Delitash follows behind more cautiously, trying to sense the presence of any magical auras which might exist nearby. At the same time, her familiar keeps an eye out for danger.
Mazok approaches Fezzik. "You got pretty hurt this time around, and you know better than us what to expect down here. Let me take the front when we move on, all right? I'm sure some deadly stuff lurks down here."
As if to punctuate this point, he stows his warhammer on his back and straps on his shield instead.
Edit: As they pass into the next room, Mazok takes note of the scorch marks and charred bones. Suspecting a trap, he alerts his compatriots of the potential danger.
Fezzik nods and cedes the front position to Mazok. He focuses on being unseen instead of searching.
While looking around Jatembe spots a tarnished silver ring (worth 5 gp) and a minor healing potion in one of the niches. You also detect an aura coming from higher up the room.
Along with detecting a small aura, you can hear (and those with dark vision can see) a few small creatures. They seem to be building a statue. Currently facing away from you all.
A voice from up north in the room "What that? Longshanks!!"
Round 1
G1, G4
Delitash, Mozok <-
G3, G2
Joliryn, Fezzik
As the battle with the slime comes to an end, Joliryn frowns. "Why look at the wounds on the two of you! Wait right here. Don't you move a muscle."
Joliryn presents her holy symbol and prays aloud to Desna. As she does, the wounds on all of her companions begin to close.
Joliryn nods her head. Then she lets the magical spell on Fezzik drop and casts another on herself, causing a magical shield shaped like a star to appear in front of her. It moves with her, and stays by her side as you walk. In her hand she holds her starknife.
Seeing goblins in the distance, Joliryn exclaims: "Goblins!"
Unfortunately by the time she says it the goblins have already attacked.
Upon hearing the goblins' exclamation, Delitash peers around the pillar and sees Mazok under attack. With a quick incantation and a wave of her hand, she sends a bolt of electricity crackling towards the two goblins.
Of course, as two goblins rush at him, weapons raised, Mazok stops worrying about the charred bones and starts worrying about his own. One blow, unfortunately, connects.
"Time to return the favor," he cries, stepping to the side and swinging his axe at the head of the one who had gotten lucky. He then raises his shield into a defensive posture, eyeing both carefully to see which would foolishly come for him next.
The arc of light flashes out and passes between the two. The first it hits shakes violently and drops to the ground, smoldering. The other seemed to dodge the arc a bit and didn't take the full blow.
The two goblins step forward and draw their shortbows.
Round 1
G1
Delitash, Mozok
G3, G2
Joliryn, Fezzik <--
Seeing fellow goblins rushing at the group with murder in their eyes, Fezzik draws back a wicked looking little arrow and fires rapidly in response. Slaves of Drakus!
"Starlight shield!" Joliryn shouts, causing the magical shield to remain in place around her. Seeing Delitash get shot by an enemy she can't see, Joliryn hurries forward towards the battle.
Fezzik's arrows hit his old companion. The goblin looks terrible, but is holding on.
It moves up to the old companion, and strikes out.
"AHH! Fezzik! DIEEEeeeeee!"
Round 2
G1
Delitash, Mozok <--
G3, G2
Joliryn, Fezzik
Delitash walks forward and blasts bolts of electricity at the goblin attacking Fezzik and the one past Joliryn.
Mazok is surprised to see the target of his attack unexpectedly wrapped in coils of blue lightning, but as the first goblin falls, his instinct takes over and he turns his attention to the next, grinning. "One down."
Electricty shoots out connecting the two goblins. The first one dodges out of the way, but it burns it out.
Mozok sees the goblin drop in front of him, so he runs up the hall a bit and strikes at the farther down. Then raises his shield.
The goblin in front of the Dwarf cleric unleashes bolts.
One arrow strikes true, going through the shield into a into her.
The goblin in front of the fighter drops his bow and pulls out his blade. Then strikes twice.
Round 2
Delitash, Mozok
G3, G2
Joliryn, Fezzik <--
Fezzik moves forward and fires twice at the goblin threatening Joliryn.
Joliryn grunts in pain as her star shield shatters. She steps forward and stabs at the goblin twice with her starknife!
As Fezzik shot 2 arrows, both hidding the target goblin it drops to the floor. Joliryn steps forward accross the hall to attack the one the other Dwarf is going after. Her two strikes are very nicely placed and the other goblin drops to the ground!
The room goes quiet. After a quick glance around the room, you can see 3 different side chambers off the main area to the west. Along with some constructed stairs and a passageway that seems to go into a complex.
With 4 different passages to explore. where do you wish to go?
Fezzik will be prepared to search the three side chambers for any unpleasant surprises left behind by the goblins,if the group chooses.
South chamber
Middle chamber
North chamber
Delitash takes the ring and potion from the niche, offering the potion to whoever would like it.
While Fezzik scouts out the side passages, she tries to locate the position of the magical aura she sensed earlier . To do this, Delitash slowly walks from the south end of the room to the north, casting detect magic every couple of steps. When she picks up the aura, she will walk forward thirty feet and carefully search the edge of her spell's range.
Seeing that herself, Fezzik and Mazok are all wounded, Joliryn gathers everyone close. "Come here. Let me channel Desna's healing light upon you."
Joliryn holds up her wooden butterfly holy symbol and prays aloud. A twinkling aura of sparkles surrounds everyone, healing their wounds.
When Delitash holds up the healing potion, Joliryn smiles. "Well, thank you for the offer, but I've already got one of my own. I'd suggest giving it to someone else. Mazok? Fezzik?
Once everyone's healed Joliryn follows Fezzik, helping him search the rooms.
Mazok's head swivels from left to right rapidly, looking and listening for any new threats. Once he is satisfied, he stows his shield and begins searching the goblins warily.
After that, he generally tries to stay close to Delitash, but his main intent is to keep an eye on the doorway to the east while moving closer to the "statue" the goblins had been working on.
As the group spreads out to search the room, and the various alcoves. Fezzik takes a peak into the south room, with his darkvision he can see a this roughly carved chamber looks to have once been much larger, but now the entire southern half is chocked with rubble and debris.
Rocks cover the floor of this room,
Fezzik's goblin eyes can see a large group of large centipedes wriggling among the rubble. He is also somewhat aware of them being here in the past. They don't seem to bother goblins. What they would do to other creatures, is unknown.
--------------
The middle alcove opens up into a small burial vault that has been ransacked. Shattered remains of skeletons lie on the floor in twisted heaps among scattered rocks and debris, but the bodies of four recently killed goblins on deisplay in the four niches are must more intact.
You note a single finger-sized hole in the throat of each goblin. You also see that the bodies are completely drained of blood.
Since it was only 1 hole, vampire wasn't likely the responsible party
---------------
The top alcove, Fezzik knows is filled with the crazy mind fungus that messes with the goblin's heads. Fezzik would choose to avoid this chamber. Though not sure if there is anything else in there.
--------------
Delitash walks around the room trying to detect magic. You are picking up something, but you are having a hard time picking up its exact location.
Joliryn heads into the middle chamber and examines the corpses.
Remembering that she thought it was strange when Drakus was referred to as leaving behind one bite mark instead of two like most vampires, Joliryn checks to see if the corpse has bite marks, and if she can tell if they left one or two (or more) puncture marks. She's not entirely sure if the discrepancy is with the Drakus, or issues with the goblin's counting...
Delitash informs the rest of the party, "I'm picking up some kind of magical aura in this room, but I haven't been able to discern where it's coming from. Someone with more acute senses should look around for any items or phenomena which might be radiating magic."
She curiously examines the goblin corpses, but doesn't have enough medical knowledge to make heads or tails of whatever killed them. She then rejoins the others outside the southern room and says, "I don't see any real purpose to getting close to those centipedes."
Fezzik informs his new mates about each of the rooms in turn, relieved that they didnt intend to aggravate the centipedes. Nasty gits, yech!
Noticing Delitash pacing around the main chamber searching, Fezzik turns his eyes toward any oddities he might notice...
Both Delitash and Fezzik search the room, but are not able to find the source of the magic aura.
Mazok concurs with the group that the centipedes should likely not be bothered unless absolutely necessary.
At Delitash's suggestion, the dwarf summons all the stout folk affinity with underground tunnel systems that he can muster, searching the room carefully for anything that might be the source of the aura she feels.
Finding nothing, he shrugs his shoulders and returns to his vantage point across from the doorway to the east. "Nothin'"
Unable to learn anything of interest from the corpses, Joliryn searches the side chamber with their bodies in it, looking for anything of value.
When she's done she rejoins the others in the central crypt. Seeing them searching for something magical, she tries to help them.
"Desna, guide our eyes!"
Suddenly the room starts to glow as if lit by moonlight.
You cause the area to shimmer with moonlight. This counts as dim light, but any magical script or arcane symbols in the area glow a slightly brighter blue, granting a +1 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek them. Magical ink visible only in moonlight also appears in an area of moonlight glow.
With the glow provided by Joliryn, Fezzik sees a thing glint in one of the top alcoves of bodies. A small trinket of some kind claw on a chain. Delitash can tell this is the source of the aura.
To the east there is a stone passageway into another room.
Fezzik retrieves the trinket and gently hands it to Delitash with exaggerated care. "Special shiny?"
Joliryn uses the Searching tactic while holding her starknife.
Mazok proceeds down the hallway ahead of everyone except Fezzik, his waraxe held low in one hand and a raised hammer in the other, searching carefully for hazards and hidden threats.
Seeing that no one else wants the potion, Delitash shrugs and affixes it to her belt, then slips the ring into her pouch. She takes the claw from Fezzik, looking it over and replying, "It's probably special in some way, but without some time to identify it I have no idea what it actually does."
Delitash follows along behind the others, periodically trying to sense any nearby magical auras.
The sound of dripping water echos through this chamber. On the north side of the room, a nearly ten-foot-tall visage of a woman's face is carved into the wall. Trickles of water run down her cheeks like tears into a foul and polluted reservoir below, which iteself drains into a large pool of fetid black water on the south side of the room.
There seems to be 2 doors out of this room, both constructed from wood. To the east and to the south.
As Mozok walks into the room he looks into the dark filthy pool and sees something inside. It is hard to tell, but it looks like a large hand sized object.
Delitash also finds it because it is giving off an aura, along with the water itself.
Mozok also looks up and sees that the East door looks to be set with an alarm. A simple device that will likely make a racket if you open the door too fast.
Delitash peers into the murky water, extends her hand, and with muttered arcane chanting raises the object telekinetically out of the pool. It hovers at eye level, slowly rotating as she examines it.
Fezzik quietly swaps his shortbow for a small pouch filled his various tools of the sneaking trade, and moves to examine the alarm.
The object looks like a idol of some kind. It looks like a woman perched on a throne of bones. Currently floating in the air from Delitash's spell.
Fezzik moves to the east door and looks at the trap that the dwarf pointed out. The structure of this alarm seems pretty familar and you are able to cut the right cord and let the loud chain fall slowly to the ground. Making it so you can open the door without issue. You also determine that the east door is not locked at all.
Mazok indeed points out the alarm fixed to the eastern door after a quick scan of the room. His gaze returns to the item in the pool, but by this time it has levitated out by Delitash's (mage) hand.
He examines the small figurine for a moment, followed by the face on the wall.
[ooc]As far as I can tell you can do it untrained, just means you get a -2 to the check vs getting your proficiency bonus.
Mazok realizes the face of the statue is that of Pharasma. Her tears are flowing into the bason. It also looks like the tears of are much clearer than the water at the base. It looks like it should clear out the murky water eventually..
The figuring still floats in air while everyone takes a look at it.
Joliryn gasps. "Oh! That statue is a holy symbol of Lamashtu! We can't take that foul thing with us. We should throw it in the trash." She nods and puts her hands on her hips. "It doesn't deserve to see the light of day!"
Joliryn walks up to Fezzik. "Is this where we're going next?"
Fezzik shrugs. "No more loud clanky-clanky here. We can sneak-sneak this way now!" Fezzik waves broadly at the south wall. "Or that way! You tell Fezzik and he go sneak..."
Delitash quizzically raises an eyebrow at Joliryn, still mentally holding the statue aloft. "Lamashtu? What makes you hate it so much? I'm afraid I'm still not much of an expert in all your various deities."
"Oh, she's a foul, evil, goddess! Mother of Monsters, and corruption. I'd rather not have her unholy objects anywhere near me!" Joliryn lets out a shiver at the thought. "Corruption can start small, you know." She nods, matter of factly.
"...I see,' Delitash replies, still evidently a bit bemused by the intensity of Joliryn's reaction. "Well, dispose of it however you wish. I don't particularly care." She floats the idol over to Joliryn.
Joliryn crinkles her nose at the thought of touching such a tainted object! But, she reaches out, grabs it, holds it far away from her body, and carries it over to the garbage room like it were cursed. When she gets there she tosses it into the nastiest looking pile of muck she can see, way at the back of the room.