Yuki fires an arrow at the closest ghoul still up after Nymph's charge, moving north or south as necessary to avoid shooting around cover.
"Yup, pretty gross."
The ghoul Nymph charges is killed by her axe, without even a chance to resist. Yuki's arrow strikes the ghoul at J10, causing deep wounds but not killing (rekilling?) the undead fiend.
The remaining ghouls swarm towards Nymph in response.
They spectacularly fail to land a blow on Nymph, perhaps disconcerted by a living presence as their claws and teeth flash towards the rapidly moving ranger.
Happy at having something to take her frustration out on Nymph hacks at the one still up with Yuki's arrow marking it.
Nymph's blow misses the crazed ghoul.
Ayre moves up to K 13 and casts Burning Hands hitting all three ghouls
DC 14 for half
Undead really burns me up...
Yuki moves as necessary to get within 30' of one the ghouls and avoid the cover of her friends. She then fires off another arrow at the gross undead, preferably the one she hit before.
The ghoul Yuki attacks dies, and the one manages to catch a minimum of the fire blast from the wizard.
The seagull attempts to claw out the eyes out of the ghoul's skull, its keen instincts of a sea scavenger suggesting it where the juicy bits are.
Galean, seeing himself outdone by a thing, referred to by many, 'the rat of the sea, without the tasty parts', charges in , slashing a deep blow in the ghoul's hide, shouting, "I've haad iit with this plaaace!"
Galean successfully charges past the rest of the group and hits the ghoul, leaving it on its last legs.
He also managed to get the remaining muck on himself smeared on Nymph, who'd succesfully cleaned herself off after getting out of the quicksand.
The ghoul makes a final attempt to disembowel Nymph.
"Augh! I do the biting!" Nymph howls before stabbing at the rather rude ghoul.
Nymph successfully kills the last ghoul, and quiet descends on you.
What's your next move?
"Me! I'm the biter! Me! Not you! Not you! And not you!" Nymph continues to growl while chopping the heads of the ghouls with her handaxe to make sure they didn't get back up.
Well, while Nymph fulfills her berserker shark heritage, the rest of you will...?
Anyone need to be healed? I have a new spell that can do some, but it wont feel good
"Sure, why not?" Nymph responds absentmindedly while inspecting the heads before kicking them far into the brush.
Ayre takes out a scroll and casts Infernal Healing on Nymph
It feels as if Nymph is plunged into ice water then into fire and back and forth, but over the next minute heals 10 HP
Eying the scroll warily as Ayre moves it toward her she begins flailing and runs in a few circles as the magic courses through her. "Ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-yeow!"
The magic running its course Nymph stops her antics and walk over to the wind mage with a blank face before grabbing his shoulders. "I appreciate that... but could you make your healing magic feel more like Yuki's? Her's feels like taking a dip in calm waters in the moonlight or getting kissed by a pretty girl," she says flatly.
"That's what happens when you let a wizard heal you." Yuki says with a laugh, "Let's see if they have anything valuable stored in the tent. Oh! It might be gross, but they may be wearing jewelry."
Wasting no time, she then begins searching for loot.
After checking for valuables, she tries to recover the arrows she used.
The ghouls only have their clothes - not something anyone would want - but the tent itself is a treasure trove. Amongst other rotting remains of scandalously revealing clothing, to everyone but Nymph of course, you find a number of items.
A beautifully worked leather hip flask decorated with a crocodile filled with a bright reddish liquid; three very sharp, oft used daggers; in a chest you find six flasks with a green liquid that is unnaturally bright; two barrels that have corks in them - when you pop them out you smell cheap perfume; in another chest is a wedding dress inlaid with pearls and set with three tiny rubies and a whalebone corset set with mother of pearl inlays; in a wooden jewelry box you find a dozen silver hatpins set with tiny obsidian flakes and scattered in the clothes a number of minor gemstones - citrines, amethysts, garnets and a lapis lazuli.
The flask is worth 25 gp, the barrels of perfume 25 gp each, the wedding dress 400 gold and the corset another 20; the hatpins are worth 5 gp each and the gemstones could be sold for 306 gp 97 sp total. One of the daggers is a masterwork dagger.
The red liquid is a potion of cure moderate wounds.
The six flasks are alchemist's fire.
Spellcraft
Alchemy
appraise
Those are alchemist fire
"Were they friggin honeymooning or somethin?" Nymph says to no one in-particular, completely bewildered at the treasure trove.
"I'm not sure how much all this stuff is worth, but we should take it back with us to sell later." Yuki suggests as she begins packing things up.
"Oh yeah, everyone should carry at least one alchemist fire, just in case." She adds, taking one for herself.
"Fire always good," Nymph happily muses upon taking one of the flasks before helping Yuki pack up the rest of the valuables.
Galean takes as much as he can carry, wrapping it in pieces of the tattered tent.
"Well, it seems like they've been here for a long time. I wonder why they were here, but it's probably a sad story...", he says, waving away the seagull chewing the corpse, trying to get to the eyeballs. It disappears in a gust of wind.
"If we move faster, we probably won't be stranded. And we need to save the others.", he says, shouldering the sack and continuing onwards on the path.
After another hour you emerge from the swamp, having taken careful note of where the treasure was to return to pick it up later.
From the edge of the swamp you see a more welcome sight: towering palm trees stretch along a white sand beach for a mile or so, each around 50 feet high and crowned with a wide canopy of palms brimming with coconuts.
Shattered coconuts litter the beach beneath three of the
trees.
Nodding grimly to Galean Nymph takes all she can carry and moves on with him.
Eased at the comforting sight of the beach her eyes drift over to the base of some of the trees. "Someone's been munchin on the coconuts," she quips to the others.
"Yeah. I hope it's who we're looking for, we're running out of time.", he says, drawing his cutlass for good measure. "Maybe we can carry some coconuts on our way back to the ship, they're nice and tasty, and they float as well!", he says, his mind drawn on to the coconuts for some reasons.
Ayre looks up into the trees
Anything in the trees?
+2 to avoid surprise
There does appear to be something in the trees, but nothing is moving...
We should check that out.
"Well climb your pretty ass up there and check it then."
"Hey, Galean, can you summon one of your flying friends to check it out in case there's something hungry up there?"
"I called enough of them for today. Don't call seagulls in vain, it's what I always say.", says Galean, looking at the palms. "I don't think something big enough to threaten us is able to climb the palm tree. Let's keep moving." He casually walks forwards, pretending not to look at the top of the trees.
As you walk up the beach, you hear the odd sound of chitin grating on palm bark, and then three crabs drop out of the trees and onto the sand, moving towards you while clacking their claws.
Two of them lunge forward to grab Galean and Nymph, then begin trying to crush them.
The third one tries to cut up the druid as well.
Click clack, clickity clack!
Go!
"Damn you and your buzzards, Cherry boy!" Nymph growls while stabbing the pinchy crab. She wasn't all too fond of getting pinched. At least these weren't lobster eel monster thingies.
The crab skillfully evades by moving sideways - unlike the other monsters then don't seem to move straight.
"I'm just saying, I have good ideas sometimes..." Yuki says with a minor shrug as she moves 5 feet to the east and shoots two arrows at the eastern crab.
vs touch for . Ayre tries to shock a crab
"This island. Is the worst. In the entire world.", Galean mutters through gritted teeth as he swings his cutlass at the crab hit by Yuki.
Galean, you're grappled, so you can't move - do you want to count that as trying to break the grapple?
The crabs renew their attack on the lot of you. The crabs trying to kill you clack their claws and lunge.
Galean roars at the crab holding the end of his shirt, and swings his cutlass at him. "Let me go, you damn crustacean!"
"Argh! You sonsab@*+&es are worse than me on ladies drink free night!" Nymph growls while trying to murder her crustaceaned admirer.