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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robberbaron" data-source="post: 1730278" data-attributes="member: 14771">The story continues...Outside the party discussed how long they wanted to rest. Gracientus would not be able to pray for any spells until sunset, so the Uruk would remain asleep for the rest of the day.Gaelle broke out some trail rations for breakfast while Kron was secreted in the hide outside the entrance.Then the party returned to the pit trap, which was still marked as they left it.Pondering the way across, they considered using the mess hall tables and larder shelves to construct a "bridge", but decided to jump it instead. Once over the pit, they stopped at the entrance to a cavern, filled with stalagmites.As Gaelle panned the lantern around, Seigfried noticed a pair of eyes glinting from an opening 30' up the wall to their left.Shuffling along the wall towards the opening, with Seigfried at the back holding the lantern, Gaelle was watching for eyes.As they approached the opening Gaelle and Seigfried came under fire from small crossbows, fired from the opening. Cord, not wanting to hang about, ran across and jumped partway up the cliff.More bolts came out of the darkness and a searing blue ray of cold lanced out at Seigfried.Gaelle, picking a shape out of the shadows in the opening, shot one of the ambushing Kobolds then flattened herself against the cavern wall.Seigfried moved behind a stalagmite, keeping the lantern trained on the opening.Gracientus took a shot at the Kobolds but missed, while Cord climbed closer to the edge.4 kobolds shot at Seigfried, trying to get him to drop the hurtful light, 2 shot at Gracientus and 1 at Gaelle. All missed. They were getting very put off by the bright light being shone into their eyes.M’dok, the Kobold sorcerer cast a spell, hoping to bring useful reinforcements.Cord climbed over the lip of the opening, to squeaks of worry from the kobold crossbowmen.Afraid now for their lives, the Kobolds shot at Cord and Seigfried, missing again.A small scorpion shimmered into existence beside Seigfried, stinging him.Gaelle put up her bow and moved to the bottom of the cliff, telling Gracientus to continue shining his lantern up at the kobolds.Meanwhile, Seigfried attacked the scorpion - cutting it in half. So much for reinforcements!Cord stood up onto the cliff top and swung his Fullblade, killing 2 kobolds.The remaining Kobolds shot at him, one bolt sinking deep into Cord's thigh.M'dok cast a spray of fire from his fingertips, half incinerating one of his kobolds but singeing Cord.Gaelle tried to scramble up the cliff quickly, making it up 3 feet before sliding back down.Seigfried picked up his lantern and moved over to the bottom of the cliff, continuing to shine the beam into the Kobolds’ eyes.Cord stepped forward, dispatched the overcooked kobold then cleaved clean through his neighbour.M'dok cast another spell at Cord, trying to Daze him, unsuccessfully, then dropped to his knees in surrender.Gaelle managed to scramble 15' up the cliff, followed by Seigfried (at least he started to climb, but slithered back down again).Cord stepped over to threaten the remaining kobold crossbowman, who dropped his bow and fell to his knees.M'dok chittered something in his sibilant tongue, completely unintelligible to the humans.Gaelle arrived on the scene just as Cord coup de graced M'dok and another kobold.Gaelle finished off the other, and removed their heads, adding them to the bulging sack while Cord let a rope down so Seigfried and Gracientus could climb up.They search around, finding a secret door at the back of the ledge, and rifled through the kobolds' belongings (M'dok had a potion, 24 gp and a violet garnet).Meanwhile, Gracientus attempted to tend their wounds, without managing to help much. They just wouldn’t stand still long enough for him to properly apply the poultices.Cord said to Seigfried "Well, that was my fight, the next one's yours and I'll stand and watch.”They opened the secret door, Seigfried taking the lead, shining the light down a short passage that opened up into a small chamber (an old storeroom, used as the kobold's nest).Gaelle, peering over Cord's shoulder, spotted a blanket draped around something shaking, next to a pile of sacks.After a brief discussion, Gaelle opened up the lantern fully. Cord shot the "blanket", which squeaked, and a dead young kobold fell over.Another young kobold squatted, quaking with fear until Gaelle stepped over and cut it in half, despite Seigfried's objections."It's 5 gold pieces!""But, they're only kids!""They're still 5 gold pieces each!"Gaelle searched around noticing that the "blanket" was actually a cloak. A cloak with a hole in, admittedly, but still a cloak.They also found several sacks of silver ore.They chose to rest up in the storeroom, leaving one of the lanterns on low-light.Six hours later, deciding that they have rested enough and should continue, Gaelle and Cord hopped back over the pit and went outside to retrieve the still unconscious Uruk.When they returned, they tied Kron's body to the middle of a rope. Cord skipped over the pit and he and Gaelle passed the Uruk across. Gaelle then (a little too) casually hopped across the pit herself, setting it off with her heel as she landed, but managing not to fall in.They waited in the main cavern for another hour until sunset, so Gracientus could pray. He cast curing spells on Kron, bringing him round, saving some minor healings for stabilisation purposes later on.Fully rested (Cord was still a little hurt, but feeling OK to continue), they skirted round the cavern, towards the far passage.Seigfried thought Kron should scout ahead, but Gaelle reckoned he was too injured to risk falling down another pit, so she and Seigfried led with lantern on beam, not moving particularly quietly.Realising that they couldn't see more than 15' ahead before the passage kinked, Gaelle opened up the lantern to full.Every 15' feet, Gaelle lets some wine out of the barrel and watched the rivulets of deep red liquid for a few moments, to see if it flowed into another pit trap. She didn’t find any (nice idea though).After 60' the air became increasingly warm and tainted with the sweet smell of rotting flesh. It was sweltering by the time the passage opened out into a small cavern, full of bodies.Seigfried wondered aloud if this was normal. Kron didn't understand and Cord translated for the Uruk,  "He thinks you should be leading as you're only here to die".Seigfried covered his nose and mouth with a cloth, while Cord and Gaelle thought they could see some corpses still moving.Drawing her sword, Gaelle and Gracientus moved toward one of the corpses, which got up and attacked.3 more zombie miners and 4 zombie kobolds then also got up to have a go."Don't forget, they're worth 5 gp each", shouted Cord.The fight went well until a human zombie bitch-slapped Kron around the head, knocking him out cold (again).Having re-killed all the zombies, the party carried Kron's body back through the charnel pit into the passage they just came from, where Gracientus attempted to heal them. He was mostly unsuccessful but did manage to stop Kron from dying.Skirting the corpse-filled chamber, the party moved into the far passage, where they could hear noises (chink, chink, rattle, chink, rattle) and see a faint blue glow from farther down the passage.</blockquote>

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