Lofnaiali follows quickly, and shoots her special bow at a baboon. But the arrow drops from the bowstring before she releases it. Tahlumilali joins Ohrmizd, to hold the frontline against the attack.
The pugwampis come over. One attacks Ohrmizd's shield with its shatter ability. One shoots with a bow at Ohrmizd, and one just moves behind the baboons.
Ohrmizd shouts in pain when one of the baboons bite him in the right leg.
Ohrmizd resists the pugwampi's spell, but then he blocks an arrow with it and it hits the board in such an unlucky way that it shatters in half.
"Besterds!" frowning and shaking his arm to discard the remains of the shield, Orhmizd grasps his scimitar with both hands and attacks to the blue baboon in front with all his strength.
If the monkey falls, Ohrmizd steps over it to provide a flank for Tahl while pronouncing a judgement "I swear I will finish you all critters and clean this place for The Healing Flame!" and immediately his wounds start to heal by the power of Sarenrae.
In his rage Ohrmizd cuts the baboon in half.
Heshan nodded as he moved in position to aim at the Pugwampis.
"Why don't you have a taste of the rainbow!"
He unleashed a spray of magic upon the monster.
The pugwampi resists the colors and shakes off the effect, also the boboon. Manuun plants a bolt into the furthest ugly-fey-dog, leaving it staggered. The baboon keeps biting at Ohrmizd, but without success.
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Tahlumilali swings his blade at the baboob. But he is out of luck.
Lofnaiali shoots at the same baboon. With a masterful shot she makes the baboon's head explode and splatter all over the pugwampi behind.
The wounded pugwampi staggers away, back into the room it came from. The other pugwampi's step back and shoot their tiny bows. But with littel effect.
"Well, I can't say we are having a great day since we stepped in the monastery, but it was nice to see the brains of that monkey explode Lofna!" Ohrmizd spins around with his scimitar to attack the pugwampi at his back while Sarenrae's blessing starts closing his wounds "Ha!"
"Forget the monkey. I need vengeance against that foul creature.
But vengeance would have to wait. Instead, he moved ahead of the elf to take the shot at the pugwampi next to Ohrmizd.
Manuun takes down one of the pugwampis. Heshan misses one and Ohrmizd is hit with abd luck again.
"I like your optimism my friend! We will need that" Ohrmizd performs another series of feints in front of the pugwampi while trying to catch him only to find himself slipping on the floor dirt "I only, I just hope we do not end covered in pugwampi poo. It would cause a terrible impression on the princess"
Tahlumilali takes his chances and walks past the pugwampi, to hinder it from fleeing. Then he brings his blade down in another attempt to cut the life of the critter short. And again the fey dodges the attack.
Lofnaiali triies to keep some distance to shoot without bad luck. Which pay, in that she hits, but it's only a flesh wound.
Thalumilali curses in frustration as he misses the pugwampi once again. These slippery little cretins are such a pain.
Lofnaiali feels some accomplishment at finally nicking one of the pugwampi. ”If you don’t run I’m going to turn you into an ugly pincushion.”
Sarenrae keeps healing Ohrmizd's wounds while the man steps to the side to engage the visible pugwampi with Tahl. Ohrmizd slashes holding the scimitar with both hands for greater might!
"Where did the other one go? What room or direction?" the Keleshite shouts confused.
The pugwampi is cut down by Ohrmizd. Now it wouldn't resist to be turned into a pincushion. But it would be really ugly.
"Sure! Let's hunt it down!" Ohrmizd also moves north blocking the door while he tries to find out the pugwampi at the kitchen.
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"Now you can see how I ended up in a locked room. Those creatures are nothing but bad luck to those who are near."
Heshan was at least all smiles, considering the work that they have accomplished. Still, he was determined to make sure that one creature didn't get away, walking in behind Ohrmizd as he did.
Beyond a doorless arch appears to be a large kitchen complete with walls lined in shelves and cupboards, a huge central table, and an enormous oven against the north wall. Several drawers and cupboard doors stand askew, and the floor here is a jagged field of broken glass, smashed pottery, bits of sharp stone, jagged bones, and discarded cutlery.
The last pugwampi is hiding under the sink. Alone and cornered it has no chance and is quickly dipatched.
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The dying shrieks of the last pugwampi are coming from the kitchen after Ohrmizd and Thalumilali enter the room. When the elfs returns with a bloody blade Manuun slumps down on the next wall and breathes a heavy sigh. "Thanks god thats over!"
Seeing the giant statue of Sarenrae in front of him he also offers a quick Prayer., asking the Dawnflower to send her light back into her old monastery and help Ohrmizd to drive out the various pests who have invaded it.
After a few minutes of rests he gets up and moves to check out the kitchen for any hidden drawers or doors.
Afterwards he turs to Ohrmizd and the others, "Almost done. Lets get on with this and finish up the living quarters before I need to climb up to that Pugwampi hort in the church."
The Healing Flame helps Ohrmizd as they finish the last pugwampi under the sink "This critters' cleaning is being increasingly unpleasant"
After helping Manuun to register the kitchen, Ohrmizd kneels in front of Sarenrae's statue and raises too a prayer "Dawnflower, let us restore the light to your sacred quarters"
Standing up he nods to Manuun "Let's find out what is in that room"
Three long wooden tables and dozens of chairs that once lined this mess hall are in shambles, mostly rotted away with the passage of years. Light shines through several large holes in the ceiling, illuminating a closed door on the east wall.
Nothing of value and nothing magical is found either in the kitchen, nor the mess hall.
"Soraya is going to need to spend a lot of money changing all those roof tiles. It would seem Doomsday hailstorm has fallen all over here..." understanding the closed door must lead back to the dead spider room, Ohrmizd comes back to the main corridor.
"Let's check what the baboons where guarding in their room" Ohrmizd walks into the primates place and starts registering it.
Five austere beds line the north wall of this humble office and living quarters. A dented metal chest rests at the foot of each bed, and a simple mosaic pattern of red and orange glass chips brings some color to the wall. A layer of grime and filth coats many of the surfaces in this small room, and the redolent stench of dirty fur hangs heavy in the air.
"Euk! It stinks here worse than Rombard's barn..." Ohrmizd closes his nostrils with one hand while he examines the place poking the stuff with his shinning scimitar.
The Keleshite opens the chests one by one after examining them carefully for pugwampi traps "Any magical auras boys?"
Ohrmizd finds more ape poo in the chests.
"Allow me."
With a whirl of his hands, he placed one hand down his eyes. The next time the others could see them, they would be glowing as he began to check for magic.
None of the poo in the room is magical.
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Ohrmizd breaks into laugh "Aren't I improving Man?"
The Keleshite nods to Manuun and Heshan "Well... not interested in non magical poo, definitely. Let's see what holds that last room you are saying Man"
Ohrmizd walks forward in front of Manuun and examines with stern gaze the last room.
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Somehow that grain of sand in Ohrmizd's eye is really annoying. With his eyes watering he let's his eyes wander over the lost library.
A sagging wooden balcony overlooks this large room, which must once have been the monastery’s library. An overpowering odor of musty, rotting paper and old leather fills the air here, and hundreds of books—most too damaged even to open without destroying them—litter the floors. Empty bookshelves
line the walls of both levels.
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Manuun stares in wonder at the sheer magnitude fo books found in this places. "What did people write in all these?"
Manuun starts wondering through the room touching some of the books in wonder, opening some of them and have them falling apart in his hands.
After a few minutes wandering about, he snapps out of it, and starts his to check the room more in detail.
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After searching the books for a few minutes Manuun manages to find one not fallen apart. Actually it looks completely preserved through all those year.
"Courts of Stone and Flame. Wonder hwat thats about?"
Manuun opens the first pages and strats reading, murmuring short phrases out of context from time to time. After a few minutes he drops on a nearby Pile of books and continues reading. "You should see this guys. It is a book about Djinni. So many things I never knew. You will definitely not believe whats in here, Ojrmizd."
"Interesting find, it will certainly worth some coin on the appropriate hands" when Ohrmizd sees Manuun truly interested in the book he smiles "Oh well, or you can keep it... maybe all those things have a sense of reality... and maybe there explains why and how the monastery was funded after all"
The Keleshite approaches Manuun and offers a hand to help him up out of the book piles "Camo'n there is still work to do, we will have time enough to read all the books once the monastery is fully cleaned"
Ohrmizd takes the direction back to the cloisters, to explore the southern alley, which remains to check "Afterwards we should explore the garden and face that vulpture Man found before. Do you think you could hit it with that fan of colors of yours Heshan?"
An open arch along the southern wall at the eastern end of the corridor leads off into darkness, while a series of archways lines the north wall, looking in on the monastery’s massively overgrown courtyard. The southern wall bears a bas-relief sculpture in the form of a triptych. In the first scene, a heroic-looking bearded figure takes leave of four similarly attired companions, who rise off into the heavens, leaving him to stand vigil over the large mountain in the background. The next scene depicts the bearded figure in battle with a flaming half man, half snake creature wielding a spear. The fire spirit transfixes the bearded hero with the spear, seemingly striking a killing blow. In the final scene, the hero appears twice—once on the ground with a wound in his back and once standing over this form, looking down upon it sadly.
"Heroes. What for? I do not know who this guy is, but see, he apparently ended killing himself... or some kind of duplicate of him did" Ohrmizd negates with the head at the sight of the depictions "Any magic auras around?"
Not finding anything of relevance, Ohrmizd renews the light on his scimitar and looks to face the central garden "So where did you saw the vulpture Man? I think if I call its attention, Heshan can probably disable it with his magic"
"I think it's safe to assume there is no magical properties in this area."
As for the garden, he shook his head.
"I am not quite at that magical level as of yet. But as they say, there's only one way to find out."
He gestured Ohrmizd into the garden with he himself following if he did.
"Ok Heshan, I am at your hands here. I am confident you can unleash that rainbow magic again and stop the vulpture before it feeds on me. I will try to step away from your magic if it attacks me" then turning to the others "If it attempts some strange flight, I trust on your arrows and bolts to stop it"
Once everybody is ready Ohrmizd raises a prayer to Sarenrae touching everybody with guidance before venturing into the cloisters garden "Dawnflower guide our steps, guard our body!"
Ohrmizd moves through the bushes trying to call the attention of the vulpture "You beast, come to play or leave forever!"
The vulture sits in the tree on its nest. It opens the wings wide, ruffels its feathers and caws threateningly at Ohrmizd. Which works quite well, when you're opposed by a bird that's 8 foot tall and has a wing span of 40 feet.