View From the Inside of an Ooze

So the day started off pretty normally -- I tried to question a corpse, failed, then I burned a bunch of incense to get answers, failed again, and then got into an argument with Borrow on whether or not "employers" actually must mean that they're paying you.

We went and checked out the "Basc" corporation, and discovered that it wasn't much more than a warehouse, or so we thought at the time. Livy volunteered to go ahead and pretend to be an elven merchant interested in illicit goods, and somehow she managed to get a meeting with one Annie Basc. All this subterfuge was grating my nerves, but soon enough, their cover was blown as Obegard and Livy went back to the warehouse to negotiate the final details of this "deal". Fortunately Obegard had a spell of message on hand, and those of us on the outside were able to hear that they were in trouble. I whispered for them to lead their captors down the alleyway, and fortunately, it wasn't hard for Livy convinced them that platinum coin the mysterious woman gave Obegard was with us. I don't know why they were so interested in that coin, though.

We sprung our ambush as they came down the alley. I ring a barrier of spinning blades surrounding and separating the cultists from Obegard and Livy as Borrow attacked from the flanks. Woe swapped Livy with Durthen and I undid Livy's manacles with a spell. It wasn't long before we forced the trapped cultists to surrender. Unfortunately, Annie Basc was killed in the fight. However, we did manage to get a good deal of information from our debriefing with them. They told us of a hidden temple beneath the warehouse.

We promptly descended into the corridors below. We encountered one of the cultists that managed to escape earlier, but a flurry of magic missiles blasted him down. His presence meant that the rest of the cultists must be on alert too. We explored for a small bit, and behind a locked door we found what must have been the temple for these cultists. There were five of them, along with some hovering orb. I stepped in and blasted four with divine fire, leaving Durthen to finish them off with a single slash of his axe. However, the final opponent was far more challenging. He was all but immune to most of our spells, and worse yet, the orb zoomed toward us and turned into some sort of ooze like beast. It moved toward me, and I was just a little too slow to dodge out of the way. The next thing I knew, I was inside of it, getting crushed and also feeling so tired. I saw the cultist leader turn into some sort of tentacled beast, and lash out at Durthen and Erson, hurting them badly. I guess that's my cue to act. I probably shouldn't be writing this in the middle of a fight, anyways.



That could be me if I'm not careful.