"Please allow me... "
Ruperta puts her hand on the door, closes her eye, sights and concentrates...
Perception
and shelves lie strewn about the place, with the foodstuffs, firewood, and other supplies they once contained scattered across the floor. Shuffling amidst the rubble is a man made of spare parts of other men, but rotting and foul. He looks to be the sort of creation you would expect from an untalented or untrained creator. However, he holds in one hand an arm, decorated with Shoanti tattoos...
Even facing the horrible images on her head, Ruperta keeps her cool, an starts to report to her companions what she sees:
"A pantry... All messed up... A horrible abomination, make of dead bodies, all rotten and... Horrible... It is holding a severed arm, with Shanty tattoos... Maybe if he got him out we can surround it... Flank it"
Examining the rest of the room you're in, you find a lot of alchemical equipment, chemicals and tools. You could probably sell it to an alchemist, but it's heavy and hard to move without breaking. Or if you had ranks in craft: alchemy you could spend some time here to create some routine alchemical items...
"Augh, I meant to learn about alchemy at some point, but it just never seemed to happen," the gnome sighs glumly. [b]"This is a really neat lab, though. I bet its worth some gold!"[b]
Corbyn pulls three vials of alchemist fire from his pouch. "I don't know how to make them but I always carry several."
Ruperta gets her "game face"
"This is my plan, I will open the door and go back 15' to let the abomination get in a line of fire. I will try to hold him there fighting defensively. You all surround it and between all we bring it down. Are you ok with the plan?"
Ruperta waits for them to assume position before opening the door...
Pai pulls her wand and steps backwards. "Sounds like a plan to me."
Slumper nods and moves into position.
As everyone assumed their positions, Ruperta begins to pull the boards from the door holding it shut. It takes a few moments, but she opens the door. Inside is a sight from a horror tale: a humanoid stitched together from rotting pieces of corpses stands amidst the destruction. It holds in a death grip an arm tattooed with Shoanti designs. It sees you all, and howls out a wordless cry of rage!
Paxs:
Slumper:
Corbyn:
Pai:
Ruperta:
Foe:
Round 1:
20 Paxs and Thrak
18 Corbyn and the Golem
15 Ruperta
14 Pai
9 Slumper
Pax looks like he is going to be violently sick in the corner when the stench washes over him, but Thrak attacks the monster.
Fort
While Paxs tries to clear his stomach of its contents, Thrak turns into a cat shaped ball of anger. His bite misses, but his claws rake the rotting thing, doing a surprising amount of damage!
The creature, letting out a howl of anger/pain, tries to return the favor to Thrak!
and Only one hits, doing damage and eliciting a Fort save from Thrak vs disease, DC 14!
Knowing her subtle spells won't help against this monstrosity, the gnome fires the wand at it, hoping to slow it down.
Magic Missle damage
fort save
Slumper presses his attack on the monstrosity.
sword
shield
Fort save
Corbyn will toss a vial of alchemist fire at the monster.
Even after seeing the creature Ruperta wasn't quite prepared to smell it. She feels the urge to get sick but concentrates and gets into fighting stance, trying to hold the abomination in check so her companions can kill it.
"Here beast! Face me!"
She tries to grab its attention so it leaves Thrak alone.
Round 1:
20 Paxs and Thrak
18 Corbyn and the Golem
15 Ruperta
14 Pai
9 Slumper
Corbyn throws a vial of orange liquid at the creature, which bursts into flame as soon as it shatters! The creature is on fire, but Ruperta, Thrak and Slumper all take 1 point of fire damage from the splash!
Ruperta attempts to distract the flaming thing, swatting at it with her morningstar, but drawing no blood, or whatever it is that powers the thing.
Pai's missile hits the creature, but fizzles out as it does, doing no damage!
Slumper, his nostrils clamping down against the smell, whales on the thing, but cannot seem to get through its seemingly random flailings to score a hit!
Round 2:
20 Paxs and Thrak
18 Corbyn and the Golem
15 Ruperta
14 Pai
9 Slumper
Corbyn steps back to allow Ruperta to pull the creature further into the room.
Ruperta understands Corbyn's move and takes a 5' step back, while trying to keep the abomination attention, and keeping the defensive attack.
"Step back and let the abomination come further into the room Thrak."
Corbyn steps back and Ruperta swings at the thing as it lumbers forward, but as Thrak attacks with a whirl of fangs and claws, the things simply falls apart under the onslaught. What was once a fierce golem made of rotting flesh is now a pile of rotten meat. An arm with Shoanti tattoos protrudes from the pile.
The room is silent, though a soft sobbing, followed by a gruff "Shut yer hole!" echoes from the tunnels to the east...
Any searching of the storeroom to the south reveals nothing but rubble. The golem had apparently gone mad and smashed everything of value.
"Is that arm a part that we are looking for? That might be the corpse we were sent to retrieve," the gnome gulps as she looks at the tattoos.
She perks up after hearing the other voices deeper in the tunnels. She nods to the others.
With the practiced ease of someone used to the carnage of the arena
"Might as well bring it along just in case." Slumper wraps the arm and puts it in his pack
As you move toward the eastern tunnels, the worked stone becomes natural stone tunnels. You come to a Y in the tunnel. A rank smell of excrement and filth wafts from the south, while to the north stairs are worked into the natural stone and head upward. A faint smell of decay and chemicals comes from the north.
To the south an echoing sound of sobs comes from the corridor. You hear heavy footfalls and a gruff male voice, "Shut it or it's no grub for you!"
"A creature that eats grubs...that's not a good start," Pai whispers in response to the noise.
Chuckling at Pai "He means food, that's what us lowers call it."
Ruperta fells ill at the sight of Slumper taking the arm...
"Good job, Thrak! Where too now, I really do not want to see anymore of those."
"Corbyn, do you want to check that noise out," Pai asks, having seen the sneaky type in action, trusting him t keep the way safe.
Corbyn will begin sneaking down the south hallway.
Stealth
Ruperta gets her crossbow ready to aid Corbyn, if the need arises.
Corbyn slips quietly around the corner into the more natural stone caverns and comes across a room currently being used as some sort of jail. Three 10 foot deep pits surround a central platform, upon which stands the jailor. The man (though you doubt he's fully human) is a hulking thing with bulging muscles, though his defining feature is his face, which is bulbous and covered in tumors, making his head resemble a cabbage. Each pit holds two people: three humans, two halflings and an emaciated dwarf spread among the pits, which reek of excrement and filth. They all look in various states of disease or near-death, but definitely all despair of ever escaping the hellhole.
Corbyn will skulk back to his compatriots and pass along the information.
Once Corbyn gives the info to the group:
"If there are prisoners, we have to go in there and free them. We might find another couple of body parts as well," she says, shaking her head at the thought of the corpse being in many different pieces.
"So, do we enter charging against it, or we try to ambush him? Maybe we can make it come over here, as we did with that... "thing" Thrak dispached..."
"Any chance of making it fall into a pit? Although that may be harmful to the prisoners"
As the discussion bears on, the party's hand is forced as the jailor in question comes around the corner to investigate the noise!
"What in the 'ell? Rolth give me big reward for all youse heads!" He shouts as he raises his meaty fists and steps in to attack!
Paxs:
Slumper:
Corbyn:
Pai:
Ruperta:
Foe:
Round 1:
24 Paxs and Thrak
21 Cabbagehead
16 Pai
10 Corbyn
9 Ruperta
5 Slumper
Paxs looks up at the sound and quickly tells Thrak to attack as he launches a glob of acid at the jailor.
Paxs launches his acid at the large man, while Thrak's bite is the only attack to penetrate the man's armor and thick musculature and near-blubber.
Cabbagehead shrieks a warcry and punches at Thrak! for damage!
Slumper movse up into the doorway alongside Thrak and attacks with this sword.
sword
Pai fires her trusty wand at the ugly opponent.
Ruperta fires a poisoned bolt at the jailor, point-blank...
Corbyn will move and attack.
Attack
Damage
The heroes step forward and attack, but the cabbageheaded man simply seems to ignore most of them as they bounce off his immense fatty hide! Pai's missile is the only thing that gets through, as he lets out a cry of anger and rage!
ROUND 2:
24 Paxs and Thrak
21 Cabbagehead
16 Pai
10 Corbyn
9 Ruperta
5 Slumper
Without a clear shot at the big cabbagehead Paxs just gives Thrak encouragement.
"Get him Thrak, rip him to pieces."