Luca moves over 5 ft, and lays on wand for Gin's injuries.
Rivet takes out his second (and last) alchemist's fire and calls out "My apologies Gin, please don't hold a grudge!" before taking a deep breath and throwing it at the elf's feet.
* 1.5 for splash weapon vs. swarm = 6
Lwazi doesn't want to splash Gin, so he slashes at a few bugs and then takes a step away from the swarm.
with the last achemical fire thrown, all the monsters in the room seem to have been vanquished
Midioto looks a little shaken as the majority of the bugs are burnt and the last of them scatter, swatting at a few that remain. Content that Luca has the parties wellbeing looked after Midioto then decides that he had better port ahead and see if there are more coming.
[B]I am going to take a look ahead and see if anything more is coming. You guys take care of the groups wellbeing for a moment.
Midioto ports as far forward as he can see and then looks around.
Smoke stings at your eyes slightly, that might eventually be an issue
Midioto blinks rapidly in annoyance
whos idea was that fire anyways...
Poking at the bugs remains Rivet muses, "Hmm. Not spiders, I spoke too quickly earlier. Definitely something we will need to eradicate before we move in; perhaps fumigation?" His eyes are watering from the smoke. "Though that might require setting up the alchemy lab. For now I suppose further exploration is required."
"We could go outside and wait a few minutes," Lwazi suggests, wary Leopard again asserting himself. "Give the smoke time to clear. There is no need for haste."
the imp chooses this time to speak up "maybe we should press forward. who knows how long it'd take to get rid of the smoke"
Midioto calls back to the group, Ya. Lets press on, just give me a quick moment...
Midioto focuses for a few moments, recollecting his thoughts and re-aligning himself.
Alright! This way!
in the dead end, what seems to be a dim glowing slime is on the walls.
Lwazi follows Midioto into the end room and warily looks around.
"Ugh, slime." mutters Rivet as he peers at the dead end.
Luca manages to make an audible pause, even without having spoken for several minutes. Before stating: "Have I told you guys my favorite fruit?
S' lime."
A little distracted, Midioto states Just give me a minute to focus...
Luca, that joke was Sublime but you are distracting me...
Lwazi's only response to Luca's pun is a soft growl.
He examines the slime for a moment, then says, "It is magic, that much I am certain of. It seems too close to the green slime we are familiar with for comfort, however. If we wish to take a sample, use materials that are not from living things."
As the fire dies down, Gin's after is seen to have a light red glow to it that quickly fades.
"No worries, my armor is made to resist fire, has been a help in the past and is obviously helpful now."
Gin says before looking over the remains of the bugs.
He follows the others, chuckling lightly at the pun, before observing the slime himself.
Luca, that joke was Sublime but you are distracting me...
"Heh, goo-d one. I dont have much I can help with at the moment unfortunately. Unless someone has an idea. Im still concerned about those webs."
Lwazi's only response to Luca's pun is a soft growl.
He examines the slime for a moment, then says, "It is magic, that much I am certain of. It seems too close to the green slime we are familiar with for comfort, however. If we wish to take a sample, use materials that are not from living things."
"I should have something here..." Even a minor bag of holding can contain many things - including here tools for crafting traps as a backup to a traveller's any-tool. One of these, a small sealed pitcher for transferring liquids, gets used to pick up some of the magic wall slime.
"I'd rather not put this out of sight for now if it's anything like green slime," he says, juggling items until torch and pitcher of slime are in the same hand. "if we were to retreat, what preparations would you take for facing the web-maker, Luca? Without more information there is little I would do. The smoke is another matter and may be something we have to live with for now in any case. Ventilation may be poor in this cave."
"To be honest, I was expecting the spiders to attack us already. If they dont come by soon, I would think theyd moved farther down the cave system. Probably farther than some of us would want to go. We may need better illumination than torches. Well, I would at least...
So, what is green slime normally like?" Luca adds his question with a smoke obscured twinkle in his eye.
Well, its not yellow... and it probably tastes a little minty? Midioto licks his lips.
Gin, you have an kit full of beakers and stoppers, why don't you grab some and lets go? I would like to check out the other fork in the road.
Midioto the concentrates on the Know Direction and Location power again.
stupid static...
Midioto then s back the way they came.
Gin nods his head in agreement before getting out a few beakers and filling as many as he can.
"I think I saw a glimmer of light down the left passage from the entrance," Rivet mentions, "Shall we check to see what that might be?"
Lwazi nods slightly. "It seems as good a direction to go as any."
Luca follows along as well.
"I was under the impression we shouldn't walk into the light."
"Are tengu noct... Ha, I see, very clever. There's no guarantee we're not walking into Death's boiler," he sneezes from the smoke, "but I see no reason to assume it just yet."
As you reach the dead end closest to the entrance you come across a large humanoid figure made of rock..... wait no... now it's fire.... water?
Regardless he doesn't seem to have noticed you yet as it seems to be looking the other direction and muttering to itself.
The creature seems to be muttering in several different languages, one after another. First teran then ingan then aquan
Luca shrinks slightly at the size of the bizarre matter-shifting creature before catching onto its conundrum. He stands up straight to his full 5' 8" with his hands up to try to ease the... thing. Before attempting to speak to it in three separate languages with the same ease he speaks common.
"Üdvözlet. Békében járunk. Úgy tűnik, nyomorult. Segíthetünk?"
"Salamu. Tunakuja kwa amani. Unaonekana shida. Je, tunaweza kusaidia?"
"Tenaha. Haere mai tatou i runga i te rangimarie. Kei te pouri koe. Ka taea e tatou te awhina?"
the creature keeps shifting at rapid paces, air, fire, water, earth, blinking between them every few seconds. It backs into the corner, and starts talking ignan, then aburptly switches to Terran, then Auran, then aquan, the languages switches happening abruptly whenever it changes to another form of elemental. Partway through it's talking, it grabs it's arm.
"Stay back! There's a spider, and, I can't... Nngh...I can't let you near. Stay back, or I'll... I'll... Ugh...
the elemental is leaning on the wall, in no condition to fight.
"It seems to be injured. Would a solution be as simple as offering healing?" Rivet suggests quietly.
Luca leans over while he answers and retrieves his CLW wand.
"Remember the spider I was talking about? It would seem the elemental was attacked by it. If this spider was venomous, there isn't much this can do. Either way..." Luca approaches the elemental cautiously.
Lwazi's eyes narrow. "A venom that can poison an elemental? I suppose it is not the strangest thing we have seen."
Luca makes use of his wand several more times.
"I get the feeling I'll need to make more of these."
"The elemental wants to know if we want something. Any ideas?"