Kelvin, where did you sell that little bauble to. You know, the one that looks like Elektra's new toy Brandark waves his hand in the direction of the Ranseur.
Kelvin replies to Brandark about the shop that he has been selling the gems and small jewelry items at.
As he heads down the stairs of the Inn, and finds Shalelu in the kitchen with Ameiko, "Morning ladies. Where is the some spring water and food?" Once Ameiko points out, Kelvin will help himself, sit down and break his fast with whomever is there.
"Well gang. Which door do we go thru first? The eastern one at the end of the hall or the northern one?" He then goes to the door that the group decides on and listens, checks for traps and if none, steps back to let Brandark or Garrath open and go thru first.
Garrath blearily makes his way downstairs, and gathers both Ameiko and Shalelu into a big bear hug, mumbles "Mrrninnng" and proceeds to the group's table half awake.
Calene rushes down the stairs, taking two at a time. About five steps from the bottom, she jumps the rest of the way. "Morning!" she calls cheerily. "What are the plans for today?"
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Calene lets out a low whistle as she is led into the area beneath the Glassworks. Her eyes flit about, trying to take everything in. "This is a bit different than most glass-making buildings I have seen," she says, nodding sagely.
The priestess pulls out a coin from her coin bag and flips it. "My vote is for the east," she says, noting the fall of the coin.
Brandark goes through his morning routine, then comes in for breakfast in time to see Garrath give the ladies a bearhug with a grin, Morning all so what is up for breakfast.
After breakfast, down in the glassworks he then goes and pulls the spike out of the eastern door.
Ready when you are
Garrath shrugs, "North door is closer"
Garrath, the way this is feeling, we will probably end up meeting up with the north door.
With that, he removes the spike from the north door as well.
Father, I think the mayor would kill us if you got hurt, so please return to the surface.
Sighing Elektra joins the discussion."I do not care wich one is closer, but we asked Calena to join us. Let us be polite. She thinks west and honestly one door is as good as the other. Show us your gentleman manners before you show her your more destructive, but for sure not less... useful side."
"Thank you. I will be up in the Glassworks if needed," Padre Zantus will depart. The other two guards will stay around the statue.
The party will climb the tiered narrow staircase that curiously ascends upwards to a door. As Kelvin checks the East door, he can barely make out what sounds like water casually rippling in a pool. He does not find a trap.
Brandark will open the door.
Beyond the door, you see a small skull lined pool with water rippling within.
Suddenly a loud shriek can then be heard. A creature that looks like a disembodied head of some fiend with wings like a bat hangs upon the wall, behind the pool, and to the left of a corridor that continues ascending beyond. It mouth is wide open.
Round One
"Thank you, Lady Elektra," Calene says as the group proceeds through the underground. "I do not mean to cause a stir, but I have a good feeling about the eastern door. Perhaps we shaaaAAAAAAAAAA!" The taldane woman is interrupted by a loud shriek, and promptly responds in harmony with a shrill cry of surprise and fear.
Putting her weapon between her and the beast she readies a acid splash.
Brandark winces with the shriek You damned thing, I still have a headache!! I need you to shut up!! he yells. He then moves in to attack
Brandark grasps his axe in 2 hands and attempts to silence the low flying critter.
Brandark pulls his sling out, and attempts to hit it
Only to have the bullet fly off in a random direction.
The creature with a grotesque head larger than a humans and about a three foot wingspan, misses whoever is its prey. The shrieking thankfully stops.
Shalelu looking up the ascending corridor can see the winged creature. The shrieking alone was enough to determine this thing needs to die. She take careful aim with her bow through the crowd.
Shalelu will put an arrow in it if it survives Garrath.
Kelvin puts his hands to his ears quickly, but the noise just goes right to his head. "Argh!" Shaking it off, he shoots an arrow at the creature and misses
Garrath winces at the shriek, and then lets out a bestial roar in challenge back at the flying head, "I can do better!" He rushes forward, sinews standing out on his limbs, and takes a swing with his falchion
bab+rage+reckless abandon+power attack
Calene rears back her head and utters a furious battle cry: "Ew, ew, killitkillitkillit!" Despite her less-than-heroic words, she nevertheless infuses them with the smallest fraction of Cayden's might.
Garrath advances and plunges his Falchion into the disembodied flying head. Shalelu gets an arrow in. The creature tries to bite Garrath, but Garrath maneuvers around it. Elektra's acid attack misses. But Brandark's Axe cleaves into it. The fiendish looking thing falls dead to the floor. Kelvin doesn't even need to let loose his arrow. Calene was inspiring. Shalelu looks at our new compatriot quizzically.
Grinning and shaking his head at Calene's antics, Garrath, remind me not to drink so much in the evening. as Brandark cleans his axe head.
Elektra, any idea what this thing was? He then stands aside so Kelvin can look at the door, and Elektra can look at the critter.
"Nice and quick. Good work. Now let's look at this door" as he listens at the door and then checks it for traps.
Well, it is not like anything beyond that door, probably did not hear that shriek. Brandark mentions with a frown. I fear that things might get worse
The doors are open all the way up the East corridor to a spiraling set of stairs heading up.
Before we go up, I think we should check that door to the north of the statue. Then we can let those poor guards go.
Explaining all she knows about the slain monster Elektra looks quizzingly to the stairs up.
"We are below the Glassworks, are we not?" Calene asks. "Perhaps this is simply another entrance or exit? But I agree with checking the statue-door first."
Brandark will be able to convey to Calene that the trek to this point would put us beyond the boundaries of the Glassworks to the North.
Let us check the other door.
"Door to the north it is then" quips Kelvin, and he heads back down the hall to listen at the door, then check it for traps.If he hears something, he will tell the group, and if he does not find any traps, "Brandark, Garrath, if you would open please", and then he moves away from the door.
On the way back to the other door.
Brandark takes a second to tap in a spike (lightly) in the first door (K19).
Calene, we have travelled to far to be under the glassworks.
At the door
Brandark opens the door, and steps through.
Garrath steps through with Brandark, grinning back at Calene, "Try to not scream like a little girl if something attacks us this time. You'll alert everything else around." He chuckles as he moves.
Kelvin will hear movement of something beyond the Northern door. But when Brandark opens the door he does not see any creatures. However what you see is a large chamber that was obviously once a prison, as testified by the twenty cells that line the room’s perimeter. A rickety wooden platform overlooks the room, with two flights of stairs descending to the prison floor ten feet below. A five-foot-wide wooden walkway runs from the northern edge of the platform to a passageway to the east.
I am not liking the looks of this, Kelvin, can you determine if the walkway is strong enough for us?
With that, Brandark walks to F6 to keep an eye out.
The wood for the platform must be ancient, but it seems solid and stable. That alone is a curiosity.
"I did not scream like a little girl!" Calene retorts. "I screamed like a full-grown woman who encountered a flying skull fiend. Besides, it screamed like a little girl first."
Brandark grasps his axe in a 2 handed grip, and proceeds down to the base of the stairs, then readies an attack against the first ugly to come near him.
Ware the uglies
Str, BAB, Higher Ground, Power Attack
"They should 'ware us," Calene says in a crystal voice. Once again, her speech is accompanied with a soft thrum of invigorating energy. She steps forward to stand behind Brandark, rapier at the ready.
Garrath nods to Brandark and heads down the other stairway, wary of any Uglies reaching through the stairs, and readies an attack at the base of the stairs. "The Uglies will not flank us."
Shooting at an ugly that looks wounded, Kelvin hopes to finish one off.