Crying out in pain, Tasha lashes out in a frenzy against the shell sentinel, the dagger and mace scuffing onto the creature's thick shell. Where's my shell when I need it..., a thought crosses her head, as the blood seeping through her wounds forms crimson clouds in the water.
Tasha's dagger fails to find anything but empty space in her blindness, but her mace bashes right into the sentinel without concern. Its shells crack under the bludgeoning weapon's power, but it is still not down. The arcane energies holding it in place are strong. By the end, she manages to shake off enough glitter in order to see properly.
The pool of ink dissipates completely, and the sentinels slowly regenerate some of their wounds and lash out with their mandibles. Tasha is hit almost every single time and is shredded from face to feet. Yet, by her sheer determination she does not give in. Her body is fighting hard against the venom, making no headway but refusing to give in either. Ederion manages to dodge every attack against him despite being blind, but he's struggling to deal with the bleeding and venom.
A thud is heard from the closed door. It sounds like someone, or something, is trying to break in.
+1 bleed
I forgot it's blind.
"We could run! Or swim I mean... we might get hurt but..." Aster is worried they will all die down here... Ederion did mention it might be a deathtrap and all.
Ederion flails around blindly with his rapier, yet his reply to Aster is abnormally calm - "We cannot 'outswim' them Aster. Even if we could, I wouldn't know where to go. I have been blinded" - he states with an underwater chuckle.
Rexandi furiously twists her fingers and launches a glob of webbing at one of the shell-constructs, hoping to stick it to the wall.
Ederion swings around wildly, but fails to do more than graze the dull edge of his rapier against the shells. Aster gives Tasha another healing spell to help her out, while Rexandi lobs a large spider web at one of the shell sentinels. It dodges the web by spreading out the shells and weaving between the strands of webbing. Then it converges and prepares to attack.
The mermaid keeps singing.
As Tasha's wounds close just as they're inflicted, she turns around, giving Aster a brief, thankful look. Lunging forwards, her dagger sticks between the plates of the shell sentinel once more, the mace hopelessly bashing against the heavy shell. "Just a little more! Keep at it!", she shouts, readying for another painful lashing from the creatures.
Bazzle takes a shot with his crossbow at what he thinks is an enemy.
Tasha's dagger hits and breaks a shell, but what is one shell to a mass of likely hundreds? Her mace misses it completely as it dodges out of the way. Bazzle takes aim at the uppermost sentinel and releases a bolt, but the bolt slaps the surface of the water and misses entirely.
The door burst open right off its hinges as two bodies slam through it. One of the bodies is Tarnagius, who looks to be bruised up and is in the middle of a fight with a grey human-thing with three arms. He's holding his breath and his eyes are extremely alert and frightened.
Now that Ederion has regained his sight, he manages to dodge all the attacks from one of the sentinels. The other one uses its burst of ink. Ederion and Tasha seem to fight off the poison, but Aster isn't so fortunate. She's starting to feel the effects, which is not too different from being drunk.
Impaired: A character impaired by Wisdom poison does not add her Wisdom bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as a ki pool) and does not gain bonus spells per day from her Wisdom. She takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Wisdom-based rolls. A Wisdom-based caster reduces her DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast her 2 highest levels of spells.
Ederion attacks blindly.
"I always thought I was young for impotence. It got to be something like this."
What's going on?, a thought crosses Tasha's addled mind, as she braces herself for a sharp lashing that doesn't come. "Is everyone okay?", she shouts out, as she begins swimming for her life towards the direction she feels her rescuers come from. "I'll go first, follow my voice!", she shouts once more, pushing all she has to make it through the water.
If I have to roll for direction, then please do it, DM! Otherwise, taking a double move, since I can't do a run with a speed I don't have, towards the exit.
In the darkness, Ederion tries to follow a voice he does not recognize - "I am alive"
Aster will shift in her wererat form, grab the mermaids hand and then try and follow.
The mermaid takes Aster's hand, then races through the ink as fast as she can. She continues to sing, but now uses simple vowels rather than the complex elven words from before. All of a sudden, Ederion feels something clutch hold of his clothing and pulls him forward and up. They reach the surface to see the grate where Bazzle and Rexandi are hiding.
Tasha definitely feels the water churn around her, and can hear the singing, but isnt sure what's going on. She swims forwards for about 10 feet before finding a wall.
Both Aster and Tasha are starting to lose their decision-making and sound judgement skills. They are impaired.
Also the ink begins to disperse, now making a clouded area rather than an opaque one.
"Aster is not there?" - Ederion asks Bazzle and Rexandi, then begins looking around for his companion.
”This way! This way!” calls Rexandi excitedly.
She casts a quick spell and generates dancing lights to guide her teammates.
"Not up here. All we can see is sloshing around. Looks like a deathtrap." Bazzle offers a hand up.
"I'm coming!" Aster yells with magic somewhere behind Ederion. "Get Out, I'm on my way!"
Ederion spies Aster being carried by the mermaid. The mermaid isn't far away, maybe 5 ft from Ederion. She's looking between the door and the vent, likely to ascertain which way to escape.
The vent is 5 feet above the water, so it will take a good swimming leap to grab hold and pull oneself up. A helping hand or a rope will make the job much easier.
An otherworldly scream like some sort of feral banshee echoes across the water. It would seem that time is short.
"Bazzle! Do you have a rope?"
"Are you ok Aster?" - the elf inquires from his friend as soon as they meet.
But then, even amidst the chaos, and multiple death threats, Ederion's smile grows huge - a mermaid!
"Miss.." - he puts in hopeful, and with the possible bow allowed by being in the water - "I am Ederion, and I am enchanted to meet you"
"Ladies first" - he nods at Aster, the mermaid and Tasha, then suddenly realizing he is surrounded by ladies, which is much to his taste but also means he will be the last one up - "The ironies of being a gentleman" - he chuckles, but throws a wink at the wounded Tasha - "We will soon be out of here, Miss..?"
Unable to help herself despite the danger, Tasha gives the elf a smile. "I'm Tasha, pleased to meet you too.", she blurts out quickly, somersaulting down into the water, before pushing herself up to grab the ledge. "Let's leave the rest of the niceties once we're on dry land!", she adds.
Bazzle lays on his stomach and reaches over the edge, [b]"No rope hold my feet so they don't pull me in."
Rexandi lies down behind Bazzle and grabs onto his belt to help him pull up the others without getting himself yanked into the water!
Bazzle and Rexandi work together to catch Tasha as she leaps out of the water and grabs hold. The two of them shuffle down the shaft to pull her up to safety. At that moment, Tasha goes into a fit of retching and vomits up even more goop from her lungs and stomach.
The mermaid responds to Ederion in her singing voice "My name is Rillia, a friend of Shensen proud and brave. Take me to the air and sun so we can flee this watery grave."
Aster and Ederion start feeling very, very drunk. They're reeling and have gotten confused about what exactly is happening. Fortunately, Tasha seems to be resisting most of the poison's effects.
Tarnagius surfaces and takes in a deep gasp of air. He says "The entrance isn't far. Just go through this opening and turn left and go through the open door. Then you should see it... Ederion? Are you okay?"
Weakened: A character whose awareness is weakened by Wisdom poison takes a –2 penalty on all Wisdom-based skill checks and ability checks, as well as on Will saves. A character with spellcasting based on Wisdom decreases her DCs by 2 and can no longer cast her highest level of spells.
Impaired: A character impaired by Wisdom poison does not add her Wisdom bonus to the number of uses per day of pools and abilities (such as a ki pool) and does not gain bonus spells per day from her Wisdom. She takes an additional –2 penalty on the above Wisdom-based rolls. A Wisdom-based caster reduces her DCs by an additional 2, and can no longer cast her 2 highest levels of spells.
Confused: A character who’s confused by Wisdom poison has difficulty processing reality and is dangerous to herself and others. Each round, she rolls on the chart from the confusion spell to determine her actions.
Personal note: Poison at 4/6
Ederion suddenly turns around in the water, staring intently at a spot where none of you see anything relevant - "Did you guys see the size of THAT chicken?!"
Confusion takes hold making Aster think the tentacle woman is back and trying to grab Aster. She fumbles with her mace and tries to smash the hand that holds her.
Rillia the mermaid gets clocked on the head by Aster as she struggles for freedom. Rillia doesn't pass out from the attack, but definitely lets go. She decides to withdraw into the back and wait.
The light-headedness from the creature's venom hits Tasha hard as she leaps out of the water, before chunks from her stomach start falling in the water. "Oh... Sr... Sorry", she starts saying out, before bending in half once more, hand placed firmly on her mouth. Extending her other arm downwards, her eyes practically peel open as she sees Aster smack the mermaid. As she tries to exclaim, however, a shiver in her gut makes her close her mouth, as she turns paler than wax. Okay. Okay. Getting out. Don't words. Words not good., she thinks, before moving with surprising speed down the tunnel.
Tasha wearily squeezes past Bazzle and Rexandi to make it to a 10ft drop down the chute. The goop that she vomits out expands ten fold when it hits the air, then begins to bubble and release a nasty odor.
"What the..." Rexandi mumbles when she sees the hagfish-like goop that Tasha vomits up.
"That can't be good. Please, let me help... at least, I hope this helps."
She incants a brief spell with the magic phrase "Pepto-Bismol."
Bazzle half looks back at the noise, "What on earth." He fights the urge to wretch himself and looks to help the next ally up.
Tasha suddenly feels so much better. All the sticky, slimy goop disappears from her insides, and she recovers from the terrible smell.
Ederion and Aster's heart rates sky rocket from their confusion, and reach a point that they can no longer retain consciousness. They both pass out in the water. Rillia, Tasha, and Tarnagius are all having a hard time, but they haven't reached the confused state yet.
Tarnagius can't swim straight, but he grabs Ederion and hauls him over to Bazzle.
Note: Poison 5/6
Waving a hand in front of her face to at least chase away some of the smell, Tasha nods gratefully at the tiefling woman seemingly responsible. That's... that's how they got me the first time... though I don't remember the barnacle things..., a thought crosses her mind as she grabs onto the gnome's leg. "I'd be happy if that came from the earth...", she quips, before nodding, indicating that she's got a good grip on the man.
Rexandi does her best to help Bazzle pull the others up.
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Dazzle grunts breathlessly. "We are putting you on a diet."
Ederion half snores, half drowns.
Bazzle grabs hold of Ederion while Rexandi heaves by the Gnome's legs to haul Ederion to safety. Because Ederion is as relaxed as possible, he fits in the shaft quite well. Tasha and Tarnagius resist the lingering poison for the last time, but now Rillia is swimming around all confused. She starts singing a very strange and disjointed song. Tarnagius leaves her be for now, and instead grabs Aster's floating body and gets her ready to be thrust into Bazzle's hands.