Buoyed by his companions Rheticus keeps digging!
Grimacing, Hoskuld raises his scythe and begins carving up the great beast, searching for its stomach contents.
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Elizabeth sees the monster fall and looks around to take stock of the room. Seeing Arius examining the body parts, she wanders over and sighs when Arius informs them of the identity of them and that they will need to find the rest of the body. She begins to search the room in earnest,contemplating cutting open the creture to see if any more body parts are inside it.
Between everyone seraching:through, the thigh-deep muck you are rewarded with a few trinkets left over by the otyugh’s meals: an amber necklace worth 350 gp, a silver dagger, and a wax-sealed elixir of vision in a metal flask.
"Well, at least it was not a total loss."
Arius casts a spell. All of the blood and muck covering him drips off onto the floor, leaving him clean .
"Everyone, let me clean you off too, or the butcher's shop smell will announce our presence to anything with a working nose."
"Ptech!"
Slimy and nearly out of his mind with 'reality' Rheticus thankfully receives the spell.
"Lets go somewhere else. Now."
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"Well, at least it was not a total loss."
Arius casts a spell. All of the blood and muck covering him drips off onto the floor, leaving him clean .
"Everyone, let me clean you off too, or the butcher's shop smell will announce our presence to anything with a working nose."
Anju gladly takes Arius up on his offer for his spell. "Thank you, I really needed that!"
She nods at Rheticus, "Yes, let's move forward here, more specifically OUT of this vile pit!" She beckons the group to follow her through the passage leading to the next room (D5 on the map).
Rheticus eagerly proceeds, checking for traps along the way.
Hoskuld falls in behind the scouts, eager to see this task completed so he can return to his own personal quest. He cleans off his scythe with a rag and locks the blade down to keep it out of the way while he travels.
"Skeleton, follow them."
Arius also follows his companions.
Branham says a quick prayer and follows along.
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Elizabeth once more moves off to scout ahead, staying to the shadows and keeping her eye out for anything out of the ordinary.
Three wooden tables stand in the middle of this room, their surfaces stained red with old bloodshed. To the east stands a ten-foot-wide hutch with wicker doors opening into a strawlined cage. The northern-most table has a body which looks to have died fairly recently. It has 4 insects attached to it. As you are taking this in your attention is ripped from the body and the insects feasting on it by a shriek. Another little, Dark-skinned creature like those you fought earlier is over at a large standup closet door. He throws this door open, keeping his body behind the protection of the door, and two more of the insects come buzzing out towards the party.
Letting out a little shriek of his own, Rheticus prepares for combat
With a muffled oath, Hoskuld hefts his weapon.
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Initiative
"Skeleton, kill the insects."
Arius draws his wand and sends a bolt at the nearest insect.
"Surrender, or you are next."
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The skeleton lumbers into action, attempting to crush the nearest insect.
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Liz's acid dart singes ton of the 4 wings off one of the insect-like creatures, burning it's body in the process.. it spirals down towards the ground, but regains flight before connecting .
Rheticus deftly flicks a dagger in the direction of the most wounded bug:
'I could have sworn that dark patch on the ceiling was another critter!'
Hoskuld lumbers forward, ignoring the flying pests and moving to engage the strange humanoid.
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Attack: Damage
Branham tries to pick off one of the ugly avians with his crossbow.
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Branham hits the already injured stirge directly, killing it. The other flys quickly towards anju, trying to land on her (she swats it away first).
as Hoskuld runs after the humanoid, it spreads its arms and plunges the room into darkness again. luckily for Hoskuld, it doesn't have time to move and is still hit by his massive weapoon
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Branham hits the already injured stirge directly, killing it. The other flys quickly towards anju, trying to land on her (she swats it away first).
as Hoskuld runs after the humanoid, it spreads its arms and plunges the room into darkness again. luckily for Hoskuld, it doesn't have time to move and is still hit by his massive weapoon
Anju swats at the Stirge with her staff.
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Damage
Tikaani leaps up to snap at where he thinks the Stirge is using scent and hearing.
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Damage
Hoskuld swings wildly in the dark, trying to connect with his foe. The beast is here somvhere, kill it!
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Hoskuld's slash passes harmlessly through where he beleives the derro is and takes out one of the stirges feasting on the body on the table behind him. After a few minutes the magical darkness fades. The derro is gone* there is still one stirge feasting on the dead body on the table, the dead body now has Hoskuld's weapon sticking out of it.
anyone with track or survival DC 10
Arius uses his wand to send a magical bolt at the last stirge.
"Skeleton, destroy that insect-thing."
The owlbear lumbers over to the stirge and tries to crush it beneath a bony paw.
The owlbear continues to beat the stirge into a lumpy paste.
"Skeleton, stop!"
"Do you have any more of those magical lights, Rheticus? The necromancer may have more of those creatures helping him, and I do not want to stand around in magical darkness."
"What next? He may have gone to warn his master."
Rheticus digs out a continual flame and joins the others poking around the room
Hoskuld does his best to aid the others in their search, though he has little skill at tracking.
Arius notices Hoskuld examining the ground and moves to assist.
After a few moments of fruitless examination, he looks up and asks, "Keth, do you see anything? I have no idea how to interpret these traces."
nothing of real value is found in the room, the wooden 'cage' the stirges were in is empty, and the wooden tables are bare except for the one body the other stirges were on. you easily find the blood trail mentioned behind the spoiler above
"What next? I say to track it, but to proceed with caution."