After a hideous number of days, I have given up waiting for someone else to post.

The 'Taverners quailed before the giant sponge-like thing, in the sense that they made peeping noises. Until they learned what it could do, the giant sponge-like thing was possibly a force to be reckoned with.
"Who are you, oh giant sponge-like thing that does not seem in place?" asked Ducky, deciding she might be the best of them to talk to it, as it had come up behind her instead of any of the rest. However, the giant sponge-like thing did not give its name. It did not give its occupation. Or gender, mailing address, perfume company. It merely thwapped Ducky, waterlogging her, and.. moved foward, emitting a deep sound that sounded like "Kill... Lori.".
"Incredible!" cried BæÅüMÃ(-)Ñ, awestruck. "A significantly engorged sentient bathing apparatus with a built in desire to ventilate Lori!"
"Or a giant sponge-like thing who wants to kill Lori." said Haze, then leaped foward, swinging a bucket of glue madly. "Away, you cleanly beast!"
DDay looked inquiringly at Haze. "What's giong on?" he asked.
"Apparently," said Unknown Rabbit, "this creature who seems strangely out of place has come to the Lori Central forum with a wish to destroy everything portraying or otherwise related to Lori. And as we have no wish to let this forum be destroyed, for one thing it could slow our return, we are attempting to destroy or defeat in some other way the giant sponge-like thing."
"Oh." said DDay, as Firesword took a chop at the underside of TGS-LT, only to hit a section Haze had gluuied, and thus struggle to pull his blade free.
"I don't think this incredibly direct approach is working." said Rocky, watching Ducky batter TGS-LT with her now throughly wet TwiG. Already two statues were in ruins, and the thing was now replenishing its dampness from one of the fountains.
"And you have a better plan?" asked BæÅüMÃ(-)Ñ.
"We need some sort of super weapon. And a good source of them is right under our noses!" cried Rock, pointing down.
There sat Batty's backpack.

Glick.. sorry this is so short, but (as you might have noticed from my non-posting) I'm in a state of non-inspiration. Hopefully this will move the plot along enough so someone else can post..