Stonehell: Getting the tip of your pole slimy

Session 269 was played on 10/13/24

Morgana, wizard (Rob)
Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)
Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)
Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)
Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)

Making sure Koltic is okay-ish, they check the next room, and find the gem floating in the middle of the room, along with 4 orbs containing a purple liquid. Blotto pokes at the gem with his 10’ pole, and it blips away. The decide to leave the purple orbs alone, and head back to the room with the pit and the grey oozes. Making sure there were no more oozes, they check the passage to the west. It opens to a pentagonal room completely covered in green algae, with an opening 20’ up on the far wall. Morgana casts Fly on Blotto, and he zooms around for a bit before going to check the 5’ square passage. He gets a shockingly underpowered lightning bolt to the face for his troubles. Blotto backs away back to the party, and after discussing what happened, Morgana makes the goblin invisible. Blotto flys back up, down the passage not encountering anyone. The passage opens into a large slime covered room that contains a bunch of barely holding together slime covered furniture. A cauldron gently bubbles away full of a thick off white fluid. Blotto uses his 10' pole to gently poke at the various things around the room, getting his pole slimy in the process, and then heads back. Near where the party waits for him, he writes out what he sees in the algae.

While Blotto uses his pole to write in the algae, Morgana feels a funny tingle all over. She casts Dispel Magic in the room with the algae, thinking that's where the effect is coming from. The only  notable effect is to dispel Blotto’s invisibility and fly. He bellyflops down to the floor. Morgana feels the tingle again, and realizes her previous spell didn’t reach the overhead passage. She uses her wand to launch a fireball. There’s a scream of pain, followed by yet another lightning bolt at the whole party. It’s weirdly under-powered (SO MANY DAMNED 1s!!). Now though Morgana can see her target. A man, wrapped in slime covered robes… is oddly translucent. He’s made of… or has become made of slime! Morgana returns fire with a full strength fireball, and the slime wizard explodes into chunks of burning mucus.

The party takes a breather, grabs some mops and brooms from the dwarves and on their way back encounter a slime troll. Seeing how outnumbered it is, and after being taunted by Morgana and Blotto who flicks a larynx at it and asks “friend of yours?” The troll picks up the wiggling larynx, pops it in its mouth and starts to chew it like bubblegum, and departs. The party cleans their way to the ladder up to the 5’ passage 20’ up. Once in the slime room, they take their time exploring and eventually find the iron box in the cauldron with the Mucus Mage’s treasure and spellbook.
Borumar says” Obviously I should take the spellbook”
Nick replies “I look forward to seeing you try”

The party returns to the Hermitage to rest and let Morgana check out the spellbook and potions.

Gains: Spellbook, 1200gp in coins, and 3 potions.
Kills: Mucus Mage
Losses: