eyes........"Bad dreams...weird dreams....the lottery gave me tentacle-thing dreams again....>_> "
Waking up after a poor nights rest it takes Hinata a few seconds to recall where she is and the realization only makes things worse. Right still here.
Once everyone had time to gather supplies and ready spell or other items needed she would reluctantly question their next move. "So are we finishing exploring today?"
Vingold checks the door for traps, then if the key doesn't work sets to opening the lock.
"We can still head back." She reminds them at the door, sliding toward the back of the group.
Yizzik would only give a chuckle and stick close, prepared to do whatever he needed to help his companions.
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(Has flashback)
<Attempt at escape?
You're going back, missy.
You're going back to your room....
You're going back...>
While briefly having a vacant nervous look in her eyes, she mutters softly.
"No, back is not always good....unless it's absolutely safe?
I dunno...dunno..."
But the cawing of the raven gets her back to proper focus, what proper can be called, for an ex institutional patient anyway.
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Vingold finds no traps on the door, and the key fits perfectly in place, each pin clicking as he puts it in and turns it.
A brilliant crystal chandelier hangs in the center of this open room. Five portraits hang on the walls: a Chelish man in plate armor pictured with a sword and shield, a half-elven woman leaning against a bow, a ruggedly handsome half-orc in long robes, a Varisian woman holding a crystal ball, and a muscular but maternal dwarven woman.
Several statues have been smashed to rubble, cluttering the floor. Part of the chamber's northern wall has been torn down, revealing a once-secret door of bronze and gently shimmering runes.
Poe steps into the room and suddenly feels the swelling of evangelical devotion all around him. The bits of smashed statues begin to rumble and levitate off the ground, and the outline of two ghostly figures is barely recognizable in the center of the room as they fade into view. Beyond that, you can't make out what's in front of you just yet.
Poe will tighten his grip on Olivia and prepare to book it in case rocks come flying at him.
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The ghostly image of Delbera appears in front of you, frozen in fear.
Another ghostly form - this one of a half-orc man - falls to the floor beside her, gasping in short, ragged breaths.
A stentorian voice booms through the great hall, "Pitiful girl! Do you really think what you and your companions have done here today has achieved anything but merely slow my rise to power? I shall take great satisfaction in adding your corpses to my army!"
As the voice echoes, the shattered bits of statue assemble themselves into a 12 foot tall form of Audalot Karexin.
This creature is an animated object, a mundane item enchanted to a semblance of life through powerful magic. Constructs are immune to mind-affecting effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, or anything requiring a Fort save. It has a hardness to repel damage.
The construct appears to have two strong arms to use its slam attack and can move faster than an ordinary large construct.
Hinata instinctively reaches toward her bombs and pelts the statue as quickly as she can with one.
Vingold grumbles. "I suppose I can't sleep with this one either?"
Reaching for his magical axe, Yizzik prepared to draw it and do battle with the stone enemy. After a second of hesitation though, he'd instead switch to the black adamantine axe, hoping its strong and sturdy metal would guide through the stone. With new haft in hand, the reptile would charge in for a full swing after holding until Vingolds song could boost the teams moral against the slow moving enemy.
Poe grits his teeth and fires a shot at the stone... thing. Olivia had the punch, but it wasn't going to be a quick fight.
Lilly activates her wand of shield.
"Oh...now even ornament attack us."