3-2 The Forgotten Abbey

The creature thrashes its body as only an invertebrate can. As a result, it is not affected by the Faerie Fire. Morik roars and shifts into the shape of a brown bear!

ROUND TWO (LAST ROUND)
(for the start of the battle, go to round one)

Ishi doesn't know what it is, but he knows that he can wound it, as he enters his bloody rage and hacks into the monster again. The creature takes 14 slashing damage (8 rolled damage, +4 STRmod, +2 for Rage).
His auntie, Elowin, is paralyzed and vulnerable.
Dismayed at seeing her companion incapacitated, Eozindra prepares her crossbow with shaking hands and fumbles the bolt. "The merchant got a good deal!" she says, tapping her left wrist twice with the middle and ring fingers of her right hand. Then she begins loading the crossbow for the next shot.
Elysia smirks at Eozindra's casual use of the innocuous language that represents a tremendous obscenity in Thieves' Cant, and then the rogue stabs into the gigantic, undulating, tentacled arthropod. The creature takes 11 piercing damage.Adran, still adjacent to the monster, tries to pierce the flailing monster with a crossbow bolt, but in ducking the undulations, his aim is thrown off and the bolt goes wide.
Mara's jaws are not inhibited in this way, and it tears into the creature, ripping off one of the dozens of legs. The creature takes 3 force damage.
The monster tries to sting Ishi with its tentacles while it continues to find Elowin's flesh. Elowin takes 10 piercing damage.Morik the bear noses his way between the artificer and the cleric. His snout is battered away by its whipping body, but his claws latch onto the creature and tear it in half. The horrible thing takes 8 slashing damage. The two pieces flop and flail for a few moments longer, but this crawling monstrosity is most certainly not a threat any longer. "Hey you stupid bug," Eozindra insults the creature, "We've squashed bigger problems than you already!" The monstrous vermin dies.

Gradually, Elowin recovers from the effects of the stinging tentacles. She takes some deep, shaky breaths; her fingers and toes tingle for a bit as feeling returns. Elowin is no longer Poisoned or Paralyzed.The party spotted something shiny in the junk earlier, and stairs lead up out of view to the south. Characters looking up the stairs can see a faint glow at the top of the stairs, as of light cast from a distant lamp or torch.

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Adran (26/26)
Mara (20/20)
Elowin (11/24)
Elysia (24/24)
Eozindra (15/15)
Ishi (35/35)
Morik (Bear 34/34, Dwarf 33/33)

Adran, still adjacent to the monster, tries to pierce the flailing monster with a crossbow bolt, but in ducking the undulations, his aim is thrown off and the bolt goes wide.
Mara's jaws are not inhibited in this way, and it tears into the creature, ripping off one of the dozens of legs. The creature takes 3 force damage.
The monster tries to sting Ishi with its tentacles while it continues to find Elowin's flesh. Elowin takes 10 piercing damage.It is Morik's turn for round two, and everyone else should declare their actions for round three (including @runekyndig, who should roll the CON saving throw for Elowin).

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21 - Ishi (35/35)
20 - Adran (26/26)
20 - Mara (20/20) HIGHLIT by FAERIE FIRE
19 - Elowin (11/24) PARALYZED and POISONED
17 - Eozindra (15/15)
12 - Elysia (24/24)
11 - Creature
6 - Morik (Bear: 34/34, Dwarf: 33/33)

Morik the bear noses his way between the artificer and the cleric. His snout is battered away by its whipping body, but his claws latch onto the creature and tear it in half. The horrible thing takes 8 slashing damage. The two pieces flop and flail for a few moments longer, but this crawling monstrosity is most certainly not a threat any longer. "Hey you stupid bug," Eozindra insults the creature, "We've squashed bigger problems than you already!" The monstrous vermin dies.Gradually, Elowin recovers from the effects of the stinging tentacles. She takes some deep, shaky breaths; her fingers and toes tingle for a bit as feeling returns. Elowin is no longer Poisoned or Paralyzed.The party spotted something shiny in the junk earlier, and stairs lead up out of view to the south. Characters looking up the stairs can see a faint glow at the top of the stairs, as of light cast from a distant lamp or torch.

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Adran (26/26)
Mara (20/20)
Elowin (11/24)
Elysia (24/24)
Eozindra (15/15)
Ishi (35/35)
Morik (33/33)

Having defeated the monster (which anyone proficient in Nature can now identify as a carrion crawler), the party catches its breath. Adran moves to check on his sister Elowin, who had so recently been paralyzed. He puts a hand on her shoulder: "Are you alright?" as he rests his other hand on his stalwart contraption companion, Mara. Morik realizes that he can barely see anything in this junk room, having lost his dwarvish ability to see in the dark when he transformed into a bear. Luckily, a very faint glow from the room above suggests that there will be more light to see by further in the Abbey. Elysia, touched by Adran's display of filial affection (and not being able to provide her any healing), creeps up the stairs to reconnoiter. The stairs are steep, and when Elysia starts, the topmost stair is above her head. But as she crests the stairs, she sees a large open space, much of it backlit by distant torches on the far side. She ducks down behind some barrels so that she can be concealed while she takes in all that she can see.The room is ancient, with a beautiful ceramic tile floor running the entire length of the room. The walls have slumped or fully collapsed in places, making for awkward angles that divide the space into two "lobes." A thick layer of grit/sand is scattered everywhere - probably from crumbling stone. The area she is in - the north "lobe" - has clearly been used for storage: there are barrels and crates that have been brought here recently, as evidenced by scuff marks in the grit on the floor and lack of dust on the containers. Beyond that - in the south "lobe" - is a still pool that reflects the distant torchlight; the smell of petrichor is very strong. Next to the pool is a wall lined with deep shelves, on which rest not books but many supplies: coils of rope, lanterns, flasks, small pots, boxes, and bags. The room opens up on the right, and there is a suggestion of more shelves there, but she can't see it well from her current vantage.

The tile ends 40' away at the other exit from the room: a tall archway that opens into a much-better-lit hall. It's bright in there, and she can see the flicker of two more torches, hanging in brackets embedded in columns. Past those, maybe 60' away, is a closed door.

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Adran (26/26)
Mara (20/20)
Elowin (11/24)
Elysia (24/24)
Eozindra (15/15)
Ishi (35/35)
Morik (Bear 34/34, dwarf 33/33)