Our group had gone into the Sewers following a trail of death and mucus left by the Infected. The initial infected had returned to their homes unaware they were slowly mutating into horrible plague spewing death-machines. When we journeyed to their homes to check up on them we found the small borough devoid of life and chalk full of corpses and mucus which led into the sewers. Along the way we encountered an aberrant 'rain' fall consisting of volcanic rocks. My Amulet Stone given to me by the beggar in the Warrens vibrated softly.
We ran into many infected and a Minotaur born of the lower planes! it nearly destroyed the party and fearing for our safety we returned home to heal. Saul informed us that he was hearing chatter from the underground that Clegg Zincher was going to make a move, a big move against the Gold Goblin! We were on edge and ordered tighter security and more guards. Then returned once more to the Sewers!
We quickly retraced our steps and found our selves in the room with the Devil-Minotaur, or at least it's corpse. What lay beyond the tapestry door? we dared to look and found not but a room with all its spoils taken! Curses! Someone or something had come and taken our loot we were so very close too! We searched the room again and found a false bottom to a chest with 3 scrolls contained therein! ha the fools hadn't discovered it. They must be of low standing. Perhaps Ratlings?
Indeed, if the tracks left behind were real, than ratlings had been about! Stealing our loot no doubt! We could not let this stand and followed as best we could through the sewers. We came upon a damn built across one arm of a four way intersection and fearing the worst we intended to cross it one at a time. The damn was nothing more than a festooned heap of refuse and garbage that looked more rotted than stable but the tracks went across, so then, shall we.
First to cross was our intrepid paladin, strong of heart if not of footing and slip and fall he did into the rotting muck, heading not my call to poke with a stick the heaping mounds of decay. As the paladin stood clearing his eyes of disease infested grime the heap of the damn began to shake and come alive! Tentacles both hooked, barbed and eyes protruded forth as a dagger-toothed maw revealed itself and beset the paladin.
Of course I would not stand for such things and at once cast a might ray towards the vile thing and weakened it of its sewer engorged strength. Then lept boldly into the water whole and gave it what for with my two-handed blade. This was not the best of ideas for it turned out the beast was not alone, perhaps a mated pair, the thought sickens, inhabited the refuse pile!
Tentacles from everywhere seemed to strike out at me and surely I was drug into the maw of the second beast where thought I was dead! heroically my party sprang into action and saved me from a gruesome fate!
I awoke just as the killing blow felled my would be killer.
We thought surely this must be more than just an incidental construction and searched high and low for any sign of the Ratlings or Infected and our prayers were answered when we stumbled upon a hidden door!
Laezol the thief carefully searched the portal for traps of any kind and being assured there were none the paladin bravely opened it and received a gut full of javelin for his trouble. A few sideways looks at the thief and trepidatiously moved inward, to the Ratling's lair!
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