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the (best friend of his; by the way) druid
Alarmed, Adelie repeats Mone's message via sign language.
Adelie advances slightly, so that he can still see Mone and he isn’t fully in the cavern. He floats the front line of fighters, and, hitting as many mushrooms as possible while not hitting Talathel or Anzath, casts Ice Slick.
Thanks for the translation, Tragershen.
Adelie bobs up and down in the air, letting the shrieks of the mushrooms wash over him. He feels a peace and serenity he hasn’t felt in a long time as he watches Bedlam move his mouth and have all his words completely drowned out by the noise.
Adelie wildshapes into a small air elemental and stays next to Mone.
Adelie, who has been quietly following along, also takes a look at the mushrooms.
Adelie grimaces. ”Sorry,” he mutters at the rats, knowing they can’t understand him. ”Normally, I’d want to give you a chance to flee or hide, but after meeting your family upstairs...” He walks forward and swings morosely at a rat.
Adelie nods at Tragershen’s suggestion. ”That works. If we do end up having to use that plan, how long should we wait in that room for stragglers before exiting Rappan Athuk?”
If it’s alright with the others, Adelie casts hide campsite as soon as they pick a spot to sleep. It may not fool any intelligent creatures that know the layout this place, but it will provide a bit of concealment.
Adelie bobs up and down in agreement.
Adelie scowls at Marthek’s body.
Like Aurora, Adelie winces at the sudden cacophony of roars and crashes. He reluctantly adds to it by calling a bolt of lightning to strike Marthek.
This human(?) has been residing here in a place crawling with ghouls for who knows how long. We should definitely be expecting tricks and/or extreme strength.
Adelie, while still airborne and near the back of the group, begins to cast call lightning.
Adelie suspects that hideous laughter will not work, but it’s really just a guess based on the strange context. That’s why he suggested detect magic.
Adelie watches Tragershen to see what the wizard does next before casting his own spell.
I sorta assumed he’d cast from as far away as possible, and accept that the sleeper may very well wake up.
Adelie and Mone follow Aurora, ready to help her protect Tragershen.
Adelie retreats from the room to float near Mone and Aurora. He hopes Tragershen decides to cast Detect Magic, but he doesn’t feel strongly enough about it to say anything more.
Adelie signs ”Good idea, Bedlam. You should go find us a sheep. I think I saw one back that way.”
Adelie signs ”Wait a moment. I think we might know who this person is, at least vaguely. The ghoul that we weren’t able to finish interrogating because someone killed it mentioned a madman just down the stairs that the ghouls aren’t allowed to eat. This could be him. And if this is him, it might pay to know why aren’t the ghouls allowed to eat him. I doubt that it’s just because he’s insane. Could Detect Magic reveal anything? Is he protected somehow?”
Adelie obligingly floats forward, looking through the darkness with wildshape-enhanced vision.
Thanks, I hate it.
With a scowl, Adelie dodges past bedlam’s nonsensical and inexplicably-infinite sandwiches to float towards the large room to the left.
Wispy air elemental-Adelie squints suspiciously down at Bedlam as the dwarf passes under him. Once he’s relatively sure that Bedlam isn’t going to bomb Mone, he casts guidance on Anzath.
”Mone is fine. Back off.”
Adelie casts greater magic fang on Moneduloides.
Adelie is still holding Nico. He and Mone could swap with Ipp and Gel if Nico would be better off on Aurora's shoulder, but Adelie wants to stay close enough to Nico that he can prevent any more misadventures.
Still gently scratching Nico, Adelie whispers, ”We’re going down into the scary place together, Nicothoe. Deep into the ground. You and I can fly, but the others, they can’t, so don’t flutter off, alright? We stay together, we stay alive. If you see something interesting or scary, tell us, ok?”
Adelie looks at Talathel in confusion.
To confirm that everything is still working, Adelie retrieves the key from the dwarf statue and opens the mausoleum.
Did you ever play its sister game, lotro? I think SSG is doing a better job with it than Turbine ever did...lol.
Adelie, overwhelmed with relief, scoops up Nico and begins straightening and smoothing down her feathers.
Adelie is most definitely watching, and yells, ”You ridiculous idiot! You absolute buffoon! Take Nico out of your pack right now! I would be thrilled if you got yourself shredded down there, but you’re taking Nico to her death. How do you manage to be so incredibly stupid and selfish? Send her back up, right now, before you scurry off to die. She deserves a chance to learn how to be a functioning person. You had yours, and failed miserably, but it’s not too late for her.”
Edit: If Adelie wants to physically haul up Nico, you'll have to do some STR+Fly checks, and she might resist.
Adelie attempts to catch Nico and bring her back up to the surface. Whether or not he is successful, once he’s back up, he writes a short message on a piece of paper, describing the location of the invaders’ fort and the hobgoblin camp. If he can estimate the number of foes at each location, he includes that. He writes that he and his allies intend to enter again into Rappan Athuk, and then casts animal messenger on an appropriate small bird (if he can see one) with the goal of sending it to the wolf druids’ lair. He calls into the well, ”Do you see anything down there? Just to be clear, Mone and I are definitely not jumping in.”
Without leaving 10-foot circle of the well, Adelie looks around the small cavern and down the tunnels to see if anything is obviously noteworthy. Whether he sees anything or not, he flies back up and reports as soon as he's looked around.
Adelie squints at Aurora.
He wildshapes into a small air elemental.
Reassured, Adelie returns to where Tragershen is waiting. He ignores Bedlam’s nonsensical flailing.
Adelie investigates the third mausoleum, looking for the tunnel he emerged from earlier.
He knows at least one exit from the tunnels is blocked, and that his companions would have a difficult time squeezing through the narrow passages, but he still wants to confirm that the path is there.
”They should be killed or driven away. There are already too many settlements on this island.” ****
Adelie pokes his head into a shattered tomb--coffins are tumbled all around. Light leaks in through gaps in the walls. Does Adelie see anything resembling a shattered tomb? He searches the graveyard carefully for the tomb or anything else of note. ”Last time, the trap didn’t spring until we futzed around with the door. Perhaps we should avoid doing that.”
I agree with this.
My vote? Settle this now and make sure their remains are never found. Vicious... But Adelie wouldn't object.
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