And into the dungeon.

"Largest concentration is that way - second-Lorica do you have a cape name and can you do further recon."

"Haven't picked one yet, and yeah I can run around looking at stuff while it can't see me."

"Temp name or should I just call you Second?"

"Is Traceless taken?"

"We can check later generally and use it for this dungeon. Can you report on the left tunnel - should be a curvy hallway with small side rooms with some slimes throughout and hostages in some of the side rooms."

"Acknowledged." In she goes.

There is the promised pathway with translucent slimes, colored green, blue and yellow. They each contain what looks like a brain inside of them. The yellow and a small number of green ones appear hollow and sometimes contain hostages. Getting closer to the blues causes May's backlash to increase faster. Numerous ordinary-looking bugs litter the walls and flit through the air, some caught in the slimes.

"What'd you need me for if you've bugged the place," mutters Traceless. She counts hostages and keeps going till she found a dead end.

"CAN'T SEE WHAT'S INSIDE THEM," say the bugs.

"Each ooze has a brain, the captives are in the yellow and occasionally green ones, the blues have I think more senses than the other colors because they backlash me faster when I'm near 'em! I can point out the ones with captives as I go - there, there, that one -"

"CAN YOU POINT AT A FEW OF EACH COLOR," the bugs request when she's done with that for the slimes in view.

"Green, green, blue, yellow yellow yellow, 'nother blue."

"GREEN IS ACID."

"Do you think it's safe for me to cut open a yellow one and take the prisoner out of it?"

"YES."

So May takes a knife to a yellow slime with a guy in it.

It closes back up around the cuts she makes quickly enough that this is difficult, but if she stabs the brain it'll deflate and stop doing that.

Yeah, she tries stabbing the brain after cutting it doesn't work. When the guy's carved out she picks him up - does he seem inclined to stand -

He does!

"Thanks what the hell where is this."

"Evil pocket dimension, they're a thing now. Let's get you out of here." She escorts him out the portal, flying him past oozes if necessary.

Taylor and Lucien can start clearing oozes themselves - his power isn't able to break them but he can make furrows that intersect near the brains, exposing them enough that bugs can take them out.

"The acidified people might need to be in the hospital as soon as they get out. Do you think you might be able to, like, pull people not to you but to another person you tagged, if I go to the hospital?" May asks Lucien.

"I don't think so - I might be able to have you tag other people and I can go to the hospital and pull them there?"

May holds out her hand to the nearest person who may have been listening to this conversation. Even though it's Skitter.

Touch.