Dain grunts in pain as a bullet strikes his thigh. He continues to urge on the angry spirit while stabbing twice at the front line of ratmen.
Dain's pernicious poltergeist blasts away the last few ratmen. The remaining large rats run squealing for safety.
COMBAT OVER
"Well, that was a mess of them. We should tend to our wounds quickly and move on." Silas suggests.
Tilver goes around tending to everyone's wounds.
Nigel frowns down at the ratmen and observes their arms and armors as Tilver tends to the group.
"So should we check on where the ratmen came from or go the other way? If the ratmen were the guards, that might be a good tunnel to start down." Silas suggests.
Dain releases his hold on the poltergeist and moves towards the NW passage.
"Sounds good."
Tilver nods. "I like it. Let's go see where they came from."
Silas will turn and start heading that way. He scans the way as he goes for any odd sigils.
You find the loathesome den of the ratmen, rank with sweat and unnameable filth. There being no other exits, you swiftly depart.
We return to the colorful room and check on the door to the north.
Tilver follows Silas and nods to him as he checks the door.
Beyond the door you find some of the living chambers of the priests you fought. To the south is Grealdan's chamber, unlocked with a key you took from him. Grealdan’s room is extremely untidy, with a fetid smell permeating everything. It has simple bedchamber furnishings, fairly crude and ill kept.
In a secret cache below a loose stone in the floor under the bed, Tilver finds a leather bag containing Grealdan's trove: 37 gold coins and 5 silver coins.
To the east, the team finds the chambers of Vocaetun the wizard. More a meditative study than a bedchamber, this mostly empty room has a straw mat in the middle of the floor surrounded by candles. On the walls hang tapestries Vocaetun has collected that depict great wizards of the past. Along the south wall rest a small trunk and a wooden bookshelf.
The trunk contains clothing and personal gear, including ten tindertwigs and a flask of antitoxin. The bookshelf holds a dozen books about various magical subjects, as well as Vocaetun’s own spell book.
3rd fireball, impending doom, slow, stinking cloud
2nd acid arrow, blur, hideous laughter, persistent servant, see invisibility
[b]1st fear, fleet step, floating disk, mending
Cantrips acid splash, daze, detect magic, gale blast, light, read aura
At the eastern side of Vocaetun's chamber is another door leading east.
Dain follows along as the group explores. In the multicolored room, he asks Magill to stay behind and alert him if anything emerges from the stairs.
In the wizard's chamber, he peruses the books, looking for interesting subjects.
Silas is glad to be out of the terrible smells Geraldan's chamber. He sniffs in deeply when the air stops smelling so fetid to try and clear out his nose. When the group finishes a quick search of Vocaetun's room, Silas moves up to the next door and examines the door and see if he spots anything before Tilver. As he does so Silas says, "These two rooms do not seem like they belong to people who would be natural allies."
Tilver grabs the leather bag containing the coins and then riffles through the chest, pulling out the antitoxin. He leaves the books for Dain and Nigel for the time being. Glancing over at Silas, he says, "That's chaos loonies for you. Whatever you expect from rational people, they kind of do the opposite."
When they are finished with the bookcase, he draws his sword and moves to see what Silas has found, ready to open the next door.
The door bears no traps and so the team follows the revealed passage, an old and disused drainage tunnel. At the next bend you are fired on by two ratmen wielding crude rifles, but you quickly overcome them and come at last to an intersection leading both left and right.
To the right there is a shaft leading up A rope ladder hangs ready for your use. To the left is a pool of scummy water almost completely covering the path. The water level is a few inches below the floor.
"I doubt this filth does much in the light of day. Shall we stay on the dank path or see what lies above?" Silas asks as he looks down the left path at the scummy water.
Dain tugs on the rope ladder to test its sturdiness. Assuming it doesn't come falling down on him, he says, "Let's see where this leads."
Silas nods and will start climbing up the rope ladder.
The rope is new and sturdy, even if the passageway isn't. The ancient passageway below the tunnel is part of an older...very old... tunnel, now collapsed. But this small section is in use and gives access to a door. After taking due precautions, Our Heroes check out this door and finds that it is a secret passage into the sewers.
"Another way in. Down the dank tunnel it is." Silas says as he climbs back up and then waits for the others before taking the other path.
"Right. Let's try the other way." Tilver climbs back up the rope ladder.
The still waters of the murky pond come nearly to the wall and you must pass single file. As you do so, a nearly invisible tentacles or pseudopods or arms something tries to attack you. One tentacle strikes Silas squarely in the chest.
STATUS
Creature
Dain
Nigel
Silas - 116/124 hp, paralyzed?
Tilver
[dice=Fortitude]d20+17
Silas is Paralyzed. He gets a new saving throw at the end of his next turn and the end of each turn until he succeeds.
Nope! It's invisible in the water!
"There's something down there and it just attacked Silas!" Tilver tries to grab the Litorian and pull him past the pond. "Hurry!"
The former gladiator heaves Silas' body along, trying to drag him out of the way.
Tilver - are you pushing him forward or dragging him back? You can move Silas up to 10' provided you go with him. Move the tokens to show where you want to be.
Current players: please chime in on the Discussion Page.
As Tilver drags the paralyzed Silas forward, Nigel unleashes a blast of fire that bathes the tentacles in flame!
All three of his fiery lances slices into the strange gelatinous tentacles, filling the corridor with an acrid smell.
STATUS
Creature - 14 damage - invisible in water!
Dain - Sanctuary
Nigel
Tilver
Silas - 116/124 hp, paralyzed
Silas strains!
Silas throws off the lassitude of his muscles, just in time to be attacked again! The tentacles lash out, but now that you are prepared they are easy to bat aside.
STATUS
Creature
Dain
Nigel
Silas - 116/124 hp
Tilver
Silas rages and breathes a cone of cold at whatever hit him!
Tilver tries to judge the right time and place to strike. He peers down in the water, trying to get the good understanding of where the creature is before he lashes out with his elven blade.