"Can we move the body and take it for proper burial?"
"I want to give its old master a proper burial, yes. After we find the children and free this little one here."
"Priorities; Kids, freeing little creature burying dead should be in a sort of haze behind getting the kids home and helping Fared in the search of his quarry."
"The children first, then this being. We have no idea where my long time foe has gone
Back the way we came I suppose as there are no other ways here".
"I agree, kids first. Lead on..."
With Serila’s magical lights floating above the Barbarian lighting his way the group makes their way back through the trap room and turns the corner just after the headless corpse.
An evil hiss rises from the darkness ahead. A floating dwarven form shrouded in full plate rounds the corner. The air about this dwarven specter shimmers eerily, and the walls and floor sizzle and smoke where it passes. The thing’s boots scorn the earth, gliding a full foot above the masonry floor. It drags a cruel bloodletter axe in the air behind it.
You notice that the ghost is not really a ghost but a set of armor and weapons stuck into a GELATINOUS CUBE.
"We should move on that's a gelatinous cube."
"That's a damn dwarf ghost!", replies Farid who raises his axe ready to attack it.
"No look at the walls its eating the dust and grime. The armor is metal it cannot eat metal I guess."
Through stories you have heard you know that gelatinous cubes are very hard to kill but if you need to kill one slashing weapons work better against them. Oozes like this one have many immunities, one that you know about is poison. It often tries to engulf it's prey, if it can not it lashes out with an arm like appendage to slam. Both attacks will paralyze the target if hit.
"Slashing weapons work best but its touch can paralyze. Leaving might do us good."
"I trust Bhoors, good call, can we go around it?"
"Maybe we can go north from the room with the fey creature deeper into the catacombs. Unless we have a way to do slashing damage at range."
"I suppose oozes don't sleep, else I could try a sleep spell on it?"
"Would that allow us to kill it you think.?"
"Can it move up?
Aux looks at it trying to tell if it fills the entire passageway...
perception
The evil hiss continues as the spectral dwarven floats closer to the group.
It's hard for you tell if the ghost fills the entire passageway. Serila's lights keep dancing around throwing shadows in random directions.
"If Bhoors says go around let's go around, perhaps we can draw other enemies into it?"
"Doesn't look like a fight we need to have. Let's go around."
Bhoors moves to the corner covering the party's escape north.
Serila moves past Bhoors and starts heading north. "Come on, guys!"
The group makes their way back north thru the trapped room. Farid peers around the corner and sees that the hallway ends with a stone wall.
"Well that was productive. Maybe we can go back thru the first chamber where we fought the Kobolds and either take another way in or get on the other side of the Gelatinous cube."
"Agreed we can go further beyond the locked door or down the hallway and still get further along."
"I'd say let go through the first room and north."
"I'd say let go through the first room and north."
"Aye, that makes sense. This place is much larger and more dangerous than I would have imagined it to be. I lose hope we will find these children alive but at least we shall avenge them and stop more from being taken".
"Indeed, Farid, I too had other notions of the width and depth of this monastery."
As the group turns around to move back south toward the circular trapped room a loud bang can be heard. As they approach the trapped chamber they see that the double doors leading into the room are closed. A low hum can be heard thru the doors.
Farid checks the doors for traps.
Perception
"So what happens in that room when the door shuts. I mean will it kill our gelatinous friend. . . or Kobolds."
There are not traps on the door. From being in the room earlier you guess that something has tripped the magnetic trap within. The door is being held closed by the obelisk inside the room.
"Let's hope it's the gelly, and that whatever's inside the room disposes of it for us."
Serila's points down the hallway. "Shall we check what's around the far corner?"
"Or perhaps the magnet will remove the armor from the cube..."
"That might just make it hard to see."
Farid shakes his head, "We do not have such things in the dessert. This place is more dangerous than a nest of scorpions!"
"Should we check in the room and around the corner for hidden doors?"
"Anyone want to go back and face that weird thing, do you think fire will bother it?"
Fire is good for so many things Aux thinks it may not hurt to try...
"Most things burn . . . except when X-plo-'d." Bhoors remarks dryly.
"Farid . . . how fast does the doors close once the trap is triggered. I mean I don't think that thing is the fastest. Open the door figure out which side its on and make for the other door out of its reach and trip the door on our way out. Its trapped we are out. But I wasn't in there all I saw was closing doors. What do you all think."
"I don't think we can GET to the weird thing, Aux. We opened this door from the inside. Unless we figure something out, we're stuck here. Wanna check the dead end and the room for hidden doors?"