cured.
"I feel that making sure every room is explored and cleared is the best since I wouldn't like any further surprises that may come from them." Thorn explains.
Thorn still follows the group down though as he's curious about the other levels.
Seeing the vegetation though he's a little surprised.
"Such intense plant life in these depths. I wonder what they are."
Did anyone help Andrei open the door?
Blaze helps Andrei to open the door and looks confused to see plant life growing in the elevator shaft. "Are they really plants? There is no sun for them here..." She looks carefully first and if she sees nothing of concern, she reaches in to pluck a leaf from the dead vegetation and holds it in her hand to see if it will burn.
Holding the leaf, it will burn easily. The sap on the other hand that is now on your hand takes much more time to burn off.
Andrei nearly trips on a wild dog-themed bandolier at his feet."Dey ăre şurely mâgîc, âlong wîth moșț țhîngș în thîș ţower."
Lilianne will pick up the strange fetters and jangle them at Andrei before attaching them to her belt. What that means, she will leave to him to interpret. If possible, she would use her cold iron sword to cut a swatch through the leaves or have Blaze burn her way through before getting cut up by them.
"I would agree, if anything else in here is an indicator, they are obviously magical, or perhaps bred with magic in their growth--although I'm no botanist."
She will move to the door with Andrei and check it with him to make sure it is not trapped.
"Did that leaf just burn when plucked? There's a jungle of them!" Thorn exclaims in horror as nothing in his memories could let him forget that but........he has no memory of them.
Blaze picked the leaf and then burnt it with her fire.
Not all of the leaves will burn but most will. Lilianne begins to cut a swath of the leaves but gets hurt in the process.
Not seeing any particular signs of danger, she carefully and quietly opens the door. If there is resistance, she will not force it. With her elven eyes, she peers into the darkness of the room beyond.
Andrei tenderly touches Lilianne's shoulder as she passes, casting guidance on her.
Lilianne continues to move through the vegetation... and
The vegetation makes movement difficult terrain. With stealth that cuts down your speed as well. One move action and the above damage. Moving carefully will let you take half damage round down. But your movement of 10 feet is taking two move actions.
We went down the elevator. Andrei and Blaze opened the elevator door that was not opening on its own, the sap was on the back of the door. Blaze investigated the leaves in front of us.
The prickly cutting thicket of vines and sharp leaves. It is soo thick you can't even see through it.
Lilianne tried to cut a swath through the leaves, and she was cut a little but had not moved into the room yet.
Thorn looks as Lilianne struggled to even enter the room. Those cuts didn't look small either.
"Burn these I guess." he looks towards blaze "While the rest of us back track a little. Trying to view what's in this room with these plants is making it impossible. It might also clear away any nasty creatures in hiding."
"Yes, please, burn these leaves. I can't even cut at them. Just be mindful there is a trap over there. Of course, if you are burning them, Blaze, it will probably consume the trap as well," she points in the direction of the trap.
Once there is enough clearance for her to swing her 6ft blade, she then might be able to start clearing some leaves without being cut.
Blaze nods and gathers power, then launches her flames into the dead vegetation, further infused to catch everything it touches on fire.
The vegetation burns quickly. So quickly you realize that the vegetation is all connected even the stuff under the elevator. Smoke quickly begins pumping into the elevator and it gets hard to breathe.
Thorn backs away and wraps his cloak around his face.........
Reacting quickly, she pulls everyone back into the elevator and casts a cantrip on the mechanism for it to go back upward. They will let the smoke settle a bit before traversing back down.
"Well, better than getting cut up by all that, I suppose," she looks over her wounds as she bleeds quite significantly. "They didn't look like much, but man does it sting!"
With Blaze quickly starting the fire with a blast and Lilianne's quick thinking you have no danger from the smoke. At worst your clothes smell like smoke.
The elevator still has smoke in it as it reaches the 2nd floor again but it quickly dissipates. Some smoke slowly fills the elevator as you wait... then you clearly hear something big moving below from the elevator shaft. It is moving up...
"Something's coming up. Whatever we did flushed it out. Think it might break through the elevator?" he asks the rest as he gets ready his own weapons and takes the front...
Andrei tries to get off at a safer floor by hitting the buttons to get back to the original floor.
"Everyone move back, I want to see what it is before we attack! I'm ready, but I could use some healing if we are going to fight," she voices, still bleeding on her arms and hands.
She will then ready herself.
Another round passes, you can still hear it...
Blaze knew that lighting fires could be risky, especially in enclosed spaces. She loaded back up with the others and went back to the level above.
"Something's coming up. Whatever we did flushed it out. Think it might break through the elevator?" he asks the rest as he gets ready his own weapons and takes the front...
"We could send the elevator up and out of it's way, mebbe?"
She stood back some distance and gathered as much power as she could hold to make ready. Then she opened her hand, her flames springing forth and ready to throw as soon as the threat showed itself.
"Sounds like a good idea. Please do so. If it is hostile I should be able to take a few blows." Thorn states as he places his shield a little higher to his front.
Three more rounds pass and then you hear the collision of the big thing with the elevator shaft.
It then begins to climb...
She shakes her head to Blaze, "It only seemed to go up or down and you just cast into it. If I cast into it right now, it'll just go down since it's at the top. There is no hole above it either, I don't think," she bends down as she tries to view it from a distance. Try explaining an elevator shaft without knowing what an elevator is! "Still, I swear it's rising. perhaps crunching?"
She squints as she observes forward.
"For all we know, it could just be pressure and not an actual creature. Thankfully we are well away from it so we can actually see what it may be!"
The muffled banging of some thing large and as it gets closer you can hear smaller bangs as well.
Round 5, the holes get bigger.
Round 6, the elevator cart falls apart into pieces and the large plant creature moves up into its space.
Round 7, you are face to face with a tangle mess of vines. It orients itself and it rises up like an agitated snake a great single brightly colored enormous bloom arises from a thick, leafy tangle of snake-like vines.
"It definitely hates fire so If it comes to violence, we know that Blaze is definitely it's mortal enemy!" Thorn laughs as he looks.
As the banging continues, an tendrils of something starts popping out he glances at the rest and shrugs. Using his fall back ability to once more transform into a familiar fat man. It might pay to be careful afterall.
At Thorn's comment, she shifts to stand nearer to Blaze and out in the lead from the group. She is on the defensive until she can see what this thing is going to do, but her massive sword is still out.
Andrei also goes full defensive, next to Lilianne. "Âye love you", the cleric whispered to the half-elf.
Somewhat concerned that the elevator might be destroyed by whatever was climbing up the shaft, Blaze asks, "If it bursts through, how will we go back down? I can try and scare it away, mebbe?"
"Oh, it's not if...it's when from the sounds of it. We'll have to use some rope or something."
As Andrei whispers to her, she will shoot him a glance and a cute little smile grows on her lips as if she's holding the words tightly. It is then that the beast bursts through and the writhing mass makes its way up.
"Oh gross...what is that thing?"
As the tentacles begin to appear in the elevator Blaze releases her shot, scorching one of the tentacles, severing it from the rest of its arm.
Thorn grabs his head as his memories like an unwanted tenant swarms him for a moment giving him a glimpse of what could be!
"Run! This is not something we can fight as we are. I see us being food for it. So run as fast as we can away from this." He urges his companions.
Taking a rear position to guard them as his voice urgently urges them to flee.
"You see it?"
She has believed Thorn so far, and with her still bleeding profusely from the cuts from the plants below, she grabs Andrei and runs.
"Come on!" she will call to Blaze, but she will look behind to see how fast it moves. If it moves slowly, she will try to stay well out of its reach and will ask Blaze to keep shooting it from a distance. Now she really wishes she had found a bow down in that room with Ethos.
Blaze was willing to stand and fight, but as her friends seemed so anxious to leave, she decided it was best to join them. It did seem like a very dangerous plant creature. "I hope it does not follow us up again."
Andrei does his best to help the others off the elevator so they can fight the vegetable monstrosity.
Thorn is the rear guard, Blaze withdraws from the fight taking a double move across the room towards the other elevators. Lilianne grabs Andrei and runs to the elevators across the room.
The monstrosity slowly moves, 20 feet per round. It gives you plenty of time to get into the elevators. It continues after you... Its tentacles move forward reaching for you a good 20 feet ahead of its body.
You could wait a round maybe two before casting the cantrip to make the elevator rise before its tentacles got close.
Lilianne will let Blaze take some shots at the beast, allowing it to get closer before casting a cantrip to make the elevator go up.
"If we can hurt it badly enough doing this, when it gets up top, hopefully, it will be an easy fight!"
The vines begin to creep in every direction not just following you but to all of the rooms. The main trunk or source of the vines continues to slowly follow you!
"That would be nice but I remember this going very differently when it was just us. Getting to the top and bringing the rest in might tip this battle in our favor!" Thorn calls out even as he continues rear guard action.
Once he retreats fully to the elevator, he continues facing the vines and really wishes for the elevator to move up faster.
Blaze nods as she prepares to keep up her blasts as the group retreats. First she fires, and then moves.
"Woohoo! Blast that ugly thing!" she calls out as they back up further and further. When Blaze finally makes it onto the elevator, she infuses it with a cantrip to rise up.
"I wonder if it's stupid enough to climb up this one too? I can't believe how much flame you can produce, Blaze..."
It doesn't burn for the first two rounds, but as Blaze keeps up the barrage it can't put it out fast enough. Blaze's attacks are effective and you can see it burn but it has a lot of vines and body to itself. Though it keeps coming after you. You hear the dull thuds of the tentacles on the doors to the elevator.
You get up to the 1st level of the dungeon.
Blaze cannot help but smile in her lopsided way as Lilianne cheers on her flames. She moves out of the elevator when they stop on the first floor and presses an ear to the wall, listening for sounds of the creature's pursuit.
Unfortunately, all she could hear was the sound of her own heartbeat, pounding in her ears from the excitement and exertion. "I cannot hear it. Do you think it follows, still?"
"It seemed mindless...and all the more pissed off that we were hurting it---like an animal. Yes...it still follows. Come away," she pulls Blaze from where she has her ear pressed.
"Keep distance and when it comes up, blast it more. I'm going to alert those above and make sure they know what's going on. We could also use some more ranged help to make sure this thing dies before it gets through the dining room area here."
With that, she will run full bore to the ladder up to the encampment. Once there, she will alert them before heading back down with all haste.
"We are under attack by a massive creature. We could use some ranged help if anyone has something that will aid us. If not, it looks mightily strong. No rushing in."
The fat man following after them adds in.
"It dislikes fire a lot."