"CLIFF!!" Norm calls out as he sees his friend freezes up and fall over
He moves up and cast acid splash on the last goblin
This... may have been the wrong time for this...
Ansgar feels Norm's magic flow through him as his bodies rapidly grows. Moving forward to keep his larger frame free of his friends, Ansgar strikes at the last goblin with his blade.
"Norm, this will be a great asset in battles to come!" Ansgar says enthusiastically as he strikes the goblin.
Ansgar's enlarged blade cuts through the last goblin, nearly separating the corpse in two.
Norm rushes over to Cliff
"Cliff, old boddy, are you okay? Can you move?"
Norm kneels down and bury his head in Cliffs fur
Cael walks over to Norm and pats him on the shoulder, "Don't worry Norm, I'm sure he's be fine. Just give him a minute." He then moves to check the goblins over for anything interesting, but the ichor is off-putting. "You know I said these don't smell much worse than normal goblins, but I'm not so sure now. Not that that is saying much. Still probably better than Blondie's morning breath though." Cael looks at Zelinda and winks as he delivers his punchline.
Zelinda gives Cael a burning look. "Careful choir boy. You ever get close enough to rate my breath, and that'll be the least of your concerns." She winks back, slightly over-exaggerated, before turning back to the room.
"How long will this last Norm? I'm not exactly hallway sized anymore." Ansgar says as he leans over to inspect the pool of water.
"Huh?"
Norm looks up Ansgar, not really hearing what he said
"Oh, sorry. Here"
Norm makes a couple of hand signs, mumbling a few words and blows on his fingers. The magic is dispelled and Ansgar scrumps to normal hight. Norm then turns back to Cliff, stroking him and talking to him softly.
[b]"Anyone got some healing? He did get a few cuts during the fight"[b]
Zelinda puts away her sword and draws the wand from her belt.
It takes some coaxing, but she manages to get enough energy out of the wand to tend to Cliff's wounds.
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Norm smiles at Zelinda
"Thank you! Now we just need this paralysis to wear off! And for me to stop being sick!"
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With everyone getting their wounds healed and Ansgar being back to normal size, he heads over to check in the area around the corner.
"I'm going to take a look back here."
Caeldren checks the undead goblins, but they don't seem to have any loot.
The sickness from the smell and Cliff's paralysis both fade away after a few seconds.
The pool of water is about 100 feet deep, it surges and sloshes in a way that makes you think it's probably connected to the sea, and the strong currents would make it hard to swim on.
The side room seems to be the lair of all the undeads you encountered, it's heaped with bones who had their marrow eaten, on a cursory look it doesn't seem to have any items of interest.
As Cliff gets to his feet again, Norm also gets up. After checking that Cliff is indeed alright, he follows Ansgar to the other room/cave
"Anything interesting in here?"
After looking over the room, he goes back to the other room
"Is that a door in the northen wall? Should we go check it out?"
"Yeah, I'll go with you." Cael moves up to the door sword in hand and waits for a nod from Norm before opening it and looking in.
Ansgar follows close behind Cael, ready rush in if needed.
Ready as always with sword and shield, Zelinda follows close behind.
Norm takes up a position in the back Cliff a little in front of him, right behind Zelinda. Cliff sniffs at her boot, where she stepped in some goblin ghoul mush.
"Ready as can be. Go ahead"
Norm nods a Cael
Caeldren tries to open the door but realizes that it's locked. The lock seems to be of very good quality and the door itself is made of stone.
Norm tries to peek from the back
"What's the hold up? Can't you open it?"
"It's locked. I wish Quiary were here, he'd have it open in no time, but without him, we'd better find a key, or try another way."
"We could go back to the stairs we found a little way back"
Will the noise be worth it...
Contemplating smashing the door down, Ansgar decides remaining undetected is the better course of action.
"Yes, lets go up the stairs. Breaking this down will be too noisy."
Ansgar will lead the way back to the stairs and up them.
Cael nods, trusting in the stalwart man's judgement, and moves to follow.
Zelinda shrugs in indifference and follows along.
You move up the stairs into a small room with another flight of stairs ending in a door.
You recognize the stench as being supernatural and identify it as a haunt beginning to manifest.
Ansgar tries the door handle and pushes gently.
Aldern finally breaks through into the room beyond, and a horde of shrieking ghouls rises up to pull him into the darkness below before they turn their lambent eyes to you, reaching their clawed hands in your direction.
Make a DC 16 Will Save
"Die foul beasts!" Ansgar slashes his blade at what he sees before him.
Zelinda hunkers down behind her shield, sword ready, looking for whatever Ansgar is attacking. "What's wrong, boss?"
"Are there more of those things? I can't see from back here!"
You take damage (Fortitude DC 16 to halve it).
As Ansgar slashes his blade at the air, you see him jerk and thrash in the air as if being shaken by a mob. Suddenly, deep red claw and bite wounds appear on his flesh.
"Get back! The ghouls are to great in number!" Ansgar back pedals as much as he with the other behind him while swinging his blade .
Zelinda starts backing up away from Ansgar, keeping away from the wildly swinging blade. "Ansgar, what's the matter with you? There's nothing there!"
Norm starts to back down the stairs
"Whats's going on? What's he fighting!!"
As Ansgar slashes through the air a second time; he finally drops to the ground, the ghoulish figures he saw disappearing as if a mere dream, although his wounds are very real.
"Gads, Blondie heal him!" Cael says. "We should take care, I've heard stories about stuff like this, 'haunts'. I guess old Teft wasn't lying after all, or well not completely. Anyways, they happen when people get messed up and their spirits get stuck here, all twisted and evil."
"Something bad is going on here! Let's get Ansgar healed and move on."
Injured, Ansgar pants and looks around. "Well, that was unpleasant."
Ansgar appreaciates the healing, and when the group is ready, he opens the door.
"Gads, Blondie heal him!" Cael says.
Zelinda gives Cael a sour look, like a woman tends to when a man says something stupid. "What do I look like to you, a potion machine?"
Despite her complaints, though, she moves towards Ansgar and gives him some hits with the wand. "Easy. What was that all about?" she asks in a soothing voice.
His breathing calming down as his wounds heal, "There was a horde of ghouls..." Ansgar says, voice tight "But it must have been a haunt thing as Caeldren says... just figments in my mind"
"Thank you for caring for me... again, Zelinda"
Zelinda gives a bit of a lop-sided smile without looking up at the gruff cleric. "Someone has to," she replies.
"Oh it's not just in your mind Stoneface, those things are all too real"
Opening the door you enter into a small corridor that ends into another door, as you open the second door, you see a larger room.
This room looks to have once been some sort of arcane workshop, although it now lies in ruin. A row of soggy books sits on the northern end of a workbench along the western wall. At the other end of the workbench, what looks like three iron birdcages sit, each containing a dead diseased rat. To the east, two stained-glass windows loom. The northern window depicts a thin man with gaunt features drinking a foul-looking brew of green fluid, while the southern one shows the same man but in an advanced state of decay, as if he had been dead for several weeks. His arms raised and head thrown back in triumph, his rotting body turns to smoke and spirals into a seven-sided box.
Ansgar slowly enters the room, looking around for anything dangerous.
"Careful here. These rats look diseased." Angar says as he steps into the place.
Zelinda looks carefully into the room before she enters, sword drawn. "This place isn't creepy at all." She makes her way over to the workbench, careful not to touch anything unnecessarily, to see if she can find anything of note."[/b]
Norm and Cliff also steps in to the room, very careful not to touch anything.
Beside give the whole place a look ( ) he'll take a closer look at the windows first and then the books in the corner.
If he can't see anything on the books as they are, he'll use mage hand to carefully poke the top one. If nothing happens, he'll carefully move a couple to get a better look at them.