A world's support

[Nephrite]

"Did something collide with a slaad here?" Moore asks as he continues on and up. "It's like... some sort of quasi-intelligent thing collided with something else and is trying to..."

A blink. "Damnit, I hope it isn't what I think it is and it's just a slaad..."

[Anastasia]

"I don't know, but...." A pause here, "Maybe it mentioned a solar," Cresiel reasons, "And my appearance fulfills that without it being about me in particular."

"Maybe," Xandra says, "We need to climb higher and shine light of what awaits us there."

"Or stab it," Kaja says agreeably, already going on up.

[Nephrite]

"Xandra, we may need your special abilities for this." He says as they go.

[Anastasia]

"You'll have them." Xandra promises.

Up more floors. Uneventful, no sign of it. It's only the top floor that you find it - all is dissolved into slime. Here the captured celestials lie, entombed in cocoons of slime. In the center is a throbbing, pulsing sphere of slime, perhaps the size of a dwarf or so. The same face as on the slime men is seen within it.

Your keen vision also lets you notice that there's something within it. A book, if you don't miss your guess.

[Nephrite]

"Peace." Moore says, again, in the Words of Creation. "We are not here to harm you."

He takes a breath in. This will be good practice for going Beyond.

"You seek knowledge and wisdom." Moore says, it's a statement of fact, a statement of understanding.

[Anastasia]

"You seek knowledge and wisdom," It says, echoing you with your own voice.

Xandra steps forward, "You need our help."

A moment later, "You need our help," is echoed, in Xandra's own voice.

[Nephrite]

"I think, in its own way, it understands us." Moore says as he slowly approaches it.

[Anastasia]

There's no reaction to it - but your keen sight lets you notice the book jostles as it moves, opening.

[Nephrite]

Can he see what it says?

[Anastasia]

Perception.

[Nephrite]

77~

[Anastasia]

The book within is titled, 'The Grim Fiend'.

[Anastasia]

Also 10 minute break for an eye compress, but I'll be posting more after that.

[Nephrite]

Of course.

"I am going to get rid of The Grim Fiend." Moore says.

Assuming there is no immediate reaction, he will reach in to try and pull the (surely cursed) book out!!

[Anastasia]

Yet as you reach to do that, abruptly-!

Will saves all, +5 if immune but still need to make the save.