[IC1] Pool of Radiance

"Selvaggio and Aylor you should both take up a magic weapon for the moment at least in case there are spirits that linger which have been corrupted by undeath and require magic to fight. Let me know if either of you want the shield or armor for now as well. Otherise I will pack them, then we should proceed to check the rest of the fortress and make sure it is secure." Kordunn proceeds to pack the chainmail into his back pack for carrying.
 

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"Yes, lets finish our patrol of the fortress, make sure it's all secure. The more thorough report we can give on the keep's status, the better."

Kylest prepares to set out with the others on a complete circuit.
 

"I appreciate the offer Kordunn, but my club will do. If required, I have means to enchant it." Selvaggio looks to the magic longsowrd and mace. "I'd prefer my club over those anyways."
 

Aylor Creegan

She nods her head and then leans down to pick up the clerics personal mace. A satisfied look grows on her face as she tests the weapons' weight with a few well-placed swings. Placing the fine balanced weapon on her hip, she nods her head towards the others and motions for the group to move out.
 


On their way back outside, the party sees the undead guards again, the skeletons and zombies, that stand ready to defend the keep against any intruders. But there is no trace of the apparitions, they have met earlier, anymore. Another barracks is located on the other side of the main building, which looks similar to the last one and is equally devastated. Some more storage rooms fill the remaining space to the outer wall of the keep.

Besides the building in the center of the courtyard, only the buildings along the eastern wall, remain now. The first of which was once the keep's smithy. The roof has long collapsed and the tools and installations are crumbling and rotten. The corpse of an exceptionally large frog lies here, it cannot be more than a few days old. Besides the smithy, there is a granary and then the stable. Both contain some patches of fungus, but otherwise appear as deserted as the rest of Sokol Keep.

The building in the center of the courtyard contains a mess and a large kitchen. The inside of the kitchen is covered almost completely with some strange brown-orange stuff, and as the door to the kitchen is opened, the huge mass slowly begins to move.
 

Kylest:
[SBLOCK]The strange creature is an ochre jelly. It's very slow and not exactly smart. Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to it. Instead the creature will split into two identical jellies, and become much more dangerous that way.[/SBLOCK]
 

Kylest backs away from the strange blob quickly.

"Don't touch it! It's an ochre jelly. If you cut it, you just make it mad, and then it's identical twin brother gets mad too!"

He seems genuinely frightened by this amorphous thing, in a way that no ghost or kobold or any other foe you have seen him face, has scared him.
 

"Keep away from it and use ranged attacks." Kordunn shouts out an invocation to send eldritch bolts of force into the heaving mass then backs away quickly.
 

Heeding Kylest's warning, the group retreats from the strange mass, that slowly creeps towards them. Kordunn's magical projectiles strike true, and dark spots appear, where the missiles struck. Elmus (Oog) sends a few bolts of eldritch energy into the being and they seem to take effect in a similar fashion. As Selvaggio raises his bow to shoot the creature, Kylest reacts quickly, urging the human not to use arrows, but only blunt weapons to prevent the ooze from splitting into multiple attackers. Selvaggio then picks up a few rocks and throws them instead; Eldwyn and Aylor follow suit.

A few volleys later, most of the icky mass has been covered with dark spots and soon it stops moving and slowly dissolves into the ground.
 

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