"We are seeing a half-sunken pirate ship with skeletons," says Philippe just before a spell of his fizzles out due to not having a valid target. He doesn't react as if it's failed, though.

She dials out the fake light since it's not helping. "Sounds kind of neat. - that spell did not land on anything, it's humoring you. Should I try to kill the slimes?"

"—no, leave them there. Let us finish off the monsters we can see, there are only seven, no, ten more now."

One of the slimes casually slides up to Tristan and stretches out a sharp appendage to slice a precise cut across his left shoulder.

His tank protections resist it of course but even with them in place the cut goes pretty deep. "Putain de merde."

"That was a slime."

Simone's at his elbow as soon as there's not a skeleton there and patches it.

"I would know which, which of the skeletons is a complete fake? And which is a slime pretend?"

"I can't see the skeletons while I'm looking at the slimes but there's a slime direct ahead of you -"

That's useful!

The slime is a lot faster than it looks, and even when it's hit it doesn't take that much damage, going almost liquid for a moment.

"—it might be suspicious if we seem to know about the slimes. The dungeon."

"...ah, bien sûr, il faudra faire semblant qu'on y croit."

"Let us act normal so we don't draw its att—"

Philippe is getting sliced for his trouble.

"—connard !"

Most swings of Tristan's sword are slowed by a slime to some extent. Some seem to want to stimulate more solid hits than others, and he never seems surprised by the sensory feedback he gets from a hit so they're probably very well synced with the illusions.

It's really fascinating. She's not sure how they're not already pretty damn suspicious and she feels fairly useless... can she at least take pictures.

The Protean Dungeon is one that universally fries electronics but she could try and see how exactly it is that it does that?

"Five skeletons to go!" Philippe calls, despite the fact that the slimes are all still there and largely unharmed.

Yeah, if she pulls out her expendable dungeonphone what real thing happens to it.

One of the slimes quickly bounces over to her to tap it and release an electric current into it.

And it's too fast for her to dodge even when she can see it?

Yep.

"The slimes do electronics deactivation," she says, putting her phone back in her pocket. "They're fast."