"I wonder," Elliomander ponders aloud, making sure Vi can see his mouth, "if there's been some manner of clerical error and they've sent us to a dungeon someone else has already cleared... or worse, maybe we're following a team that failed and the enemies have set up to defend themselves in a consolidated location..."
He leaves them to contemplate those thoughts as he searches the doors.
"If so then this would be very easy." Jason also eyes the doorway Elli was checking out. "But not very challenging at that..."
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Elliomander steps in front of his companions and positions his glaive to make the most of every opportunity for attack... he calls to mind his slumber hex and prepares to use it for his defense.
Virdania's eyes saw the four creatures drop on him and she frowned the club in her hand she let go as it floated there and suddenly lashed out towards one of the ones attached to him.
But the club aims high and flies over his head.
Scowling angrily at the loss of blood Elliomander makes a dramatic decision... he spins to face his companions and, turning his palms back towards himself, invokes a cone of flame which engulfs him and all the remaining stirges...
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He begins cursing at the spells terrible ineffectiveness... "Jason, do it to me again!"
"I gotcha!" Jason positions to find a good position and angle before splaying his hands out and casting Burning Hands (DC17)
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"Alright, but get ready this is going to be hot." says Jason. He dashes to the side trying to find thr best angle before splaying his hands to invoke Burning Hands (DC17).
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Elliomander wipes away some of the ash and soot and sits down on the floor. Drawing the new wand he evokes its magic and asks, "I don't suppose either of you has any means of healing the damage from blood loss?"
Virdania shakes her head at the question and motions at the wand. "I can heel wounds wiffout needing ffat."
She offers up if he needs more healing.
After that she pulled up the map and would show the northern section of rooms are cut off.
"We look for entwance as we exhamine ffese wooms. Finnis all overs ffen go affer hidden wooms.
While the others were cleaning and healing, Jason circles to the northern eastern entrance. It looks like this doorway is trapped. Any chance you're ready to try disabling it Elli?
Dragging himself off the floor, an even paler Elliomander stretches and groans, and tromps to the door without a word. He begins drawing his lock picks then stops and asks, "why am I doing this when there are two non-trapped doors that lead to the same place?"
Ell shakes the haziness out of his head and, realizing his error, says "sorry, that blood loss seems to have gone straight to my head... I think, though, that there's a door one chamber south of here that leads to the same place and may not be trapped? For that matter, isn't there a door 3 chambers back that leads to those rooms we couldn't access before we got distracted by our new arrival? Perhaps we should check those now rather than looping all the way around and then having to back track up to search for access to the northern chambers?"
He puts his lock picks away and waits to hear which of the two options he's just presented seems more favorable to his companions.
Seeing as he didn't want her healing she didn't push. After all people got a bit testy when she pushed.
"Effer way der is back wackin. I fowwow and keef eye out for twouble."
Jason nods at Virdania's comment. Looking at Elli he says,
You're right Elli. Let's look into that room quickly before circling around. It seems to be glowing on the map you're holding for some reason though.
"I will need your healing later," Elliomander assures Virdania, "for now I was just looking for a way to remove the effects of having so much blood drinken in such a short time, but that appears to be beyond any of our current abilities."
Taking advantage of the vagueness and/or confusion of their responses, Elliomander leads them back down 3 chambers to the room with doors facing all 4 directions... "Remember to stand clear of the western door, it's trapped" he calls out as they enter the room. He proceeds directly to the eastern door and tries it.
Elliomander takes the first left and attempts to move stealthily towards the open archway, signaling Jason and Virdania to do the same.
Virdania would again mark the map before looking at him that she is ready to continue. Her flames occasionally popping up but then fading out. There was no real light or heat that could be seen except on her but it was an interesting effect. Her club was once again at her side. She knew it would eventually break so she would have to look for a new one.
She points out the room behind them that still hadn't been explored to the west.
Elliomander nods at Virdania's suggestion. For a moment he contemplates trying to explain that checking the room with the open archway was merely a precaution against being overheard but decides that if she's been deaf since birth it would be a lost cause...
Instead, he simple heads back toward the bypassed room watching carefully for traps and other dangers...
Oblivious to the clicking she would look around staring at the statue and fountain. Some people had weird tastes.
Either way she would search the room with them looking for any hidden caches or something before she pulled the map back out to see where they could go next.
Elliomander begins searching for the source of the clicking. Without bothering to turn towards Virdania he asks Jason, "can you tell where that sound is coming from?"
Not really, but it comes from a magical source as far as I can tell. It could be just distracting us. Jason extends his hand and invokes Detect Magic, slowly scanning the room for the source of the spell.
Virdania not spotting anything else of note writes on the map as she looks at them. Seeing Jason's eyes glow she would wait to see what he said. While she waited she would glance down at the map and would map out the course for the rooms ahead wondering which would be most efficient.
Glancing back and Jason she saw him still concentrating and would look up and around studying the room before going to see if the fountain had water in it.
Elliomander can't shake the feeling that there must be something more to this room... though this stupid dungeon makes no sense in the first place... it could just be a strange room, I suppose...
"Come on back to the last chamber so we can move through it"
"Oh kay." She says happening to catch what he said because she was looking at him. Walking with him she marked the map then stopped to look back to make sure her other companion had come with.
Virdania made a sound that was almost comical as she tried to get Jason's attention as she looked around for where Elliomander went.
Checking the floor and ceiling for trap doors and remnants of sigils that may have transported him somewhere.
Virdania would shift and waves to Jason pointing to the mark. "Trap, he found." She sounds out and then carefully scans the floor with detect magic and slowly starts making her way around making sure there are no more before saying.
"We done with room? Continue on?" She states looking at Jason.
Virdania looked around noticing she was the only one left. Cautiously she looked at the floor and started to creep out of the room to the next one.
Using detect magic and trying to be alert for any danger caused her to look behind her a lot.