Sialea looked at the items they had found now that the freakish fungi were dealt with. She took the ring when Celen failed to identify it and gave it a try herself.
Unfortunately she had no better luck than Celen did. "Not sure what it is either. I'm sure we'll get it tomorrow." She looked to her friends, "So, where now?"
”Dunno, I guess the next door we haven’t been through yet?” Inlé suggest.
He picked up one of the hammers and tucked it into his belt just in case but he nodded to the others.
" We certainly are down here to explore and see what we can find.
He held up his holy symbol and concentrated on it for a moment a wave of positive enegy washing out over his friends.
The door to the east of the laboratory suddenly opens with a *whoosh*, revealing four small, green & leafy figures. Their 'hair' is an unhealthy russet colour and their every footstep is punctuated by the squelching of plant matter & mud. They immediately freeze as they see the party standing over the ruined remains of the strange fungi, and their spears shake slightly in their hands.
"Uh, hi?" Inlé offers with a wave.
The green figures glare at the bunny and shake their spears. A sound like churning plant matter comes from their mouths.
"Well fine then!" Inlé grumbles as he moves over to smack one of the spear wielders with his sword.
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Inlé ruthlessly cuts down one as if it were made of warm butter. The plant people abruptly stop their posturing.
"Any Idea what these things are?"
He asked moving forward with his quarter staff and using it to sort of shoo away the creatures from Inle'
Moving into the room Sialea looked at the creatures they were fighting and focused her mind sending a pair of bolts to lance out and slam into the nearest enemy.
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The plant people converge on the bunny and start viciously poking at him with long, sharp metal bars!
Only the first swing even comes close to hitting Inlé--the others are easily sidestepped or swatted aside.
Sia unleashes a pair of forceful magic blasts on one plant-thing, reducing it to a muddy pulp!
Sdynn moves in quickly to launch a brutal kick at one of the creatures.
Edynn's kick breaks the plant-thing's neck with ease. It wrenches to the side with the sound of a branch snapping in two before crumpling.
Inlé hops forward, bringing his sword down in an arc.
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Inlé ruthlessly cuts the last one down.
"Onward!" Inlé happily says, swinging the gore from his blade he uses it as an opportunity to point forward in dramatic fashion.
Inlé marches through the door the plant-people came from.
The air in the room beyond is unusually warm & moist, with a thin, pale vapour of mist clinging to the ceiling, causing the lighted panels to diffuse & become muted. Condensation runs down the walls along with a riot of unusual brown and dull green vegetation. The moist, thick-stemmed plants and vines grow out of long earth-filled troughs along the wall, while a tall column of plant matter extends like a tree trunk from a circular planter in the middle of the room to spread a network of vines across the mist-shrouded ceiling. A low humming sound fills the air.
"Hmm," Inlé lets out as he makes his way through the plant filled room. Finding himself back in the hallway he heads towards the room they had skipped.
"It looks as if this were some sort of plant-based habitat. Probably where those creatures came from." Edynn says taking in the surrounding area.
Inlé nods. "Wish they hadn't attacked us."
Looking at the remains of the creatures they'd just killed Sialea couldn't help but wonder if it had been necessary. She hadn't been in place to see if they attacked or not but she supposed it was a moot point now. She carefully stepped past the remains of the creatures to look inside the next room. The tree was huge, and indoors, both things sh never had seen before. She was shocked it was still alive, if it was alive, and looked through the doorway for signs of trouble and things of interest.
Inlé opens the door to the room the party skipped.
The room beyond reeks of stagnant water and decaying vegetation. A long trough of water runs along the walls of this room; a layer of brown scum and algae grows on the water's surface and on the walls. A single workstation sits in the middle of the room connected to a large machine made of tubes and bubbling tanks of water.
Sitting on the workstation is a small, green, plant-like figure with russet-brown hair, its body quite muscular and toned. A glowing blue light hammer that looks bigger than its hands could normally hold rests at its side. The buff plant-person is flanked by three smaller plant-people, similar to the ones the party slew earlier.
The apparent leader of the group raises its hammer and says something that sounds like crunching leaves...
Inlé holds up a paw. "Sorry, I don't speak plant."
Edynn frowns, trying to determine what the creatures intend.
"Based on their actions, I believe they mean us harm." Edynn says, beginning to stride toward the one who had spoken, her hands closing into fists.
”Here we go.” Inlé says with a chuckle as he walks alongside Edynn.
"well then, a shame we couldnt understand them."
He began even as he focused and threw a bolt of heavenly energy torwards their leader as their others began to move hopefully before it became too crowded.
The chieftain gives a contemptuous snort and bats Celen's ray of holy fire away with its hammer before pointing at the two entering the room and barking what sounds like a command.
Racing into the room, Edynn hurls a vicious punch at the hammer-wielding chieftain.
Sia was entranced by this room and had no real idea that her friends had moved on. She felt a desire to enter and looked back over her shoulder to see if the others were coming when she realized they were gone. Figuring they went back into the hallway she turned to follow them and saw Celen send fire out. Then she realized something was wrong and hurried forward. She looked in to see more of the same creatures as before, one of which seemed more threatening than the others. She drew on her reserves of psychic power as she wove together bolts of force in her mind. When the spell was ready she dumped the extra power into it and then sent the bolts out to slam into the chieftain. The two bolts hit with far more force than expected for something their size.
He shrugged at the ray's effects and took a step back clutching his holy symbol and calling out to his god to bless the party.
Edynn's punch connects with the chieftain's nose, causing a loud *SQUELCH* to fill the room. It feels like she's punched a pile of mud, and the chieftain's face mostly reforms after the blow--even though there's a leak of fluid coming from its nose now.
The chieftain retaliates, swinging its hammer...
...which connects with her knee with a brutal *SMACK*!
The other plant-people fall on Edynn, flailing with their claws!
Even with her reckless charge into the room, Edynn is only scratched twice--and those injuries are barely shallow ones, at that.
Then there's a *snap* of magical force as two missiles of magic streak into the room, smashing into the plant chieftain's body and blowing away a chunk of its right side! It reels in surprise, but doesn't seem to be slowing down!
"Oi!" Inlé calls out as he quickly hops int the room to take a swipe at the leader.
The chieftain sees Inlé's swing coming and parries it with its hammer.
Facing attacks from all sides, Edynn launches a snap kick at the creature on her right, wincing from the pain in her knee as she turns to launch a punch at the one on her left, hoping the others could keep the chieftain occupied.
He tried to use his crossbow again, wrenching it back and loading it, then taking aim and firing it at the plant person leader.
Edynn's kick nearly tears the plant-person's head off, knocking it backwards with a *SQUELCH*. Her punch isn't as accurate--the plant barely ducks under it.
This time, Celen's bolt finds its mark--it sticks in the chieftain's chest, but it doesn't seem to have noticed.
The plant people press the attack!
The ferocity of Edynn's strike has apparently demoralized the plants--their wild flailing is impressive, but entirely ineffectual.
The chieftain turns on the bunny and swings its hammer...
...and the hammer comes down on Inlé's sword arm with a *CRUNCH!* It follows the swing up with a swipe of its claw!
And then, seeing an opening, rakes its claw across Inlé's chest. The wound burns, and the smell of mould fills the air.
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To those who have never heard a rabbit scream it's... not pleasant. Even more so when said rabbit has a very large sword ready to swing right after at the cause of the scream.
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With a scream of bunny rage and a powerful swing, Inlé cleaves the chieftain's head from its shoulders.
It does little to stop the slow burning he feels in his chest. There's a streak of russet in his fur now.
With little magic left to her and no real way to affect the fighting without using it Sia decided it was best to stay out of the way while the others dealt with the creatures in the room.
Grumbling at the lack of the bolts effect...especially considering that right afterwards the damage caused by the plant creature He reached up and gripped his holy Symbol focusing his will and murmering a quick prayer His hand now aglow with the magical energy he hurried over to
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Edynn continues her unrelentingly focused assault, wordlessly driving a vicious kick into the face of another of the plant-people, though her follow up punch is somewhat off-target.