8.6.22 - Out of Mind

We could hear the chanting of fishy voices coming from the main entrance hall, so we made a game plan for how to best handle the remaining spellcasters and Seedooloo. Together, we went out to the entrance hall where we found the same kuatoa priest and their followers that we had killed yesterday all praying to the great eyeball illusion. Once again, we dispatched them with ease and Cannon thought that either Seedooloo or one of the wizards had created the new kuatoa.

On our way to take care of the wizards, we found them in the library arguing about who was in better favor with Seedooloo until they noticed us. They then ran back to their rooms, one in the north and one in the south. We chased after the one in the north after we placed an alarm and Reaver to guard the door going to the south. The northern room had these odd tanks filled with this amber-like fluid encasing people and the wizard was spinning a gear in the middle of the room. Looking around, there were two people who seemed to have just come out of the tanks who charged forward to attack us on command from the wizard. Cannon did not want to kill these people, but he determined that the ooze stuff had stolen too much of the people’s minds for them to be savable. As soon as we had finished off the people and the wizard, some odd oozy bat creatures dropped down from the ceiling to attack us as we discovered a large brain in a tank that kept making my head hurt. She-Rah and I dealt with that while Cannon and Rhys managed the bat creatures. Then, Cannon tried to lock the gear in place but managed to open another tank to let a new enemy out.

I searched around the bodies and found the wizard’s journal, a crystalized flame, and an invitation. The journal had daily entries until the wizard, Frazit, came here where the entries came to a gradual stop. However, there was an entry from when they went on a cruise for adventurers, especially wizards, on the Moon Sea. While I was reading that, Rhys had been purifying a big barrel of pickle juice. When she was done, Cannon went outside to check that the rip in the sky was gone. He then went to check through the last door in this room, which he found led to the room with the abolith, who was definitely still there.

We went back to deal with the necromancer in the southern room. He was waiting for us because as soon as we opened the door, he threw a large ceramic pot that shattered on the ground, releasing a ghoul directly in front of us. The wizard managed to throw a few pots at us before we took him out but none of his goons were a match for us. It had been a long morning so we decided to take a short rest before we went to face Seedooloo. During that time, Rhys made it so that we could breathe underwater incase we needed to swim or got pulled under. Reaver seemed uncertain that we should be doing this, so I reassured him that everything would be fine as long as we followed Cannon’s lead.

Cannon led us back to the door in the ooze wizard’s chambers, where he opened the door to reveal Seedooloo waiting for us in his pool on the other side. He claimed to be inevitable, and we should walk away now while we have the chance or join his cause so we could help him rule the world. However, Cannon explains to Seedooloo that they don’t really understand mortals before he lifted a bunch of the water from the pool and dropped it back onto the abolith’s head. We caught him off guard, and were able to hit him with a few attacks while Rhys summoned a water elemental. Everything was going smoothly until Reaver stabbed Rhys before she could be in control of the elemental.