More than curious as to the source of the odd sound he keeps hearing; Sentis follows Blaze towards it.
Darkbiter moves to the edge of the light peering out into the gloom with his darkvision. You can see that the chamber you are in does come to a square corner in both the SW and SE sides, but do not catch sight of any creatures.
The squad makes their way back to the central staircase.
"Looks like tha whole place has gone tah pot, like we will have tah dig out anything o value."
"Doc where yah got tha alarm rigged, North tah south err East tah west?'
Knowledge nature
"Yah don't think these piles err full o bugs does yah?"
"Yer call. Yer th' scout. Gimme a minute 'r two an' I could do both."
Kaavel watches as the others in the squad move out to look for anything in the room. When seeing Blaze and Sentis move toward where the sound was suppose to come from he follows behind them.
Grusk thinks about shifting the piles with his axe but quiclkly decides the morningstar is a better option....
Starting to rifle through the debris in front of me!
Perception
You think there is more in there, but it will take time to recover.
"Looks wolves thar be bones left fer us."
"Mithril an cold iron both"
"Lets secure tha area an then go through tha piles."
"Mithril!" Doc says coming forward to take an excited look. "Aw, pyrite. Who th' crap'd waste good mithril makin' arrowheads? Gimme tha' axehead. I'll haft it next time we bed down."
Disgusted he tromps back to his post at the back of the group.
Blaze will continue to head in a somewhat northernly direction.
Blaze pinpoints the sound as coming from what likely seems the NE and NW corners of the room.
"Ok, seems like that sound is actually coming from both the north east and north west corners of the room. So we can either split up and investigate, go to one corner at a time, or walk right down the middle more or less. Personally, I suggest we split up, three to each corner, one in the center, and if there's anything we need to fight, we pull back to our middle man and kick their asses together, wolf pack style."
Sentis looks behind him and sees the reassuring sight of his fellow half elf with the deadly hands.
Its just the three of us Blaze. The others are looking through the refuse I think. Pick a corner and we're right behind you.
His grip will tighten on his scimitar and follow the fighter.
"Splittin up werked fine tha las time!"
Kaavel readies himself for a fight as he follows Blaze and Sentis. He says lowly "Lead on than Blaze."
Darkbiter will head to the other corner with the other half of the party.
Doc nods at Blaze's plan and tromps to a point near the center. He sets down his strangely framed pack and reveals another use for it as he sits down on top of it like a sturdy stool and unslings Percussion Section. Planting the mortar and breaking out a good sized lantern to help shed some light on their searches, Doc puts a new cigar to his lips and says "Take yer time boys. Lemme know if ye need somethin' blowed up."
Cort follows Dark into the dark, blade at the ready.
Blaze will lead his group to the NE corner, blade at the ready, alert for danger.
Close behind him; Sentis had his torch held high and a frim grip on his blade as he tried to determine where the sound was coming from.
Perception -
NW Group:
You approach the corner of the room cautiously with your eyes peeled, and observe a creature nestled around a chest. The creature resembles a large skeletal snake, though it sports a cyclopean skull where the head would usually be. The fangs of the skull seem overlarge for the size. The sentinel is observing you but has not yet taken action.
NE Group:
You approach the corner of the room cautiously with your eyes peeled. As you close in, you see that the room has been damaged and crumbled somewhat. There were once weapon racks upon the wall but they have been destroyed by the fallen rocks.
Grusk takes point for the other group
Stealth
Perception
Perception -
The sound has moved off to the south. Follow it or rejoin the others?
"Jus' don't get out o' my line o' sight, Elf." Doc booms from his position in the center. "This thing don't fire 'round corners."
"I'm thinkin that maybe whatever is makin these sounds might not be such a threat, as we haven't been attacked yet. Let's go check on the others" With that he makes his way to the other corner.
"Perhaps these are in place to stop people coming in from the other direction. They don't seem overly hostile at any rate. Perhaps one of us should look for an exit while the rest of us keep on eye on this thing."
Sentis fully trusts in Blaze's assessment of the situation and will nod to him and keep following will eyes and ears peeled.
Perception -
NW Group (Darkbiter, Grusk, Cort):
NE Group (Sentis, Blaze, Kaavel):
You start to move off South in pursuit of where the sound was last heard.
Cort steps slowly closer to the creature, blade forward. "Anyone recognize this thing?" He whispers over his shoulder, without taking his eyes from the creature.
Though the fangs are cemented into the skull, the poison they drip is very real. They are also known to be able to deceive the minds of those they face, casting soporific thoughts into their head.
"Best to take care around these things, the poison is real and they have some mind effecting voodoo they can do." Darkbiter says as he quietly curses that this is yet another foe that his blade is likely to do little damage to. With that in mind, he moves to check out the smashed weapons rack in hopes that something survived.
"Yeah? Fantastic. Can we harvest it? I might be able t' make use'a somethin' like that."
"I suspect harvesting it in it's current state would be rather difficult."
As Darkbiter moves forward to the detritus lining the walls, the creature surveys him with it's empty skull - but does not move from the chest it is coiled around.
Cort will move as close as he can until he gets a response from the creature, ready for an attack.
Darkbiter starts to rummage through the detritus searching for anything still useable.
Cort slowly approaches the creature until he can almost reach out and touch it before it regards him with it's empty gaze.
Perception check
"If itsa construct as yah says it still works an is likely uner orders tah not lets yah touch tha chest an tah defend itself."
"We could take err time an clear everthing else first, might be a code o clue tha turns it off round here."
"Hell, ah barely care what's in th' box. I'd settle fer tha' thing's head. So wha's th' plan?"
"I says we lets it bite Cort an then we bashes it, an pull its fangs out o his back-side."
"O we surround it an see if we ken gets tha first swing in!"
"Let me see if I can find something I can use against the dang thing first."