Qui looks from tall human to tall human: As long as we are here, perhaps we should check the other two rooms down here. That way we will not have to return this way.
"I can lead us back here. I would rather not start a new habit of gambling with our lives."
"His life." Jonas corrected. "Clearing this area might be a good idea if it were just us, but this man has seen enough of this place. Clearing the area before getting him out has a possibility of us dying and him being stranded again."
Looking to the poor soul who had been barricaded in the room, Jonas says "We are going to get you home."
Ariella will scan the bags for magic. Then she will ask the man, "Are you injured Gelver? I could cure you."
Hermann kept his weapon close to hand, and within sight of the man.
"Does it strike anyone as odd that he had five people's equipment - specifically for adventuring down here, with all the provisions that implies - and he resorted to eating the flesh of his companions and that of goblins! so quickly that only the bones of them all remain? And now you're just going to walk him out of here like eating the flesh of your own kind isn't among the most heinous of things a person could do?"
Even as he finished speaking, he was momentarily distracted - and horrified - to see the kobold take the offered jerky and start eating it.
"He isn't evil." Jonas said simply. "Whatever else he is, he doesn't deserve to be trapped here."
The adventuring equipment in the room includes four backpacks, 16 iron spikes, 4 spears, a longbow, 2 lanterns (no oil remains), 2 sets of leather armor, a suit of chainmail, a wizard’s robe, a holy symbol of Nethys, and a crowbar.
Qui watches the rescued human still confused as to why this man actually consumed all the flesh from all his companions. Humans are strange.
Sense Motive:
"I'll take your word for it, Jonas, but 'not evil' doesn't mean 'trustworty', either. If it's all the same to you I'll be keeping an eye on him as we head back to the Ferry," Hermann states flatly.
"It'll be good to see the sky again, regardless," he continued after a moment's pause.
"If I hadn't gambled all my silver, I 'd say first one's on me."
Jokbur slings two packs and leads the way back.
"Yes Hermann, it will be distinctly pleasurable to feel my lady's rays upon my face again. I've missed my dawn prayers terribly." Ariella comments in reply to Hermann.
You go through the dungeon and back out of the Mouth entrance. It is about mid-day. You begin the travel back to Zelkor's Ferry heading back to the cottage, then following the river north. Right as the sun begins to set you see the safety of the walls ahead of you.
"Hold up little fella," Jonas says as the Kobold is about to run off.
Writing a quick note, he hands it to Edmund. "Can you tell him that if he runs into trouble with humans, to show them this? Oh, and tell him to try to convince his people that trading with humans will be better for them than raiding or stealing."
Edmund tells the kobold about the note, and tells him that they would protect him in town, if he would like to come for a hot meal.
I would like to sell the chain shirt that I no longer need. Not much else for me at this point.
Qui says goodbye to the kobold and wishes him well, although he is pretty sure that the kobold did not understand him.
"I'll be in the inn! Come get me if you need anything." Ariella says when they arrive, heading to buy the best room available and a warm bath as soon as possible.
"The Inn, and beer for me!" Hermann announces, the joy of his contemplation of having a drink plain on his face.
Before Gelver can head off, Edmund pulls him aside and says, "If you and your friends were exploring the dungeon, perhaps you saw this man in your travels."
Edmund pulls out the creased portrait for Gelver to look at.
Sense Motive:
"No sorry, haven't seen him. I pray for him if he is stuck in that dungeon." He looks towards the Mouth of Doom's general direction with a haunted look and a shudder then orders himself a room and meal then retreats there.
The inn and its people are just settling in for the night. Amelia and her husband (the owners) are happy to see you again as that doesn't happen all that often.
Rooms are 1 gp a night and there is room for you. Food is included.
Jokbur has leather, armored kilt, and buckler to sell. We also have some composite longbows to sell. Jokbur would like to buy mwork thieves tools with party funds if available.
I want to sell my chain shirt. Not much else for me to buy/sell unless we collected a lot more money that I thought. Does someone have the loot we collected?
How much loot was there to collect? Just the bandit hideout early on, and Gelver's friends' stuff, right? Hardly anything in terms of "loot".
There were a number of places you got items and money, I don't have time right now to go through it all, but maybe later
After a good night's rest in a comfortable bed in safety you rise ready to go back to the Mouth of Doom. You spend a little of the morning selling the items you found as well as purchasing a few items.
The trip back is uneventful and you reach the Mouth of Doom around 2pm. Heading back inside you arrive in the first room.
This is everywhere you have been except in the lower right corner where you found Gelver and had a door the west yet
Lets head down and finish the area where we found Gelver. There we two other rooms there I believe.
On the way back to the Mouth, Edmund is a bit glum.
"I'm beginning to despair of ever finding out what fate befell my boy. On the way back to town, I was almost afraid to ask Gelver if he recognized his picture. I have no idea how I would have reacted if he'd said that my son had been in his adventuring group...that he'd eaten him."
"I'm glad that wasn't the case Edmund. That would have been awful. Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find out what happened. Maybe he's locked himself in a room somewhere and is waiting for us to rescue him." Ariella says to the older man, patting him on the should reassuringly.
"Lets continue to head south and east in the dungeon. We still don't know how big it is down there. We know there are multiple levels, but we should probably try to clear them one at a time."
Qui nods in agreement as the priestess speaks with Edmund.
Saranrae watches over us all. If he is alive, the Dawnflower will guide us to him.
"Aye."
You skulk back to the room, a door to the north that you didn't hear anything from last time, or the door to the west with quiet slurping sounds occasionally heard.
If the scimitar dancing man-frog was not strange enough, now Qui appears to have given up on his armor, but moves with an almost unnatural graces as he leads the party back below and into the dungeon, scimitar in one hand with the other raised as though to block anything that might seek to attack him.
Glad to be rid of the eater-of-the-dead, Hermann is anxious to get back to the Mouth.
"Aye, and hope the Dawnflower guides us to them as needs killing, to: there's worse than cannibals and bandits down there, I know it."
Slurping first as well.
The two things you immediately notice in this room are the stone stairs leading downward and the huge statue against the western wall. The statue is a ten-foot tall carving of a human skeleton with each hand resting on the head of a stone wolf. It stands upon a stone dais five feet tall.
Jonas takes a long look at the room and shakes his head. "Let's check that other door. Stay away from the statue and keep an eye on the stairs."
Qui looks at the strange statue and then back at the spellcasters.
Anyone know what this is?
Knowledge history:
Knowledge religion:
"We shouldn't go down until we've explored this whole level. There's bound to be even nastier critters down below. We should gather as much experience and treasure as we can before descending anything. As for that statue, I don't know what it is. Lets see if it's magical."
Jokbur carefully examines room from door. Then Jokbur spends quite a bit of time examining the statue and dais from 4 cardinal directions.
If we do not find anything in this room, we should spike the door shut and then finish searching the level.
While Jokbur searches the room and the statue, Qui moves over next to the stairs and keeps a suspicious eye and ear down there to make sure that nothing comes up.
Perception:
"Good call." Jonas says, standing guard near the statue and waiting for Jokbur to check the other door.
As Jokbur begins his search (I'm assuming the take 20 is for the statue since each take 20 is 2 minutes time) 4 leeches drop from the ceiling on various people.
Leech Bite vs Jokbur vs FF
Damage plus attached (automatic grapple)
Leech Bite vs Hermann vs FF
Damage plus attached (automatic grapple)
Leech Bite vs Jonas vs FF
Damage plus attached (automatic grapple)
Leech Bite vs Ariella vs FF
Damage plus attached (automatic grapple)
- Ariella, Leeches, Quirmydt, Edmund, Jokbur, Hermann, Jonas, Ariella
AC 14 T 14 FF 11
Ariella jumps a bit as a leech tries to attach itself to her chainmail. "Sarenrae's radiant nips!" she curses, stepping back from the thing. She raises her holy symbol and calls down a blessing onto the group.
Assuming nothing else drops down on Qui and nothing bizzarre happens on the leaches turn:
Qui leaps forward and attempts to skewer the leach flanking Hermann.
Move to BA27.
Swift Action: Assume Crane Style <-- when fighting defensively, extra +1 Dodge AC, only -2 attack
Fighting Defensively <-- I will always fight defensively and use Crane Style as my Swift action for the first round of any combat unless I specifically state that I am not from here on out.
AC: 23
Attack-scimitar: <-- +1 Bless, -2 Fight Defensive, +2 Flanking
Damage:
The small man-frog moves forward silently and in the process assumes a rather strange combat position with one leg raised and his arms, scimitar still in hand, raised above his head. Once he reaches the leach, the position begins to look like a mighty crane wielding a razor of steel. The next moment, the leach (presumably) has a large gash in its side.
"So, you want me to dig out a spike and start hammering?" Hermann asked - only to be interrupted by enormous leeches falling from the ceiling onto them. Lucky for Hermann, the one that had landed on him was sucking at the metal of his armor in vain before falling off.
Round 1
"Ewww! Get it off! Get it off!" cried out Hermann, trying to stomp on the one that had fallen onto the floor right behind him.
Status hp 27, AC 20, Bless (9 more rounds)