Deeper Underdark

As Oliver falls down, paralyzed, Grin says: Oli, oi Oli! Fool otter’s got himself paralyzed! He sits down next to Oliver and dramatically says: Oli, that was very foolish of you. I’m very angry with you - what if it was poison! How long will he be paralyzed?! It could be forever! Hmmmph… Using a piece of chalk from his pack, he draws angry eyebrows above Oliver’s eyes. Oliver looks angry now. Grin smiles.

Oli, I can’t stay mad at you. He hugs Oliver and rests his head on Oli’s chest. Using his belt of mimicry, he causes little illusory otters to appear above Oliver’s face, swimming through the air in a circle.

If only someone had rubber gloves or something that they could use to handle dangerous substances… He pulls out the rubber gloves from the slime cave and waits for Oliver to wake up. He pulls out a snack to eat as well.

Maybe we could have some lobster tail. What do you think Grin? I have always heard it was really good. Anyone got some butter?
Now that I think about it I haven't eaten in awhile.

Ealdwig giggles at Oliver's new eyebrows. I hope he's ok? How long do you think it'll last? Anything we can do?

Stee, what is lobster tail? I'll try anything once.

Oliver basically hit himself with the tentacles, which would paralyze him if he failed to succeed at a Save Test. Which he failed spectacularly. However, since he is not held in the claw of a living chuul, this is merely a convenience, not a death sentence. He is soon moving around again after a few minutes. (Ordinarily, you'd be making save tests at disadvantage until you threw it off. Here, it just lasts for a few minutes before wearing off.) do note that he was conscious while paralyzed, so he is aware of his circumstances.

Brewner started laughing at Oliver's new eyebrows, but then stops he realize that they may not be safe.
"Be careful friends, maybe it's better to put some distance from this underground lake there may be more of this creatures lurking around"
He moves towards the door, what is a door doing in this cavernous forsaken place? Very suspicious.
"Stee i don't want to pry, but what can you tell us about this door and the place you came from?"

I was with some homesteaders they were having troubles with bandits and we tracked them to a cave. These bandits were also taking people. One of the homesteaders had just had his child disappear so we delved into the cave a soon as we heard that. After traveling a few hundred feet down we came to a room that had this set of double doors at the end. We heard the sounds of whimpering and such on the other side and went in to investigate. We entered the room and there were multiple cages with people in them including the little boy. We freed these captives and tried to keep them quiet but to no avail we were beset by Morloks. I covered the retreat and before I got to the door one of the men was holding for me two of the survivors freaked out and slammed it shut. When I forced my way back through the were gone and I was here. I tied the handles off with a piece of rope. I heard sounds of a fight this way and here I am.

Looking at Ealdwig That thing kinda looks like the lobsters I have heard described only a lot bigger. People eat the tail. I guess you boil it. I would imagine you could roast it also. It is suppose to be a sweet meat and I heard very good with butter.

Looking at the monster, we're going to need a big pot.

Oliver regains his movement and cracks up laughing. He then stands up and is about to comment something to Grin, putting his hands on his side as if he were angry, but only manages to crack up laughing again, recalling that he already looks angry.

"Ahhhh, gloves, yes. That would have been sensible. But hey, at least I don't walk around drinking water elementals."

"Though somehow that turned out fine."

Oliver decides to leave the eyebrows for a while, as a hilarious reminder, but then accepts the gloves and completes the job, handing around vials of Chuul substance to his companions.

"Here! , Sharing is caring. Though I'm not sure this substance can work it this crude state. Let's find out together. Just don't drink it. Inner-body paralysis sounds rather lethal."Then, as he handed a vial to Stee Jans, he addressed him.
"I'm still not totally sure how you came to drop this deep, but your timing is very appreciated, and your best way both in or out of this place is probably with us."

As the group talks and moves away from the water, they hear activity at the doors. They are close enough to hear the activity, but not close enough to see the doors. (Or be seen from the doors.) They are currently in one side of an adjacent cavern that appears to have two main exits (besides going back to the lake): one leads to a smaller area where the doors are and the other one heads towards some tunnels that lead deeper into the overall cavern systems. The direction going deeper appears to be well trod, though not much recently. The direction toward the doors is not as defined and definitely has not seen much traffic at all.

Hearing the noises from the other side of the door Stee tells the group.When I left the other side there were a lot of Morlocks, which hate light. But this room wasn't here when I went through the doors to the other side. So hard telling what might be on the other side now.

Thanks Oliver. I think the eyebrows look good.

I chuckle to myself

Felix wandered away from the waters edge, then stopped, wondering if the others would finish with the chuul.

Florian pleeeeasse. I need your help to heal. I bloodied my nose ... well, I think it was you... and now it's really sore. Not saying it wasn't worth it, but I'd rather not have trouble breathing through it.

Florial stayed silent.

Are you worn out? Did that little fight tucker you out? Awww. We really need to get into more fights, you're out of practice.

Morlocks? Maybe Morlocks?

Felix listens for any clues to what lies ahead.

Ohhhh, yes! Yes, great idea! We’ll have a delicious meal once we sort out some of this dangerous business.

Speaking of danger, should we stealthily approach the doors and see what’s making the noise? The doors could be under guard?

Grin crouches down as though he’s going stealth mode. His cloak becomes a deep black.

Upon hearing the noises, Brewner stops moving towards the door and tries to keep his presence unknown. Seeing Felix focus on listening, he waits for his breakthrough

Ealdwig stops at the sounds with the rest of the group, and uses the command word to turn off his chromacloth light.

He shrugs at Grin when he asks about investigating.

Oliver stows his sling and retrieves his precision weapon (or so he says to himself): the Blazeball Bat.

"This is in case we need a little fire", he whispers, as he attempts to sneakily move with his companions.

Grin is very happy to see Oliver on his feet and back to shenaniganry.

The group moves toward the doors to check them out, but before getting too close, they hear voices, but can't make anything out. They then hear movement at the doors at frustrated noises as the noise from the doors gets louder. The group quickly moves to hide. Fortunately, the work Steve had done by tying them together slows down the effort, and they have time to get situated.

Soon enough, the doors burst open and at least a half dozen figures burst forth. Finally not muffled by the door, some voices can be understood:
"Track him down! He doesn't know these caverns, and he has no light."
"What's the hurry? He's trapped down here."
"He probably went to the water, as that's the only place with light!"
The figures head down to the shore, but leave to doors open.