Felicia stabs one of the bugs on her sword and hefts it up, creating a makeshift torch, careful not to let the goo drip to her hand. "Well, no sense wasting time here. You ok Aiden?"
The catgirl blinked... She could swear that she could see the ribbons of scent that danced through the room and across her sensitive nose.
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He shakes his head, grabbing his stomach. "Wouldn't say I'm feeling particularly well. Let's see if we can power through all this nonsense, eh?"
Zat
You move northward and round the bend and see some strange mounds ahead to your right on what appears to be a small embankment that rises out of the water. However your darkvision doesn't give you much more detail then three oddly shaped lumps...
Felicia and Aiden
Zat sloshes off, fighting the current and rounds the bend to the north as you both are talking.
Felicia lifts the dripping, twitching bug corpse and lights up the area ahead slightly. As what appears to be a slight rocky rise leads into a yawning dark void of a cavern ahead...
Zat creeps closer to the mounds
Felicia kisses Aiden on the cheek and tries to hurry him along as she hustles to catch up with At.
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Felicia arrives just as Zat sidles closer to three strange mounds of what appears to be a fungus, now that Felicia was providing illummination. However the moment the light fell on the mounds they started to shift and writhe revealing a trio of odd ooze like creatures that bubbled free in search of what prey had gotten close to them!
ini!
Zat - 23 Your up
Aiden - 22 Your up!
Enemy 2 - 21
Felicia - 16
Enemy 3 - 9
Enemy 1 - 6
Zat and Aiden you are up!
ohnoyoustartledthegoopymounds! Zat exclaims as he raises his crossbow and fires at the nearest Zat reloads his crossbow.
Aiden can't seem to catch a break in these caverns as he readies for another scuffle. "Goopy mounds? Oh dear, get ready everyone!"
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Between Aiden and Zats attacks two of the oozing mounds collapses in on itself, whatever foul essence that granted them life fades leaving a foul smelling muck behind...
However one remains.
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Felicia stumbles on her attack, her blade going very wide as she fumbles...
She is off balanced by her horrible miss and finds her footing questionable now in the face of her opponents as mud and pebbles begin to shift in the water underneath her...
The ooze she had swung at bubbles up and tries to slam her with a long dripping tentacle made out of its own Oozing body...
However it's tentacle goes wide and misses the still agile Catkin...
Zatqualmie Burrwaddle raises his crossbow and fires but he misses due to the Ooze being in melee.
Zat drops the crossbow and draws his Hammer.
Sorry, Felicia you are up again, your -1 ac is gone though. After you then the slime
Felicia grits her teeth, digs her heel into the mushy river bottom, and swings hard with both hands. "HWAH!"
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As the last of the ooze's falls the caves become quiet once more, save for the occasion dripping or the sound of the slow flowing water licking at the sides of the caves as it made its way out the way you entered. In a matter of seconds the three oozes start to dissolve into sizzling foul smelling piles of rapidly decaying muck. Which makes the area start to reek of something smelling close to kerosene...
Aside from the sizzling ooze piles there are the three mounds that have a vaguely humanoid shape. It as hard to tell in the weak illumination that Felicia provided by throwing the insect corpse on to the small patch of earth...
Zat moves up and inspects the mounds...
Zat and Felicia's investigation confirms the grim news of these mounds being the corpses of some halfling adventurers who delved into this place some time ago. Its hard to tell in their decayed state what killed them ut their hands still bare defensive wounds from being bitten.
The three bodies appeared, at first glance, to have been stripped of their goods. But Zat uncovers a single agate hidden on the central bodies person.
This small patch of earth only has two ways away from it. To the west from where you came and back towards the strange natural cavern that you haven't explored yet or east towards a forked road in the water. Leading into rather narrow openings in the rock walls...
Zat rolls the agate in his hand a few times and says Pretty then he tosses it to Felicia and continues moving east.
Aiden tries to stable himself from the encounter. "Now I can see why the reward was so high. Seems as though these fellows found out the hard way." He follows Zat towards the forked path in the water.
"Any clue where to go from here? Seems one's as good as the other; I say left."
Felicia passes the other two, doing a backstroke in the shallow water, singing to herself. "Left works for meeee~~~!" She is pretty out of it.
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Heading back the way you came in a daze Felicia gets around the corner before she feels her skin start to itch. The Itching spreads rapidly, its followed quickly by her entire body feeling warm and the once cool damp cave feels like it is a slowly growing fire to the half catkin. Her armor feels tighter as if it wasn't quite fitting her form right anymore and her skin didn't feel quite like her own either.
The feeling causes Felicia to rise from the water and lean against the cave wall. It didn't appear to be ending anytime soon. Strangely enough the intense itching and growing warmth throughout her body felt really good...
Pressing on without Felicia you squeeze your way through the least of the flooded openings and find yourselves in an open chamber...
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Aiden lights a torch, considering he's not going to be able to see a blasted thing with all this darkness about.
"Oh... Whaa??" Felicia stands up at the queer sensation and looks down at herself. She popped the straps and laces where the armor was feeling particularly tight. She writhed as the feelings danced across her skin and into her body. Then she looked down again. Suddenly she was standing in not water, but a lake of the black liquid. Clawed hands reached up from the murky depths and tore at her skin, she watched as the flesh melted from her hands and turned to a seething mass of rats and maggots that consumed itself over and over. She tried to scream, but all that came from her mouth was more of the black fluid, which in turn began clawing at her figure. Then, without warning, the fluid encased her body, cooling and solidifying into a suit that compressed and shaped her form. At the last second, the suit burst, and Felicia snapped out of her hallucination.
After a moment, she re fastened her armor, adjusting it where it needed. She then pulled the waterproof lantern from her pack and lit it. As the new and improved catgirl leaned forward, she caught her reflection in the water. "Oh my..." Her golden eyes sparkle as she surveys her new, mutated form.