Temple of Ishassara

Nia mentally kicks herself for not learning Identify and goes over to the forge with the silver. "Hey, if someone wants to silver their weapons I can light this thing with a cantrip." She calls to the others.

Taking a look about at the treasure, Liam's eyes linger hesitantly over the axe, especially when he notices Chubby taking notice of it as well.  He turns to address Chubby.

"Perhaps you should let me ritually examine this before trying to do anything with it?"  He motions to clearly indicate the axe.

He also bends down to pick up the charcoal drawing, not liking for a moment what he sees.  He holds it up for the others to see, pointing first at the large ape-creature.

"Anyone besides me think this looks familiar?"

“Yes, it be being Crispy-friends true form.” Gregor’s responds sagely, pointing to the picture of the ape. 

Nia tried to not giggle at that. Clearing her throat she asked "Li, are you thinking that Bubbles the Demon-monkey might have a cult?" Her tone hinted she found the idea troubling.

Crispy hoped Nia didn't break her hand with that playful rumpslap, which was much appreciated. She then looks at the picture, and jabs Gregor with her elbow. "Ha! Stop giving away my secrets, you dumb ogre." She frowns as she scrutinized the image. "I have no idea what this image means. I'll go with Gregor's experienced assessment."

"Or..a cult. Yes. The Cult of Bubbles." Had a nice ring to it, she thought, cleaning her swords, and wiping the blood from her nose.

"A cult possibly, yes..." Liam replies slowly, his eyes dark, "or possibly worse, a coven."

“What’s their to be worrying about my friends? We beat the monkey without the cool magic items, and we just be finding more and be getting stronger the deeper we be going. We just be beating several worms on steroids that all these skeletons have fallen to, we can be doing anything!

Now how about a well deserved rest, we tackle the rest of temple after good night sleep yes?”

"A rest sounds like a good idea," Liam responds, "the question is, where do we want to do so?"

Crispy's stomach growled a little too loudly, right in the moment Gregor finished his sentence and it was dead quiet. Playing off the moment, she said:

"And some meat. And ale."  Seeing that there was no immediate danger, she starts shedding some armor and gets comfortable, a blueish bruising starting to appear on her torso where she was struck by the Alpha. She checks herself to make sure nothing is broken. 

"Gregor be thinking here is safe. Other scary monsters of temple knowing this be Grick nest, they probably not want to be coming here for at least a few hours." 

He then plops down, and prepares the group a meal with the rations and last bit of dino meat he has in the bag.

(Dear dice gods, let me have at least one semi successful cooking roll)

Cook Roll: 13

"Okay, seems some of us at least are fine with camping right here..."

Liam turns to take another look at the grick corpses before turning back to Gregor.

"Any chance we can move these bodies off to one side of the room if this is where we'll be staying for a while?"

After cooking some of the best goddamn leftovers you guys have ever seen, Gregor moves the bodies of the Grick's to block the doorway leading to the unexplored part of the temple, not the doorway leading back to the part they have covered.

"We already kill most of creepy crawlies back there, Gregor figure we leave door open in case we be needing to do the dashing."

"I'll do it.." Crispy gets back up with a groan at Liam's request and pushes the dead gricks off to one side. It doesn't take too long, and she's worked up a mild sweat walking back to where Gregor is cooking.

"Oh my goodness." She says over his shoulder, looking at what he made, especially the meat. "You ARE good at more than...well, you're good at one thing! Sometimes."

She plops down next to him and waits impatiently for him to finish. She looks at Nia and pats the ground next to her - implying for her to sit down.

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Taking a look about at the treasure, Liam's eyes linger hesitantly over the axe, especially when he notices Chubby taking notice of it as well.  He turns to address Chubby.

"Perhaps you should let me ritually examine this before trying to do anything with it?"  He motions to clearly indicate the axe.

He also bends down to pick up the charcoal drawing, not liking for a moment what he sees.  He holds it up for the others to see, pointing first at the large ape-creature.

"Anyone besides me think this looks familiar?"

(Disregard the previous post, Ill let Crispy touch the yucky worms.)

Gregor serves up dinomeat shepherds pie

"Yes, back in the capital, the King-Man likes to pretend to eat common foods every once and a while to connect with the people. Castles chef's make everyone rest of court shitty pie, but Gregor be trusted with cooking the King's. He tells Gregor to put choice steak and private garden veggies in his pie, he can pretend to eat bad but he really be eating good anyways while rest of court gets mystery meat, says that's what noble ass kissers get! Ha-ha!" 

“Also let us be talking about magic item situation, Chubby-Friend, before you go back to the snoring. Gregor only have non-magic axe, and you be having nice glowing magic one. Do you be wanting new axe, and Gregor gets your old one, or other way around?”

"Chubby - you're going to alert a whole army we're down here, for Hells sake." She says as she kicks him to get him to stop snoring, which sounds like a lumberjack sawing a tree. "Also, nice axe, stout."

While partaking of the admittedly tasty shepherd's pie, Liam can't help giving Gregor a dubious look.

"You've cooked for a king?"

After eating, and with Chubby's incessant urging, Liam sits off to the side with his supplies and the newfound axe.  Before he begins, however, he casts another glance at Gregor.

"Hey, did anything ever come of that ring you found?  If not, I could examine it as well."

Liam then proceeds to take 11 minutes to ritual-cast Identify on the axe.  If Gregor wants the ring examined, he'll do the same thing with that.

"Tastes like a King made it.." Crispy says with a mouthful of food in her mouth. She swallows deeply and takes a big swig of Chubby's keg before passing it to Nia, unsure if she'd take a gulp or not.