Nymph interlude (Afina)

[Ebiris]

"They have a theme and they're sticking to it," Afina agrees with Canderella's assessment, fluttering over the ballroom. "I doubt this has ever seen a single dance though."

[Anastasia]

"A dreadful waste," Bubbles mourns, as you fly up.

The floor of the next room's largely gone. Only a few bits clinging to the wall endure. Sitting on one of those is a small ooze para-elemental, much of its gunky body full of various solids. A man sized ooze para elemental wields a crube club, banging on those bits. It's the drum sound you previously heard.

There's a door to the west and east here, both closed but intact.

[Ebiris]

"Hello," Afina tries greeting these elementals in Terran. "Are you trying to make music or is there some other purpose behind this?"

[Anastasia]

The human sized elemental stops and turns to you. "Breaking down. Breaking down parts into the ooze."

[Ebiris]

"Oh," Afina says, nonplussed. This plane gets stranger and stranger. She could wrap her head around Smoke and Ice well enough, but this place just doesn't fit her mental map at all. "Where did you get the parts from?"

[Anastasia]

"Ooze," It answers, gesturing downward. "All is in the ooze and all comes from the ooze."

The smaller one adds, "We must break it down within us."

"Hmmm. Entropy?" Canderella asks, "Are you trying to reduce it all into the ooze?"

[Ebiris]

Entropy seems to fit ooze pretty well as a theme, but Afina listens along with Canderella to whatever answer the elemental will give.

[Anastasia]

"Not reduce. Join the ooze. Break down and join the ooze. Become more with ooze. Become ooze." The elemental frowns, a human-ish expression as it considers. "Ooze is all. All is ooze."

"But ooze reeks," Bubbles grimaces, holding her nose. "I say," Her words are distorted by it, "Dearie, who wants everything to be ooze like this?"

[Ebiris]

"It's a common theme for elementals to want everything to be of their element," Afina says, seeing the sense in that. "Anyway we'll leave you to it. But before we go do you know where we might be able to find Bwimb or Bwimb II?"

[Anastasia]

"Hmmm..." Canderella murmurs, "That goes right back to the nature of this plane."

The larger elemental points to the door to the east.

[Ebiris]

East it is, so Afina goes to open that door.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100 Rei
<Rei-chan> Sunshine_Ko rolled : 1d100 Rei --> [ 1d100=21 ]{21}

You go to open the door - but 27 suddenly goes ahead and shakes his head and puts down Bubbles. "Let me open, rest of you fly back."

[Ebiris]

"Alright 27," Afina agrees, trusting that he knows what he's doing and flying back towards the other door as requested.

[Anastasia]

27 opens the door - and ooze pours out and down to the floor below. 27 stands solidly as it washes over him, until the room drains of it. Ugh, the smell is hideous. 27 merely shakes off and says, "Safe now."

"...I'm going to buy him a treat, whatever he eats," Bubbles says, shivering.

"He's on the skids with Jaela right now. Better if you try to defuse that headache," Canderella retorts, holding Bubbles. "Shall we continue?"

[Ebiris]

"It's a sad and one-sided friendship that he has with that family at times," Afina nods sollemnly, face a bit puckered up in the face of that stench before she heads down the now safe path. "Good job, 27."