GM icehawk's wrath of the rightious

Game Master icehawk333

I'm glad you're okay. Do you know the way to the surface?

"If you are injured, I can aid with that," Haruto states. He looks carefully at the rescued person... though he actually seems almost to be looking past them.

"As for us, as Azlana says, we should get back to the surface and see what is left up there."

"information is mostly what we need yeah.
Hanna looks the two of them over, trying to get a feel for who they are/were
perception : 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21
appraise: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22

Lann thinks for a while, making a hissing sound as he mills a few things over.
"if you desire to reach the surface, the perhaps it's best we take you to neathom. I'm sure someone will know the way there."

Crel and dara are less chatty, dara helping crel stay upright. Dara does say-

"i'm fine, no need for healing..." shr doesn't have much more then scrapes and bruises, lukily.

"Is Neathom your home?" Haruto asks, taking a guess that it's the name of a town.

Azlana channels a couple of times anyway, even though they said they don't need healing. She can't do much, but hopefully every little bit counts.

Channel twice to heal: 1d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (1) + (6) = 7

Everyone gets 7 HP as needed. 2 of 4 channels used.

lann nods to ueto. The two others seem suprized, and relieved. Crel stops needing to lean on dara. The blinded elf takes in a fair amount of the postive energy as well.
"it is indeed. I belive some people there might know a way up.

Lothar looks confused at the mention of a town, something about this situation just doesn't quite make sense. "How far down are we? I don't recall falling so far that getting to the surface should be uncommon knowledge, and if we did fall that far, surely we should have been much more heavily injured by it?"

"likely it was by the grace of trendalev or the good gods

Lothar, think back... don't you remember being caught by a powerful spell that gently lowered us so that we wouldn't be killed... as the others were that fell with us? I didn't remember at first, but it started to come back to me.

The thought comes to Lina in a moment of inspiration: "You're...the mongrelmen, aren't you? The descendants of the First Crusaders?"

Haruto frown slightly. "That name seems impolite," he comments.

Lann makes another soft hissing sound. "the name is... annoying, yes, but it's also accurate."
The blind elf is practically bouncing with exitement, thinking of a flurry of questions.

Thank you, Lann. We definitely would like to visit Neathom, and hopefully find our way back where we came from. I'm Azlana, by the way. I also think that Aravahnial here has some questions if you are willing to answer some.

"Yes! I would be quite interested to visiting your city," Haruto exclaims with a smile. He adds, in a bit more subdued voice, "And, of course, in getting back to the surface."

the group nods, and lann introduces them. Soon they move on, bringing the group along, while aravanshul bombards them with so many questions that they eventually just stop answering for a while. About eighteen minutes of this, and lann turns to the group.
"in a chamber ahead, there is a creature. A... Spore-cougher. I'm sure we can kill it if we work together, but I felt I should warn you."

What should we know about it? Do we need to stay back?

Haruto frowns slightly. "Given their state, I would think that we should be in front, not behind," he suggests.

"I'm thinking she means staying at range, although I don't know much about I assume some type of fungus," Lina says. "That being said, I'm thinking we either assail it with arrows, or if possible go around it. I'd like to scout ahead, see what kind of area we're working with."

"if it's a plant, fire or ice usually works best, assuming we can't go around

lann makes some odd noises, struggling to explain.
"it spits spores. Ranged combat would Probobly be preferred, yes."

"can it propel itself? Like walk around?

"I would agree with Hanna: If it is a plant, does anybody have a reliable method for setting things alight?"

Lothar wouldn't know it, but if anybody else might recognize the possibility of its spores acting like flour over an open flame, it might be an easy way to deal with the thing. I did that once: flour instead of baking soda. Whoops.

I can cast a spark that can set things on fire, like a campfire, but there has to be something flammable to burn. It doesn't set things big things on fire automatically. So, unless you have some oil or torches or something we can throw at it, I don't know that it will do any good.

I can shoot it with arrows though.

"You have already seen the limits of my offensive magics," Haruto states. "Perhaps another question is the keenness of its senses. If it is possible to fool we will not need to fight."

"Color me doubtful that we could sneak past it," Lina says. "I'm going to take a look ahead, see what we're working with."

After getting her longbow in hand, Lina goes in the direction the Mongrelmen indicated to scout the chamber with this 'spore-cougher', doing her best to stay quiet and out of sight.

stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11

if that's a failure I'm going to use my trait to do a reroll

stealth: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23

there are two shadowy humanoid figures in the dark cavern ahead, hard to make out clearly laying on the floor. A creature with spidery legs and an inverted bell shaped "head" is lying next to them. Nothing is moving.

trait is unused

meanwhile

"they can move, yes. Spindly legs holding up an upside-down bell."

About how big is the chamber?

about 20 feet, circular.

How wide is the passage leading to it? Is there enough room at the entrance for a few archers to line up?

only about 10 feet.

If Lina tells us that there are humanoid creatures with it, Azlana will ask Lann about them: Who is with the spore-caugher? Do they control it? Should we try negotiating with them?

If not, she just readies her bow and walks close enough to see her target.

Lina returns to the others. "The room isn't very large, I don't think we can sneak past it. Besides the plant creature, I saw the shadows of two humanoids, both lying on the ground, nothing was moving. The passage isn't wide enough for more than two people to ready clear shots at once, so we'll need to be careful with our movements; first two people shoot, move aside, next people shoot, and so on."

Haruto frowns. "Two people lying on the ground, not moving? Is it possible they were dead?"

"I couldn't tell you either way, as I said, neither they nor the creature were moving, and it was quite dark," Lina says.

anvina raises a hand.
"i could look."

Lann says "i'm not certain. The spore cougher has no allies, as far as i know, so i doubt anyone has any control over it..."

as azlana walks close enough to see, shedding light in the room, it reveals a dead plant, and two dead humanoid figures. The silver blob forms up out of the wall, and moves fo poke at the corpses.

Azlana searches the bodies of the humanoids, avoiding the silver blob. If that gets close and tries to touch her, she runs away, but if it doesn't, she keeps doing what she is doing. If it seems safe, she'll motion Anvina closer, since she volunteered.

If she does come closer, Azlana asks Does the silver thing look familiar at all?

Haruto opens his mouth to point out it was familiar to him, but caught on just in time. Instead he says, "I think we should stop it from eating anything else, don't you?"

Lothar frowns at Lina's plan, but grudgingly accepts it. "I really need to obtain a ranged weapon," he mutters to himself. More loudly, he asks, "Does anybody have a spell which would allow me to hold my breath for long periods of time? I could just walk up and try to smash it."

Hanna just sort of blinks at Lothr, wondering if he might have a concussion "if we were to wait till tomorrow I guess I could prepare air bubble... I didn't exactly expect to be put in this situation, so I don't exactly have all possible contengies planned. Regardless, the plant is dead, and even if it wasn't there wasn't enough room for us all to be shooting at it

No concussion that I'm aware of. All we know so far is that it's not moving. Nobody except Azlana and Anvina have gotten close enough to know that it's dead, and, at least according to their posts, they haven't relayed that to the rest of us. So, at least IC, the air bubble should be a decent way to prevent Lothar from breathing in the thing's spores as he walks up to smash it (because there's not a lot of room to shoot at it).

as I was saying that would require staying put until tomorrow as I didn't prepare it today

i don't think air bubble can actually protect you from airborne effects, it just allows you to breathe where there is no air.

"Stars, how about we don't go running into the dark cave where who-knows-what is waiting to maul and-or eat you," Lina says quietly.

She moves back into the chamber, and at the sight of the dead plant, she sighs. "Well, better time wasted than having to fight the thing. Damn it, that silver ooze has been stalking us since we fell down here, what the hell is it?"

Using Detect Evil, focusing on the Ooze

Stars, how about we don't go running into the dark cave where who-knows-what is waiting to maul and-or eat you.

Not dark since I have my halo, but yeah, I know. I was getting ancy. Not saying it was wise. If it kills me though, maybe you'll have more information. :)

the ooze doesn't register as evil, and continues to prod the corpses.

Azlana is shaking, staring at the silver blob.

Scared, but determined to figure something out, she tries to remain calm and examine it up close (without getting closer than she already is).

Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

The ooze inches just a tiny bit closer to alzana.

Mind control? Can you communicate more clearly?

Azlana steps 5 feet backwards, ready to run if it keeps approaching. She wants to communicate with it, but she isn't willing to risk what happened to Anvina.

Haruto watches nervously, ready to strike with his magic if the ooze makes a hostile-seeming move.