Search it and then onto the next.
"These cultists are despicable," Bireli says. "There must be a way down."
Henry looks t the skeletal remains with sorrow. He knows it is not those of his Mother but rather someone else that was loved once. He clutches his Mothers note tightly.
Puddins will search it more thoroughly. If these bones spring to life, we would be wise to make this place safe before our enemies command them to attack others.
Demonica puts a hand on Henry's shoulder. "We'll find her."
"What in Gorum's name?"
Puddins casts Shield, moves forward and tries to snuff out one of these creatures before they bite her.
She will use shield to shield block the first one that hits her.
Otoro rushes in and conjures up a large swelling of water between his 2 hands before splitting them and firing water over both trash bugs as Otoro's water temporarily expires again.
"What is that?" Henry asks as he spins some of his shards into the green-gooed skeletal insectoid.
HP 24/24
AC 16
Spells: 1st 2/4
Focus: 1/1
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Puddins rushes in, but her swing is just wide and her sword smashes into a piece of ruined furniture rather than her target. Otoro has more success, however, washing a tide of battering water over both, pulling the red-tinged on in toward himself as the water recedes . Henry, meanwhile, sprays the other one with piercing darts, further cracking its bone exoskeleton.
The green-tinged creature manipulates some sinew holding its bone machine together, causing a sharpened spike at the end of one appendage to lash out at Puddins!
It manages to catch her with its second strike, piercing a week point in her armor and leaving her bleeding.
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Puddins
Otoro
Henry
#2
#1
Bireli
Demonica moves in next to her Sword Sister and swings twice.
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Demonica brings her greatsword around twice, smashing the creature's bone chariot to splinters and gashing the tiny creature within! It shrieks and scuttles away, next to its brethren.
The other creature, now adjacent to otoro, tries to spike the azarketi.
It catches Otoro twice with its spike, leaving him bleeding.
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#2
Demonica
#1
Otoro grunts as he reopens his hate, blasting #1 with a point blank cold blast.
Otoro then backs up into the hallway, grabbing his wounds and trying to cleanse them with water.
Pudding moves forward, swinging at creature #2.
She then bleeds from her wound.
Now at 26hp.
Birelli follows his sister into the room and then chases after the creature she smashed. He swings his practice sword at the tiny, green creature and then raises his shield.
Henry moves inot the corner of the room, keeping his attack focused on the more wounded insect chariot. "I always hated bugs."
HP 24/24
AC 16
Spells: 1st 2/4
Focus: 1/1
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Otoro blasts the creature nearest him, cracking many of the bones in its chariot but not quite destroying it. Puddins tries to follow up with her sword, but the bleeding from her wounds obstructs her vision for a moment. Bireli has no such trouble, though, easily stepping in to finish off the wounded creature. Henry then peppers the other one with needles, easily smashing what's left of its chariot and wounding the creature inside as well.
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Puddins
Otoro
Henry
#1
Bireli
Demonica moves over to strike at 1.
Birelli hops over the debris in the room and tries to finish the second creature as well.
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Puddins moves into a flanking position and swings twice!
Her wound continues to bleed.
Otoro moves in to get a clar shot and summons forth as much power as they can muster.
Henry moves a little bit closer waving his shards into the last creature. "These are the ugliest creatures I think I have seen."
HP 24/24
AC 16
Spells: 1st 2/4
Focus: 1/1
Demonica, flanking with her brother, starts slicing left and right at the last enemy.
Puddins tries to Battle Medicine Otori, hoping to end the bleeding.
She then tries to do the same for herself.
And fails.
"Can someone feed me one of those potions?
Otoro heads over to Puddins and uses Ocean's Balm.
Then bleeds a bit himself.
"Thanks Otoro but now you need to drink a couple of potions for sure."
Bleeding stopped.
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A glowing Sihedron rune is engraved on the ground to the north. In the southern end of the room, a vast copper cauldron, green with age, stands on thick iron legs over a blackened fire pit. Crumbling books line the shelves in the southeast corner, while worktables are covered with potions, oils, and salves that surely expired several centuries ago.
Standing in deep concentration near the circle in the north end of the room are two tired-looking cultists. Contained within the circle is what looks like a pony-sized maggot with a human face. When you come in, one of the cultists breaks their focus and orders the maggot to attack before reaching for their own knife!
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"That's gross, I didn't realize maggots got that big." Henry shudders as he shifts inot the room keeping his eye on the large pulsating bug.
HP 24/24
AC 16
Spells: 1st 2/4
Focus: 1/1
Demonica runs in and slices at the nearest cultist!
Otoro heads in and unleashes a 30ft cone of torrential water.
Otoro looks a bit dehydrated after the blast.
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Demonica rushes in and smashes one of the cultists to a pulp on the floor . The other is so frightened, he is caught totally off-guard by Otoro's wave. He's slammed back into the wall, collapsing into an unconscious heap! .
The larva is also battered, but still seems to be conscious. It inches forward against the tide, it's disconcerting, mostly-human mouth snapping at Demonica.
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Larva
Puddins heads straight for the larva and flanks it! (two Strides)
She then swings at the foul creature!
Otoro circles around to the far side before conjuring up a pair of small water blasts.
"Another demon to slay!" Birelli says as he charges into the room. He swings at the fiendish-looking grub. "Nica! Finish it!"
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Henry leaps the small dagger shards into the slug larva. "These insects aren't so bad."
HP 24/24
AC 16
Spells: 1st 2/4
Focus: 1/1
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Moving to the small room on the north side of the southwestern hallway , you push open the door to reveal a narrow room, little more than a closet. Two piles of rusted iron ingots sit in alcoves to the east and west, although one of the ingots appears to be untouched by rust.
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Heading north from there, you return to the large chamber where you fought the weird ooze. Looking around, you see a pair of massive columns of rusted metal to the east and south, each fitted with complex hinged armatures and drooping lengths of wire that connect them to one of two large metallic worktables. Gears grind slowly and glowing crystals periodically pulse from these tables. A stone well with a cracked cover was once the home of a weird iridescent ooze, but you already took care of that problem--its remains lie smattered across the floor; the bodies of four cultists lie similarly unmoving. Bookshelves line the northern wall, though most of their contents have fallen to ruin--save for one faded red tome near the center of the northern wall.
Henry and Bireli both clock the book as being false, actually a piece of wood bound in leather.
Puddins will examine the book.
Bireli picks up the hammer and flips it in his hand. "Hey, Sissa, do you think this works well against these demons? Or just fae?" He slides it into his tool belt regardless of his sister's answer.
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"That block of wood isn't suspicious at all," he says with a laugh. "I wonder if it's some kind of counterweight to some hidden mechanism?"
"Cold iron is for demons, yeah. Silver is for devils."
She looks at the table with interest.
"Just means they hid the real book somewhere else." Henry helps to look around for a brief moment while he catches his breath.