"It is. If only this ship could fly." Petra will continue to pet the hamster in order to get it to open up.

8

The hamster turns to you, really annoyed at your stupid question. "Maybe it can? There used to be a command chair here. Did you not see it back there? Maybe all it needs is that and a spelljamming helm, you gorgeous but dumb broad. Did you ever stop and think of that?  Gods." 

Li'riya makes her way over to the hamster, offering it a carrot. "Hi, I'm Li'riya, do you want to ride with me for a bit?"

AH: 7

Eris watches Liri attempt to tame the talking hamster with much interest, wondering if she would have more luck than Petra did.

"Not particularly, you're stickin' that carrot way too close to my noodle." the hamster says, disgruntled. It snatches the carrot anyways, eating it like a hamster would. It stops chewing for a moment. "Hey, has this been washed?!"

Eris quickly washes the carrot while the hamster isn't looking. "Yes it has," The sorceress smiles.

13

The hamster gives you a very distrustful gaze as it continues to eat. After a few moments, it stops, swallows, and says, "Any of you **** nuts gonna tame me better or can I just ******* go home now!? Heh?!?" carrot bits exit it's mouth as it shouts. 

Regulus looks down at it. “Hello. I like your moxie, but we are quite busy, so either hang out with us and assure your own safety, or piss off, you fuzzball.” INTIMIDATION: 23

"Yeah." the hamster says, agreeing. "**** you morons, i'm outta here." It swallows the carrot, squeezes out of Liri's grip, and begins to crawl down her leg to the floor. After a moment it turns back to her. "Thanks for the carrot, toots." and then heads back to it's home, muttering swear words and how you all couldn't tame variously easy things to tame if you tried.

Li'riya sighs. "As utterly strange as that was, shall we move on?"

Regulus nods to Li’riya, “Yes, F that hamster. Let’s keep going.”

Yeh shoulda let me eat em! We wouldnt be second guessin anythin'! Insulted by a rat. What a day..

AREA 14 - OOZE DEN

This 10 foot high cave appears to be the lair of a huge ooze, probably the one you killed back in AREA 12.

AREA 16 - THE EXIT

At the top of the tunnel that descends deeper into the dungeon is an 18-foot-high, ring-shaped tunnel cavern that goes down into the bowels of darkness.

AREA 15 - STANDING GATE

Rising out of a 2-foot-deep pool of ooze is a pair of 15-foot-tall standing stones topped with a lintel, carved into which is a symbol of an arrow. 

AREA 11 - THE GLITTERING CAVERNS OF JARUK THE PRISMATIC

Last room you ****s. Ease up on the chatter would ya, i'm trying to post here.

Two columns of rock support the 30-foot-high ceiling of this cave, the walls of which are encrusted with crystals that catch and reflect light. Dissonant music emanates from a smaller cave to the southeast. You press on cuz at this point since it's the last room i'm railroading you. Rock music fills this 30-foot-high cavern, which resembles the inside of a geode. The walls and ceiling are encrusted with crystals that catch and reflect light. The floor is concave and filled with golden sand to a depth of 10 feet.

A dao rises out of the sand, he sings you a song.

"Hello, travellers.." he says smoothly. "How can the Great Jaruk help you?"

"Yes, would you happen to need a lich destroyed and it's phylactery given to you?"

"Oh, right to the point. Lovely, lovely. Yes, I would, by chance. How astute for you to ask. I have the notion that you have talked to the marid on this level?" he asks. "Either way, we are both cursed to use only adventurers in order to accomplish our goals. It would appear that, i'm sure you know, the one who kills the lich and returns it's phylactery to only one of us."

"Yes. We have been searching for the lich, with little success."

"That's because he's not on this level." A musical rock riff plays briefly, from nowhere. "He's supposedly lurking on the level below us."