Milgen nods at the two unexplored tunnels. "Let's set town guards on this area, it's defensible, and we can come back tomorrow and clean this area out and then collapse the tunnels or fill them in."
Once back at the glassworks factory, Milgen waves to the guards. "Goblins. Tsuto is over here." He drags the unconscious and bound Tsuto out of the closet he'd been secured in. "He was working with the goblins. We need to put him in the jail. This doesn't go to the populace at large. We found a goblin fort on Thistletop. We damaged their bridge for now, should buy us a day or two. We need to start arming the populace. The dwarf needs access to a forge."
"We've already lost two going down there. This is the only way in that we know of so we'll cover it from here."
"We already locked up Tsuto before you left... maybe you should rest for a bit."
Getting the hint, Ferocia frowns. "Looks like we'll have to wait until we rest to investigate the tunnels."
Azalia goes to check on her shop, then gets the most out of her free room and board.
Anneka hurries home, where she quickly sheds her muddied and ripped clothes before her mama sees them. She should have asked Azalia to prestidigitate them, but her mind was in such a shambles after returning to the glassworks...
She doesn't want to tell mama what's happened, even though she knows the rumor mill will be turning by morning. By that time, however, she plans to be out of the house. This, of course, means confiding in her sister Arika, so that she will cover for Anneka in the store. This is an awkward conversation, one where Anneka both has to defend her ability to do anything with her disability, and also neutralize her sister's inevitable jealousy that Anneka should be the "hero" while she continues on as an ordinary baker's daughter. The irony of it all is that Anneka would give almost anything to be "normal" again herself...
Miron goes to his lodgings, bone weary.
Partial success. But tomorrow, we can do more.
Takes off his bloodied clothes, falls into bed, and promptly is asleep.
Early the next morning a letter is delivered to each of you from the Mayor Deverin. She requesting that any of your group who is willing explores the tunnels beneath Sandpoint that ye discovered. Yesterday two deputies went down to try to find your group and have not returned. The mayor is asking for volunteers from your group as you've proven yourselves highly adaptable and capable. She offers fifty gold pieces each for the attempt but if you find it too dangerous to proceed at any point you may stop but she would like to know the fate of the deputies and what exactly the goblins were so interested in down there.
On receipt of the letter, Miron will reply to the messenger.
"Inform the mayor that I accept."
Miron will try to round up any of the slayers he can.
He will swing by the church after receiving the letter to pray, and to receive healing, before heading to the Glassworks.
50 gold from the Mayor on top of a gold per day from the Sheriff for being seen around the town. This hero stuff is pretty good business.
She accedes to the Mayor's request, and meets up with the others, ready to go.
The morning church bell heralds Anneka's arrival at the cemetary. Prone to cycle through the shrines as the mood strikes her, today she takes her morning prayers among the graves. Dressed in a dark cloak with a broad, swooping hood, she must appear a phantom herself, wandering among the headstones and mausoleums.
What did you know? she asks Father Tobyn's now-empty mausoleum. Did you know something about Nualia? Anneka has been giving a great deal of thought to the foster daughter of the priest, who evaded a burning death in the great fire, only to become implicated with goblin raids and the raiding of her own father's tomb.
Perhaps the answers lie in the goblin village, or perhaps they're found below the Glassworks, in the unexplored tunnels where Tsuto had laid his trap...
She returns to the cathedral to find Miron and rejoin the others.
One of the tunnels leads east to a collapse after four hundred feet. The other tunnel wanders for fifty feat before veering north for one hundred feet.
A small cavern is attached to this tunnel and inside there is movement. A hairless humanoid lurches on back-bent, dog-like legs, its hideous mouth flanked by tiny arms with three-fingered hands in which it grips a ranseur. A his elicits it's maw as it prepares to assault your group.
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Drazh was the first person into the room, and it was to his great surprise that he saw the...thing...that was inside there. He couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. Was it undead?
He had fought many an undead creature before, and given where they where he immediately thought of the ghouls he had heard of. While he had never actually fought one, this seemed to be like it? Or maybe an abberation?
Regardless of what it was, he swung with all of his might. It was a clumsy blow, that would only have the chance of hitting a truly surprised opponent.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going." Ferocia tells the messenger. She grumbles as she heads underground, to meet up with the others on the way into the tunnels.
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Seeing the weird creature, Ferocia narrows her eyes.
"What the heck is that?"
Azalia moves up and shoots at the attacking thing.
Azalia moves up and shoots at the attacking thing.
Drazh was the first person into the room, and it was to his great surprise that he saw the...thing...that was inside there. He couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. Was it undead?
He had fought many an undead creature before, and given where they where he immediately thought of the ghouls he had heard of. While he had never actually fought one, this seemed to be like it? Or maybe an abberation?
Regardless of what it was, he swung with all of his might. It was a clumsy blow, that would only have the chance of hitting a truly surprised opponent but the force behind it was powerful enough to shatter the things skull.
Seeing the weird creature, Ferocia narrows her eyes. "What the heck is that?"
This creature is a Sinspawn are corrupted products of magic used by spellcasters in a past era as shock troops for their armies. Literally the embodiment of a sin made flesh, they are sentient abominations of distilled ectoplasm imprinted with the soul-image of slain creatures that possessed an abundance of a particular sin.
Miron walks into the room and around the body.
After a few moments, he replies to Ferocia.
"I have no idea."
He begins to search the creature's...lair?
Inside of the creatures lair ye find the two deputies. They seem to have been viciously killed and then their bodies moved here.
Further down the main tunnel there are two tunnels heading east while the main one continues north.
Miron looks at the bodies with a blank expression.
"At least we have found the deputies. We should retrieve their bodies on our way out and ensure they receive proper funerary rites. I suggest that we head north. It is the larger tunnel, and may be more likely to have importance."
This large chamber was obviously once a prison, as testifed by the twenty cells that line the room’s perimeter. A rickety wooden platform overlooks the room, with two flights of stairs descending to the prison floor ten feet below. A five-foot-wide wooden walkway runs from the northern edge of the platform to a passageway to the east.
Bones lie in each of the cages and two more of the strange creatures with ranseurs stand guard here. The area through which you enter does not appear to be part of the original construction.
Far more alert than the previous one encountered they let out a rage fueled cry and spring forward to attack Drazh with their polearms but the hardy dwarf's breastplate turns aside the attacks.
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Seeing the still standing enemies, Miron drops his spear, readies the bow, and launches an arrow.
Milgen points a finger at an enemy and an arc of electricity shoots out toward the creature, passing of Drazh's head!
The light from Azalia's ioun torch casts Anneka's silhouette behind her. She gestures, and her shadow begins to crawl up over the ceiling toward the creature. Though perhaps if anyone were to cast a second glance, it hasn't moved at all.
Azalia shoots over the dwarf at Red (or blue, if shooting at red gives me additional penalities)
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Unable to get close enough to use her claws, Ferocia pulls out her sling and loads it.
Seeing the still standing enemies, Miron drops his spear, readies the bow, and launches an arrow.
Unable to get close enough to use her claws, Ferocia pulls out her sling and loads it.
Milgen points a finger at an enemy blue and an arc of electricity shoots out toward the creature, passing of Drazh's head!
Azalia shoots over the dwarf at the uninjured monster hitting it in the eye and killing it instantly.
Drazh parried the first blow, and felt the second deflect off his Breastplate. He swung out with his hammer, aiming for the creature’s head drawing ichor but not killing it.
The light from Azalia's ioun torch casts Anneka's silhouette behind her. She gestures, and her shadow begins to crawl up over the ceiling toward the creature. Though perhaps if anyone were to cast a second glance, it hasn't moved at all.
The monster drops it ranseur and begins to bite and claw at Drazh.
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Miron takes aim and fires upon the remaining creature.
Ferocia takes careful aim, then fires a bullet at the weird creature from her sling.
Her bullet strikes the wall and goes clattering around the tunnel.
"Blasted tunnels!" she growls, quite unlike a dwarf.
She loads her sling again.
Azalia delays until after Drazh goes. Then, if the creature is destroyed, she moves forward to start examining/searching the prison cells.
(plus one if there is a trap to notice as she searches)
Anneka's shadow stretches a cruelly-shaped claw across the chamber's wall toward the creature.
Milgen grimaces and points a finger at the remaining enemy again, and again electricity arcs out.
The remaining abomination is crushed beneath the weight of your assault.
The only items of worth that the creatures had were their ranseurs.
Old fleshless bones lie in the cages about this area.
He flatly but clearly replies to the dwarf.
"The creatures are a concern. Did the goblins create them? That seems unlikely. One moment while I speak with Anneka."
He signs for Anneka:
"The creatures are dead. Are you ready to move forward?"
Whenever Anneka replies in the affirmative, he will also reply with a "Yes.", picking up his spear.
Anneka nervously and silently signs back that, yes, she is prepared to move on. She examines the bodies as she walks by, trying to fathom how such things come to be.
Ferocia enters the prison and looks at the bodies, curious how old they are, or what they belonged to.
You can only exit this area by the upper levels, do ye want to leave by the door to the south or the corridor to the east.
Miron holds his spear in one hand, while signing and speaking.
"I suggest we continue on to the east."
Milgen nods. "Eest is good."
This room contains several ancient relics of what appear to be torture implements, although their function and style seem strange and archaic. In one corner sits a spherical cage with spikes protruding inward from its iron bars. In another stands what appears to be a star-shaped wooden frame, its surface studded with hooks. And in the center of the room is a long table covered with leather straps and a number of cranks that seem designed to rotate and swivel.
There is a door leading to the east and one to the south from this room.