"Let's go that way" FlimFlam montions towrads the SW passage.
The group travels down a short tunnel to a circular room strewn with more bones and debris.
Perception
Axelrod notices a section of wall that easily slides back to expose a drop into a room with a pool at the bottom. The drop is around 15 feet.
Oily bubbles regularly spout to the surface of this water-filled room, creating a rippling, iridescent sheen. The walls and ceiling, colored a glossy black, cast weird reflections from the party's light source.
Savannah walks over and looks into the pool... "Hmm between skeletons and dragons popping out of them more water is just what we need." Savannah casually flicks a fireball into the oily looking water.
The oily substances light upon the water, you see some small insects scamper away from the pool (nohting out of the ordinary in a cave). After a few moments the fire goes out and the scene returns to normal.
"Well that certainly was enlightning, does this mean we are going swimming again? And by we of course I mean me..."
The group decides to backtrack and heads down the eastern corridor, it turns at a sharp right angle leading south. There is a door to your immediate right, a medium sized hole in the wall about 10 feet further down and a irregular looking wall at the end of the 60 feet long hallway.
"Let me check this hole out before we open the door."
Jon gets closer and notices it opens up into a regular size tunnel that leads to the east.
"I'll check the door for traps"
Flimflam does not notice any traps and the door appears to be unlocked.
"Just a tunnel."
Jon opens the door and see a small 10 x 10 cell that has a cot and a bucket against the wall but nothing else.
oops posted on boorag instead of DM
"Axel, would you like to check out that interesting looking wall at the end of the hall before we continue through the tunnel?"
The bucket appears to be a used chamber pot.
"Eww. I think I will help Axel with the wall."
Jon immediately recognizes a poorly concealed secret door, and notices the latch that it would take to open it.
"Ha! What's behind secret door #1?
The secret door opens to reavel...a blank wall! A portcullis slams shut 40 feet behind you. You hear a grinding noise and see a large blob oozing out of the wall. It begins to slither towards you as you grasp and pull at the portcullis blocking your escape.
"Ahh a Boy and his Blob"
"Looks like a pudding my mommy used to make"
INIT
What? No scantily clad elf maiden. Ughh! Chamber pots now this.
"This looks bad. Hey Boorag, got any tricks to deal with this black pudding?"
"So glad you asked!," comes out of the thin air near Jon's shoulder. You all hear a soft chanting.
FlimFlam moves to G9 and lobs a fiery blast at the pudding.
touch
A large chunk of the ooze is roasted before it rolls the spot back into its bulk.
Why does this look bad, Jon me boy ?
"Best keep your distance from the blob, men. His touch will eat away your armor, flesh, and weapons!
Savannah steps up to the bars F10 and snaps her fingers "Let me make your decision easier. Anyone for Creme brulee?" As she snaps her fingers a wall of fire flashes into existance in f19 and g19 completinly blocking the hallway from sight.
fire dmg
Deferring. . .
The pudding shrinks back from the flame and goes back into the hole in the ceiling, and two lantern archons pop into existance in front of Jon and Axelrod. They float in front of the two adventurers waiting.
"Uhhh, Hi there"
"Good thing you guys showed up. We got trapped in this room and that evil blob tried to eat us! Can you help us?"
As one voice the archons speak, "We will hold off any enemy that comes towards you to the best of our ability, but we do not have the strength to lift the portculis. Your combined strength may be able to while we hold the ooze at bay."
"Thanks! Axel, help me with this thing!"
lifting !!
FlimFlam watches Jon and Axel struggle in vain. "Let me try" unleashing a blast of energy at the bars
Jon anx Axelrod try and shift the portculis but are not able to make it rise more than a couple of inches. The blast Flimflam sends at the bars seem to heat up the metal but it cools quickly.
The ooze extends a feeler down out of the hole and feels that the fire is still active.
"Uggghh!"
Jon does not have any luck lifting the portcullis.
FlimFlam takes another shot at the portcullis