When Tardek mentions bringing down the Tunnels, Flit nods thoughtfully. "Seems like the best idea yes. Do we do this now though, or later? Can we do it now? I do not have anything that could manage it... Bar maybe my head!" He grins, sharply.
"Let's not be too hasty. We know they'll be coming through these tunnels for an attack, and their greatest advantage shall be their numbers. It seems that our most favorable battleground would be here, where their forces are funneled. Still..." Dherisan muses, "If we do wish to collapse these tunnels, I think it would be best to wait for a more opportune moment - such as when goblins are marching through them."
"Friend Dherisan, that is an ingenious idea!" Flitter grins and scratches his head, before loading his crossbow with one of the Cold Iron bolts.
The party moves back down the tunnel, and starts into the first branch
After walking back from the tunnel to the beach Ansruath says "Now to go into the dark." He than starts to move forward when he notices something he than says "Any idea what this pile is?"
"I'm not sure what it is, Ansruath," Alyoma replies. "But it does seem to sparkle like some sort of treasure, doesn't it?"
Alyoma stares at it, trying a Varisian mental trick she had heard about for seeing through illusions.
"Goblin trinkets probably... That or rubbish. Well... It could be both!" Flit grins.
As the party moves forward you can all see the wall to the right open up into a natural pocket of open earth and stone. The dim light from your various sources streams in and you hear a faint scratching, and heavy breathing. Looking in you see a duo of hairless humanoids on backward bent legs, resembling those of a dog. The pallid flesh on their arms end in a pair three-clawed hands, and their hideous faces are split into few fanged mandibles. As you meet eyes, they snarl and hiss and move to attack.
Round 1,Init 13, HP 22/22
Seeing the creature before them Ansruath shakes his head. With that he moves to fight the beasts. Once near them he brings his blade ready to strike. He than swings at the chest to see how agility the beasts are.
Ansruath rushes to close the distance between himself and the creatures.
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Round 1: Initiative 19
Gorgoron moves forward and thrusts his cold iron spear into one of the creatures. "I'll hold my magic till we get an idea of what we're up against."
Round 1, Initiative 6 (+4)
These are like no creatures I've ever encountered," Dherisan confesses as he steps forward, prodding the consciousness of the nearest fresh foe.
Tardek races forward and hurls an incendiary at the strange monsters. 'What are they?'
Round 1, Init 15
Alyoma moves foreward, and readies her crossbow. She peers at the creatures.
"I have no idea what those creatures are," Alyoma confesses, "But they don't look friendly."
Tardek bursts into action, racing into the room and throwing a single devestating bomb. After a blast of heat and an explosive roar, the strange being is charred and wounded, but remains standing, its eyes alight with rage. It convulses a moment later and falls limp as Gorgoron's spear impales its body, finishing off the beast. Alyoma readies her crossbow as Ansruath follows his compatriots in and takes a wild swing, but the remaining vreature dodges the swipe, albeit narrowly.
Round 2 - Initiative 19
Gorgoron pulls his spear from the body of the first monstrosity, and repositions himself for an attack on the second.
Attack
Moving to get closer to the action, Flit grins. "Action at long last..!" Raising his crossbow to his shoulder, he sites down it at one of the creatures, before snapping off a shot.
Flitter darts around the corner and fires a shot from his crossbow, but it unfortunately goes too wide. The stage monstrosity hisses and raises its claws, slashing at the half elven warrior before it.
Dehrisan moves past Flitter and hisses an arcane curse, attempting to lull the creature into a magical slumber, but it blinks its large, bug-eyes twice, but manages to stave off the effects.
Gritting his teeth in anger, Flit begins to reload.
Round 2, Init 13, 16/22
Ansruath grunts as the creature hits him he than moves to swings his blade at the beast's head.
Round 2, Init 15
Alyoma watches carefully as her companions rush foreward to deal with the creatures.
"I don't want to risk accidently hitting them," she thinks, "So I'll keep watch from back here."
She grips her loaded crossbow, and watches the action, glancing up and down the passage to make sure something else isn't sneaking up on them.
A second thrust of Gorgoron's spear stikes home into the strange monstrosity's gut. It gurgles and snarls in fury and anguish, but remains standing. Alyoma turns to keep a sharp eye out for anything that might have heard the comotion of combat, while Ansruath takes another swipe. The creature tries to evade, but takes a grazing swipe to its shoulder, its wounds dripping thick, black and red ichor. With a hiss of rage the creature lunges forward to bite back against Ansruath-
-but stops short, its eyes bulging in pain. Blood leaks from its split jaws as the sharp motion tore its already grievous spear-wound open wider. Thick rivulets of blood flow from the injury as it slumps unconscious and bleeding to the earth.
Ansruath pokes the odd creatures with his blade to make sure they are dead before turning to the group "These are very odd creatures." He than walks over to see what is behind them.
What bizarre creatures,' Tardek exclaims, catching his breath as he moves away from the wall towards the strange corpses. 'How did they get here? What are they?'
He leans down to inspect one of the corpses, opening its mouth and rolling back its eyelids.
Gorgoron cleans off the bloody head of his spear with a rag, and looks back towards everyone else in the group.
"Anyone wounded?"
Hearing Gorgoron speak, Ansruath says "I was hit but it was not to bad."
Grinning, Flit slides the Cold Iron bolt home, straightening his hat on his head. "Well that was damn fun..."
"So far, we have attracted nothing down these passages," Alyoma comments, still keeping an eye out down the tunnel.
Looking back at Ansruath, Alyoma frowns.
"That's no scratch, Ansruath! Doubtless we will need your blade, and such wounds could drag you down. Let yourself be tended now, while there is time to treat such wounds."
Ansruath nods "Very well Miss Alyoma."
After walking behind the duo of strange beings, Ansruath sees the cavern end abruptly there. A small pile of clean picked bones and foul smelling excrement has built up in the corner as though these creatures have been here for some time. Tardek feels that the creatures skin is as rubbery and smooth as it looks, and its eyes are now cold and lifeless and gray.
As he looks to see nothing of importance Ansruath turns to walk back to the others saying "There seems to be nothing that way the cavern stops and it just seems to be where the creatures have lived."
Gorgoron moves up to Ansruath and examines the wound.
"It's not bad, should I heal it now, or would you rather wait till you sport more injuries? If others are injured in the next encounter, I could heal all with the flowing energies given by my Lady.
Gorgoron will listen to Ansruath's prefference, and wither heal him, or not, as he desires. .
"We should search their lair a bit, at the least to see if they guarded anything, or have token's gleaned from prior victims."
"Just heal it now Father." After Gorgoron heals him Ansruath says "I saw some bones of their victims. Anyone have any idea what these strange beasts are?"
A quick but thorough search by Gorgoron reveals nothing more in the chamber past the refuse, bones, and what looks to be the rotting remains of small suits of patchy, leather armor. A few chunks of jagged metal litter the remains as well, but nothing appears to be valuable and no magical auras can be detected within the side cavern.
"There is nothing here; lets move on."
'Shall we take this nearby tunnel? Its awfully narrow, and may be trapped.' Tardek pipes up, as the party moves on once more.
Flit nods in agreement. "Let us just get on with this... I don't like being underground too long..."
"If it is narrow, we will not be able to bring our skills to bear on anything that would block it," Alyoma says. "Besides, it sounds like Master Flit would prefer us to stick to the larger passages."
She pats Flit on the shoulder sympatheticly.
"I suppose that Master Flit and myself can keep an eye out for anything that tries to sneak up on us from behind."
The natural cavern tunnels into a room of old worked stone. The construction looks fine enough, albeit old. The original purpose of this chamber is unclear, but large mounds of rubble lie strewn on its floor, likely from someone recently breaking through the western wall from the tunnel you peer down.
Turning to Gorgoron, Ansruath says "Father do you see the rubble? This may be from the goblins."
Perception + Stonecunning:
"It may be." Gorgoron pauses a few moments to sift through a bit of the rubble, trying to get an idea if anything lies beneath. Unless he finds something he'll suggest,"Lets continue on."
Tardek keeps his eyes peeled, aware that he can see better in the dark than any of his companions.
Perception:
Ansruath nods to Gorgoron and starts to move forward.