Descent into the Underdark

Shortly after Grin blows his whistle, Ishzu shows up, explaining he was trying to thank the elemental, but he found nothing at the pool.

Oliver experiments with the slime some and sees that it slowly digests organic matter, but not minerals. There might be other things immune to it, but he doesn't know what. From what he can see, they should have more than enough time to cross it without permanent effect, but they'll need to scrape it off of everything they don't want to lose. He also assumes that eating it or letting it inside (through their nose or a wound) would likely be bad.

The room is roughly 60 feet in diameter, so the far side is at the limit of effective torchlight, giving very little detail on the far side. The slime covers the entire floor of the cavern, and spreads a up just a little on the edges, only a very few inches (it isn't consistent, but it's less than six inches). The surface of the slime is remarkably level.

You have approached it from the east (right-hand) side of the cavern. You can't tell for sure, but it does look like there might be a smaller exit on the far (west) side of the cavern. The rest of the cavern walls look have no openings, but the shadows could always be playing tricks on your eyes.When Grin lowers his torch close to the slime, he can tell the heat is affecting the slime, but other than that it does not respond. When the torch touches the slime the part touched sizzles, but does not otherwise react.

Oliver's experiment with the leaves will show roughly how quickly it consumes the leaves. Right now, nothing much is happening as it isn't that fast. (Fortunately, it appears pink slime works way less slowly that more formidable slimes.)

Brewner takes his first hop onto the pink slime and finds that he has actually hopped into the slime as his boot submerges about four inches into the slime, he tries a second hop and this time his boot slides into the slime about six inches because of the uneven ground that he can't see, Brewner stumbles a bit, but catches himself. (If you'd failed the roll, you'd have fallen down.) However, his progress has been stopped for the moment. At this point, he can either continue on with a more deliberate walk (since the ground underneath is pretty uneven), or he can retreat back out pretty easily. In the end, his boots have a lot of slime on them which will need to be scraped off to prevent ruining the boots.

The pink slime does not seem to react to Ishzu. If he leaves his digit in the slime, it will attach to him, as it does with the surrounding rock, but it doesn't seem to react to him. Ishzu is pretty sure it would react to his equipment (backpack and staff) as they are composed of organic materials.

When Grin pulls the torch back, he sees that the surface that was touch, and the immediate surrounding area, is burnt and scorched. However, it doesn't have any real reaction. It doesn't retreat; it doesn't consume itself (at least not quickly enough to detect); it does not grow back (at least not quickly enough to detect). It just has a burnt spot now.

Quite frankly, Ander has a completely reasonable response to the slime. However, somehow the goblins managed to get through it relatively unscathed. Maybe there are clues about?

When Ishzu gets closer the middle, it drops to about three feet deep, but the deepest part appears to be a relatively small hollow (no more than 20x20. Most of the slime is only one to two feet deep. If you stay along the walls, it's only a few inches. However, when Ishzu moves into the hollow he bumps into something in the hollow. It seems to have a mass roughly that of a large human, but it is definitely not humanoid in shape. In fact, it seems to not really have any particular shape. It can be moved, however, as it moved when Ishzu bumped into it. But that movement was purely do to the impact of Ishzu's contact; it is not moving of its own volition or anything.

Grin looks around their side of the pool and finds a very odd looking set of items. They look like long boots, long gloves, and a mask that covers the eyes, nose, and mouth of a goblin. Despite obviously being made for a goblin, the boots and gloves look a bit oversized (but still not big enough for a human, or even a dwarf). It's like the boots and gloves are intended to go over a goblin's normal clothes. Grin can easily use the boots and gloves if he wants; they are close enough fit. The mask won't work as well, but it would suffice.