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Message: <blockquote data-quote="War Golem" data-source="post: 1061098" data-attributes="member: 142">Next up, the party finds themselves scattered around a large cavern, half of which is taken up by a large natural pool. A light shies from within its depths. Six, whose currently has wings from her mask, flies out above the pool to get a better look, but Heian (whose mask has turned him into an aquatic creature) dives into the pool and heads straight for the light.The pool erupts, as a monstrously huge tentacled ooze creature lifts out of the pool, crawling on to shore and striking out at Six. The creature is seemingly created from the very essence of chaos, and the room warps and shifts all around the party as they try to fight the beats. Portals appear frequently and at random and try to suck various adventurers through to unknown destinations. At some point during the battle, Blade fails to pull away from a portal and is sucked through and lost.The creature's tentacle is an attack to be feared - it rarely misses, and when it hits, the raw chaos energy inflicts horrible transformations upon the target. The party lucks out at Mugo's expense when the tentacle latches onto Mugo's face and doesn't let go for several rounds. There isn't much left of poor Mugo by the time the beast releases his unconscious body, but what is left has been polymorphed into a sickly looking mind flayer.The light at the bottom of the pool is from the glowing diamond set atop a staff. Heian grabs the staff, and immediately "knows" that he now holds the Staff of Law. To drive home the point, the staff inflicts some lawful damage on the chaotic good elf. But he holds onto it, and brings it back to the surface. He tries to give it to Kimchee to use against the chaos beast, but there is some confusion about who is supposed to do what with the staff, and in the end it is never used on the beast.The party does manage to finally slay the creature, mostly through some constant heavy pounding with melee attacks. Upon its death, it dissolves and flows back down into the pool, which begins to slowly drain away. Meanwhile, the party examines the Staff of Law some more, and many people handle it, all of whom take lawful damage upon touching it save Falko. The party realizes that using the Staff of Law can remove some of the chaos effects they have suffered, albeit at the cost of some of the life essence.Before too long, the pool has completely drained away, revealing an iron door that was previously submerged. The party opens it and passes though into a smaller room with a spiral staircase on the far side that leads up. Upon entering this room, each of their masks unlatches itself from their heads, melts away into a flowing ooze that drips onto the floor and then pools in the center of the room. Runic script around the ooze puddle is deciphered to translate as "Consume, and Evolve." The party looks around at one another; no one is sure what to do next....</blockquote>

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