Seeing Sajan disappear into the murky slime, Nuveril cries out, "Idiot! Get out of the way!" A rush of adrenaline fills her body just as Sabeen's fortune washes over her. She swings her warhammer with great strength and wild abandon.
Sajan begins to attempt to yank himself out of the engulf, but Nuveril batters Sajan with her hammer and madu. The giant is still concious despite the punishment.
Current HP= 0.
Nuveril smashes into the ooze with warhammer and shield literally tearing it into pieces. As she pounds into it the parts holding Sajan weaken and fall as the creature tries to preserve its rapidly decreasing mass. At the end she is nearly covered in ooze but there is nothing left of the creature but a dozen small puddles which flail, trying to re-form, and then stop moving.
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Released from the ooze, Sajan shakes his head groggily, hurling himself at the next ooze with ferocity.
Arjun loads his sling and launches a bullet toward the ooze pinning Sajan.
Arjun's stone smacks into the creature with a meaty thud, wounding it further but stopping just short of killing it and Nuveril completes the job as above.
If the ooze has any reaction to the death of its fellow it doesn't show it continuing its frenzied attacking. It moves to engulf both Grall and the wounded Khalid....
Grall tries to get the Ooze's attention away from Khalid by splitting it in half with his Falchion but stands his ground!
Round 2, initiative 5
"Khalid, no! Step back and heal yourself!", Linah cries out as the inquisitor jumps up and engages the plantbeast. The birthmark on her palm begins to glow as warm energy fills the room.
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Still on the ground, Khalid rolls desperately away from the creature. A tendril of ooze snakes out to hook around his leg but he manges to pull free and avoid the creature by inches.
Grall on the other hand hammers his falchion at the creature as it covers him, carving away a large slice of ooze but becoming covered just as Sajan was a few moments before.
damage
Khalid regains his feet, provoking another attack. He is hit again before he can strike.
Sajan charges across the room, slipping smoothly through the gap in tables (to H,25) pounding the remaining ooze with several quick blow from the side. Together, he and Grall have done substantial damage to the thing and ooze is flowing slowly but steadily away from its mass. However it still manages to maintains enough cohesion to hold Grall tightly.
A pulse of healing energy emits from Linah. Weak but still of great help to the battered inquisitor.
try to break the pin but first go into rage
Save vs. the ooze
With a roar Grall manages to rip himself free of the ooze's grip.
Round 3
Ordered Initiative
- Sabeen
- Arjun
- Nuveril
- Creature 1 (leaking ooze)
- Khalid (I have you prone yet again on 1hp)
- Sajan
- Linah
- Grall
Sabeen quickly considers her options for bringing the creature down before it has a chance to attack again and settles on the most direct, bringing her crossbow to bear and sighting between Linah and Khalid.
The shot is true, sinking into the middle of the largest remaining piece of the creature. It quivers violently and for a second you think the battle is over only for it reform for one last desperate lunge.
Edit: Ninjaed.
Arjun loads and fires with his sling.
Arjun's sling stone may be small but it hits the ooze square on and is enough to finally drop it. It falls apart, ooze spreading across the floor and down the drain.
Combat is over.
Arjun lets out an audible sigh of relief. "Thank the All-Seeing Eye! I would never had thought that an ooze from the Darklands could be found in the Katapeshi wastes! Perhaps we should rest and heal ourselves? I think that barracks on the first floor looked like decent enough accomodations." Arjun walks over to Khalid and administers a cure light wounds extract.
Sajan is prepared to finish exploring the monastery. he says stoicly, blood pouring from his wounds.
Arjun makes a placating gesture with his hands. "Such is your expertise, industrious mercenary. Let us press on after I examine this room for possible explanations."
Linah sits down on the floor panting. "What was those things?", she asks Arjun. After taking a moment to catch her breath she scans the room for the presence of magic.
"My powers are all but depleted. I would like to replenish my powers but i fear i would not get any rest until this place is safe. As we press on, please be careful.", Linah says as and gives Khalid a meaning look.
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"Thank you Master Arjun, the elixir was most appreciated." Khalid says as he picks himself off of the ground.
"As for the rest of the monastery, before we make a decision, we need to evaluate what resources we have left. I am missing but one spell and one daily use of calling flame, I can continue if that is what we choose to do."
Arjun gives his remaining healing extracts to Sajan.
Gruhastha bless you brother. Sajan intones with a bow, happy to lead the way out of the door to the north.
Nuveril swings around toward the other ooze and seems slightly disappointed to see it disintegrate at the sling stone's collision. She bends over for a few seconds, her hands on her knees, then straightens up again with a smile of satisfaction. "It is a good weapon," she says again, contemplating her new hammer and cherishing the image of the unnatural creature flying apart into puddles under her assault.
Linah you cast your magic around the room. It is a bit frustrating. There seem to be all sorts of very weak magic auras in the room, strong enough for you to sense if faintly but not strong enough for you to read. They seem to centre on the table and somewhat oddly the drains. Whatever magic was used here it has faded. Sabeen does the same thing and confirms your findings.
An exception is the various tubes many of which have weak transmutation magic, likely some kind of protection for their contents.
The equipment in the room makes it a masterwork alchemy lab (+1 to craft alchemy checks) although it would be fairly difficult to move it all.
"I recognize this equipment. An alchemical lab! It is old, but still serviceable. That would explain the strange fungus and ooze. Father Zantus will undoubtedly be interested in this room when we are finished securing the monastery." Arjun goes to the table and drains and examines them.
"Are those things likely to regenerate and reform?", Linah asks
Arjun the equipment is all very recognisable to you. The drains seem to have a fairly mundane purpose of catching overflow and delivering it elsewhere. Linah also would have seen a broadly similar set-up for the preperation of healing and protective elixirs in her monastery even if she is less familiar with the equipment's actual use.
The doors to the north are large solid slabs of stone but they are unlocked and open easily enough to Sajan with a bit of effort. Stale air wafts up the corridor as it does but the air from beyond is dry, the damp from the laboratory does not appear to have penetrated beyond the doors.
Beyond the door is the monastery’s undercrypt: a series of ten foot widerough hewn passages dug in a double-cross formation. The
main thoroughfare runs north to south, with two similar eastwest
passages crossing the main hall about fifty feet apart.
An eerie silence pervades the entire area, the floors are literally covered in bones. Hundreds of honored worshipers of Sarenrae would originally have been interned in shallow niches carved into the walls of the east-west passages but most of these skeletal remains seem to have been roughly tossed from their niches.
In the light of Sabeen's dancing lights, the crossing to the north seems to have a particularly large clumping of bones which lie in small heaps against the back walls and up the northern corridor which seems to end in stairs going up. Even at this distance you can see remains of orange clothing admidst the heaps.
You would have expected the monks here to have worn orange robes but they would not have been interned in them.
Why we rrrush? Everyone tired, it is not wise to press on while weak. I agree with potion thrrrower, why not rrrest and rrregain strrrength and blessings from Sarrrenrrrae?
Grall is covered with abrasions from the ooze and looks obviously injured and exhausted.
Nuveril looks at the piles of bones with distaste. "Why throw your dead down here like refuse?" she asks. "Their flesh is wasted, to rot away to filth in the corners of this charnel pit rather than to return to nature and strengthen their tribe."
"Khalid is right. This room is disturbing. The way the bones are tossed around."