"Hey! You leave them alone!" Spirit shouts, throwing the prayer mat at another of the monks.
"Aaaaaah!" The crows shrieks as his attempts to peak the eyes out of the monk.
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Lorelei tries to take a bite outta blue…
…and feels her teeth sink deeply into his side; he lets out a sigh and drops to the floor…
Yellow tries punching at Mheenah…
…and lands a glancing blow that barely leaves a mark on the quasit’s chin…
COMBAT! Round 3 - The bold may post!
Mheenah (-2)
Mr. Pitch (-2)
Lorelei (-5)
Spirit
Monks (red dead, blue dead, yellow -1 nonlethal)
Spirit continues his prayer mat assault!
But he sends the mat flying past the monk's shoulder rather than whacking him in the face.
Mr. Pitch continues his defense of his fellow familiars.
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Spirit’s mat flies about madly, missing its mark…Mr. Pitch and Mheenah double team the remaining monk…the raven rakes the man’s face while one of the quasit’s claws hits, spreading its poison…
…and yellow feels less mobile…
COMBAT! Round 3 - The bold may post!
Mheenah
Mr. Pitch (-2)
Lorelei (-5)
Spirit
Monks (red dead, blue dead, yellow -3/-2 nonlethal/-1 DEX)
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Mheenah employs about 4 different stances as she hops about the shoulders of the monk, giving little Ki shouts and delivering her bites and rakes with little flourishes of martial finesse.
"You are no match for me and my Quasit Style! she exclaims, her lips moving out of sync with the words.
Spirit squeaks angrily at the monk. "If your god is about kidnapping people and stuff, then I'm glad you think we're blasphemous!"
He then hurls the prayer mat at the monk.
"Hey, I was using that!" Spirit exclaims when Mheenah attacks the prayer mat.
The ferret looks around the cells, and after finding nothing more of interest, bounds into the dining hall and takes a look around.
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Mheenah picks up some of the feathers on the ground and tries to press them back onto the wounded part of Mr. Pitch.
"Hold still, I'm pretty sure this'll work."
After administering her first aid to the raven, Mheenah hops into the dining hall.
"I bet that door over there prob'ly leads to a kitchen. Never saw a dining hall yet that wasn't right next to a kitchen. I wonder what evil cultists eat?"
Mheenah heads for the southern door and opens it.
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Mheenah opens the door and finds her instincts to be correct; it is indeed a kitchen…
Three medium-sized ovens occupy the south wall, while cupboards take up most of the storage space. A small table is in the center of the room. A search of the cupboards find they contain grains, flour, beans, carrots, and dried meat; as well as pots, pans, platters, cups, and utensils enough to serve large and elaborate meals.
But you don’t find anything of significance here either…
You move on to the only door you haven’t explored on the first floor as yet (#4 on the map)…upon opening it you see…
…a larger room, divided by a rich blue drapery just west of the door. The area that you see is empty except for three plain wooden benches. Behind the drapery is a softly carpeted room with three comfortable chairs placed around a low table. A small shelf to the side holds several unopened bottles of Orlanian Special wine, and a half dozen glasses.
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In the kitchen, Mheenah grabs a carrot and munches on it noisily as she hops along with the group.
On discovering the room behind the drapes, Mheenah makes a sneering sound. "So this is where they hatch their evil plans! And drink their hoity toity wines! Oh, if there's one thing I hate more than evil snake cultists, its the bourgeoisie! I bet they're all FREEMASONS."
"Ooooo, if I had time, the things I'd do in this room! But we're on the clock. Let's go check upstairs." She tosses away her carrot top.
"Yes, let's go upstairs!" Spirit declares before bounding off in that direction.
"Anybody else think those skeletons will attack us?" Spirit asks.
Not waiting for a response, he tries to telekinetically yank a bone out of one of the skeletons.
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"Wow. How'd they get 'em to stand up like that? Neat."
"Anybody else think those skeletons will attack us?" Spirit asks.
This thought hadn't occurred to Mheenah. "They can do that? I underestimated humans, they're a lot more fun when they're dead than I realized." She turns invisible and flies into the room and knocks on the nearest skeleton's head in a friendly manner.
"Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?"
Mr. Pitch spreads his wings as the glowing symbol of Mystra radiates from his chest as he channels divine energy to destroy the undead.
"Through an act of faith, I was able to channel a minut amount of energy from my goddess, Mystra", Mr. Pitch said in a humble yet still condescending manner.
"That was cool!" Spirit declares before racing around the room looking for anything interesting.
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Spirit searches but finds nothing amidst the bones and benches other than the broken swords the skeletons carried…
Mheenah opens the SW door to reveal…
…a chamber containing a small table and two comfortable chairs, with an unopened wine bottle and two clean glasses on a shelf in the corner.
Spirit takes a quick look around. "It's like one of those waiting rooms!" he says. "I like those, except when my master would insist that I didn't touch anything."
Not being particularly interested in wine, he quickly gets bored with the little room and follows Mheenah.
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Mheenah checks out the books…
Most of the volumes deal with mundane aspects of agriculture or religion. The most ornate book in the room is on one of the tables, entitled: A MOST WORSHIPFUL GUIDE TO BENIGN MERIKKA. The huge and richly embossed volume will not fit on any of the shelves. It contains many colorful paintings and was formerly very valuable, but all of the illustrations have been crudely defaced. Some of the pages have rusty brown spots on them.
She finds nothing else of interest in the room…
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Mheenah presses on through the western door…
A rack and a table with heavy straps attached to it occupy the center of the room, and an iron maiden stands in the corner. Several empty pine boxes, about 6' x 2' x 3', are stacked against the west wall.
Spirit follows Mheenah around and looks at everything.
He cautiously goes to the corner of the room with the boxes and peeks around.
Mr. Pitch tuts concerning the defacement of knowledge. The raven gingerly follows the talking ferret, peering around the corner.
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Mheenah flutters into the room and settles on the rack.
"A torture chamber..." she whispers as she looks around the place. "And pine boxes for puttin' the bodies in once they're... done with 'em. But if they're charmin' everyone, why would they need to torture people?"
She begins to pace back and forth on the wrack, wringing her claws. "They wouldn't have hurt Elly in here, would they? They wouldn't have stretched my beautiful mistress, would they?" She holds her head and begins to sniffle again.
"I'm sure they're fine!" Spirit declares, with a certainty that he surely can't possibly have.
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Suddenly a couple of what must’ve been secret doors bust open, along with the door on the west wall around the corner, and creatures, you recognize them as goblins, come pouring out…
…and only Mheenah reacts in time…
COMBAT! Round 1 - the bold may post!
Mheenah
Goblins
Lorelei (-5)
Mr. Pitch (-2)
Spirit