While unable to fully penetrate the cobra's metal skin, the strike seems to have injured the cobra somewhat.
Flank me so our blows will inflict greater damage!
Rose moves in with Hound and brings her axe down.
Travis tumbles past the others, beyond the snakes to flank with hound and attacks the flanked snake.
Sholano's eye twitches as his brain registers the constant mortal peril that his new oaths seem to be getting him into, even as he glides smoothly forward, drawing his sword. He nimbly slips to the side of the cobra opposite Rose, hoping to find a chink that his slender blade might exploit.
The snakes are very agile, and quite thick-skinned as well. As it is, only Travis managed to land a blow upon the snake, which attempts to bite him in retaliation. However, it seems quite badly banged-up, and another hit of that sort could most likely ruin it.
The snake fails to bite, and its comrade goes over to attempt to bite Hound. It's somewhat more successful.
With its delicate bite, the snake injects a very mild, stiffening poison. DC 11 fortitude save, or take 1d2 dexterity damage for the next 6 rounds or until you make a save.
Hound snarls and puts his back into a swing in order to finish off the wounded one.
Travis switches his target and attacks the last remaining snake in a flurry of blows.
Rose brings her axe down again.
The wounded snake is smashed to expensive metal bits. The bits are mostly intact, but the snake won't be moving anymore.
The other snake... well, Travis managed to hit it, but the damage done was easily deflected by the snake, leaving only a mild scratch.
Hound will keeps doing as he always does..
and Rose mirrors him
Travis takes two attacks on the last of the snakes, if it's still up.
The snake completely resists the attacks. This one lashes out at Rose.
However, it misses. It doesn't seem like these snakes are having very good luck today.
Again, Travis strikes at the snake twice, hoping to at least damage it.
Hound tries again.
Sholano glides in on the remaining side, rapier flicking out in an echo of the snake's metal tongue.
Rose flips her axe over and slams down with the hammer end.
Nobody is having good luck today. The remaining snake dodges everything that's thrown at it (Metaphorically speaking). It attempts to bite Rose.
There was very little chance of its success, so it's not surprising that it fails once again in its endevour.
NYARGHHHHH!
Travis, frustrated by the turn of events with this last snake, imbues his next attack with elemental power of fire.
"I am really glad no one is watching this..."
"If they are, they must be having a good laugh over our incompetence. Oh, nice strike!" he says as Rose seems to connect with a well-aimed attack.
Finally. At last, the second snake flops onto the ground miserably, now simply a ruined chunk of rare, bluish metal. You have managed to kill the snakes.
Hound spits at the snake. Hrumph.
The look on Rose's face when the snake stops twitching under her hammer is extremely self-satisfied. She blows a lock of her hair out of her face and straightens up to survey the wreckage.
"Hmm." she muses, looking at the piles of scrap and then beginning to dig through them.
"I'm betting there's poison reservoirs in these things."
Travis breathes a sigh of relief and looks at his companions, seeing none of them seriously wounded, nods slightly and shrugs. "Seems like we have prevailed again... Shall we search and then move on?"
Having suggested a search, he begins making one.
Hound casts his eyes around the room.
Sholano smirks wryly and joins the others in surveying the newly snake-free room. 'Not exactly the most spectacular victory, but it will do."
Both cobras have poison resivours in their biting chambers, each filled with two doses of poison. It will be hard to get the poison out right now, though. The snakes seem to have been made of mithral.
Other than them and the door, there is nothing else of interest in this room anymore.
"The poison seems to hard to get out... should we just move on, or take the time to collect the stuff, and do we have anything to put it in if we do collect it?"
I have no skill with poisons and no containers. Let us leave it and continue. Hound will go to the door and open it.
Rose piles all the bits of snake into a pack and hands it to Hound.
"Or we just take it with us. Mithril is light."
"And worth a pretty penny in its own right," Sholano chips in, nodding approvingly at Rose.
Past the door is of course, another hallway that ends in a door with an inscription. This one reads, "Suffer not the fool. Stupidity is our faith's cardinal sin." It doesn't seem trapped, but you never know.
Looks like this is a job for our intrepid rogue.
"I think you're right. Sho, care to do the honors here?" Travis waits for Sholano to examine the door and perhaps remove any traps on it.
Hound opens the door!
The door opens smoothly. In the center of this room is a podium, in which an amulet in the shape of a dragon, silver with blue, shining highlights rests. To the east is a set of stairs going upwards, ending in a set of double doors. Could this be it? Could this be the amulet you've been looking for this entire time?
Hound looks around warily.Considering the traps they had encountered, there was no way they would just be able to snatch the item just like that.
"Looks too easy to me. I suspect this item is false... perhaps a copy of the one we seek?" He looks around, like Hound, wary of another trap or ambush.
Sholano nods along with Travis, a wry smile on his face. "I agree - it would seem a bit anticlimactic if our little quest simply ended here, wouldn't it? Of all the qualities the Cardinal may or may not have, I rather suspect an appropriate sense of the dramatic is among them."
"Yeah... that's definitely not it. Look around for a hidden door or cabinet."
Hound keeps searching around. How about these stairs? They might lead to another part of this dungeon.
"Well yeah. Still might be worth giving this room a once over though."
Hound examines the walls more closely
But seems more interested in Rose's bottom. Hmm..Good hips on her, she would have six children easily. ;)
Rose catches Hound watching her and arches an eyebrow.
The sapphires of this dragon's eyes are glass, not gems. Clearly, this is a fake. The stairs are trapped as well. They had pressure plates on them, so that anyone who stepped on them would trigger... something.
However, there is a hidden door to the west. It leads to an L-shaped hallway, which ends in another door. This door reads, "Secrecy is our greatest ally. Exposure means Death."
This will be the seventh room. You're getting closer to... something. What is uncertain.