Kraz moves alongside Beerg, pulling out a javelin..
"Kraz thinks that Gumbo looked hungry. He will not be able to resist such a fine meal."
Sorin says nothing but gives Nilelane a thumbs up and smile for her excellent idea. She then moves ahead as per Jack’s request and kneels down looking for the hopping tracks of the Gumbado “Gumbo”.
Assuming the creature was still ahead Sorin continues without a word hoping Nileane’s illusion will do the job the monk could not.
"Let Kraz have a look, he is a master tracker!"
"Kraz thinks he might have found Gumbo tracks over here!"
With Kraz having found the gambado's tracks, the party heads downstream, Kraz pointing out the way on the left side of the stream, the illusion of the fawn 15 feet or so in front.
Kraz keeps a sharp eye out for any skulls laying on the ground.
or not so sharp as it seems..
After travelling about 100' or more down the chasm, the tense silence is broken by the roar of the gambado as it springs out of an unnoticed little side tunnel towards to the illusion of the fawn, attempting to shred it with its claws.
The gambado barely notices you as it savages the fawn.
Kraz's inner beast comes out as he roars and charges at the Gumbo..
"So you like to eat tiny deer's! Well eat this!" step up to Y6.
Nilelane's ray of icy frost flashes past the gambado's cheek, barely missing it, but it is enough of a distraction to have it move directly into the path of of Kraz's greatsword - the blade cuts a vicious gash down the length of the gambado's twisted body (pic in case you forgot what it looks like). It snarls in pain and surprise.
Seeing Kraz’s hard blow with the axe, Sorin is inspired to close ranks on the creature. She moves up adjacent to Kraz striking out with her quarterstaff and then following it with a leg sweep at the creatures one leg.
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Jack takes aim with his crossbow and lets fly a bolt at the creature.
Attack:
Damage:
Sneak:
oops..I forgot advantage as well..
Attack:
Much better!!
Watching nilelanes icy attack hit the creature hard beerg throws his spear as he sees is kick up in pain
The gambado, completely overwhelmed by the surprise attack, twists and turns, screaming, but once Nilelane's icy bolt hits it it is an easy target. It falls quickly under the party's rain of blows and bolts.
The narrow crack in the chasm wall seems to go back only 15' before closing off. Inside you can see glittering objects, and also what looks to be a body.
"Hmmm...looks like someone fell to the gumbo earlier. Let's take a look and see what it has hidden in this little cleft."
Jack removes the body and any of the glittering objects he can reach.
As jack enters the chasm Beerg pulls his maul out and backs up to keep an eye out in case there is any surprises.
Sorin also takes note of the fallen body, but asks jack the help retrieve the remains. She explains that She wants to perform rites over the body so that it’s soul can move to the beyond. She is of course assuming the body is that of a civilized humanoid.
Jack reaches into the crevice, and drags the body out. It is obvious, despite the fact that it has been half-eaten, that the body is that of a guardsman, a young man. His face has been mauled, and his eyeballs have been eaten out of his head. He still wears a glittering silver locket.
Sorin looks down at the body with sad eyes. Kneeling next to it she places her hand over the young mans eyes. “Great Lord Torm, hear my humble prayer. Take this young soul into your righteous hands and usher him beyond. Allow us the strength and wisdom to to avenge his death and carry on his duty of protecting the weak and innocent of this humble community. If he is not yours to take home, please watch over his soul until it can be claimed.”
Sorin looks up after her prayer. ”Do you hear that? I think someone might be resetting the trap. We did not relock the door did we?”
Perception:
"Well the trap might reset automatically...but I cannot remember if we did lock the door or not. Anyway, this is a dead end. I say we go back the way we came and take the remains of this poor fellow with us. It is the guard we were supposed to find...and maybe take some sort of proof that we killed good ole gumbo here too. What do you all think?"
Jack will use his blanket to wrap the dead guardsman and sling him over his shoulder and head back towards their rope.
beerg lifts his ear for the sound of the resetting trap
Beerg then like to jack “would like me to carry that so you can keep a better eye out? “
The silver locket appears to be old and well cared for. It holds a small lock of red hair.
"Ole' Gumbo had a hording problem I see. To bad for the guardsman Kraz thinks.."
He heads back, helping with the body if necessary.
As you head back upstream to the bridge, the first thing you notice is that the rope that you used to descend into the chasm is no longer hanging down from the rocky outcropping it was tied to. The door to the trapped passageway is still open. You see no signs of movement, nor hear any sounds as you approach.
"Jack, do you think you can get back up there? or do you have any tricks up your sleeve Nilelane?"
Beerg is looking confused and scouting the area, perhaps concerned....
The rope lies at the bottom of the chasm, roughly sawed off at one end.
Sorin assesses the difficulty of free climbing the wall.
"Well that would be a formidable task to climb up there I can tell you. We might just need to see where the other end of this chasm leads."
Jack sets the guardsman's body down as he evaluates the chance of climbing the sheer cliff face.
"Kraz thinks he might can climb that."
He gives it a go.
he makes it partially the way up and then looses his grip and falls..
"Ooofff.. I guess not."
Sorin walks over the wall placing her hands against it ina frisk-like position.”Ok this may seem odd but Kraz if you stand very close to the wall I may be able to use you to climb up or maybe a short jump to catch the ledge.” She then turns to the group and mimics holding someone’s feet on her shoulders like a circus performer. ”Or another idea that will probably be less popular is that Beerg sits or stands on Kraz’s shoulders and lifts or even tosses Jack up.” She finishes the description with an imaginary double underhanded toss. The monk, seeing the doubtful look on Jacks face regarding the toss, she then moves over to stand under the bridge holding up her 50ft rope. ”A third option is we toss this rope over the center of the bridge. We can the two big fellas counterweight Jack or myself as we climb up to the bridge.”
"Sorin, the rope over the bridge sounds like a solid plan. Would you like me to throw it up? Lets tie a big knot or a rock to it first so once its over it'll come back down with ease." Beerg starts looking for an appropriate rock to tie to the end of the rope for weight.
Beerg finds an excellent rock for rope-tossing, ties the rope to it, and tosses it over the bridge. He and Kraz hold one end while Jack, Sorin, and Nilelane climb up the rope, then the rope is tied off for Kraz and Beerg to climb as well.
At the top, you can see that the stone block has once again been raised to ceiling height in the passageway. The door at the end of the hall is shut.
”We should probably make sure no one snuck behind us. They obviously came into the room and cut our rope. ” Sorin inspects the rope. Is there any clue as to what kind of weapon cut it?
"Kraz think's there must be a way to disable the trap. Maybe we needs to look harder."
He starts scanning the walls etc., looking for any signs of levers..