Disciples of Atropus: Session 36 - The Party Gets Anal Vored
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Session Summary:

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Date of Session: January 8th, 2022
In-Universe Date: Uktar 26, 1513 DR
Level Reached: 7
Dungeon Master: Juli
Players: Adrian, Cain, Krosto, Liam, Lucas, Victor
Player Characters: Amadeus Bosch, Felid, Little Bustard, Nasurin Nisure, Maria, Li Xie-Li

The party completes a Short Rest. They briefly discuss how to deal with the Wild Magic Surges in the dungeon, ultimately coming to the conclusion that there is no way to avoid them unless they destroy their source. Maria hypothesizes that the antimagic fields are containing the wild magic, and that if they head towards the antimagic fields they will find the source. Begrudgingly, the party advances and makes their way through a broken puzzle room with another antimagic field and a bunch of misfiring dart traps. Little Bustard destroys the crystal chandelier producing the antimagic field, and the party briefly ponders whether they are doing the right thing by destroying the antimagic fields. They quickly shrug it off, and move on.

They find a small room with a strange faceless statue that doesn't look like it belongs there, but they ignore it and head back the way they came to check the other room instead. There, they encounter a group of eight mimics who they get into a fight with. Eventually, the spells being cast in the room destabilize the marble walls and ceiling enough that they collapse, crushing the remaining mimics. The party heads back to the statue, and makes their way down a long hallway. They find a small room with a seemingly endless pit in it, and then enter a large empty room full of a sticky residue. After some careful examination, the party determines that the entire room is a gargantuan mimic, and is able to cause the mimic to "throw them up," safely depositing them on the other side of the room with minor acid burns. They find that they are now back in the crypt portion of the dungeon, and have essentially gone around in a circle. For their efforts, the party reaches Level 7.

Session Log:

Nasurin:
"do you guys ever wake up feeling like a piece of paper?"

Maria:
"No? What does that mean?"

Amadeus Bosch:
"What, are you jealous of Landon?"

Xie Li:
"My brain feels like its been flayed, but I don't feel like paper, no."

Little Bustard:
"Sometimes"

Nasurin:
"you'd know if you knew, i guess"

Xie Li:
"Do you want a hug"

[Xie Li asks in the most Monotone of voices. He's unsure if he even means it.]

Nasurin:
"you already know i don't"

Xie Li:
"Just in case"
"How is everyone else feeling"

Amadeus Bosch:
"I'm sure Bustard wants one."

Nasurin:
"he'll bite you and i don't think he even has teeth"

Xie Li:
"if someone were to bite me i think i'd crumple into a million tiny little pieces"

Nasurin:
nasurin considers biting xie li but doesnt want a mouthful of grungy sweaty cat fur

Maria:
"Would you like to?"

Xie Li:
"be bitten or crumple into a million tiny little pieces?"
"either would be preferable to this blasted dungeon and its murder books"

The Narrator:
Your party has completed a Short Rest. Most of you have been nearly completely healed. However, Nadredda still looks a little worse for wear.

Xie Li:
"nadredda, are you okay?"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Hmm? Oh, yess, Nadredda iss being fine." -she coughs a little- "No worriess. I jusst needing an um, a health potion! Yess. Good thing I brought ssome with me."

Nasurin:
"nadredda has been on the edge of death since we met. she could die at any moment"

Maria:
"Rude to say, but true of all you bookworm types."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Ah, it iss my frail ssnakelike complexion. Compossure? Con…traction? Reflection."

Maria:
"Constitution?"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "I do not knowing the word I am looking for, but regardlessss. Yess! That iss the one."

Xie Li:
"i'd sooner bite my own hand off than let nadredda die."

Maria:
"Maybe she can drink your blood."

Nasurin:
"let her drink your blood, xie li"

Amadeus Bosch:
"I'm fine with that solution."

The Narrator:
Nadredda rummages around in her bag pulls out the vial of Xie Li's blood, as well as a potion of healing. "Yess, ssee here, I sstill having your blood. Infected with disseassess too, mm very healthy."

Nasurin:
"drink up. sip sip"

Xie Li:
"i…."

The Narrator:
Nadredda pretends to drink from the flask of Xie Li's blood, but holds the potion of healing behind it and actually drinks that. From the side, it does kind of look like she's drinking blood out of a tube.

Maria:
"Damn, get it."

Xie Li:
"NADREDDA!!!!"
"You aren't actually-"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Egh. Tasstes of iron."

Little Bustard:
"Taste good?"

Nasurin:
"whats wrong xie li? dont want her to do a little sippy? you wanna let her fucking die?"

Maria:
"Don't be selfish, Xie Li"

Xie Li:
"she'd DIE"

Nasurin:
"yeah, so let her drink"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "My brewing sskillss are not up to par. I do not feeling very much better. We have eh, magic healerss in thiss group, yess? I fear I have not having much time to perfect my potionmaking sskillss, sso perhapss ssome little assisstance from the Weave would being in order…"

Amadeus Bosch:
"Xie Li, either she dies or gets better."

Xie Li:
"it's safe to do spells in this room, right? i can't remember"

Nasurin:
"she was born on the day of her birth, and she'll be alive until she isnt"

Xie Li:
"i have a little bit more energy i think.."
"for spells that is."

Nasurin:
"i have soup"

Felid:
"People die when they're killed."

Maria:
"Yeah come here, I've got a little to spare." she puts a hand on Nadredda's shoulder and casts Cure Wounds at 1st level

Little Bustard:
"People die when they are killed"

Nasurin:
"people die when they arent alive"

Amadeus Bosch:
"I don't think—"

Nasurin:
"youve never thought"

The Narrator:
Maria heals Nadredda for 10 HP. As she does so, she also takes 9 radiant damage as her spell seemingly recoils at her.

Amadeus Bosch:
"Your short term memories are atrocious."

Little Bustard:
"Never thought. Not once"

Nasurin:
"i have soup"

Xie Li:
"I EVEN ASKED!!!"

jokerconcern

Maria:
"FUCK! Alright, my bad, I forgot." she shakes her hand like it burns

Nasurin:
"did you expect the dungeon to tell you?"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "The magic iss very angry in thiss dungeon."

Xie Li:
"YOU KNOW WHAT NASURIN."

Maria:
"You know what? For now, fuck magic, I'm just going to club things to death. Might as well put training to use."

Xie Li:
"Well I have my swords for a reason I guess. For a day like today…"
"Too bad everything in this dungeon is immune to STABBING."

Felid:
"Felid likes clubbing things to death."

Xie Li:
"and you know what? you're so good at that."

Maria:
"I am counting on you Felid."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "W-we might not have much choice. Our best option is probably j-just to find whatever is causing wild magic in th-this area and get rid of it."

Felid:
"Felid is doing her best."

Maria:
"Alright, ready to go everyone? Because this dungeon is only going to fuck us over harder the longer we are here."

Little Bustard:
"Lot of 'fuck'"

Nasurin:
"landon should be working normally again, so we can use him to do our scouting"

Xie Li:
"Indeed, Little Bustard."
"Cool."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Yess, Nadredda iss ready. Let uss go and um, find a rock to kick it'ss assss to death or ssomething."

Ivanoska: "Yes, I s-suppose I'm ready. I'll try to stick to my c-cantrips if we get into any more fights… such simple magic doesn't s-seem to be affected by fluctuations in the Weave…"

Maria:
"Alright, let us hop to it." she heads towards the door.

Xie Li:
[Xie Li sweats. Let's hope no one remembers his lie earlier.]

Little Bustard:
Little Bustard remembers

Xie Li:
[Sweats.]

The Narrator:
Landon: "Master Nasurin, while I thank you greatly for transferring my consciousness into an Enduring Spellbook and out of that soggy old rag, I regret to inform you that I do not seem to be able to project my consciousness anywhere further than this spellbook for the time being."

Xie Li:
"Oh darn. That must suck Landon."

The Narrator:
Landon: "It is the honorable duty of a spellbook to remain by their wielder's side and provide them with valuable intelligence and spells. Granted, it's not as though I could not have done so when I was apart from Master Nasurin, as we share a telepathic link, but you see it's almost as though I have been rendered into a 'primal' form. It's… freeing, in a sense."

Xie Li:
"Oh, okay. Cool."

Nasurin:
"he just means i cant make him into a book ghost again. he can still scout, he just needs to be more cautious"

Maria:
"I think we need to go the direction of the Antimagic."

Xie Li:
"Yeah, we would need to go there wouldn't we"

sad

Amadeus Bosch:
"I'd say you're free to stay behind, but you're not really. You're not that much of a coward."

Xie Li:
"That might be the nicest thing you've said to me"

Amadeus Bosch:
"No one wants to deal with a crying cat."

Xie Li:
"Annnnd we're back."
"Well, let's get going I guess."

The Narrator:
Maria steps around the corner and just before the archway leading into the room full of antimagic which is the last place Landon was able to scout ahead. As she does so, a dart flies across the room from the opposite wall. Maria deftly dodges out of the way, and the dart simply falls onto the ground after colliding with the wall.

Xie Li:
"Huh? Did someone say something?"

Maria:
maria hold up her shield a little higher and sighs

Amadeus Bosch:
"If you heard something, it's probably another trap or more creatures beyond this room."

Nasurin:
"we'll likely be dead within the hour"

The Narrator:
Maria cautiously moves forwards, checking the floor and hallways for pressure plates or any sign of a trigger for this trap. As she does so, another dart fires out from the opposite wall approximately five seconds after the first one did.
Maria ducks down low, and the dart flies overhead, thunking against the wall like the first one.

Maria:
"I. Hate. This halway."

The Narrator:
As Maria cautiously moves forwards into this room, she can see that every tile on the floor of this room appears to be a weighted tile; however, none of them are actually responding to her weight. Several of them appear to be cracked.
Also, as Maria walks into the room, she enters the antimagic field.
She steps to the side, and after about five seconds, watches as another dart streaks down the same path and thunks against the wall, directly past her without doing any harm.
And, she also notices several other lines of darts emerging from all around the room.

Maria:
"Ok, looks like these are just going to be flying around, so be careful everyone."

Xie Li:
"Are you kidding me…"
"Is it safe to come in, Maria?"
"I'm gonna come in either way but"

Maria:
"I can block the dart for you, but be fast."

Xie Li:
"Yeah okay."

[Xie Li steps in with Maria just for the hell of it.]

Little Bustard:
Little Bustard scitters in next to Xie Li.

Xie Li:
"Oh! Hello friend."

Maria:
"I mean aside from the darts this room honestly is not that bad. I wonder if they will run out though."

The Narrator:
Maria dodges through a line of darts with ease, using her shield to help deflect it.
Little Bustard gets down on all fours and army crawls underneath the darts, as they appear to be firing at approximately chest height for an average-sized human. He cautiously tests the tiles before him as he moves, and soon discovers that every tile in this room seems to be broken. Most of them are cracked and weighted down, seemingly lodged in place in their mechanisms. A handful of them appear to have trace amounts of a strange, sticky residue on them.

Maria:
"I could chuck a spear at the chandelier, but I just have one."

Little Bustard:
Little Bustard makes sure to steer clear of the tiles with the strange residue. He gets to his feet once he's out of firing range of the darts, then makes his way over to the chandelier
"I can shoot it"

Xie Li:
"Shout if you need help!"

[Xie Li does not know how he could help]

Maria:
"Take the shot I guess, I just hope it is not something we need later like the other room."

Little Bustard:
Little Bustard takes a few steps back, aims his bow, and fires

The Narrator:
Little Bustard fires his shortbow at the antimagic chandelier, just like in the first room of the dungeon, and it shatters apart, falling to the floor into dimly glowing translucent blue crystal shards that slowly fade until no light remains within them. As the chandelier is destroyed, so to is the only light source in this room, plunging the room into darkness. Luckily, you all have dark vision.

The antimagic field dissipates. You'd think they'd have hidden these things a little better if they didn't want you to destroy them.

Xie Li:
"Do you think… maybe destroying these things might not be a Great idea?"
"I know its too late for that but like what if, you know?"

The Narrator:
The darts in this room do not cease firing. It seems that they are controlled by a mechanism; one which has apparently broken, or otherwise gotten stuck.

Maria:
"Well my thinking is that they hold back the wild magic, so it is probably not the best idea, no."

Xie Li:
"Well! I guess we just gotta live with ourselves. Or not. This place might kill us."
"These darts are annoying."

Little Bustard:
"Crawl"

Xie Li:
[Xie Li gets on their stomach.]

"Hyeh?"

Little Bustard:
Little Bustard gives a thumbs up

Xie Li:
:D

Little Bustard:
"Careful. Stuff"

Xie Li:
"I… will be careful of the stuff."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "I-is everything sorted in that room? We've all kind of been st-standing back… I thought it was just me at first, b-but then I noticed basically everyone else was to. I s-suppose this dungeon does have a knack of locking doors behind us, s-so we didn't want to end up with all of us locked in there at once."

Xie Li:
"You gotta lay low to be in here! Crawl on your stomachs! And avoid the weird mess."

Maria:
"There are darts flying around, be careful."

The Narrator:
Your party crawls their way underneath the darts in this room, heading to the south archway. As you all arrive, you find yourselves in a small hallway in front of another iron door, identical to all the rest you've seen in this dungeon.

Xie Li:
"Door…

Maria:
"I am going to like.. touch it with my spear first. I am tired of everything here hurting."

The Narrator:
Maria's spear falls forwards into the iron door. It makes a metallic clang, but nothing else appears to happen.

Xie Li:
"Well, here goes nothing"

Maria:
"Ok well, good." she collects her spear and opens the door.

The Narrator:
Maria opens the door into a long marble room with a multitude of chests stored within it; approximately 8 of them. The room is well decorated, with beautiful elven paintings and murals lining the walls, but it seems to be dimly lit, despite the presence of torches held in braziers on the wall. Most of these torches seem to have been snuffed out.

In this room, Maria notices a larger volume of the strange sticky residue which Little Bustard found on the tiles in the dart room.

Maria:
"The hell is that stuff. Also is it just me or should we not touch any of those?"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Not touching any of what? Iss it treassure?"

Maria:
"It is probably trapped, knowing everything here. I am not touching them at least."

The Narrator:
Maria and Xie Li step cautiously into the room. Nothing seems to happen.

Xie Li:
[Xie Li cast Presto to light some nearby torches.]

"It's awfully dark in here…"

The Narrator:
Xie Li uses Prestidigitation to light some of the torches in the room. It is now brightly lit in this room, allowing you all to see better and with the full spectrum of colors.
Maria pokes one of the chests with her spear.
Nothing seems to happen…
Maria attempts to remove her spear from the chest and walk forwards. However, as she tries to pull it back, she finds that it appears to be stuck to the chest and is incredibly difficult to remove.

Xie Li:
"What did you do?"

Maria:
"YOU!"

Xie Li:
[?!?!?!?!?!]

"WHO?!?!?!?"

Maria:
she casts toll the dead on the chest
"Back up to the hallway we can put them in a choke point!"|

Xie Li:
"UHHH OKAY."

The Narrator:
Maria casts Toll the Dead on the chest, dealing 12 necrotic damage to it. As she does so, the chest recoils, growing a set of eyes and morphing into a more animalistic form as it sprouts a long, sticky tongue, and sharp teeth. It growls at Maria, gripping harder onto her spear and slowly pulling it into its mouth. As it does so, every other chest in the room stirs as well, seemingly angered by your group's meddling.

Xie Li:
"OH GOD!!"

The Narrator:
Amadeus crawls past Felid and behind Little Bustard and tries to peer past him in order to get a better view at the room ahead. He Readies an Eldritch Blast to fire at the first enemy that comes into view.

Maria:
"Everyone in the hallway, back up a little, please!"

The Narrator:
Maria Disengages from the mimic and backs up.
Ivanoska crawls along the floor and backs up far from the hallway, following Amadeus' lead to Ready an action to fire off a cantrip at the first enemy she sees.
Little Bustard backs up behind Amadeus and Readies an attack with his shortbow.

The Narrator:
Xie Li Readies an attack with the Black Steel Blade.
Felid moves in front of Xie Li and Readies an attack with her Bloodaxe.
Nasurin crawls forwards and Readies an action to cast Ice Knife.

The Narrator:
Nadredda casts Shatter on a point within the room ahead, catching four Mimics in the blast radius. Three of the mimics take 16 thunder damage, and one of them takes 8 thunder damage.
Ivanoska's Readied action fires off, releasing a Shadow Bolt from her wand at the first mimic that comes into view. It takes 10 necrotic damage as a bolt of shadowy energy similar to a Fire Bolt hits it.
Amadeus' Readied action triggers, firing off two Eldritch Blasts. One of them misses, but the other one hits the mimic for 8 force damage.
Little Bustard's Readied action triggers, firing off an arrow from his Shortbow with Sneak Attack. It does 12 piercing damage to the mimic in front of Maria, killing it. Little Bustard notes that unlike almost every other monster he's faced for quite a while, the mimic did not appear to have any natural resistances to nonmagical weaponry.
The seven remaining mimics all move fifteen feet forwards.
Nasurin's Readied action triggers, as they fire off an Ice Knife in between the three mimics. The spell explodes in the center, dealing 10 cold damage to two of the mimics, and no damage to the third.
As Nasurin casts Ice Knife, another wave of transmutation magic flows through the room, triggering a Wild Magic Surge. All of the darts and torches within 40 feet of Nasurin become enshrouded in shadow, including the ones that Xie Li lit with Prestidigitation. Although they are not snuffed out, the torches are now obscured. Both of the rooms your party currently occupies are now completely dark.
Amadeus attempts to cast Toll the Dead on the mimic he can see, but it does not appear to be affected.
Maria casts Toll the Dead on the mimic directly before her, dealing 14 necrotic damage.

Maria:
"Ok, this should help, give them hell, Felid!"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska fires off a Ray of Frost, which goes wide and hits Nasurin for 9 cold damage, reducing their speed by 10 feet until the start of Ivanoska's next turn.

Ivanoska gasps and covers her mouth, looking genuinely scared. "I-I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I d-didn't mean it, I'm sorry!"

Maria:
"Just focus, worry about it later!"

The Narrator:
Little Bustard fires off another shot from his shortbow, dealing 5 piercing damage to the mimic.
Xie Li casts Cloud of Daggers, dealing 14 piercing damage to a mimic and slaying it instantly.
Felid moves forwards and hits a mimic with her Bloodaxe, missing on the first strike but dealing 11 slashing damage and 4 necrotic damage to it on the second strike.
Nasurin fires a Fire Bolt at one of the mimics, dealing 15 fire damage.
Nadredda crawls behind Little Bustard, and casts Erupting Earth into the room ahead, catching four mimics in an explosion of marble and stone. Three mimics take 22 bludgeoning damage, and one take 11 bludgeoning damage.
The room is left full of debris, with large parts of the walls and ceiling cracking, looking as though they're about ready to cave in.
The four mimics hop forwards five feet, struggling to move through the rocky debris.
Two mimics approach Felid and attempt to bite her, but both fail.
Amadeus fires off two Eldritch Blasts at the mimic, dealing 10 force damage.
Maria attempts to cast Toll the Dead at the mimic, but it has no effect.
Ivanoska fires another Shadow Bolt into the room, dealing 13 necrotic damage to a mimic.

The Narrator:
Little Bustard attempts to Chill Touch a mimic, but it fails.

The Narrator:
Xie Li does a whole lot of nothing, and puts himself in the corner to go on time out.

Xie Li:
"DAMMIT I THOUGHT I COULD BE COOL FOR A SECOND."
"I'M SORRY FELID."

Maria:
"What are you doing! We had like, a little bit of a plan even!"

Xie Li:
"I THOUGHT I COULD LAND A HIT!!"

The Narrator:
Felid hits the mimic with her Bloodaxe twice, killing it with a total of 38 damage.

Maria:
"Is that worth risking your life???"

The Narrator:
Nasurin fires three Scorching Rays at a mimic, dealing 19 fire damage.
Nadredda fires off a Chromatic Orb at the same mimic that Nasurin just hit, dealing 22 thunder damage and killing it.
The thunderous wave of the Chromatic Orb causes the room to shake, and the cracks in the walls and ceiling spread ever further. Until suddenly, with a massive cracking sound, the ceiling of the room caves inwards just in front of both Felid and Xie Li, crushing the remaining mimics to death underneath thousands of tons of marble.

Xie Li:
"H-"

Amadeus Bosch:

tails

Xie Li:
"Oh. My god."

Maria:
"Alright!! Well get the fuck out of there before you die, lets go."

Xie Li:
[Xie Li skitters out of there.]

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Well, I wass expecting that to happening ssooner, to be honesst. I wass cassting many explossive sspellss."

Maria:
"Lets try to avoid more cave-ins, Naddy. Is that a cool nickname? Felt right."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Mm. Naddy. Ssomething about that doess not feel correct."

Xie Li:
"The pirates I met talked about a drink called Naddy Ice."

Maria:
"Ok well fuck me, sorry Nadredda."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Ah, wass that conssidered rude? I am ssorry, I am not being very familiar with your landss. I have only arrived here a few weekss ago, but boy have they been exciting weekss."

Xie Li:
"I was this close to calling her Nyadredda, if it helps."

Maria:
"Do not worry about it, I just thought I would try something and it did not hit. For what it is worth I am not from here either."

Xie Li:
"But… that doesn't feel right anymore either."
"Are any of us? Just Amadeus, right?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "I-I'm from here. My family lived in Cormyr when I was born, but I've l-lived in Candlekeep for a while since… well, nevermind."

Xie Li:
"Ohh, right. I forgot about that."
"So you and Amadeus, huh? Buddies."

Maria:
"Yeah I am from Cormyr too."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "I th-think I saw him attend Professor Renwick's lecture, like… once… we d-didn't really cross paths much."

Xie Li:
"Hey, look at that. Small world."
"So, there were doors back there… how important do you think those were?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "Y-yes. Well, it's an even smaller world still, with a cave-in in front of us, and us having t-to crawl on our bellies to avoid darts… wh-when do you think these are going to run out, anyways? It's b-been quite a while…"

Xie Li:
"Maybe Never. Amadeus, do they smell magical or anything?"

Maria:
"Long enough that we do not have time to wait for it, but it has certainly been a while."

The Narrator:
The darts themselves are non-magical, or else they wouldn't be able to work within an antimagic field, but the slots through which they are fired, from inside of the pillars in the room and the walls, Amadeus can sense traces of Conjuration magic. Perhaps the antimagic field that was once in this room was not able to permeate the walls, for whatever reason.

Amadeus Bosch:
"The darts aren't magical, but there is Conjuration from where they are being shot from, both the pillars and walls."

Xie Li:
"Hm! Never, then."
"Good. For. Us."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "…We c-could leave the room… that's an option…"

Xie Li:
"That is an option and honestly I miss standing."

Maria:
"We just need to move on, let us go."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Well, which way sshall we going next? Back the way we came from, with our tails tucking between our legss, or through the way which we have not gone down yet?"

Maria:
"Progress, hopefully."

The Narrator:
Maria walks through the archway and into a tiny room with a single statue in it, and another archway leading down presumably a different hallway.

Maria:
"Amadeus can you tell me if this statue is magic?"

The Narrator:
The statue appears to be completely mundane.

Amadeus Bosch:
"No magic."

The Narrator:
It's a faceless statue of an elf. You've no idea who it depicts, or even what their gender is. It looks like it doesn't belong here.

Maria:
she stands, "Lets leave it then, who cares."

The Narrator:
Your party rounds the corner, to find yourselves at the end of an impossibly long hallway which seems to go straight on for well over a hundred feet. You cannot see the end of it from here, despite how well lit it is.

Xie Li:
"Ominous…."

Maria:
"In the spirit of being paranoid, I will do something that will look dumb if nothing happens." she throws her spear as far as she can, 60 feet

Xie Li:
"High ho."

The Narrator:
Maria throws her spear as far as she can, and it lands 60 feet away on the cold marble floor.
It lays there, as an inanimate object is generally want to do.

Xie Li:
"Ivanoska, how far can you send your buddies?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "O-only up to 60 feet."

Xie Li:
"What if you just like. started walking them down. just to see what happens."

Maria:
"Well nothing between here and there in the air anyway. That is a good point though, can you just have them walk as far as possible in front?"

Xie Li:
"or just one of them."
"Hey, when they die, do you feel it?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "Wh-what? Why would I feel it? They're already dead, anyways, so it's n-not like they're 'dying,' just… not animate anymore."

Xie Li:
[Shrug.]

Amadeus Bosch:
"What, emotionally?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "Th-they aren't people."

Maria:
"More to the point, if they are destroyed would you know?"

Amadeus Bosch:
"Xie Li's the one who is sensitive about that."

Xie Li:
[Xie Li looks at Ivanoska and the zombies and then a little bit at Maria and then back at Ivanoska.]

"Hm."

Maria:
she narrows her eyes are Xie Li

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "They h-have to stay within sixty feet of me, so generally I w-would be able to see them if they were destroyed. But if s-something happened and they were to get out of sixty feet of me, they w-would no longer be in my control, and no longer my problem."
Ivanoska: "I would know if they were destroyed. B-by looking."
Ivanoska: "Otherwise, no."

Maria:
"Fair enough I guess, just have them walk in front, better them than us if something happens."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "Alright, I guess. I m-mean, they both look like they're b-barely clinging on to their sinews at this p-point… so it's not like it's a huge waste."

Xie Li:
[Dying is not fun.]

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "They're a bit slow…"
The zombies animated by Ivanoska's necromancy slowly shamble past your group until they are in front, and then move forwards as far down the hall as they can go.
Ivanoska: "Th-that's as far as they go. I can't s-see through their eyes or anything, but I get the sense if they take even a-another step forwards, they'll be released from my spell."

Maria:
"Follow me and keep them going."

The Narrator:
Your party files down the hallway. Even as you reach what you think is the midway point of the hallway, you still cannot quite see the end.
Finally, you reach the end of the hallway, and the zombies seem to have found a door.

Maria:
"Can they open doors?"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "W-with their bodies in such a state, it might prove d-difficult… but they can be given simple commands, so y-yes… in theory…"

Xie Li:
"Well, I believe in them."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska commands her zombies to open the door. Nothing seems to immediately happen to them when they do so, but one of their arms falls off from the strain of opening the door.

Maria:
"Hm."
"Well lets just keep moving on like this."

Xie Li:
[Xie Li picks up the zombie arm.]

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "W-well, are we going into the room? It's a bit d-difficult to control something I can't actually see…"

Maria:
"Alright, lets take it steady." she inches forward.

The Narrator:
Maria steps into the door, and finds herself in a 25 x 15 room, with a 15 foot long pit dug into the center of it. You cannot see the bottom of the pit.
There are no guard rails.

Maria:
"Careful, everyone, there is a deep pit here."

Xie Li:
"Piiiiiiiiiit"

The Narrator:
There is also a single door out of this room.

Felid:
"Nobody spit in the pit."

Xie Li:
"How much you wanna be that if we try to get to that door, we get thrown in the pit."

Maria:
"Have the zombies try it."

The Narrator:
One of Ivanoska's zombies shambles forwards, and attempts to open the door. Nothing out of the ordinary seems to happen when it does so.

Xie Li:
"I have one of their arms. We could throw that in."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "Well, the door's n-not going to do anything weird. Maybe I should t-test how deep the pit is… oh, I was just going to tell one to jump in, b-but that works too…"

Xie Li:
[Xie Li looks at the zombie with the missing arm.]

"I'm really sorry about this, buddy."

[Toss.]

The Narrator:
You drop the zombie's arm into the pit, and wait to hear it hit the bottom.
And wait…
And wait…
And wait…
You never hear it hit the bottom.

Xie Li:
"Well isn't that just dandy."

Maria:
"That is about what I expected from a stupid temple like this, what is even the point of this."

Amadeus Bosch:
"Fun."

The Narrator:
A strange earthern wind emanates from the pit. Not that something like that wouldn't be expected this deep underground, but from where is the wind coming? Perhaps it's best not to dwell on it.

Xie Li:
"Maybe a lesson about not looking where you're going."
"Ah…"
"Do you think there's a creature down there? Have we just fed it rotten meat?"

Maria:
"Lets hope we do not meet it then. Ivanoska, the door."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "I h-have heard of a type of creature that lives at the bottom of pits and g-generally eats trash and wh-whatever else is thrown down there…"

Maria:
"Lets get a move on."

Xie Li:
[Xie Li briefly considers saying that he'd like to give the creature a good meal, but when that 'good meal' is probably him, he should probably keep his mouth shut.]

The Narrator:
Your party enters the next room. It smells dank and musty within this room, with a hint of some sort of rotten meat. Maria, you notice buildups of sticky residue and a strange green liquid in the corners of this room. As your party enters, the strangest thing happens… a pair of people and a chest appear before you after a few seconds; not as though they were teleported there, but as though they were literally 'grown' out of the ground. As they appear — somewhat hastily it seems, as if they were not expecting you, they promptly ignore you, and begin to fiddle with the chest in the center of the room.

One of them— a large, burly man, talks in a slurred accent. "Blast this confounded chezzt… I oughtta give it a good walloping if it knowzz whas good fer it…"

The other, a short woman, puts a hand on the man's shoulder as he raises his leg to kick the chest. "No, don't! You don't know who thizz chest belongssss to… we could g-get in trouble!"

The man turns to the woman, fury in his eyes: "This is our chance to zztrike it big…! You're telling me I oughta stop opening this here chezzt… why whatever for, woman….?!"

He raises his leg again, and kicks the chest, which promptly grows a tongue and eyes and swallows both him and the woman next to him whole within seconds.

Xie Li:

jokerconcern

Xie Li:
[Xie Li hesitantly Prestos the rock to be sour.]

"Go for it. I guess."

Nasurin:
"well, we can at least try." nasurin rolls the stone across the floor towards the "mimic" that grew out of the ground

The Narrator:
Nasurin slowly rolls the sour stone into the room. Not long after it hits the floor does it seemingly 'stick' into the floor, whereupon you realize that the zombies and Maria's feet are both sinking into the floor slowly. As the stone settles into the 'floor,' the green liquid on the ground begins to build up, slowly sloshing through the room and towards the stone. As it makes contact with the stone, the ground and the walls of the room all seem to recoil, warping in a manner much unnatural for solid marble. There is a disgusting gurgling sound as the green liquid in the room begins to build up, sweeping Maria and the zombies up with it, and racing towards an archway at the opposite end of the room as, for lack of a better description, the room appears to 'throw up' the sour stone, along with Maria and Ivanoska's zombies.

Xie Li:
"Huh."
"I… don't know what I expected."
"MARIA, WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?!"

Maria:
"FUCK!"

Nasurin:
"believe it or not, that's exactly what i expected. though i didnt think it would vomit, i guess"

Maria:
"I am… Ok?? I think."

Nasurin:
"no acid burns or anything?"
"if so, i want you to roll that stone back into the room when i step in. it would likely only try to attack us if it feels us walking around in there, so i would rather just get vomited out in the direction we're going anyway"

The Narrator:
Maria and the zombies take 9 acid damage. The zombies are destroyed.

Maria:
"No I have acid burns, the zombies are dead. This feels terrible, but I will live."

Nasurin:
"does it feel as bad as being digested alive?"

Maria:
"Feels like it tried, actually."

Nasurin:
"tried and failed, luckily. it would appear we're standing in its gaping asshole currently"

Xie Li:
"Oh my god"
"EW NASURIN!"

Nasurin:
nasurin shrugs

The Narrator:
Ivanoska pales. "Th-that's… disgusting. I had n-no idea a mimic could get so large…"

Amadeus Bosch:
"I'm tired of this place."

Xie Li:
"This fully sucks."

Maria:
"Well, it is not attacking, yet, so maybe it is either incapable or does not want to."

Nasurin:
"option 1: go in, get a little bit of acid burning as we get spat out the front end. option 2: just stroll through and see what happens, maybe get chewed and eaten. any votes?"

Felid:
"Felid feels like those sounds about the same."

Amadeus Bosch:
"Better chances for the first."

Nasurin:
"i'm open to either, but i'll say i'm not enthused about the idea of fighting a house"

Xie Li:
"You know, I once heard a story of a house that was a giant body…"
"I'm up for that first one. Maybe."

Nasurin:
"something about a ghost of someone who died during the construction or something? i read that one"

Xie Li:
"Yeah! That's the one."

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "I-it was a really sad story, actually…"

Maria:
"The hell are you all talking about over there?"

Felid:
"Felid knows that one. Is weird story."

Nasurin:
"we're having a book club meeting, you werent invited"

Xie Li:
"Book clubbbb"

Amadeus Bosch:
"I remember reading that as a child."

Nasurin:
nasurin gingerly steps into the room and tries to move as little as possible once theyre in. "maria, can you toss the stone in?"

Maria:
she tosses the stone in

Xie Li:
[Xie Li hops in with Nasurin]

The Narrator:
Ivanoska grimaces and hops in after Xie Li. "W-well, at least it looks like an ordinary room… f-for the most part…"

Amadeus Bosch:
Amadeus hops in as soon as he's able.

The Narrator:
Nadredda shrugs and walks nonchalantly in. "Eh. I have sseeing worsse in Maztica."

Xie Li:
"You can say that again, Nadredda."
"It is so fun we're from the same place."
"Kind of."

Nasurin:
"i've seen and been eaten by far worse"

Xie Li:
"NASURIN?!

The Narrator:
Your party all files into the room, and with the use of a stone you've made taste extremely sour, you make the room mimic throw you all up at the other end. It's pretty disgusting, and each of you take 9 acid damage as you do so.

Xie Li:
[Xie Li hisses in pain.]

Amadeus Bosch:
"This better be worth it."

Nasurin:
"the amount of things in this world that want to swallow people is frankly astonishing. i OOOAAAGh ow ow ow im good anyway yeah ive been swallowed by a lot of things and i used to carry around a few nasty tasting things specifically for that purpose. just forgot to restock i guess"

Maria:
"This place throughly sucks."

Xie Li:
"You are insane"

Nasurin:
"i've been called worse. it worked, didnt it?"
"like the worlds nastiest slip n slide"

Xie Li:
"oh my god"

The Narrator:
Ivanoska: "W-well, we survived… and we've ended up coming kind of back around in a c-circle… so, I hope th-this is the right way?"

Maria:
"If it is we wasted a bunch of time."

Xie Li:
"Jeez, are you kidding. Oh my god."

Amadeus Bosch:
"I. hate. this place."

Nasurin:
"you all need to grow up. stepping inside a giant creature's gaping butthole and getting vomited out the other end is one of the rare beautiful parts of nature that we dont get to see enough these days"

Xie Li:
"SHUT UP!!!"

Amadeus Bosch:
"Do you think this is how pinworms feel like?"

Xie Li:
“yes.”

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