Kasas and Relord wanted to use their ropes, so they strung them up as best they could to some sturdy pieces near the hole and began to traverse down. It was not so difficult, but a little harder than they thought.
First, Kasas went down, sending his hawk first to investigate to make sure there were no monsters about. After Steropes came back with an "all clear" report, he headed down. However, when he was about halfway down, his hands slipped on the rope and he tried to hang on. He did, but he had slid a little bit and the rope caused his hands to burn, so he instinctively let go - not a smart move - and fell the remaining way, which turned out to only be about 10 feet. Still, he got a little wounded.
Next, Relord headed down and made it without incident.
Ropin, number three on th elist, was another matter. He thought it would be pretty easy and wanted to go a little faster, but he mistimed a handle and fell backwards into the hole when he was about 30 feet up! He tried hard to grab onto anything - rope, vine or wall, and fortunately he grabbed onto some vines. However, the force of his falling tore the vines off the wall and he kept falling......BLAM! He would have hit the floor very hard, but - thankfully - or not so much for Relord - he fell onto Relord. They both got injured a bit and Ropin had to tend to his sore leg that was pretty damaged in the fall, but he turned out ok.
Erky was next and was doing fine until....
....there was some noise from below. It sounded like "Hey! OW!"
Erky could not see what was going on, but it was clear that Ropin and Relord were fighting something in the eery purple lighted darkness.
2 large dire rats had sneaked up to the adventurers and took a bit out of each, so another fight ensued. Erky tried to climb down quickly.
Masiry was still up, watching to make sure nothing came at them from behind and also quickly sprang down the ropes in his casual monk style. However, when he landed, he saw something that he did not want to see: A huge bugbear creature with anterks on his head! Wait a minute - there were only rats! What was this guy doing here?
Anyway, he did not look too happy to have visitors and took out a HUGE morning star and started to aim at Kasas and Ropin.WHOOOSH! The first swing nearly took off Ropin's head - if he had been hit, but thankfully, it just grazed his cheek and was not hurt - if the morning star DID connect, tho.....he would not want to think about that....
Quickly, the rats were taken care of, but this bugbear was ferocious and strong. Erky tried to stab him with a dagger and Masiry tried to do his monk magic on him, but all failed. Even Relord hit him quite hard, but it was only a scratch for him! Kasas, used his trusty magic missles though and hit him each time. The bugbear did not like that and went directly for Kasas. If the bugbear hit just once, Kasas would have been incapacitated for sure.
The bugbear took a huge swing and aimed it at Kasas. Kasas ducked, hoping that he missed the deadly morning star and turned back at the bugbear at the last instant. He was shocked at what he saw: The bugbear was still and not moving and had a terrible look in his eyes - and then he fell on the floor. What had happened?
Kasas looked around and wondered what he did!? Oh, Ropin was getting his 2 swords out from the bugbear's chest, wiping the blood from the blades. He looked as shocked as the bugbear since he hit the bugbear's heart directly and instantly killed the bugbear. He even was not sure that he had really killed him and struck him again, just to be sure.
Wow, what could have been a disasterous fight for the wounded adventurers ended up being an easy (and lucky) movie-esque fight scene where the hero gets the one lucky shot to kill the baddie.
Whew! They took a breather and looked around at the strange room more, now that they had more time.
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