Tai Leng takes the moment to attack the creature one more time, and in an instant is capable of dealing significant damage to it. Unfortunately, his following attacks are not as effective.
Once again, Brother Cyrus' summoned squid is mauled by the monster hiding underwater.
Just a moment later, the creature on the surface growls in pain as his wounds start to add up. It submerges, while defending itself as well as it can.
"Intruders..." it growls with a tired voice while retreating "Dangerous... Murderers..."
It's eyed tentacles are the last thing you see of the creature, but it's soon gone as well.
Cyrus shrugs. He has no interest in pursuing the creatures into the water.
"Shall we keep moving? I want to get out of here before those...things get back."
"Yes, let's."
Leng takes a swig of one of his flasks, and casts Magic Weapon before they move on.
Yes lets go...but We better stay away from the waters
The three companions follow the tunnel ahead of them, but not a hundreed feet ahead, their path is blocked by a hastily built stone barrier. Water slowly flows through the gaps between rocks, and just a little bit of light can be seen coming from the other side.
The barrier itself isn't very solid, and can possibly be brought down by removing a few rocks. Whoever built was more worried about build speed than structural sturdiness.
Despite the overwhelming stink all around you, Tai Leng notices a faint smell of... flowers?
This is what is blocking hte corpses...,I'm not sure I want too remove those stones...
Cyrus attempts to prod loose one of the rocks with his longspear.
"What is that?" Leng sniffs around some more.
"Anybody else smell that? It's like flowers, or perfume, or something."
Cyrus stops his prodding to take a sniff.
"Why would there be flowers down here?"
It doesn't take much for the looser rocks to start rolling down and into the water flow... The scent of flowers becomes more and more overwhelming with each falling rock.
A couple minutes and a few rocks later, you notice 2 eyed tentacles spying on you from the water... However, they seem too afraid to come near, and quickly swim away.
The barrier finally falls, allowing the water flow to go unimpeded. and join the stream coming from tunnel you came from.
More than a few rotten bodies float down the water on their way to what seems to be a waterway into the ocean. To your right, a small room, completely covered in a dark purple goo and sickly-looking vines is illuminated by a hole on the ceiling... Under this hole a small pile of corpses rests over a small a puddle of the same purple goo, that slowly but surely flows down a ramp and into the water stream.
The flowery scent seems to completely permeate this room, almost completely overwhelming the smell of rotting bodies.
"That...doesn't look right. Anyone have a torch?"
Cyrus keeps his distance from it.
Leng picks up a rock or piece of driftwood and casts Continual Flame on it, then hands it to Cyrus.
Cyrus holds it for a moment with an almost blank look before sighing.
"I mean I need a fire. I want to burn whatever the hell is over there."
I could burn it...with a bomb. Probably not good idea.
"A bomb? That sounds dangerous, but we don't seem to have too many options right now and that stuff looks dangerous."
Leng smiles inwardly at Cyrus' reaction, but tries to betray no emotion.
"Ah, yes, of course."
"I think your bomb may be our best bet, Eitylen. We could make a torch easily enough but doubt it would do significant harm to that stuff just tossing it in."
Eitylen use the longspear to poke the vine
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The vine doesn't react to the spear, but Eitylen notices that goo is rather sticky, as he has to put a little extra strength to pull the weapon back.
"Give it a poke for me Eitylen, I'm going to stand here in case something happens."
Cyrus hands his longspear to Eitylen.
What we do now?
"Well...we can either look for that beast while we're down here or head back up and tell that guard we cleared the rubble out."
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We look for the light on the roof
The light is faint, but consistent. Whatever is generating it does so continuously, but is some distance away. Probably less than a 100 ft. though.
Directly below the hole where the light comes from, a small pile of corpses is slowly dragged away by the now flowing water.
Brother Cyrus summons a small burst of flame which Cyrus pantomimes it burning the vines for them.
The elemental walks a few feet. Its heat doesn't seem to bother the vines, at least not at first.
Not 10ft into the room, the fire creature sees itself suddenly grappled by a pair of barbed vines that lash from the floor and into its legs .
As soon as Eitylen's flask shatters, the barbed vines try to ensnare the damaged area, as if they expected to be able to grab something. However the heat from the localized explosion is enough to cause them to back away just a moment later.
The Fire Elemental flails wildly in a raging rage.
The vines try to constrict the elemental even tighter, hurting it in the process.
Eitylen's bomb doesn't free the outsider, but causes some damage to the vines. At the same time, a guttural grunt can be heard. It comes from under the pile of corpses at the center of the room.
The dead bodies are hurled away, in their place stands a odd-looking creature. Similar to the monsters you fought moment ago, but still very different. It's body is covered by dark purple goo. Vines entangle its tentacles, and legs, creating twisted limbs. The eyed-tentacle has no more eyes, just a number of empty orbits that secrete the same vile substance.
The creature's moves are erratic and heavy, but the vines on the ground don't seem to hamper its movements in any way.
Leng covers his hand in fire and electricity, then moves in on the creature.
Tai Leng charges through the vines and delivers a solid hit to the deadly creature. The energy flows through his hand and into the monster's body.
The monster grunts in pain, doing its best to protect itself from the flames. The incoming electrical charge, however, doesn't seem to faze it.
Brother Cyrus beseeches the gods for their blessing and casts...Bless!
The Fire Elemental flails at the vines holding it.
The vines aren't completely destroyed by the elemental's struggle, but they just barely hold on to it.
Eytilen runs to join Tai leng in melee. Before he enteres the room he jumps to avoid as much dificult terrain as posible
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To avoid the AoO
Right after the elf lands, the creature creatures takes another bite of Ti Leng while simultaneously flailing its tentacles against Eitylen.
The vines constrict Brother Cyrus' elemental one last time before being burned away.
Leng screams in pain, but stays standing. He strikes at the creature again, however, determining it may be his only chance of survival.
Brother Cyrus steps forward and unleashes a burst of healing power.
"May the bone mend and the wound unrent!"