Hedran enhances his blade, summons a protective spell, then wades around the tunnel to flank the creature, Weasel hissing at the lizard from his perch atop the half-orc's shoulder.
Bear manages to bite and claw the serpentfolk, but Grenwold's glaive strike bounces off its scaly skin.
Robert puts his bulls eye lantern on the ground and draws his longbow.
The serpentfolk tries to bite Bear.
Bear manages to fight off this dose of poison.
”Thanks, Nigel. It’s very appreciated. I hope everyone’s okay, I think Ringo and I are feeling the effects of that room - there was something wrong with the air.” He and Ringo both cough and try to breathe deeply to recover but no no avail.
In gnomish:
He then hugs the elk’s neck.
Visibly tired, Gren and Ringo maneuvered through the tunnel to the north to the other side of Hedran. As he went, he briefly has a set of translucent bull’s horns appear on his head, and he looks a little stronger. He takes a Glaive swing at the serpentfolk past Hedran, some of his strength having returned to him through his determination (and connection to the wild).
With painful slowness, Nigel retrieves an antitoxin, and hands it to Ratel.
Accepting the vial from Nigel, Ratel quickly drinks it, telling his friend "Thanks" Grabbing Bear by the tail, Ratel tells him "Now, you retreat before you get hurt anymore, we'll handle this." Bear chuffs at him, and moves behind the others.
Ratel doesn't feel any weaker, but he's not out of the woods yet!
Gren takes another swing at the nasty creature.
Grenwold thinks he would have hit the creature except he was trying not to hit Hedran and aimed a little too high.
Robert shoots the creature with his longbow.
Robert manages to send an arrow sticking out of the creature's torso.
Hedran swings the sword in both hands, aiming at the serpent's midsection. Weasel whimpers.
Nigel delays, as Hedran aims a heavy blow at the serpents midsection, opening a large gash in its torso, badly wounding it. It hisses in anger as it moves to attack Hedran, biting his side.
Hedran gets bitten on his swordarm and feels himself weakening, as the teeth pump venom into it.
Nigel uses the happy stick on Bear. The right way. Wait, why was he waving it in all kinds of weird fashions earlier?
Hedran growls at the insidious attack, sidesteps, and swings again - "El fogsz veszíteni és meghalni. Megadás!"
You will lose and die. Surrender!
Gren wants to Glaive the serpentfolk a question - but he is bad at puns. So he waits for Hedran to step out of the way.
After he attacks, he directs Ringo to gore and entangle the serpentfolk.
"A gyenge majmok élelmiszerek!Szóval azt mondja a fej nélküli király!" The Serpentfolk screeches savagely.
Weak mammals are food! So says the headless king!
Hedran's blade does not penetrate the tough scales of the Serpentfolk.
Grenwold sticks his glaive in the Serpentfolk's guts, but it stubbornly refuses to go down, holding itself up by sheer will power.
The Serpentfolk dodges aside as Ringo tries to gore him.
Robert fires at the Serpentfolk, but the Serpentfolk ducks at the last moment.
Glad to see Bear healed, Ratel steps back in close, attempting to smash the serpent thing with his shield.
Ratel smashes his shield against the Serpentfolks head and crushes it,and it collapses on the ground, dead.
On the Serpentfolk, the party finds a collection of scrolls, one scroll of invisibility, one scroll of feather fall, one scroll of darkness, one scroll of flaming sphere, one scroll of spider climb, and a silver flask worth 100 gold pieces.
Robert tries to wash the poisoned wound and tie a tourniquet over it and eventually Ratel fights off the poison.
Hedran is more fortunate since Grenwold knows his herbs and rubs a herb poultice on the wound, neutralizing the poison. Hedran's half orc constitution also helps quite some.
"Thank you Gren" - Hedran nods - "That bite seemed to have some sort of poisonous tint to it"
The party travels for another 30 minutes and the air from the underground is far fresher then the other room, and soon everyone is no longer fatigued or exhausted. Everyone hears a sloshing sound coming from below heading up the tunnel their way.
Gren whispers to wait, but puts away the glaive and arms his shield.
The party waits, and soon their sloshy friend appears! Its a horrid mass of eyes, mouths, and formless flesh that stares in all directions.
Grenwold knows that the creature is a gibbering mouther.
As a free action, a gibbering mouther can emit a cacophony of maddening sound. All creatures other than gibbering mouthers within 60 feet must succeed on a Will save or be confused for 1 round. This is a mind-affecting compulsion insanity effect. A creature that saves cannot be affected by the same mouther’s gibbering for 24 hours. The save DC is Constitution-based.
It has 5 DR/Bludgeoning.
Nigel manages to extract 2 doses of serpentfolk venom.
The gibbering mouther double moves towards the party and starts gibbering!
+4 v compulsion
Despite the awful cacophony, no one is confused.
Gren says, ”Use bludgeoning, never piercing, don’t get engobbled!” and then, ensuring he’s not within gibberish reach, casts bless on the party. He also says something in gnomish:
And a spectral turtle shell appears briefly before disappearing.
Nigel manages to thunk the gibbering mouther with a rock pretty handily.
Seeing the multi-mouthed abomination waiting in the narrow cave, Ratel frowns, ”You know if we wait a little this thing probably would have come down the cave after us to where it’s wider>” Sighing, he moves forward, kicking at the thing, then swinging his shield at it.
Ratel manages to kick, then shield bash the gibbering mouther, that gives out a whole load of incomprehensible syllabus.
Hedran isn't about to abandon their tactical advantage in facing this monstrosity, so he stands his ground, and readies himself to face the creature.
Weasel stands calmly on the half-orc's shoulder, waiting...
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Robert tries to shoot at the gibbering mouther, sending an arrow sticking out of it.
The gibbering mouther, seeing on Ratel in front of him, begins to start biting Ratel.
Ratel gets two bites on him, but is not grabbed by the gibbering mouther.
It then takes a step back, and spits acid at Ratel.
Ratel gets stinging acid in his face and is blinded for 2 rounds.
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"Blast" Blinded and bleeding, Ratel steps back.
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"Blast" Blinded and bleeding, Ratel steps back.
Staying back, Gren focuses a moment and then speaks a few words in draconic while waving his free hand in a magical manner.
Gren knows he nailed the gibbering mouther with the spell but he's not sure how a gibbering mouther is going to sound if it start screeching...
Robert sends a blunt arrow at the gibbering mouther.
Nigel picks up another rock to throw at the gibbering mouther, but the rock falls short.
The gibbering mouther spits acid at Nigel.
Nigel is blinded by the acid spit.
Then the creature moves forward to bite Ratel, but gets hacked into two by Hedran.
Searching its remains the party finds a partially charged wand of mage armor(28 charges) and a cracked rose prism. The cracked rose prism is magical but Hedran can't identify it.
The party heads back to the forge room where they have an undisturbed night. Hedran manages to find a +1 buckler, a +1 light shield which are both rusty and a pink pearl of power.
The following morning, they decide to check out the western fork.
A partial collapse mars the symmetry of this large, circular chamber. Crude carvings of reptilian heads and bodies cover the wall, snaking around empty sockets in the stone walls. A thin, bluish mist hovers in the air, swirling gently. The mist rises about halfway up the walls, like a diaphanous ocean. An animated cluster of translucent crystals shaped disturbingly like a gemstone scorpion scuttles along the floor, and wags its tail excitedly at the party while making a rumbling noise.
No one has any idea what the creature is.
Shiny? Shinnies!
In the morning, before everyone sets out on a new leg, Gren does some self-buffs, casting a handful of spells on himself and his shield.
Gren will happily wave at the creature, but then shrugs when it chitters at them. ”I’m sorry little guy, do you want something?” in Common.
Grenwold finds his pouch and backpack being systematically ransacked by the creature.
Hedran realizes the amulet is an amulet of natural armor +2. Both Hedran and Grenwold cannot identify the other items.
”Whatcha lookin for? Gren roots around and pulls out a copper coin and silver and offers it to the creature.
"I have an idea. Toss a gem at it and let's see what happens."