Duty Session 301: Is It Wrong to Pick Up Slimes in a Dungeon?

    The carnival of Shibuya was in full swing, people were laughing , having fun, eating good food, listening to some horse sing music for hours and hours. In another part a lizard was telling stories, however like clockwork nothing is perfect. No in fact somehow, someway , slimes had gotten in to the Shibuya sewer system and the local hunter office quickly put in a request to all the people in Shibuya for anyone who wants to help out. So Setsuna, with a plate of food in his hands, waits at the entrance to the sewer system, currently waiting and working on a grunty kabob.

Festivals are great fun, except that people KEEP THROWING THEIR FOOD INTO WELLS when they're done with it! And with so many people eating so much food, there's even more down there than there used to be! In other words, it's made a perfect breeding ground for slimes and slime accessories.

While Prophylaxis, Doctor of Tolbana, is not exactly significantly invested in Shibuya's well-being, he /is/ currently slightly mad. This specific manifestation of that madness is a little bit tangential to its primary focus, but whatever, /someone's/ gotta make sure Setsuna doesn't die.

Besides, it's a good way to kill time while he tracks down a certain former member of the Debauchery Tea Party.

"Why do people not just make incinerators or something...?" Prophylaxis complains with a weary sigh. "Ugh, it's like nobody in this place has heard of basic civil hygiene...!"

Carnivals are great events to get some streaming footage. Especially since one usually wears a cute costume to do these kinds of things! Thalia, doing her duty as a Nero, is dressed in what can only be described as a combat yukata. The garment is black, with metallic red threads winding through it in the patterns of stylized fish and lions. The normal billowy sleeves are as they should be to the elbow, but below that they're tucked into fingerless, armored gauntlets. Her sword belt is strapped around her waist, her two straight, single edged blades hanging freely. Her legs are bare except for the tabi socks and short quote-unquote ninja boots.

She rolls up to the sewer entrance, stuffing what seems to be her last bun in her mouth, waving to the assembled.

Yeowang was in Shibuya, herself, and had been socializing and networking, mainly, but when an emergency came up, she slipped off to help take care of things before anything got out of hand. She's coiling her long hair up in a loose ponytail to keep it mostly out of her way, and out of the muck, as she moves through the slimy areas. She nods a greeting to those assembled, saying, "I'm pleased at such a good turnout."

    Merek will take the time to put on his dark attire, and each piece of his armor while he begins to adjust the sword which he wears along the back sheath which he wears. There's a nod to people while he follows along with the party, "Well, I need a little bit of practice in dealing with slimes."

    Slimes in? In my water system? It's more likely than you think!
    One moment Akatsuki wasn't there.
    The next moment, the diminutive ninja just... Appears by the entrance to the sewers.
    "I am ready."

    Oh hey. Carnival. Kinda nice when the place you frequent decides to have something like that! Granted, Arashi has also been orbiting the forge in which Kaydon's been working on her broken blade, but even she needed a break from that. So what's anxious warhorse to do? Punch some slimes in the goop, that's what. .. Not effective? Bah. Punch harder.

     So here Arashi is. Blinking as a certain ninja is just .. there. "You should teach me that sometime."

Finding himself with little to do and somewhat enjoying the festival, Giganpor had made his way whenever he heard about the Shibuya sewer system. And seriously, he was the guy mostly in charge of construction projects. How'd slimes get into the sewer system!?

That had lead Giganpor to joining up with the next group he heard was there to deal with it. And so here he was, munching on a grunty burger and his usual poleaxe slung across his back. The Were Fang might not be one of the most liked, but he was at least respectable as a damage or tank type. Right? Hopefully?

    Setsuna looks as the others gather and quickly finishes the skewer he is working on and coughs a little obviously forcing the last bite down. Then he hands the remaining plate to the skeleton knight, "Stay here and guard this. If anyone tries to take the plate then growl at them menacingly . However NO DISTENGRATION." With a sigh he looks to the group and smiles, " So then off to slay the slimes ? " Without another word Setsuna opens the grate, takes one more long deep breath of fresh air and drops down below.

     As the party makes there way down in to the sewer system, the normal bloops of slimes appear to be further away then one would expect, instead their is almost a moaning cooing sound as the whisperings begin to float through the tunnel walls and towards the party. Judging by the bones of creatures at their feet, these ghost slimes still eat like normal slimes. Acidic ghostly balls of whatever our coming to get you , whereever you are barbara.

    Merek looks to the ghosts that come the way of the party, while he lifts up a hand to begin bringing about light magic that will keep them away, "We may want to keep in mind we will deal with more than smiles, probably," he will note.

    Ghost slimes... The spookiest of all slimes.
    It is as others begin to navigate the entrance of the sewers that--...
    Hey where did Akatsuki go?
    She just up and vanished again.
    Well. She kind of does that sometimes.

Giganpor, looking at the well... ghost slimes. He decides to try to just flat out magically blast the ghosts away. Really, it should work. Only, it doesn't. Apparently an element is needed to hit the slimes or something.

That leads to Giganpor at least getting slimed a bit. Literally. He sighs. "I hate ghosts."

Yeowang follows along through the slimy water, frowning as it soaks into her low shoes. She'd need hip waders to have kept it out, she'll just have to menu-fumigate things afterward. The ghost slimes, when they appear, do not frighten her. The 'ooo' is met with a dry frown, and a kick, which does nothing. Well, it'll have to be the magic powers she's so uncomfortable with, and which perform so erraticly for her. Perhaops because she doesn't quite believe in them, herself, real as they are here. She holds a hand up, limned in light, and says a soft benison, and this time, at least, the slimes do not come after her. Well, that's good, anyhow.

There is a ninja!

"Oh, you're Shiroe's, aren't you?" Prophylaxis asks of this tiny nin. Tinin??? "Would you be able to let him know that I'm interested in a meeting, one of these days?"

Yeah, that'll work!

Onwards!!

Into the depths they go, absent one skeleton knight and one relatively tiny, adorable Cerberus Pup who is now directing not one but THREE sets of puppy dog eyes at the plate of leftovers. Can the skeleton knight resist!?

Also, why are there ghosts? Ghost... slimes? "I'm sorry, how do these work, exactly?" Prophylaxis asks as flame erupts from the head of his staff. "If they're ghost-slimes, are they slimes which have consumed ghosts, or the ghosts of slain slimes? If the latter, can there be aspected slime ghosts? Like a Lava Slime Ghost or something like that?"

Beat.

"...Maybe I should ask Uta," he says, as he hucks a fireball at the ghostly oozes.

Thalia swallows the rest of her bun and nods. "Should be a piece of cake, right? ... There's a lot of us here." She follows Setsuna down into the dank hole of the sewers, drawing her weapons as she falls. It's dark, but she doesn't seem to mind.

She lands lightly in the ... glop with a grimace, eyes widening slightly at the undead slimes. She wasn't even aware that slimes ''could'' be undead. A couple come for her and she seems to flicker forward, moving faster than the eye can see, only leaving red marks on the ghost slimes she passes through as she swings on them.

Shiruba gives an approving nod to the other New Worlders that have come. "Sorry you guys are getting dragged away from the event, but this kind of needs to be dealt with."

She clamps her teeth on the remaining chunk of meat on her skewer, brings up her bow, gets ready to fire... and then yelps as she jumps back as the ghostly slimes start to swarm towards her. She looks down past her nose, and lets out a frustrated sigh as she turns her head and spits out the skewer, which plops in the sewer muck and distracts some of the ghostly slimes instead with it's one remaining chunk of drooled on meat. "That sacrifice better be worth it!"

    And the Ninja is gone. "Bah," is muttered from Arashi as she sets off with the surprisingly large crew. And Shiruba. Excellent. "This shouldn't go to badly with all of us," she figures. Giganpoor is promptly just not acknowledged to even exist. For now at least.

    Ghosts? Ghosts. Wonderful. "... So much for slimes.." Arashi decides before slicing at the nearest one, but only after applying a little magic to one of the loaner blades she got from Kaydon. "Dragged away? No, no, Shiruba, this is necessary.."

    Ghost slimes?! Uta never mentioned their were such things as ghost slimes! How could she have never mentioned that. They were like little balloons, so with a magically shield hand what does the necromancer and part time paid intern at the slime lab do? He touches one. Meanwhile the rest of the party does what they do when they see monsters, fireballs, slashing, light beams, magical sword attacks, you name it , someone is inflicting it upon the ghost slimes. Setsuna pets the ghost slime and then sends it on it's way. He would come back for one later.

    Meanwhile deeper down into sewers they go and they find the most common crature known to roam the sewers, rats. And where there are rats there snakes, but also cats. Thats right tabby cat slimes are desceneding upon the rats and then they turn to the adventurers. Even though they just ate they are still hungry, as they meow-blorp loudly at the adventurers and come to feed more.

    There is, indeed, a ninja!
    A ninja who re-appears in the next moment hanging from the ceiling *right by Prophylaxis' head*
    "I will inform my lord of your desire to see him at his earliest convenience." She says mildly amid dangling, her pony-tail fluttering slightly as she eyes Arashi.
    "Do you have the dedication and discipline it takes to become a ninja, Arashi?"
    Being a ninja is not all fun and games. It's serious business.
    Briefly she is distracted by the adorable kitty-slimes...
    But ultimately she opts to sneak by them rather than try to pet them.

On the bright side, they've moved deep enough into the sewers to get out of the gunk. On the downside, she now really needs a shower. Or a hose. Maybe both. She tries not to think of the gunk inside her boots and still clinging to her. It's not easy. She won't be using ''this'' footage for anything at all.

Thalia at least manages not to squeal as the rats come pouring out of the darkness. As the Tabby Slimes come out, she's suddeny struck by how darn cute they are. "Aww! Look! They're ado--"

CRUNCH. Slurp.

"Nevermind." They come for her, and she just moves, elegantly darting and twirling through the colony of cat slimes, swords flickering out as she passes, mostly to keep them away rather than to actually destroy them. Her goal is dodging, here.

    Merek looks to the slimes that are cats, then he begins to coral them with water, while he nods a bit, trying to collect a few of the slimes on the way.

Now Shiruba is slightly more annoyed. It shows in the agitated way her tail flicks as the group proceeds farther into the underground passages. And how she just sort of scowls with the cat-like slimes are prowling about. "Hey Setsuna. How come when they eat rats they stay cat slimes instead of turning into rat slimes?", she asks Uta's assistant, even as she forms a bolt of water in her magic bow and fires it into the ground, creating a splash of water to knock several of the Tabbyslimes out of their path.

"Don't underestimate cute things," she lightly chides Thalia, mostly in playful teasing.

Yeowang is glad to get out of the muck. She immediately begins a menu-clean of her boots and pants, proceeding on while that process continues, though she pauses at the sight of the slime-cats and all-too-real rats. Well. At least they're not bugs. She kind of has issues. Rats, she doesn't like, but they don't cause her to jump into some guy's arms. That'd be entirely inappropriate. She does dash across the room, leaping clear of rats and cat-slimes both until the space around her is well clear in all directions.

    Ghost slimes, now cat slimes.... There that many types? Seriously, Arashi didn't remember that many from her time in the game before everything sucked them in. ... Is Uta responsible for all this?! ... Nah. Still, with how unsettling that crunching sound is, the mare decides that it's going to be better to just move along than anything else. A slash, an arc of water slices off Arashi's blade, and she follows in it's wake.

    As for the Nin.. "I'm my own sort of .. stealthy." Arashi's not the smallest PC around, but she still does use the shadows very, very well, and is quite evasive despite it. Something to consider.

Giganpor just blinks a few times at the tabby slimes. Then he looks at the others, "No cat jokes, please."

Considering his skills, he probably could wrangle them a bit, but well... goes for the tried and true anti-cat method. Bringing up a hand, blue glows before he suddenly sends out a large blast of water at the slimes in an attempt to literally wash them away. Literally at that.

He looks over at Shiruba, then around, "Huh. Akatsuki? You didn't tell me Shiroe's back." He mentions, then shrugs.

"Ugh, this place... Sewers are /always/ gross...!" Prophylaxis makes a mental note to bring up 'build a damn water treatment facility' to Shiroe when they meet. The fact that there so many of these darn things just wandering around is evidence not only of the slime's fecundity, but also that people need to take more steps to take care of their waste!

"Good, thank you," he says to Akatsuki as she pops into space RIGHT NEXT TO HIS HEAD. Somehow he's gotten used to that sort of thing? Or maybe it's just a side-effect of his special brand of madness. But then--

There are more slimes!

And they're adorable. Tabby slimes! Who would have ever thought? "These ones I'm okay with," Prophylaxis says, only taking the time to water-jet the slimes away when they get too close. If cat-slimes are anything like actual cats, then being spritzed will do well enough to keep them at bay.

...Doesn't really help /fight/ them much, though.

    Setsuna glares at the cat slimes, "Mr. Tabby's associates I presume." It appears Setsuna is about to rain hell down on these things till Shiruba asks a question and he stops, " It's because they are already primed with something else. Once they change , they can't reset or change again. Thats just how it works. " Sighing he looks at the cats again as intead of raining he hell he simply sends out a wave of magic to pin the cats down. As they are pinned down others easily can spray them away or avoid them and move forward. Setsuna cast a dirty look back in their direction before he shakes his head and moves forward.

    As they continue to seek the source of these slimes, pipes are leaking more and more as obvious dissolved spots in the sewer pipes become a more common thing. The clink clunk sounds of metal slimes can be heard before seen. However now they have new prey, all the shiny yummy metal weapons and tools everyone has brought them.

    "My lord has been very busy. I felt it prudent that he not be disturbed." Akatsuki replies mildly to Giganpor when she next re-appears.
    There is a scroll in her hand. As she opens the scroll the kanji for 'fire' appears upon the sheaf of paper as she aims it at the metal slimes. Said kanji erupts outwards in a plume of... Well. Fire.

"Oh. Makes sense." At least enough sense for Shiruba and liking to know things about monsters.

Next up, metallic slimes. "... How do they even stay gelatinous?" Oh well. She draws an arrow and nocks it in her bow, the tip igniting in flames as she does so. She fires at one of the metal slimes, but when hit it falls back into the water, putting the flame out before it can be burned. "Dang it. I drew back a little too hard on that shot."

The Tabby Slimes passed, they move deeper into the sewers. Thalia still tries not to think about the gunk. The combat is distracting her from these thoughts, so it's helpful, at least. As they start passing by rusted and ''consumed'' piping, she frowns. "I think I know what that means."

The metallic blorps coming from ahead prove her right. She sighs, setting her feet. What little light there is seems to get pushed away from the edges of her blades. They seem to anti-glitter as she focuses on her technique. With a flutter of violet wings, she hurls herself at the metallic Slimes, blades trailing motes of darkness as she assaults the ambulatory jello.

    Slimes made of metal. Why does she have this memory of them just running away? Experience? She doesn't remember managing to even KILL them. Whatever. May as well beat on these ones until they give up their rewards. There's a lot of pounding, clanging, slicing, but it is still successful somehow. This is why Arashi is DPS, and not a tank.

Yeowang has not, herself, brought a great deal of metal with her on this task. She did bring quite a large box of whoop-ass, though, and it seems she's here to spread some out. The metal slimes are ideal candidates, and she proceeds to low-kick them quite savagely. She kicks each slimes until it's knocked back, then kicks the one adjacent to it, that way she doesn't advance and get herself surrounded. Hopefully she can get back to the festival when this is done. It doesn't seem like things have gotten bad enough to interrupt that yet.

"Looks like you're learning quite a bit from working with Uta," Prophylaxis says to Setsuna. "I wonder if they could be used as a sort of water treatment system? Might be something to look into, since they do seem to draw nutrients from the impurities. Hm..." Maybe he should ask Uta about that one, too?

One thing's for sure, they'll need to use break-resistant pipes, else they risk creating METAL SLIMES! Prophylaxis winces at this sprawling reservoir of tetanus and conjures another sphere of flame over the head of his staff. This one is somewhat larger than the last, and the rippling inferno that pours out from the impact when he goes to throw it is certainly more sizable as well.

Giganpor brings out his poleaxe for this fight, for sure. He starts trying to smash slimes like it's some sort of demented Donkey Kong game. Seriously. A lot. Smash. Smash. Smash. The slimes are just too slippery for him to get a good shot on, however.

And he looks over at Akatsuki, "Oh? I can relate to that a little. Oh! Tell him I found something on the Moonlight quest of mine. Might have to go back to training and leave someone in charge of my duties and stuff."

He resumes trying to smash metal slimes.

    Merek will lift up the potion to throw it along and into the metal slimes to melt them and weapons. There's a nod along to the party while he then will make a way about.

    The metal slimes charge and as fire is thrown around like is a common occurrence, Setsuna simply stands back for a moment. Truthfully his entire class was more of a stand back and let others deal with it type, while buffing them from behind. So that is simply what Setsuna does. The kanji of fire, the alchemic flames, the sphere of flame, even the weapons brought out seem to game some flame qualities. Poleaxes, swords, however not Yeowang's boot. Setsuna decides giving Yeowang a hot foot would be a bad idea. So most of the party gets an extra fire buff, and soon the slimes are but liquid metal. The necromancer looks over at Shiruba when it is over, " Did you never see the second terminator? They are liqid metal, like mercury. Thats how they stay that way. "

    The crew can smell the next fit they were coming to before they get close to it, and it only gets worse as they approach. The water is becoming more fetid and stale, and its just not a pleasant time. The water seems to be getting reversed filterd through a large black slime, polluted and tainted. The worse bit is that when it spots the party it begins to spray that foul water in their direction.

Shiruba stops as an unfortunately familiar stink reaches her sensative nostrils. "Ugh. -This thing-." Sure enough, there's a pile of black slime and sewer gunk clogging up what is probably a cistern. "Don't hold back, this thing is a toxicity hazard just waiting to happen." She draws back on her longbow, channeling the power of a tempest through Thundersnow Howl to manifest it into an arrow, and fires it into the horrid boss. The force of pressurized air has a benefit in blowing some of that foul air and fouler water away from the group as well.

The Black Flan is a terrifying monster of magical goo and ... other goo. Thalia Does Not Like. It flings Gross Water at the group and she flings herself aside. She manages to stay mostly clean as she hits her feet again. Mostly. She really needs a shower now.

The Spriggan begins to twirl her blades, their edges starting to glow green as the wind begins to pick up around her. She spins gracefully and swings both weapons in sync, launching a blast of air at the Black Flan.

The great slime counters with a burst of fetid water, cutting through her air burst and ''coating'' ger in the gross mess. She wails and flails. "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew! Grossgrossgrossgross!"

    UGH. "What died in here- no wait, nevermind, I don't want to know," Arashi decides before setting eyes on this massive .. blob.. thing. "... I have so many questions that I really don't want the answer to," she muses before leaning forward, setting a hand to her blade. "Well, nothing ventured," she mutters before flashing forward, thunder in her wake, as she sets to slicing at the massive blob at a lightning pace. See, Akatsuki? Agile despite size.

    Merek lifts up a hand to bring about a sanctuary on the party to protect them from the slime and to assist in healing while he nods a bit to the people.

    In the face of the Black Flan, Akatsuki draws another scroll... Opening it up it unfurls to reveal the kanji for 'wind' as she aims it at the beast!
    Only for a splash of acrid nasty water to wipe the symbol off the page and coat her in filth.
    "..."
    Akatsuki looks about as pleased as a wet cat as she retreats to the back row of the party.

Oh no.

That /smell./ Prophylaxis knows that smell. He knows it far too well. He knows it so well that he specifically hangs back and keeps to the rear of the group as they approach the source of that smell.

"Yep," the doctor nods, "That sure is a Black Flan alright."

Its filthy tendrils reach out, snaking towards the party limbs coated in oil-slicked corruption. Prophylaxis' breath suddenly frosts as it leaves his lips...

And one of those tendrils abruptly freezes solid, starting from the tip and then racing towards the slime's main body. As the cold metastasizes, the reeking stench dies away, frozen into a fine mist that clings to the ice-riddled flan. "Nope," he says, "Absolutely /none/ of that, thank you."

Yeowang wrinkles her nose at the sight of the huge, stinky slime. She slides in close to it all the same, nimbly evading its pseudopods, and delivers a hard punch to it. The damage is not much, but she delivers several more before a pod begins to extend in her direction. She ducks and evades as it swings around at her, and she approaches from another angle. Several more blows are delivered before a pseudopod extends that requires her to reposition. And she is able to repeat this process several times, until the monster is defeated.

Giganpor brings his poleaxe around, and it's glowing green. Only he misses and probably now has the Stink debuff. Ew.

He makes a face before looking at the others, "I hate this thing." He proceeds to swing again and again until it's dead. Hopefully.

    Setsuna raises a wall of air to deflect the spraty back at the black slime as it dissolves from it's own acidic spray. The pieces of the blob that are frozen are easily cut away by the others. Finally Shiruba lands a single arrow in the center of the blob and with the sound thunder the blob explodes into tiny blobs before they get swept away. Hopefully they will be dissolved before they gather again. With nothing in their way the party can press on.

    Finally they come to the source of the slimes. The room appears empty , before a large slime drops from the ceiling into the center of the room. The pink thing is wearing a royal red coat and a crown. More importantly floating in the middle of the King Poring, is an Uta. Her health is rapidly dropping as she continues to scribble notes down on her dissolving notebook. If one was to hesitate , not only will the notes dissolve, but so will Uta.

    Merek looks to the Uta in the poring and offers a little sigh, with a shift of the weapon which he wields, then he brings about rocks from the ground to swing into the creature, "Alright, well it looks like it's time to save Uta. Again."

Well.

That certainly explains why there are so damn many slimes here.

"Damnit Uta, what were you doing down here...?" Prophylaxis mutters at the enormous ROYAL SLIME. Or rather, at the girl floating inside the royal slime. The girl whose HP is steadily ticking down. Prophylaxis whips his off-hand to one side, a silvery tendril snaking out from a gauntlet hidden in the sleeves of his robes. He swings the metallic pseudopod into the depths of the King Poring to try and fish Uta out of it, but...

"Ugh, she's stuck!" Prophylaxis grunts, tugging at the tendril. "We'll have to weaken the slime if I'm going to be pulling her out of there!"

Giganpor huhs. "Slime's just a bunch of liquid if I remember right... oh yeah." He moves forward, holding his poleaxe ready and shifting to his Were Fang form as his steps through a summoning circle. He says back towards the others, "Might want to cover your ears!"

His entire armor seems to glow for a second as he himself goes into a golden color. He brings his shield up, and his poleaxe to brace himself as he calls out, "Listen to the Heaven's Roar!"

There's a sudden whoosh as the armor he is wearing lets off a frightening roar. One that is meant to both damage the overgrown slime and to make it focus on him. He's the tank, after all, and he's going to very much make sure all that attention is on him.

The road goes again and again as much as needed, sounding throughout the chamber as he starts to bash and hack at the slime in the mean time. It's obviously tank time for him!

Thalia, still grousing about being coated in muck, stops dead as the Big Slime drops in. She does a doubletake at the ''person'' inside the slime. "H-huh? Oh no!"

She looks around before she springs into motion, heedless of the danger to her person. Merek tears rocks from the ground to hurl at the Poring, and Thalia blitzes along with them. She hopscotches across the flying rocks, darting over-top the King Poring, lashing out with both blades. She somersaults in midair, swinging her weapons to strike again before she lands on the other side of the giant slime, short boots skidding on the bare earth.

    Oh hey there's Uta.
    Oh. She's inside the grand king of slimes.
    Akatsuki-- vanishes from sight once again.
    Only to re-appear in the air above the grand poring, kodachi in hand...

    "Assassinate!" She declares her attack, bristling with lethal intent.

    And comes down on the slime, DPS spiking massively as she slashes at it.

    And suddenly, the fight is taken! Uta is in trouble, there's a ton of people here to help, and Arashi surely won't do anything super embarassing, right? ... RIGHT? Wrong. The war-horse is ready to rush, wanting to drop from the shadows with both those blades whirling, but when she jumps toward the shadows? Well, the massive thing takes offense and just -slaps- Arashi into the wall before turning it's attention to everyone else. THUD. Thud. thud. "...ow.."

Shiruba looks the regal slime up and down, and then smiles. "Finally! It's not the abyssal fishfaced slime monsters!" Pause. Squints. "... Is that Uta?" Somehow she's not surprised by this.

Welp, that makes things a little more awkward to deal with, but they'll manage. Shiruba pulls a couple of crystal tipped arrows from her quiver, nocking one back in her bow and taking aim. Then fires into the slime. The arrow is designed to penetrate deep, then release the magic energy charged in it to break down the slime's gooy composition, hopefully making it easier for other people to beat big chunks out of it's HP. "Someone grab her before she gets hurt by the attacks!"

Yeowang enters the room with all the others, and watches the slime king drop down. The slime /with Uta inside/! She comes to the same conclusion Proph does, about Uta being the most likely cause of the slime infestation. She sighs, but charges in, kicking the slime with a flying kick, sliding in and hitting it for a good chunk of damage before bouncing off and getting back to her feet. As Uta's health trickles down, it becomes a DPS race, but that's a challenge Yeowang excels in, kicking, punching, slamming the slime. MMA hasn't given her too much chance to fight slimes, though she's fought some pretty slimy dudes, but her reslilience and power are more than adequate for delivering continuous and high DPS more or less as desired.

    Setsuna sees the Uta and sighs, his hand goes to the forehead and rubs it slowly. " Ok so I put her in the room. I gave her enough dried noodles and canteen of water. I threw a few slimes in, I locked the door. I barricaded the door. So how..." As Setsuna says all these things he pantamimes the motions as he goes through them trying to figure out how Uta got here. Finally he shakes his head as he decides that he needs to do what he needs to do, and begins to summon the spirits of the fallen to fight the king slime. hough it appears the territory is effecting the spell as instead of skeleton or ghouls, ghost slimes appear and begin to swarm the king, dissolving the king itself.

    With everything doing everything they can to save Uta, the Poring King eventually pops and the slime goo floods out as if someone popped a giant water balloon. There are a few gems in the mix, but the real gem is the Uta. Still alive , sitting in the middle of it all is ,Uta.

A wash of slime hits Thalia, further gooping her up and, at this point, ruining her yukata. If not physically than mentally. She's going to desynth this thing later to make something new because it will forever be tainted by so much slime.

On the bright side, that same wash of slime brings a shiny jewel to her feet, which she picks up and stuffs in her inventory. That's payment for a job well done. A better payment is that Uta got freed, not that she knows Uta, but it was someone who needed help.

"I need to ... hose off. I feel disgusting. Ugh."

...Uta who, despite her HP flashing with the very last ticks of red, outfit a mess of goo and sewage (downright eaten by acid in places), skin red with burns, eyes squinting and barely able to see, unable to do much but float helplessly and, after the explosion, lying prone in the unpleasant liquid and barely move, she nonetheless soldiers on with her writing, "...experimental note #432 of the day, explosions make slimes lose structural cohesion...", she writes and mutters at the same time.

Someone's clearly not in the right state of mind to make sensible scientific observations.

    Merek will nod a little bit when they finish up with the slimes, then he watches while it looks like Uta will do a little research, "Alright, well I need to be about my way for the day," he notes, while he picks up that reward while he sheaths the weapon upon his back.

"The same way Gabriella always managed to sneak out no matter how many times I double-checked or people I had watching her," Shiruba replies as she pats Setsuna on the shoulder. Interestingly she brings up that name without having an emotional fit over it, instead reaccounting it like a fond memory. Looks like she really did come to terms with that matter over her hiatus.

As the slime sloshes about from the boss's defeat she spots one of the gems floating in the gunk and fishes it out. "Huh." She turns it over in her hand a few times. "This looks like it was a jewelry setting at one point."

Yeowang peers as Uta, freed from the slime, continues to take notes. "Full marks for dedication," she says. "Minus all of them for doing it while being dissolved." She will menu-clean herself and her clothes -again-, luckily it's come off cooldown, which while it's not what she wants, which is a bath, is better than walking around covered in yuck, which this game seems inclined towards. Is Yuck one of the game features she wasn't expecting? She certainly hadn't expected it. Uta doesn't seem to mind, which draws an eyeroll. But what can she do?

    Setsuna just sighs as he walks up the Uta and with some effort manages to lift her on to her back in such a way that she can still do her note taking. Looking over at the doctor he adds, " Once we get somewhere a little cleaner you should do your thing and play doctor with her. Er um... you know what I mean." Setsuna would then spend the time piggy back carrying Uta back to the top level of Shibuya. The only problem is that when they get back to the top, the skeleton knight is missing two legs and the plate of food has been ravaged. Not far away is a cerberus puppy, laying on two skeleton legs , sleeping with a full stomach.