They began swarming the group right as they arrived through the teleportation circle. They stood about 3 feet tall. The humanoid mushrooms had outlines that looked life angry faces their mouth areas producing a strange scream as they continued their aggressive maneuvers.
Skia looked surprised and immediately cast her invisibility shadow spell on the group. The mushrooms looked around confused trying to make out where they went and charged in a different direction toward the noise they heard.
"What were those things?" Nyssa looked around as she prepared for another potential attack. Doric floated above the buildings surrounding them and saw a horrible and yet beautiful sight.
A beautiful glowing city full of stone and runes. They seemed to be developed with the finest craftsmanship. The horrible part though was the large mushrooms and clouds that filled sections of the beautiful city. Fighting could be seen in multiple areas and one area, that looked like the center of town had a large fire started.
The town was in chaos and the trio slowly made their way towards the fighting to get a better idea of what was going on. Once they arrived towards the town center they saw what looked to be dwarves fighting the mushroom people.
"Hold the line! Don't let them advance any further!" one Dwarf yelled out as the rest yelled in unison. They used battle axes to chop away at the mushrooms but more kept coming. Occasionally one would get a blow in on a dwarf.
The trio looked at each other and then back at the fighting. "We need to help them. "Nyssa whispered as another mushroom was taken down.
"These things are strong, How do we handle this, Doric?" Skia asked keeping the invisibility spell up but looking a little drained in the process. "I don't have much time left before I have to stop the spell."
Doric waited a moment before speaking. The dwarves seem to have it under control but he did wonder what brought this on. He was about to tell the group to wait for the Dwarves to finish but before he could speak he heard the grunts of a few of the dwarven soldiers as they hit the ground. Coming from one of the buildings was a mushroom that was shooting spikes at the dwarves.
"We need to take care of that one so they can keep focusing on the fight at hand." Doric started moving towards the direction of the sniper. The rest followed behind and once they were away from the fighting group Skia let down the spell with a deep sigh. "Give me just a moment and I will catch up with you two."
They nodded and proceeded in the building. In the living room of this house were two mushroom soldiers. They saw the two enter and moaned in their weird language before starting to rush the two.
Doric used his telekinetic strength to push one of them back. It slammed into the wall dazed momentarily as the other one started rushing Nyssa. She moved out of the way between a table and it, pulling out a yellow/green potion and tossing it at the mushroom. It began dissolving the thing as it yelled out in pain.
This gave Doric enough time to use his powers to grab a sharp and long kitchen knife from the ground and swing it at the dazed mushroom. With enough strength to cut into the earthy flesh of the enemy, it eventually stopped moving.
The melted one stopped screaming as it slouched to the ground dead. Skia came rushing in winded but prepared to fight as she saw it had already ended. "Wow you guys took them out quick." she huffed as she tried catching her breath.
Doric looked up at the stairs and was surprised the sniper did not come down to check out the commotion. "Be on your guard, there might be more and I am pretty sure the sniper knows we are here."
They nodded and carefully made their way past the destroyed furniture towards the stairs. Doric decided to go first since he did not make noise as he went up the stairs and opened the door to see what was on the other side. To his relief, no monsters were waiting on the other side. Just a short hallway and a few rooms.
He looked back to his companions and moved his head to signal them to come up to his location. Once they got up there Doric whispered to Skia. "Think you can cast that spell just a little longer?"
She nodded and cast the invisibility spell once more. "I only have a few minutes so make it quick."
He moved towards the open door at the end of the hallway where the sniper was and peered in the room. The sniper was not there anymore. Looking around he saw a door open from the other end just a little as the sniper peered its hand out with a loaded spike. It was aimed for Nyssa.
"How could it tell where we are?" Doric thought to himself he wanted to react to stop the attack but he was too late. The sniper shot the spike at Nyssa hitting her leg. It pierced her skin and it looked like it stuck to it. Barbed with some kind of secretion that was quickly entering her.
She screamed and fell to the ground. Skia dropped the invisibility spell and immediately went on the offensive. She dashed towards the sniper who was regenerating the spike in his hand for another attack. It aimed for Skia's chest and as it shot she vanished into smoke.
Appearing behind the creature using a dagger she had been given by Onyx she stabbed the creature in the chest and twisted it. A black shadow surrounded the creature for a moment before it slumped to the ground.
The fight was over but now they had to tend to Nyssa. She was whimpering and beginning to fade out of consciousness as whatever poison the spike had did its work on her.