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the dancing lights dart around near the spider, but it doesn't respond. As people draw closer, there's a soft noise.
the drow hobbles along, staying close to azlana. The elf decides to insist that
"you should check and see if it's alive, if it isn't moving."
unaware that's already what's going on. Horgus...
"ugh. It's so big and nasty."
Azlana gives some arrows to Anvina, and makes sure she is going to be okay, and then they proceed to follow the others (Azlana's halo still giving off light).
When Azlana sees the spider she prepares to shoot it, but then sees that it isn't moving, and hears Lina ask if it is dead, so she waits.
Both Xexik and the Horror stop
"You k!now what to do..." he points to the spider, then he looks at those behind him "Stay back!"
With that, the Horror's arms reach out, freakishly long, and his claw tears at the spider
how many arrows are you giving her?
how many arrows are you giving her?
the drow goes wide eyed and happily accepts the arrows.
"th-thank you." she readies her bow at the spider.the horror's claws tear into the spider, but... not much happens, aside from the flesh of the spider being maimed.
"Open it" he instructs. With that the Horror tries to claw the wriggling belly open
Azlana walks forward and bends down to shine her light into the spider. What is in there?
out of the tear bursts two huge, writhing maggots, that get ready to start eating the new flesh they've found.
the elf startles at the noise. "what's going on?" the drow draws her bow, and gets ready to fire. horgus reels back. "disgusting!" as he retreats backwards a bit.
"Ugh!" Haruto exclaims.
He murmurs a quick incantation while tracing a star in the air, calling on the magic in his blood. A silvery bolt of energy lances out from his outstretched finder and strikes one of the maggots.
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Hanna tries to figure out what the creatures are before shrugging and charging the same one that Foxy shot with his spell, trying to finish it off quickly, one of her scarves unravel from around her slightly and she slings the edge towards the monster bug, drying to slice into it with the bladed edge using all of the momentum of her rapid approach
the maggot that came out first flinches at the magic missle then gets vut and writhes on the ground, bleeding out hemolymph, leaving only the slower bug.
His standing orders remain as the Horror lays into the last of the maggots
In one swift motion Lina draws her starknife and lunges at the maggot, driving the blade in deep.
the second maggot is utterly eviscerated, the bugs disposed of without so much as a scratch.
"what's going on!?" demands the elf.
Don't worry. We're just taking care of some vermin. We'll get moving soon says Azlana stepping back after being unneeded in the brief skirmish. Nothing to worry about.
"what athority do you have to tell me when we-"
aravashnial starts. anvina looks between azlana and aravashinal, and offers, "i can explain what's going on for you and stay near, so you can understand what they're doing." she interrupts the ranting elf, who pauses a moment. aravashnial starts to day something, but she says "... which I can do thanks to azlana's generous healing." she turns and looks at azlana a bit and smiles, doing her best to back her up in the eyes of the ornery elf.
horgus just groans and plugs his nose. "someone should do something about that smell." horgus complains.
Lothar looks around, finally taking stock of his surroundings. "If everybody can, we should move. We will need to find a way out of here and find out what happened, but unless it is actually important, silence will be our best option until we can get safe location. If one of you can keep the lights above and ahead of me, I can take point. Or if any of you are more comfortable in the dark," here Lothar gives an obvious stare at Xexik and his companion, "I can pretend to be point and you can take the real lead. As the elf mentioned, those injured or less physically-inclined should group together and let us act as primary targets for whatever we might find."
the elf seems to light up a bit.
Hanna nods at the words of the surprisingly diplomatic barbarian while she casts prestidigitation, intending to neutralize the smell, in order to shut up the whiny elf
"I shall stay with you, while it goes ahead of us" he motions with his head to the front, as the Horror takes up a position about 15ft ahead of Lothar
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Lina cleans her blade. She goes to Horgus and bows slightly. "I'm sorry, I did not introduce myself. Lina Weaver, I'm a crusader. I understand that this may all be difficult for a man of your stature, but I swear that I will do everything I can to get you, and everyone else here back to the surface, milord."
We're gonna get nowhere fast if he won't stop complaining about everything, is what she's thinking, but pushes down her disdain. She retrieves her dagger and offers it to Horgus. "I pray you won't need this, but as they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
horgus looks at the dagger a moment, then up to lina. "it... will have to do. I can promise all of you a reward if you can get me out of here alive.
Xexik, sighs, he hoped he could avoid using this, but everyone here seems to have some sort of problem with the dark. He couldn't see in the dark, no, but he had other senses that has helped him in his life. But now, well. Things have changed quickly. Adapt to your situation he was taught.
He puts a claw in his pocked and pulls out a necklace of some sort, he closes his eyes a bit, and suddenly the crystal begins to glow an eerie green and purple glow, he then puts it around his neck
"Now there is plenty of light to go around"
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"I can stay back with you, too," Haruto offers to Aravashnial. "I'm not any good in melee, and most of my magic works at a range."
Azlana follows Lothar.
Lina nods respectfully, then goes to Hanna and shows her one of the silver scales. "I found a few of these over in the rubble. You seem to have a talent for magic, do you know anything about dragon scales?"
Aravahnial nods. "that would be for the best." he says to ueto.
the drow does her best to keep her and aravahnial close behind azlana.
anvina looks to azlana again.
"Thank you again."
she turns to Lina, and whispers something to her, before turning to aravahnial again.
"What do you think about staying behind azlana?
the elf considers a moment.
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"huh, they seem to be enchanted.... I'm not a psychic but even I can feel the emotion just suffusing these things....." she goes quiet for a bit, possibly to collect herself. a dragon doesn't show weakness she thinks to herself before continuing there's enough magic in them though that they can act as scrolls but reusable.... two cloudwalks, one alter self, one resist energy and three align weapon..... for some reason they have that annoying magic resonance thing that keeps you from using more than like, two magic rings, so we should split them up. I'll take the cloud walk or resist energy. I'm not picky which one"
Azlana will slow down and stay with Anvina and Aravahnial, still following the party, but at a pace that the drow and the elf can maintain.
"there are two paths ahead, one to the left and one to the right. What one are we taking?" aravahnial pauses. "we should take the left one." he more or less commands, continuing to try and control the group.