Selene continues to fight off the purple zombie with caution.
Takeshi looks at the monkey, not doing anything.
"Girl of the wild, your friend seems to be scared? Is there anything I can do?" he says nonchalantly, while shooting his arrow. His mind is elsewhere, but his arrow seems to lodge itself firmly into the creature's brai.. skull.
"Play some encouraging music?"
"Roguk, will be ok, I just don't want to subject him to the filthy disease of these creatures."
Blue zombie 6/12
AC 12/10/12
hp 12 (2d8+3)
Fort +0, Ref +0, Will +3
Slam +4 dmg 1d6+4+disease (Fort 11)
Selene miss, but an arrow in the head from Takeshi stops the zombie, which explodes.
Essa oversized club bashes her undead opponent, to the same result
The last zombie throws his arms to Tane's throat, but fails to connect
Essa is covered in piles of the disgusting rotting goo. She stands there stunned, but seems to just wipe it off.
The exploding zombie bits smack into Tane, but luckily he is able to shrug them off without much concern. Tane actually chuckles as the party seems to be systematically picking apart the undead creatures. Without looking back he shouts, "Hey man, nice shot."
When Takeshi doesn't answer Tane he says, again "What a good shot man."
Still not hearing a reply Tane bashes his sword against his shield and shouts,
Seeing it explode made her shudder and she tried to pull herself back together. Pointing her finger at the last one calling upon her Ray of frost one more time.
Malya sends an expertedly aimed ray of frost in the zombie's face
Takeshi's arrow hits again, but still the corpse stands on
Essa moves around the far edges to get to the final zombie, but takes all of her movement.
Selene continues to fight off the purple zombie cautiously.
Tane swings his mighty blade to put the final creature down, preparing for the inevitable explosion of nastiness that follows.
Under the impact of Tane's sword, the last zombie explodes.
Selene whines a bit at the disgusting zombie remains as she spits and tries to wipe away the globs of mucus clinging to her.
"Those were so disgusting!"
Essa wipes the stinky mess from her using Create Water to douse herself clean.
"Wow I wish my magical water came with a warm option, that water is cold."
The fighter looks around to see if there is anything useful in here.
After a quick search, Tane flicks bits of gore from him with a wrinkled face. "Can we move out of here, this place smells even more terrible now than when we walked in! Ugh."
He leads the party onward when ready.
Tane finds, in one corner of the room, amidst filth and an old bloodstain, an open backpack.
Inside, rotten rations, a scroll case, a small vial, a pouch and what seems to be an handbill with a faded writing
Mayla would move to Selene. "I can at least clean the gore off if you want with my magic. I don't know if I could help with anything else."
Selene gives a sheepish nod as she holds her arms out to the sides and tries to not touch anything to herself. The gore is quite extensive. "Yes, please, and do hurry," she shuddered.
Mayla would cast the spell and gently touches Selene letting the magic clean her off completely.
"There you go that should work. All clean."
"Dear gods, thank you Malya!" Selene says as she takes a moments to examine herself without zombie goosh on her.
Mayla smiles and nods before looking at Tane.
"Did you find something?"
If he showed her the items her attention is more focused on the vials than the handbill itself.
The potion is a good curative, and the pouch contains some money.
Essa stood by rocking on her feet and tending to Roguk, feeding him bits of food. "What's all that stuff?"
They had survived another battle in this place. Being heroes was serious business.
She made sure to pay attention to things around her.
"This is a Cure Moderate wounds potion. This will really come in handy." She hands it back to Tane.
"I don't know about the note."
"Another foreigner and his or her writing perhaps?" Selene says looking over Malya's shoulder. "I get the feeling that once we are done here we should find out where and why these people came here in the first place."
"Yeah, they shouldn't have been here. I wonder what happened that caused this all to get out of control. Wanderers perhaps? Druids looking for shelter?"
Takeshi looks around, seeing that everyoine is still breathing, he will investigate the surroundings.
Takeshi finds nothing more.
There is a door, on the south wall.
"Druids don't strike me as the type to raid a crypt. Thieves of some kind do."
She walks to the southern door seeing if she can hear anything before motioning to Tane and Enev to take lead.
Malya hears nothing unusual at the door.
"None in our circle ever talked about raiding crypts."
Looking at everyone she decided since no one was moving forward she would open the door.
Malya opens the door and sees another room.
A shallow reflecting pool divides this long chamber, running from one end to the other. The water looks cloudy and stagnant.
What must have once been marvelous murals covering both walls are now scorched and ruined, the original subject lost in the destruction.
Mayla would carefully step in and looks around. Lighting her stick she would illuminate the chamber a bit and looking at the pool would think to herself.
'That needs to be cleaned'
She makes her way towards it and would cautiously look at it.
Tane looks down at the water suspiciously. "Should we be unnerved of this pool? I know the purpose of this place was intent on peace and appreciation, but for some reason this dirty water gives me the chills. Let us pass it by quickly."
Tane quickly makes his way past Malya and strides to the other side of the room.
"More water, with things possibly lurking beneath." Essa follows with Roguk in tow, her club ready to bash any nasties, and assisting in illumination.
"Dungeons have the worst forethought on drainage. I wonder how many such places are entirely abandoned to the depths after a persistent rainfall." Selene says cautiously as she edges through anticipating danger.
As you pass near the pool, everyone keep a suspicious eye on the filthy water.
Each of you see an a horrid, rotting reflection of yourself that slowly turns to murder the others in the room.
As the horrid image fills her mind she grabs her staff and stabs the filthy water. "Get back foul image. You will not hold sway over me."
Essa's eyes widen as she looks into the pool....
Selene looks up at Malya, "Quid faciam?!"
What I'd do to you?!
Essa and Tane ran away from the room,toward the relative safety of the explored rooms, screaming at the top of their voices
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Essa flees, knocking past people and even shoving Roguk aside as she runs wide eyed from the room.
Tane's eyes go wide and he begins to shake as he runs. Get away! Run! He sees Essa running and screaming along side of him and that only makes things worse. Images of drinking blood from he bare chest flash before him and he turns away from her and vomits.
Selene shakes the effect (hopefully) and watches the others flee before looking back to Malya and then back at the pool trying to identify what just happened and hopefully on how to stop it.