Kwiazy and Xakroo send projectiles flying at the creatures, but only Kwiazy's bullet hits, slightly damaging one of the creatures.
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Kwiazy aims another sling bullet at the same target... "come down and fight, coward!"
Hearing the fighting start she scrambles up the passageway, spear in hand, and crouches by the wall just outside that opening.
"Get rid of these cave thingies
Let them know the wrath of the small!"
Use action to inspire courage.
Jarvak also fires an arrow at the fishers.
Dammit all! Xakroo hisses, firing more arrows at a cave fisher.
Xakroo and Kwiazy hit the injured cave fisher even more. It looks very badly hurt at this point. Jarvak's arrow sails past the fisher.
Yewleaf takes out his sling and sends a bullet flying towards the cave fisher.
His bullet falls into the water.
The cave fishers send a filament flying towards Xakroo and Kwiazy.
A filament sticks to Xakroo, but the one aimed at Kwiazy hits the cave wall behind him. The creature who has Xakroo grabbed in a filament tries to pull him closer.
Xakroo finds himself pulled nearer to the edge of the water.
Entire party is now up.
Kwiazy seems torn between two choices, but finally, sling hanging limp in his off-hand, he pulls out his blade and cuts at the filament holding Xakroo.
Kwiazy cuts the filament, freeing Xakroo.
Jarvak fires at the injured cave fisher.
"No pull friends!" he says.
Xakroo scurries away, the fires another arrow at the cave fisher that tried to drag him away.
Jarvak's arrow misses, but Xakroo brings down the first cave fisher.
Now waiting on Jynnjun, Yewleaf, and Morgryn.
Jynnjun moves forward and unleashes a hail of magic missiles from her jury-rigged wand at the nearest cave fisher. "Eat cold magic death, bug!"
Jynnjun's missiles slam into the remaining giant bug. Yewleaf and Morgryn send missiles from their slings.
The cave fisher crawls along the ceiling and drops down almost on top of Xakroo, attacking him with a claw.
nope.
Entire party is up.
"Get off him, you.. you icky beast!" Jarvak yells, as he continues strumming his inspiring song.
He casts daze on the cave fisher.
Jynnjun hastily puts her smoking wand away and throws a ray of frost at the cave fisher.
... which splashes harmlessly over the cavern floor.
Kwiazy slips into flank before realizing that Xakroo probably doesn't threaten with his bow..
Jarvak, your character would know that daze wouldn't work, so you may choose a different action.
Jarvak tries to shoot the cave fisher without injuring Xakroo.
Xakroo hisses at the cave fisher, pulling out his shortsword and swinging at it.
Kwiazy, Xakroo, and Jarvak all damage the remaining crustacean. Jynnjun's spell fizzles onto the floor, unable to reach the giant bug.
Yewleaf approaches the creature and swings at it with each kukri.
And the bug crumples under Yewleaf's assault.
You move on to the next room.
The stench of death and old blood overwhelms the smell
of troglodyte in this chamber. The floor slopes down to the
north wall where a narrow underground stream flows past.
The sound of running water echoes off the low ceiling, and
a burning torch near the stream sends rippling light patterns
dancing off the wall. Racks against the walls hold the carcasses
of forest creatures, some still draining their life’s blood on the
ground, others mere skins left to dry.
"Not the tidiest place I've seen, but it's got potential. Kinda pretty." Jynnjun takes a quick check behind the carcasses in case there's anyone hiding behind them as they go past.
Jarvak enters and scans the room.
"Hope the meat doesn't have the cave fisher eggs..." he says.
Xakroo enters and helps out in scanning the room.
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"If bugs lay eggs in meat, we can burn all meat!... kill eggs!"
You look around carefully, but find nothing else in this room. If Kwiazy can restrain himself with the fire, you find some meat that is fit even for humans to eat, let alone creatures such as goblins and kobolds who are less picky.
You move on to the next room, and find a storage room for food. It contains shelves on most of the walls, and the shelves are covered in herbs, dried mushrooms, and root vegetables.
"This be ready for moving in and makings of food."
You find yourselves in a large chamber. Rough stone steps have been cut at the end of the tunnel, easing the downward passage. Faces loom from the walls, cut from the natural stone in the form of reptilian visages. Their mouths are open, filled with jagged teeth, and their oval eyes lack pupils, making them seem blind. The charred remains of a fire sit within a bowl in the center of the room. You conclude this is a shrine of some sort to the troglodytes who live in these caverns.
Which way, guys?
The air is damp and moist here, but it’s a fresh, cool mist. A
rough crystal globe hangs from the ceiling, candles burning
within it. The light from the globe refracts off the mist in the
room and the crystal growths on the walls, filling the room
with rainbows. A bubbling fountain in the center creates a jet
of clear water that continually drains back into the ground.
You see two brightly colored frogs the size of cats and a troglodyte.
Jarvak will examine the shrine to see if the trogs left anything behind.
When he sees the frogs he starts to hide.
Kwiazy forgets to hide for a moment as he's entranced by the rainbows... "Oooh, shiny!" then he realizes Jarvak is already in hiding and tries to do the same, which might not work since he declared his presence already by talking, but he does the best he can.
"Hey! You wanna surrender?" Jynnjun calls out, "We're these mighty heroes and we've already taken out this shaman of yours and his guys. But we're civilised and all so yeah, surrendering is safe. You up for it?"
Xakroo suddenly comes to his senses and hides with Jarvak and Kwiazy.
The trog runs off deeper into the caves. You hear him yelling something, and think perhaps he is getting help.
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Um... maybe we should hide until smelly come back?" Jarvak says.
"If he comes back, he won't be alone... he's calling for help.. "
Xakroo will aim for the fleeing trog, hoping to hit.
Darting carelessly forward past the frogs, Jynnjun explains to the troglodyte "That isn't how you surrender!" She then follows that up with a blast of swirling colours that outmatch the rainbows for a moment.
Kwiazy's slash decapitates the first frog, which allows Jynnjun to walk past safely. Jarvak continues to hide.
The trog falls down unconscious under the cascade of pretty colors.
The remaining frog gets up close to Kwiazy and tries to bite him
Kwiazy is able to parry off the sharp teeth, and then attacks in return. The frog falls over, dead.
Combat over, what now?
"What we do with smelly thing? eat? or wakey wakey and talk?"
"Better see what the trog was running off to, huh? Or who. Just tie it up for now though, dunno that we've got time for more." Jynnjun whispers to Kwiazy before she slinks off in the direction the troglodyte was going.
Kwiazy sighs and ties up the trog... "It smell bad, but me hungry!"
"Don't eat Trog, Kwiazy. Your stomach will hurt for many moons," Jarvak says.
He searches the trog for anything interesting and then sneaks behind the Kobold.
That's correct, don't eat troglodyte meat; even if well cooked, the chemical that gives off their fowl odors make their meat affect you as if it has rotten untouched for months, Xakroo nods, helping Kwiazy tying up the trog.