Brunar attacks the nearest unattended Giant Rat with his Battle Axe and Shield, "A HAAA!"
Brunar's axe bits deep into one of the giant rats and blood spurts against the other rats and floor.
"DAMNIT RATS! WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT!" Flint all-caps at the beasties, unleashing his magic along with his irritation.
psychic damage.
The squeal of the rodents captures everyone’s attention. Kayne spins around and throws a bolt of eldritch energy at the dog sized menace nearest him and the blast gets between the rats and Kiril, stopping the big man from hitting the rats with his hammer. The bolt of magic sends a rat skittering away, smoke rising from its fur.
Brunar doesn’t hesitate a moment and rushes past Kiril to bring down his hammer on a giant rat’s head killing it in one blow.
Flint begins taunting the rat to his left as he prepares for the battle to come
The nearby rat, chatters and barks at Flint in anger.
Round 1...
Recovering quickly from the parties sudden burst into the room, the rats scurry at them and attack
The rat leaps at the dwarf, biting him on the arm
While the second rat rushes at Flint, who seems distracted as the other rat was rushing at Brunar Pack Tactics - cancels the Disadvantage condition
And bites Flint on the leg
Rat#2 – takes 7 damage (0)
Rat#3 - takes 1 damage (6)
Round 1
Brunar - takes 3 damage
Flint - takes 6 damage
Kiril aims to splat a rat.
ROUND 1
Brunar yells at his fury aggressor, "YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME YOU DIRTY PIECE OF FURY FILTH?! HERE YA GO!"
Brunar launches an all out assault on the rat with his battle axe, "GERRRR"
But the angered rat is too quick for Brunar and easily dodges his axe this time.
Kayne follows up his magical assault with a lunge from his rapier, attempting to skewer the rodent that's harrying Brunar.
"Accursed beast! Flint, you're their size--pick on them!"
Flint draws his rapier, replying to Kayne with indignance. "What?! I'm not that tiny! They're rats! Bad rat!" he concludes, stabbing at the little beasty up on him, which is actually probably his size.
piercing
Round 1…
Kiril brings the maul down on a rat, crushing it into a bloody mangled mess
Brunar chases after another rat as it tries to scurry around the room looking for easier prey
Kayne sends another magical blast through the open doors and obliterates the rate in front of Flint just as his rapier is about to stab the rodent’s muzzle
With only one giant rat remaining, the party has the advantage
Rat #1 – takes 5 damage (2)
Rat#2 – takes 7 damage (0)
Rat#3 - takes 1 damage (6)
Round 1
Brunar - takes 3 damage
Flint - takes 6 damage
Rat #4 – smashed by Kiril
Rat #3 – you head asplode
Giant Rats | 4 Giant Rats, AC 12, HD 2d6 (7 hp each), Attack +4 (d4+2)
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Brunar catches up with the rat he was chasing and swipes at it, "HIDIN' AIN'T SAVIN' YOU! COME HERE AND FIGHT LIKE A RAT!"
He makes contact with the last rat, cutting it in half.
With the last rat dispatched, the party looks around the room, calling for Sandy to bring up the light.
She approaches the doors holding her staff high, illuminating the room
There are several piles of rat droppings in the southwest corner, while at the northwest corner there appears to be several large nests. Scattered around the nests are many small, gnawed bones.
"Hey, hey!" Flint says, snapping his fingers to get Kayne's attention once again. "Up there! Anything?" he points at the ceiling where the warlock was earlier exploring before the rats came and distracted him.
Flint goes back to the first room, and stands near the fire pit, pointing at the ceiling as he calls for Kayne's attention
Kiril butchers a couple pounds of meat from the slain rats with a handaxe, for later.
Brunar shows a face of disgust as Kiril butchers and plans to save the meat for later, "Excuse me, I think I will see what Flint and Kayne are up to."
Brunar walks into the first room with Flint and Kayne, "Anythin' I can help with while Kiril butchers rat meat which is not to me likin'?"
"Hmm? Oh, yes. Of course." Kayne wipes his sword clean and sheathes it, moving back to investigate with Flint's... helpful eye.
Sandy, Kristyd, and Gwendolyn gather near to where Flint and Kayne are staring up at the ceiling.
What are we looking at?
I 'm not sure
I think it's only something wizards can see.
After a long moment, Kayne bobs his head up and down, with confidence
Kayne stares at the ceiling for a short time, ignoring the comments from the peanut gallery, and finally nods. "Indeed, Sandy. A rudimentary enchantment, nothing special, but beyond the perception of the mundane. You're fortunate to have me along to spot such a clue." He turns to regard the others. "It assists with preventing hazardous poisons and blinding substances from working their ills on the room."
"Aye, any shiny s#&% in the rat's nest?" Since Flint took offense for a minor short joke, he turns his attention to Kiril, " ... Kiril?"
Kiril calls out from the other room, searching the rat nests, "So full of s@+&!" and laughs.
It's not clear whether he was referring to the rat nests, or Kayne.
Brunar laughs at Kiril's humor.
As Kayne explains away his mystical insights to Sandy and the others, Kiril takes a look at the rat nests. He gets a feeling that it would be a waste of time to search them all, and is drawn to a nest that seems to be not the largest or the smallest.
In this nest, Kiril finds something of interest
As the group mills about, Flint suggests heading back to the other end of the dungeon, and the corridor to the left, or what should be the west.
Kiril gives Brunar two of the three gold coins and pockets the rest, then stands and rejoins the others.
"Moving back to search elsewhere sounds fair enough. I think we've found everything of interest here." Kayne takes hold of Alighieri's reins and gestures. "Please, after you."
Brunar graciously receives the gold from Kiril, then holds his hand up in a fist, "Aye, thank you Kiril!" Then puts away the gold.
Brunar then looks at Kayne and nods.
After staring at the extended fist for a moment, Kiril grasps Brunar's forearm and gives it a good shake, then walks off muttering, "Dwarves..."
Kiril heads for the other end of the dungeon and any unopened doors to kick in.
After Kiril grasps Brunar's formarm, Flint walks past and bumps Brunar's still held out fist, before exiting into the hallway.
"Hey, we still kickin' in doors? This is a lot more fun then it was with those elves that vanished the other day." Flint waggles his eyebrows at Brunar menacingly, still telling scary stories as the group walks. He waggles his eyebrows menacingly at the dwarf women, too.
"They were so careful, so cautious. Lot of good it did 'em too."
Not expecting his forearm being shaked nor his fist being bumped, Brunar shakes his head and mumbles, "Non-Dwarves!"
Brunar smiles, "Aye, kick in them doors Flint! I am ready! Let's show them purty dressed fairies a thing or two!"
Brunar holds his axe at the ready.
Kiril leads the troop an a quick march back down the central passageway of this level, and when he reaches the massive double doors in the center of the north wall, he pauses for a moment, points to left and then to the right, and then to the left again, as he reacquaints himself with his journey, and then turns to the left, headed for a set of double doors in the southern wall of the western passageway.
A quick boot to the doors, right where the come together forces them open. Beyond these doors is nothing but an empty room and a bare stone floor.
Dissatisfied with these results, Kirlil immediately proceeds further west, to another set of doors in the north wall. He places his foot against the place where the doors come together and gives a stout push. The doors only move a few inches and stop.
Peering cautiously through the partially open doors, you can see the area beyond is choked with thick spider webs. The webs are not small, and it is clear that the spider that made them must be of monstrous proportions.
"Ahg disgusting, it's full of giant webbing. Can we burn it out?" Kiril looks around for a torch to use.
Sandy steps forward holding aloft her staff, shining the light from the top of the staff high and over Kiril's head, she makes a sound, and then says
Those are not normal spider webs. They look huge, and wet, I'm not even sure they will burn, and if they will how big of a fire we might be starting. Not to mention making a lot of smoke, and maybe alerting the giant spider or spiders beyond here to our presence. Maybe we should try hacking them away and sneaking in.
Well, let's not just stand here. Come on, push those doors open and let's see what's making these webs.
"Yeah alright, fine. Give me some space, I'll get it open," Kiril slings his maul onto his back and braces both hands on the door, the muscles in his back and shoulders flexing as he pushes against the door in an impressive display of strength.
Muscles tighten on Kiril's back as he forces the doors open against the massive, entangled, webs.
Sandy holds up her light as high as she can, just near the doors, and in the faint scattered shadows in the distance you can see another set of doors on the far wall of this room.
On the floor there are three mysterious "bundles" objects about the size of a goblin wrapped in thick webs.
The webs become thicker toward the northeast corner of the room and the light does not penetrate into the darkness there.
The room itself is about forty feet square in dimensions.
When no one else steps up, Kiril takes out his halberd and starts hacking away methodically to clear a path into the room, exploring for anything to kill or loot.
Kiril hacks straight north to E/-8 (looks like e squares of webbing?).
Then he starts hacking away at the dark thick webbing in the corner, seeing if he can kill any spiders in there.