Actually Raina is my granddaughter the motherwitch corrects Prizzard patiently. But close enough. Yes. Our family tree is very...twisted. As for Raina, I'll not leave her to my son's demented revenge. He was betrayed by her and that does not bode well. We've got to get inside! Tell me woman, did my grandson meet you upon your death? Raina's brother? He's as neutral as they come when it comes to disobeying his grandfather, but we may be able to get him to help if I offer him something...As for your mysterious helper, he's more than welcome to our little party. The problem is getting back inside. The only way through is the way you came. Unless... she frowns and sighs. We could go through the sluice tunnels... She eyes Perkins to gauge his reaction. He does not disappoint.

Nooooooo! he roars, though it's more out of fear than aggression. That's disgusting! Blood and body parts everywhere! Not to mention carrion fiends! You really think we can crawl on our bellies through all that and keep them from dragging us into their dens?! Please!!! Anything else!

The motherwitch shrugs and turns to the rest of you. Well, you heard him. We can either wade through the sluice tunnels or go back the way we came and risk the trap phantoms that we already barely escaped as it is. My money is on the sluice, but you'll get messy. Very messy. And it is not without its risks...Let me know she folds her arms patiently.

“Yes I met your grandson,” Tanzy admitted “He could probably be convinced to help with the right incentive. If helping his sister isn’t incentive enough,” She rolled her eyes in disgust. She also didn’t look impressed with the options presented. “Neither way sounds very promising. Can we not cause a distraction and sneak in? Or find disguises?” Tanzy had no doubt she could get back in undetected, sneaking was one of her strong points. It might not be so easy for the others though... “In the end Raina is worth whatever route we risk.”

"I would prefer dirty over dead. I'll have no need for these clothes soon either way." Indeed, the man had been covered in blood and worse often enough, though he took care to clean his clothes. Perhaps too much effort, as what was likely once black was now faded to many shades of grey, stained slighly brown by blood, and blackened at nost darned edges and holes. It was obvious the clothing should have been burned many years ago, but he always refuses.

Prizzard's revelations really surprised Raknesh.
This was really a complicated family...
He had quite a few questions crossing his mind, but now is not the best time.

"While I can't say it doesn't bother me, I will prefer filth to the deadly traps we could encounter in that place.

As long as it doesn't involve swimming underwater, count me in."

Bryon remained an outsider in this drama. To her this just was one more revelation in a series.

The lion looks horrified as the consensus seems to be reached. Did you not hear what I said?! Body parts! Blood, guts! Are you all mad?! he gasps. He suddenly slips into the form of a frog again and leaps onto Tanzy's leg, climbing up her body to her shoulder. I should have stayed home. I knew it! Well, if you're going to be like this, I'm going to turn into a spider and crawl on the ceilings at least! Do you know how much I hate spiders?! he shudders. You're all awful! He folds his little froggy arms in a huff. The motherwitch smiles. You always were squeamish Perkins. she chuckles. Alright. Let's be on with it. Now, you should all be aware, there are several nasties that are attracted to the bodies. Carrion eaters of all sorts. It will be unpleasant, especially with the cramped spaces. There are rooms that open up, chambers and the like spaced quite often to keep the tunnels from getting clogged. Every now and then workers are sent in to clear everything out. It's just about the worst job you can imagine. Hopefully no one is scheduled to go down there today. We don't want anyone alerting them we're here. If we run across anything, your best course is to scramble to the nearest chamber and deal with it there. It's going to be too cramped to fight well otherwise. Everyone ready?

ooc: Ok, let me know if you have any preparations to make. The tunnels are long and wind like a maze. It will take an hour to traverse when the time comes. Also, please make preparatory spot, listen, will and fort saves just so I have them ready. Lastly, remember if you didn't take that creepy lady's help you'll need to roll a concentration check DC 20 to successfully use any magic etc.

The worried look on Tanzy’s face made it clear she isn’t excited about their chosen route and she reaches up to tuck Perkins into her pocket. “Took the words right out of my mouth,” she whisperes to her little friend.

Ooc: Will: 16
Fort:13
Spot:12
Listen:14

Prizzard will rip some fabric to stuff his nose and a strip to cover both forehead and mouth. If enough can be spared. Probably from the cuff if his borrowed pants.

rolled 18,10,15,2 using d20+6,d20+7,d20-2,d20-2.  Will, Fort, Spot, Listen.

The tunnels aren't far and the motherwitch leads you to them with very little concern on her part. She is a lot of things but squeamish isn't one of them. Eventually you come to a wall with a large metal grate. You can already smell it and as you near you see a long stain of red and brown puddled at the ground in front of the grate. The motherwitch doesn't try to step over it, muttering, We're about to get filthy anyway and with one hand she pulls the heavy grate off as though it weighed nothing. I'll go first I suppose. But whoever takes up the rear should be capable. We're vulnerable on both sides. She then crouches and enters, complaining about the cramped space on her back. Indeed as you enter the smelly tunnel, you discover space is tight. You can crouch and move that way, only about 3 quarters upright, or you can crawl. Already you can see bloody muck on the floor though at this point it's only a few inches deep. The smell is absolutely nauseating and flies buzz everywhere. Perkins is complaining already, and Tanzy can feel his little froggy fingers clinging to the inside of her pocket.

At first it doesn't seem too bad once you get used to the horribleness of it all. But after ten minutes or so, the muck gets deeper. It seeps over your boots and the cold, coagulated mess eventually goes past your shins. It's getting hard not to slip as you trudge along. Occasionally rogue dismembered body parts are spotted here and there but for the most part it's all one bloody sludge. Then Tanzy hears something. A faint noise up ahead. It sounds like crunching.

ooc: Oh, I also forgot to mention you should roll a constitution check to see how well you handle the grossness of it all as well as a dexterity check to see how well you keep your balance. Good luck...

Bryon decided to just use a different ability, Spiderwalk. She climbed the walls to the ceiling and went along the ceiling, avoiding the muck all together!

Tanzy clenches her teeth underneath the scarf she’d wrapped around her nose and mouth and chooses a secure spot in the middle of the line. Thankfully she is used to small spaces and has no issue with the cramped tunnels. The gore beneath her feet is another matter and it’s all she can  do to keep from vomiting. It also makes it difficult for her to find good footing and more than once a soft curse escapes as she struggles through the mess. “Bloody hell, there’s something crunching up ahead,” she warnes her hand shifting to her weapon. There was hardly room to draw it but she felt better knowing it was there.

Ooc: constitution 16 Dex:7

Likely sharing rear-guard with one of sharper senses, Prizzard was having trouble with his footing. Not all body parts floated, and he seemed to find a lot of rough terrain under that repulsive river. He was also beginning to feel a difference between getting coated in death and wading through it. Once the carrion got deep enough, Prizzard committed to it, crouching neck-deep and rubbing some into his hair. Likely getting strange looks, he explained quietly: "Camouflage, both sight and smell."


rolled 16,6 using d20+3,d20+2.  Con, Dex.

Raknesh took the rear position as they agreed his high perceptions could be an advantage.
And the fact he is mostly a ranged fighter means he could still help against potential threats from the front.

His mental training allowed him to 'get over' the horrid situation... despite an unlucky fall that had him covered in the horrible goo.

"I think I'm good" he comments, glumly, as Prizzard explained his move.

17:48, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 6 using 1d20+3.  dexterity.
17:48, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 20 using 1d20+2.  constitution.

Unfortunately Tanzy, Raknesh and Prizzard all stumble quite a bit, but then there's a lot to trip over and the footing is slick. This does cause you to get...messy as you are forced to catch yourself frequently. Bryon is feeling quite relieved to be away from it all.

Perkins, seeing Prizzard's tactic, makes a squeal of protest. Camouflage you call it!? What in BLAZES!? Who IS this person!? he demands of Tanzy, gripping her tunic and pulling on it as though interrogating her.

Meanwhile the motherwitch looks amused. Not a bad idea really. There are things that can smell your living flesh. Still, I understand if that's a bit much for the rest of you. Now, as for the crunching, I'd say that's probably one of the cleaners. There's no sneaking past them, they are much too keen for most of you. Your best bet is to run to the next chamber and pray there's only one of them. If you don't take him out he'll follow us the rest of the way and you really don't want that. He's probably in there now, feeding on some of the bigger pieces. You ready? You'll have to move fast. If he hears you before you get to him he'll come out and take up the entire tunnel. He's not small.

ooc: Ok, roll initiatives everyone. Whoever gets the highest gets to the chamber first and will be the first to attack. The "Cleaner" got a 13, so as long as you beat that you'll make it inside the chamber before he exits. As long as one of you makes it, he won't come out because he'll be busy with them. If no one makes it then...you've got problems. Also, for those it applies to don't forget to make a concentration check for spells. DC 20.

As usual, Prizzard is distracted.

rolled -1 using 1d20-4.  Initiative

Raknesh is ready, but probably not the quickest.
17:04, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 15 using 1d20+3.  init.

“He’s a little eccentric,” Tanzy agrees with Perkins her face pale against the streaks of muck and gore that splattered on her during her struggle to keep her footing.

Ooc: init 6

16:42, Fri 09 Nov: Bryon rolled 20 using 1d20+2. Initiative.

Bryon climbed out of the cave and up the adjoining rock face making as little noise as she could. Being intrepid she will attempt a cone shaped Eldritch blast using acid for the base damage type.

06:33, Today: Bryon rolled 19 using 1d20+8. Concentration.
06:32, Today: Bryon rolled 21 using 7d6. Cone, Vitriolic, making the damage acid based and continuing for another round @1d6. damage
06:30, Today: Bryon rolled 21 using 1d20+10. E-Blast Attack.

Raknesh quickly follows Bryon, not willing to let her face whatever horror they were about to fight alone.

He quickly launches a few arrows.

move action :get inside the room
standard action: manyshot (2 -4 to att --> 34 tohit)

damage (arrow, fire, holy)

12,6,2 (x3 if critical confirmed at 23 )  and 11,3,11
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Bryon is first to make it into the chamber, scrambling on the wall with added quickness without the gore to hinder her. Unfortunately, once inside her concentration is distracted, seeing the huge thing that waits inside. You can feel your powers just outside your reach and it is incredibly frustrating not to be able to access them...

Luckily though, your presence though is a good distraction as it keeps the creature inside the chamber instead of moving out to crush your friends. It turns its attention to you with a vengeance...

Meanwhile Raknesh is next to enter and Tanzy and Prizzard lag behind.

You all see the "cleaner" is a black, slimy thing the size of a house, but it has a fluidity to its movements that makes you think it can squeeze into small places if it likes. Black rope thick strings emerge from its blobbish body, dozens of them, all coiling and reeling. Several of them have body parts gripped in them and one giant circular mouth with rows and rows of teeth is visible as it stuffs the corpses in, crunching loudly.

Raknesh's arrows are true, flinging at the thing with great accuracy and striking it just above the mouth. It squeals in fury, piercing your eardrums in pain. Then it readies itself, dropping the bodies as it flattens itself, thin, long tentacles engaged, two of them raise up and a massive spray of acid is flung at you from two directions...

ooc: Ok, so the floor is slippery and gross too but it's only a couple inches thick here so you can move ok but you have to make a balance check every round DC 15. If you don't mind moving half speed you can do DC 10. If you fail the DC you fall prone and are disadvantaged. That means you roll 2 DC20's on your attacks and you take the lower roll each time for that round. Does that make sense? So every time you'd roll you roll twice instead, though damage rolls are the same. Here's a link to the info in case you need more explanation. https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/...age_and_Disadvantage
Now, as for the acid, make a reflex save DC 15 with a -5 penalty and if you succeed you take 15 damage and if you fail you take 30. The creature's hit DC is 22 so you now know if you hit him or not. Ok, that was a lot so let me know if you have any questions. Tanzy and Prizzard can go ahead and roll now and then once that's done everyone can start a new round and I'll worry about initiative later. I mostly was a stickler about it this time because of the circumstances of getting there before the cleaner got out.

Bryon screamed in pain as the full burnt of the attack caught her.

I rolled 11 on Ref Save
30 is pretty much half my HP so another of those will leave me with 2 and a third will incapacitate.

Tanzy easily evades the acid,miraculously avoiding damage. Unfortunately in her haste to attack she tripps falling to her knees with a growl of frustration.

Ooc: Reflex:19 13+11-5, Balance:8 1+7
Not even going to bother attacking after rolling a natural 1 on balance.
AC:18 HP:102 taking no damage due to evasion

17:38, Today: Raknesh Kaltash rolled 18 using 1d20+9.  reflex.

Raknesh's agility allowed him to avoid most of the damage, but it still hurt.

OOC it appears I forgot to change the HP in my character's bio.
so with the berries we went back full health? if so raknesh is now 141/156

rolled 19,10 using d20+6,d20+1.  Reflex, Balance (DC10).
HP 128/133
SP  77/129
AC 16/14/12

Storm Touch      14/14

Prizzard approached carefully before casting a spell. If he arrived before the spray, a quick slide behind the archway spares him most of the attack.
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ooc: It makes sense that Prizzard would miss the spray due to his slowness, so that's totally fine under the circumstances. Ok, go ahead and roll your next attacks everyone. If you need to make a concentration check for the purpose of spells go ahead and do so. If you do make the DC it will last for 3 rounds before you have to do it again so that's something.

The motherwitch watches with a look of disappointment. Well that's not good. You'll need to do better than that if you expect to kill him. I'd appreciate it if you didn't make me get involved. The moment I use my power my son will know we're here. Can't have that now can we? she folds her arms and leans against the wall, simply waiting. Meanwhile Perkins decides to get involved. You all owe me!! he shrieks with disgust. He immediately leaps from Tanzy's pocket and morphs into a black and gold griffin so quickly you almost don't see it happen. He lunges at the cleaner and swipes with ferocious talons but only one attack hits one of the cleaner's tentacles, causing black blood to ooze from the creature, but unfortunately not as successful as Perkins was hoping. Blast, blast and double blast!!