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Quint Kacie
Hefting his slightly-shortened staff, Quint stays near Odo. "Sounds like we've stirred something up. I can't see anything yet through - anyone else?"

Severi slowly approaches the skritching sound, motioning for quiet.

Tev Meren, Fighter

Tev readies sword and shield and looks for the source of the sound.

Thurgan, dwarf

Thurgan cautiously advances sword and shield readied.

As the adventurers advance, their lantern-light illuminates a half-dozen large beetles scrabbling on the floor towards them. The beetles are perhaps four feet in length, and a dullish grey in color. Almost the same color, in fact, as the substance coating the surfaces of this dungeon. As the light touches they their antennae begin to wave and, as one, they scuttle forwards towards the party. They are currently thirty feet away, and move fairly rapidly.

Tev Meren, Fighter

Tev sets himself by Thurgan's side in the center of the narrow room, preparing for a fight. "There's more of them than us," he says. "Are we doing this?"

Rhys

Rhys draws his sword."The hallway is but 20' wide. Four of us should effectively block the path, allowing just four of them to attack at one time."

Thurgan, dwarf

"yes, lets withdraw to the hallway and block them off while we fight[/b]

Severi consents to guard one flank of the hallway.

Quint Kacie
"That seems smarter than facing them here in the open," he begins to move back towards the hallway through which they entered, shepherding Ono as he goes.
"I have some oil - we could lay down a flaming barrier that would allow us to pick them off from a position of relative safety."

Koren n'Rhys wrote:

TKs description was:
"At the bottom of the stairs the corridor levels out and opens up into a long, narrow hall, perhaps twenty feet wide"
I though there might be a short hallway from the end of the stairs to where it opens into the larger room.

Wyzard wrote:

Yeah, we should try and fighting-retreat back to the stairway.

Round One

The adventurers retreat before the oncoming beetles, and are able to reach the chokepoint of the stairs before the beetles do. Rather than charge at the massed column of adventurers, the chittering coleopterans stop some fifteen feet away from the foot of the stairs and begin to spit a gooey, greyish substance at the companions! Caught flat-footed, Rhys is struck by three globs of spittle, Thurgan by one and the hapless Quint, standing behind Thurgan, is subjected to two of the foul globules. Within seconds, the adventurers can feel the foul substance begin to harden on them, hindering their movement.

Wyzard wrote:

Okay, that is heinous. Can we get LOS for a Sleep spell? It seems like maybe one is called for.