Filios was stopped in his tracks, as he finds himself face to face with the beast, he attacks with both swords.
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"I can push her back! Help me!"
Darren steps into the corridor, lifts his shield and rams into the creature.
Solomon attempts to push the monster back.
Bullrush
Solomon drops his hammer and shield, draws his longspear, and attacks the monster.
Attack
Petvar takes a good look at the creature, trying to determine if he has seen it before and if he knows where to best strike.
Petvar draws his bow and lets loose an arrow.
What you know about this creature:
The creature is a sinspawn, a mockery of flesh created from raw soulstuff by the runelords as shock troops for use in their endless battles. This particular sinspawn is a lustspawn, crafted from the souls of lustful individuals to serve the runelord of lust.
Sin-Scent (Su) Sinspawn can smell the presence of creatures whose nature reflects the sinspawn’s sin. For example, lustspawn can scent creatures that are especially desirous or lustful, at the GM’s discretion.
Sinful Bite (Su) A creature bitten by a lustspawn is overwhelmed with lust (successful will save negates). These unfettered impulses and emotions are so powerful that the target becomes sickened for 1d6 minutes. An affected target that is bitten a second time is staggered if it fails its saving throw. Additional failed saves increase the duration of this effect but do not increase its severity. Calm emotions, remove curse, or break enchantment negates the effects of sinful bite.
Morthos shoulders his way in behind Darren, bringing his axe around in a powerful swing at the creature...
Despite Filios' failed attempt to get by lust spawn, he does manage to do some damage to it. After Darren successfully pushes it back all the way to the wall, the others are able to rush in and Morthos deals a near fatal wound, but the creature still stands. The party sees another such creature in the corner, who while clearly being on the losing end of the battle with the lust spawn already in melee, still looks eager for fresh meat.
As for the room itself, Shockingly graphic depictions of orgies with all manner of creatures decorate the walls of this chamber. Four humanoid skeletons lie in state on biers—though the bodies appear human, their skulls are those of some monstrous creature. Two biers remain empty.
The lustspawn in front of the party will take a 5 foot step into the square to the northwest of its current location and attack Solomon; it manages to get one claw into Solomon for 4 points of damage as it attacks from around the corner.
Filios, dripping with blood from the claw wounds that he has suffered, moves to a position to the immediate right of Morthos, and readies his weapons for the advance of the second creature.
The second creature will eye Filios hungrily, but isn't quite so hungry as to forget to notice Darren, who just managed to knock her fellow lustspawn back a good 10 feet; therefore the second creature will simply move up 5 feet and attempt to attack Darren.
Solomon takes a few steps away from the creature attacking him, and attempts to stab it with his longspear, but misses again.
Darren drops the sunrod, draws his sword, and swings at one of the lustspawn.
Morthos glares at the retreating spawn, and growls:
"Oh no you don't..."
...before 5' stepping NE, and swinging his axe at the creature he damaged last round...
It1 is dead, Morthos' axe took care of it quite thoroughly.
Petvar moves into the room to attack the lustspawn in the corner.
Petvar draws another arrow back and fires at the remaining lustspawn.
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After Morthos finishes off the first foul creature, Petvar and Filios combine their efforts and take down the second one before it could try and strike again.
"Well those were certainly not friendly. Does anyone need any healing?"
Solomon will put away his hammer, but keep the shield and longspear out, and head back into the room to study the depictions on the walls.
Filios approaches Solomon, dripping blood from several wounds.
Aye, Solomon, I am definitely in need of the favor of your God.
Darren sheaths his sword and picks up the sunrod. He watches Filios receive treatment. "Filios, I'll lead the way through the next doors. My shield should offer me some protection even if we're ambushed like that again."
Darren then looks around the room. He looks at the skeletons on the biers and the bodies of the two lustspawn, trying to tell if the skeletons also belonged to lustspawn.
Though he is checking out the bodies and skeletons, Darren's also stealing several surreptitious glances at the explicit carvings on the wall.
Solomon leads Filios down the hallway a short ways, in order to get out of range of the lustspawn, and proceeds to Channel Positive Energy from Torag down onto the pair of them.
" I'm thinkin we are gonna need to conserve as much of our healing capabilities as we can. Do ya think that'll hold you over for now?" Assuming the magical healing is sufficient for the time being, Solomon will take a few moments to wrap some bandages around any of Filios' wounds that are left over after the healing.
Thank you Solomon, that will do nicely.
Filios walks back into the room after receiving the blessings of Torag, and he addresses Darren.
By all means Darren, please do lead the way, but be certain to wait until I have checked for hidden dangers first. Anything interesting in the room here?
Filios begins feeling around the contours of the walls in the room, obviously looking for secret exits.
Perception:
You find some very old jewelry that looks like it would be worth a quite a bit (600 gp total) between all 6 lustspawn, as well as an elixir of love and potion of eagle's splendor; otherwise, there is nothing in here.
{b]So, who is going to be responsible for holding the booty? Are we dividing this stuff up now, or at a later date?[/b]
"Well, I brought an empty sack. We can put it all in there, and I, or someone else can carry it."
I trust you explicitly Darren. I say we let him carry what we find, and we can divide it up later. Does anyone need to take possession of the Elixir of Love and the Potion of Eagle's Splendor now?
Morthos gives Darren a hearty smile.
"There is no need to worry about a sack; I have this well-designed backpack, with plenty of side pouches to store small items in."
When everyone's ready to go, Darren will lead them to the last door on the right. He'll enter without too much caution, since Filios has checked all these for traps already.
Filios follows Darren into the room with both swords drawn.
Solomon advances with the others, making sure to stay behind them this time, with shield and longspear drawn.
A large circle of tarnished silver powder, surrounded by arcane symbols, has been laid down on the floor in the center of this room. The center of the circle is empty. Across either side of the opening hallway has been placed on overturned cabinet and a tengu armed with a loaded light crossbow and a shortsword crouches behind each one, ready to attack if attacked. One of them speaks, half worriedly, half scornfully, "Well you don't look like them bloody she devils. They make you run away too? And how in the sam hill did you get in this place to begin with? If you thought you could just waltz down our tunnel and steal our loot, you have another thing coming."
"We came through the door, the 'she-devils' are dead, we ain't here to steal nobody's loot, we don't know about any tunnel, and how did you get down here?"
"Listen to this wise crack, Skezza, claiming to not have come in through the only entrance to the place, and claiming to have killed the she-devils to boot. We should just kill them now," the original speaker comments scornfully.
"Eh, I don't know, Izzik, those sounds from the other room sure sounded like someone was dying, and it clearly wasn't these folks, and I've heard too many stories of the Undercity to fully believe that our tunnel is the only way in, though I find it hard to believe they could have missed it." The other tengu seems rather nervous about the whole situation.
Morthos shrugs.
"I can go and get their corpses, if that is what it will take to convince you. For the record, we did not come from the 'Undercity'; the Pharasmans let us in to clean-out the crypts, and deal with a slight undead problem that they have been having down here..."
Only indication of the sin with this room is the circle.
At the mentions of the Pharasmans, Skezza really looks nervous, and even Izzik looks very hesitant about continuing his bravado. Skezza speaks up after a moment, "Perhaps we will just let you do that then, since you are clearly more capable of the task than my brother and myself." Izzik, while not thrilled at leaving will agree muttering something about "half baked illusions, worthless garbage, twisted abominations, if you want them you can have them" as the brothers attempt to leave the room and disappear towards the portion of hallway you haven't explored yet.
You could try a knowledge (arcana) on the circle, but magic wise there is nothing else of interest in the room.
Filios yells down the hallway at the departing Tengus.
Before you fellas take off, have you any knowledge of Svilennius Tripe?
Diplomacy:
If the tengus hear Filios, they don't acknowledge it.
Morthos takes a moment to scrutinise the circle...
...but is otherwise ready to move on :-)
With nothing to do here, Darren waits outside. When everyone's ready, he'll lead them through the 3rd door on the left.
Filios returns to the room, and while Morthos checks out the circle, he begins to search the cabinets and walls for secret doors.
Perception:
The circle is indeed a summoning circle, though Filios is able to see quickly a gap in the circle that suggests whatever was held there got free a long time ago.
During a final sweep of the room, Filios finds a loose stone in the wall that opens up to a small storage space with a scroll case in it that has a couple of scrolls.