Briggi moves south and smashes
Tisha’s brain screams at her to move, but her limbs refuse to cooperate.
Briggi starts over demolishing the next construct, but he has a long way to go.
With Ernhild stepping back, Briggi is left to deal with the constructs agression.
Another bolt of magic launches from Narciso's wand.
Tisha’s vision starts to clear but the world is still spinning.
Narciso has the only reliable way to deal damage to that thing. But with little of it he carves away it will take forever. Briggi on the other hand has sweaty hands or something as he doesn't manage to steer his hammer to hit the construct. At least his heavy armor makes it just as hard for the anomated bones to hit him.
Yet again...
After taking two more hits the thing is more a skull on a vertebrae, but it is still attacking.
Tisha finally managed to clear her head enough that she can get herself together and take stock of the situation.
That hurt you bastard! she hisses as she stabs over Briggi’s head.
Briggi bashes.
When Tisha finally is her stabby self again she makes quick work of the construct. While Briggi manages to miss it a final time.
Briggi grumbles about having to get a new handgrip on his hammer. Let's keep going. He takes the lead going north.
Tisha glances around to see if anything was hidden behind or in the snake things before following Briggi.
Narciso also takes a look around, before grabbing up the wheel-barrow and taking his customary third place in line.
4 rank +3 trained +2 wis+2 racial+4 alertness(familiar)
The wooden tables here are stacked with vials, beakers, and other alchemical gear, although the southern one is heaped with broken vials and leans awkwardly on a hastily repaired leg. Three large cauldrons sit against the east wall, one of them upended. Its foul, rancid contents - old rendered fat - have spilled onto the floor.
From over Briggi’s head, Tisha glances around to see if she can see anything that needs to be paid attention to before moving on.
Let's check the vats for body parts. Briggi does so.
While Briggi and Ernhild look through the vats, Narciso takes a look at the alchemical gear...
4 rank +3 trained +2 wis+2 racial+4 alertness(familiar)
The stinking goo in the cauldrons is vermin repellant. No body parts are found here. But the rubble might be worth searching.
Tisha stands guard over the rest of the party watching the entrances to make sure nobody sneaks up on them while the others search the vats.
1 rank +3 trained +4 int
Narciso sniffs the stench from the cauldrons and comments "That's a decent vermin repellent. Let's not take it with us now, but that lot might be worth a pretty penny, so it might be worth grabbing on the way back."
He turns to Briggi, while picking up the wheelbarrow again: "But in the meanwhile, lead on Mcduff."
My name is Briggi, not McDuff.
Briggi heads to the south door.
The door to this room is boarded over, but can be broken down or can be opened with ease if the boards are removed.
This room, once a pantry, is in shambles. Broken crates and shelves lie strewn about the place, with the foodstuffs, firewood, and other supplies they once contained scattered across the floor.
"Clearly, this room is abandoned. We can come back and check it out after we've chased off the rest of the Derro... If we can."
East then.
Ignoring the room and moving further east the tunnel splits several times into what could be a maze to get lost in.
This foul-smelling cavern is bordered on three sides by ten-foot-deep pits. From these pits wafts the rancid smell of excrement and decay. Each pit contains a few heaps of moldy straw, a wooden trough containing filthy water, a few rotting body parts, and a couple of still-living prisoners. A hideously deformed humanoid keeps watch here and moves to attack on sight.
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[ooc]Ugly
Narciso, Ernhild, Tisha, Briggi <--
Umm... Do all Dwero's grow that big?
Tisha does not wait for and answer and just stabs over Briggi's head with her spear.
Arghhh! You nasty derro! Briggi swings with his enhanced strength
The tall and massive creature (taller than any of the group and definitely not a Derro) easily withstands all of the attacks so far. "Rolth give me big reward for your head, pretty elf!"
Wait no Orgekin! I thought those were just in the stories Da used to use to scare us about what was outside the forest when we were little.
They are as dumb as he said. He thinks Roth is still around.
Catching bare glimpses of the Ogrekin through the wild melee in front of him, Narciso shrugs and launches another magic missile from the wand...
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The ogrekin might say 'Tis but a scratch', but he lacks the wit for that.
What he can do is punch Briggi.
Briggi grunts and steps to the west so Ernhild can join him in combat if she wants.
Tisha makes it a proper phalanx by thrusting her Spear between the wall of dwarves in front of her.