Killilli’s Dragon Heist

To Cico, Aldrik responds with disappointment. "Really? Damn it all. I had hoped we could enact some justice on such a fiend, for all the lives this place has claimed."

He glances over at Lyss, attempting to percieve her shadow and if anything is off about her.

Perception: 22

Religion: 10

"Ah! I think we missed some of them!"

Aimee will shoot blindly into the smoky room in the general direction they mephits went. After a minute of shooting she turns and says,

"Okay, now we're ready! Remember, before we go I get to go into the potion room!"

Cico looks down at Aimee and raises an eyebrow.

"I would do whatever you plan to do from the hallway," Cico says. "Entering the room will get you killed."

He looks down the hallway.

"The unicorn says the exit is through the fake gold room."

"Maybe! I want to look in again, then I can decide what I want to do!"

Aimee will head there.

Edvord has stopped in the hallway waiting for the others to catch up. As Aimee announces her intentions, Edvord leans in towards Aldrik and places an arm on his shoulder. "Mind guiding me brother...? my mind will be minding the business of others."

Edvord's eyes go white as he enters Verklarung, the beedy eyed rat dances up onto Aimee's shoulder ready for adventure.

"Yeah little buddy!"

She gives Verky a tiny fist bump.

Aimee returns to the room full of vials and alchemical reagents. The floor is littered with them and she needs to tiptoe around them to avoid smashing them. 

(What you looking for? Investigation check if you’re just browsing)

Aimee looks around for anything she might recognize from a description in a book she's read or anything particularly fun looking.

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Aimee notes that some of the colours of the liquids seem to be like blends of potions she knows. It’s as if somebody has mixed them together. As she leans in to inspect a vial with a particularly strange colour she’s never seen in her life, she hears the smashing of glass. 

In that split second, Aimee and Verklarung make eye contact. Knowing they’re in trouble, they have but a split second to react as a searing acidic explosion engulfs them. 

Aimee and Verklrung, DC14 Dex save or 7 Fire damage and 6 acid damage

(Sorry - dex save for half damage)

Aimee ducks and dodges for all she's worth!

Aimee dex save: 21

"Ouch! How you doing Verky? You musta stepped on something! Verky, where you at?"

Covered in multicoloured soot, her hair singed and wildly sticking out in all directions, her face red raw, coming up in a serious rash and covered in multicoloured stains - Aimee looks to her shoulder to find nothing where Verklarung once perched.

"Remeber when we said we were leaving?" Kerri asks. "Why are we still exploring exactly?"

When she sees Aimee she goes into a panic, rushing the girl. "Aimee! Why... what? I told you not to touch anything!"

Through the room with piles of coins, you reach the room Primara directed you to. A plain rectangular room, with nought but a set of black iron gates set into the back wall, seemingly leading nowhere.

As Aimee calls out for Verklarung the smell of burnt hair fills the air. The rat is nowhere to be seen. Edvord is shocked out of Verklarung's senses. The mage calls out to Aimee, "Do not worry, he will be back tomorrow." The mage is about to add, "better the rat than one of us" but elects to not say anything further after seeing the state of Aimee.

Once she's sure that Aimee is alright over all, Lyss gets a case of the giggles that she just can't stop.

"Because we're concerned about a rat," Kerri says.

"Kerri, that's not nice, Verky's a special rat! But it's good that he can come back tomorrow, if one of us got blowed to bits, we wouldn't -- we wouldn't come back tomorrow.", Lyss finishes quietly.

She sniffs, and takes Kerri's hand, and holds another out to Aimee the multicolored mess.

"Can we go home now? I made myself sad."

Cico watches Aimee impassively, trying to puzzle out the need to do what she just did.

"Did that feel good?" Cico asks Aimee with genuine curiosity. "Were your expectations met?"

He looks at her, cocking his head to one side for a second before moving on to the room Primara has led them to.

Cico steps across the room to the black iron gates and examines them, looking for any clues, locks, etc.

Perception: 24