[b]"Wha-you--huh!?"[/b]

The cavalcade of rats beset upon the old women. Things went zero to a hundred rather quickly. Immediately, the old women slammed a lid on top of the crock before any rats could contaminate the meal. And in spite of their best efforts, Aggie had kept one hand on the lid to prevent the crock from moving. With the other hand--with all of the verisimilitude of the world's strongest homemaker, she unfurled her apron and used it to slap the airborne rats back out of the tests.

Really, it was a blessing she didn't have a broom in hand. Otherwise, the rats may have faced instant obliteration--they were but mere specks of dust to the collection of straw that an auntie could hold.

[b]"Nedbert!"[/b] she yelled. The priest seemed to perk up. [b]"Rats!"[/b]

With some grumble, the priest began to move towards the rats.

But that also meant that he was unavailable to check on his things. Larry--now taking the form of a living robe--managed to high tail it out of there with everything he could find.

[b]Acquired:[/b] Priestly Scriptures, Old Priestly Vestments, Small Linen Bag (smells strange), Wooden Forked Crescent

Salbjorg's escape was easy--the rats came first, after all. Though, if she ever appeared in camp again, they would have plenty of questions as to how a bunch of rats managed to stick onto someone without them noticing.

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Defend your dungeon[/h3][hr][/center]

The dance of Zogi was confounding. It did indeed get the adventurers to pause in bewilderment. Even more bewildering was the mix of instrumentation that followed and the goblin illusions that danced behind him. Though... The goblins looked a little strange. Rather than the detailed skin and wart like Zogi had, they seemed...much simpler? And their proportions weren't right, either. They were lopsided and their faces seemed to be overly simplified with beady little black eyes and a simple slit for their mouth.

Well, that still did the job. They were sufficiently distracted until the hero piped up.

"...Attack!" He said as he charged at Zogi with his sword.

The remaining brave friends looked and stepped to follow, but the voice of the young mage calling back had distracted the mage girl as she took a step to retrieve her brother.

"Wait!" The hero said. "He's safe in the hole! Monsters first!"

Maybe he wasn't as stupid as it seemed. It would appear that the level 2 boost came with a stark jump in intelligence.

The Dwarf warrior boy, on the other hand, was distracted by a different prospect: a unique sixth sense that he possessed. One that told him of the latest and greatest deals. He began to walk off towards it before...

"Monsters first!" The hero yelled at him.

"R-right!" The Dwarf responded.

The mage girl began to charge up a spell, mana coalescing.

The dwarf boy to back up the hero.

The rogue--ever the opportunist, followed the dwarf boy, but noticed something odd with his astute senses: something was off about the light that illuminated the goblin. He bounded off of the dwarf's back, nearly sending the warrior tumbling.

The priest began to provide blessings--though, if they were of actual effect or were placebo was unknown.

The paladin stood beside the priest, ready to defend him.

Muste remained unnoticed behind them all.

[b]Remaining foes:[/b] Lv. 2 Hero, 5/7 Lv. 1 [Brave Friends] [D. WAR, H. PAL, H. ROG, E. MAG, H. PRE]

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[b]New Foes:[/b]
Lv. 1 Hero Team [Brave Friends]
7 child heroes, all equally new and foolhardy. A dwarf warrior boy, a human paladin girl, a human rogue boy, an elf mage boy, an elf mage girl, a human ranger boy, and a human priest boy. You could take them. One on one, at least.
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[/color][color=EEBD65]Traps excel at thinning out the herd. Enough traps and you can begin to passively collect DP.[/color][/cell][/row][/table]