Caine hardly notices the dead dog drop down. The Amurun looks about and doesn't seem an Elder so he Strides quickly to the closest door....
Kazmuk tries to grab the Amurun before he starts another fight.
"No, stop. We need to treat Peat's wounds first!" He yells. He grabs out his medical tools and starts doing just that.
Kazmuk does his best to treat the wounds of the injured Leshy. He's never treated a plant before, so he just pushes a few broken branches back into position and ties them back to Pine's main body with a bit of rope.
"Now don't exert yourself too hard, ye hear! Or them ropes will fall off along with your branches." He warns the Leshy.
Kazmuk, being a dwarf, feels quite at home underground. He peers off into the darkness of the tunnel, looking for anything strange.
"I think we should go into the tunnel." He suggests to the party. "Can the rest of you see in the dark?"
Caine just winks at Kazmuk as the dwarf begins tying up Peat's wounds. While waiting, the Amurun takes out his lock picks to begin on the doors.
Probably best if we clear the house first
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Blueberry Peat considers the options and finally offers their measured consideration as an investigator, "I agree that clearing the house first makes sense, then exploring the tunnel. If we go into the tunnel first, we'll have to fear someone coming along from behind us and blocking off our means of escape."
"I agree," she says to Blueberry. "Let's check every room we can find in the house first."
The Amurun is not amused....
I break these picks someone pays!
Seemed like a set up
"Well done," Thalassa gives the catfolk an approving tap at the back before scanning the room.
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This long storage room runs north to south with smaller firkins and kegs lining the walls, as well as small padded crates with delicate glass bottles. Some of the packing straw has been repurposed as improvised bedding, though most of it has now been soiled. The stench of filth and waste fill this chamber. A single iron door that you entered the room in exits to the west. There are three surviving prisoners are malnourished,
dehydrated, infected with something...They all look at you with distrust, but have not attacked yet....
Roll religion and medicine to learn stuff and how do you want to deal with these three?
"You look like you've been through a lot, we're here to rescue you."
Kazmuk gets out his tools. Wordlessly, he attempts to triage their wounds. He's not too good with this talking thing so he hopes his actions speak for themselves.
Caine stays out in the hall. The Amurun on guard duty....
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The men react to your coming close, but as you don't move to harm them, they let you treat them. Bad things have happened to them...
You can't tell much but you can tell the are Gorumites. As ask, one says, The temple has fallen! Now most of these mad men worship Xar-Azmak! What a travesty!
You can also tell they are infected with something. Possibly the same thing that befell the goat outside in the stable. It's a magic illness causing them to rust. It's honestly the damnedest thing! Quite literally as you believe it may have come from the realm of demons.
"Who is Xar-Azmak?" Thalassa asks one of the men.
"And do you know what illness is this?" she visually inspects their illness.
"Seems to be somethin' that makes ye' rust, Thalassa." Kazmuk remarks as he strokes his beard.
Kazmuk addresses the men "Not sure what this Xar-Azzmuk could be...but I think we should get you lads out of here."
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The men look at one another, think , and then say, hells if we know. Some kind of demon. We remain strong in the faith of Gorum. Please get is out of here. We fail our god in that we can not fight, but we want to warn the rest of the town!
As for the illness, we know not. All we know is those affected rust! The living rust like poorly treated swords. We need seek the help of powerful clerics! May Gorum save us!
They dont know much nor can they do much.
Kazmuk looks to the rest of the group. With their approval, he'll start escorting the men out to the front door.
The Amurun looks impatiently at Kazmuk.
Point them they way, my friend. The Elder isn't found just yet!
Caine then prepares to continue the search!
Kazmuk nods and addresses the men. "Aye. Well just go up the stairs and out the door, we've cleared the top floor I think so you should be fine. Get out of this place."
"Let's go!"
"Let's get out of here, then." she nods at her allies to help these poor men get out of the place.
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The three men all run up the stairs toward the main door. As they enter the main hall, they stop. This room holds long benches and tables. A double door leads to the south. Single doors lead to the north, east, and west. This room also holds two former acolytes of Gorum who now worship some demon. They prepare to fight!
Round 1, FIGHT!
The enemy acolytes are NOT the ones in white. The ones with no background are the bad guys!
Post when you can!
Not sure that he can TKproject quite as far as he can see, Jacen summons a vortex of telekinetic energy to slash & batter the bad guy he can see
1st DMG = B
2nd DMG = S
Caine smiles at the welcome party inside the main hall.
Hello ma! What's fur dinner!
The laughing Amurun then Moonwalks into and across the hall to wave at each demon cultist!
The Battle Dancer then does a few spins, flips, curls, swirls, and taps!
Fascinating Performance vs Will DC of each
The Swashbuckler then introduces his Starknife to the gentleman furtherest from the entry!
Thalassa positions herself and readies to shoot the enemy that she can see beyond the door.
◆ Stride
◆◆ Ready
P damage
◆ Strike
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Round 1, Fight!
Caleb perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
Jacen perception: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15 Psychic energy!
acolytes perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14 engage!
Peat perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Kazmuk perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Thalassa perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8 ready and attack!
Caine perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 DIE!
Jacen sees the problem and throws energy toward it!
The acolytes respond by surrounding the door and attacking Kazmuk with a flurry of sickle cuts!
The second one moves to attack as well!
Thalassa sees all the action and attempts to help her friend, but misses as they are just too quick.
Caine move in and astounds them with his moves and then decimates them with his attacks dropping one with one hit to the head!
Post when you can!
Kazmuk gets really mad upon getting hit! He rages and punches the enemy twice.
◆ Rage (granting 4 temp HP)
◆ Strike
◆ Strike
Caine seems to be enjoying the show provided by Kazmuk!
As the body hits the floor, the Amurun is continuing the search for the elder!
No time to gloat, Kazmuk! Let's go, buddy!
Thalassa searches the men who attacked them. Hopefully, they might find more clues from them.
"Let's quickly search them before we leave."
Kazmuk holds up a hand.
"Wait, we should make sure that these guys leave safely first. We forgot about these enemies, we should make sure there's no one else."
Kazmuk follows the men until they are safely out of the front door, then rejoins his friends.
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Kazmuk goes back into the house to assist the others in exploring. He suddenly bends over in pain, his untreated wounds biting at him.
"Hey, uh, I'm not feeling too good after they hit me. Can we take 10 minutes to heal up?" He asks the others.
Kazmuk takes 10 minutes to treat his wounds.
He gains some very minor relief and moves to continue with the party.
Caine walks over to the South door (Room C5) and opens it....
Thalassa follows Kazmuk with weapon ready, thinking the place is still riddled with hostilities.
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You open the door and find Two arrow slits open in this room’s southern wall, and a barrel of ranged weapons and ammo stands nearby. A short but steep set of stairs leads up to a hatch. Looking around you see....
each barrel, one at each of the two stations, contains three shortbows and 50 arrows. So if you want a ranged weapon, get one for free!
Nothing else in the room. Where to next?
Kazmuk leaves. He doesn't believe in weapons. Why use weapons when he has these guns?
Kazmuk flexes and poses dramatically.
Caine goes to open up the door in the west side of the room....
Thalassa picks up a bunch of arrows to refill her supply and puts them inside her quiver. She then follows Caine.