The dimensional shamblers spend their turn trying to clear their eyes.
Eleric will cast hast on the group.
"This should keep us pressing the advantage."
Creeden attacks the creature in front of him.
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With a flurry of blows Creeden pounds his fists into the creature, it is still there but only just.
Ortensia double moves up to the other of the creatures.
Tess casts bless on the group as well.
[i]The dimensional shamblers attempt to attack Creeden and Ortensia. Due to their blindness they completely miss Ortensia but manage to almost strike Creeden
Eleric will delay and see what is needed as he is not really a damage dealer.
Taking advantage of the creatures blinded state Creeden smashes his fist into one of the creatures, killing it instantly.
Ortensia attacks the one in front of her.
Tess attacks with her longbow
Attack with Haste, Bless and PBS
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Iterative Attack with Haste, Bless and PBS
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Tessara's arrows fly through the air striking the remaining creature.
The shambler attempts to attack Ortensia again but misses.
Creeden rushes over to flank with Ortensia.
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Eleric continues to delay as his team seems to have this handled. But stay alert for new threats.
With a final kick Creeden finishes off the remaining creature.
I'm good too. West it is.
Heading west you come into a series of smaller chambers. Patches of phosphorescent lichen growing on the damp ceiling provide a dim light in this stone chamber, and the walls are decorated with disturbing carvings. Mounds of soggy seaweed have been gathered into nests or beds upon the floor. In this area are just over a dozen skum but they seem strange and listless and make no move to attack you as you enter.
Eleric casts detect magic then looks around.
"It may be that there is something here keeping them docile."
”No reason to aggravate them, then. Let’s move on by,” Tess whispers.
Several of the skum have had the top of their heads removed exposing brains that appear to have had some form of surgery.
The carvings on the walls depict skum in the midst of various graphic mating acts with human women. The seaweed mounds appears to be beds and cradles for new offspring.
”Nasty,” Tess whispers as they move by the carvings.
"This is quickly becoming the worst place we have been. Someone is doing this and they are likely our target."
I never suspected we would find anything in good taste hereabouts but my expectations were low. Ortensia muttered.
"Let's head south and into the east chamber."
Tess follows along, expecting more skum at any second.
The damp walls of this dark cavern display a bewildering varietyof obscure and esoteric symbols painted in bright, clashing colours and pigments. In the room is what appears to a large fungal brain on five ropy legs, encrusted with fungal shelves. A wide mouth with chitinous teeth gapes on top of its body and two long tendrils lash the air above it.
Know. Nature
Tessara, you recognise the creature as a cerebric fungus, a type of plant. They have fast healing and have spell like abilities. They are resistant to cold and are vulnerable to light and sonic damage.
"I can muster some light or sounds if the goal is to destroy it.
”I think that’s exactly what we need to do,” Tess whispers.
You hear a voice in your heads,
"How do crustaceans propogate with barns?"
”I don’t know. How do they,” Tess replies in her mind, wondering if this is a set up for a joke.
"Is that short for barnacles? Either way, I'm unsure."
"Why are three ears better than seven"?
"Why?"
The voice in your head becomes angrier and more insistent:
"What is the orbital declension of the Lilac Star when sea snails cry Beryllium tears?"
”Eleric, something tells me this voice isn’t really from around here,” Tess whispers at the barrage of strange questions.
"True, I've asked some odd questions myself, back in my drinking days, but these are truly weird."
"You are right of course, but drunks and insane people of spill valuable but hard to understand information. This however does not seem to be one of those times. Shall we move on? Further east?"
You head further east. Bones and the remains of rotten carcasses litter the floor of this cavern. The smell of wet fur hangs heavy in the air.
Creeden sniffs. "There's certainly a rot at the heart of this town. And we can smell it here."
Eleric will look for anything hiding or ready to attack.
Eleric you see a shape in the pile of bones.
Eleric you recognise the creature as a gug. It is a towering menace has a horrible, vertically aligned mouth and arms that split at the elbows into twin clawed hands. They are immune to disease and poison and they have the rend ability.
The creature growls menacingly at you all.