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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 654970" data-attributes="member: 1210">"Watch out for the slime!"Examining the books in greater detail, they can determine no titles of any of them except for one.  They are thick and heavy, obviously weighty tomes of some strange arcane nature.  One is bound with brass, another with some sort of white leather.  One even has jewels in its cover.  The one whose title can be ascertained sets Sheva's blood afire- it's called the Book of Time.  This must have what she's here for!Sheva and Angel glance at each other.  They've traveled far, for several thousand miles and several months, to get to this point.  Now a few days to figure out the nature of the powerful spell they've been sent after by their goddess... A simple glance apparently isn't enough to cause the books' powers to activate, and in the next few moments Sheva can't determine anything to speak of about the one she's greedily holding.  "This is what I'm here for," she tells the others, and they agree to give her that book and split the rest up among the rest of the group."I may be able to figure some things out about them, about who could best use them," offers Orbius.  "Give me a day to prepare the proper spells." "And in the meantime, let's go, adventurers!" Lester adds enthusiastically.The party moves along further.  They head out a rough passage, but it almost immediately opens into a large cavern.  Within it is a bizarre creature that none of them have ever seen before, like a huge slug crossed with a sea turtle.  Disgusting, bile-tainted slime froths and drips from its body.  Huge flippers with blunt claws jut from its forebody.  Its maw drips bile and a single dark eye stares forward.  Grumpy gapes for a moment, then draws out his crossbow, not sure whether he should attack this thing or not.  "Do we fight or flee?" he asks, his tail swishing back and forth.  Sheva answers by throwing a flame strike at it.  She's suddenly moving very fast, and so is Angel, thanks to Zeebo.  Horbin gives a great scream as he sees the thing and steps back to draw out his mace.  Orbius fires off a volley of magic missiles at it, and then the thing responds to the attacks by vomiting forth a huge spew of yellowish-brown bile, stinking of terrible rot and piss mixed together.  It catches the entire group.  There's a chorus of surprised yelps and screams of pain as it burns them like acid; and worse, half the group suddenly feels sapped of health.  Grumpy avoids the worst of the blast of bile, but he still doesn't like it.  Yowling, he rushes forward, tumbles and jumps at the creature, striking with his blade.  It slashes into the strange monster- and Grumpy jerks it back in surprise as the slime coating the creature hisses and sizzles on his blade.  Horrified, he sees smoke rising from the sword!  He flicks his wrist and the slime splatters off his weapon, leaving it still intact... but barely in time.  "Crap!" he yells.  "Watch out for the slime!"More fire bursts down at the creature, followed by a searing light.  And then Angel rushes it, tumbling in on it, and slashing with his lethal falchion.  He strikes it across its neck, the muscles in his arms tightening to receive the shock of the blow on the tough creature.  With satisfaction he watches the blade sink deep into the monster, and he shoves it in an extra few inches just to be sure.  The bile monster falls with a loud groaning sound.Angel jerks his falchion free, and stares in horror.  It's already half-dissolved, useless.This has happened to him before...!Next Time: A brief synopsis of Angel's unfortunate experience with losing weapons!  And we fo further up in the mountain, to big trouble!</blockquote>

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