The Blighted Lands

Twig opens the door next to the small staircase and sees a ten foot by twenty-foot room, but what is immediately apparent is that rain is falling from the ceiling. Mold and other vegetation has grown across the floor and walls. At the far end of the chamber is a metal tub which is overflowing with algae-filled water. Immediately inside the room to your right, you see another door on the wall perpendicular to the wall on which you entered. (You entered basically on a corner)

Garth cautiously steps into the room, and carefully walks to the tub. Upon reaching the tub, he sticks his sword into the water and swirls it around, trying to identify anything interesting in the water.

Garth Perception: 10

Upon getting within ten feet of the tub, Garth spots a giant frog waiting in the water of the tub. 

Initiative: 

Garth: 7

Twig: 22

Rad: 8

Average: better than 8

Giant frog: 10

A giant frog stands up out of the tub and you can all see it open its mouth and let out a half-croak and half-roar. 

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Giant Frog

 Rad rushes into the room at the giant frog and swings his warhammer at it in a huge arc, screaming all the while, "Here comes the boom!" 

Attack: 13  Damage: 4

Twig sighs. There goes any chance of friendliness...

She whips out her crossbow and immediately looses a bolt at the enormous amphibian. Attack: 15 Damage: 8

The giant frog croaks in pain as the warhammer slams into its body and the crossbow bolt pierces its neck. It briefly hunches over (as much as a frog can hunch) before raising back up to its previous height again. It's battered and bleeding, but not going to give up on a chance for dinner.

Garth immediately slashes at the creature with his sword as it raises back up from the water.

Attack: 17 Damage: 9

The frog dodges out of the way of Garth's sword and tries to chomp down on Rad's head, but the cleric's shield raised to block the attack.

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Giant Frog

"Ah, so you're a slippery little bugger." Garth said, appraising the toad. He moved to the other side of the tub, not letting the toad see him and Rad at the same time. Once in position he stuck with his sword again.

Attack: 25 Damage: 9

Garth's sword cleaves the creature in half, causing the water in the tub to turn red with blood. The gore that splashed onto Garth and Rad is quickly washed away by the rain falling from the ceiling, however. 

(You are now out of initiative. Hooray! You've slain the dreaded Giant Frog of the bathtub.)

"Feels good to cut something up with Stabby again, seems like it's been too long." Garth said, wiping the bloody water from his face.

"Might as well see if anything else is hiding in the water. Rad, can you give me a hand with this?" He then grabbed the edge of the tub and began trying to tip it over.

Garth and Rad heaved against the tub and managed to tip it over. The metal clanged against the floor and splashed water everywhere, getting the group even more drenched in water. A number of coins spilled out across the floor and a skull with a symbol carved into its head rolled in the muck. 

"Hey! That one's easy! That's definitely the New Moon symbol." Rivana says, after brushing at her clean pants.

Twig darts to the hallway, as happy as a drenched cat can be. She immediately starts wringing out her tail and fur as much as possible, muttering a bit, with the occasional growl and hiss thrown in. 

She asks Rivana to scout the room for any baubles or trinkets or treasure, if the first two were not to be found. 

Rivana takes a look around, not trying too hard, and reports back with a shrug. "I got nothin'. There is that other door, though. Just inside this one. Or I guess we could try that one." She says, pointing to the other door down the short hallway to the right of the room with the tub.

Garth picked up the skull, as well as all of the coins he could find on the ground. Afterwards, he scanned the room for anything interesting.

Perception: 12

"I think we should try the door just inside this room, might as well knock it off the list of places to investigate now." He said to Twig, overhearing what she said to Rivana.

Garth collects 12 gold and 28 silver. (Added to your inventory) He sees nothing else of note in the room.

Twig nods, grudgingly agreeing to go back into the rain room. She clomps into the room and opens the door. 

Twig opens the door to find what appears to be the private changing room of Astabar. This fifteen by twenty-foot room contains an ornate desk with a mirror and a chair. Along the east wall are pegs from which hang a variety of wizardly robes.

Rivana and Rad followed Twig to the entrance of the room and jogged right in as soon as they could tell that it was dry on the inside.

"Seems like the type of place a wizard might hide something useful." Garth said, entering the room. He began searching through all of the clothes and the desk.

Garth begins to look through clothes and doesn't find anything. Then moved to the drawers of the desk but doesn't find anything. He looks up into the mirror and sees a bunch of flashing lights in the reflection before everything turned to black. (Garth is now blind)