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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9746246" data-attributes="member: 27780">5 players present. They all continued to lay into Xhagevoxhab. On its turn, it let go of the wall it was clinging to and fell into the chasm, screaming obscenities in an unknown tongue as it went. Being genre-savvy enough to know that is far less certain death than you would think, the flying members of the party headed downwards as well. When it was about to hit the bottom, the fungus lord used Transport Through Plants to escape through the layer of fungus its minions had made in the bottom of the chasm, escaping them for now. The winged kobold got infected by the cloud of spores left in its wake and needed ministration from the priestesses whip to clear it up, but the others were fine. When it became obvious that their main target had got away, everyone except the binder headed back up to talk to the drow and figure out their next move. The binder stayed down there a little longer, shredding the remaining minions, who whispered to her as she killed them, trying to secretly persuade her to switch sides, but she was having none of it. (although she didn't tell the other players afterwards either) After a little more exchanging info with the drow on the timeline of their siege and what exactly they were being attacked by, the PC's wanted to press on straight away, which meant the drow didn't want to follow them, because they'd already depleted most of their spells on previous waves of attackers. They decided that teleporting straight to the portal would be a good bet, although it would mean casting a bunch of spells to improve their swimming abilities, since that had been an issue last time they fought it down there. So they spent a good half an hour figuring out exactly what order to cast their buffs in before teleporting over fully prepared for a fight. When they got there, it turned out they had guessed wrong. The fungus lord was not by the portal. (and having cast that spell for the day, couldn't simply teleport over there either when his minions sensed them.) However, as they'd scouted earlier, there was a steady stream of lesser fungus creatures coming out of the portal and heading up the many floors of the temple to the surface. These immediately moved to attack the PC's, except for the sniper who was invisible and blinking as usual. While they were busy mowing them down, he slipped through the portal. A brief moment of gravity inverting disorientation later and he found himself in a room near identical to the one before, only better maintained and even more heavily covered in fungus, with the minions heading towards the portal instead of away. More important than the physical differences were the spiritual ones. The place felt stale, like a room that has been sealed off for years and only just opened again. He got an even bigger clue just how far they were from Kansas now when he Blinked. Instead of the familiar grey mists of the ethereal plane, he had a momentary experience of a realm that was a fleshy parody of the world around him that tore at his sanity. Still, he passed his will save and didn't feel any lasting effects, so he knew that at least this place wouldn't kill them instantly. He popped back through the portal and told the others to come through. Since fighting their way through a seemingly endless stream of weak minions would eat up a ton of time, the drow summoned a water elemental and everyone else hung on as they whizzed up through the various levels of the temple, eating attacks of opportunity along the way but only taking minor damage. The pattern continued when they reached the surface where J'bulgolboth was in their world, with the city also looking similar but also much more maintained, with the temple of Blibdoolpoolp replaced by a massive statue to the glory of Xhagevoxhab. There were plenty more fungus creatures here, all of which started to converge upon them. Most of the group set out to cause as much destruction as they could, except the sniper who once again thought more strategically than the rest. Reasoning that if the geography had been similar so far, he could probably safely teleport to the peak of the mountain to get a better idea of what was going on in the world outside. There, he found only an icy peak where the yak-men monastery was on their world. Looking down, he saw a city gathered around the base of the mountain where there was only wilderness, all covered in the hues of the scarlet fungus. But biggest difference of all was the sun. Instead of the familiar yellow sun there was a deep red one that was obviously putting out more than enough heat to keep the world comfortable, but was lacking the higher frequencies that harmed both the fungus and kobold eyes. He contemplated this for a couple of rounds before teleporting back down to the others, who were still having fun and not taking any significant damage except for the binder, who had also made the mistake of trying to Blink here and lost half her Wisdom score in a single go. Realising that this was an out of context problem for them and staying to fight would eventually wear them down no matter how much stronger they were than the individual enemies, they decided to fall back and do some research. They all teleported back down to the portal room and went back to their side, the githyanki cast an extended Forcecage in the hope of stemming the flow of enemies for a couple of days and at least delaying Xhagevoxhab's spread a little more, then they headed back to the astral plane to report in and do some shopping in the hope of being able to better track it's movements. They wracked their brains to see if anyone had heard anything about this, but the only hint they got was recalling the tale that that extinguishing the sun or changing it to be more comfortable to their eyes was one of the biggest illithid pipe dreams, a puzzle even their prodigious brains had never been able to crack. But what if they had, wherever this was? That leaves them room to speculate and plan for a full two weeks, since unfortunately I'm busy next Sunday. Hopefully there'll be plenty of interesting chat in the Discord in the intervening time.</blockquote>

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