Seeing Fancy look about haphazardly, Horven decides to take the risk and follow the eidolon carefully.
"Fancy...we should go back and tell the others, I don't like the look of that mold," Horven whispers.
Nodding assent, Fancy accompanies Horven back to the others.
"You are saying it got colder as you went farther into the room?" Yamyra inquires of Horven as soon as the two of them return. "The only other item of note was the mold you found, and it seemed as though someone was cultivating it?" She adds.
Once he and Fancy return, Horven tells the group about the mold. "It didn't seem natural."
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Gared shrugged. "We can examine it later. If there's no sign of where the derro might have gone to here, let's follow the other tracks."
"Yes." Yamyra nods agreement.
Preceeding the others, Fancy cautiously decends the stairs.
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Leaving behind the freezing abattoir and the bedroom for the moment, you head down the stairs with Fancy leading the way. At the bottom you see the corridor head north for a short distance before opening into a large well-lit room. This large room is set up as a crude alchemical lab—planks laid over barrels and crates serve as tables, but the alchemical gear set up on these crude tables appears to be quite high quality.
Before you cane proceed further, movement catches your eyes from both sides. From behind one of the tables in the far end of the room you see a female derro looking up at you with an angry, almost chilling look on her face. She does not say anything to you instead reaching to her belt and then hefts a greenish vial readying to throw it at you!
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Gared reacts with unbelievable speed and looses two arrows at the derro witch with the first arrow cutting a bloody furrow in her upraised arm. The second one flies harmlessly above her head. Gared grimaces in disgust at the lousy aim he showed there.
She ignores the bleeding cut and lobs the vial at the halfling in the front row. The vial shatters on Horven's body and soon the halfling feels a burning all over his body as the acid eats into his skin! Also the others next to him are splattered with the remains of the broken vial.
"Blast it!" Horven exclaims, minding this tongue. "That was my favorite skin!"
He charges forward with his rapier and stabs at the witch.
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Swiftly accompanying Horven, Fancy swings her fist to connect with the Derro bomber.
Cautiously, Yamyra makes her way forward, the pike Gared provided her clenched tightly in a semblance of readiness.
Jumping out of the way at the last second, Carmina manages to avoid getting any acid on her skin. Unfortunately, she does get some on her scales, but those dissolve slower anyway. Intending to return the favour, she moves towards the derro, and extends her arm in a vaguely threathening manner.
"Eat magical destruction, you ឆ្កែញី!"
Pew, pew!
"Oh! What the- ah!" Carridan is caught by surprise at the sudden flurry of violence and caustic projectiles. He shakes the surprise from his mind and focuses, turning his efforts to a complicated and involved spell.
HP: 36/36
AC: 19 (12 T / 17 FF)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +8/+6/+9
Wild Shape used: 0/1
Storm Burst used: 1/7
Spells Prepared:
Orisons (4): create water, detect poison, know direction, purify food and drink
Level 1 (3+1+1*): faerie fire, magic stone, obscuring mist*, produce flame, shillelagh
Level 2 (2+1+1*): bull's strength, fog cloud*, gust of wind, hold animal
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Carridan starts concentrating on his summoning spell while Horven and Fancy sprint into the room right at the derro witch. Both connect solidly with fist and blade eliciting cries of pain from the witch.
Carmina advances to the entrance of the room and calls on her innate magic to wound her even further. The witch smiles briefly at the tiefling's display before crying out in surprise as the bolts strike home.
Yamyra moves cautiously into the room, her attention caught by movement her bonded companion saw earlier. She sees a pair of what look like tiny, bat-winged duplicates of the derro witch, right down to the skin and hair color, flying around at the other side of the room. They do not appear to take an interest in you at this point.
"There's...
more of them?" Yamyra cries as she focuses her attention on these new threats.
Stepping around Horven to better threaten both the Derro & her minions, Fancy once more swings her stone-like fist at the subterranean creature.
Still consumed by anger (and acid), Horven lashes out at the witch again with his rapier.
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"The little ones, their her homunculi! Taking them out will hurt her!"
As Carridan finishes the spell, the stone wall behind the derro witch begins to quiver and ripple before a small humanoid mound of stone and mud slips free behind her. As Carridan's earthen ally tries to pummel the derro, Carridan himself sends another burst of buffeting wind out toward her as well.
HP: 36/36
AC: 19 (12 T / 17 FF)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +8/+6/+9
Wild Shape used: 0/1
Storm Burst used: 0/7
Spells Prepared:
Orisons (4): create water, detect poison, know direction, purify food and drink
Level 1 (3+1+1*): faerie fire, magic stone, obscuring mist*, produce flame, shillelagh
Level 2 (2+1+1*): bull's strength, fog cloud*, gust of wind, hold animal
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HP: 17/17
AC: 17 (10 T / 17 FF)
CMD: 13
F/R/W: +6/-1/+3
Str 20, Dex 8, Con 17, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 11
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Gared sprints into the room and fells one of the homunculi with an arrow shot, which causes the witch to shudder in pain. She gives the other dwarf a glare even as she drinks another vial which causes a shimmering field to appear around her body.
Carridan's elemental emerges from the ground and swings at the witch, but the blow is deflected by the magical field. It does not prevent the storm blast from tearing into her skin. Fancy does not fare much better as she steps away from the witch and closer to the homunculi, which immediately flies behind one of the tables looking for some protection. Horven's blow is far more telling, however. The witch is now looking sorely wounded.
With Gared's prompting, Yamyra thrusts her spear at the closest of the arcane miniatures of their opponent.
Carmina shakes her head at Yamyra's feeble spearwork and decides to help the halfling a little, shooting a few orbs of force more at the homonculus.
Gared growled and stepped forward as he turned his barrage towards the remaining construct.
Horven sheathes his rapier and his mind finally registers the pain from the acid moments ago. "Oww..."
Carridan sighs with relief as the derro collapses. He nods gratefully to the earth elemental and speaks some strange words to it in an odd cadence before it sinks back into the stone beneath their feet.
Wiping his forehead with the back of his hand, he approaches Horven with a wand in hand. "Let me see to some of those wounds, Horven."
HP: 36/36
AC: 19 (12 T / 17 FF)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +8/+6/+9
Wild Shape used: 0/1
Storm Burst used: 2/7
CLW charges used: 0/50
Spells Prepared:
Orisons (4): create water, detect poison, know direction, purify food and drink
Level 1 (3+1+1*): faerie fire, magic stone, obscuring mist*, produce flame, shillelagh
Level 2 (2+1+1*): bull's strength, fog cloud*, gust of wind, hold animal
*domain
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With a tap of Carridan's wand, Horven feels much better. He waves his hand away when offered a second casting. "Better not waste it, this'll do for now."
Gared moved to quickly ensure the derro wasn't at risk of immediately dying before searching the room briskly.
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Gared searches the unconscious derro for valuable items with the aid of Yamyra's detect magic spell. He discovers on her body several vials of inert chemicals in addition to four potions, four vials of acid, a suit of Small masterwork leather armor, a masterwork aklys, a magical headband, and a key ring with 6 keys on it.
Further searching of the room shows the alchemical equipment on the table constitutes a masterwork alchemist’s lab. Checking the two door in the north wall shows one used apparently has the derro's sleeping chamber judging by the large mound of cushions and blankets here. Hidden amongst these is a wooden case with three vials of a bluish liquid glowing with a bluish phosphorescent glow.
The other chamber holds several bags of coins. In all, this room contains 232 gp, 1,423 sp, 2,100 cp, a lens about 6 inches in diameter set in a frame with a handle, a scarab, and a wand. Those items do radiate magical auras.
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Yamyra quickly begins examining the Derro's items.
Seeing that Yamyra is struggling with identifying one item in particular, Carmina rushes to help...
...with little improvement. "Well, It's probably not The Philosopher's Stone. Probably."
"Are...are we done here?" Horven asks.
Gared nodded to Horven. "We ought to get those people back to Magnimar to safety, and take Fenster and the derro back to the watch. Then we can come back and do a more thorough sweep of the tower."
The dwarf sighed as his companions fussed over the magical items and paused to examine it himself, briefly distracted...
"Sounds like a reasonable plan to me," the halfling says.
"Yes, we should." Yamyra agrees, nodding vigorously with a sideways glance toward Carridan.
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The party quickly sets out to determine what the items are...
After Yamyra fails to determine anything from the headband, Gared examines it further. Judging by the moderate transmutation aura, he believes it affects the wearers mental acuity. . The wand found in the treasure room is partially charged with the Spiritual Weapon spell
However, the lens and the scarab's properties elude you.
You return to the unconscious bodies of the derro which lay as they were when you first bound them, adding the unconscious female derro to the pile. A quick check shows the keys do indeed unlock the cell doors. It is a simple manner to get the three naked prisoners out of the cells and to the main chamber where you do manage to find some clothing for the poor souls.
Carridan scratches the back of his neck at Yamyra's glance, unsure if he offended the slight halfling somehow. "Well, she did have the keys, so if she wasn't in charge of these kidnappers she was at the least trusted with keeping the prisoners. Perhaps the guard can learn anything else of import from her?"
Gared went to the prisoners and saw if there was anything he could do to rouse them.