Azlana bring up her bow and fires:
Lina rushes into the room regardless of her own safety and takes a swipe at the mongrelwoman.
the blue mogrelwoman hisses and swings her club twice recklessly at Lina, to no avail.
Azlana fires again:
the mongrelwoman has an arrow thunk into her shoulder, another missing her and bouncing off the stone. a gash just barely cutting through her crude armor on her side. She steps back, the starknife only grazing her, but the fire from Huerto burning her flesh. She hisses, realizing she's stuck herself in in a corner, still standing, if barely.
Lina takes two swings at the mongrelwoman with her starknife and dagger.
Haruto keeps up his assault of heavenly fires.
the mongrelwoman staggers and falls to a knee. She hisses a spiteful curse in a language no-one recognizes, and a cascade of silver liquid flows around her, a swirling dome between her abd the party. Horgus and anvina are standing back, bow and rapier ready if things go south, while anvina gives quiet instructon of what's going on to avarash.
Azlana mutters
So we try to avoid the ooze stuff and run into the goop stuff again. What the crap IS this place?
Since the silver stuff doesn't seem to be attacking... yet, she walks around the silver stuff to see if there is anything else in the room or a way out.
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Haruto darts past into the room and watches the silver substance warily. "Perhaps there is more than one source of it?" he suggests.
The silver stuff seems to like us. That other stuff doesn't. I don't know. What do YOU want to do? We came in here because we were avoiding that other stuff. Let's search and see if there is anything here, and if the silver stuff attacks us, we attack it back. If not, then we get in, get out, and go face that other goop.
Lina simultaneously tries to attack and respond to Azlana, saying, "This one, that one?! From where I'm standing all the silver ooze looks the same!"
Azlana responds That battle with the tentacled thing went on so long and the goop came back to life and quadrupled in size so I thought maybe it was different, but I'm sure you are correct and it is all the same. Do you think this is the same one that we just fought though, or is it... another one? The other one went a different way--Through the northern door--and we came to this southeast door trying to avoid it. Are there a lot of them?... Since it *is* all the same type of thing, though, why are we fighting it? If it can come back to life, what is the point?
There's a soft gak from within the ooze, and the ooze seems to relent, pooling back into a small puddle as a courpse falls to the ground. Whatever it was doing, it just got interrupted.
Haruto frowns distantly while watching the ooze. "Its actions might make more sense if there were actually two of them..." he comments.
True. And it keeps doing weird things to people... killing some, but not killing others. We need to get out of here and back to the surface. Can we just try to avoid it?
Azlana searches the room that they are in, and checks to see if there is anything valuable on the corpse, if she can do both of those things without being touched by the silver slime.
Then they open and search the northeast room, and then they head north .
in the meantime, the door azlana is near leads to a small chamber filled with rotting garbage. there seems to be a clear sludge at the end of the chamber, engulfing some of the trash.
the corpse has a potion, a wand, a crude but light chain shirt, a club, a surprisingly nice longbow, 20 arrows, an obsidian unholy symbol of baphomut, and 34 gp.
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"It's about chasing the creature off. Better that than trying to run and getting stabbed in the back." Lina looks over the corpse's belongings as well, and makes a noise of disgust at the unholy symbol. "Not just working with cultists, but demoniacs themselves." Without asking anybody else, she uses a rock to smash the unholy symbol.
Makes sense.
Azlana tries to identify the items:
She casts detect magic and uses spellcraft:
Potion
Wand
Chain Shirt (if magical)
Club (if magical)
Longbow (if magical)
Arrows (if magical)
the wand is a wand of longstrider, and the potion is a potion of cure moderate wounds. The other items are non-magical.
"I have no need of these things, if others of you could make use of them," Haruto says.
Azlana cast light on a rock and drops it into the hole, looking after it to see if there is anything interesting down there.
Water glistens on the walls of the cavern as the rock is dropped- not much is visible from the hole, but thw ground looks stable and safe. Two sets of feet can be heard scrambling after the stone hits the ground.
Azlana asks if anyone wants the items
Then she asks if anyone wants to go down the hole to check it out, or whether they should move on. She suggests that if they do go down that they not use the rickety ladder, but use a newer, better rope to lower people.
The exit could be this way for all she knows. Her instinct was to stay up, but caves were tricky things, and she didn't know what direction it was to get back to town.
Haruto frowns at a point past the wall. "We are also here to remove the threat of these cultists, are we not? We should not leave enemies behind when there are likely so many more above."
Does that mean you want to go down the hole, Ueto?
Haruto nods. "At some point. Perhaps not immediately."
Azlana sighs and realizes that nobody is going to do anything, so she ties a rope to something sturdy and goes down the hole herself.
the room is damp and smells of mold, the dripping room flowing into a small stagnet puddle on the side of the room. Thw room has a barricade, but seems abandoned- the guards here may have fled.
Azlana proceeds past the barricade, keeping her eyes open for any threats.
Haruto watches Azlana go. "We should not leave her to go alone," he states, and starts following.
Lina follows Azlana and Haruto and keeps an eye out for people, danger, or traps.
in the next room, Three copper bowls filled with glowing coals hang from the ceiling of this long, natural cavern. The braziers fill the chamber with warmth and soft orange light. In the center of the chamber stands a block of stone that serves as a table, lined with wooden chairs. An enormous bloodstain, maybe a week old, darkens the stone’s surface. The four mongrelmen are behind the table, ready with clubs.
Azlana shoots at Mongrelman #1. We'll call him Mort.
mongrelman 3 hisses and darts to Hanna, bringing his club down in an attempt to hit her. Mort drops dead with barely a "gak"
Azlana shoots at Mongrelman #3.