It didn’t come out of his mouth, he’s got these large growths all over him, and as he buckled and shake, it kinda sloughed off.

Illi produces the medallion that she has and dispels the memory.  Brinden’s at the top of the ladder and Silas is below him.  William is at the base of the ladder.  Artemis, Brinden and Silas has an image flash into their heads.

They see a little girl that looks like Illi curled up and she’s using a wolf as a pillow.  It’s a pure white wolf and around her are a bunch of little wolves sleeping.  It’s nighttime and the wolf gets up and bites her on the ear and runs away, and Illi chases the wolf and they look like they’re playing.  She catches up to the wolf and bites it on the ear and they follow her.  There’s a sense of family and playfulness from the dream.  

The party experiences this as if they were there, and they feel the joy and playfulness, the camaraderie between the two and the familial bond.  Almost like… for Silas it’d be like looking into the eyes of Themis as she runs up to him after a long time of being away.  It’s that kind of very, very familiar family connection which might seem a little odd.  Artemis in particular recognize the wolf, not like its name or social security number, but she recognizes it as a particular breed.  Packs of these wolves run throughout the south woods around Loudwater.  She recognizes this because it’s around the area where she previously camped out and made home.  She’s familiar with these beasts, they are genuinely looked after in regards of protectors by farmers and stuff from surrounding villages because they’ve been known to hunt goblins.  So normally farmers see it as a good omen when they see packs of wolves prowling out, because it means they aren’t going to get ambushed.  It’s interesting, she doesn’t remember any elves rolling with these wolves, but it’s interesting.

It’s hard to tell a lot because the body language of this thing is still kinda sloughing off, but she sees based upon the reaction of the beast, after it deposited this icky thing on the ground, it did seem to shudder a bit under the compulsion of the wave and she sees its eyes raise to her.  It’s tough for her to see anything else.  Illi kneels down.

William is at the bottom of the ladder looking up, and he sees Silas’s tail lashing around.  Brinden is above Silas on the rungs.  He heard a shout from above in Illi’s voice.  He can’t really do anything at the moment, so he just stays at the bottom of the stairs, keeping an eye out to see what Brinden and Silas does.

After the first green glob burst, Artemis recognizes it as it appears to be, though she’s never seen anything like it before, a plant-like pod.  She surmises that this organic plant life bursted as a kind of defense mechanism.  Maybe she’s seen smaller flowers or such in the wild that behave similarly.  What she knows about this, because she suffered the effects of this mist as well, is how it works is when these things burst, they leave this kind of aura of mist that lasts around a game round before the mist dissipates and while in the mist, she feels this poison reacts to moisture, so anything she does to exert herself would probably cause sweat, which is what causes damage.  ((When she’s inside of the mist, every time she takes an action or movement, she will get hurt by acid)).  She knows this, no one else does right now, and she saw the wolf slough off another one a moment ago.  She imagine that the range is about five feet to cause the bursting reaction.  The mist from the first one finalized and dissipated.

Now that the area seems to be clear, Artemis is going to stealthily clear out the rest of the vines from the statue area.  She’s caught up in the desperation of the situation and realizes subtlety has gone out the fucking door.  Her scimitar has been unsheathed.  ((The statue falls apart and Artemis gets impaled by Rannok’s sword hon hon hon)).  She had previously cleared away about a quarter of the statue, as she slices across with her scimitar, she causes about a half more of the vines to fall off so there’s about a quarter left.  So she made a majority of the way through and can kinda see this etched in strange language that goes across the base.  It’s pretty large and pronounced.  Obviously, she can’t read it, but probably another good hit would clear off the rest of it.  She stays where she is.

Silas is behind the barbarian on the latter.  He experienced the memory, he heard a growling and a shimmy shake and a strange icky slimy splat on the ground.

Silas:  What’s going on up there?

Brinden is able to poke his head out and see a little bit.  He sees the large wolf thing, and describes it down to Silas.  

Brinden:  It’s not looking pretty.

Silas:  Does it look like Artemis has any of the thing cleared so we can see it?

Brinden:  Kinda just over halfway, maybe?  I’d say it’s hacked away, a little bit.

Silas:  Can we distract the wolf?  And have her get the rest of it off?  (looks at William)  William, if we get you up there, can you read that and then jump back down here?

William quickly shakes his head, looking terrified.

Silas:  We’ll keep the wolf away from you.  We’ll keep you safe.

William:  Promise?

Silas:  Promise.

William:  ...okay.

Silas isn’t able to go anywhere at the moment, but he tries to climb the barbarian.  Silas starts climbing up Brinden’s frame, making his way up the elven ladder.  Brinden was not expecting this to happen, and as the weight… and Silas is a fit person but he’s got a lot of armor… as he’s climbing up on Brinden, he’s reaching for the rung just beyond and slips a little bit.  Brinden feels Silas awkwardly grabbing on to his clavicle and pulling his arm off the rung.  Brinden grabs on to the rung with his other free arm.  Silas jerks against the barbarian’s frame ((hnnnnngh)).  With his free arm, Brinden grabs onto a rung and pushes Silas up past him with the rest of his strength.  Silas climbs out and positions himself and takes out his shield and javelin.  He lets Artemis and Illi know what the plan is.

Silas:  Clear off as much of the stone as you can and William’s gonna come up, run over, read it, and run back down.  And then we’re all gonna try to get out of here.  We’re gonna distract the wolf as long as we can and keep William safe.

Illi:  Maybe I can use food to distract it like Brinden did.

Silas:  Then do that.  I’m not sure it’ll work but we can try it.

Brinden takes a deep breath, things almost got real.  He finishes climbing up.  He’s dashing straight up to Silas, pretty enthusiastic even with a somewhat slit throat.  He’s still feeling somewhat pumped if but a little hesitant.  With this whole fiasco of climbing, he’s gonna get up there off the ladder and as he sees the wolf, he instinctively draws the wight’s sword.  He pulls it out and not quite seeing Silas yet as he hoisted himself out, but he’s gonna go forwards to take a step and move further up to Artemis who seems busy hacking and somewhat defend.  Sliding slowly across and front, and now he sees Silas as he’s looking around, checking everything.  He takes up a defensive posture.  He’s wholly focused on the wolf in front of him, he has a hard time reading a terrible, awful presence in front of him.  He catch the glimpse of the strange thing on the ground, that appears to be kind of pulsing, but he can’t make out much else about it, he has no idea what the hell it is.

The wolf’s eyes lock on Illi, but as these new presences start coming out from the hole, she sees him kinda cock his head one side to the other and start sneering, but locks back on her and she sees what’s left of the mane that’s mantling around his head and his haunches starts flaring up and his ears kinda go back and down and low and he’s kinda snarling a little bit.  She might not know these wolves, but she knows wolves and wolf body language.  And she knows the image she just put out there.  What he’s basically sending off right now is he recognizes Illi as a wolf.  And she’s on his territory.  He does not like that at all.  So his focus is on her and he starts pacing forward.  As he gets close, he’s going to stop.  Silas, Illi and Brinden even Artemis can see the gland on his neck start pulsing and throbbing and it almost becomes big like a bullfrog.  They can see that large thing grow and they see this large green goo extending in about a 15 foot cone towards the northeast.  It hits Brinden, Illi and Artemis.