Nethen sends Giggles crashing to the stairs with a twist and tug of his whip. The children below watch this and looked interested, gripping their work equipment tightly and eyeing the fallen Half-orc.
Waiting for everyone to post.
Nodding, with a grin of her own, Ariadne steps forward, attempting to strike the Half-orf while he's down.
Ghil calls down to the kids in the muck on the warehouse floor. "Hey, it's a rescue!!! Come on up, the path behind me is clear. Let's get you out of here an to better places!"
He keeps his eyes on the half-orc, preparing himself to throw the ghostly dagger that circles in front of him if the half-orc stands.
Vazhimort follows along behind Nethen and Ariadne. Paying attention to his psychic link with the latter, as soon as she's targeted by her opponent, he'll activate the mesmeric mirror trick he implanted earlier.
The children are holding their long handled tools and eyeing Giggles with hostile interest. He tries to scramble to his feet and defend himself from Ariadne.
"Big mistake!" Ariadne hisses.
Taking the opening as Giggles tries to stand, the magus steps forward with a devastating slash across the bastard's gut.
He tries to scramble to his feet and defend himself from Ariadne.
Giggles tries to stand, but is cut to shreds by Ariadne & Iorghil.
You now have complete control of the upper part of the old fishery.
Loot:
Yargen: wand of acid splash (27 charges), acid (3), thunderstone; leather armor, dagger, light crossbow with 10 bolts, brass key (unlocks all doors in the fishery), iron key (unlocks the cabinet in area A7), garnet amulet worth 100 gp.
Hookshanks (The Gnome): studded leather, MW kukri, disguise kit.
Giggles: potions of cure light wounds (3); chainmail, composite longbow (+3 Str) with 20 arrows, flail, 72 gp
Cabinet in A7: The cabinet is locked (Disable Device DC 20). It
holds six small pouches, four of which contain 50 cp each, and two of which contain 50 sp each.
Searching the upper floor finds no way down to the lower floor. The only entrance is the small door the Vedika glimpsed when she was sneaking about outside.
What are you doing now? You have 8 'lambs' you've just freed but Gadren Lam will have heard to fighting up above him.
Vazhimort addresses the children.
"Wow, kids! You all are having such a BIG day, huh? You sure gave that guy what he had coming to him!" Vazhimort indicates Hookshanks' butchered corpse and then himself. "But this gnome is on your side, right? Ha ha? Yep! In fact, we all are! We just want Gadren Lamm!
"Can you tell us if there's anything else we're going to find when we go down there? Maybe there are traps or some sort of hazard we need to know about?"
Cleaning the blood from her blade, Ariadne, begins stripping the corpses of anything useful or valuable. "Vazimort is right! We're here to put an end to these bastards, then we'll get you all somewhere safe, I promise. Does anybody have any idea how to get to where Lam is?"
Nethen coils his whip into his hand as he helps the others gather up the valuables from the half-orc and the gnome. "Is this a healing potion?" he asks, holding up one of the small vials of blue liquid he's pulled from the half-orc's belt pouch. "This bastard got me with his morningstar," he adds, wincing as he looks down at his painful ribs.
"Yeah, that should heal you up some." Ariadne answers as she slips the wand that had been used as a weapon against her years ago, into her belt. "Anyone see Vedika?" she asks, noting that she hadn't seen the other woman since entering the fishery.
The children don't know anything about Lamm's room. Those children dent there do not return!
Vedika comes inside like a bedraggled, waterlogged rat and says, "Looks like the upper floors are secured."
Vedika comes inside like a bedraggled, waterlogged rat and says, "Looks like the upper floors are secured."
[b]Searching the upper floor finds no way down to the lower floor. The only entrance is the small door the glimpsed when she was sneaking about outside.
What are you doing now? You have 8 'lambs' you've just freed but Gadren Lam will have heard to fighting up above him.
"I guess there's a separate entrance to keep the bastard from having to deal with the details. Lam always did like letting his thugs deal with us." Arani mutters "Other than drenched, you alright? There's a few weapons these bastards had on them if you find any useful."
"Great, thanks," Nethen replies to Ariadne, hoping she's trustworthy and isn't lying to him about something poisonous.
"Sounds like we need to go downstairs and have words with Lamm," Nethen says, keen to have his vengeance.
"I agree; let's go get Lamm!"
Vazhimort jumps in the air to click his heels while pumping his fist.
"YEAH! Let's go! Vengeance! This is going to be great!"
"All right. I'll see if I can jimmy the lock on the trapdoor. I need folks to stay back, the pier is old rotting wood and I don't want to go back into the water again today, especially with that shark that came nosing around," says Vedika.
The rogue advances cautiously toward the trapdoor around the back of the structure and produces her tools once more.
She spends several frustrating minutes working on the lock.
"Damn thing's crusted with rust and barnacles," she complains.
Finally she manages to get the pins set and the lock gives way with an angry creak.
"Remember, one person at a time, unless you wanna be chum."
The door opens and you are closer to finding Gadren Lamm.
What are you doing now. Who is going in first?
Nethen follows Vedika's lead, moving carefully along the rotten and slippery planks so that he doesn't end up swimming in the filthy and surprisingly shark ridden water. "Any noise from inside?" he asks quietly, hoping that anyone beyond the door hasn't heard Vedika's attempts to crack the lock.
Arani follows at a safe distance, sticking toward the midd e of the group to focus on a threat arising from either direction.
It is deathly silent on the other side of the door. :)
So who goes first?
Vedika says, "I'll go in first."
She casts a light spell on a small rock and encloses it in her fist, then shimmies down into the hole below.
With the way lit by Vedika's magic Nethen follows her through.
Ghil ducks and crawls along as he has to, though he has some private thoughts about what this is doing to his outfit. Getting Lamm is going to be worth it, though....
A13 Gaedren’s Playground
The air in this large room is chilly and stinks of the river, thanks
to a huge opening in the floor that drops away to the river shore three feet below. Several pilings emerge from the waters to support the roof eight feet above the floor, with mossy ropes slung between them. In two places, rusty manacles hang from the ropes over the water.
Two five-foot-wide walkways cross the hole to the other side of the chamber, where a collection of old cabinets, lockboxes, and piles of clutter are strewn about. Chipped porcelain plates, a cracked goblet, badly rusted silverware, an old wooden shield with a crossbow bolt
embedded in it, the odd dinged helm, and other “treasures” litter the floor of this side of the chamber.
Three tables heaped with clutter stand amid this mess. In the southwest corner, a wooden door provides access to a walled-off section.
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Gaedren Lamm is a jaundiced and bent corpse of a man, his eyes yellowed and skin speckled from age. His left leg has a pronounced limp as he shuffles about. His old skin can no longer stand the chafe of armor more significant than padded armor, but the gray suit of armor he does wear is magical.
On his rare trips outside, he also wears a tattered wide-brimmed sun hat to protect his bald head from sunburn.
"You! How the hell did you find me?" He hisses as he sees Vedika.
His first action is odd? He fires his crossbow into the water. The bolt hits something just under the surface and with a roar of pain an Alligator bursts out of the water in front of you!
Being ready for your arrival Lamm acts quickly, firing his hand crossbow at Vedika
Vedika may now act. Then everybody else goes before the Alligator so give me what you are doing? Remember the entrance takes a round to get through unless you make a DC20 Escape artist check
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"Holy s#&!!" Nethen shouts as a huge alligator bursts from the pool, slopping foul smelling water across the floor. "Get past it, quick!" he shouts, hoping they can all squeeze through the door before the alligator can heave itself up and block the door.
Nethen tries to squeeze himself through the doorway and past the alligator, desperate the wreak his vengeance on the stooped old bastard across the room.
Nethen's bulky physique is too broad to get through the small door easily and he has to squeeze through, leaving him at the mercy of the great beast.
Ghil eyes the tiny door with concern, and decides to wait until there's less of a cluster around it to try to get through. Instead, he calls another ghostly dagger into being, and it begins circling his body.
Vazhimort jumps back and forth and leans over the water trying to see what all of the commotion is in the room ahead. Being short in the realm of humans often means being at the back of the line.
He probably can't do much, so he'll focus on the mesmeric mirror trick he implanted into Ariadne's probably-undamaged brain earlier. The instant she's targeted, he'll activate the trick.
If by any chance he catches sight of Lamm, he'll cast ill omen on him.
Failing that, if he catches sight of the alligator, he'll cast sleep on it.
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Vedika gets stuck trying to shimmy into the room, and presumably gets eaten by the giant alligator.
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Vedika slips past the raging Alligator.
Nethen squeezes into the room.
Vazhimort sends a Sleep spell at the Alligator.
Gobbleguts tries to bite into Nethen and snaps at the air.
Lamm moves away from the view of the doorway and snaps a shot at Vedika
The bolt embedding itself in the wall beside her.
The party may now act. Nethen is still blocking the doorway from entry.
Vedika draws a metal shard from her sash, licks it, and hurls it.
Nethen rolls out of the way in fear as the alligator snaps it's enormous jaws at him. He manages to slip out of it's reach as the jaws crash shut, blasting Nethen with the thing's foetid breath. Moving away from the entrance he snaps his whip at the alligator's snout, trying to distract it from the others coming through the small door directly into it's path.
Seeing that the alligator will need to be dealt with before they can focus on Lamm, Vazhimort directs his will at it in the form of his hypnotic stare. Then, he'll cast daze on the beast.
If anyone strikes the alligator this round, Vazhimort will enhance the pain the strike causes due to his connection with it.
Finally, he'll fit a crossbow bolt to his light crossbow.
Ghil waits at the door, peering through the opening to watch the action inside. If Vazhimort's spell affected the alligator, Ghil attempts to slip through, but if the alligator seems to retain all of its sense, Ghil summons another barbed chain to try to trip the alligator up.