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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1072120" data-attributes="member: 1210">VuivuiThe party acts fast, with weapons clearing scabbards and spells flying to mind, but they aren't trying to fight here; so it's really Malford who seizes the initiative here."Peace!" he calls, hoping fervently his wingtips of diplomacy will come through, and so they do.*  "We come to beg of boon of great Vuivui, I have encountered him before!" There's a momentary hesitation and the two chaos beasts sunk back into the organic-seeming wall of the Squirmhall.  Our heroes look to Malford in amazement, who merely smiles and turns back to the search.  The party waits for the bookcase to become visible, and though it briefly does from time to time, it's only for an instant.  Finally growing impatient, Angelfire digs or it, bracing himself against the forces that course through him as he does so, and he forces open an area of skin that does indeed cover a bookcase hosting a single book.Quickly our heroes retrieve the book and ascertain that it contains a ritual that will summon Vuivui himself to the Squirmhall, and they determine to use it.  Lester reads the magical words out while Sybele stops Vuivui's name from causing trouble, and soon the room fairly churns with power.  And then Vuivui arrives- a great slaad lord, currently tinged with pink and violet.  He stares placidly at the heroes.  "Vuivui," Lester calls to the looming frog-thing, "we have incurred the great wrath of powerful enemies, who have laid a curse upon us that we'll be attacked when it great distress!  We beg your aid- we understand you can help us.  Will you lift this curse?"In response, the great slaad's tongue shoots out and sticks to Lester.  He gazes dumbly at it for an instant, then is jerked straightaway into Vuivui's mouth.  Vuivui's throat works once, and Lester is down the hatch."Er, that's not exactly what we meant," Malford begins.  Vuivui seems to contemplate the small gnome for a moment before deciding he's bite sized, and then his tongue shoots out and sticks to Malford.  With a yelp of surprise, the gnome-king finds himself drawn into the slaad's mouth and, in one great convulsive grunt, swallowed whole."Uh-" says Sybele, and the rest of the party looks on in shock.  "Oh crap," mutters Orbius, and indeed, the slaad seems to be giving him the eye.  Should he fight back?  Cast a spell?  Or..."Maybe it's part of the process," Sybele reasons, and then Orbius is in the mouth; without hesitation, it consumes the huge archer next.  "I don't know about this- OH CRAP!!" Thrush cries.*Malford got a 50 on his Diplomacy check.  That certainly set me back a moment.Next Time: The aftermath of the Vuivui incident!</blockquote>

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