Labyrinth 4

The party leave the large suspended orc's room, reasoning they had a grueling fight. They head east from the cannibal's room. The room is covered in a poison mist, with mushrooms growing from the floor. The roof is collapsed and covered in a mushy, soggy soil. Several shake and spread their spores. Ezra unleashes a bolt of fire into one of the mushrooms. As it impacts, the portion that is burned spreads and then contracts into its natural colour. The magical energy causes more mushrooms to sprout. Sakiran fires an arrow into one. It enters, gets about halfway in and then is stuck. The wood from within the arrow withers and crumbles into dust.

The end of the corridor enters into a bigger room. Ezra asks the mushrooms if they will let them pass safely. They shake in defiance and drop more spores. Ezra hears a chorus of "no"s from the mushrooms. He questions why. "We grow, we grow, you no go."

Ezra tells them if they let them pass, he will help them to grow faster. They shake at him and flick a spore at him. He makes them grow rapidly and as they start growing, pods grow on the top parts beneath the cap. They connect the cap and stalk and fill with a fluid. Ezra tries to speak to them again, and the sack bursts. A humanoid figure, half fungus, falls out. They look up at him with a chattering sound.

Ezra greets him merrily. It drools at him. Tiny stalks grow where the drool lands. Leoric gets ready to fire an explosive cartridge. Ezra is fascinated by it and so Leoric fires at it.

The cartridge bursts through the creature and the mushrooms are exploded. It shrieks and tries to get to its mushrooms. The party ready themselves for combat. Ezra sends a blight upon all of the mushrooms. It crumbles completely into dust. The other mushrooms wither and die and shrivel into dry husks.

Sakiran has a look in the room for anything. There are corpses, brittle and boney. One had a gold amulet on them and an armband set with gems inside of it. On the amulet is written "For Kiralia." The armband has an inscription "in holy matrimony." Sakiran refuses to take it until Tasu strides over to take them for himself. He tells her it is loot and to take them for money. He knocks on her head and asks if anything. She agrees to take them, if only so she can treat them with respect.

As they enter into the other area, it used to be used for holding prisoners. Cell doors have been rusted and closed. Inside are corpses of prisoners. One is closed off and there are rotten skeletons of people in a corner. Two are closed and the rest are open. The area is in quite bad disrepair.

They see corpses with lab coats on and Leoric searches. Ezra looks into a cell and sees there is a bed and a body. He asks for Sakiran to try and break it down. All she manages to do is a deep gash in one of the bars and reverberates around the room. She tries again in the same spot and part of it comes away. She hits it twice and the door finally half breaks. Ezra takes Cho-cho's hand and walks through the gap. They examine the room and see bodies and a bed. As they look around, there are date markings. Tasu finds a silver necklace on one of the bodies in the northern room. Looking at them closely, they look like they had serious injections. There are pockmarks embedded in the bones from harsh injections.

Tasu unlocks the door perfectly in less than five seconds. It reveals a vast room full of shelves with different kinds of materials. He says he would like to take all the items, but Sakiran tells him not to. He then offers her some wine and they drink the wine. It is average.

Tasu sees a glowing pistol that is in suspended animation. It looks like a powered pistol. Tasu sees the points for a tripwire, but it is no longer active. In the corner of the room were two tracked robots that have two guns welded into their torsos. They have mantis blades attached to them. Tasu sees the design is similar to the other containment field. It seems safe to pick up. He stands on his tiptoes to reach and picks it up. It is surprisingly light. It is floating in its container. He yells for Leoric. He shows it to him with enthusiasm.

Leoric looks very pleased and asks where he found it. He gives it a try. Tasu hands it over quickly after seeing the "dangerous" warning labels.

They see people's valuables, gold clasped books, gold jewellery, pads. Aria has found a box containing sparkling jewellery and putting them on. She looks at Vea and puts a silver necklace on her. Vea's expression does not change.

Sakiran searches through a different set of shelves and finds a small coffer that had fallen off one of the shelves right by the machine. It spilled out a bunch of Altarnie coins. She scoops them back into the box.

Tasu sees heavy armour with heavy interlocking panels of silver and leather gloves. It is a full suit of heavy armour. He also discovers next to it a glowing vial of what looks like a moving liquid. It has some labelling on it: "subdermal nanites."

Tasu encourages Leoric to take the armour.

Leoric strips the machines and gets about 75 gold worth of materials.

Sakiran asks to look at the subdermal nanites. As she removes the cap on the bottom, half a centimetre thick needle. She attempts to inject it as Tasu tries to stop her. She pulls her arm away and injects it into her arm. Pain wracks through her entire body as it burns through her veins. From the entry point, her skin starts to change with spiral patterns. It links into intertwining designs up her arm, onto her chest and onto the other arm. Scrolling script forms words as it runs along her body.

Ezra melts the pipe as steam comes out. He seals the pipe together and stops the corridor from being a dangerous waterslide.

Tasu and Leoric slide down and reach the bottom, as Leoric hookshots on the central platform. Tasu springs over to the far side with his thrusters. Ezra turns Aria into a parrot. She flies overhead as Sakiran jumps from one platform to another. 001 Vea crouches and boosts forward. She jumps and a magical spray of wisps comes out and she balances herself. Ezra transforms into a bird and flies across himself.

They input two keycards into the massive interlocking doors they saw from earlier. Stagnant air washes over them as they open the blast doors.

The corridor is empty and barren. It is a long corridor leading out towards a wider open room. Sakiran goes ahead and has a look around, though she sees little. Leoric turns on his nightvision. All of the lights have been smashed in the corridor. It looks as if they have been smashed by an incredible force. It looks like a blunt force. Leoric says something smashed all the lights in the corridor. Sakiran approaches the wide open room. She sees there is a large wall that is badly damaged leading off into the right and left. All of the lights have been smashed, deep dents where they have been broken.

Sakiran peeks round to the west. She can see the metal has started to convert into a different kind of material. She saw it in The 28th Facility.

Leoric takes the other side and activates heatvision. Underneath the metal flooring, there are veins all underneath the metal, trailing around the entire facility. Leoric tells Sakiran of the heat signatures and she asks if it means it is alive.

Around the corner fleshy pustules with wooden roots going into them. Sakiran fires an arrow into it. It hits into one of them and it just sticks into it. A bit of blood trails out of the new wound. As she starts to walk forward, pink flesh grows out on the floor. There are silver red veins. It is sticky and comes off in strands from her sandals. They feel a heartbeat around this area in the floor. Leoric walks down the opposite corridor and sees the lights are still there but gravity is shifting around it. They make pulsating noises. The corridor continues in a state of being lit and unlit. Leoric switches between visions and gets blasted with interference and noise.

Tasu, Ezra and Leoric see the anomalies flicker in and out of existence as they go round. Tasu notes that they have found a containment breach.

They see a male elf in bright white fatigues walk by and a fire. Leoric tries to reach into it. He gets incredible agony and teh glove on his hand disintegrates. His flesh starts to disappear. He manages to pull it away but there is a severe burn on his hand.

Sakiran rounds the final corner and sees an elevator. It is rusty and covered in a fleshy substance. It trails all the way up and there is a wet drip. The party also come back round and they head into the elevator.

The access panel is still functioning with a light on it.

Ezra runs towards the buttons and presses it with his raccoon Cho-cho. 001 and Tasu barely make it into the elevator. It grinds down and Leoric takes a moment to catch his breath.

The elevator has no signs of stopping. They start to hear from above them a wet shlopping sound that sounds like it is getting closer. They have been followed. An amorphous blob full of tendrils and armoured metal is going down the shaft and hooking in. It is speeding up now it sees they have noticed it. The ceiling is open so Leoric takes a potshot with his rifle. Sakiran takes aim with her bow and fires upwards. She misses completely. Ezra summons his wildfire spirit, ready to fight. Tasu fires his gauntlet of magic missile at the being. They slam into the creature, leaving marks of glowing blue energy. It crashes down onto the elevator and rears up onto its hind legs. Its single eye stares at them from metal and flesh fused together.

It moves forward and slices through the party with multiple tentacles. It misses the first slash and hooks it tentacle in the grating, getting it stuck. It then rears back and vomits over the party. Sakiran and Tasu dodge completely clear of the vomit.

The creature pulls away so Sakiran tries to sweep at it. It slides off the metal. Tasu swipes in with his dagger and it is covered with a thick black liquid.

Leoric makes an attack with his main pistol. It becomes jammed. He takes a moment to determine what the creature actually is, though has no clue. He is too scared.

Tasu tries to hide from the creature and succeeds. He stabs into it from behind, letting out a shrill shriek as it is wounded.

Aria blesses everyone and hides in the corner.

Ezra unleashes a fireball in the far corner and catches the creature in it. The wave of fire washes over it and its arm parts glow red from the heat. It expels heat and steam from its body.

The fire spirit sends a flame seed towards the creature. It starts burning a patch of oil round the back of the creature.

Sakiran cuts a tendril and it is half hanging off, but it knits itself back together. She stabs it again and it has a stringy black substance. She kicks it again.

It circles round and tries to grab Sakiran, though she jumps clear of it. It slams round with another tendril at Tasu and he is injured.

It fires ranged missiles at the rest of the party as well. Black spines fly out of a tendril and it pierces into her arm and leg.

Leoric grapples up onto the elevator wall and stands above the creature.

Tasu stabs into it powerfully and Aria heals herself.

Ezra polymorphs the creature into a robotic chicken.

Sakiran holds her attack, ready to attack when it reverts again.

Leoric prepares to shoot the chicken, but his gun jams again.

Tasu stabs into the chicken, eviscerating it. It turns back into the creature as it bursts out of the form. It stares at him with its single eye.