Dinnivan is dead

I Pazenga wrote what follows:

We traveled to a time unknown except we are closer back to our own time. Because we see the dead we just left a few minutes ago. As we started to look for the key we needed, we ran into a few small battles. First we avoided some traps then took on some cube creature that destroyed our cloths and weapons. Dinnivan and myself lost our clothes and Elarin lost his powerful long sword. Zed felt it was better for him to stay back so we would not have to fix him up because everything he had this creature would destroy. Between me attacking it with my hands, Din using his magic missiles and Elarin’s fire spells we were able to destroy it.

Dinnivan then suggested that I remove all my items because we would be fighting more slimes. We then ran into some strange zombies that we destroyed quickly. Then in the rest of the tunnels we found nothing but the grave of the King of the Hobgoblins we just left. It had some kind of spirit holding him there so that he talked to us and could help but he could not leave his tomb. We left to go back to a secret door that we found and had Zed destroy it. Then I scouted ahead and found an altar with a key which I removed with no problem. The next room had a well which I lowered a rope down into and it came back burned off. Then we heard noise and something came out of the well. We left the room and shut the door and I waited for the creature. It burned through the door and as soon as it did I attacked it. Each punch sent out acid drops which I had to dodge.

It seemed like it could not hit me and I only got hurt by the drops of acid I caused with each punch. It moved passed me to attack Din and Elarin instead and they got drops on them, too. Zed got into this battle and we soon deposed of it.

My great mistake came when I decided to check out the room behind us to the left. This created two black oozes and one went right thru me to attack Dinnivan. Zed did not enter this fight for a long time. Dinnivan told Elarin to cast fireballs on me hoping I would dodge them which I did and they hit the creatures. They were beating me and Dinnivan up but I was trapped. Din retreated for some healing and Elarin kept casting. Then it attacked Elarin but he and myself were able to kill one but I was badly injured without any healing left. I had cast the last of my healing just before the battle. I was almost dead but Elarin was fighting all alone. So, I decided to help him and at that time Din created some fire creature to help, too. The slime creature took out the fire creature on the next attack and I did one hit and left.

I should not have done that. Dinnivan was going to heal me but I saw Zed and thought we would all retreat to him and that the creature would attack Zed. But Dinnivan did not come all the way back as I thought and the creature killed him. That gave Elarin time to heal himself and make another strike and Zed did go in and destroy the ooze. We brought the remains of Din back to the King’s tomb and we are going to rest the night not knowing what to do next. I feel I should have died instead because I ran instead of fighting having a better chance to dodge the creature blow. Now we are lost without our leader.