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You see the girallon shake its head and look alarmingly at its hands as Cal's spell takes effect.
Grim charges up and strokes the girallon hard with his hammer. The head of the hammer slams hard into the creature's chest and you hear it wheeze and see if cough up blood from the injury.
Marcel, Grim, Ape Creature (-4 attacks, 53), Samuel, Dr. Blote, Cal, Marcel (R2), Grim (R2)
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Marcel charges the blue-eyed girallion. The giant white ape, immediately tries to bite him with its yellow-tinged fangs as he draws near, but Marcel manages to fend off its attack and spears the creature with his rapier in return. Now closer, the swashbuckler can see the burns from Cal's assault are clearly bothering the violent behemoth. He draws back his rapier for another attack and runs the girallion through, dropping it unconscious to the ground in a pool of blood. You can still hear the sounds of someone screaming and sobbing from behind the door where you first saw the beast.
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Calistan moves to aid the girallon, figuring that this beast is only a mindless animal and that his aggression is not evil.
He kneels down near it and waves his hands over the puncture wound near its heart, closing the wound before too much blood seeps out.
Finally, he will reclaim his curse from the beast, removing the violent burns on the creature's arms and the fog from the creature's ears before joining Grimdoc, confused as to where they are going and what the good doctor is talking about.
He taps the dwarf on the shoulder and mimics talking and then gets a quizzical look on his face.
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You see a very frightened woman who has barricaded herself into what looks like a kitchen. She has pushed a stove to block the door and leans up against it. As you watch and Grim speaks you see her gather herself and push the stove away from the door before opening it.
"Pathfinders? You're here to rescue? Just me." She stops speaking for a moment, but you hear a loud scraping sounds as something heavy is pushed out of the way. Seconds later the door opens and a disheveled-looking woman looks out. Her black hair is all askew and her simple clothing is torn and stained. She stumbles out of the building, sniffling and nearly sobbing again. "Th...th...thank you for sav...saving me from that creature. Have...have you seen anyone else...did...did it eat all of them?"
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"Um, now that I gets a better smell, I think I am gonna pass on dinner." Grim looks disappointed and shrugs at Calistan and Dr. Blote.
He digs out an iron ration.
"Say, you seem awfully strong to move such a heavy stove. Have you been eating ok?
This place could use some tidying up. Must have been hard in here all alone.
Mind if we poke about the place to make sure there is nothing else able to sneak in.
Or do you want to come with us? No telling what more we will run into.
This might be safer than some of the other buildings until we check them all."
Grim will poke around a bit more.
Before leaving he will detect evil into the room (including, but not specifically at the woman).
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She nods, "We don't have rich fare, but there is always plenty to eat." Grim's words seem to sink in and she has a look around. "Of course you can look around...but...but how did this happen so quickly. Its only been a few hours." She begins absent-mindedly rubbing her lower back. "If there could be more of those apes around, I suppose I should definitely go with you." She does not detect as evil, nor does anything else in the kitchen.
Looking around, you find it to be a large kitchen, furnished with a pair of stoves (shoved against the doors), preparation areas, hanging cookware, and shelves stocked with enough food supplies to feed the entire population of the colony for several weeks. Perishable foodstuff have all rotted away or been spoiled by insects or small animals. Better preserved food seems to be fine.
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You find nothing suspicious outside and enter the building, followed by Delbina. Inside you find broken plates, forks and spoons. A few wooden mugs lie scattered about the floor around several long trestle tables. You search thoroughly, but find nothing else.
Moving to the next building south (A8), you find that the long building has numerous small, barred windows along its exterior walls and a covered entrance at each end. Again, you find nothing suspicious around the door and move inside. Within, you find that a series of doors line each side of a long central corridor. There are 16 simply furnished 10-foot by 10-foot sleeping chambers. Each one contains a small bed, pegs on the walls for hanging clothes, and a single shelf under the small barred window. Aside from a few personal belongings, there is nothing of value.
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Delbina directs you over to the building (A10) behind the Captain's Quarters (A17). The building is quite the departure from the others you have seen in the compound so far. In contrast to the dreary buildings that seem to fit well with the dreary landscape, this building is bright and cheerily painted. A variety of potted plants sit alongside the building. The door is ajar and when Dr. Blote projects his senses into the building he sees that it must be the home to two or three residents. There is a common room, furnished with a table and four chairs, a bookshelf, and a simple stone fireplace. Two closed doors look like they probably lead to bedrooms. He doesn't see any sign of life in the common room.
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"Pppth, no signs of life, but there are a couple closed doors I cannot see past. We should proceed with utmost caution!"
Narsius looks around, and then at the ground.
"I must admit that the tracker's life is not something I was raised around. My parents were nobility! Still, I had an uncle that went on regular hunts. Can anyone tell if there have been more of those Girallons through here recently?"