We decided to head down to the caves below Cyoria. Benesk two years ago said that underneath Cyoria is a black room - a secret magic installation where experiments are done. We head through the sewers with Tavian to get to the caves. There are scrapes on the stone floor by the sewer. The scrapes are overlapping, but it looks like at least one large object was pushed. The scrapes go into the sewers, but not into the water. As we went through the sewers we saw a thin magical sheen blocking the way. We figured it was some sort of magical trigger, but that was all we could figure out. Milo tried to alter the spell so that the field would not trigger while we pass through it. This unstructured meta-magic succeeded! We came to a junction, one way to the crystal grotto, and a big drainage tunnel down the other. The crystals in the grotto are valuable, but they attract monsters. There are a ton of slugs sliming all over the crystals. There are five normal slugs and one dire slug. The slugs fire slime blobs at us, and we dodge!

We toss sun bolts, explosive fireballs, and rain rocks from the roof down on the slugs. Soulstice is slimed, and has all clothes and fur eaten away, barely staying alive. The slugs retreat, and we are killing the stragglers. Soulstice critically fails a flesh to ice, and slams it into Phaidros who had just gotten up behind him. Phaidros is knocked unconscious by the blast of cold. Milo continues to do unstructured magic, to varying degrees of success. Tavian decides to run and grab a crystal, while Phaidros just sits stunned and barely conscious. Milo tries to help Phaidros, and heals him slightly. He does this thrice. Phaidros weakly stands, and fails to summon anything. Milo punches at the dire slug’s eye stalk, and misses by a hair. Nothing happens. Phaidros finally conjures up a ball of light, and Milo notices this, does a double take, grabs it from Phaidros’ hand, and throws it at the dire slug, searing off a portion of it. The slug decides to peace out and Phaidros grabs a second crystal from the room but slices his hand wrenching it free. They stagger out through the sewers, only to hear yelling in common coming from the sewers ahead.