Session 453 - Battenburgivore

Date: 9 July 1626

Zenith: Oberon

Moon Phase: Waning Crescent

Moon Face: Dragon Face (Tidelocked)  

New Characters:

- Arry Arlow, Once a desairologist (corpse beautician) and ex-Necromancer, he fell out of the game when he realised that he was better at stabbing people than raising the Dead. 

Events:

--- Return to the Worm

- Our heroes are outside the mouth of the huge multicoloured (and increasingly obviously tumourous) worm.

- They head back in and follow their previous route back in. The Nonanists briefly pray and discover that the God today is Oberon, +3 to Ranged.
- They try a new chamber (marbled indigo) and find themselves face to face with a couple of newly renamed "Virospidos", the 10-limbed spidery creatures with the whip-neck and a jagged poisoned beak.

- They are swiftly dispatched by Hammer Hatmaskerson and Arry Arlow, but not without Masnavi-y-Manavi getting stung by one of their poison beaks. He's now intoxicated and staggers behind.

--- Battenwurm

- There are several exits, but one smells of cake so of course they go that way.

- Within a hollow of iridescent puce they see a big fat honest-to-gods Battenburg cake fighting against that sort of worm-bodied wall-burrowing creature with a swiss-army knife of medical equipment for a mouth. They name the worm creature a Battenburgivore.

- The enormous battenburg is thrusting out yellow squares, punching away the Battenburgivore. Hammer and Arry run in to protect the cake, but Arry gets a slingstone to the back of his head courtesy of Mother Flotsam who forgot about the whole shooting into melee thing.
- Masvani slings his fishing rod to molest the far sphincter-door and causes it to close up over the Battenburgivore's worm body! The head squeals!

- The cake takes the opportunity to crush the worm monster with a couple of rapid punches from its pink squares. Victory!

--- Let Them Speak Cake

- The cake opens its innards and speaks warmly from within. Its name is Rudyard and he is from the Gardens of Ynn. His mind, once enveloped by the Idea of Thorns, is now converting to the Idea of Wheat. He thanks the party for their help and tells them that he is here to help reformat the worm.
- They speak with the cake. His entrance was via a tear in the worm that led from the Gardens of Ynn, and his cake-senses tell him that the worm's heart, its core, its cortex, is 6 "rooms" or blisters to the south.

- Masnavi uses a Shape Flesh spell to turn a Virospido from the previous room into an autonomous shield mounted on his walking crab throne.

--- Millions of Sleeches, Sleeches for Me

- The next room is globules upon globules of fluid. Gelatinous Sleeches slither along the walls. These are not renamed because it's a pretty good name. Treasures glimmer in the cracks.
- Mother Flotsam summons up something that is certainly not magic and is surrounded by thousands of flying blades of steely force. She strides forth and the sleeches pop around her, spraying the area with pools of quick-drying glue-blood. This bogs her down fairly swiftly.
- Hammer twists his hand as he releases his sling and spins the slingstone Wanted-style, whipping round the room and killing and/or hurting the remaining grubs.

- Mother Flotsam is covered in clear glue, but she keeps her feet.
- Hammer wades in to finish off the last of them and his victory coccoons him in quick-dry sleech guts. He's basically entombed in resin.

- Masvani has the answer - Embalm! This niche spell turns dead creatures' innards to formaldehyde. The sleech-goo is transubstantiated into pungent yellow liquid, dripping off our stunned and slowed compatriots. A true success for a supposedly useless incantation!

- Squeezing out the Treasure

- There is an abundance of stuff enfolded within the creases of the sleech room.
- Mother Flotsam discovers two wens filled with gold dust, and a highly elastic piece of skin 1' wide.
- Hammer gains Sleech nodules which are worth money, a globule of carmine humour which causes Bleed in a radius when popped, and a Bronze Seed that is forever nice and warm like a hot water bottle.
- Masvani gains a tight-knit fragment of fleebrweb which acts as a fine sieve, eight small crystals worth 20 obols each, and a chunk of scabrous gold-flecked scab worth 170 obols.

--- Heartbound

- They decide to run forth. Several chambers are in their way, but they follow the low heartbeat until the reach the heart, the cortex.

- They enter and see a transparent heart pulsing. Within the heart, dancing and drawing unknown shapes upon the atria, is an Elf with huge horizontal ears, a simple shift, and eyes that leak blood.

- She turns at the sound of our heroes entering her domain. She rejects beauty, and is from the Gardens of Ynn. Her existence, so long overtaken by the Idea of Thorns is being subverted by the Idea of Wheat. She hasn't had a name for it before.

- She is very much a potential boss fight, and so we end before it gets complicated.

Total: 7000 exp

Foes Defeated:

- A couple of Virospidos (100 exp)

- A Battenburgivore (75 exp)
- An abundance of Sleechers (300 exp)

Total: 475 exp

Treasures Claimed:

- Gold dust in two plump wens (350 exp)
- Stretchy Fleebr skin
- 4 Sleecher nodules worth 80 obols together (80 exp)

- A further 4 Sleecher nodules worth 80 obols together (80 exp)

- Glob of carmine humour creates Bleed Poison zone 20'.

- Bronze Seed is forever warm

- Fragment of fleebrweb acts as fine sieve

- 8 small crystals worth 160 obols together (160 exp)

- Gilded scab fragment (170 exp)

Total:840 exp

OOC:

- Carter the Chronicler and Paymaster (200 exp/level)
- Ratman the Caller (100 exp/level)

- Kitty the Vanguard (100 exp/level)

Exp Totals:

- George / Hammer Hatmakerson, Level 5 Fighter: 20678 (Level up at 32000)

- Carter / Masvani-I-Manavi, Level 5 Necromancer: 19164 (Level up at 36000)

- Kitty / Mother Flotsam, Level 4 Magic-User: 13494 (Level up at 18000)

- J Gregory / Arry Arlow, Level 2 Fighter: 2050 (Level up at 4000)
*LEVEL UP!* +1d8 HP! +1 to Saves! +1 to Hit! +1 to Crit/Fumble! +Backstory!