The druid, with the help of the android, manage to lift the door
With some help from Alpha, Ba'hahk succeeds in lifting the door upwards and it slowly disappears into the ceiling. Beyond, there is a larger metal room where the northern wall is a tangle of what looks to have been strange cages of some sort. Amid the metal ribs of these cages are ribs of a more organic nature -- the ancient bones of some sort of alien creature. Smaller mounds of debris and rubble lie against the southern wall surrounding a narrow, closed door. The doorway to the northeast looks like the others, but stands open at present.
Zaria moves forward, scanning the debris carefully.
Alpha-47 will follow behind Zaria, "An odd room, to be sure, I wonder what these creatures once were,"
He'll spread light around the room, looking for anything that might indicate what this room's purpose was.
Zaria moves forward, scanning the debris carefully.
Ba'hahk also takes a look around. Why were these creatures so fascinating to him? Right now he pushed it away from his mind, they were looking for missing people. He needed to focus
Zaria and Ba'hahk don't notice anything threatening in the room, despite keeping their eyes peeled. The room is pretty wrecked and given the ruined cages with remains of creatures inside Alpha-47 can only surmise this was an animal holding area of some kind. The remains of the creatures that were inside the ruined cages are purely skeletal now, but they are of a six-legged variety that none of you have ever seen. There are maybe the wreckage of 8 or 9 cages here, and there are skeletons of 4 or 5 of the strange creatures that you can see easily.
The single door to the south is closed with piles of debris around it. The double-wide opening to the north(ish) is wide open.
Zaria moves up to the open north-ish door and looks to see what is beyond.
Alpha-47 will move up behind Zaria to also see what is beyond, providing necessary light.
"I think this is what is described as 'Eerie', I've only read about the experience but I think this would qualify,"
As Zaria looks through the open doorway, she sees that two strange machines sit to the north and south against the walls here, their faces appear similar to coils of metal tubes with several nozzle-like protrusions pointing into the narrow room. A set of doors appears on the north-east wall, which is also open. Beyond those doors appears to be a natural cavern of stone of some kind.
Zaria will look to see if there are any signs of the people that we know have come through here before. After all, the skulls told us about one group.
The metallic floor seems to resist footprints, as even the dusty boots you have from being in the caverns before don't seem to track on this surface. There are no visible tracks here to show any signs of traffic.
"The people that came through before us probably went this way." Zaria says as she gestures to the open door. "We can take the smaller door, but I think we follow the most likely way that they went."
"I agree with Zaria. Most likely is our best bet. We don't want to get turned around or lost. Time is crucial in these matters" as he steps closer and falls in behind Zaria,
Karina nods, agreeing with Zaria.
The rescue team moves up to the open doorway. Before you is a short stone tunnel which curves around to the north. Unlike the area behind you this tunnel seems to be made of natural rock and sand covers the floor rather than the smooth metal surfaces you have grown used to. The tunnel is dark, the only light coming from Alpha's spell at the back of the group.
Unlike the glaucite floors, the sandy ground inside the tunnel does show several sets of footprints heading north.
Zaria moves carefully up the hall, crossbow held at the ready.
As Zaria enters the dark cavern, she gets about 10' inside the doorway, when the sand beneath her feet suddenly feels very sticky, as if some kind of adhesive were mixed in the with the sand. She tries to free her feet but each step makes it harder to get loose.
"Zaria!" he calls out as he moves to grab her, being swallowed by the ground was not a good way to leave this plane. He wasn't going to let a simple miss step be the end of her
Try as she can, Zaria cannot get her feet unstuck from the sticky sand - its not so much swallowing her as it is just holding her fast. Ba'hahk moves up behind, where the footing is still normal, but Zaria is held fast.
As the heroes try to free her, they both watch in fascinated horror as the
sand near the mouth of the tunnel, which is in dim light, if Alpha-47 has the sole light source, starts shifting in a large area. From out of the shifting sands come two long, thick black tentacles, scrabbling and reaching towards the fastened down Zaria.
Something wants her for dinner!
Grasping Tentacles - Round 1
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk
18 Tentacle thing
14 Karina
8 Zaria
Alpha-47 will shift slightly, before launching needles at the tentacle monster before it can reach Zaira hopefully.
Grasping Tentacles - Round 1 - continued
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk
18 Tentacle thing
14 Karina
8 Zaria
As Alpha-47 moves forward, his magical light spreads over the area where the sand shifts and the thick black tentacles seems to come from. There you can see, mostly buried in the sand, a large coral-like stone that seems to be the body of whatever this new horror is. The android unleashes a cantrip firing meta needles at the form, and they seem to hit doing some damage.
He quickly summons his primal claw to hack at the goo that is holding her
2 Bleed if applicable
Grasping Tentacles - Round 1 - continued
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk
18 Tentacle thing (9hp dmg)
14 Karina
8 Zaria
Ba'hahk again summons his magical claw and strikes at the gooey sand holding Zaria fast. The claw clearly hits the right spot, but it doesn't seem to generate enough damage to free his companion.
The pair of ugly black tentacles swipe through the air up to 10' from the creatures body, one at Zaria who is trapped and the other at Ba'hahk. The orc is able to dodge the waving tentacles, but Zaria, who is stuck to the ground, is not so fortunate, and she takes a loud wallop upside the head that leaves her seeing stars.
Looking down, Zaria also notices dozens of small black tendrils crisscrossing the ground near where her feet are stuck. They seem to be working their way toward her rather aggressively.
critical
miss
12hp dmg total
"Ouch." says the stoic ranger as she is struck as hard as she was. But, she raises her crossbow, aims, and fires.
for and
After that, she tries to break free from the sand.
"Heh, don't break what isn't broken," Karina says as she goes through the motions once again, conducting her viol to smack the creature across its tentacles.
Grasping Tentacles - Round 1 - concluded
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk
18 Tentacle thing (9hp dmg)
14 Karina
8 Zaria (9/21hp remain)
Zaria fires at the tentacle-creature, but her shot is affected by her feet pinned to the ground, and she misses. She also cannot get sufficient leverage to break free from the sticky mire.
Karina casts a spell animating her spirit object which walks across the sand towards the attacking creature. As it moves over the sand, it enters the same sticky goo that is holding Zaria in place. Before it can make an attack on the creature, the viol is ensnared also. It is still close enough to attack however, and the resultant damage causes a loud cracking sound as the bow hits the outer shell of the creature.
End of Round 1
fail
Again Ba'hahk takes another swipe at the tentacle, trying his best to free his compatriot from the wriggling beast
Alpha-47 racks his brain about what maybe he has read about such a creature as this, "Don't let it touch you, that would be bad,"
Before firing off more needle darts.
Grasping Tentacles - Round 2
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk
18 Tentacle thing (24hp dmg)
14 Karina (spirit object immobilized)
8 Zaria (9/21hp remain; immobilized)
As Alpha-47 fires another series of magical darts at the creature, scoring a hit, he wracks his android brain for any knowledge of this type of creature, but comes up with nothing to compare to.
Ba'hahk again lashes out with his magical claw, but the thick tentacles avoid any damage.
The tentacles lash out once again from the coral-like carapace. The first tentacle again smashes into the rooted Zaria, slamming her harder than last time. Zaria collapses, unconscious and bleeding into the sticky sand. The small black tendrils slowly begin to cover Zaria's unconscious form.
The second tentacle slams Ba'hahk as he tries to help her. The orc gets bruised and battered, but remains standing.
critical
hit
18 dmg - max dmg
Grasping Tentacles - Round 2 - continued
24 Alpha-47
23 Ba'hahk (16/23hp remain)
8 Zaria (unconscious, dying 2, immobilized)
18 Tentacle thing (29hp dmg)
14 Karina (spirit object immobilized)[
The music stops as Karina backs up and just lets electricity out from her fingertips. She's visibly angry as the facade slightly fades and the lute merely floats there. "Perish," she says as the bow begins to jab at the creature.
[dice=Flat check]1d20
The music stops as Karina backs up and just lets electricity out from her fingertips. She's visibly angry as the facade slightly fades and the lute merely floats there. "Perish," she says as the bow begins to jab at the creature.
[dice=Telekinetic Projectile (B)] 3d4