Relieved to be leaving this room he follows the others. He continues to look behind them every now and then as the group heads down the southern passage.
The group heads south. Beltin moves ahead trying to be quiet and stick to the shadows. He has the goal of actually surprising a creature in this dungeon, something he has been unable to do as of yet.
The passage eventually leads to a large chamber ahead. You can hear water off in the distance.
"Even I can hear water down that way. It might be worth investigating. Maybe that's a way out of here. It'd be nice to be able to have a ready exit in and out of here so we don't have to deal with the poop monster again."
The dwarf again offered his arcane scroll to one of the arcane casters. "Is someone going to take this or not?"
"Not that I can see it yet, but I hear it as well. Hopefully beltin can swim."
The group continues south.
Beltin moved to the water.
"I am a poor swimmer. Let's see where it heads."
The passage opens into a large cavern. Rats are everywhere! A shrill female voice is heard from inside the cavern, crying for help. A stream runs through the room.
"Oy, someone in need of help... we have to investigate!"
"Funny there'd be something other than rats alive in here!"
"Oh well, I'm feeling a bit better now."
"Let's have a look."
As the rest of the party heads into the cavernous cave Daal follows. At Wdrozgrúk's comment he stop and pauses.
"Let's hurry who knows who might have gotten trapped down here. At least it won't be that crea ture from before."
Daal moves ahead as far as the light will allow in hopes of aiding the distressed voice his bardiche ready to slash down whatever rats are waiting for him.
"Faster friends! Surely this is not a trap!"
They continue south towards the crying voice.
A half-elf female in tattered and bloody robes flees towards a passageway to the west.
Init
Daal looks at the dog sized rats and searches for the screaming voice. With no delay he moves past Dolgrin and Beltin closing the gap to the nest of rats.
Cutting down with his magical bardiche he hacks the rat in two pieces.
Moving forward Mitleid fires an arrow on the nearest rat.
Kaz double moves into the room, drawing his hammer as he does go. "Go get'em boys!"
Irenicus tosses a force missle at a rat.
"For Note! For the line of Bright Laughter!
Dolgrin wades merrily into the fray, his greatsword shining.
Beltin throws a dagger at a rat careful to stay back and let the others engage for now.
Waiting in Gruk
Wdrozgrúk will run in off to the side of the pack of rates and let loose a Burning Hands spell. The 15 ft AoE should hit the four rats behind the first row.
Then he shouts:
The rat runs out the passage to the west over a low wall. A large pile of rubble blocks access to the passage.
"Well, let's go get them! They know we are here and will keep
Picking at us if we don't!". The dwarf goes after them on his turn.
"Vermin are like that. Better to be done with them than leave a few behind, I agree."
Dolgrin follows Kaztor.
Before giving chase after the rats he looks around for the source of the voice.
You will need to crawl over the rubble (DC5) to continue to the passage beyond.
Wdrozgrúk will move up beside Kaztor and try to see if he can spot the rat that scampered over the rubble … and will then launch a Snapdragon Firework spell at it.
Partly to try and kill it, but also to use the light from the spell to light up the area beyond the rubble for a moment.
Beltin easily scrambles up.
Daal hurries to catch up with the rats and climbs up the rubble.
"I don't what happened to the voice we heard but be wary where these rats take us!"
Wdrozgrúk sighs at the prospect of climbing over anything, but follows Beltin and Daal. All the while muttering about people getting in the way of his spells.
Climb
Once the rubble is negotiated, it can quickly be seen that there are stairs beyond. Past the rubble, the walls and floor are covered with spattering of blood, several broken weapons and marrow-sucked bones.
Daal hesitates. He didn't like the scene before him at all. 'What sort of rats could have done this?' is all that plays in his mind.
"We need to form up again. This doesn't look like the work of a bunch of rats. Let's move cautiously but with purpose. If those rats come back we can deal with them then. I don't want to run up into something like that creature from the latrine.
Any of you with your darksight see any signs of the rats or how far the stairs go down?"
"Move out of the way, then, and let me get a good look!" The dwarf peeks around, trying to see if anything stood out to him. Just to be safe, he also decided to Detect for Magic, not wanting anything to be missed.
No I see nothing
Wdrozgrúk, figuring there's more fighting in store, casts Magic Weapon on his Great Axe .
And tries to see if he can spot anything or anyone more ahead.
Beltin tries to sneak through, alert.