“Whatever it is it’s a tough bastard. Kill it Gittik, Stigmeister!”
*blaaaaaaaar!*
Oso calls on Kelanen to aid the battle and aid his companions.
The holy energy washes out of Oso and each and every blade goes red and green and blue in sizzling divine power.
Pip casts a Glitterdust in the rakshasa's eyes.
With the burst of glitterdust, the thing starts howling like a monkey, trying to rub it out of its eyes, and its head now looks like a golden mandrill.
looks like Elgan, Gittik, and Stiggy still have a full attack on this bastich.
Elgan-Dire-Wolf, with Altai still on his shoulders, shimmers into a Dire Ape. Elgan-Ape then noisily pops the knuckles of both large hands, grins a large canine-filled grin, and reaches forward over his shorter companions to attack the blinded enemy,...
***Chomp, B!TCH SLAP, B!TCH SLAP, nibble,...***
There's a *pop* sound in the creature like when you pull a chicken wing apart at the joint when Elgan shakes him, and it settles to the ground, with more than it's hands turned in the wrong direction, and the brief battle is over.
exp 2,750 each.
Loot, nothing too exquisite; about 25,000 gold pieces worth of drowish coin, jewelry in oddly pierced places, and +1 weapons/armor here and there.
"Aw, crap. Why did these twerps have to get themselves killed right in front of our campsite? Hopefully the bodies won't attract too many scavengers."
Three giant (not really by D&D standards....just three foot long) centipedes appear on one of the dead, and start to scavenge.
A little purple rat is there, sniffing the breeze.
And a footlong cockroach with a design on it's carapace oddly shaped like a rune of the vile tongue scuttles along one wall.
<Glares at the rat then gets back to the heavy drinking that is so vital to maintaining his constitution.>
“Whatever it is it’s a tough bastard. Kill it Gittik, Stigmeister!”
The shakes recede.
<Glares at the rat then gets back to the heavy drinking that is so vital to maintaining his constitution.>
Altai eyes the cockroach speculatively. "Perhaps the marking indicates that it belongs to someone? It might be an escapee from a goblin cockroach farm..."
Oddly, the vile sigil looks like natural patterning, like the weird eyes on certain butterfly wings.
right on...
the cavecrickets sing you to sleep. They seem to almost be playing a halcyon piece of Perrenlandish chamber music.
"Meh, die easy."
I got:
Pip down 5
Altai down 6
Gittik down 7
Bel down 2
oso down 3.
Alwyn has shinsplints from the herculean effort of lifting his feet. It's sooooooo hard....
I know, right?
After resting, Oso prepares and casts three restorations on those who are at their weakest.
Oso then pulls out two scrolls and heals himself and Beldan.
Yeah; everybody's good to go.
The rest of the restphasetime goes uneventfully.....in the Underdark it's always night.
Long as nobody minds a little deus ex machina now and again....one of the drow had a reeeeeeally nice diamond studded Prince Albert.
Pip tunes up Lucille as he recovers from his strength drain
"Where to now folks?"
"I'm quite curious about what's behind the big doors upstairs. I've memorised a formula that will let me see what's behind them. If it looks interesting, how about breaking in?"
The space behind the doors, surrounded by the halls, takes up a-w 1-12. I'll need a centering coordinate.
Oh; duuh....the doors are at k-m on the north wall, double doors; pretty big I reckon.
This is a big chamber. It's h-p, 1-12; looks like there's a recess that takes up klm 1-2, and has a door at l2 i.e. another room perhaps between the hall and this room.
The western wall looks like it's glass; it looks into a sandy floored room that takes up most of the a-g space but for cells that seem to be 10x10 and take up all of the a-b area.
In the big area, there are tables aligned before this glass wall, and two female human-looking things with four arms and robes that conceal their heads and upper bodies; below this robe they seem naked, their skin covered with sigils. Here and there on the tables perch imps, all of which seem to be scribing in books.
more to follow.
In the sandy room, two green men long, lean, 9 feet tall, seem to be duelling with swords.
There's a door into this sandy room at g 11-12.
On the eastern wall, there's a door at p2, p6-7, and p11.
The eastern wall from p4-9 is also glass.
more to follow
In that room, comprising q-w 4-9 is a massive, feline multilegged creature pacing back and forth in it's tiny compartment.
you never know what you'll find in a lich's basement.
"Damn." Altai's quiet for a long time.
"Um, well, there's a mad scientist's lab behind the doors. There are multi-armed freaks galore, a giant eight-legged cat and a multitude of servitor imps. There's also a couple of four-armed warriors in a glass arena. What bothers me most, though, is that I can't see the big doors we're standing in front of - there's a small room, most probably trapped and guarded between us and them. Does this sound at all interesting, or should we let the proverbial sleeping dog lie?"
"Damn." Altai's quiet for a long time.
"Um, well, there's a mad scientist's lab behind the doors. There are multi-armed freaks galore, a giant eight-legged cat and a multitude of servitor imps. There's also a couple of four-armed warriors in a glass arena. What bothers me most, though, is that I can't see the big doors we're standing in front of - there's a small room, most probably trapped and guarded between us and them. Does this sound at all interesting, or should we let the proverbial sleeping dog lie?"
"Yeah ... interesting is one word. Sounds freaky. I'd leave it alone. But hey, at least you solved the mystery of the multi-legged cat taht was bothering our Olman friends!"
It's in a book, at the house; need to look it up later; couldn't pull the info off the web.
with these particular chicks, there is an overlap betwixt the two skills I reckon.