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Naiyra says, "Not everything needs to be beaten to death and knocked unconscious. The creature was probably familiar with this place and might have proved useful. Better not put those weapons away, we might stumble upon it's master or mother."
She then walks around examining the rest of the room, after which she moves towards the door commencing her usual examination for traps.
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Blue dragon… why do I feel very weary at the thought of blue dragons…
Focusing away from Mahasi’s comment and back on Naiyra’s figure. Thaurux concern turns to a smile.
A fierce one, this one.
”Agreed not everything is a threat, but not everything is inconspicuous either. Some wild ones hide behind a cute package.”
As Naiyra listens at the door, she clearly hears the handle turn and the door opening!
Two troglodytes are standing on the other side of the doorway, swords in hand. And the STENCH! Ugh!
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Naiyra hears some creatures through the door. As the door open she is assailed by the stench of them. She nearly chokes at the stench but manages to keep it together. Damn the stench of them and they're armed! Not one to take chances with her life, Naiyra ready with her sword in hand, hopes they haven't spotted her yet. She strikes lightning fast at the first creature in the doorway and deftly moves aside not waiting for the creature to retaliate.
Naiyra attemps to take the first Troglodyte by surprise, and delivers a stab that bounces off the Troglodytes tough hide. Moving out of the way just as Mahasi charges in, she sees a spray of colours cast in the way of the creatures. In the heat of the moment, Mahasi takes in a big gulp of air, and almost gags as the foul stench of the monsters finds his nostrils.
Heaving and panting, and almost puking, Mahasi looks up to see his efforts have been for naught.
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Glaive in hand, Thaurux step up to the new challenge and takes stock and smell of his new enemy.
Feeling sick, Thaurux draws from the strange anger within, Thaurux jabs his guisarm between his brave companions: Mahasi the ineffective illusionist and Narya the bold rogue.
Thaurux remains a threat to the second one should he decide to move forward.
आप कर रहे हैं इस जगह में गह में कर आप
The frontmost troglodyte steps back and throws a javelin at the front line, while the back most Tro does the same
Mahasi feels like the destroyer of worlds, as he survives not only a gash by the first javelin, but also the second javelin that he caught on the chest.
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Naiyra watches Sardon do the exact same thing as Mahasi. Atleast he's wearing armour.
"Might I make a suggestion my barave and fierce companions?" says Naiyra in the least patronizing tone she can muster. Humans fighters love being called that right?
Niayra quickly yells out orders hoping the human will listen, "Sardon, move to the side of the door opposite me, you'll have cover from their javelins. Thaurax, I need your might where you are, use your reach, fight defensively, I need you hold that position. They will have no choice but to come through the door and attack." Mahasi, stay back from the fighting, use any spells you know to aid us.
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Thaurux listens only partially to Narya’s instructions. Feeling the sickness but the need to end this quickly, Thaurux lashes out with his glaive with an ounce of restrain.
Again, Thaurux remains a threat to the second one should if he decides to move forward.
"आपके बॉस कौन है? तुम्हारी माँ? मैं अपने नए मालिक हूँ।"
The troglodyte cries out आउच! as Thaurux tears him apart
OUCH!
The troglodyte grabs his club and attacks Sandor
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Thaurux lets his shoulders fall after only a few moments of combat. He appears exhausted by the intensity of the moment and sickened by the stench. He rests his heavy hand on Mahasi’s shoulder. ”Nice magic trick that magic protection, it had me fooled. Now may not be the best time to be drinking however.”
With a सूचक (Draconic: splat), the troglodyte passes on to the great bathtub in the sky.
The troglodytes carry little of value among them, though the next room has quite the armoury in there.
The following items can be picked out :
- Masterwork silver dagger
- Masterwork light steel shield emblazoned with a leaping dolphin
- A banner depicting a bird made of living flame
The band of Phoenix was one of the most famous hunting lodges during the time of the blades. This banner would be worth at least 100gp.
Mahasi goes searches through the items looking for something valuable. He find a silver dagger, and a banner that looks dusty. To him, it seems it might be worth something - should fetch about 80 gold.
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She hands the shield to Sardon, "Hold on to this. You might find some use for it. We can sell it and split the gold once we get out of this place."
Naiyra proceeds to the next room, the one the Troglodytes were originally in, and searches it.
The armoury, besides from being full of rusted swords and bits of armour, contains little more of interest. There's a door to the east, and a door to the southeast.
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“Teach you the ways of the battle? Ha! No my friend, I would not make a very good teacher, I am not the patient kind."
Thaurux turns to Naiyra a bit more concerned.
“We are not alone here. The creatures spoke of bringing us to their boss. It may not be long before these two vile creatures go missing, if we are to proceed we should do so while we have the advantage of surprise, but there may be more of these vile creatures. We can face them in small isolated numbers but a larger group could be dangerous.”
Lizard creatures …
Thaurux rummages through the many rusted items for something usable, but other than the items already found, nothing of use emerges. Nayria, meanwhile, inspects the door and find a trap! The only catch being, it is not targeted at her, but at the room on the other side: a javelin trap is triggered by the door, ready to strike whoever is on the other side.
There's no sound coming from the other side.
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Naiyra says, "The door is trapped, but it's no threat to us. It's meant for anyone coming through to this room. I'm going to try and disarm it so that we don't accidentally stumble into it later."
Naiyra pulls out her thief's tools (masterwork) from her belt and carefully goes to work attempting to disarm the trap.
Naiyra disarms the trap without much effort. Free javelin!
Behind the trapped door, the room is covered in a thin layer of dust.
There are two pairs of reptilian footprints in the dust, leading to the armoury.
Otherwise, this floor is empty. As on the previous floor, the staircase is no longer useable.
Thaurux hangs the immobile bag on the weapon rack.
The third floor of the tower is a bit different from the previous two: the eastern room, of which only a narrow rim is left, is connected to the northernmost room, which is still mostly intact, but dark.
We see our heroes move to the third floor of the fortress. What dangers will they encounter here?
As soon as Sardon strikes a flame, he disturbs something in the northern part of the floor. A warm of bats flies out to encircle the party. Squeek! Eek! The leathery wings are everywhere.