Let's go west!
You enter a room about the same size as the last, with an archway on the north wall right next to the one on the east where you entered. In the southwest corner is a strange coil, which uncoils itself. It turns out to be a centipede about fourteen, maybe fifteen feet long. It looks hungry...
Clair look at the bear thing "I going this way, way, way far away from that."
Go south, cast PM spell once out of hearing.
Deciding to not go through the entrance the bear did, you head into the other south passageway. It turns left within ten feet, and fifteen feet after that there's a passage left, shortly followed by an arch into a much larger-looking room. You go [Heads] down the left passageway, walk 30 feet, and enter a room 15 feet wide by seventy or eighty feet long, with an archway to the west about a third of the way down, two further arches about as far on the east side, and an archway heading east at the far end of the room. A spider about the size of a wolf lays in the middle of the room, just beyond the arches, and rises. You can see some kind of armor under the spider. Nervous, you shout a spell. [10+3,4-2] You summon a chunk of pale metal, glowing with a weird dark bluish glow. The metal drips with a strange blue goop. The metal strikes the ground; both the goop and the glow seem to be damaging the floor, the goop more noticeably and noisily.
Record all words said so far
Follow my bear
Say WordsOfPower"
You pause to write a spell in his journal, alongside some other scrawlings. Following your bear, you enter a new room. It is fifteen feet from north wall to south, and over 50 feet from east to west; you're about halfway across. There are arches in the southeast and southwest corners, heading south and west, as well as another one near the far end of the north wall.
After this, you mutter [Heads] Shu'mow. (Note to self: Get new virtual coin.) [16+1+2,1!-2+2] (Oh dear...) A strange creature is summoned. It looks something like an eagle, but with a salamanderlike tail and similar slimy skin, covered with little delicate feathery projections. The creature also sports an extra pair of limbs, tipped with salamanderlike feet rather than the talons found on the hind legs, and a pair of spiderlike legs sprouting out of its beaked face like grotesque antennae. Each of its features is exquisitely formed, despite the horror of the whole. The beast shuffles its four feet and glares at Javier. It gargles out a screech, sounding mostly avian but with some amphibian as well.
Right, go inspect breastplates.
One is, as noted, made of flesh and connected to your consciousness. It turns when you approach--awkwardly; it has only a few more points of articulation than a normal breastplate. It brushes your mind.
Please, don't leave me here. I can only see through you, I can only act through you. Again, you note that it seems a lot like you. The other--the silvery one--has returned to floating. The centipede corpse underneath it shows almost no trauma whatsoever. You accidentally brush against it, flinching. Evidently, whatever slew the centipede does nothing to you.
"Phew, that was intense. Guys? Where are you all going?". Meus decided that it was best to stick togheter, and as the only person remaining in the room was a woman, he greeted her. "Hello. I'm Meus and I suggest that we work togheter to advoid being horribly murdered."
Inspect journal.
[16-2+2] You overcome your anger. As you chat with Jane, you idly retrieve the Elder's book. It does not include much of note.
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The group spreads out, encountering new beasts awakening and making ones where they weren't before.
The massive arthropods seem to be awakening from something, and the new, unnamed beast seems to be shaking something off...on the bright side, none of them does anything.
The bear, on the other hand, walks on west, trying to decide what archway to squish its bulk through next.-----
First order of business: That eagle/salamander/whatever thing? It's intelligent, and doesn't like Javier C. Wwolin? You're up.
Second order of business: I find it amusing that some of you are examining the journals. There is something to be gained by studying your starting gear, but not the journals.
Finally: There is a reason Javier is creating these monstrosities.
