15th August 2021 - Session 23 - Ossith's Many Valves - Eoin

The party stares down a ladder going deep towards a watery chamber. Hesitantly they head down together into a large sewer room with some walkways over a large body of water. Kin is the last to come down and stares back up to the top of the ladder seeing a grate lock into place above by fish hands. "That's not grate".

Dunbarr heads in and seeing two merrows on either side of the room, uses the head of Ossith's pet to intimidate them. Ossith then telepathically speaks to the party. Bearnabus in shock says "that's amage-ing". Ossith confirms that he knows and is working with Atalia.

Hearing this Dipple and Bearnabus head toward the office doors at the other side of room to speak with Ossith. Kin heads to the centre of the room to investigate some valves. Graupel and Dunbarr each head to one of the merrows just to make sure they don't try anything as they stand beside large valves. They immediately try anything and begin flooding the room as if it needed more water.

Bearnabus, Dipple and Kin begin opening the valves in the center to stop the flow of water. Graupel and the merrow begin struggling with the wheel to stop the flow but Graupel slips on the slime. Dunbarr starts swinging wildly with his greataxe until he takes slime into his calculations and gets a few good hits in. Bearnabus evolves into a Crocnabus and heads towards Dunbarr to help.

Dipple begins feeling strange, his mind slipping away from him and gets the overwhelming urge to close the valves. Dipple begins closing off valves to the shock of Kin. Kin and Dipple begin arguing on whether they should close or open the valves whilst they open and close valves in a very symmetrical way.

After slipping on the slimy wheel, Graupel flies into a rage and heavily smacks the merrow twice. Three large tentacles then come out from the water and wrap around Graupel trying to tear her apart. The only thing keeping her together is her rage.

Dunbarr hits the merrow heavily with Sharpy and it seems to snap the merrow out of its confusion. The merrow looks over at Graupel and heads that direction but Dunbarr gives the merrow Sharpy in the hope he will use it for justice. Crocnabus follows the merrow as it swims through the water towards the tentacles and finds a strange aggressive creature, an aboleth.

Graupel gets free from the tentacles and swings her maul at the merrow, smashing its head in killing it.

Using his wizardy strength Dipple grapples Kin onto the ground. Kin slithers out of the grasp of Dipple and tells him that he’s only a half-elf, not a real elf, thinking Dipple is just being stubborn.

Crocnabus has a tough time fighting the aboleth with the merrow. The merrow uses harpoons and Sharpy to attack as Crocnabus fights off the tentacles and snaps his jaws to damage and paralyse the aboleth.

Graupel and Dunbarr close off the water coming into the room. Kin focuses his attention on the aboleth and begins firing crossbow bolts. Dipple double overs in pain as the psychic damage from the aboleth begins to take hold. Then Dipple tries to help the aboleth by saying “”Okey dokey” and casting ray of frost on Crocnabus.

The aboleth sees the water level draining, heads out the drain and flees. The merrow follows.

Graupel and Crocnabus are covered in a strange slime and head towards the office in the room to see if that can fix it. They even pass by Kin and Dipple struggling on the ground as Dunbarr arrives to try and control the crowd. Graupel heads through the doors and finds it empty of Ossith and loots everything in sight.

Dipple is still viciously trying to kill Crocnabus as Dunbarr tries to beat Dipple into sense. It seems to be working but Dipple still can't gain back control. Everything is slippery so lots of missed Dunbarr punches as Dipple's mind slips away.