Is the goop expanding too fast for people to escape it without a head start or is it slow enough to not pose a significant risk to human lives?
If slow: then I just continue to circle, keeping my distance from both the goop and its fumes, and continue observing.
If fast: I'll land near the local leader and shift into my natural form for a moment
"That goo just started growing fast! I don't know what made it mad, but you and everyone you care about should start running right now!"
Unless he calls out something to me in response, I'll be shifting right back into raven form and taking flight again afterwards.
it is expanding fast enough to be problematic, so you land, change, startling the fuck out of him, enough so that he looks right in your eyes the whole time you speak, after having gotten a good full body eyeful. Your words are punctuated by a crash from gooward, so he seems to take you pretty seriously. You fly off again, and circle. You see the man move out, shouting for people.
the goop currently is not near your painting's hiding place, but by the look of things, that spot will be at risk before the day is done.
Keep on trucking out of the goop. Grab hold of one of the alchemy vials I got and try to alchemy it up so the goop around me gets replaced by glass. Realize alchemy was a mistake for combat.
you continue to make progress, though the goo that clings to you seems intent on getting inside your joints and tearing you apart from inside. It's rather uncomfortable. You fish around for a vial and concentrate on it's glassness. The vial explodes in your hand, sending a wave of alchemic magic along your arm and across your torso. the goop it comes into contact with hardens, and becomes course sand. this does wonders for your joints, gears, and general outlook on life. "Aggravated statement: Alchemic mixtures interfere with alchemic reactions attempted on their containers. Self-directed notation: containers shall be emptied before attempting alchemic transmutations henceforth. Unnecessary irritable proclamation: damn all mages and their oppresive ignorance!"
Assuming Ebony is anywhere near that, she would run away from the goop. Unless it was going slow enough that walking would suffice.
Ebony was with the mayor, so she was there when Aylia made her proclamation. Gonna rescue those scrolls and spellbook before you dash?
Examine my surroundings. Take particular note of any and all exits, lootables, and people.
the exit you entered through is now oozing goop onto the floor. The door is opposite. there are no people here. as for loot, there are several household goods around, but the place seems strangely empty for some reason.And from the sound of wood being splintered very near by, should be made even emptier very soon.
"That's a chemical spill gaining sentience. Which is exactly the kind of thing that makes me not want to help you."
Get some distance away from the other human, and then counter his grip on my body by wrapping the rest of my body around him. His tactics seem woefully based around grappling beings that rely on legs, the silly human.
Terror seems to give this guy superhuman strength. He clings to your upper torso as if you were the onlyh thing keeping him from plummeting a thousand feet into a nest of very pointy and very angry spiderleopards. You just can't seem to get a good grip on him. the other guy is calling out for his friend and chasing along behind you, waving his arms about like he was trying to distract a rodeo bull.