3-1: Beneath the Streets

ROUND THREE

"Noooo! Dare to hurt my friends! Die,die, die!" Frothing at the mouth, Ishi cleaves the monster's blobby body (otyugh takes 15 damage).
Eozindra reloads her crossbow and looses another bolt (otyugh takes 5 damage), calling out to the unconscious Elowin "We’ll get you out of there!" (Elowin is healed for 6 HP).
Morik the bear roars and digs his claws into the blubber and tears it open, then he sinks his jaws in and tears the foul flesh, ripping off one of the tentacles. (otyugh takes 23 damage).
Elowin is stunned.
""No, please, stop," Elysia closes her eyes and stabs the monster again, sinking her rapier up to the hilt in the roof of the hideous mouth. (otyugh takes 18 damage and dies).

As the creature shudders in death spasms, the Steel Defender wriggles free of the grasping tentacle, and the party uncoils the one grasping Elowin. Elowin regains consciousness as everyone who'd gone in climbs out of the channel, dripping fecal slime. Taking stock of their surroundings, the adventurers realize that this section of the tunnel is backed up with sewage because the otyugh had made its lair here; it had created a dam of sorts from the remains of previous victims to create a foul pool for it to luxuriate in. The dam is mostly bones, but other indigestible items may be mixed in, too.

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After the combat, the party members' HP are:
Ishi (18/35), Eozindra (15/15), Morik Bear (34/34), Elowin (15/24), Elysia (24/24), Adran (26/26), Steel Defender (12/20)

Adran begins repairing his metal canine companion and continues for a couple of minutes. Then he begins creating a fizzing, sparking wand that has gears in the handle for some reason. He waves this wand over the party members, and everywhere the wand passes, the muck is cleared away. Elowin removes her boots and pours out the sludge, and Adran gingerly and thoroughly cleans out his sister's footwear. Then the artificer begins to work on Morik's thick, shaggy fur: a big job.Meanwhile, after Eozindra and Elysia comfort each other, the rogue gently extracts herself from the bard's embrace and wades back into the muck to join Ishi in searching the dead otyugh's lair. It takes some time, digging through the bones, pulling out various objects and shaking them off to see what they are, then tossing them back if they're not of interest...after a while, the water begins to flow more thoroughly as the two disassemble the grisly barrier, and a fair amount of the waste begins to float away once more. As the water clears somewhat, the two are better able to identify the different kinds of bones. Most of them are animal bones, though some of them imply stories of their own ("This is surely a horse's thigh bone!" Ishi exclaims at one point. "How did a horse get down here??"). But mixed in amongst the other bones are definite traces of humanoids that ventured too close and met their end in the maw of the beast: here are the bones of a halfling or a human child, here are buckles that once adorned a belt or a pack, here a bracelet. The items are mostly metal, quite pitted by digestive enzymes, often scored or rent by gnashing teeth: too brittle or marred to be of use. Here's a hilt with a snapped off blade. But at one point they find a cable; pulling on it, they find it attached to a small bag made of chain links: some bravo of the past undoubtedly thought it made a striking pouch, for it is heavy with the weight of old krugerrands bearing the likeness of the old King, Queen Sophia's father. The party gains 90 krugerrands, protected from being defaced by the bag, which took the brunt of the digestion (Adran can clean the coins now or later).

With the water now clearing away the fecal flotsam and no confidence that they'll find a cleaner place any time soon, the party moves a little ways down the tunnel and rests for a bit as they each get cleaned up. Elowin's ritual reveals no magic in the area other than what the party is carrying - Eozindra's armor glows, which may be surprising. As Ishi emerges first from the muck to get cleaned up and rest, he dumps the assorted metal bits he and Elysia had found at Adran's feet. Either Eozindra's perfume is particularly powerful, or the reek has become so omnipresent after two hours that the PCs hardly notice the smell of the sewer anymore, but whichever it is, the essential oils of the lavender are particularly strong and fill the air with the floral aroma. Morik sneezes a couple of times: great big ursine detonations that echo in the enclosed space. The party spends the rest of the time peacefully chatting and enjoying one another's company in the glow of the mild post-combat survivor's euphoria that they are starting to get to know well. At the end of the rest, Morik reverts back into his dwarf form, completely clean of all but a bit of grime on his boots.