Journal entry 4.2023.11.19

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Vectis, Grasshopper, and I are in a small room with a killer, fireball-tossing ballista. Grasshopper wisely flees. Vectis is able to do more damage than I with my useless non-magical sword. The ballista shot at me, missing once, and would have hit me the second time, almost point blank, if I hadn’t been able to deflect it with a shield spell. We followed Grasshopper’s example, fled the room, and shut the door. Everyone else continued to move on to open more doors. They do not seem to fear multiple fronts of attack at once. I advanced to the door in the south of the skeleton room and entered. Darien followed and looked at a crate, and was enveloped by a vampiric mist. Darien is protected by Warding Bond by Vectis and Protection from good and evil by Krix; the mist moves to Krix. It is resistant to necrotic damage, acid, and maybe lightning. Darien turns undead and the mist flees the room. Bolide and Ping Pong advance and start searching crates. In another room, Grasshopper finds a large bear skin rug and freaks out, flings a dart at it, and runs away. It seems Grasshopper has some previous rug-related trauma. Or it really is a murder rug. Several start to deal damage to the rug. The ballista seems to be trying to come through the door; Hergatz and Dalden go to spike the door shut, I helped.
Vectis advances from the mist room to the next room and an air elemental (?) appears, banging him into a wall. Rilitar goes to help. Ping Pong and Bolide use ranged attacks from the mist room. Darien advances into that room. Hergatz and Dalden leave the spiked door and leave the room at my advice; Dalden fled and then slammed the door in my face. I went to the next door instead, trying to get in to help those with the air elemental.
The air elemental disappeared. The murder rug is still, not moving, if it ever did. There is a locked garage type door, the only way out of this area, apparently. The door leads to a series of corridors heading south, each with a lever, cultist symbols, and a fire trap, repeating. We advance in stages then get suspicious it is a loop. Darien advances to Vectis to investigate, and a water elemental attacked, grappling and injuring them both. Attacks on the elemental were met with varying success. Rilitar ran up and pulled Vectis out, badly injured. I ran up and handed Vectis a healing potion. Darien is trapped inside the water elemental, drowning.