Sickle looks at the broken handle.  “Ok, that seems bad. Let’s try rotating back to configuration # 3 now?”

Mal furious at her actions will attempt to fix things one more time.

Mal Tool Check: 17

With now 9 inches of slime covering the floor Mal finally levers a pick into the mechanism, pushing back a locking bolt, and the remnants of the lever clanks back up into its up position.  The slime flow slows down....until only a bit of a dribble is coming out...and then finally ceases.  Standing on a slowly undulating floor of slime, the group looks around the dark sealed room. 

Without the slime pouring out, Sickle looks into the pipes and sees the all turn 'up' after about 2 feet.  He figures he could form ice into the corner of the pipe that would be impossible to dislodge if he chose.  (or Silas can push his nice pillows in there if he wants... :-). ) 

The group can still pull the lever if they want, even though it's broken off, you just have to grab the broken off base of the shaft to manipulate it. 

(Mending can't fix it?)

"Do not touch the lever," Silas states firmly as he looks at the instruments as he tries to understand the mechism himself without being distracted by slime, asking for a wall or barrier of ice if needed. Silas will move up the wall with diagramsto examine them and tracing number 3 open doors, "This one was how it was set when we came in and we're here," pointing to the star "And came out here," dots and line? 

Assuming Badger told them about just seeing darkness with his eye and switching the light to 2, "Can you move your  eye into the north corridor?"

"I think there's no direct solution. We may need to keep someone here to move the platforms and move them so the rest can move forward unless Badager's eye can find another set of controls," Silas explains his train of through, "Set to to 3, have some or not all but one move into middle room and persona here changes it to 2 so investigate this area," Silas points to the wavy lines, "If that is a bust, get them back into the middle and change it to 1 to move to right gear and then 3 to move into this room" Silas points to four dots? room.

(Did Sacred Flame affect the slime at all?)

Badger was too distracted with the voice in his head to hear Silas properly, but then as he snaps back to reality he nods with a mumble of agreement, and attempts Mending on the lever. It was getting a bit crowded around the control panel for a while there, and made worse by the fact that everyone had to stoop to reach the controls as the slime level rose. But with the immediate danger averted, he stops to take stock of the situation and summarise their discoveries:

So the lever produces the slime. We don't need to try that again, but perhaps we can get rid of it. The blue knob toggles the crystals and the blue button locks in the new setting and rotates the room. The red button lowers the door, but I don't know how to open it. And the red knob... that does something very interesting...

Badger will again rotate the red knob, first to the right and then to the left, and then think: Hello again?

Sacred flame did not affect the slime at all. There is still the matter of a steel slab blocking your exit, even if you reconfigure the rooms. 

Badger uses magic and the lever is mended back together and seems as sturdy as before. 

"Yes, hello?  I am still here. You are still alive!  Are you about to be subsumed by slime?  No, I can't tell you how to stop it, it's against the rules."

Mal will now go over to the steel slab for a door and see if she can do anything about it.

Perception: 23

Tool Check: 25

Badger stares silently at the wall, unresponsive to his companions, as he replies in his head: Yes, we are yet alive, and the slime has stopped for now. Are there any other rules you can enlighten me on? By what name may I call you?

While concentrating on the conversation, he will also attune his senses again to the arcane eye, moving it around the perimeter of the room(s) and through any open doorways, if visible in the darkness.

“You may call me G'lyh'rul, and there are many rules. So many. Mostly though the are covered by ‘don’t do anything’. That’s the most important rule. Don’t you agree?”

Focusing on the eye you see that some sort of mist has poured out of the north hall, and filled the bottom of the vegetation room. The vegetation seems to have come alive in the mist and large clumps of it are moving about. Moving the eye into the northern passage reveals a small room. Thick gas billows out of skull-shaped nozzles set into the walls of this cramped room. A rotting corpse clad in studded leather armor lies on the floor, mouth open and hands grasping its throat.

The eye floats out and down the passage to the east. It opens into a third large chamber as expected.

Five teak wardrobes stand against the ironclad walls of this chamber, each with a door bearing a carved image or scene. Puddles of gray slime cover parts of the floor. The room has one other exit, which has an portcullis blocking a passage to the north. Set into a metal plate above the portcullis is a row of five crystals shaped like drops of blood.

Badger moves the blue knob until the crystal lights up at position 3 again, and then presses the blue button. He nods to Sickle as if to show he is simply acknowledging the druid's request, but this is just a pretense, and he prepares to send the magic eye into the bottom right corner of the end room to explore the final corridor (the one represented by a butt-crack). Meanwhile, he tries to continue the conversation in his mind: If your most important rule is 'don't do anything' then what purpose do you serve, O G'lyh'rul?

(Also, Badger regained a 3rd level spell slot when he cast Arcane Eye, due to Expert Divination)

"Gren, help me (or rather I help him) see if we can pull the door open," Silas states as he cast gudiance on him and moves to the door to see if they can force it open, "So do we try my plan, someone stays here and some move through the rooms? I would say Badger would best to stay behind with his eye but someone should stay with him,"

Grenk and Silas try to force the slab. Unfortunately it seems locked in place, is incredibly thick and heavy, and has slipped into some slight inset, giving practically no way to get real purchase on it. Plus, it's submerged 8 inches into this slime, which you're standing on.  Try as they might, it seems impossible to force this steel slab open given the circumstances.

Meanwhile Badger toggles the blue switch and then presses the button and the grinding, grumbling sound of something large moving shakes the earth.  Dust continues to settle from above.

He replies to the voice in his head, "Hey, wait, what's your name?  You haven't told me your name, but I told you mine!"  It seems to ignore his question.

(one comment...your eye could probably fly through the portcullis.)

With the final room rotating around the eye, he again sees little the passage reveal out to...now that the eye is a bit closer to the edge, it looks like...it looks into a vast cavern that surrounds the rotating rooms. The floor is entirely water. They must sit within some sort of underground lake. The passages rotate until they meet the other location and he checks it out with his eye. Its a passageway that extends down into darkness.

I am called Bâzşihir Dimwört, but you may call me Badger, the gnome replies telepathically. And I'm afraid 'don't do anything' is not going to get me any closer to safety, so I must disagree with you on that point. Excuse me one moment, I must consult with my colleagues.

Turning to his companions, Badger explains: When we do find a way out, be warned that things may have changed. He explains what he has seen so far through the magic eye. We may find ourselves contending with hostile vegetation, while still contending with this slime. Sickle, how long does this spell last, and can you cast it again? Badger tries to sound confident about opening the door, but knows they could also be stuck here until some other adventurers come along... which could be a very long time. 

(What are the walls made of? Are they stone? Stoneshape?)

They may be stone, underneath the iron. "rusty, iron-plated room" 

The thing replies to Badger, "No no no, those are my rules. You may do whatever you want. Lucky you!!  Though most things you try will kill you. So..maybe not so lucky."

"Less there is a mechanism hold the door shut we can access, we have no way to open this closure," Silas states as he steps away from the door, "This room is too much trouble,"

Will you also try to kill us? Badger asks the voice.

Hearing Silas talk about a door mechanism, Badger decides to attempt a magic spell he has never cast before...

Cast Knock on the door.

“Hmmm, maybe. Maybe not. Guess we’ll have to see!”

Badger mutters an arcane spell. A loud “bang” issues from the metal door and there’s a loud click and the door begins to shriek as it slides upwards. The slime bursts out through the gap in the bottom and quickly drops in depth until only a thin layer is left coating the floor and walls. The steel door slides entirely up. 

The hallway leads away into the dragon frieze room. 

Badger gives a brief but audible gasp of surprise, having not actually expected the spell to work, but relieved they were no longer trapped. Almost immediately however the relief turns again to apprehension as he remembers seeing the awakened shrubs in the garden room, and he called another quick warning to the others.

Grenk hoists his shield and sword.  "You want me to go in there or you got some spell to look about first.?  My bet, something comes out of the dragon's mouth," Grenk says to the group.

Pulling out her scimitars Mal says to Grenk, "I will back you up if you want to go back into the other room and deal with these supposed moving plants."