Ernhild manages to shoo the stirges off the corpse and Tisha once again ends them before they can attach to anyone.
With the obvious enemies gone, Tisha looks around the room to make sure there is nothing else that will harm the group. As she does that she whispers:
Someone want to check the body to see if it is the one we are looking for?
There is an hidden passage for small creatures like the derros. There are no immediate threats visibile. The man that lost his blood to the stirges doesn't look Shoanti at all.
Briggi keeps watch at the south corridor
Tisha points at the little entrance.
Careful. Derro could use that to get behind us. So keep a watch behind us.
Tisha then follows Briggi over to the other entrance and gets ready to protect him.
Another bigger hidden gap there. Expect hit and run tactics. she whispers to Briggi as they get ready to move.
The majority of this room contains a nasty-looking stretch of mud—a partially collapsed sinkhole—kept damp by rivulets of water seeping from the walls. A patch of solid ground extends into the mud to form an island, on which is heaped a reeking pile of body parts. To the north, a rickety wheelbarrow sits on its side against the wall.
An otyugh is enjoying its latest meal as it wallows in the mud. When it notices the PCs, it cries, “Warm food!” in a slobbery voice as it lumbers forth to attack.
The Otyugh becomes angry, but not deterred.
Hearing the Otyugh's cry ("Warm food!"), Narciso steps up behind Tisha and unleashes his trusty silent scream...
also, Fort DC 17 or dazed for 1 round
and then gives probably unnecessary advice to Tisha and Briggi "Get in there while the getting is good!"
The otyugh 'charges' Ernhild - which looks more like forward falling. It is scary nonetheless when a huge thing that is only a mouth with feet and arms stumbles towards you.
Briggi moves up and thwaks
Narciso moves in and unleashes another silent scream...
also, Fort DC 17 or dazed for 1 round
Narciso keeps pestering the otyugh with magical screaming which is visibly unpleasant to the aberration. Briggi breaks a few bones with his hammer.
How many of these things are in the city? Tisha wonders aloud as she moves over and stabs at the creature. over Briggi's head.
If Tisha would ask the administration, they would tell her that there are 38 registered otyughs in the city, minus the one killed earlier. This one isn't one of those registered ones. Tisha causes quite the wound on the beast, but it keeps trying to eat the group, mostly Briggi.
Is it just me of do these things seem to like the taste of dwarf? They keep trying to eat our guardsman.
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Briggi bashes the Otyugh again. I am the law!
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Is it just me of do these things seem to like the taste of dwarf? They keep trying to eat our guardsman.
Narciso bites back on a snark, thinking "That's just a disturbing thought". Looking at how the fight is going, he figures the beast is done...
Tisha wounds the otyugh again and Briggi finishes it off.
The majority of this room contains a nasty-looking stretch of mud — a partially collapsed sinkhole — kept damp by rivulets of water seeping from the walls. A patch of solid ground extends into the mud to form an island, on which is heaped a reeking pile of body parts. To the north, a rickety wheelbarrow sits on its side against the wall.
Well we came to find a body... who wants to look for it.
Ummm. I'll stand Guard
Tisha whispers as she backs away from the stench and watches the entrance.
I will do it. Briggi downs his antiplague and starts looking around.
Narciso moves to join Tisha, and pauses.
"Why is there a wheelbarrow? Otyugh's don't have hands..."
He goes to check out the wheelbarrow.
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Among the still-uneaten body parts on the muddy island in the center of the chamber are the broken legs and hips of a human—both of which are decorated with bold Shoanti tattoos.
There is nothing special about the wheelbarrow. From the looks of it Narciso concludes, that the bodies are brought here with it for the otyugh.
But something else catches Narciso's eye.
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Narciso finds an amber necklace worth 350 gp, a silver dagger, a wax-sealed elixir of vision in a metal flask, a wand of spiritual weapon (48 charges), a ring of swimming and that his breakfast wants to come out again the way it went in.
Oh dear. Do you want some antiplague?
"No! No, I don't want more stuff to come back up..."
Narciso leans against the wall and cleans himself up using prestigidation. He tells Briggi "Go cut the otyugh open to see if there are any other retrievable body parts..."
Then he picks up the wheelbarrow and tells Ernhild "Put the bits in here. I'll push, as you guys want your hands free for weapons."
Anything in that otyugh can stay in there.
"Well, we better hope that that's not Gaekhen's body, because the shaman wanted him back whole... If it is Gaekhen's body, I'm sure he'll want all the pieces."
Was he eaten or chopped up? Does he show signs of being drained like the body in the last room?
The tatooed remains look cut not chewed off.
Well let's keep looking Briggi takes the lead to the eastern corridor.
Tisha takes her standard place behind Briggi.
Narciso takes third spot in line, behind Briggi and Tisha, pushing the wheelbarrow full of body parts.
Narciso, Did you find anything in the muck that we should know about?
The walls and ceiling of this tall hallway are encrusted with dozens of yawning skulls. Their mouths open into dark holes in the walls.
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Narciso, Did you find anything in the muck that we should know about?
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Narciso hands Ernhild the wand, whispering "You can probably use this, a wand of spiritual weapon."