Xakon attacks one of the nearby morlocks who was already injured and it falls dead to the ground.
Sugarsnap enters the room while calling in Truffles and casts a Flaming Sphere on top of the morlock next to Xakon. It successfully dodges out of the way.
Truffles then moves into melee with the two morlocks near Sugarsnap, but fails to gore his target.
Sivantanpisil backs up five feet and skewers the black haired morlock who collapses from its injuries. She then follows up with another hit on the other morlock, but does not cause enough injury to drop it.
The two remaining morlocks continue to press their attacks despite the odds, although neither hits their respective targets of Xakon and Truffles.
Initiative (Rounds 3-4)
Xakon <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
2 Morlocks
Frēodwēn [10 Dmg] <= Up
Mudk <= Up
Sugarsnap/Truffles <= Up
Meanwhile Truffles continues to attack.
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Frēodwēn looks down at the two dead morlocks in front of him, exhales heavily, frowns, and leans against the doorframe.
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The morlock next to Xakon easily dances away from the flaming sphere next to it.
Truffles sticks his tusks into the morlock next to him and the creature dies.
Xakon stabs the remaining morlock twice with his rapier and the enemy falls unconscious at his feet.
Mudk uses Detect Evil on the room, but does not discover any evil on the morlocks. Either they were not evil or too weak to have a discernible taint of evil.
Checking the morlock corpses, you find only their crude clubs.
Examining the room, you see that the smallest pit is filled with stagnant water, while the adjacent pit contains some sort of charred, fleshy mass. The ceiling above this pit is coated with greasy black stains, suggesting it was used to cook or burn things. The largest pit is filled with miscellaneous refuse, although the bottom has rotted into a fetid pool of sludge that is probably at least a few feet deep.
Nothing of value is found outside of the pits.
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Frēodwēn seems lost in thought.
Is it too late once the fighting starts? Was it already us or them?
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After checking the next door for traps and/or sounds, Xakon and friends find nothing and so the halfling opens the door. Ten feet ahead, you see another door. Performing another check of the door and being satisfied when you find nothing, the group proceeds through it into another room.
In the center of this alcove stand the vandalized remains of what is barely recognizable as a statue of bird-headed being with serpents for legs. Long, bronze tubes line an alcove behind the statue. The hallway leading northeast is blocked with rubble, but you easily find another secret tunnel that leads to the north.
You recognize that the statue once depicted the demon lord Abraxas
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Frēodwēn points to the statue. "Abraxas, the demon Lord. Did these Morlocks serve him, or were they the ones that tore down the statue?"
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The northern passage ascends into a dark antechamber covered with plates of brass and porcelain. Its tiled walls have been bashed to splinters and smeared with filth. Most of the rubble has been pushed up along the north wall in small piles. To the west lie the shattered remains of a smaller side room, its walls broken to the foundation. Along the east wall, a wooden door hangs half open.
Standing near the passage is an angry morlock who appears on the verge of attacking!
Initiative (Round 1)
Frēodwēn <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Morlock
Mudk
Sugarsnap/Truffles
Xakon
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As Sugar follows along, passing the smashed statue, I am guessing that the morlocks did this, they don't look like demon followers. don't demon worshipers eat babies? and they had some you ones that were not eaten. of course they may have been fattening them up, but all that fat is probably bad for you.
Sugar's dissertation on demon worshiping then trails off as she contemplates all that new found info.
Sivantanpisil steps through the door and strikes the morlock twice, dropping it unconscious with last strike.
Yet again, the only possession on the morlock is a club.
Searching the room, you discover another secret tunnel in the rubble to the north. Following it down, you move about 20 feet to the north before finding another hatch. Xakon finds no traps nor hears any sounds behind it.
Opening the hatch easily, you find the room above retains its original shape, though the walls are covered with crude pictographic graffiti depicting humanoids committing obscene and violent acts. Piles of rubble form several makeshift bunkers—a defensive barricade facing a single door set into north wall.
Waiting for you near the rubble is an angry morlock with a greatclub who appears on the verge of frenzy.
Initiative (Round 1)
Xakon <= Up
Sugarsnap/Truffles <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Frēodwēn <= Up
Angry Morlock
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Mudk
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Frēodwēn moves into the room, then backs up and gives some encouragement. "Whomever this creature is, it will offer no more resistance than the last big brute we felled."
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Unsure of what's going in the front, Sugarsnap and Truffles remain guarding the back of the line.
Frēodwēn moves swiftly into the room and begins to encourage his allies with inspiring words.
Xakon charges the angry morlock and lands a hit, but it seems to be too battle hardened to be caught flat-footed by a sneak attack.
Sivantanpisil follows Xakon inside and hits the enemy with her longspear.
Undeterred by his injuries, the morlock whistles and two more morlocks come leaping out from behind the rubble, one of which stops to swarm with its angry leader. Both of these enemies turn their clubs against Xakon, but neither can hit him.
The raging morlock then turns his wrath on Xakon and attacks him three times, twice with his greatclub and once with a bite. The two club attacks miss, but he draws blood with his teeth.
Initiative (Rounds 1-2)
Xakon [8 Damage] <= Up
Sugarsnap/Truffles <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Frēodwēn <= Up
Raging Morlock + 2 Morlocks
Mudk <= Up
Effects
Inspire Courage: +2 to rolled attack, damage; +2 to saves vs Fear, Charm.
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"He won't last against our combined strength!" Frēodwēn cheers as he looses a multitude of arrows at the raging leader.
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Frēodwēn's first arrow hits the raging morlock, causing additional injury due to the creature's evil nature. The second and third arrows miss, although the last only barely due to soft cover.
Sivantanpisil teleports to the north, then stabs the raging morlock again. From her position on top of the rubble, she can now see four morlock children cowering behind the rocks on the north side of the room.
Mudk moves in and attacks the raging morlock, but the angry enemy steps out of the way of the blow.
Sugarsnap and Truffles make their way into the room, poised to strike at their next opportunity.
Xakon hits the raging morlock with a critical hit on his first strike, although the second attack and bite both miss.
Perhaps miraculously for him, the black haired morlock manages to tumble into a flank position without provoking an opportunity attack. He still misses Xakon with his club, however.
The other non-raging morlock also attacks Xakon and misses.
The raging morlock focuses his rage on Xakon as well with two greatclub attacks and a bite. None of those attacks hit the halfling either.
The trembling morlock children behind the rubble wall move to the east side perhaps in an attempt to avoid the long reach of Sivantanpisil's longspear.
Initiative (Rounds 2-3)
Xakon [8 Damage] <= Up
Sugarsnap/Truffles <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Frēodwēn <= Up
Raging Morlock + 2 Morlocks
Mudk <= Up
Effects
Inspire Courage: +2 to rolled attack, damage; +2 to saves vs Fear, Charm.
Xakon's first rapier strike misses the raging morlock, but his second sword attack critically hits and the enemy falls dead on the ground. He then bites the reddish morlock that had been swarming with the dead one.
SNORT SNORT SNORT Truffles rushes into combat magically enhanced.
Sugarsnap casts a spell to strengthen Truffles' combat power and the boar uses it to full advantage as he takes out another morlock with his tusks.
Mudk steps over to the remaining morlock and slashes it viciously.
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Frēodwēn focuses his fire on the last remaining Morlock, taking a step back to make space for himself if necessary.
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Frēodwēn kills the remaining morlock with a single arrow.
The raging morlock has two magical potions, a magical greatclub, and a magical pair of bracers. He also has a mundane club. The non-raging morlocks only have clubs on them.
Both potions are Oil of Darkness.
It's a +1 Greatclub.
They are Bracers of Armor +2
The morlock children continue to cower in a corner as they await their fate.
Nothing else of interest is found in the room, but there is a door to the north.
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Mudk stares at the children.
After a bit, he points at the door.
"Go. I apologize for ruining your families but they attacked us. Be free and seek holy suffering for the causes of good. We will not pursue."
He turns to the north door and puts his back to the kids and says to the others, "Shall we put this behind us and move on?"
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Xakon requests two taps from his cure light wand and attempts to identify the potion by smell. He wipes off the morlocks blood from his rapier.
"Agreed. Let's finish our exploration and get back to drinking."
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