The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom (Game Thread VI)

[Jerrard]

Jerrard turns his attention from the rack of potions to the rest of the group.

"Yes, we should leave now, the Shroom needs to be stopped."

(ooc: did he figure out the scrolls?)

[JadedDM]

(OOC: The three scrolls he found in the library? I don't know, did I miss the post where he studied them?)

[Jerrard]

(lol, think i forgot to post, meant when they were resting.. oh well)

[Breila]

Seeing Locky is about to leave the room, Babushka moves quickly to back her up, preparing to walk after her. She looks ahead with infravision and will not leave the room before having scanned the floors, wall and ceiling for dangers. Does any of it look unsafe?

[JadedDM]

(OOC: So we're clear here, the party is heading back the way they just came? Or through the closed door?)

[Jenara]

(Through the closed door, I guess we should push on... Those two podmen worry me.. )

"I think" Locky says in hushed tones. "We should be quiet, I can't hear anything, but that doesn't mean there is no one there." She looks suddenly serious, her face screwed up in concentration.

"Let me and Babs go first, quietly, without the light." She takes the Gnomes hand, the pair of them moving quietly.

[Jerrard]

[Few moments peace, ]

Jerrard watches Locky with an asmused grin, the little Kender kept suprising him.
"Yes Locky is right, Shay and I shall hang back a moment." Walking forwards he places his hands on both Locky and Babuskha's shoulders. "Please be safe, do not take any silly risks." He finds himself looking at the Gnome, yet her risks had saved the group on many occasions.

"For all we know, it could be behind that door." He pulls back, web spell on his lips, just in case.

[JadedDM]

Opening the door and stepping through, the girls find themselves in the vat room.

It's a large half-circle shaped room. There are double doors to the east, leading north. There's a door to the far north, open, and a door just east to it, also open. To the west is a tunnel. The river flows through it and into a grate in the center of the room.

There are three forty-gallon vats standing on low stone tripods near the grate. A slow fire burns beneath the first of the great cauldrons, which is giving off wisps of greenish steam within the liquid within. The second cauldron contains a gummy red substance. The third vat contains a blue fluid. Near the vats, a single six-foot empty pod hangs from the ceiling. The room also contains a long worktable, its surface covered with untidy piles of parchment notes.

[Breila]

"OK, no one here. Go call the men in, then they can back us up as we look further on."Babushka says to Locky.

[Jenara]

"Oh, of course!" Going back through the door they entered from Locky smiles at Jerrard and Shay. "Its a big room with big buckets of stuff in." She ushers them through the door.

"Its empty."

[Jerrard]

"Good, the Shroom must have vacated the room, or never returned." Jerrard repiles, his hand loosening from his blade.

"So it leads to the room with the Vats? There is an interesting item i need you and Shay to look at." He says thinking of the missing wand.

[JadedDM]

Jerrard and Shay follow Locky back into the vat room where Babushka is waiting. The torch Shay is carrying looks to be about half-way burned through, meaning they have about fifteen more minutes of light before he'll need to switch to another torch.

"That pod," Shay says. "Is that where you found Thuskar?"

[Jerrard]

"Yes, this is where we found him, the Shrooms notes say he was trying to create a Hybrid between Human and Podman, his first attempt." Jerrard looks around cautiously, expecting the Shroom to appear at any moment.

"The library is through that door, and the shrooms bedchamber is here."

[Breila]

Babushka shoots an amused look at Jerrard. "A bedchamber? What kind of bed does a giant mushroom sleep in? a leaf litter?

[Jerrard]

"It was a real bed, which looked quite comfortable, to be honest." Jerrard walks past the Vats, looking to the door to the east. "It is in there. Babuskha, Locky, I suggest you go first. Go slowly, there are two larger Pod men out here."

He curses the loss of his Bow, instead he keeps the web spell in his mind.

"I think the podmen will be in one of these rooms." He says to Shay, "Keep your weapon ready."