"What do you mean I'm short!?" Yuno shouts. She was trying to buy a Half-Plate+1 and she thought it cost 4,000 GP but in reality, it cost 4,750 GP. She barely did not have enough to pay for it. After some failed haggling attempts, Yuno sighs and begins undoing her armor. "Fine... I guess this will have to do then." She takes off her armor and trades it to make up the difference.
Sold Half-plate for 375 GP Bought Half-Plate+1 for 4,750 GP
Yuno puts on her shiny new armor. It has the exact same design as the last one. Now happy in her new golden half-plate, she buys 2 days worth of rations (1 GP) before heading back to the strange spiraling dungeon. That place... has her curiosity.
(Yuno's old pic timed out or link broke so adding a description of her here. Copy-pasted from a different place.)
She is 5ft 4in. tall. She has fair skin and brown hair in a side braid. Her eyes are a deep purple. Contrasting with her violent nature, she has softer, almost kinder facial features. Her harsh but girly voice has a nasally edge to it. Yuno wears a golden half-plate armor. The "Half" is quite literal as her mid-section is fully uncovered. The armor has long faded burgundy sleeves. Over these long sleeves and covering her arms, she wears golden gauntlets. She wears a faded and worn short purple shawl that rests on her shoulders but and hangs slightly off her back. It is like the type that some young village women might wear. Yuno also wears a bright purple mini-skirt over full metal sabatons and leg armor. Her sabatons have a very short heel to it.
Upon returning, the first place she goes to is back to where she had killed the demon. Mostly because she's hoping that she'd get to fight more "Fleshy" enemies now. She checks the sacks there and it has mostly ancient moldy grain and useless tools. Among the sacks, she finds another key. That could be useful for later.
Now... to check the door on the other end of this room. With how this door is to the southeast there is only one place it could connect to; the room on the other side of that stuck stone door that she had failed to open not too long ago. While this door was also stuck it was a shabby wooden one, something she could easily kick down.
Break: 22
"Globey" illuminates the dark hexagonal room as Yuno walks. One the northeast side, she can see the stone door that she failed to open from the mural room. She can even peek through the small cutout in the door to see the brightly lit mural room too. When she looks though, she notes at the mural room is not quite empty. There is a large creature that looks like a humanoid body contorted into a quadropedal creature as big as a horse. It's spine has boney growths that protrude out of its back. Yuno quickly gets down to prevent being seen, only peeking every so slightly from behind the stone door. From the side, past the creature's long dark hair, Yuno notices that its face seems to be missing. Instead there is but a swirling void of the cosmos. That is a woe-strider. She's not sure where it came from. Thankfully it doesn't see her and leaves. "Heh... don't wanna fight that thing yet." Yuno mutters under her breath.
She gets back to the other doors in the hexagonal room. Both the north door and the second northwest door are reinforced wood. While the north one seems unlocked, the other one is rusted shut. Yuno opens the north door to see where it goes. The door leads to a large stone room. Along one side is a row of broken pottery. On the other side is a broken skeleton with broken armor and weapons around it. On the north wall is another hourglass that is ticking down. It looks like this was the room of the Abishai and it also looks like before Yuno killed that thing, someone else was down here and fought it. The fight did not go well. "Hm... so that means I'm not the only adventurer that came down here. It's weird though because this place feels like it's been abandoned for ages. She thinks back to the ghosts and undead she fought. Could it have been possible that they were adventurers too?" Yuno shakes her head and dismisses that notion. "No... most of them weren't humanoid and the ghost was wearing some kind of flashy performance outfit. She might have been the original performer for the flooded auditorium.... either that or someone REALLY wanted to go adventuring in a swimsuit." Yuno shakes her head and gets back out of this room and towards the other reinforced door... the stuck one.
Break: 18
These reinforced doors seem to be a bit too sturdy for Yuno to get through. It doesn't matter though. There's plenty of unexplored regions that Yuno hasn't checked out yet. She might come back to this door when she is a bit tougher and stronger. For now though, she heads back to the Z-shaped hallway. While the two other doors that were here are stuck, she can easily break through the shabbier, weaker east door.
Break: 27
The room beyond is similar in many ways to the mural room. However, while the magical lights illuminate half of it, the other half seems to have collapsed into a dark abyss. It seems the large coffee table was spared the carnage though. Yuno steps towards the edge and "Globey" flies over to illuminate the dark below. The room has collapsed into rubble at 20ft deep. From up here, Yuno notices a tunnel in the rocky earth of the cavern beneath. She then looks around and notices a few things in the room she hadn't before. Firstly there seems to be an anvil but it looks new. There's also a grappling hook sticking to where the floor drops. Attached to it is a piece of broken rope. Yuno leans down and picks up the grappling hook. "Wait... this thing is new... someone's been here recently. Did their rope break while they tried climbing down? Well... mustn't let a perfectly good grappling hook go to waste!" She ties her own rope to the hook and then uses it to descend down into the rocky cavern below so that she can investigate the east passage.
The rocky tunnel splits into south and north passages. Yuno checks the south first. She can't see all the way due to the limited range of Globey's light. Going south, she finds something... curious. A spiky gate that moves down like a portcullis. This one seems to be made of sticks and wood. Yuno decides to leave this one alone fore now since she'd have to break it down. Instead she goes north.
Perception: 11 DEX Save: 17
Yuno continues walking north when suddenly she hears a crunch under her feet. Quickly she dives forward and lands on the other side as a pit opens up beneath her. With how she'd been going through the dungeon, she was really familiar with its trap design and this... wasn't one. Someone put this trap down here. As she gets up, Yuno hears a voice, "Oi oi oi!" Yuno looks up to see a stout looking half-elf woman, brandishing a dagger. She says, "You look like the type that never wielded a sword in your life. What's a girl like you doing down here?"
Yuno pauses. She looks up at the elven woman. She knew someone was down here but she didn't expect them to appear so soon... or alive. A bunch of thoughts go through Yuno's mind. This girl.... She doesn't think I can fight. Can I do my innocent girl forced to a life of adventure routine? No... there's no way she'd believe an innocent town girl picked up a sword and gaudy gold armor and survived long enough to find her hear. Does she know who I am? If so... she might try to kill me for that bounty.
Insight: 7 Deception: 22
She cleared her throat and waved her hand to feign nonchalance. "Me? Oh I'm just a fellow adventurer. Honestly I wasn't expecting to find someone else down here but I saw that grappling hook and thought I'd have to investigate. I'm looking for treasure down here. Cliche, I know." The half-elf woman gives a hearty laugh and says, "Same. What can I say? Treasure is a girl's best friend! Speaking of friends, there's plenty of dangerous monsters down here. What say we travel together? I bet we can get treasure much easier that way."
Deception: 16 vs 16
Yuno stares at the woman and then she says with a sigh, "Sure... let's go together know which way to go?" The woman says, "Yeah. See that door up north?" She points to a shabby looking wooden door. "I was about to check out that door when I heard you trigger that trap behind you. Why don't we go check it out. You look like the type that likes to be in the front where all the action is while I'm a Rogue. I'll let you go first and I'll be right behind you. Oh and... careful there's a nasty wall crushing trap on the way." Yuno nods and moves to the door, making note to avoid the pressure plate that activates the trap.
Yuno gets to the door. The woman says, "Yeah that one is stuck good. I can pick locks but I can't break that shit down. Why don't you do it. You seem like the strong crazy type." Yuno laughs at the comment as she gets to work tearing up the door..
Break: 22
Yuno makes short work of the north wooden door. The door breaks and "Globey" illuminates the path. Strange blue light seems to emanate from crystals in the wall. The path curves southwest and comes to a good quality wooden door Yuno is about to step into this new section and towards the door, the woman says, "Hey! Not gonna give me your name first?" Yuno thinks for a bit before saying, "Yeah... my name is Jill. What about you, new partner?" Yuno doesn't trust this woman... not yet. So she gave her a fake name. The woman in turn, returns with a name of her own, "Justinia. Nice to meet you." Yuno isn't sure if that name is true or not. Yuno goes to the good wooden door at the end of the tunnel. As she goes to open it though, the ground beneath her shakes and from between them and an Umber Hulk busts out. The hulk cuts off the two girls from each other.
Yuno quickly averts her gaze and so does Justinia. "Huh? W-what's going on? Why is everything looking all wobbly?" "Jill? Jill are you- OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT!?" Both women pretend to fall victim to the Umber Hulk's Confusing Gaze and each run in separate directions. Yuno opens the good door as it wasn't unlocked and runs. She finds herself in a more orderly room carved out of this rocky ground, like some kind of mine. The walls are lined with razor-wire, for what reason, Yuno doesn't know. There's a shabby wooden door on the northwest side. The east side has a bunch of rubble. Beside the rubble is the other Simple Wood Door. However, Yuno can't worry about that right now because in front of her, screeches another White Abishai
Yuno was on the backfoot. Before she could even draw her weapon the demon slashes Yuno's belly open with its sword. Yuno hisses and steps back, leaving her open to the Abishai's relentless assault. It leaps and rakes its claws across Yuno's face, taking a good chunk of her flesh with it and then it finishes with a bite to Yuno's neck. Yuno flails desperately pushing the creature off her. Blood sprouts from her neck and coats her whole body in her blood.
Yuno wobbled on her feet. She knew that the demon had tore something important in her neck. Her breathing became heavy and her face was turning pale. She was losing strength. She continued to fight, swinging down and sinking her sword into the creature's shoulder. She fought with brutality that could match a demons she quickly took her sword out and struck again, cutting deeper into the Abishai's bone. She then plunged her left-hand sword into the creature's chest but when she tried to pull down. the creature screeched and swung upward with the sword. Yuno's armor breaks open and a gash appear across her torso and knocks Yuno back. The demon closes the distance, ready to bite. However Yuno thinks fast and quickly stabs the monster in the face and grabs her sword still sticking out of its chest. With an acrobatic flip she manages to pull her sword out and jump over the creature to land on the other side in one motion. The demon still lives though and this maneuver left Yuno's back completely exposed to the creature's strike. Yuno let out a scream of pain as the Abishai's claws cut through her armor and rake her back.
Yuno looks down at her wounds. She knows that if she can't finish off the demon now, she is going to die. Her back was still faced toward the Abishai and it raises its sword to slash her again. In the last moment, Yuno spins around. She catches the demon's sword with her left-blade and with her right, she delivers a deep powerful slash across the demon's chest. The demon's blood splash against Yuno's body but she doesn't relent. She kicks the demon and sends it to the wall, tangling it up in the magic razor-wire. The demon struggled to get free but it was too late. Yuno brought her sword down on it. With an explosion of cold blood, the White Abishai is sliced in two!
Rewards: -2,300 XP (LEVEL UP) -575 GP -White Abishai Longsword
"Need... rest... now..." She begins making her way back towards one of her usual rest spots when suddenly she is stopped by Justinia. The half-elf whistles, looking at Yuno's blood soaked clothes and her grievous wounds. "Wow... you look like you seen better days." "I just need some rest and I'll be fine." She tries to move past Justinia but the golden haired woman doesn't let her. "Sorry but you see... I kinda don't want to share the gold and while I would have let the monsters end you, I think you're weak enough that I can kill you myself."
Justinia tosses her dagger up and catches it again. She says, "Before I kill you, I'll let you know a secret. Justinia isn't my real name. It's Elin" She lunges toward Yuno but Yuno side-steps, catching Elin by surprise. The blonde quickly readjusts her aim and swings again but this time Yuno catches her arm. "AHAHAHAHAHAH! Well Elin, you'll have to do a lot better than that if you wanna kill me." Yuno draws one of her bastard swords and tries to bring it down on to the blonde's shoulder but the other girl moves in, turning what would be a brutal cut into a hilt bash. Elin flinches as she feels the bruise forming on her shoulder... Yuno was stronger than she though. However Elin was a crafty bastard. With Yuno's armor keeping her midriff bare, it's not hard to notice the fresh wound inflicted by the Abishai on her gut. Elin kicks Yuno right in her wound, causing a jolt of pain to shoot out across Yuno's body. Yuno lets out scream and steps back, clutching her belly. Elin laughs at Yuno thinking she gained the upper-hand but with monstrous speed Yuno is already in the half-elf's face. Elin's eyes go wide and a gasp escapes her as Yuno plunges her cold blade into the girl's chest. Yuno laughs, reveling in every moment of this battle. "AHAHAHAHAHA! You sneaky little *****! Kicking me in a fresh wound... An evil woman after my own heart."
As Yuno laughs at the cutthroat, Elin quickly pulls herself out of Yuno's sword slashes Yuno with her dagger. The psychotic girl is able to dodge it but the blade cuts the side of her purple sleeve and leaves a gash on Yuno's arm. Yuno groans, feeling a burning in the wound that spreads through the rest of right arm, weakening her and leaving her open to the second cut which slashes across her left forearm. Elin taunts, "Well, I'll have your heart yet. Yuno smiles widely. This kind of back-and-forth banter while she and her opponent fight to the death is the kind of battle she dreams of. This is just fueling her love of battle. Elin taunts her more, "That poison should be be coursing through your veins by now. If you give me everything you're carrying, we can call it even." Suddenly, Yuno's blades sink into Elin's sides, forcing the half-elf to cough up copious amounts of blood. Yuno says, "What? Give you everything so I'm easily killed by the next monster here? Fat chance! Kill me yourself you coward!" Yuno pulls her swords out and then stabs Elin again through the chest. Elin then spits some strange purple mist in Yuno's face. Yuno drops her swords and clutches her face in pain.
Yuno looks around, trying to find the girl but she can't see her. Suddenly she feels the cold steel of Elin's dagger slip into her bare back. Elin quickly pulls the blade out and brings it to Yuno's throat. Placing her head on Yuno's shoulder, she whispers, "Well... if you want to die so bad, who am I to deny you?" Before she can slit Yuno quickly flips her right sword into reverse-grip and jams the blade deep into Elin's thigh. With a loud scream the half-elf is forced to let Yuno go and step back, clutching her bleeding leg. Yuno spins and delivers a powerful slash, right across Elin's neck with her reverse blade. She then stabs Elin in the chest again with her left blade. The sword sinks deep all the way up to the hilt in the girl's body. Yuno brings her face close to Elin's as the blonde pants heavily, trying to catch her breath and fight off the darkness that's starting to form in the corners of her vision. "Sorry Ellie but it's going to take more than that to kill Yuno Sunforge." She then pulls her sword back out from the half-elf's chest. Elin smiles as her blood spills. Just as Yuno got ready for another attack, the cunning blonde tosses a smoke bomb right into Yuno's face. While normally non-lethal the bomb going off at point blank range nearly tears Yuno's head off. Disoriented, Yuno falls on to her back.
With a groan, Yuno slowly stands up once again. She can't see Elin anymore but she can hear the half-elf's taunting voice. "Yuno Sunforge? The Miss Genocide? I would have used this chance to flee but there's a pretty steep price for that pretty little head of yours." Suddenly Yuno can't breathe anymore. Elin's dagger cuts Yuno's wind pipe. Dropping one of her swords, Yuno clutches her bleeding neck and falls to her knees, struggling to breathe. Even as it looks like Yuno is dying, Elin taunts, "Don't be a drama-queen, it's only a fatal neck wound. Please die quickly. I still have to slice your head off and turn it in. Your bounty is going to make me one rich lady." Yuno senses Elin gloating; the half-elf thinks she's one. Little does she know that it takes way more than that to kill "Miss Genocide". Still clutching her neck, Yuno spins around slices Elin's belly open. Finally, fear and mortal terror becomes apparent in the cunning cutthroat's face as she watches her intestines fall to the floor. Elin is seized by panic and fear of death, a terror that, across all the times that her opponent had nearly died, had never once fallen on Yuno's face. Unlike Elin, Yuno's passion is combat and death. Even if she is the one that ends up killed, Yuno would be happy. Yuno towers over the half-elf as the latter desperately and futilely tries to put her guts back where they belong. She freezes when she feels the cold metal of Yuno's sword on her shoulder. She looks up with pathetic eyes at the superior villain. Yuno simply asks, "Tell me again who is going to have their head cut off and turned in?". Elin begins to mutter out " I- " But before she could finish, the half-elf's head goes flying through the air with blood trailing behind it. Elin's head lands behind her body, which was still on its knees, holding on to her intestines, a small fountain of blood spraying out from where her head used to be. Finally Elin's headless body falls forward and Yuno claims her opponent's head. Yuno may be a serial killer but she doesn't take trophy's. No. The reason she took Elin's head is because there was a bounty of 540 for her. Which was less than Yuno's 725 GP Bounty but hey... she can't really collect her own bounty now can she?
Reward: -1,800 XP -540 GP -Studded Leather Armor -Dagger x2 -GP: Stored CR 5 (Will be explained later)
After the brutal ambush against the other criminal, Yuno is left exhausted and wounded. She hobbles back to the Bone Naga room. She is a bit unsure about trying to spend the night there. Maybe she can take a shorter break and then continue for a bit longer. Or just take a moment to catch her breath and then settle in for the long haul. On the way back, Yuno notices that a brutal crushing wall trap had been triggered, judging by the blood smears on the floor that extend out to the walls. In the middle though, is the crushed corpse of the Umber Hulk. "Huh... so that's how Elin managed to get rid ofl the Umber Hulk with no damage. Smart" Yuno comments.
Short Rest Healing: 11 + 4 + 9 + 12 + 9 + 4 + 9 Second Wind Heal: 7
Attempt Long Rest.
Yuno drifts off to sleep in that small corner of hers. "Well look who we have here! It's the one that killed Elin" Yuno shot awake to find two Bandit Captains surrounding her. It looks like they were part of Elin's group. She should have figured that there would be more bandits around here. Worse still, Yuno didn't have her armor on.
Yuno quickly grabs her swords and scrambles to her feet. No sooner had she gotten to her feet though, one of the bandits moves behind her and cuts down. His scimitar slices open Yuno's back. Without her armor, there was nothing stopping the blade from cutting deep into her flesh. Yuno stumbles forward from the impact of the blow right into the arms of the other bandit. That bandit slashes Yuno's torso, going from shoulder to hip. Not done, the bandit then plunges his dagger into Yuno's stomach. Yuno's clothes begin to turn red, stained with her blood. The girl fights back, dishing out way more pain than she received. She looks up and the bandit that just stabbed her and quickly tries to slice his head with her right sword but her attack is blocked by the bandit's dagger with a metallic clang. That doesn't stop Yuno's assault though. She shoves her other bastard sword deep into the bandit's chest, impaling him before ripping the sword back out, painting the ground with a splash of blood. She quickly swaps to a reverse grip with her right sword and drives it into the bandit's shoulder as he begins staggering back. Judging by the blood that begins welling up and oozing out of the bandit's mouth, she figures she must have punctured a lung.She doesn't waste time though, as quick as the stab, she pulls her sword out of the bandit and then in the same motion slashes him across the chest with a horizontal cut.
Yuno is too focused on the Bandit In front of her to properly defend against the bandit behind her. He quickly grabs her from behind and slashes Yuno's throat with his scimitar, expecting for that to kill her. Yuno clutches her throat; blood pours from between her fingers on to the ground, creating a pool. However when the blood slowly stops Yuno is still standing. The other bandit got worried and begins slashing the girl. He slashes her twice, creating two deep cuts in the shape of an X across her chest. He then tries to stab Yuno in the head but with a flick of her wrist, Yuno strikes the dagger and knocks it out of the Bandit's hand while still hunched forward, heard down and breathing hard. Her labored breathing soon turns to manic laughter. Yuno swings her reverse-grip sword and with one smooth cut, decapitates the bandit in front of her. As his head falls and his body falls forward, blood spraying out of his neck stump, Yuno turns around to face the other bandit that had just tried to slit her throat. As Yuno turns, she swaps her sword back to standard grip and plunges it into the bandits chest and then kicks him. The bandit stumbles back, sword sticking out of his chest, until his back hits the wall. Yuno quickly grabs the sword and pulls it out of the bandit's chest, making him scream in pain before she chops down, slicing into the bandit's shoulder with the same blade.
Yuno smiles, seeing the panic and fear in the bandit's eyes. From their perspective, it was just a young girl, no different from the dozens they've kidnapped and killed, sleeping here alone. Killing Yuno would have been easy, especially since she was caught by surprise with no armor. Yet here they are, having done enough damage to her to kill her 10 times over but Yuno still stands and she still fights on, laughing as if this is some really fun game. Desperately, the bandit lunges at Yuno's head with his dagger only for her to knock it away. Yuno pulls her sword back, ready to deliver the final blow. In a last attempt, the bandit cuts into Yuno's shoulder with his scimitar, blade digging deep but it does nothing to stop Yuno. She plunges her sword into the bandit's forehead, the bandit's eyes rolling up and jaw going slack as the sword slices through his brain. The blade keeps going and sticks into the wall behind the bandit's head. The bandit is dead but Yuno still does a final dramatic flair and with her other sword, decapitates the dead bandit. She then pulls her sword out, letting the head fall on to the rest of the body.
Yuno plops down to the stone floor herself with a sigh, tired. Then she starts laughing again, "AHAHAHAHA! Nothing like a deadly night ambush to wake you up in the morning!"
Rewards: 450 x 2 XP = 900 XP 150 x 2 GP = 300 GP Studded Leather x2 Scimitar x2 Dagger x2
After resting, Yuno decides to head back to the "mines". She gets back to the room where she killed the Abishai.
Perception: 9
She looks around and then turns to the door. She smirks and cracks her knuckles. Then she punches.
Break: 16
Yuno's gauntleted fists breaks through the door before tearing the rotting wood apart. She steps into a Y-shaped tunnel with one path going North and leading to an old makeshift wooden door and the other path going west and ending at a more sturdy looking, proper sliding wooden door. Again, it is a curious choice given this place seems like a mine. Then Yuno hears a hiss and looks up to see the dark cosmos swirling around above her before those same cosmos drop down. Yuno steps back just in time to avoid being crushed by the uncanny quadrupedal vaguely human shaped creature with the stars swirling around where its face should be. "You!" Yuno says as she draws her weapons but she begins to feel weaker and more vulnerable, her magic loosing power within the creature's antimagic cone. Globey goes out and plunges Yuno in darkness, alone against the powerful Woe Strider that she saw before.
Yuno Lights a torch and drops it on the floor for light. BA: Rage
Claw: 13 Claw: 19 Dmg: 3 Slash + 6 Psychic
Yuno acts fast. She knows that against a creature with an anti-magic cone disabling all her magic, she needs to have some backup light source so she can see what she's dealing with. She quickly takes out a torch, lights it and then drops it on the ground, illuminating this room. She then braces herself for the incoming attacks. The creature, ever-seeking the answers of universal questions that have no answer lunge for Yuno's stomach. She moves back but one of its claws rakes against her flesh, leaving long cut marks on her belly. This thing is attempting to rip Yuno's guts out in an attempt to perform divination from them.
Yuno knows that as long as she is in front of this thing, it can shut off her magic items. Thankfully, this thing's anti-magic field is a cone and not a circle. She quickly runs around towards the back, swinging her right sword to cut into the creature's... "legs" and causing it to stumble. She takes the time to swiftly swap her left sword to reverse-grip and then she jumps. Yuno twists her body mid air and then drives her left sword deep into the creature's hip. She plants the sole of her metal boots on the creature's behind and to get some leverage so she can pull her sword out again and then kicks off the creature's to land back on solid ground. However, while she is still in mid-air, the creature turns around and lunges at her. Yuno brings her sword to X-shape blocking the strike but the force sends her back into a wall, the rocky surface striking her back. The Strider follows up though by plunging its claw deep into Yuno's belly. Yuno coughs and blood splashes out from her mouth as she is pinned to the wall by this creature.
Yuno groans in pain, struggling to free herself from the Woe-strider. She flips her right sword into reverse-grip as well and plunges it into the creature's arm. Her blade pierces the long lanky limb and cuts through both flesh and bone, nearly severing the arm entirely. The creature quickly drops Yuno but immediately tries to rip her guts out again with both claws. Yuno dashes forward with a burst of blinding speed and moves under the creature's legs. With both swords in reverse-grip, she makes an arcing slice as the moves, cutting deep gashes into the shins of all four limbs of this creature.
Finally while under the creature, Yuno was about to run to the other side and attack again but she looks up and realizes that its underbelly is completely unprotected. Smiling, she swings both swords upward, slicing deep into the creature's belly, splitting it open. Comic blood and entrails fall out, covering Yuno with it. The creature wobbles on unsteady legs while Yuno manages to run out from under it just before it collapses.
Rewards: 2,900 XP 725 GP
Yuno looks upon the dead creature. Her driftglobe slowly flickers to life. "Damn... a Woe Strider huh... Never fought one of those before. I'll admit, I thought that fight would be a lot tougher." Yuno decides to use a different room for resting this time; someplace closer. She goes back to the room with the dead human skeleton and the broken pottery. near the room with the sacks where she fought the very first White Abishai. With all the unexplored doors somewhat far away and the closest one being a decent quality stuck door, she figured this was a good place as any to rest... at least a Short Rest.
Second Wind Heal: 15 Short Rest healing: 1d8+2 (So doesn't matter. Will heal to full anyway.)
While Yuno rested, she reminisced about all the locked doors she had to pass in this dungeon. Maybe she should use the two keys she had on one of them. She decides to head all the way back to the mud covered armory room where she fought a water weird. There was a very strong locked sliding stone door there. Perhaps she could now get past it using one of her keys...
The door clicks and then slides into the wall. Beyond is a small dark room with a very ancient looking and rooting wooden gate. There is an ominous aura about the gate but then again, this whole dungeon had seemed somewhat ominous... more than normal dungeons anyway. Yuno pushes the gates open with relative ease. Yuno enters a small dark room with a shabby stuck door on the northeast and a reinforced locked wooden door to the south. The floor was dirt and the walls seemed to be made of wood but that made no sense. This place feels like it's a mix of completely different structures and designs. When her Driftglobe illuminated the room though, it revealed a Black Abishai waiting to ambush Yuno.
The Abishai hisses when the light reveals the demons location. Yuno wastes no time in turning to the creature and impaling it through the chest with both swords. The Abishai's dark blood drip from the blades that come out of the creature's back. Yuno pulls her swords out and swaps them to reverse grip and stabs the creature once more; this time through the shoulders. She finishes off her onslaught by pulling out the swords and trying to slice the Abishai's head in half. The winged dragon-demon moves away just in time to not instantly die but it is not fast enough to avoid a nasty slash in its maw. The Abishai then unleashes its demon magic and plunges the room in darkness.Yuno can't see and this gives the assassin the perfect moment to strike. The Abishai flies forward and brings its weapon down on to Yuno's head. The darkness slowly flickers away. The Abishai's sword drips with Yuno's blood. The blade has pierced through her shoulder and come out from the other side. However Yuno is holding her arm out with the bastard sword pointed in front of her... the tip impaling the demon through the head. Yuno pulls her sword out and the demon drops dead at her feet.
Yuno retreated back to one of the cleared sections of the dungeon to take a Short Rest before continuing down the dark muddy path. She takes a look at her coin purse and smiles at how much loot and gold she has. Almost enough for her next upgrade. Now she was presented with a locked door and a stuck door. Since the stuck door was made of easily breakable wood, Yuno decided to try and check that room first.
Break: 21
Perception: 19
Yuno steps into a small stone room with a sliding reinforced wooden door on the other end. Unlike the muddy rooms, this one is illuminated by a lighting fixture. Yuno recognizes the sliding door as being the other side of a door that she encountered in that water-filled stone hallway. It wasn't surprising given that in order to reach the dark wooden gates that led her to the Black Abishai room, Yuno had to go down a slope. Yuno figured there was no point in checking this room out so she turned around. By sheer luck, she avoided an 80ft pit trap that was in the room.
Heading back she uses her last key on the other door, a locked one, in the Black Abishai room. Yuno steps into a dark stone room with simple wooden door on the other end. On one wall are some bloody manacles with some fur beneath it. On the north wall are a number of gold candle holders. One of the wall is leaky, mostly because the tunnel on the other side is full of water. Yuno was too lazy to drain the water and refill the water every time she wanted to move through it to the auditorium room. Broken chips of wood lined the floor. Close to the wooden door, there is a balcony that seems to not have any way to access it. Yuno looks up at it and sniffs the air. "I smell some kind of secret switch mechanism here."
Perception: 10 Investigation: 16 + Second Wind: 10
Yuno turns her head and makes exaggerated "Hmmmmmm"s at the candle holders. She starts messing with them and inadvertently fires off the Globe of Cold trap, though she was too far away to get caught in the blast. The candle holders seemed to actually be a disguised control panel. Yuno extended some stairs to gain access to the balcony and caused a secret door to open. "AHAHAHAHAHA. I knew something was funky with the candle holders." She heads up the stairs and walks through the secret door. She finds herself in the Tomb Guardian Surgery room. "Huh... back here. I wonder how someone was supposed to open that secret door from this side." Then Yuno stared at the curtains for a bit, "I'm an idiot. I never checked the curtains." She walks over and opens the curtains in this room to reveal the stone wall. Looking around, she finds the secret door control switch. "Well that was fun but that doesn't really lead me anywhere new." Yuno walks back to the balcony and looks over the room she was just in. She speaks to no one in particular, "See, these two rooms make sense. They chained up prisoner's here in this manacle room with the candle holders and then they brought them up to the surgery room to make them into flesh golems. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense though is why the prison room would have two doors with one of them leading to an armory. This is what's bugging me about this whole dungeon. The rooms individually make sense but as a whole, their layout makes no sense. It's like someone took 10 different buildings with different purposes and somehow chaotically jammed all of them together. What the **** was the designer of this place smoking?"
Now that the Globe of Cold was disabled, Yuno is free to open the south door. The door leads to a dark hallway that bends west and then just... ends. There are however, two wooden doors on the north, one good quality and one reinforced. There's another reinforced door on the south. The steel reinforcements on the door have rusted and made the door stuck. Yuno doesn't have the time to worry about it though as a massive hill giant zombie creature runs down at her from the opposite end of the room.
Yuno watches the Barrowghast charge down the hall at her. She grimaces, "Tch... And here I thought I was done with stupid undead and constructs.." . The Giant slams its fists down on Yuno but the girl quickly leaps to avoid the powerful attack. The fists crash into the ground and raise a cloud of dust. When the dust clears, Yuno is seen flipping through the air and landing a brutal downward slash at the creature's chest with both her swords. However when her swords make contact though, toxic blood sprays out. Yuno narrowly avoids getting hit but some splashes do land on her chest and immediately Yuno feels the burn as the toxic blood begins to seep into her skin.
Yuno feels the burning stench coming from this creature. She makes a face that is equal parts disgusted and horrified and her eyes begin to water. "YOU NASTY!" Yuno shouts. The fact that her nose is super sharp makes the smell worse. However he greater constitution ensures that the stench doesn't do any more than utterly disgust her. Wanting to end this fight fast, she unleashes a barrage of attacks, her swords a flurry of steel tearing at the undead giant's flesh. The thick bloated fat absorbs a lot of the sword cuts but she still manages to do some serious damage to the creature. It tries its best to punch Yuno with a one-two strike but Yuno sways from side to side to dodge both hits. Yuno's messy fighting style has come back to bite her in the rear. Her onslaught left her covered in the creature's blood. She sees her skin darken and die from the toxic blood. "Ew ew ew ew! You're gross gross gross!" Yuno says, hopping around in abject disgust.
Yuno fights harder than she has ever fought before. Her abject disgust and desire for this battle to end fuels her strike. She puts her whole strength behind a single slice. The big undead laughs as her sword seems to miss. "huh?" Suddenly monster feels a stinging pain across its midsection. With an explosion of putrid blood that showers down on Yuno, the Barrowghast splits in half and falls to pieces. Yuno stands over the undead's corpse; her eyes, with a traumatized look, twitch. "I need a shower... NOW" Yuno retreats back to Evergreen, running all the way. With how she runs you'd think she was running scared for her life, not because she wanted a shower ASAP. "This was the worst combat ever. of all time." She doesn't even take anything from the undead's corpse for bounties, she is so disgusted. Never in her life, even when she nearly died, had Yuno had less fun fighting something. She never wants to fight one of those ever again.
Rewards: Gold: Stored for Later CR7 2,900 XP (LEVEL UP)
Arriving to Evergreen are Dealu, a male gnome lv3 ranger (beastmaster), who is riding Aide, his mastiff, with his giant wolf spider familiar by his side, and Zoinks, a male human lv3 wizard (evocation) slightly behind those three and who is not trying to hide his nervous about the spider or excitement about his book of spells. They learn of the Deadman's Canyon and immediately set off in that direction. They arrive there with Liam's cart and horses after several uneventful days due to Dealu's skill with animals. They enter the canyon but neither Dealu (11) or Zoinks (8) perceives the two cult fanatics in the distance but do notice them when 60' away.
Initiative Dealu 13, Zoinks 16, Cults 5
R1
Zoinks immediately sends a Chromatic Orb at C1 that hits (attack 19, damage 15)
Dealu follows that up with his short bow (attack 17, damage 8) and yells at the spider, "Follow me" as he moves 30' closer
C1 (10hp) stays back to throw a dagger at Dealu (attack 23, damage 4) and cast spiritual weapon to attack Zoinks but it misses (attack 12)
C2 (33hp) charges forward to attack Dealu with two daggers (attack 7, 20) and connects once for 4 damage
R2
Zoinks casts Toll the Dead against C1 (fails save with 12) for 10 damage, knocking him unconscious and causing the spectral weapon to disappear
Dealu attacks C2 with his short sword (attack 9) and orders his spider to attack (2) both of which miss
C2 (33hp) attacks again with two daggers (6, 16) and connects once for 4 damage
R3
Zoinks cast Ray of Frost (attack 23, damage 1, minus 10 speed)
Dealu chugs a healing potion (+7hp) and yells at the spider to attack (attack 22, damage 6 plus 7 poison damage due to failed CONS save of 2) while he retreats 30 to be next to Zoinks
Knowing he can't reach his foes, C2 (19hp) throws a dagger at Zoinks (attack 14) that just misses and cast spiritual weapon to attack Zoinks (attack 16, damage 4)
R4
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (save 5, so 1 damage) and thinks, "my crossbow must be better than this" as he retreats 10'
Dealu moves forward to attack with his two short swords (19, 21) and hits with both (damage 8, 4). The spider takes no offensive action
C2 (6hp) attacks Dealu with his one dagger but misses (attack 12)
R5
Zoinks uses that crossbow (attack 8) but that misses. Swear words ensue
Dealu kills C2 with his two short sword attacks (attack 15, nat 20) (damage 8, crit damage 7)
They cut off the heads of the two cultists and load the bodies on the cart. They find two daggers to go with the two leather armors they save. They split 300gp and 900xp and take a short rest.
Dealu and Zoinks get the cart, the spider, and the mastiff on the move again.
Dealu observers some movement in the distance (passive perception 22) while Zoinks is lost in thought about his new spells (4). This allows them to be prepared for the archer (p perception 14) and move quicker towards the intended ambush. (Distance 60')
Initiative Dealu 20, Zoinks 15, Archer 14
R1
Dealu was pleased he saw the archer so they could move into range of his short bow. However, it does him no good as he shots wide (7). He tells the wolf spider to attack the archer then moves 30' closer.
Zoinks sends a Chromatic Orb but misses completely (7). He does not move forward
The archer responds to the attacks by sending two arrows at Dealu (13, 18) (damage 8)
R2
Dealu closes the distance and attacks with his two swords (11, 20) (damage 6)
The wolf spider attacks (8) but misses
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (fails WIS save with 9) (damage 8)
The archer (hp 61) can only attack Dealu with its shortsword (attack 25, damage 7)
R3
Dealu casts Poison Spray but misses badly (6) and chugs his last remaining potion of healing (+9hp)
The wolf spider attacks (19, damage 6) (plus 7 poison damage from failed CON save 9)
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (7 damage on failed WIS save of 6)
The archer (hp 41) swings again at Dealu (attack 14, damage 7)
R4
Dealu swings both of his short swords (13, 15) but misses both times
The spider attacks again (attack 17, damage 13 plus 3 poison for CON save 15)
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (7 damage on failed WIS save of 7)
The archer (hp18) turns its attention to the spider that has been beating its butt but misses (8)
R5
Dealu swings with his two short swords (23, 11) (damage 5)
The spider attacks again (24, damage 7 plus 7 poison damage on failed CON save of 10) which kills the archer.
Dealu and Zoinks take the equipment from the archer (longbow, studded leather, short sword) and find 230gp). They both congratulate the spider, which is particularly impressive for Zoinks since he had not ever felt comfortable enough to approach the beast. They each get 350xp. They take a short rest and Zoinks gives Dealu one of his healing potions to drink. (+8hp)
Sell prices: Abshai Long Sword: 57 GP 5 SP Abishai Scimitar: 62 GP 5 SP Dagger x3: 1x3 = 3 GP Scimitarx3: 12.5x3 = 37GP 5 SP Studded Leatherx3: 22.5 x3 = 67 GP 5 SP
Total: 228 GP
Yuno goes back to town and spends a few days just taking showers to clean herself (12 SP). Once she feels sufficiently clean, she sells off a bunch of the loot she had gathered in her latest trip to the strange dungeon. While this might have been a bad idea, she figures that getting a bit easier to hit might be worth it if she could ensure saftey against things like that Bone Naga trying to get her with magic. She sells her Ring of Protection (2000 GP) and with the extra money, buys a Mantle of Spell Resistance. Now she should have a better layer of protection against spells. After giving her equipment one last check, she heads out back to the dungeon.
"Now... where was I? Right. Getting attacked by the absolute worst thing ever." Yuno shivers as she remembers the disgusting undead she fought the last time she was down here. She heads back to where it was and notices the corpse missing. "Strange..." Yuno comments but isn't quite sure what all that means. Smart, she is not. In this dark, cramped hall are three wooden doors, two of them reinforced with metal but that same metal has rusted and gotten the doors stuck. "Third door it is!" Yuno proclaims and goes to the non reinforced door.
Yuno finds herself in what looks like a small private bath house, marble tiles, caked in grime and algae line the floors making it slippery (Moving more than half speed imposes Acrobatics Check or fall down). Pushed against the right wall is a chest of drawers, likely for keeping clothes in while a person takes a bath in the small pool in the northeast corner of the room. However, Yuno notices a young elven woman in the pool weeping. Her back is turned to Yuno. The serial killer shouts, "Hey! Hey you! Who are you and how did you get here? What the **** is this place anyway?" However, the elf woman does not respond. Yuno suddenly gets a bad feeling about this and slowly, draws one of her twin swords and begins approaching the woman cautiously. As she gets close though, the woman with the pale, discolored skin's head snaps around 180 degrees to stare at Yuno with lifeless eyes. The creature is some kind of vengeful spirit. It screeches at Yuno and attacks, its arms and legs bending at unnatural angles as it leaps towards Yuno with its sharp nails all while its back is still turned to her.
Spirit casts Conjure Animals: Two Giant Spiders (They will go on the spirit's turn starting from next round.)
The spirit jumps but Yuno reacts fast. She quickly draws her other sword as well and lunges forward, running both swords through the undead's body and holding it up with the blades while the elf spirit flails around trying to get to Yuno. With a throwing motion from both her hands, she flings the spirit against the wall, into the pool before jumping in after her. The stagnant water splashes up as she lands and Yuno swings her right sword at the spirit, cutting horizontally through the splash of water, trying to decapitate it. The elf though, drops low, bending its hips faster and quicker than should be physically possible to avoid Yuno's swing. The magic blade cuts a gash across the dirty marble wall. The spirit wails and Yuno sees two spectral giant spiders form around her.
Round 2: Yuno (70/92) Elf Spirit (10/71)
Bastard Sword: 23 Dmg: 12 | CON DC 10 Save: 12 Bastard Sword (Vex): 19 Dmg w/Sneak: 17 | CON DC10 Save: 19 BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 11 Action Surge Bastard Sword: NAT20 Dmg: 9 | CON DC 10 Save: 18 Bastard Sword (Vex): 23 Dmg: 13 | CON DC 10 Save: 4
Yuno, standing in thigh-high water takes a deep breath while the ghostly spiders begin to close in on her. "No need to beat the spell... just beat the caster." She mutters under her breath. With a burst of speed that seems to create an explosion of water where she stood she pins the undead elf to the wall by skewering it through the shoulder with her right blade. With her left sword, she begins stabbing the elf repeatedly in the torso. The undead screeches and hisses, the magical metal piercing and tearing its flesh over and over again. The final strike though is avoided by the creature. Moving with great force, it rips its own arm off to get free slashes across Yuno's cheek with sharp claws. The deep cuts begin bleeding and Yuno instinctively touches her cheek wound and stumbles back. Yuno feels her very blood boil, not just inside her body but even at the side of the wound. She can feel her blood bubbling at her finger tips and spilling forth, dripping into the water she stands on and vanishing in the murk.
Round 3: Yuno (70/92) Elf Spirit (0/71)
Bastard Sword+1 (Vex): NAT20 Dmg w/ Sneak: 23
The elf undead leaps at Yuno with one arm trying to slash her again. Yuno bends backwards, letting the spirit fly over her, missing her by an inch. At the same time, Yuno raises her bastard sword up and sinks the top of the sword into the body of the creature as it flies by. Its momentum carries it forward, causing Yuno's sword to tear through the center of its body, gutting it like a fish. It plops to the ground in a heap of its own intestines. The spirit does not move anymore. Slowly it begins fading... having been slain by Yuno and her magic sword. "What the **** was that?" Yuno says.
Having killed another undead, and this time thankful that it wasn't an absolutely disgusting smelly zombie, Yuno looks around the room and...
Perception: 12
Yuno notices something strange; there is a small hole on the other a wall. Cautiously, she peers through it though the other side is too dark to see. She looks back at the pool and back at the pool and then at the place where the corpse was before it faded. The hole seems to line up perfectly to observe the pool. Her brow furrows and she asks, "What the hell happened here?" She then heads back to the Bone Naga room for a short rest.
BA: Second Wind: 10 HP
Rewards: 3,900 XP GP Stored: CR 7 + CR8
Short Rest Healing: d12 hit die: 7 d8 hit die: 10 HP
After finishing her rest, Yuno returns to the weird small bathing room. "Now... let's see what this weird hole in the wall is all about." She can't see anything through the hole due to the other side being dark. However the fact that there is a peephole on the west wall tells her that there is something behind the wall. Searching the room carefully, she realizes that the chest of drawers can be pushed to reveal a wooden door. Yuno opens it. Now that "Globey" is illuminating the place, Yuno can see the other side of the peep-hole. It is a wooden corridor that ends in a long shaft going up. There's a ladder on the wall to help her climb. She climbs the ladder for quite a while and eventually gets to a platform with a single reinforced door. The door is not stuck but it is locked. Thankfully she has her set of lockpicks and "Universal Lockpicks"
Lockpick: 14 Universal Lockpick: 22
However she is unable to open the door. Thus this marks another dead end for Yuno's exploration. For better or for worse, there's still many many unexplored paths she left behind in this strange eldritch place. As Yuno starts to make her way back to one of the other paths, she can't help but feel that this dungeon she's exploring might not entirely be of this realm. Is it partly in hell somehow? She can't really come up with any other explanation for this dungeon having wildly different architecture, purpose and rooms. It really does feel like this dungeon was never created as is but rather it was formed by multiple different buildings of varying origin being somehow transposed on top of each other. She has no idea who or what can even do something like that though outside of "Weird Hell Magic"
Yuno heads back a short way to get back to hallway where she fought the stinky giant zombie. There are still two reinforced doors here which have been rusted shut. She cracks her knuckles and gets ready to try and break through them. Maybe she'd have better luck this go around.
Break: 14
Sadly the south door is too strong for Yuno. But Maybe she'd have better luck with the north door.
Break: 14
The sound of Yuno's boot hitting the door repeatedly rings out through the halls but the door still stands. Another pathway down. This time Yuno heads back to pathway with many doors, close to the weaver room where she faced off against a Banshee. There's still one more door here she hasn't explored. This door is a simple wooden one.
Beyond the door, Yuno finds a long stone room with muddy flooring. This whole room seems like it is about to fall apart. It is covered in cracks and water from an unknown source leaks down from ceiling. Strange runes and markings cover the walls. There's another door to the south but this one just leads back into the room where Yuno had fought a Banshee. At the far end of this room is a trophy of some kind. Mounted to the wall on a gold plate is the eyeless head of a reptilian creature of some kind. It has teeth blue like icicles and a rough leathery skin of dark blue. Yuno wonders what this creature is when suddenly the runes on the walls of this room start to glow. Magical lines form on the walls and travels all the way to the head. The creature's skin begins to glow with a dim blow and suddenly before Yuno's eyes, the creature's old dried up head seems to start regaining some life. Moisture returns and eyes grow back. Yuno begins to slowly back away from the thing when there is a blast of magic and dust. The creature's head is now gone from the mounted gold plate. Instead the creature is now alive and well standing in front of Yuno. A massive monster with 6 legs and breath so cold that it threatens to freeze Yuno solid. This is a Frost Salamander, an elemental creature that hails from the plane of Ice itself!
Yuno moves forward and stabs the monster in her face, fueled by her love of battle. She quickly pulls her sword back and gets ready to slash down when the creature breathes freezing cold at Yuno, pushing her back as if she was caught in one of the worst blizzards in all of recorded history. She could feel the frost settle on her skin in moments and begin freezing her in place.
Round 2: Yuno (30/92) Salamander (161/168)
Bastard Sword: 15 Bastard Sword: 15 BA: Second Wind: 13
Salamander Recharge: 6 Frost breath: 43 CON save: 13
Yuno tries to keep fighting but the creature continues to try and freeze her to death. This is when she has a plan. The walls of this room are already crumbling... Maybe she can help it along. She begins unleashing her fury not on the creature but on the walls, very soon the whole room collapses on top of her and the creature, burying them both alive.
Yuno does manage to survive though and the creature does as well. However the massive falling rubble spooks it enough to get it to leave her alone. Yuno, heavily wounded limps, manages to claw her way out of the rubble and retreat to town. However now she knows there is a Frost Salamander loose somewhere in this dungeon.
Yuno doesn't spend as long in Evergreen this time. After resting for a night (6 SP) she heads back. This is mostly because she was worried that if she rested inside the dungeon itself, she would be found by the Salamander and killed. She was not in the state to fight that thing again after barely surviving it the first time. However, she is looking forward to a second meeting with it. She now has a creature that is much stronger that she can strive towards matching and eventually beating.
While she is still in town, she sells her equipment.
Scimitar x2 = 12.5 x 2 = 25 GP Studded Leather x3 = 22.5 x 3 = 67 GP 5 SP
Total: 92 GP 5 SP
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(6 SP spend for two days of rest)
"What do you mean I'm short!?" Yuno shouts. She was trying to buy a Half-Plate+1 and she thought it cost 4,000 GP but in reality, it cost 4,750 GP. She barely did not have enough to pay for it. After some failed haggling attempts, Yuno sighs and begins undoing her armor. "Fine... I guess this will have to do then." She takes off her armor and trades it to make up the difference.
Sold Half-plate for 375 GP
Bought Half-Plate+1 for 4,750 GP
Yuno puts on her shiny new armor. It has the exact same design as the last one. Now happy in her new golden half-plate, she buys 2 days worth of rations (1 GP) before heading back to the strange spiraling dungeon. That place... has her curiosity.
(Yuno's old pic timed out or link broke so adding a description of her here. Copy-pasted from a different place.)
She is 5ft 4in. tall. She has fair skin and brown hair in a side braid. Her eyes are a deep purple. Contrasting with her violent nature, she has softer, almost kinder facial features. Her harsh but girly voice has a nasally edge to it. Yuno wears a golden half-plate armor. The "Half" is quite literal as her mid-section is fully uncovered. The armor has long faded burgundy sleeves. Over these long sleeves and covering her arms, she wears golden gauntlets. She wears a faded and worn short purple shawl that rests on her shoulders but and hangs slightly off her back. It is like the type that some young village women might wear. Yuno also wears a bright purple mini-skirt over full metal sabatons and leg armor. Her sabatons have a very short heel to it.
Upon returning, the first place she goes to is back to where she had killed the demon. Mostly because she's hoping that she'd get to fight more "Fleshy" enemies now. She checks the sacks there and it has mostly ancient moldy grain and useless tools. Among the sacks, she finds another key. That could be useful for later.
Now... to check the door on the other end of this room. With how this door is to the southeast there is only one place it could connect to; the room on the other side of that stuck stone door that she had failed to open not too long ago. While this door was also stuck it was a shabby wooden one, something she could easily kick down.
Break: 22
"Globey" illuminates the dark hexagonal room as Yuno walks. One the northeast side, she can see the stone door that she failed to open from the mural room. She can even peek through the small cutout in the door to see the brightly lit mural room too. When she looks though, she notes at the mural room is not quite empty. There is a large creature that looks like a humanoid body contorted into a quadropedal creature as big as a horse. It's spine has boney growths that protrude out of its back. Yuno quickly gets down to prevent being seen, only peeking every so slightly from behind the stone door. From the side, past the creature's long dark hair, Yuno notices that its face seems to be missing. Instead there is but a swirling void of the cosmos. That is a woe-strider. She's not sure where it came from. Thankfully it doesn't see her and leaves. "Heh... don't wanna fight that thing yet." Yuno mutters under her breath.
She gets back to the other doors in the hexagonal room. Both the north door and the second northwest door are reinforced wood. While the north one seems unlocked, the other one is rusted shut. Yuno opens the north door to see where it goes. The door leads to a large stone room. Along one side is a row of broken pottery. On the other side is a broken skeleton with broken armor and weapons around it. On the north wall is another hourglass that is ticking down. It looks like this was the room of the Abishai and it also looks like before Yuno killed that thing, someone else was down here and fought it. The fight did not go well. "Hm... so that means I'm not the only adventurer that came down here. It's weird though because this place feels like it's been abandoned for ages. She thinks back to the ghosts and undead she fought. Could it have been possible that they were adventurers too?" Yuno shakes her head and dismisses that notion. "No... most of them weren't humanoid and the ghost was wearing some kind of flashy performance outfit. She might have been the original performer for the flooded auditorium.... either that or someone REALLY wanted to go adventuring in a swimsuit." Yuno shakes her head and gets back out of this room and towards the other reinforced door... the stuck one.
Break: 18
These reinforced doors seem to be a bit too sturdy for Yuno to get through. It doesn't matter though. There's plenty of unexplored regions that Yuno hasn't checked out yet. She might come back to this door when she is a bit tougher and stronger. For now though, she heads back to the Z-shaped hallway. While the two other doors that were here are stuck, she can easily break through the shabbier, weaker east door.
Break: 27
The room beyond is similar in many ways to the mural room. However, while the magical lights illuminate half of it, the other half seems to have collapsed into a dark abyss. It seems the large coffee table was spared the carnage though. Yuno steps towards the edge and "Globey" flies over to illuminate the dark below. The room has collapsed into rubble at 20ft deep. From up here, Yuno notices a tunnel in the rocky earth of the cavern beneath. She then looks around and notices a few things in the room she hadn't before. Firstly there seems to be an anvil but it looks new. There's also a grappling hook sticking to where the floor drops. Attached to it is a piece of broken rope. Yuno leans down and picks up the grappling hook. "Wait... this thing is new... someone's been here recently. Did their rope break while they tried climbing down? Well... mustn't let a perfectly good grappling hook go to waste!" She ties her own rope to the hook and then uses it to descend down into the rocky cavern below so that she can investigate the east passage.
The rocky tunnel splits into south and north passages. Yuno checks the south first. She can't see all the way due to the limited range of Globey's light. Going south, she finds something... curious. A spiky gate that moves down like a portcullis. This one seems to be made of sticks and wood. Yuno decides to leave this one alone fore now since she'd have to break it down.
Instead she goes north.
Perception: 11
DEX Save: 17
Yuno continues walking north when suddenly she hears a crunch under her feet. Quickly she dives forward and lands on the other side as a pit opens up beneath her. With how she'd been going through the dungeon, she was really familiar with its trap design and this... wasn't one. Someone put this trap down here. As she gets up, Yuno hears a voice, "Oi oi oi!" Yuno looks up to see a stout looking half-elf woman, brandishing a dagger. She says, "You look like the type that never wielded a sword in your life. What's a girl like you doing down here?"
Yuno pauses. She looks up at the elven woman. She knew someone was down here but she didn't expect them to appear so soon... or alive. A bunch of thoughts go through Yuno's mind. This girl.... She doesn't think I can fight. Can I do my innocent girl forced to a life of adventure routine? No... there's no way she'd believe an innocent town girl picked up a sword and gaudy gold armor and survived long enough to find her hear. Does she know who I am? If so... she might try to kill me for that bounty.
Insight: 7
Deception: 22
She cleared her throat and waved her hand to feign nonchalance. "Me? Oh I'm just a fellow adventurer. Honestly I wasn't expecting to find someone else down here but I saw that grappling hook and thought I'd have to investigate. I'm looking for treasure down here. Cliche, I know." The half-elf woman gives a hearty laugh and says, "Same. What can I say? Treasure is a girl's best friend! Speaking of friends, there's plenty of dangerous monsters down here. What say we travel together? I bet we can get treasure much easier that way."
Deception: 16 vs 16
Yuno stares at the woman and then she says with a sigh, "Sure... let's go together know which way to go?" The woman says, "Yeah. See that door up north?" She points to a shabby looking wooden door. "I was about to check out that door when I heard you trigger that trap behind you. Why don't we go check it out. You look like the type that likes to be in the front where all the action is while I'm a Rogue. I'll let you go first and I'll be right behind you. Oh and... careful there's a nasty wall crushing trap on the way." Yuno nods and moves to the door, making note to avoid the pressure plate that activates the trap.
Yuno gets to the door. The woman says, "Yeah that one is stuck good. I can pick locks but I can't break that shit down. Why don't you do it. You seem like the strong crazy type." Yuno laughs at the comment as she gets to work tearing up the door..
Break: 22
Yuno makes short work of the north wooden door. The door breaks and "Globey" illuminates the path. Strange blue light seems to emanate from crystals in the wall. The path curves southwest and comes to a good quality wooden door Yuno is about to step into this new section and towards the door, the woman says, "Hey! Not gonna give me your name first?" Yuno thinks for a bit before saying, "Yeah... my name is Jill. What about you, new partner?" Yuno doesn't trust this woman... not yet. So she gave her a fake name. The woman in turn, returns with a name of her own, "Justinia. Nice to meet you." Yuno isn't sure if that name is true or not. Yuno goes to the good wooden door at the end of the tunnel. As she goes to open it though, the ground beneath her shakes and from between them and an Umber Hulk busts out. The hulk cuts off the two girls from each other.
Initiative:
Yuno: 20
Justinia: 20
Hulk: 18
Yuno quickly averts her gaze and so does Justinia. "Huh? W-what's going on? Why is everything looking all wobbly?" "Jill? Jill are you- OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT!?" Both women pretend to fall victim to the Umber Hulk's Confusing Gaze and each run in separate directions. Yuno opens the good door as it wasn't unlocked and runs. She finds herself in a more orderly room carved out of this rocky ground, like some kind of mine. The walls are lined with razor-wire, for what reason, Yuno doesn't know. There's a shabby wooden door on the northwest side. The east side has a bunch of rubble. Beside the rubble is the other Simple Wood Door. However, Yuno can't worry about that right now because in front of her, screeches another White Abishai
Initiative (Abishai): 7
Round 1:
Yuno (21/63)
Abishai (68/68)
Yuno: Took her turn to run here
Reckless Attack!
Bite: NAT20 Dmg: 7 Pierce + 9 Cold
Claw: NAT20 Dmg: 15
Long Sword: 25 Dmg: 11
Yuno was on the backfoot. Before she could even draw her weapon the demon slashes Yuno's belly open with its sword. Yuno hisses and steps back, leaving her open to the Abishai's relentless assault. It leaps and rakes its claws across Yuno's face, taking a good chunk of her flesh with it and then it finishes with a bite to Yuno's neck. Yuno flails desperately pushing the creature off her. Blood sprouts from her neck and coats her whole body in her blood.
Round 2:
Yuno (7/63)
Abishai (33/68)
Bastard Sword: 23 Dmg: 12
Bastard Sword: 15 Dmg: 6
BA Bastard Sword: 17 Dmg: 7
Action Surge
Bastard Sword: 24 w/Sneak Dmg: 10
Bastard Sword: 14 Heroic: 14
Reaction Bite: 8
Bite: 19
Claw: 22 Dmg: 4
Long Sword: 22 Dmg:10
Yuno wobbled on her feet. She knew that the demon had tore something important in her neck. Her breathing became heavy and her face was turning pale. She was losing strength. She continued to fight, swinging down and sinking her sword into the creature's shoulder. She fought with brutality that could match a demons she quickly took her sword out and struck again, cutting deeper into the Abishai's bone. She then plunged her left-hand sword into the creature's chest but when she tried to pull down. the creature screeched and swung upward with the sword. Yuno's armor breaks open and a gash appear across her torso and knocks Yuno back. The demon closes the distance, ready to bite. However Yuno thinks fast and quickly stabs the monster in the face and grabs her sword still sticking out of its chest. With an acrobatic flip she manages to pull her sword out and jump over the creature to land on the other side in one motion. The demon still lives though and this maneuver left Yuno's back completely exposed to the creature's strike. Yuno let out a scream of pain as the Abishai's claws cut through her armor and rake her back.
Round 3:
Yuno (7/63)
Abishai (Dead/68)
Bastard Sword: 21 Dmg w/ Sneak: 15
Bastard Sword: 23 Dmg: 8
BA Bastard Sword: 26 Dmg: 13
Reaction Bite: 12
Yuno looks down at her wounds. She knows that if she can't finish off the demon now, she is going to die. Her back was still faced toward the Abishai and it raises its sword to slash her again. In the last moment, Yuno spins around. She catches the demon's sword with her left-blade and with her right, she delivers a deep powerful slash across the demon's chest. The demon's blood splash against Yuno's body but she doesn't relent. She kicks the demon and sends it to the wall, tangling it up in the magic razor-wire. The demon struggled to get free but it was too late. Yuno brought her sword down on it. With an explosion of cold blood, the White Abishai is sliced in two!
Rewards:
-2,300 XP (LEVEL UP)
-575 GP
-White Abishai Longsword
Yuno clutches her wound and groans.
Second Wind Heals: 8 + 9 + 9
"Need... rest... now..." She begins making her way back towards one of her usual rest spots when suddenly she is stopped by Justinia. The half-elf whistles, looking at Yuno's blood soaked clothes and her grievous wounds. "Wow... you look like you seen better days." "I just need some rest and I'll be fine." She tries to move past Justinia but the golden haired woman doesn't let her. "Sorry but you see... I kinda don't want to share the gold and while I would have let the monsters end you, I think you're weak enough that I can kill you myself."
Initiative:
Yuno: 17
Ambitious Assassin: NAT20
Round 1
Yuno (40/74)
Elin (74/91)
Poison Blade: NAT1
Poison Blade: 20
BA: Rage
Bastard Sword: 18 Dmg: 10
Bastard Sword (Vex): 16 Dmg w/Sneak: 14 -> 7 Uncanny Dodge
Legendary Stab: 24 Dmg: 3 Pierce + 1 Poison
Justinia tosses her dagger up and catches it again. She says, "Before I kill you, I'll let you know a secret. Justinia isn't my real name. It's Elin" She lunges toward Yuno but Yuno side-steps, catching Elin by surprise. The blonde quickly readjusts her aim and swings again but this time Yuno catches her arm. "AHAHAHAHAHAH! Well Elin, you'll have to do a lot better than that if you wanna kill me." Yuno draws one of her bastard swords and tries to bring it down on to the blonde's shoulder but the other girl moves in, turning what would be a brutal cut into a hilt bash. Elin flinches as she feels the bruise forming on her shoulder... Yuno was stronger than she though. However Elin was a crafty bastard. With Yuno's armor keeping her midriff bare, it's not hard to notice the fresh wound inflicted by the Abishai on her gut. Elin kicks Yuno right in her wound, causing a jolt of pain to shoot out across Yuno's body. Yuno lets out scream and steps back, clutching her belly. Elin laughs at Yuno thinking she gained the upper-hand but with monstrous speed Yuno is already in the half-elf's face. Elin's eyes go wide and a gasp escapes her as Yuno plunges her cold blade into the girl's chest. Yuno laughs, reveling in every moment of this battle. "AHAHAHAHAHA! You sneaky little *****! Kicking me in a fresh wound... An evil woman after my own heart."
Round 2
Yuno (27/74)
Elin (42/91)
Poison Blade: 22 Dmg: 3 + 1
Poison Blade: 21 Dmg: 3 + 2
Bastard Sword (Vex): 23 Dmg: 9
Bastard Sword (Vex): 25 Dmg: 12
BA Bastard Sword (Vex) : NAT19 Crit. Dmg w/Sneak: 23 -> 11 Uncanny Dodge
Vanishing Escape: 4 Psychic Damage
As Yuno laughs at the cutthroat, Elin quickly pulls herself out of Yuno's sword slashes Yuno with her dagger. The psychotic girl is able to dodge it but the blade cuts the side of her purple sleeve and leaves a gash on Yuno's arm. Yuno groans, feeling a burning in the wound that spreads through the rest of right arm, weakening her and leaving her open to the second cut which slashes across her left forearm. Elin taunts, "Well, I'll have your heart yet. Yuno smiles widely. This kind of back-and-forth banter while she and her opponent fight to the death is the kind of battle she dreams of. This is just fueling her love of battle. Elin taunts her more, "That poison should be be coursing through your veins by now. If you give me everything you're carrying, we can call it even." Suddenly, Yuno's blades sink into Elin's sides, forcing the half-elf to cough up copious amounts of blood. Yuno says, "What? Give you everything so I'm easily killed by the next monster here? Fat chance! Kill me yourself you coward!" Yuno pulls her swords out and then stabs Elin again through the chest. Elin then spits some strange purple mist in Yuno's face. Yuno drops her swords and clutches her face in pain.
Round 3
Yuno (5/74)
Elin (11/91)
Poison Blade: 26 Dmg: 4 + 3 Poison
Poison Blade: 18
Bastard Sword (Vex): 18 Dmg: 8
Bastard Sword (Vex): NAT20 Dmg w/Sneak: 28 -> 14 Uncanny Dodge
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 24 Dmg: 9
Vanishing Escape: 15 Psychic
Yuno looks around, trying to find the girl but she can't see her. Suddenly she feels the cold steel of Elin's dagger slip into her bare back. Elin quickly pulls the blade out and brings it to Yuno's throat. Placing her head on Yuno's shoulder, she whispers, "Well... if you want to die so bad, who am I to deny you?" Before she can slit Yuno quickly flips her right sword into reverse-grip and jams the blade deep into Elin's thigh. With a loud scream the half-elf is forced to let Yuno go and step back, clutching her bleeding leg. Yuno spins and delivers a powerful slash, right across Elin's neck with her reverse blade. She then stabs Elin in the chest again with her left blade. The sword sinks deep all the way up to the hilt in the girl's body. Yuno brings her face close to Elin's as the blonde pants heavily, trying to catch her breath and fight off the darkness that's starting to form in the corners of her vision. "Sorry Ellie but it's going to take more than that to kill Yuno Sunforge." She then pulls her sword back out from the half-elf's chest. Elin smiles as her blood spills. Just as Yuno got ready for another attack, the cunning blonde tosses a smoke bomb right into Yuno's face. While normally non-lethal the bomb going off at point blank range nearly tears Yuno's head off. Disoriented, Yuno falls on to her back.
Round 4
Yuno (1/74)
Elin (Dead/91)
Poison Blade: 16
Poison Blade: 26 Dmg: 3 + 3 Poison
Yuno's Death Saves: 15 10 10
Yuno gets up with 1 HP. Permanent DIS until end of turn.
Bastard Sword: 10
Bastard Sword: 19 Dmg: 11 -> 5 Uncanny Dodge
Bastard Sword: 25 Dmg: Death.
With a groan, Yuno slowly stands up once again. She can't see Elin anymore but she can hear the half-elf's taunting voice. "Yuno Sunforge? The Miss Genocide? I would have used this chance to flee but there's a pretty steep price for that pretty little head of yours." Suddenly Yuno can't breathe anymore. Elin's dagger cuts Yuno's wind pipe. Dropping one of her swords, Yuno clutches her bleeding neck and falls to her knees, struggling to breathe. Even as it looks like Yuno is dying, Elin taunts, "Don't be a drama-queen, it's only a fatal neck wound. Please die quickly. I still have to slice your head off and turn it in. Your bounty is going to make me one rich lady." Yuno senses Elin gloating; the half-elf thinks she's one. Little does she know that it takes way more than that to kill "Miss Genocide". Still clutching her neck, Yuno spins around slices Elin's belly open. Finally, fear and mortal terror becomes apparent in the cunning cutthroat's face as she watches her intestines fall to the floor. Elin is seized by panic and fear of death, a terror that, across all the times that her opponent had nearly died, had never once fallen on Yuno's face. Unlike Elin, Yuno's passion is combat and death. Even if she is the one that ends up killed, Yuno would be happy. Yuno towers over the half-elf as the latter desperately and futilely tries to put her guts back where they belong. She freezes when she feels the cold metal of Yuno's sword on her shoulder. She looks up with pathetic eyes at the superior villain. Yuno simply asks, "Tell me again who is going to have their head cut off and turned in?". Elin begins to mutter out " I- " But before she could finish, the half-elf's head goes flying through the air with blood trailing behind it. Elin's head lands behind her body, which was still on its knees, holding on to her intestines, a small fountain of blood spraying out from where her head used to be. Finally Elin's headless body falls forward and Yuno claims her opponent's head. Yuno may be a serial killer but she doesn't take trophy's. No. The reason she took Elin's head is because there was a bounty of 540 for her. Which was less than Yuno's 725 GP Bounty but hey... she can't really collect her own bounty now can she?
Reward:
-1,800 XP
-540 GP
-Studded Leather Armor
-Dagger x2
-GP: Stored CR 5 (Will be explained later)
After the brutal ambush against the other criminal, Yuno is left exhausted and wounded. She hobbles back to the Bone Naga room. She is a bit unsure about trying to spend the night there. Maybe she can take a shorter break and then continue for a bit longer. Or just take a moment to catch her breath and then settle in for the long haul. On the way back, Yuno notices that a brutal crushing wall trap had been triggered, judging by the blood smears on the floor that extend out to the walls. In the middle though, is the crushed corpse of the Umber Hulk. "Huh... so that's how Elin managed to get rid ofl the Umber Hulk with no damage. Smart" Yuno comments.
Short Rest Healing: 11 + 4 + 9 + 12 + 9 + 4 + 9
Second Wind Heal: 7
Attempt Long Rest.
Yuno drifts off to sleep in that small corner of hers. "Well look who we have here! It's the one that killed Elin" Yuno shot awake to find two Bandit Captains surrounding her. It looks like they were part of Elin's group. She should have figured that there would be more bandits around here. Worse still, Yuno didn't have her armor on.
Initiative:
Yuno (Dis): 6
Bandit Captains: 23
Round 1
Yuno (45/74)
Bandit Captains ( 15/65 ; 65/65 )
Scimitar : NAT20 Dmg: 10
Scimitar: 9
Dagger: 15
Scimitar: 17 Dmg: 7
Scimitar: 8
Dagger: 21 Dmg: 4
BA: Rage
Bastard Sword: 13
Bastard Sword: NAT19 Dmg: 14
Action Surge
Bastard Sword (Vex): NAT20 Dmg w/Sneak: 23
Bastard Sword (Vex): 21 Dmg: 13
Yuno quickly grabs her swords and scrambles to her feet. No sooner had she gotten to her feet though, one of the bandits moves behind her and cuts down. His scimitar slices open Yuno's back. Without her armor, there was nothing stopping the blade from cutting deep into her flesh. Yuno stumbles forward from the impact of the blow right into the arms of the other bandit. That bandit slashes Yuno's torso, going from shoulder to hip. Not done, the bandit then plunges his dagger into Yuno's stomach. Yuno's clothes begin to turn red, stained with her blood. The girl fights back, dishing out way more pain than she received. She looks up and the bandit that just stabbed her and quickly tries to slice his head with her right sword but her attack is blocked by the bandit's dagger with a metallic clang. That doesn't stop Yuno's assault though. She shoves her other bastard sword deep into the bandit's chest, impaling him before ripping the sword back out, painting the ground with a splash of blood. She quickly swaps to a reverse grip with her right sword and drives it into the bandit's shoulder as he begins staggering back. Judging by the blood that begins welling up and oozing out of the bandit's mouth, she figures she must have punctured a lung.She doesn't waste time though, as quick as the stab, she pulls her sword out of the bandit and then in the same motion slashes him across the chest with a horizontal cut.
Round 2
Yuno (32/74)
Bandit Captains ( 0/65 ; 33/65 )
Scimitar: 11
Scimitar: NAT20 Dmg: 6
Dagger: 11
Scimitar: 21 Dmg: 3
Scimitar: 19 Dmg: 4
Dagger: 8
Bastard Sword (Vex): 26 Dmg w/ Sneak: 20
Bastard Sword: NAT19 Dmg: 13
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 24 Dmg: 11
Yuno is too focused on the Bandit In front of her to properly defend against the bandit behind her. He quickly grabs her from behind and slashes Yuno's throat with his scimitar, expecting for that to kill her. Yuno clutches her throat; blood pours from between her fingers on to the ground, creating a pool. However when the blood slowly stops Yuno is still standing. The other bandit got worried and begins slashing the girl. He slashes her twice, creating two deep cuts in the shape of an X across her chest. He then tries to stab Yuno in the head but with a flick of her wrist, Yuno strikes the dagger and knocks it out of the Bandit's hand while still hunched forward, heard down and breathing hard. Her labored breathing soon turns to manic laughter. Yuno swings her reverse-grip sword and with one smooth cut, decapitates the bandit in front of her. As his head falls and his body falls forward, blood spraying out of his neck stump, Yuno turns around to face the other bandit that had just tried to slit her throat. As Yuno turns, she swaps her sword back to standard grip and plunges it into the bandits chest and then kicks him. The bandit stumbles back, sword sticking out of his chest, until his back hits the wall. Yuno quickly grabs the sword and pulls it out of the bandit's chest, making him scream in pain before she chops down, slicing into the bandit's shoulder with the same blade.
Round 3
Yuno (29/74)
Bandit Captains ( 0/65 ; 0/65 )
Scimitar: 16
Scimitar: 21 Dmg: 3
Dagger: 11
Bastard Sword (Vex): 26 Dmg w/Sneak: 14
Bastard Sword (Vex): 24 Dmg: 13
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 22 Dmg: 9
Yuno smiles, seeing the panic and fear in the bandit's eyes. From their perspective, it was just a young girl, no different from the dozens they've kidnapped and killed, sleeping here alone. Killing Yuno would have been easy, especially since she was caught by surprise with no armor. Yet here they are, having done enough damage to her to kill her 10 times over but Yuno still stands and she still fights on, laughing as if this is some really fun game. Desperately, the bandit lunges at Yuno's head with his dagger only for her to knock it away. Yuno pulls her sword back, ready to deliver the final blow. In a last attempt, the bandit cuts into Yuno's shoulder with his scimitar, blade digging deep but it does nothing to stop Yuno. She plunges her sword into the bandit's forehead, the bandit's eyes rolling up and jaw going slack as the sword slices through his brain. The blade keeps going and sticks into the wall behind the bandit's head. The bandit is dead but Yuno still does a final dramatic flair and with her other sword, decapitates the dead bandit. She then pulls her sword out, letting the head fall on to the rest of the body.
Yuno plops down to the stone floor herself with a sigh, tired. Then she starts laughing again, "AHAHAHAHA! Nothing like a deadly night ambush to wake you up in the morning!"
Rewards:
450 x 2 XP = 900 XP
150 x 2 GP = 300 GP
Studded Leather x2
Scimitar x2
Dagger x2
Long Rest.
After resting, Yuno decides to head back to the "mines". She gets back to the room where she killed the Abishai.
Perception: 9
She looks around and then turns to the door. She smirks and cracks her knuckles. Then she punches.
Break: 16
Yuno's gauntleted fists breaks through the door before tearing the rotting wood apart. She steps into a Y-shaped tunnel with one path going North and leading to an old makeshift wooden door and the other path going west and ending at a more sturdy looking, proper sliding wooden door. Again, it is a curious choice given this place seems like a mine. Then Yuno hears a hiss and looks up to see the dark cosmos swirling around above her before those same cosmos drop down. Yuno steps back just in time to avoid being crushed by the uncanny quadrupedal vaguely human shaped creature with the stars swirling around where its face should be. "You!" Yuno says as she draws her weapons but she begins to feel weaker and more vulnerable, her magic loosing power within the creature's antimagic cone. Globey goes out and plunges Yuno in darkness, alone against the powerful Woe Strider that she saw before.
Initiative:
Yuno: 23
Woe Strider: 19
Round 1
Yuno (65/74)
Woe Strieder (110/110)
Yuno Lights a torch and drops it on the floor for light.
BA: Rage
Claw: 13
Claw: 19 Dmg: 3 Slash + 6 Psychic
Yuno acts fast. She knows that against a creature with an anti-magic cone disabling all her magic, she needs to have some backup light source so she can see what she's dealing with. She quickly takes out a torch, lights it and then drops it on the ground, illuminating this room. She then braces herself for the incoming attacks. The creature, ever-seeking the answers of universal questions that have no answer lunge for Yuno's stomach. She moves back but one of its claws rakes against her flesh, leaving long cut marks on her belly. This thing is attempting to rip Yuno's guts out in an attempt to perform divination from them.
Round 2
Yuno (56/74)
Woe Strieder (80/110)
Bastard Sword: 14
Bastard Sword: 26 Dmg: 13
BA: Bastard Sword (Vex): 19 Dmg w/Sneak: 17
Claw: 13
Claw: 20 Dmg: 4 Slash + 5 Psychic
Yuno knows that as long as she is in front of this thing, it can shut off her magic items. Thankfully, this thing's anti-magic field is a cone and not a circle. She quickly runs around towards the back, swinging her right sword to cut into the creature's... "legs" and causing it to stumble. She takes the time to swiftly swap her left sword to reverse-grip and then she jumps. Yuno twists her body mid air and then drives her left sword deep into the creature's hip. She plants the sole of her metal boots on the creature's behind and to get some leverage so she can pull her sword out again and then kicks off the creature's to land back on solid ground. However, while she is still in mid-air, the creature turns around and lunges at her. Yuno brings her sword to X-shape blocking the strike but the force sends her back into a wall, the rocky surface striking her back. The Strider follows up though by plunging its claw deep into Yuno's belly. Yuno coughs and blood splashes out from her mouth as she is pinned to the wall by this creature.
Round 3
Yuno (56/74)
Woe Strieder (34/110)
Bastard Sword (Vex): 24 Dmg: 8
Bastard Sword (Vex): NAT20 Dmg w/Sneak: 19
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 22 Dmg: 10
Action Surge
Bastard Sword (Vex): 16
Bastard Sword:26 Dmg: 9
Claw: 9
Claw: NAT1
Yuno groans in pain, struggling to free herself from the Woe-strider. She flips her right sword into reverse-grip as well and plunges it into the creature's arm. Her blade pierces the long lanky limb and cuts through both flesh and bone, nearly severing the arm entirely. The creature quickly drops Yuno but immediately tries to rip her guts out again with both claws. Yuno dashes forward with a burst of blinding speed and moves under the creature's legs. With both swords in reverse-grip, she makes an arcing slice as the moves, cutting deep gashes into the shins of all four limbs of this creature.
Round 4
Yuno (56/74)
Woe Strieder (Dead/110)
Bastard Sword (Vex): 20 Dmg: 13
Bastard Sword (Vex): 18 Dmg: 15
BA Bastard Sword(Vex): NAT19 Dmg w/Sneak: 23
Finally while under the creature, Yuno was about to run to the other side and attack again but she looks up and realizes that its underbelly is completely unprotected. Smiling, she swings both swords upward, slicing deep into the creature's belly, splitting it open. Comic blood and entrails fall out, covering Yuno with it. The creature wobbles on unsteady legs while Yuno manages to run out from under it just before it collapses.
Rewards:
2,900 XP
725 GP
Yuno looks upon the dead creature. Her driftglobe slowly flickers to life. "Damn... a Woe Strider huh... Never fought one of those before. I'll admit, I thought that fight would be a lot tougher." Yuno decides to use a different room for resting this time; someplace closer. She goes back to the room with the dead human skeleton and the broken pottery. near the room with the sacks where she fought the very first White Abishai. With all the unexplored doors somewhat far away and the closest one being a decent quality stuck door, she figured this was a good place as any to rest... at least a Short Rest.
Second Wind Heal: 15
Short Rest healing: 1d8+2 (So doesn't matter. Will heal to full anyway.)
While Yuno rested, she reminisced about all the locked doors she had to pass in this dungeon. Maybe she should use the two keys she had on one of them. She decides to head all the way back to the mud covered armory room where she fought a water weird. There was a very strong locked sliding stone door there. Perhaps she could now get past it using one of her keys...
The door clicks and then slides into the wall. Beyond is a small dark room with a very ancient looking and rooting wooden gate. There is an ominous aura about the gate but then again, this whole dungeon had seemed somewhat ominous... more than normal dungeons anyway. Yuno pushes the gates open with relative ease. Yuno enters a small dark room with a shabby stuck door on the northeast and a reinforced locked wooden door to the south. The floor was dirt and the walls seemed to be made of wood but that made no sense. This place feels like it's a mix of completely different structures and designs. When her Driftglobe illuminated the room though, it revealed a Black Abishai waiting to ambush Yuno.
Initiative:
Yuno: 18
Abishai: 11
Round 1:
Yuno (74/74)
Abishai(4/58)
Bastard Sword: 24 Dmg: 7
Bastard Sword (Vex): 22 Dmg: 8
BA: Bastard Sword (Vex): 23 Dmg: 13
Action Surge
Bastard Sword (Vex): 15 Dmg: 10
Bastard Sword (Vex): 20 Dmg w/ Sneak: 16
Black Abishai: Creeping Darkness.
Stealth: 24
Round 2:
Yuno (67/74)
Abishai(4/58)
Action: Ready action: attack when attacked.
Scimitar: 19 Dmg: 7
Reaction Bastard Sword: 23 Dmg: 7
The Abishai hisses when the light reveals the demons location. Yuno wastes no time in turning to the creature and impaling it through the chest with both swords. The Abishai's dark blood drip from the blades that come out of the creature's back. Yuno pulls her swords out and swaps them to reverse grip and stabs the creature once more; this time through the shoulders. She finishes off her onslaught by pulling out the swords and trying to slice the Abishai's head in half. The winged dragon-demon moves away just in time to not instantly die but it is not fast enough to avoid a nasty slash in its maw. The Abishai then unleashes its demon magic and plunges the room in darkness.Yuno can't see and this gives the assassin the perfect moment to strike. The Abishai flies forward and brings its weapon down on to Yuno's head. The darkness slowly flickers away. The Abishai's sword drips with Yuno's blood. The blade has pierced through her shoulder and come out from the other side. However Yuno is holding her arm out with the bastard sword pointed in front of her... the tip impaling the demon through the head. Yuno pulls her sword out and the demon drops dead at her feet.
Second Wind Heal: 9
Reward:
2,900 XP
725 GP
Abishai Scimitar
Yuno retreated back to one of the cleared sections of the dungeon to take a Short Rest before continuing down the dark muddy path. She takes a look at her coin purse and smiles at how much loot and gold she has. Almost enough for her next upgrade. Now she was presented with a locked door and a stuck door. Since the stuck door was made of easily breakable wood, Yuno decided to try and check that room first.
Break: 21
Perception: 19
Yuno steps into a small stone room with a sliding reinforced wooden door on the other end. Unlike the muddy rooms, this one is illuminated by a lighting fixture. Yuno recognizes the sliding door as being the other side of a door that she encountered in that water-filled stone hallway. It wasn't surprising given that in order to reach the dark wooden gates that led her to the Black Abishai room, Yuno had to go down a slope. Yuno figured there was no point in checking this room out so she turned around. By sheer luck, she avoided an 80ft pit trap that was in the room.
Heading back she uses her last key on the other door, a locked one, in the Black Abishai room. Yuno steps into a dark stone room with simple wooden door on the other end. On one wall are some bloody manacles with some fur beneath it. On the north wall are a number of gold candle holders. One of the wall is leaky, mostly because the tunnel on the other side is full of water. Yuno was too lazy to drain the water and refill the water every time she wanted to move through it to the auditorium room. Broken chips of wood lined the floor. Close to the wooden door, there is a balcony that seems to not have any way to access it. Yuno looks up at it and sniffs the air. "I smell some kind of secret switch mechanism here."
Perception: 10
Investigation: 16 + Second Wind: 10
Yuno turns her head and makes exaggerated "Hmmmmmm"s at the candle holders. She starts messing with them and inadvertently fires off the Globe of Cold trap, though she was too far away to get caught in the blast. The candle holders seemed to actually be a disguised control panel. Yuno extended some stairs to gain access to the balcony and caused a secret door to open. "AHAHAHAHAHA. I knew something was funky with the candle holders." She heads up the stairs and walks through the secret door. She finds herself in the Tomb Guardian Surgery room. "Huh... back here. I wonder how someone was supposed to open that secret door from this side." Then Yuno stared at the curtains for a bit, "I'm an idiot. I never checked the curtains." She walks over and opens the curtains in this room to reveal the stone wall. Looking around, she finds the secret door control switch. "Well that was fun but that doesn't really lead me anywhere new." Yuno walks back to the balcony and looks over the room she was just in. She speaks to no one in particular, "See, these two rooms make sense. They chained up prisoner's here in this manacle room with the candle holders and then they brought them up to the surgery room to make them into flesh golems. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense though is why the prison room would have two doors with one of them leading to an armory. This is what's bugging me about this whole dungeon. The rooms individually make sense but as a whole, their layout makes no sense. It's like someone took 10 different buildings with different purposes and somehow chaotically jammed all of them together. What the **** was the designer of this place smoking?"
Now that the Globe of Cold was disabled, Yuno is free to open the south door. The door leads to a dark hallway that bends west and then just... ends. There are however, two wooden doors on the north, one good quality and one reinforced. There's another reinforced door on the south. The steel reinforcements on the door have rusted and made the door stuck. Yuno doesn't have the time to worry about it though as a massive hill giant zombie creature runs down at her from the opposite end of the room.
Initiative:
Yuno: 23
Barrowghast: Can't beat 23
Round 1:
Yuno (70/74)
Barrowghast(104/138)
BA: Rage
Bastard Sword: NAT19 Dmg: 14
Bastard Sword: 18 Dmg w/sneak : 20
Noxious wound: DC16 DEX Save: 24. Damage: 4 Poison
Slam: 20
Slam: 14
Yuno watches the Barrowghast charge down the hall at her. She grimaces, "Tch... And here I thought I was done with stupid undead and constructs.." . The Giant slams its fists down on Yuno but the girl quickly leaps to avoid the powerful attack. The fists crash into the ground and raise a cloud of dust. When the dust clears, Yuno is seen flipping through the air and landing a brutal downward slash at the creature's chest with both her swords. However when her swords make contact though, toxic blood sprays out. Yuno narrowly avoids getting hit but some splashes do land on her chest and immediately Yuno feels the burn as the toxic blood begins to seep into her skin.
Round 2:
Yuno (58/74)
Barrowghast(54/138)
Yuno DC16 CON save: 18
Bastard Sword: 26 Dmg: 10
Bastard Sword: 21 Dmg: 8
BA Bastard Sword:19 Dmg: 14
ACTION SURGE
Bastard Sword: 17 Dmg: 8
Bastard Sword: 20 Dmg w/Sneak: 10
Reaction: Noxious Wound. DEX 16 Save: 15 Dmg: 12
Slam: 12
Slam: 20
Yuno feels the burning stench coming from this creature. She makes a face that is equal parts disgusted and horrified and her eyes begin to water. "YOU NASTY!" Yuno shouts. The fact that her nose is super sharp makes the smell worse. However he greater constitution ensures that the stench doesn't do any more than utterly disgust her. Wanting to end this fight fast, she unleashes a barrage of attacks, her swords a flurry of steel tearing at the undead giant's flesh. The thick bloated fat absorbs a lot of the sword cuts but she still manages to do some serious damage to the creature. It tries its best to punch Yuno with a one-two strike but Yuno sways from side to side to dodge both hits. Yuno's messy fighting style has come back to bite her in the rear. Her onslaught left her covered in the creature's blood. She sees her skin darken and die from the toxic blood. "Ew ew ew ew! You're gross gross gross!" Yuno says, hopping around in abject disgust.
Round 3:
Yuno (54/74)
Barrowghast(Dead/138)
Bastard Sword: NAT19 Dmg w/ Sneak: 27
Bastard Sword: 17 Dmg: 15
BA: Bastard Sword: 17 Dmg: 12
Reaction: Noxious Wound: DEX save: 13 (Heroic Reroll: 15) Dmg: 4
Yuno fights harder than she has ever fought before. Her abject disgust and desire for this battle to end fuels her strike. She puts her whole strength behind a single slice. The big undead laughs as her sword seems to miss. "huh?" Suddenly monster feels a stinging pain across its midsection. With an explosion of putrid blood that showers down on Yuno, the Barrowghast splits in half and falls to pieces. Yuno stands over the undead's corpse; her eyes, with a traumatized look, twitch. "I need a shower... NOW" Yuno retreats back to Evergreen, running all the way. With how she runs you'd think she was running scared for her life, not because she wanted a shower ASAP. "This was the worst combat ever. of all time." She doesn't even take anything from the undead's corpse for bounties, she is so disgusted. Never in her life, even when she nearly died, had Yuno had less fun fighting something. She never wants to fight one of those ever again.
Rewards:
Gold: Stored for Later CR7
2,900 XP (LEVEL UP)
Arriving to Evergreen are Dealu, a male gnome lv3 ranger (beastmaster), who is riding Aide, his mastiff, with his giant wolf spider familiar by his side, and Zoinks, a male human lv3 wizard (evocation) slightly behind those three and who is not trying to hide his nervous about the spider or excitement about his book of spells. They learn of the Deadman's Canyon and immediately set off in that direction. They arrive there with Liam's cart and horses after several uneventful days due to Dealu's skill with animals. They enter the canyon but neither Dealu (11) or Zoinks (8) perceives the two cult fanatics in the distance but do notice them when 60' away.
Initiative Dealu 13, Zoinks 16, Cults 5
R1
Zoinks immediately sends a Chromatic Orb at C1 that hits (attack 19, damage 15)
Dealu follows that up with his short bow (attack 17, damage 8) and yells at the spider, "Follow me" as he moves 30' closer
C1 (10hp) stays back to throw a dagger at Dealu (attack 23, damage 4) and cast spiritual weapon to attack Zoinks but it misses (attack 12)
C2 (33hp) charges forward to attack Dealu with two daggers (attack 7, 20) and connects once for 4 damage
R2
Zoinks casts Toll the Dead against C1 (fails save with 12) for 10 damage, knocking him unconscious and causing the spectral weapon to disappear
Dealu attacks C2 with his short sword (attack 9) and orders his spider to attack (2) both of which miss
C2 (33hp) attacks again with two daggers (6, 16) and connects once for 4 damage
R3
Zoinks cast Ray of Frost (attack 23, damage 1, minus 10 speed)
Dealu chugs a healing potion (+7hp) and yells at the spider to attack (attack 22, damage 6 plus 7 poison damage due to failed CONS save of 2) while he retreats 30 to be next to Zoinks
Knowing he can't reach his foes, C2 (19hp) throws a dagger at Zoinks (attack 14) that just misses and cast spiritual weapon to attack Zoinks (attack 16, damage 4)
R4
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (save 5, so 1 damage) and thinks, "my crossbow must be better than this" as he retreats 10'
Dealu moves forward to attack with his two short swords (19, 21) and hits with both (damage 8, 4). The spider takes no offensive action
C2 (6hp) attacks Dealu with his one dagger but misses (attack 12)
R5
Zoinks uses that crossbow (attack 8) but that misses. Swear words ensue
Dealu kills C2 with his two short sword attacks (attack 15, nat 20) (damage 8, crit damage 7)
They cut off the heads of the two cultists and load the bodies on the cart. They find two daggers to go with the two leather armors they save. They split 300gp and 900xp and take a short rest.
Dealu and Zoinks get the cart, the spider, and the mastiff on the move again.
Dealu observers some movement in the distance (passive perception 22) while Zoinks is lost in thought about his new spells (4). This allows them to be prepared for the archer (p perception 14) and move quicker towards the intended ambush. (Distance 60')
Initiative Dealu 20, Zoinks 15, Archer 14
R1
Dealu was pleased he saw the archer so they could move into range of his short bow. However, it does him no good as he shots wide (7). He tells the wolf spider to attack the archer then moves 30' closer.
Zoinks sends a Chromatic Orb but misses completely (7). He does not move forward
The archer responds to the attacks by sending two arrows at Dealu (13, 18) (damage 8)
R2
Dealu closes the distance and attacks with his two swords (11, 20) (damage 6)
The wolf spider attacks (8) but misses
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (fails WIS save with 9) (damage 8)
The archer (hp 61) can only attack Dealu with its shortsword (attack 25, damage 7)
R3
Dealu casts Poison Spray but misses badly (6) and chugs his last remaining potion of healing (+9hp)
The wolf spider attacks (19, damage 6) (plus 7 poison damage from failed CON save 9)
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (7 damage on failed WIS save of 6)
The archer (hp 41) swings again at Dealu (attack 14, damage 7)
R4
Dealu swings both of his short swords (13, 15) but misses both times
The spider attacks again (attack 17, damage 13 plus 3 poison for CON save 15)
Zoinks Tolls the Dead (7 damage on failed WIS save of 7)
The archer (hp18) turns its attention to the spider that has been beating its butt but misses (8)
R5
Dealu swings with his two short swords (23, 11) (damage 5)
The spider attacks again (24, damage 7 plus 7 poison damage on failed CON save of 10) which kills the archer.
Dealu and Zoinks take the equipment from the archer (longbow, studded leather, short sword) and find 230gp). They both congratulate the spider, which is particularly impressive for Zoinks since he had not ever felt comfortable enough to approach the beast. They each get 350xp. They take a short rest and Zoinks gives Dealu one of his healing potions to drink. (+8hp)
Sell prices:
Abshai Long Sword: 57 GP 5 SP
Abishai Scimitar: 62 GP 5 SP
Dagger x3: 1x3 = 3 GP
Scimitarx3: 12.5x3 = 37GP 5 SP
Studded Leatherx3: 22.5 x3 = 67 GP 5 SP
Total: 228 GP
Yuno goes back to town and spends a few days just taking showers to clean herself (12 SP). Once she feels sufficiently clean, she sells off a bunch of the loot she had gathered in her latest trip to the strange dungeon. While this might have been a bad idea, she figures that getting a bit easier to hit might be worth it if she could ensure saftey against things like that Bone Naga trying to get her with magic. She sells her Ring of Protection (2000 GP) and with the extra money, buys a Mantle of Spell Resistance. Now she should have a better layer of protection against spells. After giving her equipment one last check, she heads out back to the dungeon.
"Now... where was I? Right. Getting attacked by the absolute worst thing ever." Yuno shivers as she remembers the disgusting undead she fought the last time she was down here. She heads back to where it was and notices the corpse missing. "Strange..." Yuno comments but isn't quite sure what all that means. Smart, she is not. In this dark, cramped hall are three wooden doors, two of them reinforced with metal but that same metal has rusted and gotten the doors stuck. "Third door it is!" Yuno proclaims and goes to the non reinforced door.
Yuno finds herself in what looks like a small private bath house, marble tiles, caked in grime and algae line the floors making it slippery (Moving more than half speed imposes Acrobatics Check or fall down). Pushed against the right wall is a chest of drawers, likely for keeping clothes in while a person takes a bath in the small pool in the northeast corner of the room. However, Yuno notices a young elven woman in the pool weeping. Her back is turned to Yuno. The serial killer shouts, "Hey! Hey you! Who are you and how did you get here? What the **** is this place anyway?" However, the elf woman does not respond. Yuno suddenly gets a bad feeling about this and slowly, draws one of her twin swords and begins approaching the woman cautiously. As she gets close though, the woman with the pale, discolored skin's head snaps around 180 degrees to stare at Yuno with lifeless eyes. The creature is some kind of vengeful spirit. It screeches at Yuno and attacks, its arms and legs bending at unnatural angles as it leaps towards Yuno with its sharp nails all while its back is still turned to her.
Initiative:
Yuno: 17
Undead Elf Spell Caster Spirit (Yalaga Maladwyn): 16
Round 1:
Yuno (92/92)
Elf Spirit (61/71)
Bastard Sword: 12
Bastard Sword: 21 Dmg: 10
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 14
Spirit casts Conjure Animals: Two Giant Spiders (They will go on the spirit's turn starting from next round.)
The spirit jumps but Yuno reacts fast. She quickly draws her other sword as well and lunges forward, running both swords through the undead's body and holding it up with the blades while the elf spirit flails around trying to get to Yuno. With a throwing motion from both her hands, she flings the spirit against the wall, into the pool before jumping in after her. The stagnant water splashes up as she lands and Yuno swings her right sword at the spirit, cutting horizontally through the splash of water, trying to decapitate it. The elf though, drops low, bending its hips faster and quicker than should be physically possible to avoid Yuno's swing. The magic blade cuts a gash across the dirty marble wall. The spirit wails and Yuno sees two spectral giant spiders form around her.
Round 2:
Yuno (70/92)
Elf Spirit (10/71)
Bastard Sword: 23 Dmg: 12 | CON DC 10 Save: 12
Bastard Sword (Vex): 19 Dmg w/Sneak: 17 | CON DC10 Save: 19
BA Bastard Sword (Vex): 11
Action Surge
Bastard Sword: NAT20 Dmg: 9 | CON DC 10 Save: 18
Bastard Sword (Vex): 23 Dmg: 13 | CON DC 10 Save: 4
Scourge: 7
Scourge: 23 Dmg: 7 Piercing + 15 Poison
Yuno, standing in thigh-high water takes a deep breath while the ghostly spiders begin to close in on her. "No need to beat the spell... just beat the caster." She mutters under her breath. With a burst of speed that seems to create an explosion of water where she stood she pins the undead elf to the wall by skewering it through the shoulder with her right blade. With her left sword, she begins stabbing the elf repeatedly in the torso. The undead screeches and hisses, the magical metal piercing and tearing its flesh over and over again. The final strike though is avoided by the creature. Moving with great force, it rips its own arm off to get free slashes across Yuno's cheek with sharp claws. The deep cuts begin bleeding and Yuno instinctively touches her cheek wound and stumbles back. Yuno feels her very blood boil, not just inside her body but even at the side of the wound. She can feel her blood bubbling at her finger tips and spilling forth, dripping into the water she stands on and vanishing in the murk.
Round 3:
Yuno (70/92)
Elf Spirit (0/71)
Bastard Sword+1 (Vex): NAT20 Dmg w/ Sneak: 23
The elf undead leaps at Yuno with one arm trying to slash her again. Yuno bends backwards, letting the spirit fly over her, missing her by an inch. At the same time, Yuno raises her bastard sword up and sinks the top of the sword into the body of the creature as it flies by. Its momentum carries it forward, causing Yuno's sword to tear through the center of its body, gutting it like a fish. It plops to the ground in a heap of its own intestines. The spirit does not move anymore. Slowly it begins fading... having been slain by Yuno and her magic sword. "What the **** was that?" Yuno says.
Having killed another undead, and this time thankful that it wasn't an absolutely disgusting smelly zombie, Yuno looks around the room and...
Perception: 12
Yuno notices something strange; there is a small hole on the other a wall. Cautiously, she peers through it though the other side is too dark to see. She looks back at the pool and back at the pool and then at the place where the corpse was before it faded. The hole seems to line up perfectly to observe the pool. Her brow furrows and she asks, "What the hell happened here?" She then heads back to the Bone Naga room for a short rest.
BA: Second Wind: 10 HP
Rewards:
3,900 XP
GP Stored: CR 7 + CR8
Short Rest Healing:
d12 hit die: 7
d8 hit die: 10 HP
After finishing her rest, Yuno returns to the weird small bathing room. "Now... let's see what this weird hole in the wall is all about." She can't see anything through the hole due to the other side being dark. However the fact that there is a peephole on the west wall tells her that there is something behind the wall. Searching the room carefully, she realizes that the chest of drawers can be pushed to reveal a wooden door. Yuno opens it. Now that "Globey" is illuminating the place, Yuno can see the other side of the peep-hole. It is a wooden corridor that ends in a long shaft going up. There's a ladder on the wall to help her climb. She climbs the ladder for quite a while and eventually gets to a platform with a single reinforced door. The door is not stuck but it is locked. Thankfully she has her set of lockpicks and "Universal Lockpicks"
Lockpick: 14
Universal Lockpick: 22
However she is unable to open the door. Thus this marks another dead end for Yuno's exploration. For better or for worse, there's still many many unexplored paths she left behind in this strange eldritch place. As Yuno starts to make her way back to one of the other paths, she can't help but feel that this dungeon she's exploring might not entirely be of this realm. Is it partly in hell somehow? She can't really come up with any other explanation for this dungeon having wildly different architecture, purpose and rooms. It really does feel like this dungeon was never created as is but rather it was formed by multiple different buildings of varying origin being somehow transposed on top of each other. She has no idea who or what can even do something like that though outside of "Weird Hell Magic"
Yuno heads back a short way to get back to hallway where she fought the stinky giant zombie. There are still two reinforced doors here which have been rusted shut. She cracks her knuckles and gets ready to try and break through them. Maybe she'd have better luck this go around.
Break: 14
Sadly the south door is too strong for Yuno. But Maybe she'd have better luck with the north door.
Break: 14
The sound of Yuno's boot hitting the door repeatedly rings out through the halls but the door still stands. Another pathway down. This time Yuno heads back to pathway with many doors, close to the weaver room where she faced off against a Banshee. There's still one more door here she hasn't explored. This door is a simple wooden one.
Beyond the door, Yuno finds a long stone room with muddy flooring. This whole room seems like it is about to fall apart. It is covered in cracks and water from an unknown source leaks down from ceiling. Strange runes and markings cover the walls. There's another door to the south but this one just leads back into the room where Yuno had fought a Banshee. At the far end of this room is a trophy of some kind. Mounted to the wall on a gold plate is the eyeless head of a reptilian creature of some kind. It has teeth blue like icicles and a rough leathery skin of dark blue. Yuno wonders what this creature is when suddenly the runes on the walls of this room start to glow. Magical lines form on the walls and travels all the way to the head. The creature's skin begins to glow with a dim blow and suddenly before Yuno's eyes, the creature's old dried up head seems to start regaining some life. Moisture returns and eyes grow back. Yuno begins to slowly back away from the thing when there is a blast of magic and dust. The creature's head is now gone from the mounted gold plate. Instead the creature is now alive and well standing in front of Yuno. A massive monster with 6 legs and breath so cold that it threatens to freeze Yuno solid. This is a Frost Salamander, an elemental creature that hails from the plane of Ice itself!
Initiative:
Yuno: 14
Frost Salamander: 6
Round 1:
Yuno (60/92)
Salamander (161/168)
BA: Rage
Bastard Sword: 22 Dmg: 7
Bastard Sword(Vex): 10 Heroic Reroll: NAT1
Freeze Breath: 32 CON 17 Save: 9
Yuno moves forward and stabs the monster in her face, fueled by her love of battle. She quickly pulls her sword back and gets ready to slash down when the creature breathes freezing cold at Yuno, pushing her back as if she was caught in one of the worst blizzards in all of recorded history. She could feel the frost settle on her skin in moments and begin freezing her in place.
Round 2:
Yuno (30/92)
Salamander (161/168)
Bastard Sword: 15
Bastard Sword: 15
BA: Second Wind: 13
Salamander Recharge: 6
Frost breath: 43 CON save: 13
Yuno Daring Escape.
Does Yuno Survive 8d12 Bludgeoning Damage: 46 (Resist: 23)
CON DC11 saves (buried alive): 10, 17, 14, 16, 8 (Success)
Yuno tries to keep fighting but the creature continues to try and freeze her to death. This is when she has a plan. The walls of this room are already crumbling... Maybe she can help it along. She begins unleashing her fury not on the creature but on the walls, very soon the whole room collapses on top of her and the creature, burying them both alive.
Yuno does manage to survive though and the creature does as well. However the massive falling rubble spooks it enough to get it to leave her alone. Yuno, heavily wounded limps, manages to claw her way out of the rubble and retreat to town. However now she knows there is a Frost Salamander loose somewhere in this dungeon.
Yuno doesn't spend as long in Evergreen this time. After resting for a night (6 SP) she heads back. This is mostly because she was worried that if she rested inside the dungeon itself, she would be found by the Salamander and killed. She was not in the state to fight that thing again after barely surviving it the first time. However, she is looking forward to a second meeting with it. She now has a creature that is much stronger that she can strive towards matching and eventually beating.
While she is still in town, she sells her equipment.
Scimitar x2 = 12.5 x 2 = 25 GP
Studded Leather x3 = 22.5 x 3 = 67 GP 5 SP
Total: 92 GP 5 SP