Garrath continues to wade through the lizards as they blast him with electricity, carving through the lizard to the north and the other to the east. Fill the hole, get more blades to bear!
Working on not letting you get surrounded laddie.
Round Three
Garrath drops two more lizards.
Elektra cast a Stinking Cloud over many of the Lizards. All but the 10th Lizard is affected by the noxious cloud.
Stone Channels Energy not realizing, at that moment, that one of the lizards Garrath just dropped begins to recover, only to find itself choking from the noxious fumes.
Flynn puts two arrows into the nearest lizard outside of the Stinking Cloud.
Vale steps up just enough to get to the lizard that began to stir, but not enough to be in the cloud. The choking lizard falls again, and begins to die.
Kaven is not one for the bow. He drops it. Takes a step, draws out his rapier, and makes a lunge toward the ninth lizard. He sticks his rapier into lizard flesh.
Brandark gets a little sweet revenge as he nearly cleaves in two the seventh lizard.
The eighth, eleventh, and twelveth lizards flee out of the cloud. The ninth one bites into Kaven. The tenth one, still within the cloud fails to bite Brandark.
Round Four
So anyone care to explain, why everything seems to either love or hate you people? Flynn shouts aloud taking potshots at lizards
Just our sparkling personalities
Brandark quips as he brings his axe down hard on one of the remaining lizards.
Round Four
Garrath and Elektra take a breather.
Stone moves up and attacks the tenth lizard, but misses the quick little lizard.
Flynn misses one of his stots. He doesn't miss with the other, sticking the 9th lizard with an arrow.
Vale backs away from the stinky cloud of noxious fumes.
Kaven stabs at the 9th Lizard, but misses with his thrust.
Brandark doesn't miss. The Dwarf Cavalier splatters the tenth lizard.
The ninth lizard sends a wave of non-lethal electricity toward Kaven.
But the nimble Black Arrow was able to evade any damage from the lizard.
Round Five
Kaven's thrust doesn't miss this time. The lizard falls unconscious.
With all the lizards down, the party finishes the lethal lizards off.
The other three lizards scurry away.
There is still a cloud of noxious fumes in the cave.
My thanks Stone.
Brandark kicks one of the little lizards into the cloud.
These little things hurt.
The party waits to let the Stinking Cloud dissipate.
Seems as good as way as any
Brandark cleans off his axe, and then he leads off towards the north, while keeping a better eye out.
Taking a stock of spells left Electra sighs. "After this is over I need a day or three to scribe more scrolls!"
The party moves up the northward tunnel to an impressive sight. A deep ravine stretches across a large cavern, splitting the room in half. Geodes and veins of glittering minerals shimmer along the walls of the chasm, which drops away into the dark. A ten-foot-wide wooden bridge spans the gulf.
if impressed by the beauty, Flynn refuses to show it aside from quickly looking around before turning his attention towards the wooden bridge. We should i do what we can to inspect it's safety before crossing, better safe than sorry.
We have enough rope to make the inspector safe. Garrath hands a rope end to Flynn.
Brandark grins as Garrath passes the rope over.
Aye, trust us, we will not let you fall
Flynn ties the rope around himself, Assuming nothing goes wrong, follow after me one at a time. no need to tempt fate.
Flynn begins steadily making his way across the bridge.
Flynn moves to just before the middle of the bridge and notices that it is not stable. Flynn determines that if more than one attempts to cross at a time it will likely collapse, sending anyone on the bridge into the deep chasm below.
Flynn thinks he may be able to repair the bridge.
i was right, bridge is unstable, might be able to fix it, gimme a minute. Crossing one at a time, would solve the problem all the same end.
Flynn was unable to repair the bridge, but he was able to determine that as long as only one crossed at a time it should hold. The party ropes themselves together as an additional caution. The party crosses the treacherous bridge.
Flynn carefully leads the party into the dark tunnels beyond. After about 100 feet the tunnel divides to the north and east. Flynn looks to the north and sees that it comes to an end into a cavern. Looking into this area he sees that the walls of this fairly dry cavern contain twenty seven-foot-wide, two-foot-high niches, in each of which rests the ancient body of a long-dead humanoid. The skeletons bear ceremonial armor and weapons. One of the bodies has been pulled from its niche and lies in a jumble on the ground.
I wonder about those.
Brand ark slings his axe and pulls out his Warhammer as he approaches them.
Forgive our trespasses, ancients, we mean no harm or disrespect Garrath moves quietly through the area, staying respectfully as far away from the skeletons as he can.
Appearing.... Well, not really appearing.... An entity suddenly attacks Garrath. You can hear..... Well, not really hear.... Sense an angry terrible feeling.
Round One
This is new to Elektra.
Brandark swiftly pulls a potion out of his sash and breaks it on his Warhammer as he seems this unknown thing attacking his friend.
By the gods what is this thing.
Vale senses the danger and moves into the room. He sees the ghostly form. He recognizes the ghostly garbs, "It's the ghost of a Black Arrow! I don't recognize him. And I don't know why he is attacking" Vale hacks at the incorporeal creature with both of his trusty axes.
Kaven moves in behind Vale.
Looking at the undead abomination Elektra quickly casts haste.
is it intelligent enough to bargained with Stone? Does it even want to? Flynn draws his bow cautiously.
Garrath turns on the thing and attempts to cleave it with his greatsword, letting out a bestial roar.
Not taking any chances... Flynn knocks an arrow, mutters a prayer and fires.
A ghostly apparition appears and attack Garrath.
As Stone tries to communicate with the spirit, Garrath hacks into the apparition with his Furious Greatsword.
Flynn follows up with a pair of bane induced bow shots. The first of the bow shots strikes the apparition.
With a scream and a cry, "Curse you all! I will not get my revenge," the Specter is destroyed.
When the crypt is examined you will find only ceremonial armor on the remains of the Black Arrows.
Vale will look surprised.
Kaven will comment, "So this is where all the old Black Arrows are buried. We bury our dead on the top of the ridge overlooking the fort these days. Maybe this ghost is why they abandoned burying the dead down here."
One of the skeletons is lying on the floor of the crypt. All the other skeletons in the crypt are in their niche. All the skeletons wear a type of thin ornamental armor. There is nothing of any real value. There is also nothing that can be determined by the contents as to what happened to create a Specter.
Vale will look at Garrath noticing the weakness the Specter has caused, "Let's move back and camp near the waterfall."
The body is to decomposed, too damaged. otherwise i would be able to get those answers for you. Flynn says simply looking around.
Well, I don't propose that this body be left in this state.
Brandark puts the potion back in his sash, and walks over with the intent to place the skeleton back in the niche.
He then looks at the body, Although I do not know you, I will not see this kind of disrespect.
A spell that's all, it allows me to awaken the soul of the deceased to answer a question or two. After that they go back to rest as if nothing happened, the corpse needs to be in tact and whole for it to work though. The worse condition the body, the less the spell works. Flynn explains, giving those that wish it time to say their prayers.
It is difficult for Stone to determine which skeleton is the best. One would be as good as another.
Pondering the Situation for a Moment Felicitas shrugs. "I have a Feeling those are the wrong candidates. For a spectre to form, there must be strong emotions like hate or loss. I doubt one of those is a good one! And we would Need a huge amount of luck to find one, that knows anything."
Honestly, i'm not sure i only have a basic understanding of how it works... He pauses briefly thinking of the correct words before proceeding, It's something i saw a former ally used a couple times, figured it could come in handy. I could give it a shot if you want, keep in mind we only get a few questions so we need to plan out what to ask.