Let us try the jail.
*"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" Comes the sound from the room
SAN check plz.
Ali watches the interchange between Jeaux and Maria interested, shaking his head and smiling. "Well this is going to be interesting!"
I don't think you want to see what is in there.
As you slowly open the door, you hear a deep, rhythmic grunting. You feel the temperature rise slightly as the air wafts against your cheek. There, with his back against the wall of the small stone room, is a massive bugbear. Four goblin women wet their palms with their tongues and reach for him. His head instinctively raises to the ceiling as he closes his eyes and sighs with a smug smile.
Vandra listens for anything behind the loot room door, but doesn't hear anything suspicious.
So what is happening?
Cleo stands ready to throw up, grasping the hilt of her new sword in anticipation.
Uhh..Well I'll take your word for it, let's go to the jail.
Sure thing.
Furnok opens the door to the jail!
The southern wall of this room is a bank of cells with iron doors, six in all. The rest of the room is obviously a torture chamber; a rack sits against the far wall, and iron maiden stands to the north, and a fire pit smolders below a spiky cage dangling from a chain in the ceiling to the east. The spiky cage contains a stinking mess of half cooked flesh, while the rack remains taught with the carcass of a recently dead goblin. Each torture instrument seems to be designed for creatures of human size, rather than goblin size.
There are two doors north of this room. The first one is described by Aggah to be 'dead jail keeper Brunkel'. Aggah hesitates in front of the second door. All she says is 'mother'.
Furnok opens the jail keeper door
The door opens slowly...
*Boom shack boom shacka wowow*
Furnok opens the door to the jail keeper's lair. A dusty nest of rags, dog hides, and straw sits in the northeast corner of this room. To the south, a long workbench cluttered with pliers, hooks, tongs, keys, saws, and knives runs along the wall.
Furnok opens the mother's door more carefully.
A long, narrow hallway stretches north into the darkness. Both stone walls are completely decorated with bas-reliefs of serpents with human heads, eye-less naked women with goat features, and erect giant apes with backwards saber teeth. The hallway is only large enough for 1 person to walk forward at a time.
other than already assuming it has something to do with the mother of monsters, just checking if she'd know anything else.
Though she isn't sure of the names of these creatures, Cleo understands that they are all demons of various types. Hopefully they're just myths.
Furnok goes for the loot room.
The loot must be sleeping.
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"Dragons can be pretty quiet I hear!"
Maria makes her way into the room, scanning for traps of any kind. Her trap senses tingle, but do not alert her to the magical enchantment.
From all around her, the bas-reliefs of the demons begin to glow in reds, greens, and yellows. They peel off the walls, become 3 dimensional, and reach out to grab Maria. The human head serpent extends its forked tongue, hisses, and tries to wrap around Maria. The massive ape stands in the way of her escape. The eye-less goat-woman slinks over and whispers in Maria's ear "Come, child. We'll make a woman out of you." She bites Maria's ear playfully, but draws some blood with her razor sharp teeth.
A horrendous scream erupts from the room, or perhaps from Maria herself.
Oh buggers! I think Maria tripped a trap.
Cleo was distracted by the banter about the loot room, then scared crapless by the scream, not even realizing it is her friend until the young girl nearly barrels over her. The young cleric manages to come to her senses so enough to reach Erastil's bolstering light onto her.
Was it a monster?
Maria successfully escapes the hallway. The images are still fresh in her mind, but thanks to Cleo's spell, they do not strike fear into Maria.
Cleo knows that her spell will only last 10 minutes, so Maria's fear will come back, albeit significantly lessened.
Aggah stands behind Cleo, looking quizzically.
Cleo grabs Maria's hands, glad to see sanity return to her bright eyes. I'm sorry, my spell will only last a few minutes but hopefully the worst will be over by then.
Then she notices Aggah Aggah? Is everything okay?
"Yes. Aggah just wonder why human scared."
We should leave this for later and check out the other rooms, maybe the loot room will cheer her up.
Go check out the loot room, Furnok. I'll wait here with Maria... and yes I won't go down that hall until you all return.
Furnok checks out the loot!
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"Um, what?" Vandra asked nobody in particular as Maria started running around screaming her head off. As though that amount of noise was what they needed at the moment. As Cleo's spell calmed her down for the moment and she went to try to unlock the loot room door, he asked her, "So, uh, what did you see? Were naked goblins really that terrifying?"
Naked goblins?! Abort,abort,abort!
Furnok looks into the treasure room. Huh, the gobbos just dumped coins and stuff into boxes. Gunna take a while to count em.
Maria enters the room again and immediately sees the demons waiting for her. They seem somewhat... fake, now, as if they are unable to do any harm. That being said, Maria just can't figure out how to disable this strange magical trap.
Furnok opens the loot room. What he might have expected to be coins and stuff turns out to be just scraps of metal, torn tunics and other clothes, and some broken barrels with half-rotten food. However, there is a cavern opening to the left of the room.
Got a cavern in the back here, want to explore?