"Why should we. We know the monsters are in this room. So let's go in and kick some asses."
He casts shield on himself and asks Jimmy "Ready?"
"Whatever is in there knows we are here, we don't want them sneaking up behind us later so it is best to do it now. I will clear right, you clear left?" Jimmy asks Abomentolor as he readies to run into the room
"Ok. Last one in is a lame duck" Abomentolor replies and casts another spell and moves to the door taking a peek in.
Gwenhwyfar gets her new toy out. The first one showing his head will have bad luck.
Jimmy does the same to the right of the door
Abomentolor walks in and is greeted with the nets of two giant spiders
and ends up entangled.
Abomentolor drags himself further to come into reach of these miserable wearers of exoskeletons and opens his mouth, but this time not to cuss, but to breath fire.
The flames where rather underwhelming but the spiders didn't react in time. Also all the webs in the cone of fire are burning and the fire moves slowly onward up to the ceiling.
When Jimmy enters the third spider shoots another net.
Entangling him too.
Jimmy moves to the spider and attempts to end its life
And another spider is really unhappy.
Tauriell waits until everything waiting for intruders is done with their attacks and then steps into the room to plant an arrow.
One of Abomentolors spiders drop dead.
Gwenhwyfar renews the ward on Jimmy.
One spider throws itself at Abomentolor trying to bite him.
The other one attacks Jimmy
"Dammit you evil piece of" but his cursing interferes with his fire breath so he douses the spider in flames instead of words.
The spider evades most of the flames this time.
Tauriell enjoys not standing in the front line and shoots Abomentolor's spider.
Jimmy stabs his spider again.
Finally the last two spiders are no more. On closer inspection these three were busy feeding on the giant spider the group killed last time. This room seems to be only some entrance hall as it consists mainly of a flight of stairs leading in and another set leading out to the next door.
To the left and to the right are 'secret' doors. These are obviously not made for medium creatures as they are far too small. Only Abomentolor and Niamh might fit through upright if they are careful with their head.
"Where the hell do all these bloody spiders keep coming from?"
"Maybe from the other floor we didn't explore so far."
"Or someone with hands opened the door for them. Last time we were here I shot a mite. They are known for keeping vermin as pets."
"There are little 'doors' at each side of this room. Maybe we find out there?"
"Sounds like a plan to me."
"Want to crawl in or should I go first?" Abomentolor asks a bit amused by the thought of Jimmy squeezing through the small opening.
"I shall crawl after you perhaps?"
"Ok. You follow me." Abomentolor opens the secret door and walks in.
Jimmy crawls behind him
The 'door' which is mostly a board in the same color of the wall standing in front of it reveals a small tunnel. Walking through it for about 20 feet leads Abomentolor into a roughly hewn out cave where six small and ugly mites chisel away.
Abomentolor renews his light and takes a closer look at these miserable creatures. "Jimmy, I hope it isn't beyond you to hit persons smaller than you."
The mites start throwing darts at Abomentolor.
But none of them hits.
"I hope you don't mean I should stab you, because you are the only small person I see right now."
"Just wait until you're out here. There are lots of them." Not wanting to wait until Jimmy comes out eventually he casts another fire breath and coughs fire on three of the miserable creatures.
The three mites are burnt to charcoal. The rest of the mites run around in panic and try to disappear through an even smaller tunnel.
One mite escapes.
As the noise of battle comes back through the tunnel Gwenhwyfar becomes worried. "Are you ok there? Do you need help?"
Abomentolor runs after one of the mites "Will you stay here and die already." He breathes another cloud of fire after the mite.
This mites life candle has also burned to he end. The remaining mite runs into the tunnel where Abomentolor came from and runs into Jimmy.
"Abomentolor seems to be handling things quite well." Jimmy shouts back
"Splat" is the only noise the mite makes as Jimmy smashes it like vermin.
The mite that fled the other direction comes into the room where the rest of the party waits "Eeeeeeek!" it says and turns around running the other direction.
"Thuk...Foomp" are the noises that follow, as the mite is hit by an arrow and drops to the ground.
"You work sloppily. They come around the corner here." Tauriell calls in the direction of the tunnel.
Niamh is bored and walks downstairs to find the others. But she only finds Carl and Ernard. "Do you know were the others are?" Niamh asks them.
"They went downstairs to hunt some monster or something." Carl replies. He then continues to try together with Ernard to close at least one of the big hot metal doors.
So Niamh walks downstairs too. "Where are you?" Niamh shouts into the dark before she lets some lights levitate a few steps in front of her.
Out of the next room three lights fly through the door and merge together to form an arrow pointing back at the door.
"Oh, that's nice." Niamh walks to she room and stops in front of the door. She then walks around the death mite. "Hello again." Niamh says a bit upset that she is too late. Again.
"No need to be upset. I'm sure the next door has another surprise for us. Do you want to go in first for a change?" Tauriell comforts Niamh.
Niamh takes a deep breath to tell Tauriell that she won't but then she changes her mind. "Okay." The lights dances into the room as she opens the big door.
Pillars run down the center of this hall to an alcove at chest height at either end. The eastern alcove holds a silver statuette, while the western one holds an upside down ogre’s skull.
On top of the ogre skull sit an unusually large mite (which is almost the size of Abomentolor). It wears a crimson cloak with a golden trim and something like a crown on his head. "Hey you over there. Come here. Are you the heroes I sent for?" The creature shouts over the room.
"Jimmy come back out quick. Stupidity has taken the lead in our group again." Tauriell calls into the tunnel.
"Yes, we are. My ...uhm,king." Niamh shouts back. "Are we allowed to come in?" Niamh asks and bows.
"Yeah, yeah, come here. I have a task for you." the king replies.
Niamh bows again and whispers really quiet a message for the others. So they know who is sitting in front of Niamh. She then walks toward him and stands with a respectful distance in front of him.