Duty Session 314: Is It Wrong to Pick Up Slimes in a Dungeon?

    Mac Anu had put in a request recently, it appears when the goblins were cleared out the slimes moved in. THey were enjoying the cleaned sewers very much, some say that they even devoured the crocodile that lived here. So now some hunters had to ge together and go down in to the sewer to get it all taken care of. Rizadoman had been in the area, pestering people about topics that caused landers to simply give him a dirty look, so to let tempers cool and hope some forget his face he had came down to haelp slay slimes.

Goldenblade has encountered slime-clearing missions before, and it seems this is a constant problem in the sewers. It is apparently quite slimy. Who knew? But here she is, working with Rizadoman again, though she wonders why Landers are giving him dirty looks. "Why are Landers giving you dirty looks?" she asks. Well, if you want to find something out, you ask. It's not a very Japanese attitude, but one that serves her well.

"And let that be a lesson, monsters will take full advantage of other monsters being too weakened to hold their territory." And then there's a Kauchemar here as well. Gods dang it, how does she do that seeming to just be there one moment? Always leaves one wondering just how long she'd been lurking out of sight beforehand, too. But she is here, stretching out her arms and cracking her knuckles. "Welp, once more into the realm of poo gas and black water, I guess."

She pulls a pair of Were Fang style boots from her inventory and quickly stuffs her hooves into them. Nope, we are NOT walking around barefoot in the sewers this time.

    Rizadoman looks at Goldenblade, seeming to be snapped out of thought for a moment as he tilts his head and considers for a moment what is being asked. "Oh , I am uestioning their gods and beliefs and all that. Some reason people don't like that. Especially around here with the church and all that. Telling me there are only three divine beings " With that said the lizardman takes a look at Kauchemar and moves on in to the sewer proper.

     A little ways in the trio begin to hear soft ooooo's before coming across the ghost of slimes that were. They are almost like jellyfish that travel through the air as they begin to gather towards the three adventuers. It seems the ghost slimes are eternally hungry.

Goldenblade blinks at Rizadoman, and says, "Er, you did read the, what's it called? Flavor text? The three, that's the background religion here. But, like, magic here actually works, and religion works also. So, questioning the religion, that's a bit like questioning gravity, or the earth being round. Well, spherical. You know what I mean."

She attempts to pray and walk past the ghost slimes, and she does, but they hit her up for a heavy donation of HP in the process. "Stupid magic," she sighs, frustrated.

"Oooooh, yeah, people tend to be very... fussy about their religious choices. It's likely nothing personal, just that you consider something different." Kauchemar replies as they make their way down into the sewer. The first thing they come across is some manner of ghostly slimes. ".. Wait, are these actually ghosts or just ghost like." Her eyes flicker briefly in otherworldly light... and then break off with a growl as she puts a hand to her head. "Ugh, whatever they are, the combination of slime and spirit is giving me a migrane."

    Rizadoman looks at the two and takes a deep breath. " If they are fallen slimes or slimes that have ate ghosts, either way they are now a part of the astral plane. " Rizadoman begins to pray as well , as he draws forth several Ofuda strips and places them on the ghost slimes. Moment laters they have been cleansed and are moving on to the next world. With that all done Rizadoman looks over at Kauchemar, " I am not disputing the goddesses existence. I am simply asking about the divine beings that also exist. They are all through out lander legend, and the moment you start talking about it here though they call you blasphemous. " The lizard sighs as he continues the trek down.

     Deeper and deeper down they go, where they stop no one knows. As they walk further and further down though they come across a pride of slimes, particularly hunter slimes. How do you know they are hunter slimes? The camo stripes , the bow and arrows, the headbands. All this easily shows that they are hunter slimes, and now they have suddenly disappeared from sight for a moment. Perhaps the trio is being hunted?

"Remind me to never invite ghost slimes to a seance," Kauchemar grumbles after the things finally depart thanks to Rizadoman being better prepared. "I guess the only thing is to move on." She snaps her fingers, forming a small ball of fire to help see.... which is immeadiately extinguished by a glob of cameo patterned splattering on it. "Ugh!" She shakes her hand several times to try and dislodge the gunk. "Now we -really- need to keep moving."

Goldenblade ehs to Rizadoman, and asks, "What diving beings that also exist are there?" So, while she may have read a bit of the flavor text, she didn't read -all- of it. "But if you want to look something up and no one will talk about it, there's now libraries in all three Alliances, Uta sponsored it, they're pretty complete, I'm told. Maybe your info is there?"

The conversation has distracted her from the slimes, and she -is- the hunted now, fire flaring, though it's too little and too late to prevent her from taking another healthy chunk of damage. Finally, she fights her way out, but she's in rough shape.

    The slimes have begun hunting and down on the group rains a barrage of slime arrows, whether that means the arrows are slimes or simply an extension of the source slime that is one for the slimeologist to answer. Rizadoman was here simply to remove some slimes from this cursed sewer system. Taking a breath he spews forth flames behind the trio to help their escape from being hunted, fortunately it is enough to get away.

     They seem to escape down a passage way that leads them to a central collection area and before them are slimes that are glowing with magical energy. How do you know that they are magical you may wonder, its because they are literally firering off random beams of raw magic. It's really not a good thing.

If there is one thing Kauchemar can do, it's move very fast indeed. She may be running away from the Hunter Slimes, but in doing so she tears into the next chamber with such intensity that she doesn't stop when she hits the water. She runs right across the surface, throwing up huge swells of water as she does so that sweep up many of the magical slimes and wash them back off into other sewage passages.

Goldenblade follows Rizadoman down the side passage, spraying water on them in hopes that will keep them back, and will hopefully wash off any caustic yuck as well. Then it's magic slimes, drawing another sigh from her, and they get the hose also. She sprays them like she'd spray a rabid animal in her front yard, pushing it back until it's found something else to be interested in. "Uh, this sewer is slimier than I remember."

    Rizadoman does his best to contain the magical energy of the slime but his shoulder gets hit and pierced by one of the magical beams. Fortunately Goldenblade spraying down the slimes and Kauchemar's galloping both seem to solve the magical slimes as they are washed away. Where they are washed away from? Who really cares. The trio chased off the magical slimes. That was the imporatnt part.

     Unfortunately for the trio all the water also washed away the magical runes protecting the area. The next thing you know there is a horrible smell as from the black and stale water comes up a black flan. It smells horrible. It is highly suggested that one undoes this creation as soon as possible.

Goldenblade slides her blades one against the other, and sparks fall off them as she does it. She then has at the black flan with both blades, and when they cut, the damage they do is considerable. Much more than would be expected. Seems her self-buff has worked out nicely, the blades do substantial damage with each hit. "Ugh," she grimaces. "It's definitely going to be a hot bath after this, and all the soap ever."

Kauchemar finally slows down when she realizes all the slimes have been washed away. She flicks her hands back through her mane to readjust it and trots back to the others with as much 'I meant to do that' swagger as she can muster, which is quite a lot indeed... Until she stops, lifting her head a bit and nostrils flaring. Catching a whiff of the horrid stench as the black flan blurbles its hideous form into being. "Ugh. Really, it had to be this thing again." Kauchemar summons her Binder Sword and Shield, then leaps over one of the waves of foul water caused by the flan's gurgling roar. "Now I'm annoyed. You know what happens to things that annoy me?"

There is an almost musical hum ringing in the air as Kauchemar swings the sword, sidesteps one of the thrashing arms like this was some manner of dance, and strikes again without losing the rhythm of her initial movements. "THEY GET THE BEAT DROPPED ON THEM!"

    As the others go to town on the Black Flan, Rizadoman charges forward about to strike but that smell really gets to him and he has to duck aside and loses his lunch. It was not a good smell. The others though do what they need to do to turn the black flan into black pixels as it floats away. Finally the group can move deeper into the sewers.

     They finally seem to reach a dead end , a large chmber which actually seems to have an opening to the outside world high up at the top of ceiling. The sun and fresh air are quickly blocked thoguh a s a large round creature with wings floats down to the middle of the room. It appears that the trio has found a slime drake.

Kauchemar looks up as the draconic goo flops its way onto the scene. "I think I see where Uta got the idea for the wyvern slime." She cusps a hand to her chin thoughtfully. "Though I wonder how come this one can fly." The Slime Drake plorps loudly and wetly into the chamber. "Mostly." A shrug. "Oh well."

Kauchemar plants a boot clad hoof to brace herself. "You guys might want to cover your ears..." She opens her mouth inhumanly wide, which serves to amply the dark infused shockwave of auditory pain that erupts from the Nightmare's depths. The slime probably doesn't have ears to bleed, but the vibrations will rock it to it's deep slimey core none the less.

Goldenblade cringes as Kauchemar unleashes ... whatever that was, on the slime. "Ugh, that was intense," she notes. Understatement of the week. She follows the group into the huge circular chamber and blinks as the slime drake drops from the ceiling. This is going to be rough. She fades back, though, and changes plan. Getting close when it can detect her seems like a bad plan, but she /can/ get close enough to strike it if she remains concealed, so she pulls the shadows around her and slips in, striking with both blades, then ducking back to a safe distance.

    Rizadoman watches the drake slime as he looks with a grin, covering his ears as the drake drops down and shaking with rage strikes out with one of it's slime claws trying to stop the noise of Kauchemar. There is a *clink* sound and the lizardman is standing their, his scales have shifted from their normal teal blue color to a more blood red color With a grin Rizadoman looks at the drake, "Your slime is not a match for that of a dragon's scale." The reverberating sound in the chmaber causing the slime to become more and more unstable before Goldenblade slices through it shattering the slime.

"Huh." Kauchemar leans down to pick up one of the broken talons that landed near her hooves. "Looks like this one ate several bits of... something. Maybe that's why it can actually fly." She turns it over in her hand as she stands back up. "... Though where a slime in a sewer found such things to eat.... eh, this world has weirder mysterious to worry about." The loot is dropped into her inventory without farther ceremony. "Let's get out of here. And probably find a bath."

     Rizadoman retrieves the talon as well as he looks at it with a sad expression, his scales returning to a natural teal color. "The circle of life happened again. It is a sad thing to see it happen to my distant relative, however it is what it is. " Placing the talon into his inventory he looks straight up. "Well we can either walk back through the sewers or climb straight up? " Taking a moment he considers the options before he decides to just use his claws to climb up to the opening.

Goldenblade whews as the slime shatters and she nods about gettubg out of here. "Count me in," she replies to Kauchemar about finding a bath. As to the reward, it looks like she's already got one of what dropped, so she doesn't get more. But still, it was a good mission. She blinks at Rizadoman, and will quickly follow him out.