Niu grabs a card and notices it is the 2 of clubs. After he tosses it to the floor a kobold appears standing over it.
The kobold starts dancing and shouting, telling the wasps how ugly they are and how small their stingers are.
A swarm of wasps bears down and attacks the kobold.
The kobold acts as if being stung, screams, and runs out the balcony door, jumping over the railing.
The swarm goes as far as the balcony door and stops. It hovers there for a while and returns to the nest.
Niu closes the door and sighs. "Seriously? Maybe they are blocked from leaving the room somehow."
Turning from the door, he heads back toward the stairs. "Well, let's look around downstairs. If we don't find another way up, we can always come back once the wasps have calmed down."
"Ya, Maybe there is another way up." The paladin turns and heads down the stairs.
"Let's check the room with the music first." Approaching the room that they passed by on the way to the greenhouse, he pauses to examine the door and listen to the sounds beyond the door.
Niu can hear the sound of a harp being played with professional skill. The door does not seem to be trapped.
Etgar puts up a hand to stop Niu. Please, I'll get that Niu... He moves in front of his friend and opens the door.
Strains of harp music fill this room, emanating from a large harp placed on a six-foot diameter dais in the room’s southwest corner. Other musical instruments are mounted on the walls here, from large woodwinds to tiny fiddles. A few padded stools are scattered throughout the room.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Donovan moves into the room looking, but not touching.
The room appears vacant other than you two.
Etgar grits his teeth in anger and returns to the main room. Should we cross the stair to the Eastern door then?
"Doesn't appear there is anywhere else to go here."
Niu takes a look at the eastern door.
It does not appear to be trapped.
What other interments are in the room?
Violins, a cello, a double bass, lutes, a trumpet, a saxophone, a trombone and a concert bass drum.
Agnimitra looks into the room, "Doesn't appear to be a way up from here. Let's move on, boys."
Donovan will move over to the drum, setting down the hammer he picks up a mallet and bangs it trying to match the harp. When Angi mentions it's time to move he will return the mallet and turn to follow. Stopping to turn around to grab his hammer.
"This door looks safe." Niu calls out before flinging the door open.
This gloomy dining room contains a narrow table with a single high-backed wooden chair at each end. Other chairs and a sideboard stand against the room’s eastern wall. The headless corpse of a hairy, humanoid creature sprawls across the middle of the table. Three hideous, dog-sized fleas are feeding on the corpse. The sharp, jagged edges of their jaws greedily clatter for blood.
Etgar
Donovan
Niu
Agnimitra
Round 1
Agnimitra 18/26 Donovan 24/24-27 Etgar 19/19-22 Niu 16/16
Niu ✔
Blue
Agni, Etgar
Red, Yellow
Don
As Niu retreats into the other room, he warns the team. "Some big flea things coming this way."
He uses Protective Luck on Agnimitra as he hides behind the Ifrit.
Niu knows that giant fleas are susceptible to slashing damage and they carry diseases.
The blue flea begins pursuit.
Niu
Blue
Agni, Etgar ✔
Red, Yellow
Don
"Use slashing weapons, if you can. And... um... try not to get bit. We all probably have Leprosy already, but why lump more diseases on top."
Etgar rushes in to stand by Niu's side, drawing an extract as he moves. He then drinks it and stands ready to defend.
"Blades, you say?" Agni responds, as she pulls her scimitar from her belt, readying it for the nearest enemy. "Check!"
Move Action: Draw Weapon
Standard Action: Ready an Action
The yellow and red fleas join the pursuit.
Niu
Blue
Agni, Etgar
Red, Yellow
Don ✔
Donovan moves forward and draws Silver Fang, standing next to Angi he waits to strike at the first creature that comes within his reach.
"Beware my fang"
Round 2
Agnimitra 18/26 Donovan 24/24-27 Etgar 19/19-22 Niu 16/16
Niu ✔
Blue
Agni, Etgar
Red, Yellow
Don
Cackle and Protective Luck on Donovan.
The blue flea heads for Don and is slaughtered by Agni.
Niu
Blue
Agni, Etgar ✔
Red, Yellow
Don
"Hey!" she says, a grin on her face, "You're right!" She readies another strike for the on-coming threat.
Etgar's eyes widen at Agni's success. Well...thought that would be harder. He takes the same idea and readies his own attack, though perhaps with a less effective weapon.
Yellow goes for Don. His readied action misses.
Etgar manages to wound the yellow flea.
(plus disease fort check)
Red goes for Agni and she wounds it with her readied action.
(plus disease fort check)
Niu, Agni, Etgar
Red, Yellow
Don ✔
Donovan stabs down at the flea who's mandibles scratch against his greave.
"That was better"
Don drops the giant flea.
Round 3
Agnimitra 18/26 Donovan 24/24-27 Etgar 19/19-22 Niu 16/16
Niu, Agni, Etgar ✔
Red
Don
"Good job, Don," Agni says, approvingly, before she takes another slash at the giant bug.
Agni slays the giant bug. End initiative.
Donovan's stomach grumbles. "Do you think there is any people food here?"
Etgar smiles grimly and kicks one of the fleas. You mean these don't look tasty. He turns up to the room from which the fleas had come, and heads off in that direction to look around the room.
The sideboard contains an elegant tablecloth with gold thread.
Etgar looks back across the open doors, wondering what everyone else was doing. Guys...am I in the wrong room?
Agnimitra hesitantly steps into the room, looking around. "I can't say that I'm all that excited to see what they were eating before be interrupted them."
The headless corpse was a gnome.
Etgar wrinkles his nose in distaste as he looks at the corpse while heading to the north. He turns to the northern door and checks it to see if it was trapped.
The door does not appear to be trapped.
Etgar waits for Niu and Don to enter the room, then opens the door.