Globlob breaks into a broad grin that showcases a few too many teeth to be called anything other than manic, before he starts waggling the wand around again. This time, he aims to try to keep Biggun out of the blast if at all possible.
This time Globlob’s wand looses a burst of sound that is too much for the amorphous blob enveloping Biggun… disintegrating like a large bubble bursting, it collapses into a smear of ectoplasm that floats on the filthy water of the flooded tunnel. Biggun suddenly finds himself breathing ‘fresh’ air once more…
Ravboom makes sure his powderhorn is capped, and that his gun is held up out of the water, and then slowly sneaks along the wall forward until he can see up both directions in the tunnel. If anything is there they know the group is there after the wand making noise through the tunnel.
Picking his way along the wall of the tunnel, Ravboom moves past the slime-covered Biggun and makes his way towards the junction in the tunnel. Silently approaching the junction, he can see that to the south, the tunnel heads into the gloom before turning to the west once more... a slightly green glow can be seen coming from beyond where the tunnel heads west... whilst, to the north east the tunnel appears to lead to a chamber...
...and Ravboom sees it immediately - there is unusual movement in the water in both directions...
"He doesn't look too terribly hurt," Relas chimes in, still splashing about in the water in a comic fashion. "Good job taking a beating like that!"
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Shaking his head wildly, Biggun staggered drunkenly to his feet and looked around. "Biggun's head hurt..." he muttered before looking at Palo. Giving himself a slap on the cheek to get himself back together, he grinned and exclaimed, "Biggun good to go!" And with that, he took off down the corridor to see what came next.
So far, the unusual movememt in the water (to the south and to the north east) doesn't seem to be approaching Ravboom, Biggun and the others...
Ravboom sneaks back. "More stuff in water down each tunnel. Maybe more slimy stuff. Maybe throw rocks down north tunnel, splash water, lure into this tunnel, sound stun?" He whispers.
Heading back towards the staricase and his companions, Ravboom stands on the steps to the doors heading north...
The double stone doors appear to be locked... a series of cogs and gears in the walls around the doorway suggests that the unlocking and opening of the doors is mechanically driven. A second look at the door, now that the danger of the amoeba swarm has passed reveals that there is a small keyhole within an engraving of a raven.
Ravboom goes up to the top of the main stairs to the ruin, and retrieves 10 lbs of stones of various sizes and returns with them.
"Wow, good aim Biggun!" Relas cheers, still paddling around in the water. "Maybe Ravboom should make you a BoomRav too...er...a BoomBiggun? BoomBig?"
Taking aim at one of the areas of turbulent water, Biggun throws a lump of rock... it splashes down into the filthy water cretaing a mighty wave - a wave that turns and builds as it approaches the goblin...
"ICK!" Ravboom yells as the thing barrels down on Biggun!
BOOM
"Ewww!" Relas cries as the giant blob-like thing approaches, but rather than flee he does his best to move up next to Biggun and help the goblin hold the line. "It can't eat both of us at once!"
The blob within the water is twice wracked by attacks from the goblins (and Palomia) standing at the junction in the tunnel… globules of ectoplasm spray out as the membrane of the creature is pierced by gunfire and then burnt by acid…
…yet still it bears down upon the group…
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Globlob lets out yet another yelp of surprise, the sudden appearance of all manner of amoebas doing very little for his nerves. Fortunately, a few choice words are always on his lips for moments like these. After he belts out a rousing tune, he snatches up his bow and gets ready to fire.
"Ugly, goopy, grimy, glop!
Longshanks, go and get a mop!
Goblins mush you down to size,
Shoot you, jab you, rip out eyes!"
Leaking fluid as it undulates through the water, the giant amoeba slams against Biggun… and, unable to grab him, slides back off of the oversized goblin…
With the strange blob now within easy reach, Relas decides to take a risk and see if it might be vulnerable to tooth and claw after all. "Rwar! Die jellything!" he snarls amid a flurry of strikes.
The smaller, single cell amoeba proves to be a much less hardy foe than the previously encountered swarm... between Biggun's chain crashing through the water, Palomia's acid and the claws of Relas, the amoeba is swiftly reduce to no more than a floating puddle of ectoplasm...
Globlob immediately moves to heft another of the rocks that Rav had gathered and hurl it down the other hallway. No sense in wasting perfectly good inspiration, after all. He aims to hit whatever is making waves down that way, regardless of how wise that is.
"Hah! That worked out great!" Relas cheers, happily bounce-splashing in the water. As Globlob moves up and chucks a rock down the other hallway, he turns and watches expectantly to see if anything else wants to tangle with them.
Deciding that getting the attention of whatever it is in the water to the south is a sound strategy, Globlob throws one of Ravboom’s rocks along the tunnel… it splashes down sending a plume of filthy water rising towards the roof of the tunnel and, once more, a bow wave starts to form as yet another globule of ectoplasm moves towards the group…
"Here comes another one!" Relas calls as the slimy mass begins moving up the tunnel towards them. "Get ready!"
Though Biggun's jubilant attitude has rubbed off on him, the eidolon does keep his head enough to know that it would be better to let the creature come to them and give Rav, Glob, and Palo a chance to fire at it before as it closes the distance.
Palomia, throwing another globule of acid down the tunnel, sees the amoebic creature recoil as it is burnt… and then, crashing forwards through the water, Biggun brings his massive chain down hard – there is an almighty ‘splat’ as the amoeba literally explodes under the force of the blow.
…and then silence returns – interrupted only by the lapping of water against the sides of the tunnel and the occasional dripping of water from the roof of the tunnel…
"Glob check door, see if can open. Don't like leaving things behind while in strange tunnels."
Globlob nods furiously and snatches up the key, scurrying over to the door to unlock it. Before he does so, he takes a long moment to look the door up and down, listen at it, even lick it in spots just to make sure it is not trapped.
Only once he is very certain that the door is not trapped, whether or not it actually is, he jams the key into the lock and turns it.
Inserting and turning the key - with little thought or consideration of the consequences, there is a sudden grinding of metal upon stone… dust, coming down in small clouds, is shaken from high-up ledges whilst the water within the catacombs is patterned with ripples from a vibration that builds as the doors slowly open inwards… revealing a shrine as they crunch to a halt…
This octagon-shaped room has a low, 7-foot-high ceiling and a recessed alcove to the east. Along the far wall, on a pointed, three-step dais, a black stone statue of a hooded figure stands within a pristine pentagram. It clutches a black crown in one hand and a raven in the other. Perhaps more disturbing, a dancing aura surrounds the figure, bathing the room in a soft, violet light, while a long onyx tentacle protrudes from the figure’s hood where its face would normally be.
"All I know is that whoever or whatever it is, it's pretty ugly," Relas adds, unable to resist giving his own expert opinion on the matter. "I guess that just leaves the south passage or the northeastern one, right? Maybe we should try going south since that's the first one after this room."
"Black statue with purple light, black thing on neck with purple veins. Ravboom think too much same. Think be better smash statue and leave." He waves the barrel of the gun in the direction of the statue. "Everyone out, shoot from door."
Biggun is next to the statue, assessing whether it will make good loot, when Ravboom suggests that destroying the effigy with the Boomrav is a sound tactic – looking back at Ravboom he notices, in the alcove to the side of the room – which is painted jet black like the unsettling statue - an old leather bag lying abandoned upon the floor...
Without a single though to the consequences, Biggun marches over to the satchel that he sees lying upon the floor… and, the very moment that he steps into the blackness of the alcove, he stops…
...and then, a hitherto unseen figure floats from the corner of the alcove; apparently missing the lower half of its body, a curiously amorphous humanoid 'body' reaches towards Biggun... its mouth gaping open in a permanently frozen scream...
Insinuating itself towards the giant goblin, the floating figure claws at Biggun...
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Globlob grunts in agreement with Rav's assessment and makes to scurry back toward the door, when Biggun suddenly starts muttering about loot. With wide eyes, he whirls back around and is about to yell back to their abnormally large friend, but is too slow. A fairly justified shriek at the sudden appearance of the...thing slips from him.
"Yeek! Shredskin! Is dead, is dead!" The overwhelming urge to scream and run around in circles nearly overpowers the warchanter, but he remembers his "training." Instead, he settles for taking a deep enough breath that his tummy bulges outward and belting out a song.
"Big and eerie, floaty ghosty!
Get some fire, make it roasty!
Don't let it make meal out of friend,
Turn it into mush again!"