"Pity. I was hoping for lunchables."
He pokes the musty bedroll with his sword, saying, "Only to the bugs living in it."
Kevaras examines the carvings for any religious significance.
The wood shavings are just residue, though it is surface wood and not vines or mushrooms.
Moving up the hall, soon you come to two more alcoves. To the right, you can see the area has collapsed (represented by the many colored squares). From here, it's not possible to tell if the rocks are moveable.
To the left, at the end of the hall, you can see a small marble platform. There is a clearly broken device on the platform. The intact part of it is curved, as if it might have been a mirror, and only about a third of that frame, and no glass, seems to remain.
Not from where you are. You'd have to get closer to examine it.
Vernal strolls up to the object.
"Mirror, mirror on the stand, I'm the prettiest drow to hand," he drawls.
Confident in Malize's work ethic, Vernal has never bothered much with learning about arcana. His perception skills are slightly better, but usually only as far as they relate to him.
As self-absorbed as a particularly beautiful black hole, he wanders to his doom.
Meanwhile, Ovid continues to stand in a dark corner and keep watch.
Down the hall, Vernal investigates. Around what's left of the frame, he finds shards of what seem to be some sort of black glass. Not many of them, but enough to tell that this was high quality glass. In addition, there are runes on what's left of the frame, though Vernal does not know what they signify.
However, just then, the main party is attacks by shadowy lizards that drop down from the ceiling and snap out at people. Only Ovid has any chance to react to them at all.
"Lunchables! At last."
Having failed to find out anything interesting, Vernal pockets a piece of black glass for further investigation later and cheers up considerably when he sees the cave lizards fall on his twin's head.
Ovid grins and swings his spear through his new opponents.
As the shadowy foes drop, Ovid is reacting and manages to stab all three of them rather nicely, as well as force one back from Malize.
Even after being stabbed by Ovid, the quickest of the lizards bites at Kevaras once more, after sliding away from the spear wielding monk.
Once more, however, all the bite finds is air.
"Ugh!" Malize shrieks in disgust.
Her eyes glow as she intones, "I summon thee, least of demons, peon of the pit!"
A foul-smelling hunched ugly demon appears behind the lizards. A dretch, foul in aspect.
It slashes its claws at the lizards.
A foul little demon appears, and claws at the lizards - under protest. Under so much protest, in fact, that it cleanly misses.
Corpus takes advatange of the demon's appearance to work around the side of one of the lizards.
The axe bites deeply into the side of the shadowy being and dust and what looks like ink spills from the wound, then the lizard seems to fade into the shadows and bite at Corpus.
The lizard bites at the drow's face, and his own blood, and it's inky blood cling to him, masking his vision in a sheen of black goo.
Vernal rejoins the party and pats the lizard on the head.
"Kevaras ... could you? For Malize? She wanted one to snack on."
His benevolent smile extends to his brother. "You just can't keep out of trouble, can you."
Following Vernal's directions, the paladin tries to carve the tenderloin from SL3.
Kevaras cuts deeply into the lizard and like it's companion, it snaps at him and darts away.
The lizards then attack on thier own. The least hurt one darts back from Ovid, and then both lizards near it attack the dretch.
"Where did you go?" asks the drow, "the Lady of Letherna demands justice!"
30/36 HP; 12/12 surges:
Initiative +2; Speed 5
Passive Perception 13, Passive Insight 13
Lay on Hands 2 of 2
Action Points: 1
Conditions: blind
Ovid continues his assault, stepping forward and striking at the lizards surrounding the demon.
Even blind, Kevaras is a potent warrior and the drow cuts down the lizard.
Santander's fire arcs in, but fails to find his target, and Ovid also misses the nimble lizard.
The lizard by Vernal snaps at him, it's teeth looking dark and sharp.
Move to N21 and attack Sl1 with weaponmasters strike.
attack vs ac, , damage =
Lets get ready to Fummm-baalllleee.
Save =
"Come along, sweeting. Surely that devil of yours is more than purely decorative?"
Malize sneers at her twin and directs the dretch.
The dretch cuts deeply into the lizard, but the shadowy thing is still up and snaps at Corpus.
.
However it misses, the teeth closing on air.
Vernal spins his knife and attacks SL3.
"Lizard flambe ... a taste of home."
The lizard thinks otherwise and Vernal backs away.
"Lizard flambe ... a taste of home."
Upon hearing those words, Kevaras pictures the beautiful city of Gateway aflame and a single tear rolls from his eye.
The servant of the Raven Queen delivers a silent eulogy for the people of Gateway and, in their memory, attacks the closest lizard.
30/36 HP; 12/12 surges:
Initiative +2; Speed 5
Passive Perception 13, Passive Insight 13
Lay on Hands 2 of 2
Action Points: 1
Conditions: blind
Vernals' dagger misses and even guided by the Raven Queen, Kevaras does as well, but not by very much.
Ovid finishes the second shadowy lizard and the last one bites at Kevaras.
It's teeth bite into the Paladin and it doesn't seem to care that it fights on alone - it seems to have no survival instincts at all.
Move to J21 and attack the lizard with weapon masters strike.
attack vs ac, , damage =
if it's a villian move me to M19 and apply the folloing attack.
Corpus drops the last lizard, chopping the thing in half.
"Let's keep going down the hall."