That will be the NE room, but I see what you mean.
Lackadee pushes open the damp, soft wood of the door.
To the south, this long room is empty save for a large mound of compost covered with tiny black mushrooms heaped nearly to the ceiling in the southeast corner of the room, while to the north, an old kitchen seems to have been repurposed into some sort of indoor garden. A workbench cluttered with pottery stills and glass alembics stands below small alcoves filled with vials and beakers. Dozens of clay vessels rest haphazardly on wooden boxes, each sprouting neatly-pruned shrubs or large, exotic mushrooms. They appear surprisingly well-tended, given the state of the rest of the building, though the roots of several have burst through their pots.
Female N Vanara Druid 9 (Supernaturalist) - Init. +3, Senses Low-Light Vision, Scent, Perception +17, AC 17/ touch 15/ ff 14; hp 48/48 + aegis of recovery; F+6, R+6, W+11; Speed 30 ft., Climb 20 ft. ; Current conditions: small size, hunter's blessing, barkskin, bull's str, bear's end.
Vina tugs gently backwards to stop Lakadee in his track. "Be still, my friend. Be very still..."
She takes a careful look at the various mushrooms in this room, keeping her distances, knowing full well that fungi release spores to reproduce, and that some species can reproduce on flesh or wood instead of damp earth...
Hopefully those are more of the hallucinogenic nature, she thinks, remembering fond days in her youth...
The room has only dim light, Vina and Linka are fine because they both have darkvision but anyone relying on human-level senses will struggle to see much.
From the doorway, Vina and Linka do not see anything obviously dangerous.
if/when you enter:
This is a place of horticulture, rather than alchemy, but you both identify one particular plant as Blue Whinnis, the source of the unpleasant poison which coats the cultist's sickles.
The black mushrooms at the back of the room are those served at the Founder's Feast, so clearly not everything here is inedible.
Also present here are five strange puffball-like spore cases, gray and the size of a man’s fist. Four are closed but one lies open and empty, a dried husk.
They do not seem entirely natural to you.
knowledge (planes) DC20
Spoiler:
These are immature cythnigot qlippoths. If planted in a Tiny dead body, these spore cases quickly grow into newborn cythnigots. Until then, they can be destroyed with ease. Reminder, the hog in the mud-wrestling game turned into a cythnigot qlippoth.
Female CG Sylph Alchemist(Mindchemist) 3 | HP 24/24| AC 16 T 13 FF 13 | CMB +2, CMD 15 | F: +4, R: +6, W: +2 | Init: +3 | Perc: +7, Darkvision | Speed 35ft | Bombs DC 15: 4/9 | Breezekissed: 1/1 | Active conditions: None
Knowledge (Planes):1d20 + 9 ⇒ (15) + 9 = 24
Linka is overcome with curiosity and pushed past Vina.
Oh, looking these. gesturing at each in turn, These are where they get their poison. These are what we had at the feast. And these are what they used to turn the poor innocent pig into a horrifying monster. We should probably smash those last ones.
|AC 20, T 14|HP: 35/35|F +4, R +5, W +4 (+2 vs negative energy, +1 vs sonic/figment/glamer/pattern/gaze/scent/poison/disease)|Init +4, Perc +9|CMB +9 (+2 to trip) CMD 23 (25 vs trip)|1/1 Explorer
'Human-level vision'??? In the Land of the Blind, I swear....
Despite having earnestly studied planar lore back at the Grand Lodge, Ekanta doesn't recognize the immature qlippoths on his own - but unlike Linka, once informed he wastes no time with "probably", and thrashes them almost casually, like an alchemist with repressed anger issues pulverizing mandrake root.
In case it matters: DAMAGE!:1d6 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 Oh, look Frodo! MORE damage!:1d6 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 And here's some for you!:1d6 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11 Remember when I said I would crush you last? I lied:1d6 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10 *violin shrieks a la Psycho*:1d6 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12
CG Human Rogue/3 | AC 17, T 13, FF 14 | 21/21 hp | Fort +2*, Ref +6, Will +2 (*+1 vs disease/poisons)| Init +4 | Percep +7, Low Light Vision| CMD 15
Sayuki follows, but lets the darkvision folks investigate the room, staying in the doorway with her bow drawn and her kunai cranked back up into its holster. "Darker and darker," she murmurs.
Female N Vanara Druid 9 (Supernaturalist) - Init. +3, Senses Low-Light Vision, Scent, Perception +17, AC 17/ touch 15/ ff 14; hp 48/48 + aegis of recovery; F+6, R+6, W+11; Speed 30 ft., Climb 20 ft. ; Current conditions: small size, hunter's blessing, barkskin, bull's str, bear's end.
Vina makes sure the spore cases (or what's left of them, after Ekanta's rampage) are completely *burned down* so that they do not implant themselves on any of the refuse found in this room... just in case... ;)
Vina also carefully harvests the Blue Whinnis for her own use later and to prevent anyone else from this town to continue their poisoning tendencies...
Harvesting Poison from Hazards: Some hazards, such as poison oak and spider vines, feature poisons that can be harvested by those who know how to do so. This process requires 1 hour and an alchemist’s lab or alchemy crafting kit. If the harvester succeeds at a Survival check (DC = 15 + the hazard’s CR), she collects 1 dose of poison. Harvesting poison from a hazard in this way requires getting close enough to it to touch it, which may expose the harvester to the hazard’s effects.
If you take an hour, you can use the kit here as a lab. If you just want to destroy it then untreated Blue Whinnis will not harm you as you hack it up.
CG Human Rogue/3 | AC 17, T 13, FF 14 | 21/21 hp | Fort +2*, Ref +6, Will +2 (*+1 vs disease/poisons)| Init +4 | Percep +7, Low Light Vision| CMD 15
Sayuki, realizing she's standing right next to a door, will kick it open, bow in-hand. If there's a doorknob, she'll gently turn it... then kick it open.
Broken chairs, old straw-filled mattresses, and water stained,
moldering quilts litter this room. A few candles flicker fitfully on a shelf at the back of the room.
|AC 20, T 14|HP: 35/35|F +4, R +5, W +4 (+2 vs negative energy, +1 vs sonic/figment/glamer/pattern/gaze/scent/poison/disease)|Init +4, Perc +9|CMB +9 (+2 to trip) CMD 23 (25 vs trip)|1/1 Explorer
Ekanta dutifully keeps an eye out.
Perception DC 8:
You can't help but be reminded that Ekanta's lower half happens to be pretty deer-like....
Linka realised that the chest is not trapped but the floor of the chamber is on the verge of collapse. Stepping on it would be a bad idea.
Fortunately, she can reach over and flip open the chest.
contents to follow when I am back at my laptop and/or books.
Female N Vanara Druid 9 (Supernaturalist) - Init. +3, Senses Low-Light Vision, Scent, Perception +17, AC 17/ touch 15/ ff 14; hp 48/48 + aegis of recovery; F+6, R+6, W+11; Speed 30 ft., Climb 20 ft. ; Current conditions: small size, hunter's blessing, barkskin, bull's str, bear's end.
GM Elberion wrote:
If you take an hour, you can use the kit here as a lab. If you just want to destroy it then untreated Blue Whinnis will not harm you as you hack it up.
Knowing that it takes too long to harvest properly, Vina destroys the untreated Blue Whinnis so that it does not harm anyone else later.
"Can't say bedding a deer is a common occurrence. What do you think?" She asks Vina.
"Does going around mean go outside or walk around the edge of the wall?" Tanya inquires.
Perception:1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
|AC 20, T 14|HP: 35/35|F +4, R +5, W +4 (+2 vs negative energy, +1 vs sonic/figment/glamer/pattern/gaze/scent/poison/disease)|Init +4, Perc +9|CMB +9 (+2 to trip) CMD 23 (25 vs trip)|1/1 Explorer
*cue the 'exploring the house' music from Clue!*
Ekanta (still seemingly oblivious to the innuendos that had been flying around just moments before) reveals his own Wayfinder: One of the fine Tian jade models. He does not light it as Linka does, but directs a thin ray of its pale green light toward both Sayuki and himself (a minute's guidance for both of us) before venturing further in.
As Linka's leads Sayuki into the gardening room, her light illuminates the room and its glare seems to make the large compost heap shudder and quake, at first away from the light and then aggressively towards it.
What at first seemed to be a carpet of fungi and mushrooms suddenly stirs to life, surging forward with a reek of decay. This is a kind of ooze: a Slime Mold!
|AC 20, T 14|HP: 35/35|F +4, R +5, W +4 (+2 vs negative energy, +1 vs sonic/figment/glamer/pattern/gaze/scent/poison/disease)|Init +4, Perc +9|CMB +9 (+2 to trip) CMD 23 (25 vs trip)|1/1 Explorer
Ekanta takes Vina's advice and chucks a chakram at the noisome mound (once Tanya steps back out of melee).
Tanya takes a look at the ooze, and decides she would rather not be involved with this. She flees to the adjacent room.
Assuming it is flatfooted and can't act yet, so moving around the corner.
She then turns and fires her pistol from around the passway.
Pistol Attack VS Ooze with Cover P.B.S:1d20 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 1 + 4 = 25 Pistol Damage VS Ooze With P.B.S:1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 Assuming it cannot be critically hit, but just in case. Crit?:1d20 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 4 + 1 = 21 Crit Damage:3d8 + 3 ⇒ (6, 5, 2) + 3 = 16
Female CG Sylph Alchemist(Mindchemist) 3 | HP 24/24| AC 16 T 13 FF 13 | CMB +2, CMD 15 | F: +4, R: +6, W: +2 | Init: +3 | Perc: +7, Darkvision | Speed 35ft | Bombs DC 15: 4/9 | Breezekissed: 1/1 | Active conditions: None
realizing the fire resistance Linka would have tossed an alkali flask, double damage vs oozes. I don't know if that doubles Linka's Int bonus and/or Point-Blank Shot.
