5.21.22 - Tides of Chaos

We decided we should try to sneak around the pool to the first door we could reach. Cannon and Ember splashed around while trying to reach the door, but we managed to reach it without being noticed. I checked for traps before opening it to reveal a dark, muddy corridor that ended in a dead end. As we turned to leave the seemingly empty hallway, an emaciated high elf stepped through the way and Cannon told us to watch our step because the walls were not real and there were pools full of maggots on either side of us. When the elf spotted us, he ran back into the wall, so when we followed him we ran right into the claws of some tentacle faced creatures who grabbed us and tried to feast on our souls. Reaver, who was still in the doorway, started screaming about undead fish or something while inside the room we managed to slay the creatures and Rhys purified the pools using the moon. After we took care of that we got Reaver patched up and fished through the pool the elf had fallen into to find their wand, spell book, and blue crystal orb Rhys got very excited about.

   Then, we stealthily made our way to the next door around the pool. Behind this one I could hear chanting. I tried to open it, only to find it was locked, so I worked my lock pick magic to let us in. Inside, there were three kua toa chanting in front of an altar. Ember immediately flew in making high pitched noises that Cannon reprimanded her for making (teenage dragon?) while she spit lightning at the kua toa to interrupt their ritual. The rest of us ran after them into the room where there was a mosaic depicting the kua toa history and their worship of an overlord made of tentacles and three red eyes. Reaver took one look at what was going on in the room before backing out back towards the first door we had come through, wishing us good luck on his way out. Rhys became Hyena-Rhys to keep the now aware kua toa from the pool for flooding into the room while She-rah, Cannon, and I took out two of the chanting fish. The third tried to run away up a side passage but Ember and I caught up to it before it could summon the slime wall behind us blocking everyone else behind.

Ember and I chased the priest to a door that led to an open chasm filled with glowing blue water where a large tentacle monster with three glowing red eyes, like the one from my dreams, waited for us. There was a crashing of baubles being thrown and a sucking sound before Cannon, Rhys, and She-rah joined us in the room. Cannon immediately created a whirlpool the big-bag-of-nope-creature began to sink into as it created a swarm of tentacles and then a stinking cloud that knocked Rhys unconscious. She-rah ran past me chugging a potion before jumping into the whirlpool after the creature. Cannon then ran back down the way we had come from. I tried to bring Rhys out of the stinking cloud as I moved into the room, but could not manage to move her. It seemed there was a strong breeze within the cavern as the cloud was moving down the hallway after Cannon. Coming from that way there was new muttering about windows to the next realm and a lot of incoherent mumbling. Meanwhile, She-rah had resurfaced and was trying to get out of the swirling water, but she was moving like something was telling her to, not like she wanted to. I ducked into a nook along the wall with the door to hide while trying to figure out the best way to take care of the creature before us.