Toboyn gives his head a shake ... to be interrupted in the middle of worship can be quite disorienting! Casting into the center of the action, he launches a second holy smite to cover the three foes.
Tam calls out, "Mouser! Over here!"
Then he holds his pipe in one hand, mutters a few magic words, and casts greater invisibility on Somer.
"That should keep you going, archer. Fire away."
"Thank you my friend. That, that is much better."
Somer disappears from view, although his arrows are visible as they streak into the ooze.
The ooze pursues mouser, but it isn't terribly fast.
Red moves forward in an attempt to crush Somer.
Somer is able to avoid the blow, thanks to his invisibility.
Purple again tries to punch Balmir.
Tam casts another greater invisibility, this time on Mouser.
Toboyn moves forward a bit. He can't get to Balmir, but calls forth healing power from Cayden, channeling it selectively to the rest of his party:
Mouser finishes off the ooze, now invisible as well. Toboyn hopefully is healing people, but he can't see any of them to know for sure.
Somer continues to backpedal, thanks to haste, and fires another two arrows at the ooze. He almost calls out his thanks to Toboyn but does not want to give his location away.
Balmir focuses on the statue in front of him. It is taking too long to take it down. He swings the hammer powerfully.
The first arrow hits, ricocheting off the creature, but exploding into a snowball as it hits.
Balmir finally cracks the cray casing of the statue, causing it to burst into shards, leaving another ooze in its wake.
Balmir smacks the remaining ooze with a satisfying sploosh.
The ooze tries to engulf Balmir.
Red reaches out to touch Tamxander.
Toboyn again attempts to use Cayden's healing powers to best effect.
Balmir barely notices as the shard pepper his thick skin but he notices the ooze trying to engulf him.
"No! That's not going to happen." He swings the hammer down hard with a splat.
Tam withdraws from... whatever just clobbered him.
Balmir takes the last chance to slam the creature, and succeeds. And then it engulfs him.
No longer being perused Somer takes a steadying breath as he casts another spell and draws back his bow. He pauses for a short second to aim before the snow covered arrows fly yet again at the remaining statue.
Balmir closes his eyes as the blob of ooze rolls over him. He grips the haft of the hammer and taps into its latent energy. He feels a surge and suddenly his body begins to expand. Within seconds Balmir is a towering hulk.
Unfortunately, the engulfing ooze is still able to engulf you.
Somer's arrow hits, but the spell fizzles out. It makes little difference though, since the second arrow is enough to shater it's clay exterior.
It explodes, and Mouser needs to make a reflex save to avoid damage. Toboyn needs to do the same, but he will take 1/2 damage even if he saves.
Balmir suffers acid damage. And I need a fort vs disease save. And I believe a very varge Balmir drops from the damage.
Red moves toward Tam and Toboyn, but it is not speedy.
Balmir wounds overcome him and he falls unconscious.
Toboyn is startled by the spray of shrapnel, but maintains his resolve to get to the fallen Balmir. He attempts to skirt the goo to get within range, and again selectively channels to all in range save the foes
"Cheese on toasts! Not good."
Somer's eyes go wide as he sees Balmir go down, still one problem at a time he focuses on the closes ooze and casts. Both arrows are wreathed in scorching heat as they fly at the ooze.
The healing causes Balmir to reach consciousness, although he is still prone, engulfed, and taking acid damage. Still, he is able to act, and we are still waiting on an action from Tamxander.
Tam mutters imprecations about mindless creatures and unleashes another salvo of gloomblind bolts.
Balmir wakes up but feels awful. He has to get out of this ooze. He musters his strength and tries to break free.
In a heroic effort, Balmir bursts free from the ooze as Tamxander flings nastiness at it. The ooze shrivels and seems to melt, the acid draining away from Balmir who barely clings to life.
The last ooze moves toward Somer, attempting the same overrun technique!
Toboyn looks over at the bedraggled Balmir, and channels healing energy his way.
"This should get you back on your feet, Balmir -- stay out of trouble for a minute and I'll have you battle-ready. Not sure I can say the same for that shirt ..."
Somer leaps back, just avoiding getting sucked into the oozing mass. Toboyn gives Balmir much relief as his healing energies repair some of the damage he has suffered.
Balmir offers a curt nod in Toboyn's direction then steps into position against the ooze. He swings the hammer multiple times.
Balmir comes back with a fury, and splats that ooze all over the place.
"Whew."
"Balmir I think you're gonna need some new trousers."
Toboyn waits until all are gathered near enough, then channels more healing to his friends.
He winces a bit as he looks at Balmir's remaining damage ... "Balmir, if you can weather the remaining damage until evening, I can spare some of Cayden's healing energies for our next emergency."
Balmir grunts, "I'm fine" then shrugs as if to indicate that he doesn't care at all about his remaining injuries nor the state of his cloths. He looks around the room with a scowl. "There is something odd here. Why would these statue guards be here just for an empty room?"
Toboyn looks around the room ... Balmir is right, where there are guards, there must be something to guard. He gives the space a careful inspection, taking his time at it.
"Well that was not at all what I expected to happen, who puts an ooze inside a stature, that's just not right. How did they even survive in there.... doesn't matter I guess."
Somer slowly casts detect magic around the room as he talks and then helps with the search.
The lacquered cabinet to the south holds several large blocks of dried clay. It also holds a clay tablet that is a scroll of transmute rock to mud and two bricks (20 blocks) of blackfire clay .
"Huh. That's it? Just some magical things?" Balmir scoffs. "Seems like a bit of overkill. Three animated statue guardians filled with oozes just to protect those things." A thought occurs to him. "Tam, are these particular powerful or something?"
"I don't know for certain are mining for but by the color of this sludge, it looks like iron. But this seems like an very unusual building. If they just need something to sluice off water, why make such an elaborate building when a simple channel would do. Odd. But I guess we should keep moving up the valley."