Corpses Found In The Hive

[*Selebius]

((Ok lets see:

Spellcraft: Emila realizes that the insects making up this swarm, the hivemind, try to cast a spell to animate one of the corpses. They fail, being to weak right now.

Serin notices nothing unusual


Spot 1:

Emila and Serin realize that this creatures are undead and not alive like the rest of this swarm

Spot/Lore:

This undead (perhaps an elf? or thin human?) has been preserved carefully- chances are high that it is some kind of mummy.

[*Midnight]

Having an idea of what she is up against and seeing her chance the bat sjaped Emila joins the tail end of the swarm of bats and follows after them.

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

///first a question: by shapeshifting into a viper Serin would still ''hold'' her inventory and equipped items?///

and Viper-Serin would try to keep up, following the bats, crawling and climbing as best as she can. If she risk to lose them, she may morph back a moment to use a detect undead potion and hopefully keep track of them

[*Selebius]

(( In general all equipment gets nonfunctional. There are exceptions like a Druid shifting and using a wilding clasp on an item but I doubt this is the case here.

Please gimme some DEX, STR and Tumble, please. Also three Fortitude saves- dc 14, 16, 18))

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

///mostly wished to know if she would pratically drop the equipments, but i gather she retains them, even if not working///

the rolls:

[*Selebius]

(( the Alternate Form ability is just a polymorph effect so all the usual rules apply- the equipment melds with her body, becoming nonfunctional.

Oh. And it gets a bit disgusting now, be warned. ))








For Emmy following is easy- but for serin it is more difficult. She is swift, nimble and determined but sometimes the walls are just too slick, the gaps too narrow to get a good grip- so she falls behind.

The yuan ti might soon realize that the walls are sometimes covered with this infectious goo.... and both women realize that the sickly sweet smell of death and disease and rotting flesh gets more and more intense.

Soon the small chute widens and leads into a cavern... the opening of the tunnel high on the domed ceiling. Of course it is pitch black but the senses of both Yuan Ti and Vampire can easily deal with the darkness... their sharp ears hearing some wet scratching and moaning and splashing mixing with the buzzing of insects and the flapping of wings.

Down on the ground they see now where the dead- or undead- hivers went, a moving pile of limbs and bodys, slowly rotting, entagled with each other, maggots and beetles and corpseflies crawling over this disgusting mass. The infectious goo covers the ground, several feet high, the stench unbearable.

And in the middle of this blasphemous pile of death and decay a small spark of darkness glows (?)... moves... grows?

[*Er_Nano_Infame]

serin looks for a high and untouched from goo spot where to lay or coil and spy, provided that she doesn't start feeling sick from the place

-edit- meanwhile she also look around to spot eventual other entrances and passages in this dome.
and of course observes the other protagonists of this story

[*Midnight]

Emila silently gives thanks for her undeath and the resistance to disease it gives her. She swoops low over the dark spark of energy. She tries to get a look at it, to see if she can determine what it is.

[*Selebius]

That thing seems familiar to her- like a portal that is on the way to be opened?

[*Midnight]

Whatever it was and wherever it wet it could not be good news, and it seemed that it was almost open. Emila fluttered out of the cave and flew back towards the deep crypts entrance to the Mortuary, as she did she surveyed the lay out of the sewers, the way the sewage ran and flowed, and if it would be possible to use the channels and outlets to float things down the small chute into the cavern.