The group, consisting of Gnorcia, Lhoss, Feno, Kyro, and Niki (the others were mysteriously teleported off or disappeared through mysterious circumstances) continued to explore the underground caverns deep underneath the barrowmaze. As they proceeded to explore the various tunnels, they eventually discovered a small cavern filled with fungi and mushrooms of various sizes, as well as a small pool of liquid, presumably water. As they approached the fungus, two of them started to scream. This surprised the group a little, especially Feno, as he had never seen or encountered screaming fungus before. As the two were screaming, another, larger fungus with multiple limbs started to walk menacingly towards the group. At nearly the same time, the group hears the familiar sound of skeletons shuffling towards them from the opposite side of the room. With their glowing blue eyes, the group sees the familiar forms of sapphire skeletons approaching, drawn by the screaming fungus it would seem. Niki, Feno, and Gnorcia, being near the front of the group, try to attack the fungus, but surprisingly, perhaps due to the screams of the mushroom creatures, miss their attacks. The skeletons attack Kyro in the rear, and cause minor damage, but he has cuts and bruises he didn't take care of from a previous fight, so this attack especially hurts. The mushrooms finally reach Gnorcia, and attack, hitting her with a seemingly poisonous attack. It appears to be a particularly debilitating poison that quickly begins to corrode her left arm, causing it to rot from within. Lhoss, using her enchanted gear, gets on the ceiling quickly and a skeleton tries to attack her, but she is well out of its range, having climbed the ceiling like a spider. She tries to hit the skeleton with her staff but was unable to do so for some reason. One of the fungi attacks Niki and hits, but fortunately her druidic powers protect her momentarily from the poison's effects, and she shrugs it off. Feno and Lhoss both watch as the poison takes greater hold upon Gnorcia, now traveling to her leg. She tries to drink a cure poison, but quickly discovers that it is a disease that has afflicted her, and no a poison as previously thought. Fortunately, the next few attacks of the fungi on her miss. Unfortunately, the disease takes root in her arm, and it falls off, completely rotted away.
The gods, finding mercy on the group perhaps, summon the paladin Chalkboi into their midst. Quickly surveilling the situation and with a grave look on his face, he lays his hands upon Gnorcia and uses his innate abilities and cures Gnorcia of the disease. While the arm still lay on the ground withered and rotted off, she was no longer in danger of dying thanks to actions of this paladin. Feno, with a flurry of blades and a in a fit of rage, destroys all the remaining mushrooms in the room, whether they were a threat or benign. Lhoss tries to utilize her levitate magic to neutralize a skeleton near her from being able to attack the party, but it shrugs off the spell, having no effect. Fresh off of curing Gnorcia, Chalkboi attempts to turn the undead, but perhaps due to the strength of these skeletons, or the dampening from the barrowmaze, he is unable to do so. Gnorcia sneaks behind a skeleton, and destroys it, causing it deep blue sapphire eyes to fall to the ground. Kyro, sensing Feno near him, disengages, and allows Feno to take his spot into the skeleton battle foray. Feno swings his mighty sword, but still having ringing from his ears from the mushrooms, misses again. Lhoss and the rest of the group take turns and eventually destroy the remaining skeletons, and the eyes, preventing them from regenerating.
Following that battle the group decides to explore a little more and look for a quiet place to eat and meditate (for those that are magically inclined). They stumble upon some fire beetles, which attack the party. They are fast and hungry, and attack both Lhoss and Gnorcia first, biting each for minor damage. Lhoss hits one with her weapons for minor damage, but Gnorcia misses, perhaps thrown off from her missing appendage. Feno squeezes into the area with the beetles to attack. With a fine, icy mist emanating from the enchanted blade, he strikes true, dealing instant death to the fire-based creature. Gnorcia steps up and does her usual aerial maneuver and flips behind a beetle to attack, destroying it. One of fire-beetles, especially hungry, attacks Feno, nearly biting him. Feno attacks back and destroys it in vengeance. With his fighter bloodlust he steps up and destroys another one, this one near Gnorcia. Finally, Gnorcia, steps up and kills the last one with ease. With the final beetle destroyed, the group gathers the glowing glands (that are similar in torchlight in terms of glowing light) and finally sits down to eat and memorize spent spells. Feno takes the role of guard, and watches the entrance to the cavern they are in. Just as the group started eating a Feno sees a group of undead in tattered clothing approaching. He lets the group know before preparing for battle. Chalkboi once again tries to turn these undead known as Huecava but is unsuccessful. Gnorcia, filled with large sense of bravery perhaps, rushes forward to attack these new undead creatures. Her attacks do minimal damage to their bony exteriors. They attack back and hit her with their poisonous claws, infecting her with a new blood poison. She suddenly feels very tired and drained. Feno, seeing this familiar scene unfolding, rushes toward Gnorcia, and picks her up under his arm and runs back toward the rest of the party. The undead try to take advantage, but Feno easily dodge their attacks. Kyro throws a vial of holy water, causing it to smash on one of the Huecava, causing moderate damage. The group take turns, and eventually kill the new undead with Feno dealing the final blow to the last Huecava.
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