The heavy crunching and intermittent clicking draws closer… and moves further away. Keen eyes may detect the shape of something large moving beyond the archway, easily ten feet long and taller than the party members. Whatever it is, it seems to be examining where the slab of stone it threw broke apart; there is clattering as debris is shoved aside and snuffling as the remains are nosed through. (Fortunately for the party, the mud they accumulated during their spelunking and the cloud of dust are covering their scent. For now.)
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Whether the party chose to engage the Boss, or the Boss chose to engage them, they finally get a good look at each other.
Covered in scales the color of dried blood and ridged along the back and tail with spines, the beast is easily ten feet from snout to tail tip, standing higher than the party members on muscular hind legs. Raptor? Wyvern? It's a little of both, but definitely suited to the earth. The sinuous body with a wide, powerful chest and shoulders support thick arms and claws suited for digging. After so long in the darkness, its pale amber eyes squint shut at the party's offending lantern lights, and the beast repeats the curious clicking noise from its throat.
While the claws may be blunt, its teeth are definitely not, and the party gets a good look at them as the creature snarls. (It’s not a wholly unhappy snarl… I mean, who turns down free food?)
As expected, the beast puts up a furious fight, and it takes some doing to finally defeat it.
Once they're no longer fighting for their lives, the party can examine the beast's work in the room. Set within one wall of the spacious chamber is a great fireplace… which has been aggressively hollowed out. Seems your scaly opponent was illegally excavating a historic site ripping the stones out of the mortar to get to the area behind it!
With effort, the party will be able to finish breaking through the remaining wall into a new room! It's dirty in here, as wet and cold as everything else has been, and the doorway needs to be cleared. But once they're out and shining a light into the main passage – hey, are those footprints passing through here? They are! And following them leads to familiar voices and warm lantern lights.
Congratulations, Team C, you've entered the main part of Bahamut's Temple! Teams A and B have reconvened and are ready to tackle the final area together, so why don't you join them?
Final Summary for Team C
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Whether the party chose to engage the Boss, or the Boss chose to engage them, they finally get a good look at each other.
Covered in scales the color of dried blood and ridged along the back and tail with spines, the beast is easily ten feet from snout to tail tip, standing higher than the party members on muscular hind legs. Raptor? Wyvern? It's a little of both, but definitely suited to the earth. The sinuous body with a wide, powerful chest and shoulders support thick arms and claws suited for digging. After so long in the darkness, its pale amber eyes squint shut at the party's offending lantern lights, and the beast repeats the curious clicking noise from its throat.
While the claws may be blunt, its teeth are definitely not, and the party gets a good look at them as the creature snarls. (It’s not a wholly unhappy snarl… I mean, who turns down free food?)
As expected, the beast puts up a furious fight, and it takes some doing to finally defeat it.
Once they're no longer fighting for their lives, the party can examine the beast's work in the room. Set within one wall of the spacious chamber is a great fireplace… which has been aggressively hollowed out. Seems your scaly opponent was
illegally excavating a historic siteripping the stones out of the mortar to get to the area behind it!With effort, the party will be able to finish breaking through the remaining wall into a new room! It's dirty in here, as wet and cold as everything else has been, and the doorway needs to be cleared. But once they're out and shining a light into the main passage – hey, are those footprints passing through here? They are! And following them leads to familiar voices and warm lantern lights.
Congratulations, Team C, you've entered the main part of Bahamut's Temple! Teams A and B have reconvened and are ready to tackle the final area together, so why don't you join them?