[ We find Our Heroes packing up camp after resting for 8 hours with the 'cast all healing spells before resting' option engaged. So they're ready to go! ] [ Gonna try that dungeon again, and hopefully not break anything explosive this time! ] [ Session Start! ] * Kenji walks up to the blasted entrance and looks in. * Tia follows along behind, Mr. Axe in hand. * Patrick has been standing guard over the group while they recovered. "Think we can get in without causing a massive explosion this time?" Yes. [ The rock where the door used to be isn't liquid anymore. That's good. ] I think we'll manage. Good. Although, ya know, if I thought anybody was coming before, they're not now. I mean, the giant fucking explosion should have brought anybody who wanted to stop us and were available. You sure they're not just thinking we'd think they'd do that? You are thinking too hard. The instant you start going into that, you never get anything done for fear of the opponent of overthinking you. They have two choices. Let's go. They can fight us here, or they can fight us in their nice, defensible home. * Tia puzzles over this and giggles. "No one's ever said that to me before." Chances are they picked the second. * Patrick shrugs. "Tactically sound unless they realized we were having a bit of trouble with that explosion." Seylin, you're in the front with me. Tia, second rank, give us ten feet or so. * Tia nods. "Okay!" Patrick and Will, bring up the rear. They also might not want the attentions of the Gehreleths, so staying inside to hide. * Seylin nods and goes to her place in the formation. * Patrick takes his position and guards the rear of the party. "Very true. Heck, I don't want their attention either. They're much harder to kill that way." * WillS goes and stands next to Patrick. "Both sides are bad. And we'll be in the middle it seems." Seylin, keep an eye out for traps? Of course. * Kenji proceeds slowly into the dungeon. * Tia marches along merrily approximately 10 feet behind Kenji and Seylin, just as asked. * Seylin looks for traps, and if she finds any, looks for traps *on* the traps. [ Seylin finds no traps! ] * Seylin looks again, just to make sure. [ Seylin continues to find no traps. The stonework here is lovely, however. ] [ The first room appears to be some sort of lounge area. There are comfortable-looking cushions on the floor around a lovely rose garden in the center. In the four corners of the room and between the four exits, there are four statues of massive, hulking, malicious- looking demons. ] [ The room makes you all uneasy, however. ] * Tia looks yearningly at the cushions on the floor, but she doesn't go sit down. There's something... weird about this place. * Tia whispers, "Whatcha think of the stonework here, Mr. Axe?" * WillS peers warily at the statues. Dwarves? Dwarves live here? I find that somewhat unlikely. Seylin, see if you can find anything interesting, or important. Could be some variation. * Kenji steps forward to examine the garden. * Tia follows along at a distance. * Seylin goes over to examine one of the statues, taking care not to fly directly in front of its field of vision. * Patrick carefully looks over the room, ready to shoot one of the statues if they move. Oh, slaves? I'm sorry...that's terrible. [ Three massive, trunklike vines shoot suddenly out of the rose garden, right at Kenji! He dodges the first nimbly, but the second two grab him and start squeezing right away. The first one continues on into the cieling, where its impact makes a low, thunderous booming sound. ] * Tia jumps. "Kenji!" * Seylin whirls around. * Patrick draws his bow. "Aw hell." * WillS pulls out his sword. "What is that?" Plants. What does it look like? Watch the one that missed! * WillS ignores Patrick and continues to stare at the super thick vines. [ And the battle commences! ] [ Patrick, Go! ] * WillS remembers! "I know what these are! These are assassin vines! Although I've never heard of it being this big before." It's clearly an assassin vine of unusual size. Clearly. [ Thank you, Lord Obvious. ] * Patrick draws his bow and fires a flight of five arrows at the vine that missed Kenji, all of them striking home save one that went off too quickly. [ Thip thip thip, the arrows strike home. No sound issues from the plant, and it keeps on like nothing happened. ] [ Kenji, Go! ] * Kenji turns into a whirling ball of limbs, striking out with hands, feet, elbows, head, even his topknot getting in a vicious poke here and here, sending leaves and chunks of veggies flying vigorously. [ Will, go! ] * WillS holds his sword straight in front of him and prays. A column of holy fire blasts down upon the vines, but only results in charring it slightly.. * Kenji is, strangely, undamaged, in spite of being in the middle of the blast, thoroughly grappled. [ Seylin, it's smiting time! ] * Seylin flies a bit farther up, then raises her halberd. An immense blast of brilliant light eminates from it and spreads out, washing over the plants. [ The plants are damaged by the blast - and everything else in the area is singed slightly. The plants twist a bit but keep going. ] [ Three more shoots jump up from the foliage; two shoots each reach for Will and Seylin! Seylin is hit by both, but wriggles free from one of the grasping vines, but poor Will is both hit and held fast by his assailants. ] [ Tia, go! ] * Tia , bristling with rage, spins on the vine wrapped around Will. In the fashion of a woodcutter, she rapidly swings Mr. Axe into its fleshy plant matter four times, finishing up with a few savage claw rakes. * Patrick suddenly goes into overdrive, drawing his bow back and firing arrows literally through the vines as they continue and make small craters in the wall. After a total of ten arrows are fired, acid can be seen seeping through the holes in the vines as one of them falls over, dead, and the other is seriously damaged. "Oh for fucks sake, just DIE already." * Kenji gathers himself into a tiny ball and thrusts out as hard as he can, punching up off the ground, slamming a knife hand up into the more absurdly damage of the two vines grappling him, sending a flow of pure sunlight from himself to Will. * WillS swings his sword at the vine grabbing him since he can't cast any spells. Yaaargh! [ Seylin, Go! ] * Seylin goes transparent, slips through the vine, and zooms out of the way! [ The vine would be sad, if it weren't completely mindless. ] [ And then the session paused! OH SHI--]