Fighting Lurkers!

Yulia uses icicle to knock down the ones on the ceiling and they come crashing down. Unfortunately it turns out they do have other attacks as when they land, blocking access to Cherchiel or the Drow, one of them immediately spits out a number of tentacles that lash out and grab at Yulia, trying to drag her towards it. Goma manages to cut her free, as the rest also attack. Goma's dagger is surprisingly useful to cut away the tentacles, but there are a lot of them and Goma is quickly being overwhelmed and entangled by tentacles. Luckily this creates a distraction and Yulia manages to stab one of the lurkers to ****, which gets the other one to focus on her, tentacles lashing out and wrapping around her. With only one focused on Goma though Goma can fight back easier though and kills her attacker before helping to kill Yulia's as well. With those three done there's only the two trying to eat their captives. They try to use their tentacles to hold Yulia and Goma back. Yulia's rapier is pretty useless as a stabbing weapon against the tentacles, but Goma continues to easily slash through the tentacles with her dagger. After a bit Yulia tells Goma to focus on just trying to get Yulia closer so she can stab them. Goma does so and they manage to reach and kill the one trying to eat Cherchiel. With it dead the last one goes down easily as well.

With them dead, Yulia and Goma grab the Drow and Cherchiel, helping drag them back to the first area of the wild Deep. Cherchiel's outfit unfortunately has been almost completely destroyed and Yulia casts repair. The Drow woman's clothes appear to have been completely dissolved. She thanks them as she's helped out from under the dead lurker. Her nude form seemingly not bothering her. She grabs her sword and shield and wipes her white hair back behind her ears, "Sorry for the trouble. I was sent out to clean up and I was busy and forgot to keep watch on the ceilings," she admits.

"We're glad to help," Yulia says cheerfully, "So... what was that? You're here to clean?" she asks confused.

"Yes... My name is Isalia. Ever since you showed up Knocker has been going around and setting up traps for you. While he was alive he was attacking anyone who tried to get rid of the traps, but now that he's dead, thanks by the way, it's my job to clean up the remaining traps," she says.

"Oh... We ran into a bear trap earlier..." Cherchiel mentions a little bitterly.

"Ah sorry did I miss one? I'm really sorry!" she says. She has shoulder length straight white hair, green eyes, dark grey skin, a lithe toned body with grapefruit sized breasts with black nipples, her cunt similarly having thick black coloured labia, "I think there are more traps ahead... I'd like to go back and get some more clothes, but if you intend to keep exploring the wild deep, I can help you avoid more traps," she says.

Indeed Yulia and the rest didn't get to do much in regards to exploring the Alveare and would have to continue forward to either Air Regis, Aqua Fortis or The Alveare.

Lurkers

Difficulty: 10

Multiple enemies +5

Tentacles +5

Horn -2

Icicle -2

Rapier -5

Goma -2

Runed Dagger -2

Total Difficulty: 7

Roll: 10

(Health: 200%

Mana: 10%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Reinforced Monastic Scapular (Wet) , standard bra, Standard Panties, 3 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 1 syringe of poison, 1 syringe of adrenaline, 1 syringe of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of strong aerosolizing aphrodisiac, 8 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jug, 1 health potion, 4 mana potions, A boar mask, 4 vials of sticky white liquid, Ornate Rapier, 4 arrows, Quiver, God's Favour (Halo), 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Apples), Bone Spear, Demonic Spellbook, Ash's Quiver, 6 charm arrows, Smithing Ingredients (6 steel ingots), Incendiary grenade, 1 sack of cooking ingredients (Vegetables), Grenade Launcher, Empty Bandolier, Silver Staff, Spidersilk gown, Smithing Ingredients (3 silver ingots), 10 silver throwing knives.

Spells known: Great Heal (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Great Cure (Lvl 2, Mastered, Cost: 15%)

Energize (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 25%)

Icicle (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 15%)

Unlock (Lvl 1, Unmastered, Cost: 15%)

Repair (Lvl 1, Mastered, Cost: 5%-20% depending on factors)

Undermine (Lvl 1, Mastered, cost: 25%).

Life Drain (lvl 1, unmastered, cost: 5% per 1 Hp healed)

Fetish: Bondage Rank: 2, Masochism Rank: 1, Lesbian rank: 1, Submission Rank: 1

Status Effect: Permanent increase to physical attribute. Combat level raised to medium

Psychosexual Break: In order to deal with her trauma, Yulia has begun to subconsciously fetishize her experiences.

Deflowered: Virginity Lost, sexual experience changed to: Inexperienced, non-virgin.

Marked by The Abyss: Searching.

Companion: Cherchiel, Martin, Goma.

Cherchiel Equipment: Ultra Durable Spear, Ultra Durable Shield, Solanium Reinforced Bodysuit.

Goma Equipment: Runed Dagger, Hunting Horn, Reinforced and Nethicite Augmented Thick Hide Outfit.

Goma Mana: 100%

Goma spells known: Heal (Mastered, 15%)

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