Cordwin will let one of the fighter types open the doors, but he will take a listen and check for traps.
Reynard will open the doors once Cordwin gives the all-clear.
"Are you trying to imply that 'The Great Food-Stealer-Survivor' [he uses the Dwarven tongue for the name], isn't a 'proper' name?"
"Oh no. I think it's a fine name." Druamin repeats the Dwarven name. "See, it just rolls off the tongue." He reaches over and knocks on the double doors. "So what you say? Everyone ready to see what's behind here?"
Skarn will step up next to Druamin as he goes to open the door.
The hinges are old and gritty, and the doors are quite heavy.
After a bit of a struggle, the party opens the doors to reveal a flight of stairs leading down into the darkness. They switch back and forth a few times as they descend about 150 feet, eventually ending at another set of double doors.
"Down into the depths makes me feel more at home, eh Druamin?"
No one notices anything in the way of traps on the door, and it opens rather more easily than the one above. The room revealed is cold and damp, featuring a large pool in the floor, the edges of which are caked with pale yellow slime and fungus. The surface of the pool bears a similar film. Additional carvings of skulls decorate the walls here. To the south, an impressive mound of skulls—mostly from humanoids—lies heaped against the wall, where they partially block a large stone double door.
There is a large creature mostly-submerged in the pool. As the doors open it rears up, roaring, and brandishes a trident in one massive clawed hand.
Round 1:
Initiative order
Skarn
Erond
Reynard
Trox
Wet Papa Grazuul
Cordwin
Druamin
+3 to identify creature abilities and weaknesses
”Well, I’ll be, a ‘scrag troll!’ I’ve heard tell of them, but never seen one. It will only regenerate while in the water.”
"You take one side, I'll take the other" Reynard calls over his shoulder to Trox, before moving forward.
Trox breaks out of his daze and double moves into the room shield and sword at the ready.
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Skarn-?
Erond
Reynard-acted
Trox-acted
Wet Papa Grazuul
Cordwin
Druamin
As Reynard moves up, the scrag troll stabs at him with its trident. The same thing happens when Trox advances within reach of the creature .
Neither attack hits.
Skarn moves into the room, and stops 20' away from the creature and fires an acid splash at it...
vs Touch AC
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Skarn-acted
Erond-acted
Reynard-acted
Trox-acted
Wet Papa Grazuul-acted
Cordwin
Druamin
Erond and Skarn both hit, doing some damage to the troll. Then it takes its trident in both clawed hands and lays into Trox and Reynard, also biting at Trox. Only one attack connects. Small wounds open up on its claws when it hits the fighter.
Druamin looks at the pool of water, then the large creature, then back at the pool of water. "That water looks too disgusting to swim in. And that thing looks disgusting too. Hey. Maybe it would be better covered with a bunch of frogs."
Druamin raises his arm in the air and wiggles his fingers and he lets his arm drop. "Froggy lolly, polly woggy. Lots of rain and not so foggy." he says at the end of the motion. A large number of frogs appear out of thin air above the troll then fall, with splatting sounds, to land on its head and shoulders.
Round 1 (ongoing):
Initiative order
Skarn-acted
Erond-acted
Reynard-acted
Trox-acted
Wet Papa Grazuul-acted
Cordwin
Druamin-acted/casting
Druamin begins to cast a spell. He's got a good feeling about this one.
Cordwin will shoot at the troll!
Cordwin misses twice.
Round 2:
Initiative order
Skarn
Erond
Reynard
Trox
Wet Papa Grazuul
Cordwin
Druamin
Skarn will hit it with more acid...
vs Touch AC
Throwing caution to the wind Trox swings as hard as he can wanting to take advantage of her flanking position.
Reynard viciously tears into the slimy troll with fang and claw and bony spikes.
Skarn uses his spell to inflict a little bit of damage and impair the troll's regeneration, and Reynard tears it apart.
The body sinks into the water.
+2 vs unusual stonework, +1 vs giants
There's nothing of particular interest in the room except for the pool of water and the plethora of doors (one of which is behind the pile of skulls).
Small wounds open up on its claws when it hits the fighter.
Reynard plops into the water, wanting to recover whatever items the troll had on him.
The troll's body is easily recovered, but there's nothing on it.
Just as the troll's body collapses, a large number of frogs appear in the air above where the troll used to be. The frogs float in the air, wriggling and squirming, for just a second then drop with a splash into the water. They disappear from site.
"Well then. I guess I didn't need those froggies after all." Druamin stares at the water and debates jumping in. Before he can decide Reynard dives in. A few moments later he emerges dragging the troll's body.
"Ugh. Reynard, I hope you didn't recover that because you're hungry. Well, let's see what it's got."
Discovering nothing of interest on the body Druamin turns to the doors. "Ok everyone. Which door?"
"Well, we need to figure out what's wrong right? So deeper into the dam seems the way to go."
"Ok Skarn. So I'm guessing you mean through those yonder doors." Druamin points with his axe at the double doors across the pool. "I don't see any reason to delay. Let's get going."
He walks around the right side of the pool and when he gets to the double doors, he pulls them open.
The double doors are behind a pile of skulls that will take at least half an hour to clear away.
"Let's get to it then."
Skarn starts moving skulls.
Cordwin will listen at each of the other doors.