Friday, February 10, 2023

No Subtlety Whatsoever - February 10, 2023

 - Renalla transforms back into herself from the Giant Elk form

- Lephith with her sword glowing starts tromping down the spiraling ramp into the tunnel with everyone else following

- The tunnel only goes for a couple of hundred feet before there is an open doorway where the door itself is mostly missing and was probably once concealed or secreted.

- Past the door looks like a derelict tavern. It is covered in refuse, cobwebs, broken furniture, etc. It has probably not been in use in decades minimum, possibly centuries.

- This looks like one of the areas where the creatures traffic through to come out 

- Directly across the room is another doorway.

- Through the next doorway is a hallway that curves around to both the right and left. Circle?

- The hallways is also full of refuse and dust and cobwebs

- To the right there are two doors on the right and one door on the left.

- Renalla knocks on the door to the left. (DM confounded by this idea. What would the things inside do if something knocked?!)

- The door opens and there is a bug creature there. Renalla asks, "How's it goin'?" in Infernal.

- After it responds by asking who she is, she responds with "You're worse nightmare" and immediately casts Frostbite on it for 5 cold dmg

CORRIDOR BATTLE

- Kip casts Bless on everyone

- Green Bug misses clawing Renalla then hits for 10 slashing dmg

- Sunny moves past Renalla and flank Green with her then punches it three times (10 bludgeoning dmg, 9 bludgeoning dmg, 5 bludgeoning dmg)

- Blue Bug runs up to Sunny misses and then claws her them for 12 slashing dmg

- Renalla casts Thorn Whip on Green for 5 piercing dmg

- Red Bug runs up to Sunny to flank with Green and then stabs them with a trident for 6 piercing dmg and then claws them for 11 slashing dmg

- Lephith moves into the doorway next to Renalla and slices into Green twice (8 slashing and 3 radiant, then 10 slashing and 8 radiant dmg)

- Rusty also moves into the room and then misses and then chops down Green Bug


- Kip moves forward a little bit to see the melee and then casts Sacred Flame on Blue Bug but it dodges

- Sunny punches Blue Bug three times (14 bludgeoning dmg, 5 bludgeoning dmg, 5 bludgeoning dmg)

- Blue Bug stabs Sunny for 9 piercing dmg and then claws them for 9 slashing dmg

- Renalla moves around Lephith deeper into the room and casts Tidal Wave on the two bugs (Blue takes 27 bludgeoning and is knocked Prine but Red only takes half)

- Red Bug stabs Sunny for 12 piercing and then claws them for 7 slashing dmg

- Lephith moves to flank Blue with Rusty and the Shadow moves to flank with Sunny creating a bug sandwich 12 slashing and 7 radiant dmg killing it! They then move the Shadow back 10' and move to flank with Sunny themselves and slices Red for 10 slashing and four radiant dmg.

- Rusty moves to flank with the Shadow and then misses Red then chops into it for 34 (17) slashing dmg and then chops into it again for 25 (12) slashing dmg and it's dead too.

END OF BATTLE

- This room looks like an armory with several hundred weapons. There are axes and tridents and swords. The weapons don't look special, but they do look ready to go.

- Renalla finds herself a nice quarterstaff.

- The walls above the stacks of weapons have some animal head trophies and the trophy heads look buggy.

- Rusty asks if this is a lost stronghold of Sunny's people, but none of the "locals" know anything about this place

- Lephith notes that the weapons do not look like dragonborn craft and Renalla notes that there are two styles of weaponsmithing, one that's newer and one that's older and those look more decrepit. The new ones definitely look like the ones the bugs have been using. She then finds another axe in the older style and it looks similar to the one that Rusty has that is suspected of being Dwarven.

- The go back into the hallway and they open one of the two doors that were on the right. Inside this room there is an altar that looks as aged as the old things across the hall and no living things. The altar has the symbol of a hammer (Reorx) on it. 

- Rusty kind of remembers that Reorx was important to the Dwarves, but that's about it.

- Lephith goes back into the hallway and opens the other door on the right.

- The last room in this part of the hall looks like a barracks. The bugs have also not bothered with this room. The remains of the beds don't look like they've been used in centuries.

- Renalla goes back to the armory and uses Create Bonfire for about 10 minutes on some of the weapons to try to destroy or damage them.

- Lephith then goes back to the left curve of the hallways and the roof slopes up and this area looks like an entry hall.

- There are two decorative(?) suits of armor on either side of the corridor where there used to be doors.

- Rusty pauses long enough to look at the suits of armor and they look a lot like him and have swords like he used to have.

- He puts a hand on one of their shoulders and says, "Status report." Nothing happens

- There is another door across from the collapsed main entry way, so Lephith opens that.

- Behind this door is a very large room. The ceiling is tall and then slopes up and is open at the top like a chimney of sorts. There is a spinning contraption under the hole. It looks like one of the gates from Stargate. There are some kind of control panels(?) around the outside of the room.

- This room has a bunch of the creatures and the big guy from before too. He yells out in Infernal, "Ah! I knew they'd come!" Lephith roars back since she has no idea what was said.

- There another buggy guy who looks in charge and quite a few of the trident guys as well.

- Renalla dashes into the room trying to get within 30' of the portal, but the sentry jumps in front of her.

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