Smiling at the creature's misfortune at being trapped and flush from his connecting strike, Lord unleashes a Flurry upon it, hoping to bring it down before it can escape from it's bonds.
Flurry of Blows with Masterwork Kama:
Damage:
Bandle deftly peels more deadly projectiles from his bandolier and sends them into the fray attempting to pepper the creature.
Tallis, Lord Flash, and Bandle all do some damage. The creature screeches in frustration at being bound in its tomb and pulls backwards into the ossuary trying to break free of the sticky strands.
It only manages to get more of its additional appendages stuck in the goo.
Tallis does what he does best.
Tallis finishes off the wight, his fists destroying enough of its dried and withered husk of a body to dissipate the evil aura's stubborn grasp on its material form.
A medallion clatters and rolls into the web of sticky threads of the tanglefoot bag.
"Well, I'll take this." Tallis takes the medallion and puts it in his pack before picking the falchion back up.
"Bandle, if you open another of those tombs, I don't care what's inside, I'm shoving you in it."
"Bandle, if you open another of those tombs, I don't care what's inside, I'm shoving you in it."
Lord gets an excited look on his face, possibly the first you've ever seen from him. "Oh please let me do it. It would make my year."
"Ok, no more tombs, funny vertical tombs. Well, is there anything in there that might hold a cold and fuzzy melon?" Bandle cranes his neck and gets close enough to try and see into the ossuary without getting near where Tallis is standing. He smiles at Flash's sudden lightheartedness grinning broadly.
"I have an idea, why don't we go up the rope!" he says brightly "tho if there's one of those vertical tomb ingrates up there, he may not be a good bell ringer after all....tooo dry."
"Ok, no more tombs, funny vertical tombs. Well, is there anything in there that might hold a cold and fuzzy melon?" Bandle cranes his neck and gets close enough to try and see into the ossuary without getting near where Tallis is standing. He smiles at Flash's sudden lightheartedness grinning broadly.
"I have an idea, why don't we go up the rope!" he says brightly "tho if there's one of those vertical tomb ingrates up there, he may not be a good bell ringer after all....tooo dry."
"Why do we need a rope when there's the handy chain to climb?"
"I would rather one of you go first - I still feel weak from being poisoned."
"I would rather one of you go first - I still feel weak from being poisoned."
"Why not, I'll go up first."
"I would rather one of you go first - I still feel weak from being poisoned.""Why not, I'll go up first."
1d20+6
When you get to the hole through the roof that allows entry to the bell chamber, you see glowing red eyes floating in the gloom high above you.
I will head up behind Tallis.
Climb:
Looking quickly down his nose at the excitable Gnome, Lord grabs the rope behind Jackie, not wanting to be the last one up the rope and most certainly not wanting to be underneath Bandle...
"Oh damn it." Tallis sighs and looks down at the rest of you. "There's another thing up here that's probably going to try to kill us." With that, he climbs into the room.
"What? What is it?" Bandle says as he clambers up last into the room
As soon as Tallis clears the hole, the two red eyes bob up and down, circling the bell tower. Tallis can make out the shape of a head and two batlike wings extending on either side. A many tentacled mouth opens wide letting out a horrific shreak.
"Won't that thing shut up.", grumbles Tallis as he reaches towards one of the bags hanging from his belt...
As soon as Tallis clears the hole, the two red eyes bob up and down, circling the bell tower. Tallis can make out the shape of a head and two batlike wings extending on either side. A many tentacled mouth opens wide letting out a horrific shriek.
Climb Check:
Fortitude Check:
"That's no bell!"
Fortitude Save:
Lord Flash finds himself struggling at the bottom of the chain, delaying the Bandle. When he attempts to climb again, he finds LJ is clinging on to the chain but not moving.
Looks like Tallis has made it up into the bell chamber alone.
Tallis hefts a tanglefoot bag in his hand, waiting for the head to come within reach.
Tallis hefts a tanglefoot bag in his hand, waiting for the head to come within reach.
The creature, a demonic head flitting around the room on bat wings far too small to support its bulk, comes swooping towards you.
"What the hell?!"
"What the hell?!"
1d20+5
The bat creature's mouth widens to shriek again and then is suddenly filled with goo as the tanglefoot bag explodes on its forehead.
The creature spirals a bit as it falls to the ground at Tallis' feet.
Tallis attempts to kick the thing in the jaw before it gets a chance to scream again.
Tallis attempts to kick the thing in the jaw before it gets a chance to scream again.
1d20+5;1d6+2;1d20+5;1d6+2
The creature flaps and flutters and throws itself down the hole in the floor, desperately hoping to gain some altitude and shake this goo off. LJ, Bandle, and Lord Flash see a ugly, tentacled, winged head drop past them as smash its brains out on the floor at their feet.
"Well, that was surprisingly easy." Tallis takes a moment to wipe his foot off on something.
AS my paralysis wears off, I finish clambering up to the room above.
"Are there any more of those things?"
"Definitely not a good bell ringer, no arms for one thing, and really sticky, and he seems to have somewhat of a glass jaw" quips Bandle as he climbs up into the chamber. "On the other hand he might make a good choruster, he'd have a captive audience...course that wouldn't help the other musicians either" he continues as he stretches his limbs to relieve some of the numbness.
Bandle gazes around the chamber
AS my paralysis wears off, I finish clambering up to the room above.
"Are there any more of those things?"
The room is dim but you see no more of those things. Handholds lead up to a hatch in the roof about the same level as the windows.
"Do you think that gnoll priestess came in this way? Seems likely the flying head would have objected to that. Shall we continue up?"
Climb Check:
Shrugging off his previous lack of dexterity, Lord nimbly ascends the rope and arrives with a questioning look on his face. "What was that that just passed me on it's way to a painful death?" he says as he looks around the new chamber.
It is very easy to climb to the door in the dome of the bell chamber. Opening it reveals the top of the cliff. You are currently facing away from the village. A ladder descends to the ground.
"This looks like a good place to hole up if we need to beat a hasty retreat and hide."
"This looks like a good place to hole up if we need to beat a hasty retreat and hide."
From here, the party can see the abandoned village where the cattle are grazing on the tall grasses that have overgrown the streets and the field where the gnolls have set up their encampment.
"So anyone have any thoughts on where to go next. Personally, I think we might be smart to try and figure out how to take out the gnoll leaders. Maybe they don't attack if all their leaders are dead?"
In a rare serious moment Bandle replies "I think so too, Maybe we should scout to see who besides that Priestess leads them. Then decide whether we want to merely scare the cattle off. T'would be a shame though, those cattle could help feed the people at the fort and are probably theirs by right anyway."
Lord looks at the littel Gnome, his mouth wide at the sudden serious turn. He finally manages to close it and adds, "killing the leaders might work in the short term, but chances are they'll be back. Let's just kill them all and be done with it. We could try and pick them off a couple at a time rather than taking on the whole camp at once. Don't ask me how, I just come up with the ideas, I don't do the logistics of said plans..."
From up here you can see that the gnoll encampment is split into five smaller fires of four to six gnolls and two to three tents ringing a larger encampment with one larger encampment with one larger tent and three smaller ones. That's a lot of gnolls. They are packed fairly close together -- more tightly than humans would have packed them outside of the city and more tightly than needed considering the amount of space in the field.
Gnolls are patrolling both the field and the village.
The field is well-grazed with fairly short grass but the cattle have been herded up to the ruins of the village. Many buildings partially stand but the streets are overgrown making for a very odd place to keep cattle.
I think on Flash's words for a moment before agreeing,... "Maybe we could kill a few of the patrols and then arrange the bodies to make them think the village is haunted or something. Flash seems like he could maybe think of something suitable for the affect. Or we could try to sneak into the leader's tent there in the middle. Or we could try stampeding the cattle through the camp and then taking them out."
Somehow after everything that's happened so far I can't see Lord Flash wanting to be all sneaky and stuff... ;)