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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mantreus" data-source="post: 1345593" data-attributes="member: 8669">From the Journal of GnorricI touched the foul thing with my spectral hand, delivering a chill attack. It seemed to pause for a moment, and then turned tail and ran. Dargrim missed it on the way out, but successfully felled it with his bow. The remaining 3 ghouls still cowered in the corner, so Dargrim and myself fired our bows into them until they fell. I must say, for a “puny” wizard, I brought one of the horrible things down with only two shots.. and they both hit! I must be getting better at this shooting thing.Once the ghouls and ghast were definitely dead, I moved through the bodies taking samples of their flesh. This is the first chance I’ve had to examine ghoul flesh in detail and it’s fascinating stuff! I won’t go into details here in my journal though, I’m telling a story here.After a while, Will and Kull were up and moving again, with Kull looking particularly embarrassed. It’s nasty of me, but I was almost tempted to tickle his nose whilst he was incapacitated. I guess the only reason I didn’t was because he would be up and about eventually, and I didn’t really want to be on the wrong end of his flail. I’m on the wrong end of his rapier “wit” as it is.Kull instructed Dargrim to check the sarcophagi for anything interesting and he found false bottoms in all of them! They were all trapped as well. We moved well back while Dargrim attempted to disarm the traps. He successfully disabled the first two, but the last two a bit difficult and he inadvertently set them off. The first flashed at him with some sort of electrical charge I think, but he managed to avoid most of the damage. The final one was quite nasty as it spurted a corrosive slime on his hand which proceeded to burn it’s way through his flesh. Kull quickly grabbed a torch and burnt the slime off before it could do too much damage. I must say, Dargrim handled it quite well as he merely gritted his teeth as Kull applied the flame to his hand.We found quite a few interesting things in the sarcophagi. Some potions, coin, a nifty looking dagger and some beads that I recognised as force beads. I took these. Kull however found a most impressive looking flail. I seemed to glow with an almost pure white light and was obviously magical.We continued on into the kitchen and discovered two ratmen butchering some kind of carcass. I found it quite amazing that they didn’t come to investigate as we fought the ghouls, but in either case, we made short work of them. I quickly dazed one with a simple cantrip enabling Will to do his impressive tumbling past them. He quickly skewered one and it slid to the floor. The other proved only slightly more troublesome as Kull thumped it with his new flail, and the icky thing almost fell, but not quite. Once again Will came to the rescue and gutted it from behind.We looked through the kitchen larders and found some slightly serviceable food, but nothing really worth writing about.We continued on through the rear of the house and found an old ballroom. The entire room was covered in rubbish and debris. Kull proceeded to look through the garbage and quickly uncovered sixty gold! That was all the impetus I needed and joined him in his search. All I uncovered at first was a small nest of large rats that proceeded to bite me. I attempted to kill them with my crossbow, buoyed by my good showing with the ghouls, but I was back to being a terrible shot again. Kull rolled his eyes and stomped over with Dargim and they quickly squished the lot of them. Obviously he didn’t seem impressed with me saving his life from the ghast! Pah!We continued to search the room for some time, occasionally releasing a few more rats that the sword swingers quickly despatched. In the end I found a wand, which I am yet to identify, which was good. I’m hoping it contains something useful like the spell I recently discovered that preserves corpses as that would be wonderfully handy.We came to a room that contained a few old bones which unfortunately didn’t animate at our approach. There was also an old bed, a chair and a desk. We proceeded to search the room, but as Will looked under the bed, he screamed in pain as a large beetle spat acid directly into the poor mans face!</blockquote>

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