Session #2: In the mine

The next morning, 8 Roggi, we explored the mine so we could recover the other miner and any company resources that we could recover.
 
They had excavated a tunnel. We followed one of the paths and came to a room with three more zombies. They must be the rest of the group. Unfortunately, they had all succumbed to the zombie fungus infection. We fought. Part way through the fight, a weird, dark blob attacked from the ceiling. Gan said it was a slime mold.
 
Slime molds can sense our motions even though it's blind. It can inflict slime rot--a disease that can take days to incubate. It's immune to critical hits, precision damage, and mental effects.
 
The slime mold was the most dangerous opponent. It knocked Ham out.
 
When we got Ham back on his feet, we looked around the room. They had been mining silver here. We recovered what they had mined so far and went to explore another path of the tunnel.
 
The tunnel led to a silver vein with a crack. We can see a room through the small hole. There were some pots and casks that had broken open, and there was fungus everywhere. There was also motion in the room. It seems that there were two fungus creatures shambling around.
 
We attacked the funguses so we could check out what's in there. They can crawl on the ceiling. One of them walloped me and knocked me out, but Ham woke me up pretty quick. Ham identified one as a fungal brute. We never figured out what the other one was, but it exploded a cloud of spores. We figure that that's what inflicted the fungal zombieness on the miners.
 
Nathaniel spent some time trying to treat our wounds. He nearly killed me with risky surgery.
 
We checked out the room. We found a bunch of gems in the urns & casks. We also found a wand of purify or putrify food and drink. It can do either one.
 
That seems to be the extent of the caves/tunnels. We took some data because the mine appears to be a viable source of silver: there are several silver veins. We spent a little time packing up the most valuable stuff (the gems and the silver), and then we headed back to Cowick. We arrived that evening.
 
There apparently was another attack while we were gone. The buildings are even more damaged, and there are no living people present. We can see the tracks of a bunch people were marched off to the north.
 
We decided to rest for the evening and head after the villagers in the morning.