"My scans indicate she has multiple lacerations which means she was killed by a knife or a dagger."
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"Huh... really?", Kharax surprised by Alpha's observation. Reviewing the body again, he sighs. "Dammit Prime, I'm a blacksmith, not a doctor!"
"I did not infer that you were a doctor." Alpha says a bit confused.
With a slightly uncomfortable smile at the unintentionally funny comments by Alpha, Richards nods his agreement to head east.
The Cobbler holds his snorting and wheezing long enough to scout ahead with Richard.
Squeezing through the narrow passage, the party heads to the east, where a dark cavern opens up, its twenty-foot-high ceiling thick with stalactites. A rocky shore overlooks a placid pool and stream, fed by a trickle of water leaking from a narrow fissure to the north. A small garden of toadstools and dark mold grows along the banks.
Standing among the toadstools in a white fleshed humanoid with a frog-like head and large white glowing eyes! It turns to the party as you enter and takes a threatening stance, as it croaks out. "Gollum! Gollum!"
The creature turns its eerie gaze on the party and a bright light floods out of its eyes!
"Blindheim! Avert your eyes! Or don't, I don't f@+$ing care!"
Maruf moves in to slash at the frog.
Kharax squeezes as best he can, drawing his longsword out as he looks out towards the strange creature. "What in blazes is that?!"
Maruf warns the party, then moves up and stabs the weird creature!
Kharaz lets out his breath and sucks in his gut as he squeezes past Alpha and through the narrow tunnel!
Richard covers his eyes just in time. Drawing his rapier, he moves up behind the Cobbler.
Alpha moves up and bashes the blindheim with his shield.
Richard up while drawing his blade, while Alpha advances and swings his shield at the blindheim, but misses!
The creature retaliates, lashing out at the one who injured it, clawing and biting the cobbler! Hissing, it steps back.
Avoiding looking at the strange creature, Richard calls out a song of healing and touches the Cobbler.
Alpha steps forward and bashes at the creature again.
"Gah! I'm hurt!" Maruf wails dramatically before Richard reaches out and heals his wounds. He then resumes attacking the stupid creature, this time electing to draw a blade.
Richard moves up and heals Maruf, while Alpha swings his shield and misses once more!
Maruf tries stabbing the creature, but is too shaken from his wounds to aim true!
Trepidatiously, Kharax sloshes through the water and tries to distract the creature to aid Maruf's strikes.
"Get 'em Maruf!"
Kharax waves his sword and pokes at the creature, distracting it!
Finding itself cornered, the creature lashes out in a fury, biting Maruf and clawing Alpha!
Alpha counters the lucky claw swipe with his shield.
"Raaawwrrrr! My precious blood! Nyyyeeeehhhhhh!"
Richard sings a other healing song for the Cobbler.
"I'm unable to perform another healing song. If you take another injury, back off so I can get at it!"
Kharax uses his blade offensively this time, trying to end the creature as his allies aim seems erratic.
Alpha manages to slam the creature with his shield, but Maruf is notso lucky, even with Kharax's distraction!
Richard heals the cobbler....,once again!
Kharax swings his sword and chops into the creature, but it lives on!
The cornered creature lashes out, but its attacks are wild and uncontrolled, missing everyone!
"Stupid f+*$ lizard!"
Alpha keeps being logical and swings his shield again.
Richard steps into the underground stream, clearing the way for Alpha or the Cobbler to retreat if they need to.
Maruf misses once more as he curses at the creature.
Alpha methodically and deliberately swings his shield and bashes the blindheim.
Richard backs up to make room for retreating party members.
Kharax swings his blade again, but this time has no luck!
CLearly desperate, the blindheim's eyes begin to grow bigger, then the cavern is fiiled with bright light as it radiates from the creatures eyes!
Alpha's optical receptors withstand the overload of light and he fights on.
Alpha withstands the blinding light and bashes the blindheim into he ground!
Richard manages to avoid looking into the light!
Maruf manages to avoid being blinded, but unfortunately, Kharax is caught staring directly at the creatures eyes and all goes dark.
Maruf knows enough about blindheims that he is able to alleviates Kharax's fears by informing him that the blindness is only temporary and will wear off in about an hour.
A a cursory search of the pool reveals a man’s body, mostly eaten. Little remains to identify the body. A belt pouch on the body’s hip is still intact and contains 42 gp, a silver unholy symbol of Zyphus worth 25 gp, and two water-tight potions of cure light wounds.
Alpha adjusts his shield as the party searches the body. "Superior technology wins again." He thinks keeping it to himself. Gloating was not a logical response.
"Is everyone fully functional?"
"Aye. Undamaged." Richard says, then frowns at his reflexive response. "Uninjured, I mean."
Looking through the items, Richard suggests Alpha take one of the potions and Kharax the other.
Alpha will take the potion and scan the surroundings
"I told you there was a Zyphan around here!" Maruf exclaims before spitting on the corpse. "You all shrugged it off but I knew the Grim Harvestman must be behind my many misfortunes! F+!*ing wife, f+&+ing genie, f~@!ing fire, f%*%ing missing wizard! Zyphus!" The enraged tiefling spits on the corpse.
"Gaaaah!", Kharax shouts as his eyes lose functionality. After being told about the temporary duration, he calms down, although he is frustrated his carelessness is slowing the group down
"Nyeeehhhhh! Are you better yet, orc? Come on, we've got a wizard to find and a fire to start!"
Peering up the water-filled passage to the northwest, Rochard says, "I'm fairly certain that loops around to the entrance chamber. That leaves only one way." He points to the passage heading south. Keeping his rapier in hand and trying to be quiet m, he heads that way.
"Well let's make sure nothing sneaks up behind us though!" Maruf says as he tramps through the water to the northwest.
After waiting the prescribed time, Kharax's sight returns, the half-orc exhaling in relief when it does. "Sorry to keep ya'll waiting; let's go!"
Heading to the northwest, the party sees that the water does indeed double back to the same waterway. The shallow creek runs through the middle of this cavern, while to the south a stony bank rises up from the water. Thick carpets of green and gray mold and fungus grow on the bank, particularly around a trio of three-foot-high, foul-smelling mounds. As you enter the cavern, the some of them moled begins moving toward you!