Enough. This thing might not specifically mean us harm but its dangerous and in our way. She strides forward and strikes at the creature.
When fanned by Stormy's club the thing gives a sudden, surprised telepathic wail!
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The party withstands the onslaught of what seems to be scenes in-part taken from Zora and Stormy's memories. They are just images--illusions. "Why? Why is a mouse when it spins?" thinks the thing into the party's heads using what feels like an ice pick."Don't you mean where?" The party feels a chalkboard screech in their heads. The thing's huge dorsal mouth opens and closes rhythmically showing off bony, hooked protuberances that perhaps serve the fungus as teeth. "'Where?' Why is a where when it spins? Do synthetic humanoids dream of electric even-toed ungulates?" "You're questions doesn't make much sense. What are you?" "'You.' A pronoun. Any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. What?" "'You', the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being addressed, in the nominative or objective case; one; anyone; people in general; occasionally used in apposition with the subject of a sentence, sometimes repeated for emphasis following the subject; Informal. (used in place of the pronoun your before a gerund); a female sheep, especially when fully mature; used to express disgust at something distasteful or repellent (such as a bad odor).""'Sheep', even-toed ungulates. Why are ewe dreamed of? Do synthetic humanoids dream? Do they express disgust?" The thing flails its long tentacle strands and chirps, while the party's eyes begin to water.
"Why? Why is a mouse when it spins?" thinks the thing into the party's heads using what feels like an ice pick.
**Weird gurgling undulations and vocalizations** Everyone stands about , the tentacled beast waving its fronds while a list of familiar illusory names scroll down in front of it like slow rain. The End
**Covers its- its- its face(?)**
Banon waves at the alien plant with a smile as he leaves. Images of a tin golem, an animated scarecrow and a bawling lion all wave back.
The pentapedal fungal thing comes up beside Banon and flails its tendrils in seeming distress. The thing is surrounded by images of people who have shouted loudly at Banon in his past. Banon moves down the steps cautiously using a rope to help.
In response to Durvak's question, the thing hesitates and then images of an empty bottle, a broken egg shell, complicated lingerie, and a gnomish steam powered tuba encircle the fungal creature.
"OooK OOk, OOOK-oooK. OOookkk!" Again, the fungal creature nods in what seems like sagely agreement. "Ewww. Ugly and noisy too! Well i only know one way to deal with noisy ugly things, and that is to hit 'em 'til they stop yammering! Come on Smiler, lets get that thing." The thing stops nodding and turns to Volar (or at least that's what it seems like), and a number of images of party members looking into mirrors appear around it.
"Nigel get the toast Hestram wants the gold how does fungus float where is the microfilm" The fungal creature nods in agreement.
**Nom, nom, nom--SLURRRRP!!** As Durvak opens the eastern door several forms of translucent question marks rendered in multiple languages appear above the creature's central trunk.
Monterey points to the previous room, then walks into it. The horrific tentacled fungasoid creature follows you along with montage of images of every fight anyone here has ever seen that ended with someone slamming a door shut (or in Smiler's case someone flinging excrement). It begins idly chewing on the remains of the dead guard.
The tentacled thing steps in line with the rest of the party, but flinches back against the noise. It's long tendrils flail against the ceiling most distressingly. The visions surrounding the strange creature just repeat the illusion of an annoyed camel spitting over and over on an infinite loop.
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Perhaps it is the seemingly near-transparent quality of Durvak's mind, or maybe his simplicity of speech rather than Smiler's rather grand rhetorical style and jokes about bananas that convinces the voice to reveal itself. The caterpillar spins around twice when suddenly the toadstool it is sitting upon's cap splits open along the top revealing a set of spiny teeth. The glowing caterpillar disappears, and the fungus it had been sitting on lifts itself up on five thick, fibrous stalks, and tottles closer waving a pair of long, fleshy, vine-like arms. The fungus-thing is shrouded in ghostly images of events seemingly taken from events in each of the party-member's pasts, but mixed in with everyone elses' memories as well in a sort of nonsensical spectral stew. It is all very distracting. Everyone in a position to see the creature Will save (mind-affecting supernatural ability) DC 14; Failure:
Your character takes a -2 penalty to attack the Stranger for as long as you can see it. 'Do-ing'? It is a temporal query.
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