Reclaiming Paphos

The barrage of arrows, paws, and magic finally are too much and the creature falls wailing and hissing. Its movements and sounds quickly fading as its energy is spent and it dies. Advancing cautiously you determine that it is truly dead and note that the mound is now much smaller with the creature out if it. In the tumbled mess of dirt, fungi, and refuse you see a multitude of translucent green eggs the size of a small mellon. Scattered under these and the rest of the pile you also see glints of metal and other objects.

Looking down into the fetid mess of soil, fungus, mold, the tumbled corpse of the vile crawler and its eggs you are assaulted by a horrendous stench. How are you searching? If you want to just wander around the surface peering in roll 2d6 per minute collecting things. If you go down in roll 3d6

From the lip of the pit Skeeve spots multiple coins and what looks to be a heavily bound book

While Skeeve is able to create the walls, allowing you to walk out over the mound they are immobile. However they would prove excellent at shoring up any excavated materials. Quickly lifting the loose items and book you tally your findings. 60 cp, 700 sp , 1,90 gp, 8 pp

The mound looks to be very deep and you have only sifted through the surface so far. If you want to roll a knowledge check about the monster and its eggs I can give you more information on it.

You all search the mound, with Arc using a couple of his longer torches, Kaarik making a trinket out of rope that will stiffen into any shape he desires to prod and shift the soil, and Aizashi sniffing things out despite the fetid ambiance. Skeeve easily lifts and cleans the items found.

You find : 30 cp, 70 sp, 97 gp, 18 pp and a wand that is cracked but magical.

As you do this you discuss the engs and the creature. As best you can tell it is some kind of carrion eating monster. From what you can recall such creatures are not known for any sort of familial structure and once the eggs are hatched the parent with the eggs ceases to have any form of attachment. Likely as not the parent might each some and more often than not the ones that hatch first will eat the late comers. Thus though there are dozens of eggs it would result in less than a dozen surviving and less than 6 growing to adulthood. However, it might prove useful as these creatures can be used in city sewers to keep other pest populations under control. However this makes sewer maintenance more tactical than technical at times.