Abyss Modified Session 15: Off Pudding

*OUT OF THE ABYSS SPOILERS AHEAD* 

Our party made plans with the deep gnome council and it was decided they would sneak in and take out the Pudding King and hopefully with his destruction send the oozes into chaos. The rest of Blingdenstone would attempt to fight the oozes in the tunnels. They were granted the use of an earth elemental as a reward for clearing out the deep gnome temple, and with it the party made their way into a secret tunnel section the wererats knew about, coming out near to the Pudding King’s sanctum. 

Dinak scouted ahead of the group and found a larger mass of darkness in a small side chamber and two oddly placed small pools. He cast dancing light on the darkness, which turned out to be a black pudding and the two pools and they turned out to be gray oozes. The ooze slowly rushed the party, attempting to lash out with pseudopods, but the party was too dexterous. Within short order Orion destroyed one of the gray oozes and the party took out the rest. 

They listened the way they came and could hear more things moving in the dark and headed the way the wererats told them to go, Dinak quickly finding another ooze, a gelatinous ooze. He ran back to the rest of the group, letting Godric know about it after placing a few arrows into it. Godric attacked the cube, retreating back into a previous chamber, and from above him dropped another cube from a chute. Godric became incased in the second cube but Thelrum was able to teleport himself along with Godric away from the ooze, leaving a loud blast of thunder where they had been standing. Xanaphia blasted the other ooze with rays of frost, reducing its movements. They made quick work out of both of the cubes, having had previous experiences fighting such a monster, their elemental companion just stood back and watched in reserve.  

They crept along unnoticed by most of the tunnel oozes preparing for war and eventually made it to a chamber that the Pudding King was standing in the center of. his two children dropped from the ceiling and he laughed manically, taunted the party, and slipped through a crack in the floor, leaving the party to deal with his strange ooze children. His daughter attacked Orion with mental magics, but was mostly resisted and his son was instantly engaged by Orion and the earth elemental. The battle went south pretty quickly for the ooze siblings and victory was won for the party. 

They followed the tunnel leading to the Pudding King’s inner sanctum where he was waiting, cackling behind a slime covered throne. With a ramped pit between them and the king they launched a few ranged spells and attacks his way, a couple finding purchase. They sent their elemental across the room and it battered his throne away. The king dropped a cloud kill spell on the party while slithering across the floor as if his bones had become ooze. Hacking and coughing the group ran out of the cloud. Godric got off a hold person on the Pudding King and noticed an ochre jelly approaching him, slowly. The elemental brought down two dense fists against the small delusional gnome. 

As the elemental lifted its hands away black ichor followed, the king had transformed into a black pudding in death and started attacking. Xanaphia noticed a strange dark cloud drifting like mist around the room heading towards the elemental, and recognized Ogremoch’s bane for what it was, casting warding wind and approaching to cut it off, not expecting the wild surge. A new found doubled height came to Xanaphia, as well as reach. The elemental became possessed and the party was now fighting two oozes and the elemental. The oozes were quickly defeated and Ogremoch’s bane driven away and defeated as well. The party returned to town and found only a few gnomes fell in combat, the oozes were driven off when the Pudding King died, and peace for the moment had returned to Blingdenstone.