Endur's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil

[Thanee]

Lenya

“Whatever it was... it might still lurk in these ruins, and it doesn't seem to be a friend of the undead, if it killed them just like the poor souls over there.”

Lenya keeps herself a good distance away from the corpses. The rotten stench is nothing she wants to endure more then necessary.

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah avoids the corner as well, listening to the others and regretting his choice of companions. "What do you think did it, then?" he asks Belaver. "Is the thing still around?"

 

[Endur]

Chat walks forward toward the bodies, "That's the stairway going down, but why pile bodies near the stairwell? And why leave them piled together? There's something wrong about this."
Chat moves the faces of the slain humans so that he can see them better and stares at them.

A black cat moves up against Lenya's leg and starts purring.

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

“Should we go down and find out? But we should probably check the buildings up here fir... oh, who's that? Hey kitty! All alone up here?”

 

[Endur]

The cat looks at Lenya, then bounces off in the direction of the stairs going down.

 

[Xael]

Lylamwyn waits while others take a closer look at the bodies. He doesn't have much interest going any closer to them unless necessary. "I think we should take a look at the rest of the ground floor before descending.", he says.

"That's the stairway going down, but why pile bodies near the stairwell? And why leave them piled together? There's something wrong about this."

"I agree, since their belongings have been taken, it has to be someone intelligent. But just leaving them here near the stairs doesn't really make much sense, unless somebody really hasn't cared about them much, or leaving them here serves some purprose."

*A cat? Here? Well, It's not impossible but...*

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

"No, it's not impossible, but neither is it welcome. I will lay a silver that that cat is the companion of some druid or mage, and has just gone to inform its master of our arrival."

 

[Endur]

There is a fearsome roar from the courtyard behind the party.

Redithidoor, who was at the rear of the party and standing on the stairs, yells, "DRAGON!" and flees past the party (proving he is the fastest runner) and heads after the cat down the stairwell.

Chat stops looking at the pile of corpses, "Its a TRAP!" and dives for the stairwell going down.

Belaver can't see anything from his position near the corpses. Craven and Raner can't see anything from their lead position looking down the western and southern hallways.

The other members of the party in the rear (Lylamwyn, Toriah, Kerwyn, and Lenya), can, if they take the time to look behind themselves, see a Dragon the color of the sky hovering in the courtyard behind them, blocking any escape from the Moathouse.

The Dragon is inhaling deeply. Almost as if he is preparing to exhale strongly.

 

[Xael]

"Oh...", Lylamwyn manages to say with a calm, surprised voice, before sprinting after Redithidoor. "I changed my mind!"

OOC: The text between *'s in my posts means that it's Lylamwyn thinking to himself. And uhh... How big is the dragon? A cat? A horse? The broad side of a barn?

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

*Craven had been disgusted at the sight of the ghoul, and was about to drag it out in the sun to be sure of its destruction when the dragon appeared.*

"Get under cover!" he calls sensibly, diving for the stairwell (or the hallway, if he couldn't make it to the stairwell in time. Saints above us, please let us come through this intact... he prays mentally.