Kaelic makes fire!
Dagon falls back and sarts to cast a spell!
Dagon's spells goes off, effecting the cloud completely!
The cloud retaliates and tries to slam into Dagon, but misses narrowly!
Kaelic swings with a fist full of fire.
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"Die, you... er, cloud... thing!"
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Juma steps up five feet and swings twice at the cloud. His first swing misses, but the second swing hits hard, dissapating the cloud into a spray of sparks!
Dagon moves the lever and the mechanism begins to spin, paying out chain. Somewhere to the west, everyone hears a dull, echoing boom.
"Well, I hope you appreciate my stepping up to take these risks. I'm feeling a bit singed here, and still a little hungry, you know."
"Kinda makes you glad I'm around to get everything done, doesn't it?"
"I had things well in hand." Kaelic says as he waves his fireball dramatically. "This is fun. I'm going to keep it."
"Well what's everyone standing around for? Let's go see what happened!" Kaelic says, taking off at a surprising pace for a gnome.
Juma follows the voluntary trap fodder excited gnome toward the source of the noise.
Returning back to the torture room, the raven is still perched where you left it. "Back? You reconsidered my offer? Caw!"
"Possibly. But what, exactly, do you need us for, and what would we receive in return?"
Kaelic frowns as he was hoping something else had opened on this end of the hall but instead found himself back in the company of this strange character, as well as the raven from earlier.
"Caw..Caw! Just sit in the chair! I will tell you how to find treasure!"
Juma closes the door, then whispers to his companions. "Whaddya say we capture the bird, then pump him for information? I am not sitting in his chair."
"I'm good with that."
"I'm in."
"Wait. Is 'capture' code for 'kill'? Because I don't have a cage."
Kaelic says as he casts a spell upon himself.
"Unconscious things are easily captured."
"Burning things are not. But "
Kaelic leaps into the room, hoping desperately that he's not committing suicide, and flings a fireball at the bird.
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Kaelic steps into the room and lobs a ball of fire at the raven, but misses! The raven squawks in surprise!
Kaelic tosses more fire while drawing his sickle.
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"It's so dodgy!"
Juma steps up to the plate and swings for the fences.
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Kaelic misses again with his fireball!
Juma darts in and hits the raven! His blow is powerful, but it doesn't do a much damage as he would have expected. The raven sreeches in fury!
Dagon cheers on his companions.
Dagon begins inspiring his companions to triumph over the wily bird!
The raven flys back five feet and disappears!
Dagon pulls out and loads his crossbow as he glances around the room. "Uh, guys? Where did it go?"
"Yeah, I don't feel good about that."
Kaelic drops his sickle and summons another fireball in that hand.
"Juma... did you kill it?"
"No, it disappeared all on its own."
Suspecting invisibility, Juma quickly shuts the door and stands in front of it.
Dagon steps into the room, as Juma shuts the door. As you wonder where the raven went, suddenly a diminutive, red-skinned humanoid appears and attacks Dagon with a scorpion-like tail!
The creature sinks its stinger into Dagon's shoulder!
Kaelic steps up and starts hammering with fire!
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Kaelic throws fire at the creature, but misses!
"Gah! That's worse than a crow!"
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With the echoing strains of his own song still in his ears, Dagon backs up and fires at the creature that attacked him.
Juma swing hard and smacks the creature with his staff, once. As before, the blow, thought powerful, does not do as much damage as would be expected.
Dagon steps backs and fires at the creature, but misses!
The creature retreats back toward the back of the room and says. "Mercy! Spare my life, I entreat you! If you let me live, I shall tell you about treasure and how to get it!"
"Alright," Dagon says, lowering his crossbow, "let's hear about this treasure."
"...after you've submitted to some restraints," Juma adds.
Kaelic frowns a bit at Juma's bluntness, then speaks.
"Look pal, we don't need to kill you if you aren't going to bother us." he says, pausing to draw his mace. "But we don't need to keep you alive either, so talk fast."
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"OK...ok...ok. Don't hurt poor Harzogopas anymore. I'll tell you. In the corner of the room." He says, pointing to the northeast corner. "There is a secret door that leads to a treasury!!. I've never been three, but I heard my masters speak of it. I know that 'Good Baron Sarvo wills it" was once used as a pass phrase for a room further in and I also saw that whenever anyone when back there, they always took the big plaque with them. Now...please...please don't kill poor Harzogopas!!"
Kaelic shrugs. "Alright, that works for me."
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"Plaque? What plaque?"
There can be little doubt what purpose this chamber once served. The dank room stores an ancient rack, a fanciful brazen bull, an iron maiden, a cauldron, iron chairs with sharp edges and cruel protuberances, and a wooden table upon which sit various implements of torture. A bronze plaque affixed to the western wall depicts a crowing rooster above crossed spears. Underneath the spear, a short phrase is inscribed. The phrase in Common reads: “Confession Cleanses the Soul—Pain Clarifies the Mind.”
"Is that so...?"
"Alright then. Kaelic, find the door and check it for traps. In fact, check that plaque for traps while you're at it."