This is the gnoll den, under one of the flagstones in the room they keep a somewhat larger treasure; a small wooden box containing five 100 gp gems (sapphires).
finding the loose flagstone Elathras moves it finding nice wooden box, "He look Gruk a box, would you like to look at it?" as he walks past Gruk he hands the box to him and then proceeds to the only door on the western side. He carefully checks the door for locks and traps, listening for a moment to make sure there is nothing on the other side, he then opens the door.
opening the door and finding a hallway Elathras turns to Gruk and says, "This looks like the hall we were in, shall we go north to make sure?" turning right out of the door, Elathras follows the hall.
after reorienting himself to the location of the hallway, Elathras leads the team south down the hallway, past a couple of bends until they reach a door on the west wall, stopping at the door Elathras smiles and says "Look Gruk another door!" He inspects the door for locks and traps, and then he opens the door.
The western alcove in this room is filled with a large stone statue of a man in armor riding a dragon. The man’s helmet (or possibly his head; it isn’t clear) is in the shape of a demonic-looking mountain goat with large curved horns. He carries a heavy mace in his left hand, and bears a shield with the device of a bat. There is a large, oval-shaped pool of water directly in front of the statue, apparently intended as a reflecting pool. The water in the pool is green and stagnant, covered in algae.
"Funny. A statue underground where none should be able to see it. I don't trust it!"
Elathras nods his head in agreement with Gruk "Do you think it's on of those gargling creatures?" as he reaches out his Lucerne hammer and pokes it with the tip.
Beltin gets an alkali flask in each hand and hands a third to the monk archer.
He tosses one at the pool. The basic solution explodes with a smell like ammonia on the surface. He proudly claims: "Made these myself!!"
With that the bat on the shield animates and flies to attack Elathras
watching the bat on the shield come to life, "That's not a gnoll shield, they don't do that" Elathras drops his torch and grasps the hammer in both hands.
Kaz
seeing the bat fly overhead Elathras yells back
Beltin moves up and slices at the bat with his new magic dagger.
On his turn, irenicus shoots the bat with three missle of force.
Gruk will pull his falchion and go after the bat
The bat goes after Elathras again
Elathras watches the bat hover about, getting fairly frustrated he begins to rage, "Stop flitting and stay still so I can hit you!" and swing at it with the hammer.
Kaz will ready an action to bash the bat if it attacks me. If it isn't close, Kaz will move his 20' then ready his action.
Readied attack
Damage
Mitleid moves in, but without clear line he is hesitant to shoot.
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Elathras points at the flying stone bat, calling out "Shoot it Mitleid! Shoot it!"
"Can´t lad I might hit your head instead! If you all drop down..."
Beltin moves under it to the alcove, tumbling in a roll to avoid it.
Not the most graceful dive, Beltin tries to attack a vulnerable spot flanking with the sorcerer.
Elathras ducks below the flying stone bat causing his scarf to drop"Stop trying to bite me!" pulling the scarf up over his ruined nose and angrily swings his hammer at the bat again.
If it survives, Irenicus launches another volley.
Seeing the stone bat fall to the ground, Elathras slumps a little from the fatigue of rage, going over he kicks the stone bat carcass, "Stupid bat" looking carefully at the rubble of the bat, he then takes a closer look at the statue and then a closer look at the pond.
noticing the bat parts slowly reassembling, elathras kicks them apart again and then helps gather up the money in the pool, holding up the tooth and the old boot he asks, "Does anyone want these?"
holding the boot up so everyone can see, Elathras notices that there is odd stitching on the boot. "Hey Gruk, look, odd stitching on the boot" dropping the tooth back into the pool, Elathras takes his knife out and carefully cuts through the stitching to see what is sewn into the heel of the boot.
Within it is a 100 GP gem.
admiring the gem Elathras places it in his pouch, heading on out of the room he turns south again, torch and hammer in hand and walks down to the next intersection looking to the east into the hall and then looking to the south and the stairway.
not wanting to go back upstairs, Elathras follows the hall east then south keeping a keen eye out. "Lets stay downstairs, ok Gruk?"
To the south is a stairwell up. To the east is a hallway that turns south.
As Elathras gets to where the hall turns south a portcullis drops in the hall behind him.
In the center of the portcullis a demonic looking face has been fashioned onto a disk of metal; when the portcullis falls, the face issues a deep, amused chuckle before falling silent.