We made our way down to the Stargate easy enough. We each inserted our Keystones ( It was good to see Mordin hadn't traded his in for a cheap prostitute ) and the Magic doors slid silently open. We tried a couple of things with the scrying pool to no avail. We assumed it needed a command word or something to operate. Giving up we headed down to the Brackish pool where the Grey Ooze almost killed Skylar.
We skirted the pool warily and went to the door on the other side.
Shakes listened at the door and said he thought he heard voices.
Mordin kicked the door down, and we charged in, weapons drawn.
It was some sort of weird torture chamber. To the left of us, lining the wall, was a row of four cages, and in each cage their was an abomination.
Goblins.
Only these goblins were uglier than normal. Some mad scientist had experimented on the little buggers and turned them into miniature little nightmares. They had tentacles and pincher's and other ghastly appendages. They were quite insane.
Luckily for us, they were caged.
Then out of nowhere flew this little winged creature. It was about two feet tall, had batlike wings and a big nose. I recognized it from my studies at the academy. It was called a Homunculus: a little servant created by wizards.
The winged critter flew over to a lever next to the cages, and said " Yoo hoo." waving at us.
In a panic, we made a mad dash for the little bastard. He stuck his thumb to his nose, and wiggled his fingers at us, as he pulled the lever down with his other hand.
The cage doors opened.
Mordin leaped! I tell you, that barbarian can jump like a giant toad, and he cut the Homunculus in half.
It died with a goofy smile on it's face.
The rest of the party fanned out to do battle with the mutant Goblins.
I rushed forward, and pushed the lever back up, closing the cage doors before the little abominations could get out.
Everyone looked at me like I was the stupid one.
Mordin said, " Oh man. What did you do that for? That was going to be a good fight!"
Whatever....
It seemed kind of brutal, but we cooked those mutant goblin's gooses while they were safely behind bars.
Now torture chambers give me the heeby jeebys, so I was glad when we quickly searched and got out of there. We went out another passage and up a small flight of steps. It exited on a type of balcony with two rows of benches over looking a large room below us with an operating table in the middle of it.
Draco, Abrandon and I decided to cover the rest of the group from this observation area as they searched the operating room below.
Aramel, Mordin, Shakes and Skylar hopped down and were set upon by a pack of giant rats out of a side tunnel. I fired my crossbow and missed. Much to Draco's and Abrandon's amusement. Our assault group was almost casually killing the rats. Mordin grabbed one by the tail and splatted it against the wall. Skylar skewered one on his short sword. And Shakes, well Shakes was doing something weird.
He wasn't using any weapons, he skipped to the side as a giant rat leaped at him and brought his open hand down in a chopping motion, breaking the spine of the huge rodent.
Holy Crap! Shakes knew martial arts!
There was no time to dwell on this startling fact as right when it seemed the fight was going to be an easy one another enemy entered the field.
Another mutant goblin.
If anything, it was even more unusual than the caged ones we encountered in the torture chamber. There were tubes and flasks screwed into and attached to his head. It wielded an axe bigger than it easily in one hand.
The little bugger was quick as it charged in and body checked Mordin, Who was twice it's height and five times it's weight across the room into a wall. It swung it's axe at Skylar. And if Skylar was slower it would have cut him down for sure, but he ducked most the blow and just took a nasty slash across his arm.
There is one thing I can say for our party, when we see a primary threat, we don't hold nothing back.
Mordin shook his head, spit blood and charged. Swinging his greataxe and connected soundly. Skylar slashed it across the face with the Sword of Zog. Aramel stabbed it in the side. Shakes did a somersault over the creature and kicked it square in the back of the neck. Draco used his Word of Pain. And, as it staggered from this combined assault, I blasted it with my Magic Missile.
It dropped.
The giant rats were easy enough to finish off at this point.
We looted and healed as many of our wounds as we could. We found several magic potions and determined that the axe the little fiend utilized was enchanted also. The party awarded this to Mordin, as he has a fondness for axes and best knew how to use one.
At this point we decided to call it a night and headed back up to town and daylight.
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