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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 9729787" data-attributes="member: 4036"><h3>11/20/21</h3>Moving further south Grath triggers the boulder trap to smash open the door and any defenders potentially protecting it.  Beyond that are some rusted over mechanisms and a very long tunnel and pipe that leads to some more cultists.  The cultists hear our approach and two of them are transformed into enormous constrictor snakes that strike out against Grath and Veldra.The front line engages the snakes while Veldra’s echo and Ratty try to engage the spellcaster in the back.  One of the snakes wraps around Veldra and begins crushing her in its coils but she quickly swaps places with her echo, leaving it holding a ghost of a possibility.  Ghostly spirits pour out of the air from around Grath and begin battering the enormous constrictors.Rho savagely crushes one of the snakes with his maul and with Grath disrupting the concentration of the priest, the giant snake is killed and collapses on the stones.  It does not revert back to a yuan-ti.  Grath and Veldra manage to dispatch the other but more reinforcing yuan-ti and their snake swarms arrive from the southeast.Veldra does her best to stem the tide but some lucky shots break through her guard even as Rho frantically breathes fire out over the snakes swarming all over him.  Gribitz panics and entreats Rho to help Veldra while he tries to befuddle the swarms of snakes.  They exclaim joyously how they serve the dark master and Gribitz rolls with it agreeing and claiming to be the dark master.  The snakes are not all that bright and seeing the naughty word covered goblin speaking their tongue, agree with him.  They happily declare they will murder in his honor and Gribitz agrees again but tells them that first they must dance the evil spirits away as Grath’s spiritual guardians are continuing to pummel them.Rho charges off in confusion as all the snakes around him begin dancing which oddly has no benefit to stopping the ghostly martyrs of Ilmater from pummeling them to paste until only a single snake manages to escape.  Rho flies across one of the causeways and smashes into the purebloods attacking Veldra, rapidly turning the tide.A rat messenger arrives after inviting the party to a tasteful dinner with the rat king.  Gribitz excitedly accepts to Grath’s utter incredulity.  The reception is a crazed mess of rats and horrid food that reminds Gribitz of home.  Once the rat king resumes his wererat form he rewards us with coin and the promise of information from his spies around the city should we need it.Gribitz accidentally spills Clorox’s name and nature to the rat king which terrifies him.  After that people collect their left overs and begin to make their retreat.  Grath tells Gribitz to ditch any left overs he saved from the meal on threat of bath.  On the way back home Veldra and Rho dunk themselves in the river to clean the sewage off them.Veldra hires a cab to take us back home.  The poor driver has been robbed so Veldra tells him to keep the change.  Gribitz smells so bad the driver balks so he turns into a little pug that Rho picks up and gives scritches to.</blockquote>

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