"Yeah I heard you first at the other door, then at this door." She snaps back at Einar, as he cuts into her with his glaive.
Einar smirks, "So your not deaf, that means your stupid. Your queen is dead you should have ran or hid, if we can kill her we can certainly kill you."
She then flees back to the cages, uses another quickened open/close on one of them,
Mr. Whiskers tries to counter her little trick.
"Enough with the bugs, lady!"
Mr. Whiskers moves so he can line up two of the swarms and lets loose with another Dragon's Breath.
In answer to Greta's question, Mr. Whiskers says "I think I've got this...keep her away from the last cage and take out the real threats."
The swarm hounding Crummock dissipates with Mr Whiskers blast of electricity.
Greta air walks over the lemurs and tries to flick her mass of hair into her face to blind her and does manage to do so.But it's only temporary.
Geist ignores everyone else, and moves over to Crummock, licking him.
2nd (9/9 used): Bone Fists, Grace, Lesser Restoration, Inflict Moderate Wounds, Silence, Cure Moderate Wounds, Dust of Twilight
Suddenly some of the lemures scatter out as something emerges from the stairway.
The party can see the enormous protoplasmic creature resembles a giant amoeba, black in color, that lumbered up the stairway. A deathly cold seems to emanate from its form.
They both recognize it as a Dark Matter Entropic ooze. Its attacks have energy drain and it has negative energy affinity.
It slaps Greta once, and starts draining her lifeforce...
The withered female clears the hair out of her eyes , opens the last door manually, while glaring at Mr Whiskers warily, then takes a 5 ft step back.
The swarm surges out and sticks onto Einar this time.
The swarm on Mr Whiskers continues to stick on him like glue.
Both Mr Whiskers and Einar are not affected by the swarm.
Greta continues to full attack the wiry female.
With the female cackling as some of it is deflected by a black shield.
Mr Whiskers heavily damages his swarm, but it's still up.
Geist continues to lick Crummock, nudging him with his nose.
Mr. Whiskers once again moves out of the swarm and releases another line of electricity through his swarm and into the other one.
"We should retreat towards Crummock! These creatures move pretty slowly."
The swarm on Mr Whiskers dissipates.
Mr Whiskers badly damages Einar's swarm.
The swarm on Mr Whiskers dissipates.
Einar steps near the bag of bones, and thrust the glaive at her repeatedly. "When we clear the room I will drop the hammer on the big one"
The first blow hits and damages her. She looks injured now.
The Ooze slams Greta another time, while the wiry female withdraws.
The remaining swarm continues to bugger Mr Whiskers.
Mr Whiskers is not distracted, but feels that he has contracted something.
Greta gets the hell out of there, extremely pale, not wanting to get killed by the ooze.
Geist continues to nuzzle Crummock.
not a good situation. Lets see what happens. Seeing the hag retreat and the ooze become the dominant threat, Einar steps back, picking up the hammer. Holding his glaive in one hand and the hammer in the other, he slams the handle to the ground sending a crackling bolt of ice shooting across the ground toward the ooze. ”Maybe this will slow you down a little.”
The ooze has become a popsicle and freezes up some!
Mr. Whiskers moves out of the swarm and blasts it one more time with a freezing cone.
"This is stupid!"
The swarm dissipates.
Mr Whiskers manages to fight off the Poison.
The withered female casts scorching Ray at the trapped ooze, with the last Ray going to Einar.
One of Einar's doppelgangers pop. She then opens the doors and steps out of sight.
The scorching Ray does not happen and the ooze remains trapped. Greta retreats to Crummock.
'Blast, I can't let her get away now.' Einar smiles, and drops the hammer again, casting fly. He grasps his glaive in both hands and flys after the hag. "It's too late to run now."
The party has a premonition that something bad is going to happen when Einar chases after the withered female.
The lemures move to block the door, and Einar smacks two of them as they go.
Einar can also see the doors in D4 open, just the way they left it.
"Einar, it is time to go now!" Mr. Whiskers says as he gets out yet another scroll. He is not happy.
He then reads off the scroll and walls in the ooze. "I doubt that will hold very long, and I'm about out of tricks."
He takes a 5' step towards Crummock. Looking towards Greta, he asks "Do you think Geist would carry Crummock?"
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The party sees the withered female appear in sight 40 feet away from where she was last sighted, then give a string of vile expletives after seeing the ooze completely buried in stone.
She then flees out of the open doors, hovering just above the corpse pile.
"I can carry Crummock, or I can tie him on Geist's back." Greta volunteers. "Einar!" Greta yells. "I think she might be leading you into an ambush!"
'Time to go...ok' Einar drops to the doors, winking at the hag, "we'll see you later, we know where you live." He then closes the doors and begins to look to see if there is a lock he can jamb. Calling back to Mister Whiskers. "I'm looking to see if there is a way to lock her out."
Looking back over his shoulders as he releases the rage, Einar smiles a toothy smile at Greta. "Ya think? Before you grab Crummock, help kill those lemurs. Then we can check out what is downstairs."
Einar jams the door shut, finishes all the lemures. The ooze remains buried under the stone . A search of both rooms reveals no loot. The party does not see the withered female again.
Everyone in the party gets a premonition of danger. And the image of the dead reaching out of the earth to grab them. Then there is an insistent urge, and the party sees a vision of Mametqul's tent.
Once he has jammed the door shut, Einar explores the two rooms finding nothing. He returns to the war band empty handed.
Sitting down beside Crummock and Geist, he starts to reach out to comfort Geist by scratching him behind the ears. Thinking better of the idea, he draws his hand back.
Reaching into his haversack he pulls out his 'ceramic container' telling it "Plumb wine." taking a swig, he extends it to Greta, "Want some?"
"No offence meant, but the last time I saw you drink while you were rather blue from the bebilith poison, you passed out. I know I'm not feeling very good now, much as I'd like a little drink...passing out down here might be the last thing I do. I might never wake up again." Greta declines Einar's offer. "Why don't we get to somewhere more secure before we start on the drinks? This place gives me creeps." Then she shakes her head. "And what are we going to do about Dimitri?"
"We've got what we wanted. We can return back to the grotto. As long as there's safe passage out."
As soon as the whole party is within range, Mr. Whiskers triggers his getaway.
Suddenly they are back out on the plain.
"We can either camp here, or head into the tent" Mr. Whiskers says as he gestures in the distance "and politely inquire as to if he will allow us to recover there."
He then goes over and examines Crummock worriedly.
Mametqul walks out of the tent. "Yeah that was definitely loud...I heard you for miles." Then he sniffs the air speculatively. "I smell the crown on you."
Then he glares at Einar. "Oh you! Why don't you just hand me the crown so I can get all of you out of this place into Grandmother's cauldron. That way I don't have to put up with your presence." He grumbles exasperatedly.