Call of the Netherdeep Volume 9

 We go into a room, which has some abyssal that I read. We have to drop some precious things in a vase for the door to open up. 

The northwest wall has a message that reads "To me, touch your hand. To me, relinquish hope. To you, accept death. To you, invite hollowness."

The vase has a message that says, "Cast that which you value into Oblivion"

We go up to another room with a large stained glass wall with nine symbols on it and a maelstorm of colours. There are beziers with pale flames that look like dancing skeletons. The symbols seem to be faintly moving on the stained glass wall. 

Woolf dances first and a sigil of spider lights up. Rangu does a horrible dance, the creature follows, and a bleeding eye symbol above the spider symbol starts moving. Yazhi and Rara make their way to the two remaining flaming braziers. Yazhi has a fit, the flames try to keep up, and our shadows flicker violently. 

The jagged spiral gets lit up. There is one flame remaining. Jazco then goes up to a brazier, and starts to dance. The trio of arms light up. An unseen door opens after four symbols are lit up. Rara spots another door. Rangu makes El Cato walk through a door that opens up. On exploring a bit, he distrubs a hydbrid drow-spider's nest, and four of them come charging up behind him as he flees them back towards us. We roll for initiative. Jazco slashes one of them with their rapier as the spider comes out. Woolf readies their crossbow. Yazhi does some damage. I get out my meteors and smash two of them between two spiders, dealing a "decent" amount of damage. Then, Rara attacks, cursing them and then attacking them. Rangu deals some paper cut damage. It is another round of attacks for the rest of us. Jazco kind of hides. Woolf switches back to the musical instrument. Yazhi deals some damage, and so do I. Then Rara does some complex math damage, dealing 32 points of damage. The second drow-spider looks pretty weak after taking a barrage of arrows from an extremely disfigured woman. Rangu then blocks the doorway with tentacles. 

The invisible Jazco attacks with their rapier. Does a cool summersault that nobody sees, I just see puffs of dust. Jazco attacks, and then hides, thinking they are pretty hidden. The spiders attack. Yazhi and Rara almost die, but a spider and a drow-spider hybrid go down. I take down one of the spiders with a meteor, bursting its cocoon full of babby spiders that run away and burn up. I shed a tear. Rangu steps ahead of Yazhi and attacks the remaining drow-spder hybrid. Jazco slashes D1 wth a coccoon. 

We eventually manage to kill them all. 

Dream Diary who am I edition?

This was another recurring dream, one of eating familiar food from Karnataka, this time was missing beans, typical other dishes include sandige, akki roti and kosambari. 

Was in a large submarine cruise ship that was capable of intergalactic travel. So, it was an intergalactic submarine cruise ship, which had an amusement park inside, and many areas of food courts, including food courts with stalls, and all of them were free, so on the way out, when everyone was leaving, I was finding tables to continue to eat free food till the staff was serving it. 

There was a pool, in which we tried to breed some very dangerous monsters, that were used to populate a zoo with creatures from many worlds. 

The thing was, for a part of the dream, I was not myself. I became another passenger on the ship that was disappointed in one of the experiments on board, and I felt bad for them. Then, yet another entity said that it was only humans with great compassion that can be stripped of their identities, however temporarily, and said good job. 

In fact, the realisation that I was not myself was what forced me to wake up. The other person, and the entity, are both in my head, so wondering what aspects of myself are those.