Gander slows as he examines the fungus more closely. "Hmph. There's almost a pattern to this crap."
He looks for a piece of wood to scrape away some of the fungus with.
Romo slows down as he sees Gander stop. He turns in response to Gander's comment and has a closer look at the fungus.
Knowledge Nature:
Hale joins Romo and Gander in their exploration. Hale adds her opinion on the strange fungal distribution, based on her wilderness education.
Gander shrugs. "Well, it's mold. Not naturally grown here, but mold nonetheless. Shall we continue? I'd guess something is waiting to kill or eat us below."
He takes a firmer grip on his staff and waits to follow Romo.
"Let's get it on!" Hale goes and leads the way, half-pulling Romo down with her.
Romo allows Hale to whip him about a bit, but then slows down as he enters the vast laboratory. After making sure nobody is inside, he starts to have a careful look through the room for anything suspicious or valuable.
Distrustful of the equipment in the lab, Gander allows the others to lead the way, keeping a watchful eye with his slingstaff at the ready.
Frowning with disgust, Gander gestures toward the glass apparatus filled with the offensive liquid.
"I think there's something alive in there. You might want to keep away from it, Romo. It looks almost...hungry."
"Seriously?" Hale cannot resist to investigate the strange goo.
"What did I tell you?" Gander shouts. "You don't mess with the vile pulsing slime!"
Gander moves back and tries to figure out whether or not he can shoot the thing wrapped around Hale's arm without hitting her.
Init:
Romo moves up to within swinging reach of Hale."What in the name of.. !"
Knowledge Nature
"I don't think you should be playing with that thing."
"Damn tentacles!? Not again!" Hale cusses as she pulls against the strain of the pod.
Perception
Hale tears off the weird tentacle cussing a string of curses that could only have been developed in the seclusion of a palace filled with bored princesses.
"By Sarenrae's glare! What's this thing?"
Enjoy the rest of the adventure
Gander shakes his head. "Damned if I know what it is. But I don't think my sling bullets are going to do any good against it."
He returns his slingstaff to his back and looks around for something that might make a decent club. The idea of getting all that goo on his greataxe does not appeal to the halfling at all.
Hale spits in the direction of the thing, and readied her daggers to strike back at the creature should it try to come after her again.
Romo dodges as the slithering creature has a go at him. He readies his blade for when it comes back within reach.
Attack
Damage
Hale smashes back at the thing with a vengeance. But her anger holds her captive and her slice goes wide.
Gander is still looking around for an object he can use as a club.
"Bluddy curr! Kill this thing! Romo! What are you doing?!"
Fort Save
Gander utters a curse of frustration when he comes up with nothing and finally draws his greataxe.
"I told you to leave the stuff alone! Bloody woman..."
"Pshh - hahaha! Nobody tells me what to do!"
"Where does that thing try to hide? -- wait, I think I... lemme have a look." Hale suddenly moves back out, to the courtyard, and dig in the ground.
Hale technically is building into fighting unarmed using natural attacks when she rages; but when she's not raging she'd by using a dagger, yes. I can change her (future) build if it helps?
Gander walks over to the sheaf of notes and takes a look at them.
Hale returns to where she left the others. "Lo behold commoners! Sarenrae has blessed me with a vision to lead me to her treasured dagger Tear of the Sun!"
Romo sees Hale run out of the room, then looks at Gander walking over to the notes.
"Maybe, we should see what has her so worked up."
He quickly follows Hale back up, then watches the peculiar display of her digging for, and then finding the dagger.
"How in the name of all that is divine, did you know to dig there?"
Gander considers the papers and shrugs, tucking them away in his pack before following Romo up the stairs.
"What's the big deal about a dagger?"
Hale grins at him, a slight high swinging in her voice. "A vision guided me to find it, right here in Sarenrae's temple. This Fang of the Light will guide us and be a source of power and reckoning!"
With fresh vigor she looks about. "There must be a few more things around here we haven't looked at?"
"Let's have a look at the room over there," Hale gestures towards western most portion of the monastry. "I think we've overlooked that part. Afterward we can have a look at the cellar again, or did you two look at that passage?"