Yet more hoarding (Surraruthru)

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+31 Spot
<Penuche> Iddy invokes Penuche's magic: < 33 > [d20=2]

[Anastasia]

Surraruthru doesn't notice any threads as you follow the tunnel. It widens a bit and ahead you see something. Clusters of dull purple coral grow out of the ice, and atop several of those clusters is a big, white, gooey blob. It jiggles whenever it moves, slowly moving over the coral here.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru eyes the thing, trying to identify it.

[Anastasia]

K:D.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+34 K:D
<Penuche> Iddy invokes Penuche's magic: < 52 > [d20=18]

[Anastasia]

The creature before you is a coral eater, a variant of white puddings. They are oozes that eat coral rather than flesh and don't care about living things. So long as you leave them alone, anyway. Unlike the vast majority of oozes, they're harmless to you. If you do provoke one, they spit sharp, acid tinged coral as well as an acid slam attack. Oh, and they split into two if you cut them.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Unpleasant. I say we leave it be and continue."

[Anastasia]

Swimming past it is easy enough now that you  know, the three continuing down. You go on this passage for several minutes, more fish and coral passed. As you swim, you feel a momentary dizziness, like you got spun around.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Did you feel that?"

Surraruthru looks around, trying to find the source of the odd feeling.

[Anastasia]

"Y-yes," Kascha wobbles about, hitting against the side of the tunnel with a dull thunk. "Oooowww!"

Ebony holds her head in her hands a moment, "The world spins like a top," she says, "Vertigo overwhelming."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Magical deterrent, you think?"

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+46 spellcraft Kascha
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 60 > [d20=14]

"Yes, yes. There's some magic here, and oh it's interesting!" Kascha's eyes widen, "It's not attacking the mind, it's attacking the body to try and make us reverse direction. Very tricky, it gets around protections against mind-affecting magic by targeting the body." She moves to pull out her book, but stops and mutters something in draconic about water and books. Something rather unkind, her shoulder slumping.

[Iron Dragoon]

"You could use a sending to relate it one of the sages for annotation, Kascha. Either way, let's keep going. It certainly seems like something interesting is this way."

[Anastasia]

Thus the party continues on. You swim down, down, down and down some more. Ahead the space opens up into what looks to be a vast sphere, more or less in that shape and made of solid ice. There's plenty of space in the middle, and the walls are riddled with large tunnels leading further down.

Spot checks, all.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+31 Spot
<Penuche> Iddy invokes Penuche's magic: < 39 > [d20=8]