Scene 3: The Dungeon

Leana channels her wrath at the remaining ooze and its remains splash away harmlessly from Leana and the adventurers, acrid smoke filling the dungeon once again.

As Brickowsky sees Leana dispatch the last black pudding, he turns to the floating objects and prepares to push it away.

Brickowsky pushes the floating objects back and hears a little yelp in response to his question.

"Oh, you can call me Alax! That jelly cube thing, whatever you call it, is protecting its baby. It was fed my frying pan and that other adventurer's, um, head..."

Hindle looks at Brickowsky with surprise at the answer and decides his next move.



Initiative List

1. Hindle
2. Merton
3. Floating Objects
4. Leana
5. Brickowsky

Hindle refocuses on the floating skull and objects, shooting an eldritch blast out of each hand at it. It looks like his blasts stop and explode in midair, but the objects wobble in the air a bit at the force. Merton peeks around Hindle again and looks curiously at what his friend is blasting at.

Initiative List

1. Merton
2. Floating Objects
3. Leana
4. Brickowsky
5. Hindle

"Oh, I'm here, in this cell!"

A green claw peeks out of one of the cells and waves before quickly going back inside.

"The best thing would be to get me and the other guy out of here, but you'll have to calm down this jelly cube probably. Oh, if only I had some of my hot sauce..."

As Merton and Hindle talk with Alax about the jelly cube, the jelly cube takes the opportunity to move closer to the adventurers. As it moves closer, it is much easier for Hindle to tell now that the floating skull, yellow gem, and frying pan are floating within a shiny clear cube: a gelatinous cube monster!

Alax replies "I used to feed the little cube hot sauce and it'd leave me alone. If you have any of my hot sauce, it might distract it while we get out of here! Of course, blasting it away will also take care of the issue..."

Leana looks at the others and makes her move.

Initiative List

1. Leana
2. Brickowsky
3. Hindle
4. Merton
5. Floating Objects

As Hindle warns the party about what they are facing, Merton decides to focus on either ending this cube or at least getting the skull out of the cube. He pops out again from behind Hindle and sends another psychic blade at the cube. The cube, so focused on moving forward, is surprised by the blade.

The psychic blade slices right through the cube and the skull is blasted out and onto the ground, right in front of the cell the green claw poked out of!

Leana watches this unfold and decides to end the conflict. She confidently strides up to Hindle, retrieves one of the hot sauce bottles he stowed, and catches the attention of the gelatinous cube and its baby with the Inn's hot sauce. As the cube and its baby begin to move with the movement of the hot sauce bottle, Leana moves further back and chucks it back towards where they had entered! The cubes dash past everyone without touching any of them and starts slurping up the hot sauce. The clear cube begins to take on a tinge of red from the hot sauce it absorbs. The adventurers can see the gem and frying pan still floating inside of it. The baby cube is now visible. It is barely a foot in height and also slowly turning red as it eats its fill of hot sauce.

Alax replies with "Okay, thanks..." and waits to be released.

Brickowsky gathers up the items he initially saw in the dungeon: a shield, a book and a frosty staff. To be safe, he and Roaring Kitty stay a safe distance away as Mage Hand removes the scimitar from the skeleton's bony grasp. The group will need to take time to identify the items and their usefulness. He glances at the cubes, but notices they are now fully red and not moving at all. Just a little wiggle from the baby cube once in a while. From what he remembers about gelatinous cubes, they are probably satiated and will not purposefully move to absorb anything for 12 hours. They do block the way they came in though so no other way but forward now. With the gelatinous cubes no longer hostile and the black puddings dissolved, they should easily be able to rest without issue.

Before discussing rest with the others, he tries to determine if the gem and frying pan that float inside the adult cube would be important. The frying pan, at least, was mentioned by Alax so they may have more of an opinion. And gems are always good to have for dwarves. The most interesting thing about the yellow gem is that it seems to be glowing.

Before Merton can approach Alax's cell, he speaks up again. "Um, also, I think there's someone knocked out in the cell next to me too if we can check on them..."