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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1268048" data-attributes="member: 945">Casting Water breathing on the party, Nytor and the rest move into the cool sea water down the stairs, moving the pile of mummies that has accumulated at the bottom of their way.  They move through the murkey mausoleum where all the sarcophagi rest, silently underwater.  Scouring this room, they find no sign of Rath, and finally spot a stairway leading downwards.Moving down again, they see a room filled with shelves of books.  Nytor, Ivo, Mournax, Bax, and Dzintra move into the room, spreading out a bit to search for Rath.Bax observes that the room is smaller than the others and begins intuitively searching for a secret wall or door.Meanwhile, two large moray eels come, seemingly out of nowhere, and attack the rest of the party.  They swim towards Nytor and Dzintra and attack them, biting at them with their sharp theet.  Dzintra is wounded in this attack.  Ivo and Mournax push some tables out of the way and begin cleaving into the eels with their large axes.  The eels put up a good fight, and begin attacking Ivo and Mournax with a vengeance, delivering powerful bites.  But soon, the party overwhelms the eels, and they are slain."Where is Bax?", Nytor asks, though his voice muddled by the water around him."Great!  Rath is gone, and now Bax is missing!", Ivo exclaims.Suddenly Mournax stops, and grabs at his head.  "Something has tried to penetrate my mind!"  Dzintra moves over to where Bax was last seen examining the walls.  Suddenly, an enourmous fish, best described as a monstrous catfish emerges from behind an illusionary wall.  It begins attacking Dzintra with a fervor.  Ivo and Mournax react quickly and engage the beast, which in turn, responds with attacks of its silmy tentacles.  The slimy cloud hanging around the beast confuses Dzintra, who shakes it off, and attacks the creature in turn.  Though the battle fierce, and violent, the party slays the vile creature.Moving behind the illusionary wall, the party finds Bax, and Rath, both lying unconscious.  They scoop them up and head back towards the air.Once the party emerges from the water, Dzintra begins hyperventilating.  "I can't breathe!", she mutters, faintly.  Nytor tells her, "go back into the water."  Back in the water, Dzintra is able to breath water.  The rest emerge and examine the wounded.  Nytor looks over Bax and Rath, and casts a healing spell on Bax, reviving him.  "Rath is dead, I'm afraid.  I believe he has drowned."  "That is unfortunate", Ivo remarks, scratching at his arm.  "What is wrong with you arm", Nytor asks.  "I don't know. It's itchy, and the skin is falling off now that it's dry."  Ivo responds, with a concerned look on his face. Mournax chimes in, "mine is as well.  What did that beast do to us?"  Bax rises from his wounds.  "My arm!  What is happening to my arm!?" he shouts, as he watches as his arm slowly turns to a slimy gel.  "Back into the water!", Nytor shouts.  Bax moves into the water, next to Dzintra who is still breathing underwater, complacently.  Bax's arms cease being slimy, and return to normal in the cool water."Damnit!", Nytor exclaims, "this is awful.  I need to consult my god to determine what is wrong.  This is very troubling."Nytor meditates on what to do while Ivo and Mournax begin cleaning the sea water off their armor and weapons.Assessment:Rath is dead.  He drowned.Bax was afflicted from the Aboleth, and his skin turns to slime out of the water.Ivo and Mournax have Mummy Rot, actually afflicted from the Moray eels.Dzintra inhaled some of the Aboleth's mucus, and it coats her lungs.  She can not breath normal air."I don't have enough spells for all of this.  I can raise Rath tomorrow, but I have more serious concerns at the present.  I will heal Ivo and Mournax of their diseases, and Dzintra because eventually the water breathing will wear off, and she will die when that happens.  I don't have another spell for Bax."Nytor casts remove disease on Ivo, Dzintra, and Mournax.  Bax remains in the water, coming up occasionally to converse.  "I can remain in here for as long as the water breathing lasts, then what?"  "I'm afraid I don't know.  I'm out of spells", Nytor responds, perplexed.Bax rummages through the pile of mummies, and emerges with the thigh bone.  Examining it, he sees that it is hollow.Bax remains at the stairs for the duration of the night patiently breathing through the a hollowed out femur of a lizardman mummy while Nytor regains his spells.</blockquote>

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