"Have a go at it, just be careful it doesn't harm you, you've been the target of traps going off so far."
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Seventeen will amuse herself by inspecting the glowing panel things to the north by the desk. Not that she can tell much about them without wasting more spells.
Omo will help with examining the technology.
"These protective devices are quite incredible."
The young rat folk seems eager to assist, but he is also stymied by his lack of understanding. "Jarreck, you must teach me this tongue."
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"Sure Omo, I believe Guaire wants to learn as well."
Jarreck takes a few moments to indicate the individual signs, and restate what they mean. Hoping to start help the others start to pick out some individual runes/characters. "Keep an eye on the signs we pass and some of them may start to make sense. But more indept study will have to come later."
"Back to the search, shall we check the Xenobiology lab? An elevator is going to take us up or down away from this level. That will leave several more rooms on this one that have not been checked."
"That rather depends who made all this", she indicates the metallic deck, the walls and the glowing panels. "If the creators where something rather different than us, then yes a Xenobiology lab could well contain what we are looking for. I guess there's one one way to find out."
Once we've learned all we can here, Seventeen will start moving towards the Xenobiology lab.
Jarreck opens the doors labeled Xenobiology and another hallway presents itself. Two doors are closed, but the smell of mold and vegetation permeates the air in this corridor.
*Sniff...sniff..*
"Rather a self presenting smell, mold...plants. May we not find ourselves a monstrous fungus to fight."
"I believe you said the last one we encountered was hurt by extreme cold. Did anyone buy any alchemical ice?" asks Seventeen.
Without waiting for an answer, she listens at both doors.
Seven doesn't hear anything untoward.
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for Xenobiology
"Not me, need you to start giving me a shopping list while we're in town" Jarreck says in response to Sevens question. Following her lead, he listens at the doors as well.
If no major difference can be discerned....
"I say we stay to the right and work our way around the outside. The diagrams showed this place as a huge circle. If we stay to the outside edges and check the inside doors as they come up hopefully we can keep from being attacked from the rear."
Jarreck opens the door to reveal The stench of mold and decay fills this open, dark chamber, no doubt created by the thick blanket of fungal matter coating the floor. Several chairs sit before work tables containing unusual tools and equipment, while a row of doors line the curved southern wall.
The lighting in this room is nonfunctional, in part due to the rampant overgrowth of brownish and black molds and fungi in the area. While these growths smell somewhat foul and are unpleasant to look at or touch,
they're harmless. Two plants lay with vines curling against the southern wall. There are four open chambers that aren't lit but you can make out that the doors are open to the chambers.
You can now kind of see that the growth of mold seems to come from the four chambers.
Is there anything moving in there?
Guaire notices something unusual, gazing into the direction of the plant life.
"Hold on....something's off here. Those two plants, he points, they move unnatural. Maybe manipulated, animated?"
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Jarreck stops at Guaire's warning, following his gaze and pointing finger to the strange plant life. Opening the door further he will move around the northern table to get a different view of the plant life and if unmolested he will check out the northern most cubicle.
"I'll check the right side first, keeping my distance from the creepy plantlife over there."
Jarreck slips as he reaches the cubicle to check on its contents and sees pretty much nothing but more mold and fungus.
"Those plants are intelligent. Perhaps we can communicate with them peaceably? I don't want to believe everything down here is dangerous to us."
"Avoiding unnecessary conflict would be logical. I wonder if these have direct mind to mind communication again," says Seventeen.
"Maybe, we'll have to see about that."
Jarreck checks the northern cubicle and sees a body in the advanced stages of decay and fungal infestation. The massive growth of mold in the room seems to come from the body.
"I don't think there that intelligent Seven. They are definitely carnivorous plants, not unlike that creature called 'This I' we encountered before. Either we move around those plants or burn them down as they can move, albeit slowly, but the toxin they secrete is highly nauseating."
Mort says as he looks around the room as well.
Seventeen looks at Omo apprasingly, and remarks, "Best to avoid them entirely if possible, otherwise yes fire seems to be required."
"These plants are Weedwhips. Carnivorous plants which are barely mobile but have long vines which they use to feed. Their toxins which nauseates their prey!"
"Best we avoid the plant life."
Omo moves very carefully to avoid whatever vines, slimes, or molds infest this room.
As Omo and Mort move into the room and Jarreck inspects the biota of the small chamber, the door in the eastern wall opens and a a weird looking humanoid makes a shrill sound before raising a spear made from odd metal bits.
Vegepygmy tribes live in tightly knit communities and fiercely guard their patches of russet mold. Vegepygmies cannot speak—they communicate via a crude language of rhythmic taps, beats, and clicks. Hunting parties echo these exchanges through the caves they travel. Vegepygmies stand 2 to 4 feet tall and weigh between 15 to 45 pounds.
Approximately 1 in 20 vegepymies are chieftains. A vegepygmy chieftain is an advanced vegepygmy (often one with class levels) that carries an infestation of russet mold spores in its flesh. A vegepygmy chieftain infects any creature it hits with its natural weapons with russet mold spores (see below).
Round 1
Jarreck
Guaire
Omo
Weedwhips
Pygmys
Seven
Mort
"Look out! That creature is a vegepygmy, though small in size, they can be quite bothersome and deadly with many. They're formed from bodies left in that russet mold. We should make sure it's gone after we kill this thing."
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"We've run into this before, at the slurk's cavern. I wonder if the man there came...." Trailing off as the door comes open to the east.
Drawing his shortbow, Jarreck takes a shot at the pygmy that just opened the door (Green).
guessing the the pygmy has cover from Mort? Or can I shoot over top of him, he is short afterall...
"Clear a path I must burn these!"
"No time for that now Jarreck, we must focus on our own survival for now."
@ seven:
"Sounds good."
Guaire moves NW of Omo and shoots at green too.
Omo throws a bomb at the purple creature.
"Maybe that mold is the russet mold!"
Round 1
Jarreck fires through the doorway and the arrow fails to do any damage against the plant creature.
Guaire fires through the doorway and the arrow fails to do any damage against the plant creature.
Omo hurls a bomb and it melts the plant creature's face. the one next to it suffers burns as well.
Weedwhips
1 attacks Mort, its long tentacles flailing but the wily gnome remains unhittable.
2 attacks Jarreck its long tentacles flailing scoring two hits on the Rogue . Jarreck resists the poisonous sap!
Pygmys move around a bunch, Green attacks Mort Gold attacks Mort both miss the gnomish tank!
Seven
Mort
Round 2
Jarreck
Guaire
Omo
Bad Guys
Seven
Mort
Omo throws another bomb cream/tan creature so that he can burn the Weedwhips whips too.
Omo then backs up to get away from the green monster next to him.
"Nasty veggies."
Guaire unleashes a rapid shot on green.
Seventeen ducks into the space behind Mort and Omo and brings her thumbs together facing east. Her eyes shine briefly with an inner light and miniature lightnings crackle between her outstretched fingers as she intones, "Fuego!"
A fan of vivid fire flashes out behind Mort's left ear immolating the three Pygmies to the east!
Mort's right hand starts to glow a pale blue and then he takes a step back north. He tries to touch the green vegepygmy with the negative energy.
Seven casts her spell and the Vegepygmys wail in pain.
Mort cannot step north as Seven is there, but he casts a spell so the Vegepygmys get AoOs they miss, but so does his Chill Touch spell.
Round 2
Jarreck
Guaire
Omo
Bad Guys
Seven
Mort
Round 2
Jarreck attacks the weedwhip, hitting for 4!
Guaire fires his bow twice, the arrows do no damage to the plant like creature.
Omo melts another vegepygmy the splash hits one of the Weedwhips.
Bad Guys
Weedwhip1 attacks Omo hitting the Ratfolk twice for and Omo resists the poisonous sap!
Weedwhip2 attacks Omo hitting the Ratfolk three more times for and Omo is nauseated!
Pygmys three attack Mort the pygmys mostly rake inneffectually at the druid but two claws rake him for
Vrilledt a new enemy arrives you all notice he carries a weapon bearing the sigul of Brigh...how'd he get that!
Seven
Mort
Round 3
Jarreck
Guaire
Omo
Bad Guys
Seven
Mort
This is for Omo to make his poison saves on his turn.
Guaire grits his teeth and grabs for the blunt arrows.
"Good thing i've got these blunt ones with me."
He shoots at green again.
Seeing the enemies shift about Seventeen calculates her best angle of attack is now to the west of Mort, hitting several vegepygmies and one of the weedwhips. Again her eyes shine briefly with an inner light and miniature lightnings crackle between her outstretched fingers as she chants, "Fuego!" And again a fan of fire envelops her enemies!
"I can't keep this up for long." she hisses.
Mort tries to touch the green vegepygmy again, sending the negative energy through his palm again.