Vy creates a lifelink between him and Oskar, and readies his shield and short spear
"I think this is how the chefs do it!"
"I don't know how to cook it all crispy, though."
The creature's lack of the usual anatomy shows a little, is Oskar is unable to maintain his grip on the thing.
Snowflake: Establishes a lifelink with Oskar.
Dayo: Hits the squid 2 times.
Oskar: Tires to sqeeze the squid... but it pops out of his hold like a bar of soap!
Squid: Takes a 5 foot step towards to the cave exit. Then tries to slam its tentacles into Oskar.
Round 2
Intitiative
Snowflake
Dayo
Oskar
Tentacle thing
Vitro
Justin
Vitro and Justin are up!
Vitro steps deeper into the room to get a clear shot at the critter and launches some more acid in its direction.
Justin: Delays
Vitro: Hits the squid with another blob of acid.
Round 3
Intitiative
Snowflake
Dayo
Oskar
Tentacle thing
Vitro
Justin
Snowflake, Dayo and Oskar are up!
"Stupid ceiling squids!"
Oskar does his best to stomp this thing into the floor.
Outslug Style: +1 dodge AC, +1 melee damage
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"I think you have to aim for the soft bits!"
Vy sees the squid moves, and a horrible realisation enters his mind
"এটা পালাতে চেষ্টা করছে এটা সম্ভবত কাউকে ধরবে, এবং সমুদ্রের মধ্যে ফেলে দেবে!"
Vy moves forward and tries to spear the squid
Let me know if he's not Kalimari yet
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"এটা পালাতে চেষ্টা করছে এটা সম্ভবত কাউকে ধরবে, এবং সমুদ্রের মধ্যে ফেলে দেবে!"
"Nah, he's good for the money."
In an almost deadpan, but still slightly concerned tone Vitro translates; "Guys, make sure it doesn't grab you and take you for a swim."
The combined attacks of Oskar and Dayo make the ceiling squid into calamari!
"Whoof! That was somethin' else. Th'hell was that thing, anyway?"
Dayo squats down pokes it with his sword.
"Hopefully delicious? I'm tired of rations."
"Right. There's also a door over there," Dayo whispers. "Maybe that's where they cook them."
"Let's explore the open passage first, make sure we don't get sandwiched again."
Oskar smacks his lips. "Sure." I wonder if anyone else is hungry...
Checking out the side passage, you find dozens of strange dead bodies scattered about. Most are sea birds and ospreys, but there are six dead goblins here as well. Each body is literally skin and bones, as if all of the interior organs and muscles have somehow been drained away, leaving behind skeletons draped with leathery, slowly rotting skin.
Justin knows this is the fate of those failing to get free of a tentamort
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Oskar's previously resurgent appetite has crashed, hard, upon seeing the bodies.
"Who's a what now?
Meanwhile, Snowflake taps Justin with his wand curing him
Quick search, detect magic, and and back to the door i guesse
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"you can understand me now right?"
Oskar shrugs. "Understandin' you is always kinda relative thing..."
Dayo surveys the carnage.
"So... Do you think there are any left?"
Most of the bodies are a rotting heap. Searching trough it, you find most of the items on the bodies have started rotting with them. One shortbow has fallen to the side and has escaped most of the damage. Is appears to be of masterwork quality.
One of the armors on a dead goblin *pings* in Justins detect magic. Looking it over, it is a +1 hide armor (made from dogs).
"We can probably sell it to city people. They're crazy."
Vitro marshals everyone in front of the door again.
"Everyone ready... open!"
Behind the door lies a long hallway, that splits to the north and south.
Two large stone doors sit in the western wall, their faces carved with images of horrific, deformed monsters clawing their way out of pregnant women of all races.
scene depicted on the doors as one common to churches of Lamashtu.
"Lamashtu. The Mother of Monsters. I've read that sometimes she watches over Goblins, too. Maybe the tribe has a Cleric down here."
After seeing stunned looks from his party members, Dayo elaborates.
"I didn't learn that back home. My Mentor here in Varisia taught me how to read Common using religious texts."
Vitro quietly speaks: "Well we were expecting a shrine here, and the diary we recovered did imply Lamashtu. So we might find you-know-who here." He looks at Vy "Are you ready for this?"
Looking at the other doors, he adds "Should we go for the shrine directly while we're at full strength, or do we sweep the other rooms first to make sure we don't get sandwiched?"
Vy makes a growling noise that seems to come from a dimension far away. He shakes his head, freeing his head from the road it was on, and he nods to Vitro he's ready for whatever may come.
You wait until Vitro casts shield, then push open the doors. They swing open easily.
Stone fonts containing frothy dark water sit to the north and south of the eastern entrance to the room, and twin banks of stone pillars run the length of the long chamber. At the western end, shallow stairs rise to a platform about two feet off the ground.
The walls surrounding this platform are lit by hanging braziers that emit glowing red smoke, giving the place an unnerving crimson lighting that throws the bas-relief carvings of countless monsters feasting on fleeing humans into lurid display.
A black marble altar stone, its surface heaped with ashes and bone fragments, squats before a ten-foot-tall statue. The sculpture depicts a very pregnant but otherwise shapely naked woman who wields a kukri in each taloned hand and has a long reptilian tail, birdlike taloned feet, and the snarling head of a three-eyed jackal with a forked tongue. The left kukri flickers with fiery orange light while the right one glows
with a cold blue radiance.
When you open the doors, two howls erupt from near the back ceiling, making you feel cold to your marrow.
Those who do not make a DC12 will save are panicked for rounds.
Initiative
Round 1
Dayo
Snowflake
Oskar
Nasty doggies
Justin
Vitro
Know. Planes to identify the nasty doggies floating in the air.
Lau pointed out that it would be better to roll for panicked separately.
If you do not make the will save, you can roll for the amount separately yourself.
Herp derp. Dayo and snowflake and oskar are up!
Vy sees Oskar and Dayi panic and about to make run for it, so he scrambles for the door to close it before those creatures block it.
The howling of the hounds shudders trough you. Your hair stands on end, a cold sweat breaks out on your back.
Somewhere at the back of your mind a primal instinct kicks in. There is only one thing to do.
Run.
What happens next is a blur. You see the others scrambling about, but you dont care. You have to get away. Away from here. Find somewhere it is safe.
You run. You fall. You push someone out of the way. You scramble on all fours. Doors. Corridors. Light. Dark.
It becomes all a blurr. You hear voices shouting. Your friends? Your own? More enemies?
Something heavy body checks you to the ground. You turn around in terror. Have the dogs found you? You desperately roll on your back, hands up to defend against the bite that must surely come.
But you see a different kind of ugly face bearing down on you. A toothy grin flashes from a brown, broad face with a squat nose and broad ears.
You hesitate for a moment, and that is all it takes for the bugbear to bring down a heavy flail.
Your terror is replaced by darkness.
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The first thing you notice when you come to, is a splitting headache. Not sure you want to open your eyes yet, you bring your hands to your head. Sticky lump throbs on your scalp.
Cracking an eye open, you see stone walls. Sitting up carefully, a wave of dizziness passes and you can see that you are in a cell. Alone. Trough the bars you can see one of the hounds in front of a door. Its currently sleeping.
Looking about quietly, you see you are alone in your cell.
You listen closely, hoping that you can hear the others. But all you can make out is faint chanting, coming from the direction of the door the hound is laying in front of.
Just when you are about to quietly call out to the others, you hear a door creak, ever so softly.
Pressing your face against the bars, you can just make out the door at the end of the cell block.
Its Shalelu! She motions you to be quiet as she draws back her bow at the sleeping hound...
The arrow buries itself straight in the houds eye. It trashes for a moment, then lies still.
Whispering, Shalelu looks at you. "Are you all allright? Where is Snowflake?"
Not another cell!!
How long has it been? A day? A week? Am I hungry? Thirsty?
No. This is different.
Dayo stands and looks around. He stretches. He listens. And then he watches as the arrow imbeds itself into the hound.
"Definitely different."
Shalelu tosses Justin a set of lockpicks. "You look like you know how to use them."
Fiddeling with the lock, Justin notices he's not getting anywhere. These are some quality locks.
"You give that another try, and I'll see if we wont get stabbed in the back."
Shalelu silently moves over to the other door in the room and opens it.
"Wait... another hallway? What in the nine hells is up with these goblins and hallways?"