Tombs of Scoria: Episode 73

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== Synopsis ==
The brothers and their ally, Shine, strategize to confront the dragon Xorathis by casting protective spells and navigating through the Overgrowth. They encounter hostile pixies and evade dangerous mushrooms with Shine’s guidance. Deeper in the forest, they are ambushed by Shambling Mounds, leading to a fierce battle where Tyrael, Imrik, and Anton face numerous attacks but ultimately prevail. After clearing the mounds and encountering thorny creatures and sentient mushrooms, Tyrael suffers a mysterious attack triggered by a spider, which is later removed. The party uses magic and brute force to clear a path through the blackberry thicket, face and defeat giant spiders, and finally reach the entrance to what they believe is Xorathis's lair, preparing for the imminent confrontation.
==Recap==
===27th September, 1513===
The brothers forge a plan to fight Xorathis. They cast buff spells and heard through the Overgrowth once again. Shine helps them avoid fatigue mushrooms. She talks to pixies, but the fey friends are angry, turn invisible, and decline to tell them where the dragon is. Imrik casts and gets a direction. 
The invisible fairies follow them through the woods, Shine says they can sense their malignant intent. Imrik makes a symbol of Nadinis. Anton casts , but the forest creatures don't answer or communicate, they act strange. Their words are unnaturally loud. Something grabs Anton's leg, Shine helps him break free.
Deeper into the forest, Shambling mounds ambush them. 
Combat start: The Brothers & Shine vs Shambling mounds. 
2 mounts crit Imrik, loses 4 Stoneskin charges, Anton loses 1. One more mounds crits Imrik, 2 more charges. The last one attacks Tyrael. The creatures completely ignore Shine
Imrik goes around, loses 1 charge and casts , the monsters grow in height. Anton attacks and hits one, gets hit twice. Imrik is crit once again, kicks in and is renewed. Tyrael loses 3 charges, and attacks one mound next to Imrik, destroying 2/3rds. Anton is hit again. Shine fights the mound ineffectively. 
Anton hits one mound. Tyrael kills the wounded mound, and hits another once more. Tyrael is hit once. Tyrael is crit, and loses all Stoneskin charges. Shine kills one mound. Tyrael hits the mound.
Tyrael kills another mound, Imrik casts and finishes a Shambling mounds. Anton loses 2 more charges. Shine and Tyrael almost kill the mound, and Anton kills it.
Combat end
The party carries on through the woods. They see 4 thorny dog-like creatures. Shine roars, the creatures run away. Shine destroys a bunch of sentient mushrooms with a fire breath, the others run away. Deeper in, they come near a giant blackberry bush that seems to encricle the lair. Anton orders Shine to speak to the woods and convince it to move. 
The brothers converse while Shine does so. Tyrael stops in the middle of a conversation. Tyrael reaches for his weapons, Anton immediately casts a spell , which does nothing. Tyrael turns to Imrik and attacks him. Imrik casts the scroll of on Tyrael. It destroys the stone but nothing else. Tyrael hits Imrik again. Anton stands before him. Imrik casts the spell again, it dispels all effects.
Tyrael drops his weapons and turns away, explaining he had a sudden urge to decapitate them. Shine grabs Tyrael. There is a spider on the back of Tyrael's neck, which Imrik throws away. Imrik casts to check the area, it seems like the blackberry bush encompasses the whole thing. 
Imrik turns into a bulette, the brothers and Shine in human form walk into its mouth and he burrows. They cannot get past trough the roots of the blackberry, so they return. When they are back, Imrik senses an invisible creature nearby, its fairys. 
After a brief discussion, Anton to clear a path for them. They get 200 yards into the thicket. Tyrael uses the potion of Gauseus Form and tries to find a path forward. He makes 200 more yards in and sees a mound and a large hole. The brothers discuss how to get to the entrance. 
Imrik casts and to get them started before Anton him. After clearing the path, Shine calls for the brothers. They run back into combat.
Combat start: The Brothers & Shine vs Spider
A gargantuan spiders are attacking Shine, she rips one apart. Anton casts , 2 are held. Tyrael almost kills one. Tyrael is hit for 7 damage and resists the poison. Shine kills another spider. 
They clear the spiders.
Combat end.
Tyrael sees the 6th, bigger spider, that scurries away. The brothers continue excavation, Shine guards Imrik. The sun is set, they've cleared the path and Imrik learned most of his spells. They hear the drums and flute again, it's a melancholy melody. Tyrael hears brambles moving, it comes from the lair entrance. There's a swarm of giant ants, Shine kills all with her breath weapon. Well into the night, Imrik has learned his spells and he casts . The party is just outside the entrance of what they expect to be the lair of Xorathis & prepare to fight. 
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