Moving closer to the rest of the group.
"Yes, you are probably right. Let us stay together.
"I will follow you all and respond to threats as they present themselves."
As you begin to spread out and look about, you notice the ceiling is a featureless sheet of dark gray glaucite arching above at a height of 50 to 100 feet. The cliffs that line the walls are treacherous—a successful DC 25 Climb check is needed to scale them. On average, the cliffs rise about 50 feet before ending at the domed glaucite roof.
The ceiling itself is softly lit, lighting the room in a dim twighlight. You're able to see, though it gets harder the farther out you look.
As you move forward, there is motion in one of the rock and sandy outcroppings. sinewy boney hands begin to claw out of the ground and the rasping sounds of the undead begin to echo in the large cavern, and you a start to hear even more rasping and unearthing nearby. It is a creature that is unlike you have seen, a skeletal humanoid with four arms. Its eyes glow green for just a moment, before being replaced with red lights.
Look out! What are those?!
Harg is going to draw his weapon and step forward 5 feet right up to the closest skeletal creature.
With a very large toothy grin. This is what I have been waiting for!
Keldor points Gauntlet's left hand at the undead attacking Harg, and rattles off a simple incantation.
Possible Crit?
Seeing a solid hit with his spell, Keldor nods and speaks calmly.
"Keep them from flanking me and I'll try to engage as many of them as I can. Basil? Fire at will!"
Although she's unsure about the appearance of these creatures, she's pretty sure they don't look friendly. Dirissa darts over toward the nearest one, her hammer poised to attack.
"I have no idea what these things are."
Basil was focused on the enormity of the subterranean cave when the creatures startet moving, and was slow to react. By the time she brought up her gun ready to pull the trigger, the one in front of her had been swarmed by her companions.
On the lookout for other threats, Basil is ready to shoot anything else that approaches.
Gauntlet throws a glob of acid that seemingly almost melts away one of the skeletons. It still lives, though barely. Basil's grazing shot seem to have a lot of oomph as it knocks a portion of its chest away.
Initiative Order: Tathaniise, Harg, Gauntlet, ENEMY, Dirissa, Kell, Basil
With a quick side step to the right. A quick wink to Dirissa, "Lets do this"
As the blade slides right by the moving bones. "Damn!
Frustrated by the miss Harg growls and lashes out with his tusks.
Keldor immeidately turns to one that has pieces of blue clothing of some sort stuck to him, and charges. Just before he reaches his target, he swings back one of Gauntlet's massive metal-looking fists!
Harg's bite finds a dusty taste as his maw closes with such forces the it dissipates the Kasatha skeleton into fine particles. It occurs to you all that if this structure is as old as they say, there would be no way for any skeleton to survive natural decay.
Gauntlet charges forth and as his fist connects with the Kasatha's form it dissipates violently as a dispersed mist.
The remaining skeletons surge forth, but only one makes it into range to attempt to kill.
"Ha! That's two!"
With such a successful manuver, Keldor again turns to another one nearby with green bits of clothing, and charges again!
Kell will step back, point, and a beam of fire will arc out into the skeleton that attacked him.
Basil will calmly reload her blunderbuss with pellets, and step towards the majority of remaining enemies.
Dirissa sighs. "Harg! Leave some for the rest of us." She smiles and gives him a wink.
She picks up a rock as she moves to get a clear shot with her sling.
It's only a grazing shot, but every little bit helps.
Rushing forward past the majority of the group, giving Dirissa a hearty smile and hearty chuckle on the way past, "I will do my best.. Would you rather bite these ashy things?"
While running Hard grips onto his sword and tries to focus this arcane power he has deep inside, into the blade.
Gauntlet steps forward and takes out another skeleton before it can react.
Kell brings his mystic arts to bear, but the shot is dodged, the Kasatha moving in a surprising burst of speed as it threads through the attack.
Basil is quick to prepare another volley while Dirissa picks up the ranged role and slings rocks at the enemy, striking one and creating a sizable crack in its frame.
Harg with his mighty strength turns one skeleton to ash as his arcane blade sweeps through a skeleton, dispersing it.
Tathaniise finding a burst of speed, drops low and dashes striking one skeleton before adjusting her path and taking out the second one, in quick succession.
The dust settles as the enemies have been defeated. But with their graveyard disturbed, how long will they rest before they surface once more?
"Hostiles neutralized. Checking perimeter for more Hostiles!"
Basil will enter into a light jog, her weapon ready, and circle around the group in a 40-50 feet radius, utilizing her darkvision to check for any more movement in or on the ground (or any more skeletons, for that matter).
Harg moves up to the north, following Gauntlet [b]"Hello sir. Or should I say sirs? Is it plural?"[b]
Getting a look around on the northern side of the room. Looking for changes in the walls. Caves, etc.
"Its just me really Harg. Call me Keldor too, since I'm no knight. Gauntlet seems to have its consciousness suppressed while I'm bonded to it."
He then moves to look around with Harg.
"Hmm, those creatures didn't seem so tough. Perhaps their bodies were simply too old. Let's see if we can find an exit as quickly as possible."
Harg and Keldor approach what seem to be caves, and utilizing their darkvision they can even peer inside somewhat. The caves themselves still feature old remnants of crude palates, tools, and weapons left behind by a primitive hunter-gatherer society, and here and there, cave paintings on the walls depict four-armed humanoids in various acts of hunting strange desert creatures.
Do you wish to go deeper?
Basil does a perimeter check, but for now it seems the danger has passed.
For now.
Tathaniise moves to the south to see if there's a way out. A crisp glow of light shines from the northern wall of this cavern, although no obvious source of the light is apparent.
Looking over at Keldor, "Interesting! Shall we gather the others and check out those caves? These 4 armed creatures seem to have some sort of culture. Well, until they turned to bones at least"
Harg will try to get the attention of the others without yelling by casting light briefly on his sword and waving it back and forth as a beacon.
Dirissa sees Harg's signal and heads over toward the caves.
"I am something of a historical expert, so I would be happy to share my knowledge with you all. Let us take a look and see what we can see."
"I agree Harg. Fascinating!"
"Strange, indeed. There is no Desert nearby. And this whole dome? Cave paintings seem primitive, yet they have a skymetal corridor locking off this subterranean biome?", Basil ponders, then turns to Kell: "If your expertise can provide any clues to this puzzle, I would be intrigued to hear them.", then, still looking at Kell, falls in line behind Keldor and Harg: "Either way, I saw no other paths to move forward bypassing this place. If the lost expedition passed through here, they likely were attacked as well. If so, our opponents demise could be temporary. We'd best be on our guard and act swiftly. I am ready to keep moving!"
Kell will move in and begin examining the various primitive tools and cave drawings, looking to see if he can gather additional meaning.
What's the marching order, light sources, and just give me right or left first?
"No need to waste those. I am sure they will be useful some other time. Here"
Harg reaches out and casts light on Dirissa's Brooch.
"If you need to go dark, just cover it up. I will make sure to keep it going"
Dirissa thanks Harg. "Let's go."
Kell will stick close to Dirissa, as he also needs the light to see by.
Several strange shell fragments and bits of bone lie scattered across the floor of this large chamber. Ancient cave paintings of four- armed humanoids and strange animals decorate the walls—but to the south, a particularly unusual depiction that looks like an oblong shape burning in the sky above several kneeling four-armed figures dominates the prehistoric decor.
You all begin to move to the back, when suddenly two tentacles seemingly lash out of nowhere!
As these tentacles retract, a large globule of murky, viscous fluid (area marked). Those in the area are snared for one round, Strength DC 20 to break free.
"Watchit! Everybody Back OFF!"
Keldor/Gauntlet tries to step toward the creature however...
...and succeeds!