The Forgotten Wish

(OOC: Yes, we did ;) )

How about a History Check? 

History: 20

Sylvera, partially frustrated and partially desperate responds

Staring down the webbed over hallway for a few more moments, Asimi looks back to where the other two would be and speaks up, "I'm going down this hallway, whatever made these webs might still be here," If nothing else the threat of it potentially emerging and coming after them when they had their backs turned was enough of a justification in her mind to handle it now.

Holding her weapon out, she would attempt to take full advantage of her polearm's reach. Maintaining as much distance as she could, Asimi began trying to cut the webbing away.

Rick wanders over to the gap in the force wall and tries holding up various objects to see if they can get cut through since he hasn't a clue what the elves are talking about. He will be working his way up to stone and, if possible, metal he finds around.

 "Most spiders are harmless..." Breldo starts.

"Unless you're smaller than them and they feel a need to defend themselves...", he finishes weakly. "Hey spiders, we don't want trouble, just wanting to look through the area... sorry about the web.", he says softly.

"I-I'm staying with you two." Nuria says drawing one of her daggers. She follows slowly after Asimi and Breldo.

Oren stays in the dining hall, nervously glancing between the two parties as best as he can, and simply waiting for the first one that is going to start screaming, which is usually what happens when the party gets split. He just gets to watch as the disgusting pile of goop in the midst of the room finally seems to have stopped moving in full- Partially seeming to shrink away to nothing, with the flesh showing signs of slowly turning to stone.

Sylvera thinks for a moment to Ghurna. There are plenty of libraries, plenty of older structures throughout the root structures and all that... But she's never found any reference to "Ley". Not even looking into things presumed to be old fiction.

...To the point that if it was apparently something so well known here at a mere outpost, that seems rather suspicious, one way or another. To the next questions it seems the elf can at least provide some answers, for once.

The elf idly glances in the direction of Rick, who has moved back to the malfunctioning barrier, putting in things to see if they'd get cut. He discovers there's certainly a level of "give", as it seems to be held back at least somewhat when using a rock... Though eventually it still cuts through. "Olokas" offers another mild shrug as he continues.

Following this, the elf signals for Sylvera to follow as he heads back inside, taking a left toward the "theater" room first, before heading toward the back, going to grab whatever these "tools" must be.

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Back in the basement, Asimi wastes little time to slash at the web, while Breldo meekly states a spider shouldn't be a problem... Although spiders usually don't make a web this big. To no surprise, an angry hiss fills the corridor when Asimi's strike cleaves the web, and red eyes come crawling around a pipe as an enormous spider comes into view, something black seen dripping from it's legs and fangs. But for whatever reason, after taking note of the group, retreats slightly around the pipe again, retreating out of vision.

"Easy, easy... not wanting anything of yours, just looking to explore on this way a bit, then we'll be out of your hair... errr... webs."

Rick obviously tries for a different color of rock.

He'll keep tagging along when they leave though.

There's a soft "click" from beyond the pipe, as if mandibles click together in what could be considered an affirmation..? While it is doubtful it can actually understand what is being said, maybe it can understand the general tone of voice and posture?

Breldo will stay facing the pipe in a non-threatening manner until the others pass, giving a nod of thanks before following.

Lowering her halberd, Asimi looked at Breldo for a moment before glancing back down the hallway. Following his more gentle lead, she kept her steps as unthreatening as possible as she moved forward.

"Let's find what we can and get out of this thing's way," She said softly. Asimi would try to give it as much space as was feasible while moving, likewise, she'd try to take in as much information as she could in as brief a time as could be managed. The faster they could get this over with one way or another the better.

(I'm assuming Rick is going to follow Asimi and Olokas? In each case...)

Olokas eventually leads whoever follows to what once clearly a store room of some kind, and one doesn't need to understand Elvish to know he laments how it seems that someone has robbed the entire place blind, though it doesn't seem to deter him completely. Moving to what at first seems a piece of wall like any other, the elvish word for "Open" is spoken- And barely functioning mechanism after millennia of disuse, still manages to slide open to reveal a hidden compartment. Soon he's pulling out some things stowed away within the small space, giving explanations for the various objects; some kind of handheld tool with a gauge near the top, a stick with a button on one end, and three at first glance ordinary looking glass bottles. Olokas explains them, though whether someone can understand is a different matter.

(While magic items are not identified by default, because in this case you all have someone to explain what they are, item descriptions)

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Downstairs, the group progresses with the spider seemingly pacified... Though the kind of weird things that are down here probably makes them wonder if they should have even bothered.

Before the group rounds the corner, they might perhaps make a brief note of the fact that one of the major leaks that had been there before seems gone. Only a few dried stains remain. In hindsight, around the spot where that web was...

But that leaves one major spill around the machine where this mess all started, and there they find the matter entirely different as they round the corner... Though seemingly not immediately a danger, merely disgusting.

Here, the goop has turned into some meld of flesh as well; though unlike the blob, it has spread itself out more over the room, covering floor and walls in a thin web of malformed flesh. Fusing and trying to dig into the machine that started it all. And now, already, seemingly expired, dead, some of the edges of this malformed flesh turning to stone. The only thing that still seems to be alive is some kind of sac, softly glowing, nestled in the midst of it against the machine.

((Yep, with old Elf lady and Olokas))

Rick looks mildly pleased at the stash.

"Rick can always find a use for a stick! Oh, Rick loves empty glass bottles!"

(Sylvera and Olokas, my bad! But what was meant, yes.)

Nuria quickly scurries past the spider once Oren calms it down. When the group approaches the fleshy goop, she shivers. It looks dead, but is it really? She blinks at the softly glowing sac. "W-what is that?" She points at it. Part of her just wants to pull out an arrow and shoot it, but she can't help but be curious about it.

((Khond is absolutely sticking with Olokas.))

Breldo peers at the sac from a healthy distance, trying to determine if it is sufficiently similar to anything he's familiar with.

Nature: 18

Breldo investigates the sac- Or whatever it is- from a more than safe distance. He's never seen anything like it before evidently, though the way it is formed gives him the impression of almost some kind of sac an insect might form at it's larval stage. Though those don't usually glow...

"Might be some sort of insect that is molting into the adult form... but big and glowy... which isn't normal, in case you hadn't already gathered that..."

Sylvera eagerly takes the tools, swiping them as fast as she can as she doesn't really trust Rick to use them properly... or perhaps he'll misplace them, who knows. She eyes the tabaxi, making sure to at least take the ley counter, as that seems the most promising (though she will snatch up at least some of the bottles assuming Rick doesn't get there first). 

"Thank you," she says in elvish. "The stick... is it used for household cleaning, or for cleaning Ley?" She asks tentatively, wondering if it could have helped them against the goo monster. 

She begrudgingly will allow Khond to take some of the equipment, as it would be rather cumbersome for her to try taking it all.