In a combined effort you clobber the big guy.
Narciso lets fly with another magic missile from the wand...
Unsurprisingly the magic missile finds its way, but the ogrekin still stands. Which means more beating for Briggi. The big ugly is stubborn and despite the painful reality still believes you will be his ticket to a great reward.
Briggi knocks Ugly's fist with his shield.
Dumb oaf!
Tisha continues to stab away from the back rank.
Can inee we if you work your way behind it ?
Tisha's suggestion becomes obsolete as the ogrekin topples over dead.
Each of the three pits in this room currently contains two frightened, malnourished, and sickly humans, and the partial remains of a few others.
Tisha looks into the pit and calls down.
How did you all get down there? Did the ogrekin get you or are there others you have seen in this Warren?
"A filthy necromancer got us here!" one man replies. "Help us out please!"
Darth Narciso pivots to watch the passages we came from. He uses his message spell to whisper harsh counsel to the others "Leave them for now. Having them out will just put them in danger. We can rescue them on the way back, if we survive."
Briggi provides water for the prisoners. Let us get them out of the pits at least o they have a chance to escape of need be.
Can you tell us anything about that necromancer?
"The man is pale and blotchy from scars, wears thick leather robes lined with dozens of pockets that bulge with surgical and mortician tools. And that abomination you killed called him Rolth." the man replies. "I don't know more. I've never met that man before."
"No."
We know there are more Derro down here and now we hear there is possibly that necromancer Roth Lamm as well. If we leave them here, who knows what might happen to them. It costs us nothing to escort them back to the surface and may even get us some good will. So I have to agree with the dwarves on this.
We know there are more Derro down here and now we hear there is possibly that necromancer Roth Lamm as well. If we leave them here, who knows what might happen to them. It costs us nothing to escort them back to the surface and may even get us some good will. So I have to agree with the dwarves on this.
"It costs us time! Time in which the derro can figure out that we're raiding them and get organized to fight us ..."
It will only take us a short time to get them out of here and to the surface, We can take them to the gates of the graveyard and tell them to report to Kroft if they want to, or head back home. The derro we can handle.
It would be what, five minutes if we just bring them to the entrance stairs and tell them to go up and hide. If they wait for a couple hours so we can make the area safe, then when we emerge we can lead them out of the district when we are ready to head back.
I agree with Narciso, bringing them farther than that is a bad idea. It would allow those down here to get organized.
"Ok, fine do it your way, but if you get me killed over this, I'm gonna haunt you guys forever..."
Tisha moves back into the maze of hallways and tries to hide behind an outcropping of rock to make sure nobody sneaks up on the group as they get the others out.
You get them out, I have overwatch. she whispers as she puts her spear away and pulls out her Rapier to cover the small passages around her.
I really need to learn how to hide in this darkness.... Hmmm I wonder if anyone ever actually learned how to do it like in the stories. She ponders the old elven Legends of the Shadowdancers.
Briggi will see if he can tie off a rope and toss it down. If they can't climb up, he will head down so they can get a boost
With an offered rope the prisoners make it out of the pits. After a few minutes all six of them are out.
When Tisha sees the group heading out of the room, she slinks ahead in the dim light trying to make sure nothing is waiting in ambush for the group behind as they make it to the stairs out.
The group makes it out into the fresh air with the ex-prisoners and back to the prison room with no intervention from the derros.
Briggi waves the ex prisoners off. You are now free. Ya can head back to your homes or talk to Kroft at the barracks. I'm sure she can help ya some.
While the others are freeing the prisoners, Narciso searches the prison for anything of interest...
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For those that are disgusted of nothing, or have a strong cleaning detergent, there is a magical studded leather on the ogrekin.
For those that are disgusted of nothing, or have a strong cleaning detergent, there is a magical studded leather on the ogrekin.
And Narciso uses Prestigidation (several times over)...
He points to the unexplored passageway , "That way, it's where we haven't been..."
The nauseating mixture of decay and strange chemicals fills the air of this large room. Glinting saws, pliers, long stitching needles, and other surgical equipment are organized on shelves and benches along the walls. A sturdy wooden table in the center of the room supports a large humanoid shape—a thing stitched together from a patchwork of dozens of different bodies. The thing would stand nearly seven feet tall if it rose. The head stitched to the body is strangely small for its massive frame—a head crowned with brown hair and bearing a distinctive scar upon the left cheek.
"Gaekhen was supposed to have brown hair and a scar on his cheek; I think that might be Gaekhen's head on that thing..."
He studies the the patchwork humanoid thing carefully (including casting detect magic)...
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As Ernhild moves closer to the slab, Narciso snaps "Wait! That thing might just be animate..."
Damn. Kroft did say that this Rolth Lamm was trying to make some sort of golem from bodies, and that Ogrekin was and prisoners were talking about a Rolth. I think we have some solid evidence he is behind all this. Clearly this is why they chopped up Gaekhen,s body. Tisha whispers as she helps the others search the room and keeps an eye out for an ambush or the Golem moving.
Ughhh.. the sheer foulness of necromancy. I reckon we have enough evidence to get this place cleansed by the church
There is no magic in the flesh golem yet, besides some necromancy to keep it fresh.
Narciso gives Ernhild the go ahead: "Ok, they haven't trapped the animating force in it yet, so it's safe enough...
Then he joins Tisha in searching the chamber.
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Nothing else is found in this room.
As none of the parts has any tatoos, it seems only the head is from the Shoanti.
Briggi pulls out his dagger. I will cut it off. Briggi does so if there are no objections.
Briggi unstitches the head leaving the not finished flesh golem headless.
Narciso pushes the wheelbarrow forward to give Briggi someplace to put the head. Then he asks "Shall we continue?"
As you enter the next 'room' two derros jump out from under the large four-poster bed this chamber holds. A simple writing desk stands, along with a full-length mirror propped up against one earthen wall. In the passage to a room to the right you see a zombie.
Narciso responds to the small horde of foes with a blast of magic...
also, save vs blindness, reflex DC 18, dazzled if made save...
The zombie walks aimlessly around atubbing its toe at the bed. The derros come attacking.