Danica raises her crossbow and fires, severely injuring the lead creature with a crossbow bolt to its shoulder. It gasps and stumbles, only to be shot only a few inches away from his fresh wound by Chalik's own arrow. The strange creature falls at Dartis' feet and gives a death rattle.
Dartis fires off two rounds, but both bounce off the rubbery hide of the second, now enraged creature. It gives a howl of anger as it sees its companion fall. Dartis smells the stench of rancid water as the humanoid reaches him and tries to bite him, showing a hideous row of long, razor-sharp teeth that look to be able to kill a man with one chomp. Right then, perhaps because of its blind rage, it stumbles on the body of its dead comrade and falls to the ground.
Silas rushes up and stabs downwards with his staff, further pinning the creature after bruising it in the chest. Kel follows and takes an aimed strike with his scimitar, killing it. The party takes a moment to smell at one another at their victory, but then Chalik detects the sound of claws on rock. A third creature went unnoticed, its skin blending into the rock with a near-chameleon ability. It was crawling on the wall with its claws, and nearly made it to the raised stoneworks in the corner of the room, a key dangling from a belt at its otherwise bare hip. Dartis and Chalik were the only ones able to react in time, with Chalik's arrow missing and striking the wall just underneath the creature. Kel fired his own two shots, one arrow missing, but the other striking the creature's lower back.
It howled, but hung on long enough to drop onto the raised area of stone and disappear from sight. You now hear the jingling of keys, the rattling of chains, and the hissing of angry lizards.
