the silver blob slowly reforms, before abruptly darting ahead with an odd hissing noise. There's a loud clattering in the area ahead.
Haruto sighs. "Now what shall we see beyond?" he muses to the air.
Lina keeps her blade at the ready as she leads the way advancing past the barricades. She keeps a careful eye out for any traps in the area.
there seem to be no traps, but as Lina peers ahead, there's something horrible to behold- a large, warped man dripping with silvery goop, a pair of tentacles emerging from his back. He doesn't seem to have noticed you yet, breathing heavily as he stands, hunched over.
”Weapons out, another one like that dwarf.” Lina draws her bow and makes eye contact with a couple of her allies before moving into the room, off to the side of the door, and shooting an arrow at the mutant.
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Azlana, following Lina's lead, shoots at the tentacled thing.
(likely missing horribly unless it is unarmored and incapacitated in some way)
Haruto murmurs a prayer to Desna and holds aloft his holy symbol.
the creature deflects both arrows with seeming ease, tentacles swatting the arrows out of the air. It runs directly at lina, swinging it's arm in a violent sidesmash motion.
Azlana channels. Since the bad guy isn't yet harmed, her lack of selective channeling won't make any difference, and perhaps it can help Lina without Azlana having to get into melee range.
Lina (and anyone else who doesn't have full HP) are healed for 2.
Lothar growls low and you can hear his breathing increase in pace, intentionally hyperventilating to increase his heart rate and blood flow, his body begins to pump adrenaline, the deific tattoos on Lothar's hands and shoulders begin to glow a bright blue, somehow even shining through his armor, and his eyes - unlike the milky white that they appear when he is merely searching for Evil - are radiating pure white light. "I am really starting to get sick of these gods-damned monsters!" Lothar yells out, and with an inarticulate roar, he dashes around behind the creature while it is focused on Lina and brings his hammer around into the creature's side.
Lina grits her teeth, drops her bow, and draws a starknife and a dagger. She stabs at the monstrosity while yelling, "Get out of my face!"
Haruto jabs a finger at the creature while chanting an incantation. A tiny, translucent fox head darts from his digit to nip at the monster.
the beast staggers and falls. It bubbles and begins to swell.
Azlana backs off quite a bit, in case it explodes.
Haruto makes certain to stand well back.
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the beast suddenly explodes, covering those near it in hot guts.
Lina darts back as the corpse explodes, still getting splattered with gore, and she stumbles away. She makes a gagging noise that turns into a hacking, painful-sounding cough, and she instinctively goes to put her hands in front of her mouth, over her scarf. "(Cough) (cough), eugh, that's disgusting. These (cough) monstrosities..."
Does anyone have Prestidigitation to clean all of this up?
Haruto will heal Lina and Hanna.
Lina retrieves her dropped bow, and at Haruto's touch she flinches and turns back toward him quickly. She nods. "Right, thank you." Lina puts her hand on her holy symbol, closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath to center herself.
Anvina and horgus are just staring with horrified expressions. Avarash pipes up. "excuse me, but what just happened?"
Lina redoes her hairpiece as she talks. "It was another one of those creatures fused with the silver ooze. It wasn't any stronger, but after we dropped it, it exploded or something, some kind of last-ditch defense mechanism."
"I'll take a look around," Lina says, and does so while giving the remains a wide berth, staying in this chamber.
Azlana pokes through the goop with an arrow, seeing if there is anything valuable in there. If there is, she asks Hanna to clean it off before picking it up.
Haruto frowns faintly at the room. "It seems odd that there was only this one person here..." he comments. "It seems there are many choices of where to go now, once we are done searching here."
In the room there are many hides on the walls, all crudely painted with images of deformed humanoids, hunting huge vermin. There are ten bedrolls layed out around a small fire pit with glowing coals. The for to the south is open.
There seems to be nothing of value here, and no magic to speak of- aside from the ooze, reforming, and flowing into the fire pit. The coals go out, and the ooze pools up, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in size. It lets out a strange mattalic noise, grinding and hissing, before wailing in a tone so loud Horgus and anvina drop thier weapons just to cover thier ears. It seems to twist and writhe, bubbles curning over it's surface. It rears back, seeming to prepare to launch itself towards the north door.
Haruto hurriedly fires off a ray of Heavenly Fire at the blob, figuring the holy energy is more likely to harm rather than help it.
Oh, man... it came back to life? Arrgh.
She shrugs and tries to see if an arrow will do any good against it.
the creature shifts, creating holes where the arrows and rays shoot through. It makes an odd hissing nose, shrinking back down. Somehow, it feels like it's staring at you all.
oddly, it seems to work, the ooze slipping under the threshold of the northern door.
Haruto frowns, looking at or maybe past the north door. "Perhaps we should go the other way first," he suggests. "Any other way."
Nice one, Hanna.
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Fine with me, but I am guessing we are going to have to go that way eventually. Which door do you choose? Northeast or Southeast?
Haruto shrugs slightly. "Southeast first?"
Azlana goes over and opens the Southeast door.
in the southwestern part of the room, stone chairs surround a stone table strewn with clay pots and bone dice. Stained canvas pillows rest on the chairs. A copper bowl filled with faintly glowing coals hangs from the ceiling, filling the room with a gentle orange glow.
a figure swings at azlana with a club as soon as she opens the door, just barely missing contact with her.
Azlana jumps back from the door and fumbles for her bow.
Haruto, wanting to save his better magic for later, manuevers to get a view of the enemy and fires a ray of Heavenly Fire.