The Oozing Temple (3rd level)

Thick shadows press in around the party as they travel through tunnels far beneath the earth. A long way they have come, and with much farther to go.

A sudden trembling shakes the ground, and the tunnel about them collapses. Heavy rocks rain down about the companions as they tumble away into darker paths...The rumbling stops. The air is thick with choking dust, but only those with the gift of darkvision can see it - the tunnel ahead and behind is sealed with fallen stone, but a yawning hole has opened off to one side. The path they previously traveled has closed, but it seems that a new way has appeared.

The slow drip of falling water beckons the companions onward...

With the exception of the gnome in their ranks, the companions find themselves utterly blind to their surroundings. While his allies stumble about in the dark, voices echoing in the stale air, Zanzur notices a small stream of water flowing from the new opening into the collapsed passage of tunnel. As they adjust to their new surroundings, the heroes find that the water beneath their feet is rising ever so slowly.

The flickering light of Andras' torch sends the darkness fleeing. The new passageway before them runs perhaps twenty feet, and then divides into two paths.

One leads left. The other, right.

The walls of both tunnels shine with slick wetness as water trickles down them from above. From the look of things, the water level might rise by as much as a foot within the hour.

The party moves down the left tunnel, with Corunir at the lead. Splashes beneath their toes are a constant reminder of the danger that threatens them. Should these tunnels fill with water... Then the light from Andras' torch falls on oddly flat ground ahead; walls and floor of worked stone. What craftsmanship or masonry that might have given a clue as to the builders of such a place appear worn long ago by time and ruin. On the far side of the room, a connecting hallway stretches into darkness.

As the party inspects this strange room forgotten by time, Duren notices something move on the ceiling. Not water such as runs down the walls, but something thicker. Darker... Two large clumps of slime fall from above, their squirming masses splatting to the wet floor and wriggling towards the nearest companions!