Tired of waiting for the fungus, Kit will shoot a bolt at it.
He lets at an oath as this glob refuses to die!
"Oh for Arodan's sake." she sends another meteor at it.
For once the irritating thing manages to dodge Min's meteor. It seems mostly unphased by the sound burst as well. Dilwyn, on the other hand, tears into it well with his talons.
Hilde tries to stab at it with her spear, but doesn't have quite the reach and so has to resort to throwing it again.
This time she scores a good hit with it before it falls back at her feet.
Annoyed with the persistent eagle, the fungal horror tries summoning up arcane force.
It fires three translucent darts at Dilwyn. They strike with the force of a falling tree.
Dilwyn manages to deflect the blow enough to not be thrown across the room, however.
She pulls out her sling and wings a bullet at the creature.
Iskender keeps his song going and again uses the wand ofsoundburst.
Needs to make a Fort save DC 13 to avoid being stunned for 1 round.
Dilwyn is getting really desperate at this point. The force missiles can just hit him no matter how well he tries to dodge, so the only thing he can really do to save himself at this point is to power through. As the only one able to stay in range of this thing, he can't afford to stop harrying it. He just hopes that they can finish it off before it finishes him off.
Kit, feeling useless in this fight, tries to hit it again with a bolt.
Dilwyn's beak bites deep, and Kit's bolt hits hard. Min's sling bullet doesn't even get close, though.
It again seems unphased by the sound burst.
Hilde throws her spear again.
The creature looks very badly damaged, but it's not dead yet.
It again focuses on a spell.
Three more force missiles blast Dilwyn out of the air.
Dilwyn plummets to the ground, but thankfully doesn't start to bleed out. He lies there, unconscious, a crumpled mass of blood and feathers.
Seeing the bolt stick out of the blob, Kit tries his luck again.
But sadly he realizes he needs more practice with the crossbow.
Min lets another sling bullet fly. Can someone heal Dilwyn?"
”I wish I could! My magic is spent!”
Iskender keeps his song going and again uses the wand of soundburst.
Needs to make a Fort save DC 13 to avoid being stunned for 1 round.
The thing still resists Iskender's sound burst.
Hilde keeps up her furious spear-tossing.
But this time she misses, as do the bolt and sling bullet.
The badly injured fungus keeps up its magical assault, this time firing its missiles at Kit.
Iskender finishes the thing with the wand of soundburst.
At last the bizzare fungal creature shrieks one last time and stops moving.
It's still stuck to the ceiling, but at least it's dead now.
"Whew. That was horrible." Min moves up and pours a potion of Cure Light Wouds down Dilwyn's Throat.
Iskender hands another CLW potion over for Dilwyn, before he turns his attention to the creature in the middle of the room, ”Now, where were we?”
Kit stares at the non-moving blob on the ceiling. Even in death that fungus won't come down! Kit shakes his fist at the fungus. We were right in the middle of rescuing this maiden. Relstanna I believe?
Looking back at the glass prison, you see Relstanna standing watching you. She's looking at Dilwyn with what you assume is concern.
Dilwyn comes to on the floor, and for a brief moment the skewed perspective of the low angle and the small size makes everything seem even more bizarre than normal, even considering that he's on some other planet. He goes to wipe the remnants of the potion from his mouth, only to realize that he doesn't have hands at the moment.
He concentrates, and shortly thereafter he's lying on the ground in his regular, human form. "Thanks for the help," he says as he climbs his way back to his feet. There's a moment of vertigo, and then his regained inability to fly doesn't feel strange anymore.
He looks up at the ceiling, as much to convince himself that the ordeal is over. Those inexorable missiles were devastating. Then he turns his attention to the creature in the prison, only to realize that she's looking at him.
"Uh, hi," he says, and leans against his staff for support. "Do you know where we might find a key to your prison? It looks like we could just crack it open, but I wouldn't want shattered glass to hurt you after we came all this way."
Relstanna gestures at the side of her head--her ears, maybe? Or whatever her equivalent is--and then shakes her head.
Iskender walks over and attempts to open the door.
Relstanna gasps slightly as the door swings open at Iskender's touch. She starts to rush over to the door, staggers, and then settles for a quick shuffle.
"Thank you..." she gasps as she reaches the door.
Iskender moves to catch the woman, in case she falls, ”You are quite welcome, but are you in good health?”
Relstanna hesitates a moment, but soon accepts Iskender's support.
"I need... good food, water, and rest," she murmurs. "Lomrick... would not believe me. He sought to break me."
"The good news is that that bomb-toting maniac is dead," Dilwyn points out as he fishes around in his pack for some trail rations. "This is all I've got, and it's getting a bit old, but you're welcome to it," he says, offering some jerky and his water skin. "It's not what I'd call 'good food,' but it's at least something to tide you over.
"What didn't he believe you about?"
We were sent by Kaetrix to rescue you. She also thought you could help us. Kit interjects.
Relstanna takes the food and water gratefully. She's in the middle of drinking when Kit mentions Kaetrix. Her eyes widen a moment as she takes one last swallow then lowers the waterskin.
"Is Kaetrix well? When the Hegemony came for me, I feared they'd come for some of my associates, too, especially as Lomrick became more convinced I was concealing something from him." Now that she had gotten some water, her strength seemed to be returning, and color was coming back to her cheeks.
Well, at least you assume a brighter lavender is the right color for her cheeks.
"Lomrick was certain I knew how to repair malfunctioning gates," she explains, turning to Dilwyn. "He wouldn't accept the fact that I do not."
Kit looks dejected, We were hoping you could repair the gates as well. We were hoping to return to our home world. He then smiles, Kaetrix is fine but she was worried about you. She will be glad to know you are all right.
Iskender smiles, ”Lomrick sounds like my father. He figured if he beat you enough, you would somehow learn. Ahh, memories.”
"Oh, I see." Relstanna sighs. "Knowledge of the deeper workings of gates is vanishingly rare, but I will certainly do what I can to aid you in thanks."
"All we really need or want, is to go home. Although, I am not sure that we are positive our home still exists, are we?"
Kit chuckles, Home can't get rid of me that easily!
Search the place?
Dilwyn takes the opportunity to cast a cure light wounds spell on himself.
"That feels better," he says, starting to get some more feeling back into his extremities. "If we intend to continue exploring, I would ask for 15 minutes to fill the open spell slot I left to prepare a flaming sphere, in case we run afoul of that plant we left alone in the garden. Also, now that I'm back in my own form, all of the items I carry are more accessible. I have a light healing potion and a moderate healing potion. Actually, come to think of it," he pauses and uncorks one of the vials and slugs it back, "make that just a moderate potion."