Needless to the say, the next few moments are...interesting to watch.
Three of the Sahuagin reach your side of the canal and run off screeching into the passage you came from. Your premonitions about the deep water turn out to be correct-two of the Sahuagin vanish as a great hulking, tentacled shadow drags them under the water-only Sarco sees a glimpse of...whatever it was...an aberration with two eyes on stalks, and two claws...oddly, the Sahaugin don't thrash or fight-whatever it is that consumes them seems to paralyze them with fear.
After a moment, the shadow dives once more, taking it's prizes with it. And there it waits...
...
The last Sahuagin flaps fearfully back to shore, standing with the bow-wielders. It seems the battle might start once again, but this time it is interrupted by the doors being blown outward with explosive force-what slithers through looks remarkably like the statue you all saw earlier...though, she is quit a bit taller, her skin pale as snow, her hair dark, wild red. She surveys the field with cold (and beautiful) blue eyes, dismissing the party entirely-concentrating on her foes.
"Yail koudh huk dano." She says calmly-her voice frightening...and enticing. There's hardly a part of her that isn't enticing-Sarco and Kawtari are more or less immune to her more obvious charms, but the others feel...distinctly uncomfortable.
The battle that takes place is remarkably one sided-the regal Serpent Queen tears through the remaining Sahuagin with unholy glee, either mashing them into paste with a massive swinging maul, crushing them in the coils of her serpentine body, or burning them alive with beams of green fire from her eyes-she gives them no mercy or quarter, slaughtering them even when they try to surrender. When the last corpse (beheaded and on fire), goes flying, she turns to you, blooding dripping from her claws and body. She smiles. She's more than pretty, but it's not a pretty sight.
"Welcome. Strangers." She says, inclining her head.
"I apologize for the...interruption. You merely happened upon a band of criminals trepassing in my demesne. As you can see...justice has been administered. " She says, gesturing to the mess.
"...Might I ask your reason for being here? I do hate trespassers...but, rudeness is a epidemic, and I would not imply you are here without purpose.
You may call me Queen Xesh. I rule this place. Have you come to serve me? I do have need of mortal servants...I could certainly find a use for some of you." She says luxuriously, her heavy, blood soaked mace swinging idly.
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Topic: D&D 5e: Lost Isle/[1st Cycle-Missing the Birdgirl. Not that one, the other one] (Read 59428 times)