While Kiril and Brunar examine the few items in the large wool sack, Gwendolyn consults with Sandy and Kristyd to update the map with all the newest information. When they are done, Sandy points at the map and says
Well, that’s this area, and these two rooms. I suppose next we can head west and see what’s at the other end of this passageway, of take this small passageway here, going north
"Works for me." Flint says, then taps the map to the right of spot 19. "Depending on where that leads, this area might be worth looking into, as well."
Brunar nods, "Aye good with me as well!" Brunar gives Sandy a wink as he walks by her to tell her he hasn't forgotten about here.
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"It's settled then, let's move out," Kiril leads the way.
Grinley follows behind the rest, keeping an eye behind them to ensure they are not ambushed from the rear.
Flint will stay near the front of the group, allowing Kiril to lead.
Kiril leads the party back to the west, with Sandy and Gwendolyn by his sides. When he is about to pass the small passageway on the right, going north, Sandy lets out a loud cough
*a hem*
Kiril pauses, looks left and right, once down at Gwendolyn’s map, then left and right again, before deciding on where he is actually going.
Kiril heads left as if it was the only option.
Brunar follows second to keep Kiril on his feet if something should happen, "Aye, watch yer step Kiril!"
Flint makes an uncertain sounds as Kiril passes the small corridor, lingering to look down it.
"Yes, shouldn't we explore every corridor? It would be a shame to miss anything." Kayne speaks up for the first time in a while, having been less than amused at the antics of the others and the talk of flapping "legacies."
Kiril leads the group to the north down a narrow passageway, he pauses for a moment by a pair of doors and the with a shove forces both open at the same time.
The chamber beyond is empty, but there is something peculiar about this chamber, in that within is another set of double doors, going north in the north wall in the east corner.
Making a quick note of the doors, Gwendolyn points to the passageway on her map, and Kiril nods in agreement.
Best to see what lies that way before moving into this room.
Moving to the north in the passageway Kiril turns right and sees another set of doors, and the passageway continue to the east a short distance before turning again to the right. Finding the second room there empty as well, he waits for Gwen to update her map, and it shows a space where another room might be, and without hesitation, Kiril heads east, and then south. When the passageway ends there is one last set of doors, and yet another empty room.
At this point the group is becoming agitated, three empty rooms in a row, and a dead end.
Now there are two choices. Go back to the four way intersection by the huge double doors (which lead to the dining room) and go west or go through the doors in the first empty room that was found in the narrow passageway
Brunar shrugs, "Aye, what do y'all think? Go through the doors in the first empty room in the narrow passageway?"
"Eh, we're already here, and I've been eying those doors every since we turned away from them. I think I may have heard something in there." He points back to the nearby empty room.
"I'm having another listen."
Flint walks back into the empty room and gives a listen near the door.
Kiril follows Flint and watches his back.
Flint seems motivated to learn what is beyond these doors in a room, and moves close to the spot where the two stone doors come together and places an ear near the gap.
With a smile back at Kiril, and a wink, Flint steps to the right, and Kiril approaches the left and the two shove the doors open.
There is a hallway beyond the doors and it goes north a while, then turns to the right.
Without hesitation, Kiril and Flint lead the others down this passageway.
After going north forty feet, the party turns right and moves eighty feet to the east, and then there is a slight jog in the passageway, to the south and then back to the west and in thirty feet it ends in a hard, blank stone wall.
But on the south wall of the jog in the passageway there is another set of double stone doors.
Kiril nods to Flint at this new set of double doors, ready to shove them open with him.
Flint pulls out his Rapier as he nears the door. "Must've been THIS one I heard something behind." he whispers, and grins, and pushes the doors open with Kiril.
"Ya think this castle wud have more interestin' stuff in it? How old is this castle? ... Right! ... Brunar stands at the ready as Flint nears the door.
Grinley notices the tension in his party members, and stands back a bit from the group. He readies a small fist of fire, ready to throw it at the first threat he sees coming through the doors.
Kayne only nods along as the group prepares to enter yet another chamber. "I'm certain you did, Flint. After all, echoes in dungeons like these, you can never be certain just where the sound is actually coming from." As usual, when Kiril makes to open the doors, Kayne lets go of Alighieri's lead for a moment, readying his rapier and gauntlet.
Shoving open the doors, Kiril and Flint reveal a small chamber, only twenty feet to the far wall, with this set of doors set close to the wall on the left side, while to the right, the room extends thirty feet. At the far wall, directly across from the doors is a pile of bleached bones, which includes two goblin skulls that are easily identified from the doorway. The bones are in a pile, suggesting that something placed them there, and that these two goblins did not just die here and were forgotten.
Kayne enters the room and narrows his eyes, already looking around suspiciously. His gauntlet begins to crackle with prepared arcane energy.
Brunar enters the room just behind Kiril and Flint, and looks around.
"Hmm, well at least the room is not empty but I don't like thee decoration."
Kayne and Brunar are first to enter the room, as Brunar looks toward the pile of bones, nothing out of the ordinary catches his attention, while Kayne spots something peculiar
"Just a memorial to the little s+#&s," Kiril kicks the bones over.
Kayne hisses and holds up his hand, gesturing for the others to stand still and stay quiet. "There's something here. Some sort of... cube, of almost clear substance. Look at the coins, the symbol. Metal in the air." He points it out to them. "If anyone wants to try sticking their hand in be my guest, but I don't like the looks of it personally."
"Eh, what? You lost it?" Flint whispers to Kayne, looking around for what he's pointing out. He picks up one of the bones as tosses it in the direction the warlock points.
"See, there's nothin' ther-"
When Flint reaches down to retrieve one of the bones, he notices that although the bone appears clean, and fresh, it is hollow, and very brittle.
When he tosses the bone in the direction Kayne is indicating, the bone sails across the room, and stops, mid air just fifteen feet away, and then slowly begins to move back toward him.
The rest of the group seems confused as Flint gulps his words, and suddenly before anyone can react the huge cube of transparent goo is coming near Kayne, Brunar, Kiril, and Flint
As the cube of goo moves forward, with surprising mobility, it attempts to engulf one of the party.
The Cube comes dangerously close to Kayne, and a blob of the cube faces slams outward toward him
But Kayne, who noticed the threat before anyone else, leaps back just at the right moment and avoids the attack easily.
"F~~$! How do we kill that thing?" Kiril hesitates, trying to figure out which weapon to use--then draws his halberd and starts hacking at the thing, keeping his distance with the weapon's long reach.
"I bet Brunar here could do it. What say you, buddy? Give it a smack!" Flint assists Brunar in a melee attack, eagerly encouraging the dwarf to face off against the thing.
Brunar looks at the cube, "Well Flint, I ain't stickin' me axe or hand near that thing. Who knows, them bones maybe from its last meal?" Brunar makes sure he is not in melee range, holds up his holy symbol and casts Sacred Flame cantrip at the transparent cube.
Brunar watches intently to see if the cantrip works.
"Yes, stand back from it--there's nothing good to come from being touched." Not wanting to admit his lack of knowledge, Kayne offers what advice he can and moves back from the ooze, opening the battle with an eldritch blast.
Flint pouts, and instead readies to intercept the ooze, trying to make the monster attack him instead of anyone else.
Brunar looks at Flint, "Aye Flint, we got yer back! Don't look so defeated laddy!"
From a safe distance, Grinley throws a small handful of magical fire at the cube of goo.
Round 1…
Kiril tries to keep a safe distance from the cube and swings his halberd at the jelly like surface, slicing a globule of goo off the thing, while Brunar calls forth a bright, holy light that surrounds the creature for a moment, revealing its full size (it is almost nine feet tall and easily ten feet wide).
The creature sucks in its sides, and elongates its body doing its best to avoid being burned by the holy fire, and it appears to go unharmed by the attack
Kayne and Grinley throw magical attacks of eldritch energy and fire at the cube’s surface, and the goo sizzles a bit
Now that the party has gotten a good look at the extent of the creature, thanks to Brunar, they have the advantage on the beast and take the Initiative.
Round 2 initiative, goes to the Party
Cube takes – 9 damage from Kiril (70)
Cube takes – 6 damage from Kayne (64)
Cube takes – 4 damage from Grineley (60)
Cube takes – 9 damage from Kiril (70)
Cube takes –
Kayne charges another surge of arcane power in his gauntlet, and this time he lets loose a wicked bolt of lightning, eldritch power crackling in a link between himself and the oozing beast.
Flint feels an insult coming to his tongue, and he decides to lace some magic into it as well. "Hey blobby! Don't you think you should be watching you weight?"
He points his rapier at the blob, standing about as close to it as Kiril is, though from a different direction, as his Vicious Mockery is cast out at the ooze.
Kiril's eyes go wide and a bit feral when the scale of the beast is revealed--but Flint's insult seems to restore his confidence and he swings again.
A look of great concern appears on Grinley's face as he sees the goo cube get hit with a barrage of attacks, yet aside from rippling it's surface he sees very little harm.
"I have a bad feeling about this..."
Bruar watches the slime ball (cube) dodge the holy fire, "Aye, so you don't like me Goddess' fire?! Hopefully, you can't dodge them all?!"
Brunar repeats the Sacred Flame cantrip,
Kayne maintains his distance and the connection of wicked lightning between himself and the cube.
"It's big but slow and stupid--we can do this," Kiril shouts above the melee.
"Aye, just don't get any green goo on any of yous!"
Brunar makes any movement adjustments necessary to keep himself from drawing any AoOs, and attacks again with his Sacred Flame cantrip,
Flint mutters another insult at the orb, cackling from his near miss.