Ander inquires of the hideous left and right barbed devils guarding the Crypt of the Church of the Weeping Mother whether either of them identify as the evil wizard Ulrozax. They growl in negative combative anticipation. Ander panics when his force ballista fires wildly into the crypt wall but regains his composure to catapult a dusty old heavy brass tankard from a table into Left devil’s barbed face. Sqyylarr limbos under the bar that once held the stone door, now laying shrunkingly useless in the dirt, and smashes the left devil. Ash joins in with a critically sneaky longbow. The furious left devil tail spins Barika. The perfectly healthy and smirky right devil tail spins at Sqyylarr but gets tail jammed into furniture. Sqyylarr smashes away the devil’s smirk. Some hits and even more misses are traded until Sqyylarr surges into action and smashes the devil out of both devils, pulverizing them beyond Ash’s ability to even figure out what they were. Watc snags a bag of powdered ruby spell components [2000 gp] from under the barbed devil table.
The party descends the stairs into the dim, cold, spider-webby, purplish, subsurface of the crypt. A shadow rises from the floor ahead of Barika and menacingly slaps an unsolicited shadowy hand on her chest. Upset Barika greataxes the pervy shadow back into nonexistence. #metoo
Sqyylarr, protected by Ash from goods and evils, presses ahead to a suddenly revealed and undoubtedly evil bodak. She smashes it bloody. Ander, distracted by Sqyylarr’s frantic smashing, releases the firebolt he realizes he’s been holding. After more firebolt and ballista action, the bodak death gazes Ander into severe necrosis. Artificer Ander, regarding his unscathed artificial limb, observes, No veins, no pains! Ash figures out the death gaze in time to avert it and shouts a warning. Constitutional Sqyylarr smashes into the bodak while gaze-averting Ander and Barika wildly hurl ballistas, firebolts, and hand axes down the hall. Sqyylarr, worried about stray projectiles as much as any death gaze, presses her luck to get a final, fatal smash on the bodak.
Barika takes up the lead and finds the next shadow. She greataxes it bloody and Ash precisely finishes it.
Ander takes the next corner and observes a cadre of approaching skelingtons. A fireball clears the corridor leaving only a couple of armored varieties which Watc reckons for huecuvas. Barika and Sqyylarr charge up while Ash and Ander provide ranged support dropping both. Ash puffs the smoke off his hot, vicious longbow after one huecuva shot.
The five doors and one reptilian statue along this hall are checked while the party takes a short rest. Barika and Ash find a room with some glowing runes, possibly celestial, and sarcophagi that yield a couple more woke huecuvas. Barika gets baned. Ash applies a characteristically complicated series of arrows which protrude from the huecuva in impossibly conflicting directions, and Barika and Sqyylarr each drop one huecuva leaving the room available for a long rest.