Citadel's Shadow II, Session 15

Citadel's Shadow II, Session 15 was a session of the Citadel's Shadow II campaign, played on Mar. 10, 2019 (UTC) (Mar. 9, 2019 for some participants).
==Personnel==
===Game Master===
*GM: played by Michael Lee Viviano
===Player Characters===
*Fern the Siegemaster: inventive fox-person student played by Rail Runner
*Juan de Fulmando: sword-wielding human alchemist played by Alden Loveshade
=== Non-Player Characters ===
* Jinxi: androgynous jester with poppet Jack
* Krendall Moulerbos: male human rat exterminator
* Ursula Nidonge: female human mercenary
* Yagritte Ratreaper: female dwarven rat exterminator
==Events==
=== 1742 ===
Ulthrane 14 (Middleday) (continued): Fern the Siegemaster, Jinxi, Juan de Fulmando, Krendall Moulerbos, Ursula Nidonge, and Yagritte Ratreaper continued exploring Packer's Cave of Trynser City. Juan figured that the smashed plaster cat goddess statues he had seen were of the cat goddess Dirobria of Millisymph whom he though was called Dirobra in Sapoth. He suspected the statues were made in the Sapoth style of Dirobra. While Juan suggested they close the door to the storage room in the cave and move on, Fern wanted to examine more. The group decided to continue on.
They stopped, and heard sounds of rats squeaking far back in the tunnel like they had heard before. However, the area ahead of them seemed to be quiet. The group continued on until they got to another door. Deciding it wasn't necessary to check for traps, they decided to listen at the door. As Jinxi jingled when they moved, Fern and Juan listened at the door, but heard nothing. Juan unlocked and opened the door, letting Krendall go first as he had insisted before. They saw spikes, gears, and large blades like might be used on a guillotine.
Suddenly Krendall, who had entered the room, screamed out. A transparent, almost invisible,but thick goo rose up and engulphed him. As the "goo" was at least two feet thick, the group thought it safe enough to attack it without hitting Krendall, so attacked. Ursula used a flame jet, Yagritte used her sword, Fern used a knife, Juan used his sword. All hit it. Yagritte cushed Juan for getting in her way, for which he apologized. The goo attacked Juan, but missed. Ursula's "last flame jet lit up the room with a bright orange flare and sizzled into the globous thing. The rubbery surface twitched and pulsated all over in seeming agony, then the whole sick mess spilled open and seemed to deflate like a popped jellyfish. Once transparent, it turned a sickly white. While Juan expressed concern about Krendall, Fern looked at the goo and said, "I need to take a sample of that."
Juan diagnosed Krendall, and learned he was unconcious, breathing but faintly choking on "goo" in his throat. Fern used first aid to remove the obstruction from Krendall's throat. Juan used pharmaceutical medical techniques and Ursula used healing magic on him.
Jinxi figured the goo creature was the reason the group hadn't detected any rats in the immediate area; it might have eaten them. The group noticed there was nothing organic in the room; the door was iron, and it appeared there were wooden supports on the walls, but the area where they were had been bleached and the supports had been eaten away. Fern wanted to carry Krendall and roll him on a barrel, an idea that was decided by the group to be unnecessary as he was breathing much better.
Krendall started talking, and said he was concious through most of his experience, but couldn't talk. Fern filled a mug with goo and wrapped leather over it as a lid, securing it with a string. Juan said, "Maybe you could sell that. 'Ye Olde Bag of Goo.' No, Fern, I'm not serious." Juan did say Master Donhai Ping might be interested in a sample of the goo.
Krendall was missing quite a lot of what he had on, clothing, belts, boots, even hair including eyebrows, although he still had his chainmail, which was very uncomfortable without clothing underneath. As Krendall lived over in Westgate Ward, the group decided they could get him a set of clothes in town. He got an adequate set of clothes, including boots, for 20 dragons (one crown).
The group decided to take a break at a nearby inn called "The Inn of the Innocence." The inn had vegetable bean soup (carrots, cabbage, beets) for two dragons, and a drink, including water, for one dragon. Fern thought about having water, and Juan said he didn't know how she could handle that stuff. He had small beer. They did have grape and orange juice, and Juan sxaid, "Let's see, one part Grape juice and two parts Orange juice would be...GOO juice?" Fern had orange juice.
Juan talked to Ursula, starting to flirt with her, when Jinxi announced they had someone to stuff "Wilbur," which Jinxi pulled out--it was a dead giant rat. Juan suggested Jinxi put it way, then said, "I just realized tonight is Amateur Night at Madame Maude Lynn's Theater of Thrills. The person or group chosen as best performer are asked back to perform on a day when they'll get paid. You might think about that, Jinxi."
Ursula said she thought she could recover enough energy to have one more shot at going through Packer's Cave that day after healing Krendall. (Citadel's Shadow II adventure 2019 03 09)