# 59_20210327 Thunderwaving Mushrooms ## Session Summary We descend further into the chasm and find an earthmote beneath us. Snowflake drops Ka'ira there, but Ka'ira immediately becomes paralyzed from mushrooms. Snowflake brings her back to the rest of the party, where Xio heals Ka'ira and clears out a small section of the earthmote with Fire Burst. Ka'ira and Maestro return to the earthmote, but are struck by blue lightning. They flee to the relative safety of the ledge and climb down to a ledge that is 30 feet down. Unfortunately, three of the party are rendered unconscious, this time by some moss on the walls. Xio uses Thunderwave to get the moss away, but in doing so, inadvertently attracts a crazed orc. After they dispatch the orc, they take a long rest, and Maestro, Snowflake, and Eraithe wake up just in time to see the Grell Strangler that has appeared from the tunnel in the wall on the same ledge. ^summary ## Recap of last session ![[58_20210321 Into the Chasm#^summary]] --- ## Log Gloomtoes is getting more fidgety than normal. There are earthmotes somewhere in the chasm but they're hard to see. We start to get paranoid, as if we feel someone is watching us. We start to think that maybe our party mates are out to get us. For now, we realize that this is just an external force. We find an earthmote 36 feet below us. 15 feet wide, 60 feet long. There are cave mushrooms and moss. The mushrooms are bigger than the ones we saw on the way down here. There are rat-sized creatures moving around the mushrooms in the lower earthmote. Snowflake drops Ka'ira gently into the lower earthmote. Ka'ira is paralyzed! She makes a saving throw and succeeds. The mushrooms are vaguely familiar - they induce paralysis via their spores. Remains of skeletons that the bugs are eating. DC 16 Dexterity to escape the blue fire. 11 lightning damage to Maestro and stunned (he failed) and 5 damage to Ka'ira (she succeeded). Blue fire strikes anything on the earthmotes because the fire comes from the middle. It's safer on the ledges but they can disappear. I drop a skull. There's a ledge 30 feet below the mote. Skull falls there and shatters. Ka'ira takes some mushrooms and accidentally infects Maestro. Then, Snowflake carries Ka'ira to the rest of the party, which accidentally infects us! I become paralyzed. Maestro heals me, and I heal Ka'ira. We go to the next ledge. Orc-like creature with goat legs and two battle axes, one in each hand. He has a tattoo on his face of blue fire. He's mostly orc, but warped. He's walking on the wall. He does a battle cry. Initiative! | Name | Damage Taken | Total HP | Healing Surges | Surge Value | Conditions | | --------- | ------------ | -------- | -------------- | ----------- | ---------- | | Maestro | 0 | 56/56 | 4/7 | 14 | | | Ka'ira | | 59/66 | 2/12 | 18 | | | Gloomtoes | 20 | 45/45 | 7/7 | | | | Xio | | 41/41 | 5/6 | 10 | | | Eraithe | 10 | / | 11/11 | 15 | | | Snowflake | 2 | | | | | | Thraid | | | | | | Orc charges at Gloomtoes. In Giant, he talks about dying in battle and getting the first kill. 26 vs AC attack on Gloomtoes. 10 damage. Draw first blood: Against any creature that hasn't yet taken damage, deal +5 extra damage. Furious Assault: deal 5 extra damage Damage to orc: 20+, slowed until the end of Xio's next turn ORC | Defense | Value | | --------------------- | ----- | | [[Reflex Defense]] | 18 | | [[Fortitude Defense]] | | | [[Will Defense]] | 16 | | [[Armor Class]] | 19 | Blue tattoos on his face fades when he dies. Ka'ira pushes his body off the side of the ledge. Man-sized tunnel. We attempt to take a short rest. The unsettling feeling starts affecting Ka'ira physically. -2 penalty to Initiative and Will Defense, +1 bonus to psychic attacks Maestro, Snowflake, and Erathe are prone. A [[Grell Strangler]] comes out of the tunnel. It's dragging a creature in its tentacles. It's eyeless but it can see. We have climbed down 60 feet from the start of this session. The bottom is still nowhere in sight.