Desmond follows Kalim.
With Desmond walking off to follow the sorcerer the sound of stone work scrapping the floor can be heard from near where you were standing. A stone wall (stone shape) appears directly behind Malcolm: separating the group into two.
Meathead, Felicitas, and aurora see the solid stone wall encasing the others but what is more troubling is the creature has now ended it's invisibility revealing its true form: a Sorcerer gelatinous cube!
Malcolm turns and attempts to move the wall.
Help me get to the others!
Grung looks to Karnog
"You bet I can!"
Karnog runs as fast (60') as he towards the stone wall.
The stone doesn't budge as malcolm put his back into it.
shaken/panic condition: 7/12
RD 10
Des -
Grung - (shaken)
Pyrohydra/foe -
Feli - panicked
Karnog -
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim -
Oh crap, Feli! Desmond runs to the wall, waiting for some chance to go through it.
Grung moves towards the wall 60 feet as well
Desmond and the dwarves run to the stone wall that Malcolm is pushing on.
shaken/panic condition: 7/12
RD 10
Des - run and kick wall
Grung - (shaken) run to wall
Pyrohydra/foe - cast spell
Feli - panicked
Karnog - run to wall
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim -
You see this jelly oozy substance that has bites and bites of bone and gear inside it. It wobbles a bit, and you can swear it is cackling at you. Then a spectral hand appears out of thin air.
RD 11: Karnog casts stone shape and forms a passage through the stone wall.
"Go! Kill that thing!
When the stone wall forms, Kalim twists in shock. "Meathead!" He doubles back, casting Tongues again. If it casts spells, it knows language. If it knows language ...
Kalim's priorities echo in the air "Meathead..." There is no mention of bard.
shaken/panic condition: 8/12
RD 11
Des -
Grung - (shaken) run to wall
Pyrohydra/foe - cast spell
Feli - panicked
Karnog - cast stone shape
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim -
the ooze casts another spell this time web which covers where the stone wall is located. It anchors on the walls, ceiling, floor and stalagmites. A respite of relief knowing you haven't been targeted yet.
I'll update the map after Karnog's action in the round.
Kalim begins uttering in a strange language that all understand equally.
Some variants do...Sorcerer Ooze.
Also called the brain cube, this is perhaps the strangest variant ever reported. Presumably some mad mage or ooze-cultist, found a way to transfer humanoid intelligence into the cube’s body as a way of achieving immortality without resorting to undeath, but at the cost of the humanoid’s sanity. Still able to cast spells (using Silent Spell and Still Spell), a typical sorcerer ooze has Intelligence 10, Wisdom 12, and Charisma 18, with the spellcasting ability of a 10th-level sorcerer. Some know the ventriloquism spell, allowing them to communicate with others (though their madness means they eventually attack anyway), but most didn’t plan ahead enough and have been locked inside a gelatinous prison, able only to eat and cast spells, never interacting with intelligent creatures in any meaningful way.
Kalim steps up twirling his spear and shouting words of warning but he is unable to actually perceive where the thing is located.
Nice
Perception
If any of the others on his side of the wall are shaken, Malcolm removes it, and then continues to beat on the wall. He then draws his sword from his scabbard activating Scabbard of Vigor (+2 for 5 Rounds)
Malcolm spend the 11th Rd removing grung's shaken condition.
shaken/panic condition: 9/12
RD 12
Des -
Grung -
Pyrohydra/foe -
Feli - panicked
Karnog -
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim -
Karnog has created an opening through the wall. So Grung, Malcolm, and Kalim do not see the ooze. Desmond hasn't rolled his perception check.
There is think stringy web blocking the opening on the wall, where the door was located. Further delaying the group.
"You only delay the inevitable!"
Kalim attempts to burn through the webs.
Bah, just burn it.
Grung smashes an alchemist fire in the webs
Desmond pauses for a moment then jumps and twists through the web.
Karnog begins to summon using Summon Monster V.
RD 12 Update:
shaken/panic condition: 9/12
RD 12
Des - Des slips through the webs just as Grung throws an alchy fire at them burning a 5 ft section free.
Grung - tosses a alchy fire
Pyrohydra/foe -
Feli - panicked
Karnog - sumons monster
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim - burns the remaining webs away.
OOZE:
The spectral hand moves to touch Feli with shocking grasp (I assume aurora is hiding up near the ceiling)
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RD 13
shaken/panic condition: 10/12
RD 13
Des
Grung -
OOZE -
Feli - panicked
Karnog -
Meath'd - panicked
Malcolm
Kalim
Remember Grung, Malcolm and Kalim still haven't seen the ooze you need to roll a DC 15 perception to see it. Although you do see the spectral hand touch Felic.
I'll update the map when I get home.
A Celestial Dire Lion appears to the south of the cube and attacks the critter.
perception; including scent & low-light
Smite + bite; damage, claw ;
claw ;
Karnog casts bull's strength on himself.
percep
The smite evil doesn't seem to effect this ooze as it's not evil.
chunks of the gelatinous cube fling away providing everyone with the location of the creature now, as the lion slices through the sorcerer beast.
Grung since the lion appeared and attacked last round, you'd actually see the ooze now and can attack it.
grung moves into te cavern and launches his ax
for
More oozy substance splatters when the axe hits the creature.