"I don't know what that was, but it didn't sound good. Or think good... whatever. Let's hustle back (at Normal pace) to that leftward passage."
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Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM) Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy) DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
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Retracing his steps, Beegred moves another 11 squares, reaching the crumbling wall of a chamber. As he is about to cross the threshold, another ooze squeezes out of a small crack in the ceiling and flops down onto the ground at his feet. The ooze blasts all your minds with ""FLESH FOR THE FACELESS LORD!"
(OOC: Sorry that Beegred is in the way of most of you. You either have to do a ranged attack, or take an opportunity attack if you move-forward-then-back.)
After Skameros, Rodolfo, and Jimjar go, Beegred will move past the ooze to D17 (using Halfling Nimbleness), and attack twice with the Drow magic sword.
Attack: 13 Damage: 10
Dread Ambusher Attack: 10 Damage: 17
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Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM) Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy) DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
Beegred navigates around the gray ooze to make room for the others to attack, but the tactic is not necessary as both attacks strike the ooze, finding vitals. The ooze loses it's form and flops into a puddle, slowly flowing away in the thin water flowing downward past the party.
Elapsed time: 45 minutes + 10 squares
With the foe dispatched, Beegred continues to lead the party onward, moving another 3 squares.
Elapsed time 1 hour + 1 square
At the 1 hour mark, the party notices that behind them, the water level has risen to about 1 foot deep, and continues to rise.
Ahead of Beegred, a skeleton floats in the air. Floating beside the skeleton is a mace on one side, and a few coins on the other side. The party suddenly hears telepathic coherent language, "How curious? Bags of mostly water, with appendages they fall onto to achieve locomotion. What are you?"
Beegred grabs the coins, hands the mace to Narstin, and talks out loud.
"Hey calamari-face, no more talking in people's heads! Talk out loud while facing us, like regular folk."
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Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM) Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy) DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
As Beegred reaches forward to grab the coins, his hand enters into a thick viscous liquid.
(Does Beegred continue to reach for the coins?)
(Crap!) Beegred tries to hurriedly step back (semi-panicked full movement, probably bumping into the other party members), waving his hand to try to flick off any liquid stuck to it. "There's something here, and it ain't us!"
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(Because you made your DEX saving throw...)
Beegred pulls his hand back, exclaiming out loud.
The telepathic voice responds with a puzzled tone, "Who else is here? I only sense you five and myself. That was tasty, mind doing it again?"
DC 15 WIS (Perception) checks:
Beegred: 20
Narstin: 10
Rodolfo: 18
Skameros: 18
Jimjar: 12
Rodolfo and Jimjar sees a faint ripple in a surface directly in front of Beegred, engulfing the skeleton. The surface extends from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. The skeleton seems to jiggle ever so slightly in reaction to Beegred's touch.
"Who keeps talking.....any one else have strange head voice? What is the hold up?" Skameros splashes around in the rising water and looks at the quivering liquid in front of them.
The telepathic voice responds with a puzzled tone, "Who else is here? I only sense you five and myself. That was tasty, mind doing it again?"
If there is a leftover strip of meat from yesterday's food search, Beegred will grab a strip of it and throw it where his hand came in contact with the goo.
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Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM) Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy) DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
Would either Rodolfo or Jimjar have any idea what this might be?
Jimjar certainly would venture a guess...
"I would wager that's a gelatinous cube. But they aren't intelligent and can't communicate at all. So I'll wager it's not a gelatinous cube!"
Beegred throws a piece of meat at the hallway ahead of him, and the meat 'flops' onto the liquid surface and slowly submerges underneath the vertical surface.
"Tasty! I could ingest more. I would like more." The party watches the meat dissolve and dilute below the surface.
When Skameros pokes the surface with his greataxe, the tip of the axe head submerges and starts to sizzle. When he pulls it out, a portion of the axe is pitted and corroded.
The telepathic voice answers, puzzled, "Are you not able to pass? You wish to pass? I am able to move, but not by falling on appendages like you do. Why did you choose that form of locomotion? What are you?"
When the creature begins to retreat up the corridor, it is easier to see it. As it moves, the skeleton, mace and coins move with it.
As Beegred and Rodolfo assault the gray ooze, it telepathically shrieks "FLESH FOR THE FACELESS LORD!" as it succumbs to the assault.
Battle costs: 15 minutes.
"I don't know what that was, but it didn't sound good. Or think good... whatever. Let's hustle back (at Normal pace) to that leftward passage."
Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec
Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM)
Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
Retracing his steps, Beegred moves another 11 squares, reaching the crumbling wall of a chamber. As he is about to cross the threshold, another ooze squeezes out of a small crack in the ceiling and flops down onto the ground at his feet. The ooze blasts all your minds with ""FLESH FOR THE FACELESS LORD!"
Elapsed time: 30 minutes + 10 squares
Initiative:
(Everyone but Narstin goes before the ooze.)
(OOC: Sorry that Beegred is in the way of most of you. You either have to do a ranged attack, or take an opportunity attack if you move-forward-then-back.)
After Skameros, Rodolfo, and Jimjar go, Beegred will move past the ooze to D17 (using Halfling Nimbleness), and attack twice with the Drow magic sword.
Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec
Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM)
Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
Beegred navigates around the gray ooze to make room for the others to attack, but the tactic is not necessary as both attacks strike the ooze, finding vitals. The ooze loses it's form and flops into a puddle, slowly flowing away in the thin water flowing downward past the party.
Elapsed time: 45 minutes + 10 squares
With the foe dispatched, Beegred continues to lead the party onward, moving another 3 squares.
Elapsed time 1 hour + 1 square
At the 1 hour mark, the party notices that behind them, the water level has risen to about 1 foot deep, and continues to rise.
Ahead of Beegred, a skeleton floats in the air. Floating beside the skeleton is a mace on one side, and a few coins on the other side. The party suddenly hears telepathic coherent language, "How curious? Bags of mostly water, with appendages they fall onto to achieve locomotion. What are you?"
Beegred grabs the coins, hands the mace to Narstin, and talks out loud.
"Hey calamari-face, no more talking in people's heads! Talk out loud while facing us, like regular folk."
Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec
Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM)
Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
(How high is the tunnel here?)
"Guys....water is getting deeper back here...." Skameros says as he splashes a bit in the water "maybe we need to move faster?"
Skameros - Bugbear Barbarian - Out of the Abyss - By Kerrec
Follow your Arrow where it Points - Tabaxi Monk - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
Citron Pumpkinfoam - Fairy Monk - Project Point: Team Longsword
"I noticed," growls Rodolfo, now knee deep in water.
Beegred DC 15 WIS (Perception) check: 16
Beegred DC 12 DEX saving throw: 17
As Beegred reaches forward to grab the coins, his hand enters into a thick viscous liquid.
(Does Beegred continue to reach for the coins?)
These tunnels are 10 feet high.
(Crap!) Beegred tries to hurriedly step back (semi-panicked full movement, probably bumping into the other party members), waving his hand to try to flick off any liquid stuck to it. "There's something here, and it ain't us!"
Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec
Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM)
Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
(Because you made your DEX saving throw...)
Beegred pulls his hand back, exclaiming out loud.
The telepathic voice responds with a puzzled tone, "Who else is here? I only sense you five and myself. That was tasty, mind doing it again?"
DC 15 WIS (Perception) checks:
Rodolfo and Jimjar sees a faint ripple in a surface directly in front of Beegred, engulfing the skeleton. The surface extends from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. The skeleton seems to jiggle ever so slightly in reaction to Beegred's touch.
Would either Rodolfo or Jimjar have any idea what this might be?
"Who keeps talking.....any one else have strange head voice? What is the hold up?" Skameros splashes around in the rising water and looks at the quivering liquid in front of them.
He will poke at it with his greataxe "What this?"
Skameros - Bugbear Barbarian - Out of the Abyss - By Kerrec
Follow your Arrow where it Points - Tabaxi Monk - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
Citron Pumpkinfoam - Fairy Monk - Project Point: Team Longsword
If there is a leftover strip of meat from yesterday's food search, Beegred will grab a strip of it and throw it where his hand came in contact with the goo.
Beegred Thornpost - Lvl 8 Halfling Ranger - Out of the Abyss by Kerrec
Drusk - Lvl 8 Half-Orc Life Cleric - The Long Road: Dragon Heist by Mingofaust (player & current DM)
Hunferho Aelorothi - Lvl 5 Half-Elf Bard/Rogue - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
DM - Frontier City of Nunkreet (ended)
Jimjar certainly would venture a guess...
"I would wager that's a gelatinous cube. But they aren't intelligent and can't communicate at all. So I'll wager it's not a gelatinous cube!"
Beegred throws a piece of meat at the hallway ahead of him, and the meat 'flops' onto the liquid surface and slowly submerges underneath the vertical surface.
"Tasty! I could ingest more. I would like more." The party watches the meat dissolve and dilute below the surface.
When Skameros pokes the surface with his greataxe, the tip of the axe head submerges and starts to sizzle. When he pulls it out, a portion of the axe is pitted and corroded.
Skameros looks at his poor greataxe "That not good sign....good thing I have spare..anyone have fire? maybe fire dry out slime...."
Skameros - Bugbear Barbarian - Out of the Abyss - By Kerrec
Follow your Arrow where it Points - Tabaxi Monk - Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus (by Pokepaladdy)
Citron Pumpkinfoam - Fairy Monk - Project Point: Team Longsword
Rodolfo says, "Would you let us pass if we give you more food?"
The telepathic voice answers, puzzled, "Are you not able to pass? You wish to pass? I am able to move, but not by falling on appendages like you do. Why did you choose that form of locomotion? What are you?"
When the creature begins to retreat up the corridor, it is easier to see it. As it moves, the skeleton, mace and coins move with it.
(Will follow up with a map later.)