Star Metal Marauders- Highway Harvest

"Sure." If the lever pulls towards the open doorway, Bjorn puts a basic slipknot over the handle. If it pulls the other way, he passes the rope around one of the bars of the grate. (Creating a shape like the number 7. If I understand my physics, it'd make the lever about twice as hard to pull, but hey.)

(Mostly I'd be concerned about the rope slipping down the handle, but that's not dangerous, just annoying. Depends on how the handle is shaped lol.)

"I'm assuming the lever will open this gate, but...it is possible it does something else. Keep sharp. Bjron, ready?"

Sparhawk grabs his holy symbol and again, uses Divine sense to detect anything ahead in the chamber.

"Sorry I'm so careful but my perceptive friend..." he winks at Eberk and Frangipani, "almost fell into a spiked pit.  Wouldn't want that to happen again. Everyone back up, lets give this rope a try." He pats Vars on the shoulder.

Using the rope to pull the lever down,  you hear a clanking of a gear and the sound of a chain. The gate slowly raises to the roof, giving you access to the chamber and the tunnel leading deeper within. Sparhawk cannot sense any evil or undead within

"Ok, looks clear. Lets enter carefully."

"I'll go first," Vars offers, stepping into the corridor. He scans the area, doing his best to look for traps in spite of his past failures. 

Perception: 4

Sparhawk follows Vars ready for a creature or trap

perception 15

Frangipani followed Sparhawk.

“Hold on, before we go in much more, let’s keep this gate open.” Sparhawk goes out to the main entrance, grabs a sizable 200 lb Boulder and places it so the gate can’t shut. “Ok, let’s head in”. 

Sparhawk wedges a Boulder underneath the gate as Vars enters into the moist moss filled cavern. His feet slip a bit in some slime and as he recovers his balance he realizes the slime moved . He feels a strange sensation as a black goop works it’s way up his leg. The strange sensation turns to burning as he takes 6 acid damage.

you all stare as a black pseudo-pod tendril rises from the black mass uncovered by Vars’s slipping boot, it will lash out at Sparhawk just as he finishes setting the boulder.

Attack: 23 Damage: 7 + 17 acid dmg

The black mass hits the Boulder as Spar hawk just moved away from it, leaving a small film of acid on its surface.

Initiative:

Frangipani 23.  
Bjorn 19.  
Vars 17.  
black pudding 17.  
Eberk 15.  
black pudding#2 8
Sparhawk 3

"Ah, we are being attacked!  What is it?"
 Sparhawk seems concerned, as he has never fought a pudding before.

Bjorn advances on the slime and jabs at it from a distance (U10). Aegweth (glaive): 16 Damage: 12 (magical slashing damage)

He then steps back towards the entrance (Z10). "Ugh. Slime. You'll never wash that out."

(Pending Frangipani’s action)

Bjorn takes full advantage of his glaive’s range and slices into the black goop. The hit delivers a mighty blow which splits the pudding into two. The second pudding enters initiative 8 creating its own pseudo pod, rdy to strike

“How do we kill these things?”

"What the... ouch," Vars lifts his foot out of the goop. "Hey everyone, what where you step. ...Who's got the torch! Maybe we could burn this stuff up?" He takes a stab at the slime with his short sword: 

Attack: 25 Damage: 6

" Stop Tasting Vars! Thats MY Job!"

Frangipani gather frost around her hands and flung it at the ooze.

Ice Knife: Attack: 22 Damage: 9 Dex 12 Save or 9

Vars jabs his sword into the slimey thing wounding it, but gets splashed in the process taking 2 more acid dmg, also the acid begins to eat into his sword giving it a -1 on dmg going forward.

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" Stop Tasting Vars! Thats MY Job!"

Frangipani gather frost around her hands and flung it at the ooze.

Ice Knife: Attack: 10 Damage: 1 Dex 12 Save or 8

 Frangipani sends her ice blade at the blob on the floor it sticks in then dissipates

-2 save

the frosty after effects seem to not bother it all that you can tell.