Eldan punches a couple of good sized holes in the golem with his rapier.
Round 6: Eldan, Vishanti, Corda, Morgor, Derika, Flesh Golem
She nods as she growls in frustration, she didn't want anyone else to die because of these a$$holes. Screaming in anger she swings her axe at it twice more in two furious arcs. One across it's torso, and the other came back across it's ugly face.
Her eyes filled with rage, she cleaves into the monstrosity before them, but falls short of putting it down.
Round 6: Eldan, Vishanti, Corda, Morgor, Derika, Flesh Golem
Knowing how dangerous the golem was as long as it stands, Vishanti sends another wave of healing out.
With her crossbow loaded, Corda took aim, held her breath, and pulled the trigger.
Corda's bolt scratches the golem, but does little more than that. The golem attacks Eldan again.
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Round 7: Eldan, Vishanti, Corda, Morgor, Derika, Flesh Golem
Eldan lunges forth once more.
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Eldan destroys the golem and all falls silent for a moment before you hear cries coming from outside.
Turning her head towards the cries she says, "Now what?!" She says as she drinks a couple of potions before handing a couple of them to Eldan. Looking at Vishanti she says, "I think this fights just beginning. Here love, take a couple of these potions for me okay and try to stay back." She says before heading to the doors to the outside.
'Okay." Vishanti replies taking the potions and drinking the first of them. Seeing the damage all healed, she stows the second one, before moving back enouch to give Derika and Eldon a decent lead into anything dangerous. Her love most definitely knew what she was talking about.
As Corda reloaded her crossbow and retracted her hair, a solitary tear rolled down her cheek as the battle against that monstrosity reminded her of the time her beloved killed an Minotaur with his bare hands.
Gods do I miss you. She thought. Her hand wandered to her belly. Both of you.
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Noticing that Corda was having some kind of moment she goes to the young woman and grabs her by the shoulders as she shakes her gently. Looking into her eyes she says, "Whatever is going through your head, get rid of it. It will do you no good right now to relive the past. All we have is now, and right now if you don't pull it together you could very well end up dead or worse. We have no idea what we're gonna be getting into once we get out those doors so best to let go of whatever it is right now and get your head on straight before we go out there. Do you understand?" She tries not to sound too rough, but this was a life or death situation and none of them could afford to be distracted right now.
Heading back outside, Derika can see a white line separating the sky. What's more is that she notices the foundation of the warehouse has shifted about an inch. Other than that, she just sees some folk staring at the odd line.
Eldan looks up at the sky. "That doesn't look like a good thing...whatever it is."
She shakes her head, "I don't like it either, but there's very little we can do about that right now. As long as no one is being attacked out here, we need to go back inside and finish searching the area so that we can gather as much information as possible and if there's anyone left breathing in there....I don't want them to be breathing when we leave." Turning she heads back into the building to search it properly.
Going room by room she takes the time to search through everything she can to find some answers so she would have some solid information to give to Renault.
There is nothing of value on the golem.
Sorting quickly through everything she drops a few things that had been taking up space like a few daggers and some feather tokens and takes everything except the weapons and armor.
Going to Corda and Vishanti she hands Vishanti the cloak and Corda the ring, "Here put these on, they might help. Corda can you use any of this fancy magic crap? There's some scrolls in here, but I'm not sure what you can use. I can hold onto the potions for now....but we really need to find one of those bags that holds a lot of stuff." She then gives a quick run down of the scrolls and spell book to see if either of them could actually use any of it.
Beyond the right door, there is a hallway with six doors, three on each side.
Shaking her head she says, "This might take a while. Let's start with the door that no one has come out of yet."
She walks over to the door that was locked and attempts to kick it down.
Slipping on the ring, Corda looked at the 'magic crap' and the scrolls. Looking at the pearl, she said "This'll come in handy." She tucked it away in the bust of her shirt and continued.
Pulling three scrolls, the Witch said, "I can use these, but not really the others. At least not without risk of hurting either me or one of you."
Seeing the book, she picked it up and looked at it carefully. Deciding to keep it, she stowed it away in a sack and hung it from her belt.
Donning the cloak, Vishanti smiles. "I can use the protection scrolls my love, and most likely fathom the others from the looks of them." she says taking the other scrolls. She draws her sickle but hangs back as Derika opens the door.
She nods as she separates out the other stuff that Corda didn't take and gives Vishanti what she asks for. After a moment of thought, she also gives her a potion of CMW as well as one to Eldan just in case. She gives the potion of lesser Restoration to Vishanti as well as a potion of shield of faith to Corda as well as Eldan. She also gives Corda a potion of CLW and four potions of Jump to Eldan. Feeling her pack a bit lighter she sighs, "Well..that's a bit better, but we're still gonna need one of those bags if we can find one. The potions are in case we end up in a dire situation. I didn't want them all in one place either. Just be careful....Eldan, if you want any of this stuff just let us know before we move on." She gives Vishanti's hand a squeeze as she takes a deep breath while they prepare to continue.
Derika breaks down the door and sees a storage room beyond, which is occupied with several crates full of festering body parts and nothing else.
She covers her mouth to try and keep herself from gagging, "Ehh Gods...that's hideous and probably where they were getting their parts for that thing in there. Let's leave this be for now...once we're done here though...I want to burn this place to the ground." She says thoroughly disgusted by what she's seen so far.
Eldan drinks the first two potions Derika gave him before taking the other six.
Leaving that room rather quickly she goes to the door with the hallway on the right and once everyone is ready she signals for them to follow her and Eldan as she keeps an eye out for traps as she heads to the first set of three doors on the left. Being very cautious she checks the first of the three doors on the left for traps and locks.
Derika sees no traps and finds that the door is unlocked.
Bracing herself mentally for whatever they might find she opens the door.
Derika finds a makeshift barracks, but there is no one in the room.
Search the barracks for anything in the way of useful information before moving onto the second door on the left.
Once Derika gives her the all clear that the room is empty, Vishanti steps in, giving the place an overview as well. "I'm all for incinerating this place as well."
She nods, "What worries me is what their ultimate objective was, I mean other than total destruction, and if there are more places like this scattered around town with more vile things like that thing being built as we speak. It's why I'm being so thorough in our search. I need to know if there are anymore of these things lying around anywhere in this city." She says, the anxiety in her voice clearly audible.
Vishanti finds a footlocker stowed beneath one of the beds. It is unlocked.
Dragging the footlocker out from under the bed,the shamaness opens it, taking the chance that a random soldier's footlocker would not have also belonged to a gifted trapsmith
The footlocker contains a pouch filled with forty silver pieces, a half-empty bottle of some sort of liquor, two and a half pieces of chalk and a yellowed piece of paper.
The shamaness picks up the paper, inspecting it for any signs of writing or messages.
The writing on the paper has faded, leaving no traces of names, but it appears to be a simple, old love letter.
Taking the pouch and the chalk, which could be useful, Vishanti puts the paper back into the chest with a sigh. At some point, someone who occupied this place had a loved one, whether that individual was one of the people responsible, or now part of the collection of parts being used for vile purposes was another matter.
There doesn't seem to be anything else in this room.
Derika tries the second door on the left.
The door opens to a restroom.
She closes the door xand tries the last one on the left.
This room appears to be a laboratory of some sort. There are bubbling vials filled with a purplish liquid and the smell is rather unpleasant. A couple of men in the back of the room move closer. "Intruders!"
Initiative:
Round 1: Eldan, Vishanti, Alchemists, Morgor, Corda, Derika
Eldan moves up and drinks the potion of Shield of Faith.
Reaching out to touch Derika's shoulder, Vishanti intones a protective spell, her love's skin toughening to become almost tree like. "Go put them down love." she whispers.