Romo drops the torch and takes out his glaive, and moves in behind the creature, trying to flank it with Hale.
Attack
Damage
Hale steps next to Romo and slashes at the pathetic oversized insict that tries to cling to him. Her dagger passes straight through its body and splashes to the ground lifelessly next to her.
Romo looks down at the creature for a second to see if he recognises it.
K Nature :
Hale snaps a second dagger to her hand and flicks it up at the winged critter in the rafters - but the shot goes wide and clatters down to the floor again moments later.
"kshh" Hale hisses in disappointment.
With the critter out of reach, Khismia sighs in relief.
"These are Stirges. Nasty things. Don't let them come close to you."
Romo rummages through his backpack for a second and produces a light pick. He draws the weapon in a 270 degree arc and flings it at the critter.
Attack
Damage
Gander rolls his eyes, fits a bullet into the cup on his slingstaff, and whirls a bullet at the beast Hale had just missed.
"Bugger all," he growls.
Seeing the stirge reduced to its component parts as Romo expertly flings his hammer at it, she nods appreciatively. "Nice. Bloody pests." She recovers her dagger and takes a closer look around after recovering the torch.
"This room is disgusting. We should let one of the servants clean it up later. Let's move on, shall we?"
Gander turns to look back the way they'd come.
"Ugh! What is this vile stuff?" as she picks up her dagger, careful to scrape the goo off. "What was the one on the floor eating anyway?" In spite of the gunk, Hale has a good look around the room. "Go right ahead Gander, I don't expect any more surprises here."
Romo grabs his pick by ripping it from the creature. "You do like scratching around in dirty places 'ey Hale?"
He has a look around the room for anything out of the ordinary.
Perception
Then follows Gander back out for some fresher air.
"Yea, this stuff is gross," with obvious disdain she gives the room a marginal once-over.
Gander glances at Romo. "Have you ever seen plants do that before?"
He glances up at the ceiling to see if there might be a cause within view there.
Gander sighs and raises his slingstaff in preparation.
"Whatever you are up there, come down right now or I'll bring you down with a stone in your arse."
He readies to attack if there's any sign of a threat.
On the spur of a realization Hale returns to the big hall then back again . "Khismia! Come look at this: the angles of the walls don't add up in the main hall and here. I think there ought to be a room between the two places."
Romo quickly takes out his glaive.
"What did you see? is there something up there Gander?"
Romo squints as he tries to focus on a target
Perception
Hale goes looking for Khismia, who seems to have gotten distracted with the murals. "Ey! You're pretty, so don't make me drag you here by your hair - come! Have a look at this."
"Perhaps it's a snake or something that has made a nest in that mess. If it were a pugwampis, I think it would have reacted by now."
Gander keeps his slingstaff ready, even as he peers up into the dense brush.
"Should we try and burn it out, maybe?"
"Is that a bird? Maybe it made a nest up there. I don't really see much point in bothering it."
"Yea. Could be a bird."
Romo rests his back against one of the walls, and takes a breath.
Afterward he shouts "Come people, we have much left of this damned place."
He points at the opening to his side , "Let's go in there.
He waits for the others to join, before leading the way.
Khismia looks up to what everyone seems to be squinting at, but doesn’t seem to manage any better than the rest of them.
She waits for the rest of the people to move on, and then follows them northwards.
Gander plans to take second place in the line-up. He's got his slingstaff ready and will follow whoever takes the lead (Romo?).
Hale takes the rear, still wondering about the weird space that is unaccounted for.
Khismia will be second from last, curious to know what is happening in front but cautious enough to not get in the way.
"Shall we start with the right?"
Hale tries to open the door - failing that she'll kick it instead. If that too fails, she'll open the floor to Romo and Gander to do their thing with doors.
Seeing Hale kicking at the door Khismia runs up to stop her,
"Please ,Hale , stop. The monastery has already seen enough abuse. Please, can someone open this door more...gently?"
Khismia looks around and takes a big breath, it will take a lot of effort to restore this place.
"Babboons in a library?" Gander says, disbelieving. "I feel like we've stumbled into a joke."
Hale clicks her tongue disapprovingly. "Romo! Go take care of these pests!"
Romo charges the nearest baboon and slices at it with his glaive!
Attack:
"Let us not judge them by their literary taste..."
Damage:
"...but by their screams of agony!"
"Lyrical, are you?" Hale follows behind Romo, daggers drawn to hand. She stops next to Romo (or behind if there is no space), readying to attack any baboon strong enough to challenge Romo and get passed his glaive.
Hale stabs the baboon that grapples Romo.