@ Vendrick
Mythakilis : I have no information about this incident, but of course, we will look into the issue as quickly as we can...- and then after a couple of seconds of silence -Clearly any violation to our sovereign is a important issue, but I have the feeling there is something more, If I may ask, what crime is that important that warrant your presence here?
Vilkas:Lèse-majesté, she is responsible of the death of our previous great king Asorghal Manyblades
Mythakilis and Zeedald both pales and almost fall from their chairs when they hear that news.
"Hey! What kind of adventurer do you think I am, big guy?"
Desmond Studies and attacks the j-fish.
That finished it -. Desmond cut deep into the jellyfish who dies in a pool of acidic blood.
Mirelle:That was all? it was not that bad...
"Somehow I doubt that was the extent of the great evil." Sven says.
"Mirelle, do you have healing magic? Desmond and I took some scratches."
[ooc]It seem desmond didn't need that last two charges, they could go to sven.
"Thank you. Now, onward?"
Vendrick almost spits his drink out but manages to swallow it down with a cough.
"Ahem. Emm. Excuse me." He says while getting it down.
I'd hate to be the poor fellow who let her get away...
@ Sven, Desmond
You continue and next to that chamber there is a steep fall that leads into a huge chamber, and like 40 ft below there something like a lake, a black lake, you can not really tell from there.
Mirelle:guys, the canary is dead
It smell like trash and vomit( you know, somewhat acidic. )
Sven coughs and spits.
"Whatever is down there, it is rancid. Let us dispose of it and leave before I permanently lose my sense of smell."
Sven creeps a bit closer.
@ Sven, Desmond
What appeared to be liquid when you see it from a bit closer now appears to be solid, composed of lots...worms?, no it is more like tentacles, dozens, hundreds, probably thousands of black tentacles, one upon another.
@ Vendrick
There is a tense moment of silence
Vilkas: Now you know the importance of the request, I trust everything will be appropriately handled
Mythakilis:Of course...
The reunion get over with he promise of Mythakilis of personally looking in the issue. The two goblins leave, the ambassador clearly didn't knew the situation.
And that pretty much is it until the other finish their current job.
"We need some explosives. Hm."
When the light touch the mass of tentacles the ones touched by it start moving,and... make a fort DC 15 to avoid get sickened.
None of you get sickened, what do you do?, I reiterate that hte pool of tentacles is huge.
Sven tosses a flask of Holy Water in there jut to see what happens.
Nothing uber bad (or good) happen, but the tentacle you hit ended to be a jellyfish blackcreature that slowly started rising and then flying.
"Well, at least they're not hostile for now."
"Maybe there's something on the other side that can deal with this. A Scroll of Instant Jellyfish Soup, perhaps? Miri, let's fly over there and find out."
She can cast the spell in one of you, but just once.
"How 'bout casting Invisibility and Fly on me? I'll scout the place out for anything useful. If the whole lake isn't fried calamari in the next ten minutes, I'm probably dead."
Mirelle cast both spell on Desmond and he go to scout. In resume, the Desmond can count thousands and thousands of aberrations lying there almost motionless. Most of the aberrations are of the jellyfish nature (medium, large and even bigger), but there are others somewhat more scary.
When flying near the center of the pool of aberrations Desmond mind get struck by a overwhelming force. Fear, despair, madness and dead,...he felt everything of that. For a moment He clearly hear a confusing cacophony of scream of the dying and the madman. But the mental intrusions ends, the force behind it is now sleeping again.
Desmond get shaken and sickened.
Desmond shivers and flies back to his companions.
"Guys, I...I think Flamey and Angel were right to be scared. There's some things that are...wrong in there, way worse than a bunch of jellyfish."
"So unless Miri's got a Fireball of Mass Destruction on her, I say we get out of here before we all lose our minds. Those damn miners will have to get their evil black iron from somewhere else."
"I see. It doesn't look like there's anything we can do here...yet. I don't feel right letting this stay here indefinitely. Let's leave, and come back when we have something that can deal with this."
You return, Desmond get healed from his sickened condition but he is still afraid of something (still shaken).
You encounter the flame that seems to be very nervous
Good, you are a alive, not that I care about you but it is better than he other possibility
"What the hell are those things? Individually we didn't have much trouble, but there were HORDES down there."
Good, you are a alive, not that I care about you but it is better than he other possibility
"Aww, I missed you too, buddy."
"What the hell are those things? Individually we didn't have much trouble, but there were HORDES down there."
They are spawns from a place beyond the stars. Chaos, madness, pain and fear is what motivate them, they feed on it...but the important thing is, now that you know it, what do you going to do to stop the others to reach down here?
"I don't suppose simply explaining to them that there are monsters from beyond the stars that will eat them would work. Miners are stupid like that."
"Desmond. Ideas?"
"We need to make it about their precious black iron. I'll make something up about how the monsters have cursed the iron, and selling it causes the curse to hit you twice as hard."
Danger never deter making avarice...I tell you something. I will mark, no better yet, I will make a collapse, you people can mine all in your side but promise to not cross to this side
"We had actually planned to come back down here and end this threat once we'd figured out how. I can't sleep easy knowing something like this lurks under the surface."
"But by that point I think we can figure a way around a tunnel collapse. That sounds like a workable solution."
"Sounds good to me."
Ok. The miners form the town were not happy with the new that half of the black Iron would not be available, but they reluctantly agreed. They give your raw "x" material for your effort.