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[NJW2000]

Sadly, the hand like crypt god is nowhere to be seen. Or maybe he just refuses to make himself perceptible, one can never be sure.

Oh, you're still being chased, by the way.

[ATHATH]

Speaking of flabort, what happened to him? I haven't seen him around lately.

[StrawBarrel]

Swim to the right if possible.

[NJW2000]

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Turn around and try to identify what is chasing us.

Oh sap.

No time to do anything else. You spin round, and confront it.

It's not a giant fish. Or an animated skeleton, or another Cobble mechanical monstrosity. In fact, it probably won't even try to kill you.

You are well and truly sapped. It's a sapping Alchemical Exorcist.

The alchemical bureaucracy send in these crazy, fearless spellcasters when they don't know what else to do. The sort of people who decided that bookhunting in an ordinary underwater catacomb chased by putrid beasts was too boring a life. If you can see an Alchemical Excorcist, you know you're in a pretty damn bad place. They're often sent as scouts, and have a startlingly high mortality rate, partially due to their obsession with "fixing" any problem they're sent to observe.

  You triple check. Yup, distinctive leather armour -and bell-staff, book shield and six-shot charm candle. They even have the oak tree transforming into snakes beneath a book symbol emblazoned on their trench coat, symbolising both the importance and danger of the written word.



"So are you going to keep running away from me and get yourself eaten, boy?"

The figure leans forward,their hood and veil still hiding their face.

"Or are you going to help me kill this damn thing?"

[StrawBarrel]

"What thing? Flabort? Or that limby thingy with balls on the ends of it's limbs over there?"

+1 Try to figure out what the person wants us to help kill. Introduce ourselves and inquire who the Alchemical Exorcist is.

[NJW2000]

"That's just one of the things that grows on it. No, we're after far bigger game."

"You mean you haven't worked it out yet? We've got a monster to hunt, and we're in it's belly. Now are you going to help me, or not?"

[StrawBarrel]

"We are?"

(which doorway did we go into again, in that 4 doorway choices thing?"

"Uh, so, what's this monster like?"

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[ATHATH]

"We are?"

(which doorway did we go into again, in that 4 doorway choices thing?"

"Uh, so, what's this monster like?"

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