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Solie debates between staying on the rope and getting into the danger room. As it turns out, she'd rather face live danger than fall to her death. She scrambles up and off the rope and into the room, cringing at the creatures she can make out in the darkness. She pulls out the wand she'd been given before in hopes of really was a stick of fire.
...as the group start to climb from the shaft, they start to see the layout of the room - to the north and the south, there are closed doors - and, to the west and around the shaft, there is another door. But these are not the concern... the priority for now is the dead-eyed guards shambling towards them...
Suddenly accelerating as they smell living flesh... and see prey climbing from the shaft, the zombies fall upon Ravboom and Solie... clawing and snarling, they swing at the goblin gunslinger and the gnome.. tearing a nasty gash across Solie's torso.
In her haste to get to climbing, Relas found himself in the awkward position of trying to follow up the rope after her and the others. Although his claws worked great on enemies they were a little more difficult to manage while trying to climb, and the lack of opposable thumbs wasn't helping either.
Not wanting to risk falling and potentially taking some of the others down with him, he takes the first chance he can to heave himself into the room and join the fight. "Argh! That would've been so much easier with thumbs or wings or something!" he groans as he pushes past Solie and attempts to take a bite out of the closest zombie.
Ravboom adjusts back 5 ft, the speed of the things having surprised him, he'd always heard undead things were slow. He fires the strange weapon at the one that attacked him.
Stepping backwards, Ravboom raises the alien weaponry and squeezes the trigger... there is hardly any kickback as the strange spur flies from the barrel... and, with a satisfying 'thud' embeds itself in the zombies chest.
As Palomia clambers from the lift shaft, she is slashed at by the zombie attacking Solie…
...yet, reaching for Palomia, the zombie becomes an easy target for Relas – his jaws clamping hard upon the creatures’ leg… strangely, whilst flesh tears and rips under the savage attack, there is no blood.
Globlob clambers himself up out of the elevator shaft and, spotting the undead things, belts out a rousing ditty for his loyal fans.
"Icky, goopy dead things walking,
They don't know that we be stalking
Like ghosties in the dead of night.
Jump on out, give them big fright!"
As the group clamber from the lift shaft, they make sure to position themselves behind the largest of their compatriots… namely Biggun and Relas; and, with most of the group on solid ground and Globlob belting out another rousing ditty, the zombies mindlessly swing at Biggun and Relas… slamming forwards with their entire bodies and then, perversely, attempting to lick at them with blackened, barbed tongues…
Ravboom fires the strange weapon at the one that attacked him, again...
Blekk, momentarily caught in a fantasy where he climbs up the rope, actually does so this time. If he's able to bite at a zombie, he does so.
"Ewww...Palo, why do we keep fighting big blobby things or things with tongues and tentacles?" Relas grimaces as he manages to dodge the zombie's various appendages before shifting behind his target and tearing into it with tooth and claw.
Globlob, true to form, lets his song resound off the walls and draws his bow. Without a second thought, he nocks an arrow and fires it off at the nearest zombie. Namely, the one between Solie and Relas.
With clicking from the alien weapon as Ravboom fires it and a salvo of arrows fizzing towards the zombies, the fight definitely starts to swing in favour of the group clambering from the lift shaft… and when Relas and Biggun smash into their targets once more, the battle is won. With the zombies slain, a quiet returns to the room... there are five doors leading from this main chamber - one to the north, one to the south and one to the west and, at the eastern end of the room, a passageway with a junction that leads to a northern door and a southern door... and, once more, there are green disks are embedded within the walls next to the doors...
Ravboom eyes the corpses, then uses his rifle butt to smash their skulls until there's nothing but mush and shattered bone where the heads used to be. "Better safe than lunch." He comments, his limbs trembling slightly.
Then he tugs some metal cylinders free from the zombies belts. "May be useful..." He comments, showing them to the others. He checks the corpses to see if there is anything else useful on them.
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"Try to not be dead, everyone," Solie announced, seeing Palo looking a bit beat up and Biggun still looking worse for wear despite her healing.
Solie peeks over Ravboom's shoulder as he loots the corpses and nods. I see its time to open every door. You first. I will watch out for you from behind you.
"Palo, you're hurt! Here, take this."
Blekk digs around in his bag and pulls out a dusty, old-looking bottle with a picture of a smiling goblin on it. "Make you feel better, heal wound. Or make you light on fire and burn forever. Either or."
"No ask why it taste like cherry, you no want to know."
"No, see tunnel?" Ravboom hooks a thumb at the shaft. "It go up and down, so we either in tower or under ground. Went down, found room, no way go down more. That mean we underground, near bottom. We have to keep going up." He points up. "Always possibility we in underground under tower, and exit on random level, so we have to check. But probably not reached top yet. Had big nasty scary thing in bottom level. Had dangerous kidnap victims in second to last level, had weak undead things in this level. Ravboom think whoever take us understand how dangerous it be kidnap us, put us in second most secure place they have."
Globlob leans over to Palo and whispers loud enough for most everyone to hear, "Taste that way because he use smily goblin named Cherry to make."
With a sage nod, he pulls out the Cure wand and wanders over to Biggun. "You broken. Stop being broken." Pokepokepoke.
"Eh. Only part true. Cherry smiled a lot, yes. But didn't use all of her. Just foot. She wasn't using anymore, said Blekk could use."
Once, twice, three times Globlob whacks Biggun with the wand… and, through magic rather more than through Globlob’s care, Biggun is restored to full health. Moving around the large chamber, having smashed the zombies and ensuring that they cannot return, the group discover a total of five doors – each closed and with a glowing green disk next to them, there is little to suggest what is behind each of them… even listening at the doors reveals little, the sound of bubbling fluids from beyond the northern door is all that can be heard…
"Perfect, thank you biggun." He promptly walks over to the southern door. "Obviously this is the best door to open first." He holds up the metal cylinder. "Relas, you guard door when it open, you come back from death. Not sure if Biggun can do that many more times. Ravboom know Ravboom cannot."
Once Relas is in position, Rav will set about trying to open the door with the cylinders, or his hands, or Glob's head, whatever works.
As Palo is left looking speechless and a bit horrified at the thought of having possibly just drank pureed goblin (complete with toejam), Relas pads over to the southern door. "Maybe there won't be anything else on this level, after all that ruckus?" he asks hopefully. "I think between us and the monster everything that was here is dead!"
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"Those guys were dead, didn't seem to stop them."
With a variety of ways available to open the door - not least of which is using Biggun as a battering ram - Ravboom works on the southern door. Perhaps fortuitously for the outsized goblin, it seems that opening the doors requires nothing more than waving one of the cylinders near the green disk; with a creaking noise, it slides open to reveal the room beyond…
The elongated, octagonal chamber beyond the door is dominated by several glass cases, each big enough to contain a large dog or goblin-sized creature – the cases contain various rocks and branches. A solitary workbench rests on the floor to the south with two unusual diagrams – both seeming to be biological illustrations - affixed to the wall above it. Other than the door in the centre of the northern wall, there are no other obvious exits from this room.
Ravboom looks at the room carefully.
The shiny glass cases seem to distract him somewhat however. He carefully looks at all the tools though on the table. "Ravboom not know much about plants and rocks, except some plants good to eat, and rocks make good weapons in pinch. However, Ravboom know 'research lab' when Ravboom see one. Someone here study rocks and plants."
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Ravboom looks around. "Biggun no on floor dead again, Palo no bleeding out, Solie still crazy, but no broken around edges. Seem like this door better than Biggun door. Biggun can open Biggun door later, get disolved by ooze monster by self. Biggun will have great fun while flesh melting."
"Ravboom always right." The goblin says automatically.
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"Solie is not still crazy. Never was crazy. Might be crazy like grandma someday but that is only when my hair turns white and I get wrinkles. Wrinkles make you crazy," she lectured Ravboom as she crinkled her nose at all the researchy bits and bobs around the room. She had no real taste for this type of experimenting. Experimenting was better when someone could get hurt.
"Nothing exciting here. Maybe we can find another door?" she asks hopefully.
Ravboom gives Solie a look, and then whispers to Glob.
"Think Solie still crazy. Think be fun put hair bleach in Solie's hair, turn white." He grins at the bard.
As the group move into the room - even though Solie is immediately dismissive - eyes are drawn to the fascinating illustrations on the wall… drawn with fantastic detail, the two diagrams appear to be dissectional in nature – and, as far as he is able to determine, they are of organisms that the friends encountered around the Breakbag village and its environs; a semi-transluscent slime with three protruding pseudopods – almost certainly of the same species as Vuelib, and a fungal black mass with barbed tendrils – again, this appears to be remarkably similar to the growth on the back of Chief Oddle’s neck. There are various lines of text written around the diagrams…
…and then, accompanied by a sudden whirring, a small metallic construct – scorpion-like in its design – scuttles from beneath the southern bench. Emitting a high-pitched squeal, it moves towards one of the western tanks… there is a flash of light from a tail-like appendage, and the glass of the tank shatters into thousands of shards.
Almost instantly, an acrid smell fills the air and, seeping from an open vessel within the destroyed tank, a black ooze starts to flow towards Blekk.
Rav, with the odd gun still in his hands, growls. "See Biggun? South room fun for you.. Go get 'em." He drops the gun into position and fires at the metal scorpion!