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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1884804" data-attributes="member: 1891">Cupric continues diploming the weasels, while one of them cowers and listens, and the other one wishes the rest of its head were still around.Down below, Artemis makes Tal comfortable, and then gets back into character and steals his rope. Tossed up to the bridge, this allows the Follies to group up at ground level in short order.Keeping a backwards eye on the weasels, Artemis looks for treasure in the cube's "remains" -- and finds nothing but goop. Cupric comes over, still addressing the weasels as he picks his way across the floor, and uses the cure light wounds wand on Tal, and then on the more grievously wounded weasel.As its flesh and fur knit back together, it stops squealing and looks at Cupric. While Marduke climbs down the rope to join the party, Cupric settles onto a small heap of rubble and starts talking to the weasels in earnest. Both of them give him their rapt attention, more or less ignoring everyone else in the room -- except for the occasional faceted glance at Artemis, bearer of the unabsorbable explosive blast spell.Getting a good look at them, the dreamborne now knows the nature of these beasts: they are spelleaters, thought to be extinct -- a thought that gladdens the hearts of wizards everywhere. They are a bane to anyone who casts spells, absorbing magic -- which is also their source of sustenance -- and able to counter it and return it to their foes. All in all, nasty little pieces of work.In their buzzing singsong voices, they explain that they stumbled into the chamber years ago, and found it to be the perfect site for a nest: few visitors, easy to defend, and of course they have the siphon (zzzziphon). Both are fiercely protective on this topic, and won't reveal details (at least, not yet), but it seems to be a bottomless food source.When the cube entered their little domain, they found that they could use it to their advantage -- which they have gleefully done to anyone that crossed their path. Until now, that is. Both seem exhausted, and very happy not to be dead, but they don't seem to communicate in the same way as people do -- many times, Cupric has to ask questions over again in slightly different ways.Apart from venturing into the "zzziphon's magnifizzent houzzze, the plazzze of the manyzztone claymen" (a chamber next door, by the sound of it), they haven't explored beyond their room. They came in through the large, now-broken, portal -- and it sounds like they might have broken it, by "eating" its magic. They have no idea they're in a tower.OOC: Two charges drained from the wand, netting +9 HP for Tal -- and in this case, causing his paralysis to wear off immediately -- and +7 HP for half-head weasel.I'd say this discussion takes about 5 minutes. Since we're in freeform mode, feel free to ask specific questions and do other stuff within that timeframe. We'll blend it all together until you're ready to move on.</blockquote>

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