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Drool drips from Bartleby's lips for moment, then a stream of vomit shoots from his mouth and nose as the paralyzation wears off. Falling to his knees, he empties at least two meals onto the museum floor.
"Hrggrr! Uurrgrrl! Hggrgrroolfff!!"
When it stops, he crawls to the nearest wall and leans against it for a while, whimpering prayers to his goddess.
Eventually he picks himself up, thanks Ursus for rescuing him, and moves to look inside the room, hoping enough masks remain to satisfy his own goals.
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"What was this?" Smoggin asks, "that was disgusting." He shudders at the thought to get kissed by these things. He then also takes a good look at the room, takes ou the wand, which flips though the room, as if been taken care of. Smoggin, expecting it, runs after it and then heals himself. A ghostly sound can be heard as he picks it up, followed by maniac laughter, coming from the masks.
This simple room of unadorned stone is piled floor to ceiling with boxes and crates, allowing room for only a few small corridors between these towers of dusty, mothballed exhibits. You can hear a faint cackling from the other room.
You can find nothing of importance in this room.
These public restrooms seem to be for the use of visiting clientele. Several stalls are here and a huge cesspool below collects the offal. Mad laughter echoes in this cramped stone chamber. The stench of sewage battles the cold of the mist, but through the haze can be seen smears of blood across the floor, walls, and ceiling, as well as the doors of several stalls.
Suddenly as soon as you step into the doorway, another mad scribe jumps down from the ceiling and strikes at you! He cackles with glee as he gives Ursus a right hook to the temple!
versus flat-footed AC hits
As soon as his fist connects, you hear a hissing sound. You see a snake crawl out of one of the vents in this room and crawls up to Smoggin, threatening to bite the gnome.
Bartleby
Nolin
Smoggin
Ursus
Viper
Maldroog
Bartleby's magical icicle hits and pierces the snake's skin. It hisses even louder, seemingly angry. It sticks out its forked tongue at the gnome cleric.
Nolin's hammer just barely hits the prone/grappled mad man. It just incenses him further.
The venomous snake lashes out and tries to bite Smoggin.
However it instead hits it head on an adjacent crate.
The scribe, wild in his frenzy stands up.
AOO(Including prone)
Nolin slams down his warhammer in response and the scribe, lashes out at Ursus with a haymaker.
Slam(Including grappling penalty)
Smoggin's morningstar makes an impact on the frame of the venomous snake.
Between Nolin's hammer and Ursus's fists, the man slumps down and is unconscious.
The snake lashes out at Smoggin again.
It misses the gnome again. The mist clouding its vision.
Smoggin smashes the poor snake and it stops moving. It is eerily calm in this foul room.
The only things you find in this room are the remains of a fallen half-orc. He seems to be half-eaten by something with big teeth, but you cannot be sure. He looks like he was the guard here as you notice the set of keys at his belt which is about where the body ends. That is all you find in here.
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"One moment." Bartleby says as he reloads his crossbow and says a prayer over it, hoping his ill-fated luck with the weapon can be turned around. Smiling with a a little more confidence bolstered by the feel of the weapon being imbued with magic he states. "Pharasma says, Ok, let's do it." Bartleby takes up position just outside the door (AB 13), aiming his crossbow inside from a position that uses the wall as cover.
A long hallway leads to this grand hall, wherein the Blakros Museum shows off its finest collections. Mock vines cling to the walls and hang from the fifty-foot-high domed ceiling, and huts of grass are strewn about the open area. At the center of this sprawling chamber, a miniature replica of a traditional Mwangi ziggurat rises out of the mist to a height of nearly twenty feet. At the top of the ziggurat, a rail-thin elven gentleman is strapped to an altar, his bare chest painted with strange sigils and monkey paw-shaped blots of paint. Nearly 20 apes, baboons and other monkeys revel here, but a terrifying howl shatters the revelry as you arrive. The primates scatter to the mists making way for their champion. He is a giant of an ape, clearly more dangerous and powerful than any of the other creatures in the room. Following right behind him seems to be his mate, a little smaller, but also very fearsome.
The alpha male points at Ursus and beats his chest as if to issue a challenge. The female ape similarly beats her chest and stares at the rest of you.
Knowledge(Nature)
You know that the female is a regular ape and the male is some sort of super ape. But you don't know any more than that. It is clear that you have been challenged by the male. If you win, you win the rights to the best mates!
Bartleby
Da'Tunga
Mate
Nolin
Smoggin
Ursus
The champion stands his ground and waits for Ursus to answer his challenge.
The champion ape attempts to bite Ursus as he moves in.
AOO
But the act of Ursus running in overwhelms the big ape and he misses.
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"What the...?" Bartleby's mouth drops open at the sight of all the primates. Monkeys in Blakros Museum? He's not sure even his goddess could have predicted this. When Nolin runs off, leaving the gnomes at the mercy of the other one, he shouts out in surprise. "Hey! What are we supposed to do about that?" He points at the female with a clear run at the door. "Aww rotten shingles! Smoggin, take this, I'll try to hold the door!" He pushes his enchanted crossbow into Smoggins hands and steps into the doorway, casting shield of faith and praying it's enough.
The champion ape roars in anger at being dragged to the ground by Ursus.
It stands up and attempts to break free of the man-bear's hold.
CMB to break free
He bursts free of the hold and beats his chest as if to mock the man-bear.
The crossbow bolt embeds itself right into the apes arm. It roars in anger. The 2 gnomes desperately try to hide behind one another. However it is Smoggin is who left to the wolves, or rather apes as the case may be. She charges the gnome who shot her.`
Charging Slam
Confirming Threat
Smoggin is almost knocked off his feet by the force of her blow and takes 11 damage.
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Ursus growls as the beast throws him off, "Come on then! Let's see what you got!"
Charging in past the ape's reach Ursus slaps his chest up against the ape's hairy gut and then lifts and tosses his opponent to the ground in a belly-to-belly suplex.
Before his opponent can recover Ursus leaps into the air and drops one big muscled leg across the beast's throat.
Da'Tunga is unable to void the leg drop and roars in pain. He stands up and tries to sink his teeth into Ursus.
AOO for standing from prone from Ursus
Bite
Ursus tries to punish him with a clothesline which connects. The ape misses with his bite.