==Durmokh Dumrhysson==
Finish scraping the goop off. Is it reacting, or did it react noticeably with me?
Sorry about that.
((Hmm... if if the soapy goo didn't react with our skin, we may have found a way of dealing with the spill. It would make more of a mess, but it would probably be easier to clean up afterwards than the horribly corrosive goo.))
The greenish brown goop (the unmodified stuff) stings and discolors your fingers. You haven't come into contact with large amounts yet, but you feel like you shouldn't leave this stuff on yourself for long. the pink slime tingles and seems to settle into your skin a little. You can't tell what, if anything, it does. the black slime doesn't seem to do anything.
I've done my job as cat herder simply by getting tentacles to BubbleCon, I go back towards the shoreline and begin the search for the wayward shapeshifting kid.
((part of why I'm a cat right now is for the sense of smell by the way, I'm no bloodhound, but it's still a huge upgrade and can be used for tracking.))
You head to the shore, and find some tracks that look like the metal squares that Reggie's feet were when he wandered off. Unfortunately, they head into town and you lose them on the hader packed earth. You never do pick up a scent from Reggie though., and are having trouble trackign any of the team via smell due to the overpowering smell of the sludge. It's not strong enough out here to bother you, but it get's in your nose and kinda lingers. You do track the snake, which seems to have come back to the shore for some reason. The same guy is staring at the roof of a delightfully smelling little shop, and you glance up, seeing the snake woman on top, spread out like a drying coat.
hmmmm I'll swing my head towards each path 10 times and wherever my head is pointing at the end I'll go.
Reggy randomly chooses one of the paths
You head down one of the paths. A short while later, you come to another similar split. the right side leads into what looks like a slightly more overgrown part of the woods., with the trees along the sides reaching their branches over it to form a sort of tunnel, and the other winds away, looking like it rises up a bit as it passes around a bend.
Keep hold of alchemist, snap fingers in front of him to get his attention and say the below
"Alchemist, pay attention. This one and his scaly organic companion have hauled you out of the sludge. This one and his organic companion were sent to clean up said goop. This one is probably not wrong in saying that the goop is your fault, organic, so tell this one everything you know about it so that we can clean it up."
the man's gaze sharpens. the look of fear does not leave his face, but he starts talking. "it wasn't supposed to happen. I'm not sure, but it looks like the solvent leaked through the tank and spilled onto the tar. It ate the entire store room. all my ingredients, ruined! I .. I haven't had time to analyze it properly, but it eats wood and flesh, and seems indifferent to fire and ice. Oh, you can freeze chunks of it, but they melt back into the same stuff. Birds keep dropping into it, too. I think I saw a rat swiming in there. It looked ... I was going in after specimens when the sludge started pulling me under.
...
Why is the air full of bubbles? An Elevation mechanism! Brilliant! I just need a framework like Colluds Cnstruction or Mefeezles Molding ..." the man begins to ramble about constructing something, or alchemating something, or something.
Ssslavina ssuddenly realises that sshe doesn't really have to deal with thisss crap.
She glances at clunkers. "Looksss like you've got thiss covered. laterssss."
Before hastily ssslithering away.
Go find a nice roof to ssssunbathe in until someone with actual authority (AKA not a PC) tellss me to do otherwise.
You slither away from the remnants of the team and find a roof over a small fish cookery overlooking the little lake, and leap up there. It smells nice, like cooking fish. A man on the shore stares at you blankly for some time, his hand idly reaching for something nearby, and a bucket of fish guts strewn across the ground a dozen feet away.
=="Terrence", team II==
Nope. No I do not.
Instead, explore the village a bit. Is it mostly just houses, or is there anything interesting around?
What might interest a terrapode? It's a quaint village with a few minor shops and a marketplace. there is a small industrial center off in it's own little quarter with a smithy covered in goo, an alchemist's lab, covered in goo, a tannery covered in goo and a leaning silo covered in goo. there's a lake one could almost describe as pretty, if not for the swampy smell and coating of scum around the edges, and a minor little stream trickling through the village. there's even a permanent little footbridge over the stream at one point. You find three shrines also.