Ptolus:ReqSum12
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February 14, 2009
We continued to explore the dungeon past the room of blood and gore. We discovered the lair the hobgoblins had attacked us out of. A corridor out of the south was clogged with debris, but we slowly, steadily cleared it to gain access to another room. This room had a hobgoblin that was dead, but only recently. Otto examined the body and determined the death had occurred within 2 hours. Further, he found what looked like whip marks throughout the hobgoblin's flesh, and those wounds seemed to have an odd green foamy substance with it, much as though it had been poisoned. Otto investigated the open door to the East, after stealthily approaching the entry as he seemed to think that the hobgoblin may have been partially eaten, and is thus approaching the situation with caution. Kekitat beheaded the corpse, 'just to be sure'.
We found that the door at the end of that hallway was closed, and had two bloody handprints on this side, as though being closed by someone already bleeding. Mulwrit, on Otto's advice, opened the door (while cowering behind his shield) and exposed something that immediately struck him with a tentacle. An Otyugh waited for us. Cheval fired his Alchemical Fire, I lit the corpse on fire and had Mulwrit fling the corpse down the hallway in an effort to entice the Otyugh to catch it for fire enhancement. However, the corpse fell short. Instead, I reignited the debris and trash, and caused some significant damage. Mulwrit then closed the door on this side of the hallway, and we opted to leave it be.
We started to explore the Western hallway out of the room we found with the corpse. Otto then found a side hallway that seemed to have been used primarily as a storage area. Upon examining carefully, he found 2 potions. One was an 'oil for rubbing' and one is a 'potion for drinking'. Mulwrit found a smallish room with 4 female hobgoblins and 8 children with their throats slit. Otto gave me the potions to determine the properties. The oil was for applying to a weapon; the potion is probably not poison. We debated it, Kekitat got impatient and unspiked the door and opened it. Otto gave support as well. He got hit with the blast of noxious fumes and gases and opened the door to let the smoke clear out of the hall. He saw into the room and didn't seem to see it. Otto and Kekitat gave a bit of examination to the room, and found bits and pieces of various hobgoblins scattered around. Otto went to investigate the hole in the SE corner of the room. Upon closing the doors, and then spiking the door on the opposite side of the hall from the bathroom area, Otto left a warning note on the door.
With our mighty party-deciding powers, we opted to hit the hallway North just prior to the Hobgoblin's first encounter room. We found evidence of large, bare feet having traversed the hallway but saw nothing else. A new section opened West. From that, a small corridor ended with a door to the South, and Otto found a room at the end of the Western passage that had partially collapsed on itself. Mulwrit discovered that this was in fact a trap that had been tripped and partially liquefied the person that set it off. The door seemed rather impassable. Otto opened the door to the South, in that small hallway. We discovered a mural on the West wall that seems to be mostly intact, in the room that is otherwise entirely empty. The mural depicts an ancient King and Queen of Palestan during their coronation as the first King and Queen.
Otto then listened at the door at the North hallway after clearing it away. Nothing was discovered, nor heard after Cheval heard the scratching behind that door. There was a piece of wood that had been spiked over the door, despite it opening away from us. Upon opening the door, we discovered 2 Hobgoblins that had been converted to Ghouls. Cheval did a turn undead attack on (G1), wounded it enough that it fled the scene entirely. Kekitat stepped forward and attacked with his javelin, pinned it through the brain, and sent it reeling. In retaliation, the ghoul exuded its stench and managed to make the mighty pussycat gag and hack. Poor kitty. He clearly needed his custom blouse to fend off the stench. I bashed (G2) and inflicted some damage as well, but he retaliated the same way against me. G3 lept over his friend to attack me, but failed. Cheval moved up and once more tried his Turning, this time chasing several off, and turning G3 and G4 to dust on impact of the Holy Light of Teun. Kekitat then stepped up and attacked G2 once more this time attacking quite savagely. He managed to cut it in half with both blades, turning it also to dust and ooze. I attacked G6 and botched horribly, but managed to hang on to my mace to retain the ability to redeem myself. Otto 'fast drew' his lute and inspired all of us that had been gassed by the ghouls. Mulwrit injured G6 to the point of death, but tried and failed to infect as a retaliatory action. Kekitat stepped forward again to attack G8 inflicting terrible wounds for a living creature but as it was undead it shrugged them off. I stepped up and attacked and caused significant damage to G8 as well. Otto shot at G8 then, and managed to turn it to dust.
We pursued the fleeing 3 ghouls, down into a room. In pursuit, Cheval used another Alchemical Fire round and incinerated G1 outright, with G5 and G7 burning a pretty orange. I also stepped forward and increased the fire for G5. Didn't manage to kill it outright, but the fire was indeed increased. Otto stepped forward and fired at G7, and damaged but didn't kill it. Mulwrit attacked G5 and managed to kill it outright. Kekitat strode forward, and bashed G7 with a single scimitar for some significant damage but not yet enough. I increased the burn rate, but also still couldn't manage to kill the creature. Otto then managed to shoot 'through' Kekitat and hit the ghoul. Mulwrit moved down and finally managed to remove the final threat. Upon examining the room, we determined that the remnants found in this room were the original ghouls, that then infected the hobgoblins. Apparently the hobgoblins managed to destroy the original ghouls, but were infected as well during the combat. Otto, on searching the remains, managed to find a waraxe of dwarven make. A 'very nice' axe in fact. 4 small clay jars, perfectly preserved. He also found a silver ring. I identified the axe to be +2 magical battle axe that can also be thrown. The ring turned out to be a Ring of Feather Falling. The four jars were Marvelous Pigments. (OOC: You can draw things with them and make those items real, such as doors.) I took the ring, Mulwrit took the axe, and Otto took the Pigments.
Upon examining the rooms to the West off the main entry, we determined that the original three rooms were cleared out. Instead, we decided to excavate through the wall to find a way through to a former burial ground. This was the original King and Queen as depicted in the mural.
(Level was gained for all our efforts thus far!)
