Once Bjorn has done all he can for Elathras, Virgil will spend the rest of his time at the Bristleback Inn, drinking his worries away.
Once the wand and scrolls have been prepared Elathras goes and gets Virgil from the Inn, "Come on Vigil, get your "water skin" filled it's time to go to the fort and check on Dolgrin" After gathering Virgil and the rest of the team, they head to the fortress to check on its progress.
Wdrozgrúk is keen to get back to the castle to see how our wee investment is shaping up.
And to get the shiny new Great Axe he asked Gorbaz to make for him.
The team travels to the castle without issues. They arrive early enough in the evening that Dolgrin and the staff he has hired is able to put on an enjoyable spread of locally harvested goods and venison that Dolgrin himself had hunted. Wdrozgruk was very pleased with his new axe and the team was able to go to bed and rest the entire evening letting Dolgrins guards handle he watch keeping. In the morning the team ate a filling breakfast and prepared to head back to the 'mouth.'
As they exit the castle's front gates Elathras, at the head of the party keeps a keen eye out for trouble.
The party comes across three zombies in the woods on the way back to the Mouth. ROll init.
upon seeing the zombies, Elathras says "Look Virgil, zombies, I hope my nose doesn't rot more I don't have enough to spare" Elathras grasps his hammer in both hands and charging the nearest zombie swings the Lucerne hammer at the undead's head.
Gruffing at his enemys Ulfgards sighs and slings his bow.
"Zombies... undead. Somewhere must be a nest. Did I mention I do not really like undead. If not... I do now!"
Init
Kaz pulls his hammer and moves to attack the closest zombie.
Attack
Damage
Irenicus fires a bolt of energy at the one Elathras hit, if it is not dead, or at another one to soften them up.
Virgil steps out from the group, drawing his bow lightning fast, he fires at two of the zombies.
Wdrozgrúk moves up to the left, diagonally, to Elathras' left and fires a Disrupt Undead spell at the nearest zombie.
DOG
Me thinks he was trying to dot.
As the zombie moves toward Elathras, Elathras brings his hammer around and attacks it, "look Virgil, that one is moving!
Stepping at an angle, away from the zombie, Elathras brings the arc of the hammer full circle and attacks the remaining zombie a second time.
After crushing the last Zombies skull, Elathras quickly checks the corpses for anything of value. Gathering whatever he finds he asks the team "Are we ready to continue Virgil?" Gathering his new hammer Elathras takes the lead with Virgil and continues toward the 'Mouth.'
"Did anyone get hurt? Seems like there's a ton of undead in this place!"
Norwood will meet you at the entrance to the Mouth. Yes, lot's of undead!
Wow! This is a fun place to be in.
Irenicus motions the others to lead the way back whence they came.
Virgil follows his nasally-deprived friend back to the mouth, taking swigs from his "waterskin" all the while.
At the entrance to the dungeon, the ranger sighs: "Back in then? To this... place?"
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained, I suppose," the dwarf grumbles. "We aren't going to find any treasure sitting around here, so let's do it."
"I'm sure that soon enough I'll be getting a chance to try this shiny new axe that Gorbaz made for me!"
"Laddies, the day is not getting better... lets move!"
"Right! Norwood here is probably itching to test his skills here after all we told him about this place in the pub. Aren't you, Norwood?"
Elathras smiles "Now that we are all here at the 'mouth' shall we go on?" Elathras lights his torch and lead the team down the step, through the south door into the corridors leading toward where Wdrozgruk killed the cobra and into the hidden room with the stairs. Going down the stairs and south into he corridor, Elathras turns to the left headed east I don't want to go near the green liquid and tells the team "lets try a different direction this time!" as he goes the new direction he keeps a keen eye out.
Norwood follow behind Elahras searching for traps and hidden doors.
[dice=Perception]1d20 + 9;
Virgil nods along with Grúk as they set off into the mouth. "Just wait, Norwood. Soon you'll be hating this place like the rest of us."
There is a pit trap there.
Virgil claps his hands together and rubs them. "Okay Norwood, looks like your first trap! No pressure though."
The ranger steps to one side, grinning as he twirls one of his mustaches.
Spitting out a glob Mitleid smirks."Show us if you are worth your coins!"
Irenicus looks at the glob, curious and revolted at the same time.
"No pressure, young fella, but show us what you can do!"
Virgil's mustache hangs down in disappointment. The ranger reluctantly congratulates their new rogue: "You did okay, I suppose. Good uh... good work."
Anxious to move along, Virgil grabs Elathras (or at least the torch) and hurriedly heads further in.
Elathras watches as the other half-elf disables the trap, he shrugs his shoulders and follows Virgil up the tunnel waving the torch about making it cast funny shadows, pulling his bandana back over his face when it slips down exposing his nose less face.
"Nice job my man, Norwood! We need someone with deft fingers around here you might keep Ela's nose from falling off again," the dwarf says with a laugh as he claps the newcomer on the back.