"Erastil take you, many-footed one!"
If necessary Quinray fires again.
Kentaur, Ibram and Quinray destroy the last centipede.
"Fie Fie, foul foot-filanged fiend!"
"Hark Hark, hasten homeward hundred-hoofed hellions!"
Search area.
Retrieve arrows
The room has mounds with what you guess are centipede eggs. In one of the mounds Quinray finds a gem worth 100 gp. There is a tunnel exiting the far side of the room.
-13 HP
-2 DEX
Tirnel sags to the floor, trying not to pass out. A faint chuckle escapes his lips and he whispers at Kentaur and Ibrbam's battle cries-Would that your skill at arms matched your talented tongues! I think you are a pair of closet bards waiting to share your talents with an unsuspecting world. In the meantime maybe one of you could help me.
Shame-faced Kentaur hurries over to Tirnel
-2DEX
Tirnel smiles in relief from the pain-Thank you Kentaur. Now how about we investigate where that tunnel leads, and by we of course I mean you.
Milo keeps an eye out and an arrow knocked.
As the party moves hunched over through the tunnel, Milo can hear screams of what must be pain, from somewhere up ahead.
Hasten onward...
Milo follows Kentaur's lead ready to loose an arrow.
-2 DEX
Tirnel follows as well but tries to make sure he stays a safe enough distance from any potential melee.
Please gods of the underground, no more centipedes!
Kentaur and company burst into an egg shaped cavern that is somewhat obscured by long tangles of roots along the walls and hanging from the ceiling. A group of six mites is torturing a kobold that is tied into the roots along the wall to your immediate right. Three other kobolds already hang limply in their bonds, dead or unconscious.
Party action, you are in melee range.
Intersting, kobold dying
on mite
[damage]1d8[
strike the fiendish mites!
Mites away!
-2 DEX
Still feeling the effects of the centipedes, Tirnel hangs back for a moment and casts a protection enchantment.
~mage armor~
AC now 17; 2 hour duration.
These things are disgusting.
Quinray and Kentaur combine to kill a mite.
On Quinray
On Tirnel
On Tirnel's
On Tirnel's
-haha...so feeble-
Son of a bitc.....
Feel my magical wrath fey filth!
Less talk, more killing...
Sensing Milo's tenseness Quiray fires
HP 13/16
Milo and Quinray each kill a mite. Tirnel wounds his foe.
The two unwounded mites turn and flee out the exit passage.
Tirnel's mite savages him with its dagger.
How many mites are left? One on Tirnel?
If any are wounded and need to die
-12 HP
Once again finding himself on the brink of death, Tirnel now clearly remembers why he was never interested in studying the underground fey species.
Filthy little blighters..
Milo's internal chuckle at seeing the mouthy Tirnel knocked about goes quiet as he sees his companion badly slashed by the elf-bane dagger of the mighty-mites.
Only WE get to pick on the elf!
die mite!
"Erastil's blessings Tirnel"
Once we're sure they're all dead,
The last mite's body is mangled beyond recognition, a bloody pile of small body parts.
After profusely thanking Kentaur and Ibram, Tirnel sweeps the room with detect magic.
Any ideas what we do with this one? A knife to the throat may be merciful at this point.-he nods towards the tortured kobold.
Quinray searches the room
Retrieve arrows.
Milo takes up a position at the passage through which the mites fled keeping an eye out and an arrow knocked.
All arrows fired during the battle are broken but fixable with DC10 crafting check or mend spell.
No magic is detected in the room.
The passage is curving, you can only see about 15', and slopes down.
detect evil on the kobold...
The kobold resonates residual evil but appears to have died during the battle.
"Well, they know we're here now. Do you want to continue on or back to the surface?"
Tirnel looks at the dead kobold-I guess that resolves that issue.
Answering Kentaur's question-As long as you don't let the rest of the mite host kill me I say venture on.
As we advance:
Milo follows Kentaur's lead:
Onward we go...
You follow the narrow and low tunnel for a few hundred feet and it curves continually to your left as it corkscrews downward into the earth. It finally opens into another low cavern with roots hanging from the ceiling and walls. On the far side of the cavern is another exit, in the middle of the cavern is a 10 foot wide chasm that is about 30 feet deep. Looks like it would be relatively easy to climb down and back up the other side of the chasm or to use the roots on the ceiling to climb across without having to enter the chasm, some of the roots even have been tied into loops to make them even easier to grasp.
Tirnel, can you repair any of my arrows?