With a dramatic wave of her hand, Farrina sends three bolts of energy into the one that Tanjona is battling. The bolts seem particularly weak, however, and she curses under her breath.
Declan slides opposite of Tanjona and declares loudly with much emphasis "And now you do what they told ya!" as he thrusts his rapier into it.
Looking over his shoulder at Rose he says "Do I need to do all of the work here are you going to help out sometime soon?"
"What do you think I'm doing, painting a picture?!" She replies to Declan with a snap to her voice.
Rose lets two more arrows fly free, just over Declan's shoulder into one of the ghosts.
"What do you think I'm doing, painting a picture?!" She replies to Declan with a snap to her voice.
"What?" Farrina snaps. "You paint as well?! Do I have to take up basket weaving to compete?!"
All of your attacks find their marks, and one of the spectral undead shrieks and fades away. The other two strike back at Adolina and Declan!
"You know that I've worked damn hard to get where I am and I'm not going to be upstaged by two drama queens with cheap masks!" the Fabulous One continues to rant, her invective throwing off her aim.
Declan growls in pain when he is hit, but amazed when his wounds suddenly begin to heal all on their moments later. With enemies still nearby, there is no time to think on that however so he slides over to the next as he continues to shout in a loud, gritty voice "And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control!"
After throwing out another powerful (for him) strike, he shouts back towards Rose "I can do this all day!"
Stopping her retorts to Declan, Rose focuses her mind upon her arrows, and they meet their marks with ease.
You slowly continue to chip away at the ghost's vitality. Farrina misses with her scorching ray, though.
You battle against the ghosts for another 2 rounds, trading blows, and eventually you prevail!
The three remaining bodies of the doomed addicts were well-to-do members of the city’s aristocracy, and their surviving jewelry (signet rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces) is worth 2,400 gp in all.
"Now there's a nice reward," Farrina says, her eyes lighting up with the discovery of the jewelry. "We need to find more ghosts with stashes like this."
"If we had one, Miss Mysterious took it when she left," Farrina replies as she examines a signet ring.
Rose pushes through and stands next to Farrina, eyes transfixed on the jewellery too. She picks up a pair of amber drop earings and holds them up to the light.
"Look at that pair of earrings. Don't you think they would match my eyes?" She asks Farrina, holding them up to her ears.
Declan looks down at his wounds as they fade "I'm invincible!" He declares. "My wounds, they heal themselves!"
Turning to Rose he grins, "Watch!" he says before slashing open his arm with his dagger.
Farrina looks back and forth between Rose's two eyes and smirks. "Oh, Hon ... Unless you plan on going harlequin, I think you're really going to have a b@~%& of a time matching both of them."
Tanjona grabs Declan's hand and says, "That's because Adolina is taking your injuries with magic. Look." He points to her arm, where a slash has just appeared matching the one that Declan gave to himself.
Rose prickles at Farrina's comment and, still holding the earrings close, turns to Declan, watching his silly experiment, rolling her eyes.
"You idiot." She claims, simply as Tanjona intervenes.
"Sorry about him Adolina, we haven't been as lucky to benefit from much magical healing on our own missions." Rose says, watching Declan closely before he does anything else ridiculous.
"Either way, that could have gone worse. Let's keep going shall we?"
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"Ouch!" Adolina says, the undercurrent of pain and annoyance quite clear in her voice. "If you could avoid deliberately harming yourself next time that would be nice. I won't always have a link open with you." She winds a bandage around her own arm in slightly awkward motions until Tajona lends a hand.
"Indeed, let's press onwards."
Declan's gaze swivels to Adolina where he finds the exact injury on his arm that he just gave himself. "S$+#. I'm sorry, I had no idea that you were taking them on."
"Hang on, hang on." he says and slides his pack off his shoulders. He rummages around through and pulls out a polish piece of wood and tosses it to Adolina. "That should help. Liberated it from an unfortunate delinquent just last night."
When they start walking, he leans in to Rose and whispers [smaller]"You know you only landed those shots because of my inspirational words of wisdom, right?"
Once you are healed up, you move on to the doors to the west. This oval-shaped chamber is dominated by a twenty-foot-deep pit. Narrow ledges, only two feet wide and slanted toward the pit, run along its edges. Two rusty iron winches sit to the east and west sides of the room, connected by a length of sagging, moldy rope that hangs over the pit. Thick growths of pale yellow fungus grow in the pit, amid the bones of what appears to be a long-dead giant snake. The fungus has reached the central portion of the southern ledge, but hasn’t grown that high on the northern side.
"So I guess we can either try to climb across using the rope or squeeze around one of the edges," Farrina declares, looking over the dead snake with suspicion. She then grins maniacally at the others. "So who's volunteering to go first?"
Declan holds out a hand to stop anyone from moving forward "Hang on there, beautiful. That's yellow mold. Poisonous. We can take it out with some fire though, anyone have some handy?"
He then points to the winches, "We can't use the ropes. The winches have seized and we'll drop like flies down that pit."
Turning and pointing to the northern ledge he adds "Also. Looks like that ledge is rigged to drop into the pit as well. Someone clearly doesn't want us across this."
"Ok, then the other one," Farrina says, pointing towards the southern ledge. "I repeat, Who's first?"
"Oh you're such a know-it-all Songbird." Rose says, moving forwards to start to move across the southern ledge. "I'll go first for you, beautiful." Rose says, looking back at Farrina.
"I have one more spell with fire, but I hate ... ah, f+*% it," she says in resignation before sending a ray of flames to envelope the mold.
"I'll be along behind you in a bit," she says with a wave at the masked woman.
The fire destroys the mold, allowing you to use the southern ledge to bypass the pit.
Two pillars support the ten-foot-high ceiling of the next chamber. The floor is decorated with five-foot-square colored tiles, the reds and yellows and blues and greens faded with the passage of time and appearing to have no real pattern. The mangled skeletons of two people lie slumped in the center of the room. Another door provides an exit on the far side of the room.
"Now isn't that an interesting decorating choice," Farrina comments, eyeing the floor skeptically. "Wait," she says as one of the others moves to enter the room. "If there's not a trap or magic here, I'll eat my best scarf," she says. The quick words of a well-practiced cantrip flow from her lips and she looks over the room with eyes that can now see magical auras.
"You're right Farrina." The Emerald Rose says in agreement, pausing herself to scan the room for any non-magical traps.
Tanjona leans on his trident while waiting for folks to sort this out.
Rose doesn't find any traps, but there seems to be a hidden compartment in the yellow square near you. Opening it reveals 300 gp in assorted valuables (coins, jewelry, gems, and small art objects). It seems likely that the other yellow squares hold treasures as well...
There doesn’t seem to be any particular pattern but if you wanted to stay on only a single color, both the green and red squares provide a contiguous path to the far doors.
"Well, I'm going to test them all very carefully. I can't think of a pattern as of yet, and trial and error is always a good fall back method. Just don't get too close."
Rose starts moving across the room with caution, one square at a time, checking every yellow square she comes across and moving very slowly across the others, fully aware that one might explode at any second. She had 'relieved' enough items from others to know of a variety of traps.
"Umm... Ok. Better you than me," Farrina says with a frown, still not convinced that something horrible isn't going to happen.
As soon as Rose steps on a different colored square from the one she started on, a strange creature suddenly emerges from the wall like a fish emerging from water! This squat beast is as wide as it is tall. Strangely symmetrical, it has three arms, three legs, three eyes, and one huge mouth. With a grunt, it moves to attack!
"Warning, don't step on that one, its not safe!" Rose declares the obvious to the room, drawing her rapier.
"I knew it!" Farrina cries out.
Songbird advances when Tanjona does, setting up flanking for him. As he moves into position with his rapier, he shouts loudly Flash before my eyes, now it's time to DIE!"
Tanjona slides into position and lunges at the creature, gearing up to give it a really bad time once he's able to establish a firm position.