Alice will be immune to the instant death and no one likes Alice by world settings, including dismemberment squirrels. It's an ideal ring for Alice, just store it in your slime core.

So if I go down while wearing the ring, do I liquefy and spill my guts losing all equipment (including the ring) or not?

Could Cat make jagged bolts with her smiths skill? She doesn't have tools I guess.

Learning about the ring's side effects bit by bit, Cat respectfully returns it to Yulya and reminds herself not to carelessly accept magic items anymore



Nyaa let's get back to the tent and rest Nya before going deeper Nya!
Cat inspects the meager loot and decides to take more heavy crossbow bolts with her. She hones her sword and after resting cooks another meal from snake meat

"First of all, the elevator wasn't up, Cat and the angel girl posessing my body pulled it up. I have a vague memory of it. Next, there's a set of stairs heading down, survivors may have gone that way. Next, the area wasn't open, someone hastily put a rickety bridge to get to this side, and orher than the ancient structure that doesn't match anything else, we can't pressume the dwarves were here. They plausiblly don't know about the underdark passage, and if they didn't know the ghouls were here, they'd have died to them if they came down here. They just recently started working with this mine, they haven't started mining in bulk, they probably spent all the last couple years just rebuilding the entrance and the first level which looks recent as compared to down here that looks untouched old, and this section looks untouched, with no false floors over the crevases. Add that to the pristine ecosystem in what is clearly a washout for tools, my theory is they didn't come down here in a hundred years. They maybe read the warning and said, 'someone' needs to check it out. Also they probably don't know the mine at all since they were unwilling to do anything without the map." Deep breath, "I'm out of mana, I need to relax, no buzzies today."



I'll be in the tent.

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Yulya returns up the ladders to the southern end of the mushroom cave, She feels something important has been omitted from the Badger ring manual and confirms the effect with Ashley
Uh Cat be sure to use this ring only twice per day! Then give it to Alice!

The hole was fresh. I looked at it thoroughly. No signs of erosion or oxidation. There are 2 types of beam holes here. Ancient ones an fresh ones. The ancient ones don't fit the fresh rock we found on the road and the fresh ones here were made a day ago. Soo - Sherlock Alice concludes that there must have been 3 separate beaming events. One a long time ago here, one when we went back to Phandalin and one a day ago. Possibly to scare off that bear we encountered.
On top of that, the rock we found didn't look like it was lying out there for ages. Someone would have found it. Eventually people like Daran would have heard about it and wondered what magic caused this. And that dwarf would have recognized a rock from his own mine I'd say, even if drunk to the point of alcohol poisoning. So whoever makes those beams isn't a monster from this mine but someone who's capable of walking around outside in civilization. Probably a wizard unless we have guys with laser weapons here as I said.

Yulya is not entirely convinced.
As far as I recall Sir Nundro said such rock would be encountered in the mine. Still it eludes me why someone would carry it to a road outside of Phandalin. Yet there is something even more concerning. Sir Nundro was unfamiliar with this type of damage. Meaning he had never been here. Nobody ever mentioned Mycoids either. How is this possible? Was this area sealed off? I see only two possibilities. Either the Rockseeker brothers are very unfamiliar with their mine - or they intentionally withheld this information from us...

We blocked the elevator. Unless any survivors climbed to another level or flat out teleported - I guess a beam wizard could, they should not have been able to leave this level. Weird.

You are correct, I had not considered this! Nobody should have been able to leave this level of the mine after we entered. However the elevator was up when we arrived. Someone must have survived and come up. I cannot really make sense of anything that is happening here. I will leave it to Ashley to send a wasp to investigate or not.