It Came From Beyond!
Log Info
- Title: It Came From Beyond!
- GM: Telamon
- Place: Alexandria
- Summary: Dismembered corpses keep turning up in Alexandria, and a group of adventurers--namely, Andelena, Slixvah, and Syianne--are assembled to deal with the matter. The ladies investigate and find a building that's about to be condemned. Andelena charges inside and the group goes toe-to-toe with a decapus and a fleshwarp grothlut. They prevail victorious... but will need a bath. Immediately.
Murder most foul! Or... something. Evidently bodies -- partial bodies -- have been turning up in the slums. And with the Alexandria guard and numerous adventurers busy pacifying the countryside, the Guild put out word that it needed some trained kneebreakers to find whatever's causing this and make it stop. Permanently.
Fortunately, you have a lead.
The Guild representative giving your briefing is a fussy-looking little gnome, with round glasses and a surprisingly spikey green mane of hair. Inspecting his notes, he explains, "We have a certified statement from a..." He pauses to peer at his paper. "... Mister Garbonzo, that something or someone broke in through the west sluice gates into the sewers. He was able to track the culprit as far as the slums, where he stated it went up a... uh, 'two-leg portal', the manhole access there. That was also where the first body was found. Two others have been located near this vicinity, so we are sending you to check this building."
The gnome peers at his notes, "Mister Garbonzo also adds a personal note that he does not approve of this sort of thing and wishes the Guild the best of luck. Well, that's nice of him..." He looks up. "Any questions?"
Andelena of Selentia, the Sunguard that's seen more weird and odd jobs lately than probably any other Sunguard currently active, nods a little as she listens to the Guild rep give an overview of things. "Okay. Perp went up a manhole and into a building," she iterates. "Typically, serial killers tend to have a particular way of doing things. Dismemberment's obviously their thing, but have you been able to identify any particular method associated with it? We talking huge-ass claws, axes, what? Knowing what our killer's armed with is essential."
Slixvah, an outrageously ribboned egalrin woman, crosses her arms and leans back on on a foot. "Partial? Bleh," she shakes her head. "Any uh... method of dismemberment? Cut? Ripped? Gnawed- er , yeah, what the stronk lady said."
Syianne wasn't sure what this job was fully about, but decided to throw her hand in, if anything maybe she can do some healing if it is needed. She smiles as glances over towards her fellow Sunguard and then nods as she listens. SHe is more on the quiet side. She mostly listens, trying to piece together the various questions and such.
The gnome shuffles his papers before getting to what he's being asked. "Ugh. Ah... some form of trauma, physical force, like they were pulled apart or strangled. And teeth. Large bite wounds. There was also evidence of corrosives on one of the bodies." He shudders in disgust. "So, suffice to say if this is a serial killer it isn't a normal one by any stretch. If they are, in fact, a person, then obviously the city would like them 'more or less' intact for a trial." He purses his lips. "However, if he falls down a few times on the way and shows up missing his feet, nobody will raise much of a fuss."
"I'unno, sounds like a critter and not a person to me," Andelena assesses. She pulls her helmet back on, covering her wavy copper-blonde hair, and looks to her comrades. "'Large bite wounds' is what cinched it without getting an examination of the bodies. There are some people with some big fuckin' mouths, but that's gossiping and not eating people. I think I'm just about ready to go."
Syianne nods her head, "Unless if it some kind of monstrosity but then that is close to critter." she is thinking on different types of undead herself, but then her thoughts always tend to go that way.
Slixvah rubs her neck. "Wew, yeah, that's spicy. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this."
She turns to looks at the other Sunguard, appraising them with and down-up motion. "I'm Slixvah by the by!" she chirps warmly. "Ready ta rock, as the khzad say."
The trip doesn't take long, all things considered. You're able to hitch a ride on a Guard wagon that's going past the slums, the soldiers more than happy to share their ride, however brief, with charming lady adventurers. However, once it's dropped you off, the sight of the tenement building is enough to make one consider seeing if you can catch up to the wagon.
The building is in poor shape, though it seems it hasn't fallen down yet -- decent construction, at least. But the walls show signs of decay, and the double doors at the front are slightly ajar. A notice tacked to the left of the door informs all and sundry that the building has been condemned and will be demolished soon.
Andelena is not charming, unless the soldiers are enthusiasts of muscular Sunguard women who swear a lot and look at most people like they're about to pull something stupid. At any rate, she is at least able to tell them, "Don't fuck around or I'm sure I'll hear about it later, you lot," in a friendly sort of way as she hops out of the wagon.
Then her steel-grey eyes catch sight of the building and she squints. "That's one fucking awful place to die," she comments. "Granted, probably would have happened the next time a real strong storm tore through."
She turns to Slixvah and her fellow Sunguard-sister. "Alright. Who feels like pretending like they skipped reading lessons and wants to try the front door with me?"
Slixvah gives a little finger waggle in goodbye to the guards after they're dropped off, her looking over the building. A sigh escapes her as she smooths her crest feathers down. "Well this looks right dandy of a place ta live," she says dryly as she pulls out a dark wood wand from somewhere within her robes. Swish and flick, taps her beak, a wind brushes past her.
It's stowed away, her chuckling with Andie. "You two ladies can do that, I'll get ya backs," she shoots a finger gun towards both, giving a wink towards Syianne and poking her arm. A wind wafts by. "Good luck~"
GAME: Slixvah used a Wand of Mage Armor.
Syianne looks more scholarly of a Sunguard herself but she nods and smiles a little along the ride but then shrugs a bit when the question is asked once they arrive. "Well we are going to have to go inside, I think that was probably to keep others from getting killed.
"Alright. Sweet. Lemme just pray a little before we walk in for protection, so we don't get our shit pushed in, and then I'll go in." Andelena clasps her hands together and she murmurs a protective prayer that's surprisingly free of profanities. True to Andelena's word, Daeus's blessing falls onto the group of three.
Andelena draws her longsword and shield from her back. "Okay. Cover me, I'm going in." She charges in through the front doors.
GAME: Andelena casts Bless. Caster Level: 5 DC: 14
Slixvah hums a little ditty as she feels the blessing wash over her. She waits a beat for the other one to join Andie before she reaches into a nearby shrub. "Sorry about this... olbtser em..." she chants, eyes glowing a sickly green. The brush wilts and grows brown, its life essence taken.
She follows after, wary.
GAME: Slixvah casts False Life. Caster Level: 5 DC: 16 GAME: Slixvah rolls 1d10+5: (4)+5: 9 <OOC> Slixvah says, "9 temp HP for later"
Syianne pulls her own longsword and heavy shield and glances around a little and then smiles, "Ready when you all are." she says as she moves to follow after, holding her blade with practiced ease.
The doors don't exactly open up. More like Andelena's charge just knocks them off their hinges, and they crash to the floor with a loud thud, kicking up dust. There's little light here, most of it coming from outside, spilling down the hall into where it opens into what was once a common room but is now a mess of discarded, rotting furniture and other trash. A firepit has been crudely constructed in the center of the common room, but no smoke issues from it; the blackened remnants and cinders now cold.
Further down, beyond where the light reaches, you see movement, and hear a soft whimpering, sobbing sound...
GAME: Slixvah rolls alertness: aliased to perception+2: (2)+11+2: 15 GAME: Syianne rolls perception: (17)+7: 24 GAME: Andelena rolls Perception: (14)+8: 22
Andelena freezes in place as she hears the whimpering, her steel-grey eyes squinting at the direction of the humanoid figure. She briefly goes to raise her shield, but she instead sighs and takes a step forward. "Hey. You okay back there?" she asks.
Syianne nods, "Well could be a trap, but we don't really have a choice in the matter, because she could be hurt and need help."
Slixvah pauses at the same time as the others, her carefully pulling a knife out and muttering a soft "Etl ti niseh..." It emits a soft white light as she holds it up for all to see.
GAME: Slixvah casts Light. Caster Level: 5 DC: 14 GAME: Slixvah rolls alertness: aliased to perception+2: (9)+11+2: 22 GAME: Andelena rolls Perception: (4)+8: 12 GAME: Syianne rolls perception: (19)+7: 26
The cautious advance isn't exactly stealthy, as the trio crunches over debris left on the floor from past interlopers and residents. It's not so much nasty as it is depressing, the detritus of lives in squalor. Slowly, the shadows roll back from the far hall, driven away by Slixvah's light spell. Revealing what appears to be a dark haired little girl in a tattered brown dress, huddled against a door, her shoulders shaking.
But as you approach, something seems off. She hasn't even reacted -- surely she should've stopped crying, called out, moved, done something. And then there's something odd about the girl's proportions, too. As Andelena reaches the hallway, suddenly the girl looks up -- and her face is indescribably wrong. One eye set a little higher than the other, the nose looking weirdly square, and the mouth frozen in a blank smile even as the sobbing comes out of it.
Perhaps the sight is what freezes Andie in place for a crucial second, as suddenly the walls on either side of the hall crash down, and two horrific things come bursting out. From the left, a gruesome blend of slug and man, who begins to make a horrible, piteous moan. And on the right, something with way too many tentacles surrounding a central face with blank eyes and a huge mouthful of ragged teeth.
From the latter's inhuman lips comes a weirdly human voice: "Want some candy?"
GAME: Telamon rolls 1d3: (2): 2 <OOC> Telamon says, "OK, he just moves, moaning. However, his moan is a free action; I need everyone to make Will saves." GAME: Andelena rolls Will: (20)+7: 27 (CRITICAL SUCCESS) <OOC> Slixvah says, "+2 for you syianne" GAME: Slixvah rolls will: (8)+7: 15 GAME: Syianne rolls will+2: (17)+7+2: 26
The slug monster comes through the wall first -- the half-melted countenance opening its maw to begin a horrible, spine-chilling moan as it shambles towards the heroines. Its empty eyes are full of a near-mindless, insatiable hunger, and clearly they are the main course today.
<OOC> Slixvah says, "five foot step to the east, free action prehensile hair, then shield of faith on andie" GAME: Slixvah casts S1: Shield of Faith. Caster Level: 5 DC: 15
Slixvah flinches as the walls break down, her eyes widening. "Ew, no, I don't want ya dang candy little creep!" she chitters back, sliding to the side as the feathers on her wings unroll like wound ribbons. They flow freely around her as she cuts at the air with her knife. "Ekpe ti crtsee, ekpe ti fsea," she chants. A down draft hits Andie, the winds of fate shifting in her favor.
<OOC> Syianne says, "hit the slug monster" <OOC> Telamon says, "Roll 'em. You have +1 from Bless." GAME: Syianne rolls longsword+1: aliased to bab+wis+1+1: (3)+2+4+1+1: 11
Syianne is caught a little off guard and she swings at the slug creature and it causes her to miss, yeah, that was it, completely. She takes a ready stance, like she didn't just do that.
Well, it's happened again. Another Guild assignment's led to the strange, but this time, it's downright horrifying. Andelena doesn't scare or tremble easily, but this situation chills her down to her core. She's locked in place for a moment as her steel-grey eyes are wide and she trembles.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Tentacle Beast attempts to lash at Andelena with tentacles (shocking, I know)." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (15)+8: 23 GAME: Telamon rolls 2d4+3: (5)+3: 8 <OOC> Telamon says, "It will attempt a grab as a free action..." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+11: (9)+11: 20
The tentacled abomination hoists itself through the wall, the grinning obscenity of a face in the center of the mass of tendrils -- ten in total -- seems to dominate it. It rasps, "Anytime..." as its tendrils slash out, slamming into Andie's armor and bruising her, but failing to latch on. "Ugly... mother..."
<OOC> Telamon says, "OK, so, slug monster: will try and slam Syianne twice." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+6: (11)+6: 17 GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+6: (9)+6: 15 <OOC> Telamon says, "Fails to connect on both swings."
The slug-human hybrid keeps moaning, even though it's not doing anything other than probably annoying our heroines. It raises flipperlike arms, and tries to bring them down on Syianne -- but the frail-looking priestess is sturdier than she looks and manages to slip both blows without injury. The creature pauses in its moaning, as if displeased, but then keeps on.
<OOC> Slixvah says, "fortune syianne as a standard action!" <OOC> Slixvah says, "syianne, the next d20 roll you make, you can roll twice and take the higher"
Slixvah sees the mash unfold, her brows furrowed. "Keep it together girls!" she calls out, looking to Syianne as she flips her dagger upside down. She saws at something, then there's a twang! unseen. "Gettem!"
A breath of fresh air...
<OOC> Syianne says, "try to strike it again." GAME: Syianne rolls ls: aliased to bab+wisdom+1: (3)+2+4+1+1: 11 <OOC> Telamon says, "You may roll twice and keep the better roll." GAME: Syianne rolls ls: aliased to bab+wisdom+1: (5)+2+4+1+1: 13 GAME: Syianne rolls 1d8+2: (3)+2: 5
Syianne does a little better this time, she swings her sword and actually barely manages to hit, taking a small piece of it.
<OOC> Andelena says, "Hoooooookay. Gonna hit tentacle monster because I don't like it." <OOC> Andelena says, "Power attack + bless." GAME: Andelena rolls weapon7+1-1: (11)+8+1+-1: 19 GAME: Andelena rolls damage7+2: aliased to 1d8+5+2: (7)+5+2: 14 <OOC> Andelena says, "5-foot-step to the right, please, actually, and that's my turn."
Andelena recovers, shaking off her horrified expression and turning it into a bit of anger at the attackers that harass her allies. She swings down her longsword and strikes a serious blow on the tentacled creature. "Get your octopus-looking motherfucking ass off of me!" she snarls at it.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Tentacle monster tries for bite and tentacles on Andie." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+7: (1)+7: 8 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (20)+8: 28 <OOC> Telamon says, "OK, rolling crit chance..." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (14)+8: 22 <OOC> Telamon says, "And Andie gets critted." GAME: Telamon rolls 4d4+6: (4)+6: 10
The tentacle creature takes the hit, hissing angrily and snarling something in an obscene tongue. It licks its thin, wide mouth with a green tongue, and whispers, "Ain't... no... man..." before snapping at Andelena with its jagged teeth, falling well short. The tentacles come in, slamming at her once more, but the blows could've been worse, and it snarls something as it scuttles sideways...
<OOC> Telamon says, "Slug Monster shifts to 10,7 to flank Andy and tries to smack her around." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (6)+8: 14 GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (20)+8: 28 <OOC> Telamon says, "Checking confirm..." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+8: (1)+8: 9 (EPIC FAIL) <OOC> Telamon says, "Normal damage with one hit." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d6+3: (5)+3: 8
The slug monster jerks upright at the tentacle creature's hissing voice, and then shuffles past Syianne, moving in to hit Andelena from behind. The good news is that Andie's armor saves her from the worst of it, but the monstrosity still gets in a good hit in her back.
<OOC> Slixvah says, "WEE WOO WEE WOO Andie needs a band aid! Healing hex on her :)" <OOC> Slixvah says, "theeen" GAME: Slixvah rolls healing hex: aliased to 2d8+witch: (10)+5: 15 <OOC> Slixvah says, "what's the thing in the hall doin" <OOC> Telamon says, "Nothing. It's just sitting there. In fact... you look up just in time to see it dissipate; roll Spellcraft." GAME: Slixvah rolls spellcraft: (14)+12: 26 <OOC> Slixvah says, "moving to..." <OOC> Slixvah says, "9,7! have enough movement to swing it so I don't provoke"
Slixvah winces as Andie gets a big hit in the back. "I gotcha!" she calls out, a feather elongating before sliding under armor. There's an uncomfortable shifting of wounds, and they're made superficial.
The egalrin makes a break for the side, swinging wide as she has he knife bared. "Get around them!" she chirps out. "Don't let em get tha best of ya!"
<OOC> Syianne says, "will try to strike the slug one again" GAME: Syianne rolls ls+1: aliased to bab+wisdom+1+1: (4)+2+4+1+1: 12 GAME: Syianne rolls ls+1: aliased to bab+wisdom+1+1: (19)+2+4+1+1: 27 GAME: Syianne rolls ls+1: aliased to bab+wisdom+1+1: (20)+2+4+1+1: 28 GAME: Syianne rolls 2d8+4: (10)+4: 14
Syianne watches the slug monster move, and sees Andelena getting hit and considers something when the other heals her first, then moves into a flanking position, so she just decides to slash at the slug monster once more. She starts to bring her longsword towards the monster and feels that she is going to miss. She grips her longsword in that hand tighter and steels her will, bringing it down and slashing into an apparently vulnerable spot as the blade cuts deeper than she was expecting.
<OOC> Andelena says, "Hitting the tentacle beast again." GAME: Andelena rolls weapon7+1-1: (11)+8+1+-1: 19 GAME: Andelena rolls damage7+2: aliased to 1d8+5+2: (2)+5+2: 9
Andelena growls as she goes and slices down into the tentacled creature, not content to leave the thing alive. "It's like I SAID. FUCK. OFF." She slams her longsword down into it again, but manages to miss its most vital spot.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Tentacle Beast goes for Andie, tentacles first!" GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+10: (3)+10: 13 <OOC> Telamon says, "...Slaps self in face... tries to bite..." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+9: (14)+9: 23 GAME: Telamon rolls 1d6+3: (2)+3: 5 <OOC> Telamon says, "Slug Monster screeches, turns on Syianne, and pukes on her. Reflex save, Syianne. Don't forget your +2 ward bonus." GAME: Syianne rolls ref+2: (1)+3+2: 6 (EPIC FAIL) GAME: Telamon rolls 3d6: (11): 11
The tentacular horror isn't giving up that easily, its milky eyes glittering. "Stick... around..." it rasps, before making a horrible chittering sound, like how an insect would giggle. Tentacles lash and slap at Andelena, but don't connect, even as it slithers low and sinks its teeth into her calf. "Ain't... got time... to bleed..."
The slug monster lurches as Syianne's blade sinks into it, and it turns to stare at her with empty eyes and gaping mouth. The moan cuts off, and there's a horrible gurgling from its midsection -- and then it spews awful, caustic liquid onto the hapless priestess, the acids etching her armor and burning her flesh.
<OOC> Slixvah says, "healing hex syianna!" GAME: Slixvah rolls healing hex: aliased to 2d8+witch: (7)+5: 12
Slixvah gags as acid spews out, her reaching a hand out towards the other cleric. "Honey, please, don't let my sun girls get hurt!" she huffs. White tendrils sink into Syianne, wounds are rearranged, and all the damage was just superficial armor sizzles.
She twirls over, elongated feathers and ribbons streaming behind her as she goes. "I gots a trick up my sleeve if we ain't got it!"
<OOC> Syianne says, "try to kill it" <OOC> Telamon says, "Remember you have flank bonus :)" GAME: Syianne rolls ls+1+2: aliased to bab+wisdom+1+1+2: (2)+2+4+1+1+2: 12
Syianne gets healed, but maybe the getting hit and then healed affects her more than she thought as she swings her blade and just misses hitting the creature.
<OOC> Andelena says, "Hitting the beast again." GAME: Andelena rolls weapon7+1-1: (20)+8+1+-1: 28 (THREAT) GAME: Andelena rolls weapon7+1-1: (10)+8+1+-1: 18 GAME: Andelena rolls damage7+2: aliased to 1d8+5+2: (5)+5+2: 12 GAME: Andelena rolls damage7+2: aliased to 1d8+5+2: (7)+5+2: 14
Every once in a while, it happens. Every once in a while, Andelena channels all of her anger... or more accurately, she lets go. She thinks only of Justice, only of the Knight's rays of light on the morning horizon.
And her sword falls down like judgment.
It tears through the beast precisely. The beast goes down.
Andelena takes a breath. And she looks at the other beast remaining.
"You're next," she hisses.
GAME: Telamon rolls 1d3: (2): 2 <OOC> Telamon says, "Swings at Syianne twice." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+6: (17)+6: 23 GAME: Telamon rolls 1d20+6: (16)+6: 22 <OOC> Telamon says, "Ward broken and two hits." GAME: Telamon rolls 1d6+3+1d6+3: (1)+3+(3)+3: 10
The slug monster seems to glare at Syianne, though it's hard to tell with that half-melted face. Hoisting its flipper-like arms, it starts metronomically pounding on the priestess, even while its partner gets turned into sashimi by Andelena. Not a lot of brains in this outfit, it seems. Still, the hammerblows of its limbs hurt and it keeps making this terrible wet whistling like a leaky teakettle.
GAME: Slixvah casts Strangling Hair. Caster Level: 5 DC: 17 <OOC> Slixvah attempts a grapple :) GAME: Slixvah rolls intelligence+witch: (7)+4+5: 16 GAME: Slixvah rolls 1d6: (5): 5 <OOC> Slixvah says, "turn! I'm still threatening, as this spell means I don't get grappled too"
Slixvah pumps a fist at Andie's radiant display, "Get it!" Though, it turns into a glare and her break grinding as Syianne takes a big blow. "Okay, that's it. OI! UGLY!"
The egalrin slides back, wings flaring out behind her in a crescent. "ITWSNES!"
There's a sound of glass breaking, then suddenly, all the flowing feathers shoot forward, unraveling rapidly as they wrap up and crush the abomination into the ground. Slix tilts her head up slightly, glaring down.
<OOC> Syianne says, "will channel to heal us" <OOC> Syianne says, "just me and andelena since slix isn't sure" <OOC> Syianne says, "hurt even" GAME: Syianne rolls 2d6: (9): 9 Syianne grabs her holy symbol and murmers a prayer as as a wave of healing energy flows from her to bring healing to both her and Andelena. She sighs softly. <pre><OOC> Andelena says, "Hitting the creature very hard." GAME: Andelena rolls weapon7+1-1: (11)+8+1+-1: 19 GAME: Andelena rolls damage7+2: aliased to 1d8+5+2: (4)+5+2: 11
Andelena turns around. "Thanks, sister!" she tells her fellow Sunguard as she feels her healing seep into her, knitting her wounds together underneath her armor. She brings her sword down into it, scoring a moderate strike on it.
<OOC> Slixvah says, "escape DC is 19, if they want to do that" <OOC> Telamon says, "It will opt to puke on Andie." <OOC> Telamon says, "Reflex save, Andie." GAME: Andelena rolls Reflex: (2)+2: 4 <OOC> Andelena says, "Rerolling." GAME: Andelena rolls Reflex: (13)+2: 15 <OOC> Telamon says, "Just enough. Half damage." GAME: Telamon rolls 3d6: (13): 13 <OOC> Telamon says, "You take six."
The slug monster makes a wheezing screech as Slixvah's feathers wrap around it, squeezing it and holding it in place. It writhes, but then it stares at Andelena as the Sunguard slashes into its malformed flesh, and suddenly it's spewing another stream of harsh, burning stomach fluid at her. Fortunately, she manages to avoid the worst of it.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Go ahead and make your grapple check, Slix." <OOC> Slixvah says, "standard to concentrate on spell, rolling to maintain" GAME: Slixvah rolls intelligence+witch+5: (15)+4+5+5: 29 <OOC> Telamon says, "Hahah yeah." GAME: Slixvah rolls 1d6: (3): 3 <OOC> Slixvah will continue to stay here to provide flanking bonus
Slixvah grimaces as the creature sullies her feathers, and the feeling of it on them. "Hey hey hey! Do NOT get those dirty!" she hisses at them, brows furrowing as her feathers squeeze tighter.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Syianne, you're up. He's grappled, so he has a small AC penalty, and you're flanking with Slix." <OOC> Syianne says, "strike it" GAME: Syianne rolls ls+1+2: aliased to bab+wisdom+1+1+2: (14)+2+4+1+1+2: 24 GAME: Syianne rolls 1d8+2: (3)+2: 5
Syianne must have gotten a boost from the healing as it seem to give her a little more confidence as she as she slashes at the slug creature, slicing into the slug creature.
<OOC> Telamon says, "Alright, so... I need everyone to make a Fortitude save." GAME: Syianne rolls fort: (8)+4: 12 GAME: Andelena rolls Fortitude: (13)+6: 19 GAME: Slixvah rolls fortitude: (6)+2: 8
As Syianne strikes the deathblow, stabbing deep into the beast, there's a rattling sound from its mouth, and something almost approaching gratitude in its blank eyes. And then that teakettle whistle magnifies, and suddenly with a horrid, wet SPLORCH, the monster's corpse ruptures and explodes violently... covering all three of the heroines, and indeed most of the room and hall, in stinking, malformed viscera. The smell is so atrocious, both Syianne and Slixvah are overcome by it for a few moments, and everyone is going to be in need of a bath.
GAME: Telamon rolls 1d4: (3): 3 <OOC> Telamon says, "(Slix and Syianne are nauseated for 3 rounds.)"
Syianne gasps, "It got in my Noseeeee." she squeals and is trying to get it off her face and all that. She shakes her head, that is what Tabards are for after all, yes? She is trying to do her best not to lose her last meal.
Andelena swears as she's splattered with what can bluntly be described in her lingo as "gross shit." "Ugh, fuck," she grunts, but otherwise seems fine. "Okay, sound off. Everyone okay? Despite being covered in all sorts of bullshit?"
Slixvah is hit full force, her staggering back from the splash zone as she lands on her tail end. There's a look down, a pinch of the brow, then she dry heaves. A hand going over her nose holes to stem the stench.
There's a muffled twittering in her robes. "Unmesi, I swear by the Patron Weaver if you don't take care of your-"
Andie calls for a sound off. Well, lunch hits the floor on the hall way.
"Unmesi is hale. But filthy," the tinny voice says.
Alright. It's a mess. But, it's proof you killed ... well, whatever those things were. The dead tentacle thing's body is retrieved from where it got launched into a side room, and you trundle back to the Guild...
Where you are firmly told you are NOT to come inside, the representative will come OUT to you. After a few minutes, the little gnome comes out, holding an clove studded orange to his face, and inspects the corpse you salvaged.
"Ah ha! Yes! Clearly an aberration, a decapus, judging from the ten tentacles! We'll do some cross-checking against the measurements we took from the bodies, but it looks like you've found your... well, not a man, but you get the idea."
The Guild representative has a hurried, whispered conversation with an aide, who sprints off and returns with your pay, and also three tokens, which he gingerly passes out. "Free baths at the TarRaCe," he explains. "I... think you earned them, along with the gold."
"Sure. Thanks," Andelena replies, taking the voucher and her pay. She looks none-too-happy about any of... well, any of this. The Sunguard takes a deep breath...
And she lets it out. "I always get the weird shit," she mutters as she walks off.
OOC
<OOC> Telamon says, "OK, so, map: https://www.mipui.net/app/index.html?mid=mf9unj2s0jv"
<OOC> Telamon says, "Lightning and sword is Andie, sunburst is Syianne, finch is Slix."