The fire seems to have stalled the troll's regeneration.
The beast lashes out at the source of its fear.
Haer Kul is savagely bitten again.
, .
Petronicus dithers about what to do, and Morgrom chops mightily into the Tree Man again. The beast falls to the ground and Haer Kul strikes it with his flaming hand.
Morgrom will heal Higher Kool.
Petronicus also applies a infernal healing to Haer Kul. 10 hp back after 10 rounds.
Haer Kul feels sullied by at least one of those spells.
Haer Kul wrinkles his nose, but says to Petronicus and Morgrom "My gratitude to you both for the healing. That thing, it did not like me much, no? I wonder why." He grins, and extinguishes his flame.
He surveys the room.
Haer Kul will finish searching the fireplace and then suggest the northernmost door on the west. He will listen at the door before the party tries it.
Haer Kul notices that the troll's wounds are once again closing.
"Is anyone carrying oil? or Alchemist's fire? I have a tindertwig. We should burn this thing completely and scatter the ashes."
[While we're looking, perhaps Morgrom can continue to hack the troll to bits, to slow down its recovery..[/ooc]
If there are no other sources of fire, then Haer Kul will burn a recharge innate magic and spend 3 minutes burning the troll carcass.
"A hate trolls. Someain start a fire, A'll keep stompin' oan it. A hae some flint an' steel if someain can fin' some kindlin'."
Haer Kul will search the room and just outside the entrance for kindling. If anyone has a torch, we could use that to burn the troll.
Through perseverance, the group is able to keep the troll unconscious and burn it until it stops healing.
Haer Kul doesn't find anything interesting in the fireplace, nor does he hear anything behind the northern door.
Haer Kul will listen at the southern door
Going back to the northern door, he will check it for traps:
If trapped
If clear, will open the door, but will let Morgrom through first.
If locked: .
Haer Kul hears nothing beyond the south door.
The north door leads to a room containing the remains of three skeletons dressed in rotting leather armour. The room is dusty, but otherwise bare.
Morgrom enters slowly, sword at the ready, wary of the skeletons as he has seen this trick before.
Haer Kul takes a close (yet distant) look at the skeletons as well, from behind Morgrom.
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In an instant, the shattered skeletons do not stand up while bursting into flame!
Haer Kul can see that one of the skeletons clutches a well-made dagger in its hand, while its skull rests on a mouldering leather satchel.
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"Is this a dagger I see before me?" says Bardos out of nowhere.
Morgrom crosses the room to the skeletons and grabs the man purse, er satchel, and tosses it to Haer Kul, the reaches down and grabs the dagger, and turns the handle to Bardos.
Haer Kul will open the satchel, check it for a trap , and then examine the contents .
As Morgrom tosses the satchel, coins fall out of the holes in the bottom and scatter around the room.
After recovering them and combining them with the remainder in the satchel, they total 58 gold and 13 silver. The satchel also contains a potion vial and an onyx statuette of a raven.
Using his craft(alchemy) skill, to identify the potion.
Once we are done here, we will move to the southern door, and, if Morgrom will do the honours again to open the door, Haer Kul will scan that room. .
Morgrom walks over to the door, while holding his great sword in one hand, grasps the door handle. Once he is satisfied everyone is ready, opens the door.
Haer Kul identifies the potion as invisibility.
Beyond the door is an empty room with a large fireplace in one corner and rubble scattered about. A chill breeze comes through broken windows and cracks in the walls, causing an eerie whistle.
There is another door in the north wall.
Haer Kul will move across the floor to the fireplace checking ahead of him with his sword cane. There, he will search the fireplace:
Then he will move to the door in the north wall still probing the floor with the sword cane.
Listen at the door
Check for traps:
If it is clear, he will let Morgrom open it.
Beyond the door is a room that may have once been an armory, judging from the eroded wooden rack on the northeast wall. An open door leads to an empty storage closet, while a set of stairs spirals up and down to the south of the room.
Quietly, Haer Kul says "Silam said he took the villagers downstairs, and I suggest that we head that way as well."
The group makes their way over to the spiral stair. The way up is blocked by the collapsed upper levels, but the way down seems clear. The air is moist.
Bardos takes the dagger.
When they get to the stairwell, Bardos looks up.
"Some sort unpleasant lump on the ceiling, this might get a touch messy."
Haer Kul will examine the mass from a (hopefully) safe distance.
As the group approaches the stairs, a fine mist is emitted from the blob on the ceiling.
Morgrom will avoid the mist if possible and stay out from under it. "How weeze gonna kill it?" The he starts to unpack his crossbow.
As he speaks, Morgrom inhales a bit of the mist into his mouth.
Haer Kul will move back 10', draw and load his sling as well. If you need it:
"Whit is 'at?"
Bardos moves back 10' and loads his sling.
"Suk it blobby thing."
Petronicus tries to remember if he has encountered such creatures in his studies and what immunities and resistances they may have.
However, Boilborns are usually smaller and reddish in colour, not sickly yellow. And they do not usually emit a mist like this creature does.
"Not sure I can hurt it. Fire might work."
Petronicus readies his crossbow and loads it.
The majority of the party scurries away from the creature, leaving Morgrom next to it. A portion of the blob extends towards the half-orc and smacks heavily into him.
Morgrom steps back from the blob and tries to take a shot at it with his crosswbow.
Haer Kul launches a sling bullet at the Blobbo. ,
The bullet strikes the creature, sending ripples through it. However, its tough outer layer prevents it from being damaged.
Thorthal's shot sinks deep into the blob, causing it to ooze pus.
Bardos fires a sling bullet into the pussy blob:
The blob quivers and leaks some more.