Talon looks surprised by the monster coming at him, slashing out twice at it before it latches onto him with its pincers.
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Talon enters cautiously, though probably not enough for when the filament suddenly latches onto him, he's taken off guard. He reacts much like Raina, slashing up into the thing attached to him to get it off before whatever is on the other end can reel him in.
Talon feels rather well rested after staying by the pool. They'd need to remember the way they got here in order to maximize their chances of survival. As it was, he didn't know how much further it would be to get to the shard at this point. The fighter took a look at their path, and seeing the indecision in his companions, he chooses the western path, pointing down it. "Let's try this way first. Hopefully we won't run into anything that wants to kill us."
"I'll take a canteen for later," Talon tells her and Del, setting up a watch. "You guys get some rest now, I'll keep a lookout." He didn't have any fancy magic tricks to replenish after all, unlike his companions. Once they were rested, he'd take some of the pool water with them before they left.
Talon ponders the pool, and lets the more magically inclined figure out what it actually does. "If this is true, then I think we ought to use it. We can make this our camping point, actually. We really should rest up - we've have nothing but fights since we got her, excluding that nutty mite leader. I for one could use a break."
Satisfied that this creature was of no immediate threat to them now, Talon motions onward. "Let's keep going, then. But I want you two to tell me if you're getting tired. In the worst case, we'll have to find an empty room to secure and rest for a few hours."
Talon looks at the creature, glad that it's imprisoned - he's a little worried about what could have imprisoned it, but so long as it was in there it couldn't hurt them. "Raina, Del, let's take a brief look around here for anything useful and then push on. But if you have a way to ensure that door won't unlock anything soon, that would be great." He does take a glance inside of the creature's cell just to determine if there was anything of value inside with it. Hopefully not.
Talon goes and rips into whatever vermin are left standing. "Less talking, more stabbing!" He barks to the others.
"Hang on, Del!" Talon shouts at him, slashing forward to try and completely eviscerate his own spider to help his ally.
The other swordsman in the group also attacks, slashing at the creature that attacked him angrily.
"Sounds like a plan," Talon agrees, letting Del take the lead here for the moment. He stows his blade away again, keeping his distance for now and letting the other adventurer do his thing.
Talon shrugs off the tiny blow, before striking back at his opponent, dual blades slashing out.
Talon has his two-bladed sword out in a flash, cutting into one of the other spiders going after Raina.
"I see them," Talon states, drawing two chakram and tossing them towards the spiders.
"Come on, let's keep moving...I don't see anything ahead. How about you Raina?" Talon asks.
"We'll deal with that when it comes. Right now enjoy the relative comfort of knowing we're very, very loosely protected," Talon tells the two, taking a moment to touch the shard tucked in his belt pouch and try to determine if they're going in the right direction here. The connection should be stronger the closer they got, if he remembered correctly.
"Hold your attacks, mites. Your leader has tasked us to find his spare crown attached to his Clickylegs. Stand down now or else see the strength of those your chief has given such an important task towards," Talon says, pointing one end of his two-bladed sword at them.
"Then let's go," Talon states, and nods to the leader. "All right, you have yourself a deal." This Clickylegs didn't sound dangerous, and he didn't think the little blue guys could pull off a trap.
Talon mulls the leader's words over, looking over at his allies. "A gemstone is nice, but we'd rather have information from you, most esteemed chief," He tells him. "Anything you would know about these tunnels and paths would aid both of us - in locating your Clickylegs and lost crown and allowing us to navigate these tunnels. Can you agree to that?"
Talon shakes off both attempts against him by the mites to throw him under their magical spell, but doesn't try to kill them just yet - far as he could see, they weren't that harmful to them. Unlike the goblins, they weren't trying to kill them but just drive them away it seemed. He could respect that, and perhaps try to talk to them. "No, let's not hurt them unless they're really trying to kill us," He tells her. "Follow them - they'll probably lead us right back to their leader."
Talon goes on the defensive, bunkering down in his armor as he approaches the mites, hoping they'll focus on him instead of his allies.
"All right, everyone stay low, quiet and out of sight - let's try and see them before they spot us," Talon tells them in a whisper, staying low and trying to keep his armor from making too much of a clatter.
One more dead spider - Talon was thankful enough for that at least. He rolled his shoulder, glancing at the elf. "I'm good for now. Check the nest if you want to do so, we're not in any hurry," He tells her, glancing around.
Talon spots the secret door across from them as well, looking to open it up. "Might as well keep going through this way until we reach a dead end."
Talon yells as the fangs of the spider sink into an unarmored part of him, hissing between his teeth before striking it twice again. His second blow just barely connects, and he's lucky that he avoided the venom.
"Let's head through," Talon decides, leading the group forward down the secret passage - perhaps they'd get lucky and avoid a tough fight this way... ...or a spider would drop onto his back and try to penetrate his armor. He was lucky that it only hit metal plate with its fangs, letting him cut at it twice in retaliation.
"...None," Talon tells her, a little surprised by the abrupt arrival of a single person and the subsequent disappearance of two other members of his party. It seemed that he was the only one who'd stuck around this far from the very beginning. He was beginning to lose track of whom was whom - at least this new girl was easy on the eyes. "I'm Talon, leading this venture. This is Delkaneth, I call him Del. He's probably our main scout now. I'm a front line fighter, and I'm guessing you've got magic in you and you know how to use that without chopping your hand off," He commented, glancing around the room briefly.
He spots the door almost on a fluke, hidden by the west wall. Talon heads forward, sliding a finger along the seams, before turning to Del. "You think you can get this open?"
Shame to see Kelgeah go like that. It's understandable though. I'll be interested in seeing the new gestalt being brought in though.
Same, leveling complete and sheet updated.
Take a bit to level, I suppose - and then I think we'll want to continue heading downwards from this point.
Talon slashes through the ant with his double blades, feeling like this battle just keeps dragging on. How many ants were there?
Talon swings his blades around, scoring a hit with his first attack and glancing off its carapace with the second.
Talon glances at the elf cleric, wincing as she makes a larger amount of noise.
Talon looks at the next ant, wondering how many might be nesting around here. He settles into a solid stance and waits for it to come to him, readying to rain his full fury on it once it gets into range.
"Lots of vermin in these parts," Talon comments with a smile as he brings his weapons of choice to bear on the ant.
"...I really hope that's the limit of their competency," Talon comments the the party. "Let's head down now."
"Great, mites," Talon sighs. "Better than goblins at least. Hey, you!" He calls out to the mite. "You're not planning on ambushing us, are you? I'm really not in the mood."
"Fair enough. Let's check out the rest of the place first." Talon says, heading the other way.
"Whatever floats your boat," Talon tells her. "Come on, let's keep moving."
Talon steps in, slashing out with both ends of his blade to tear the spider apart - both attacks don't come even close to cutting into the creature.
"...I really hate spiders," Talon mutters, his sword out as he charges forward, slashing at the first spider.
Talon looks from the eastern passage to the long corridor, thinking for a moment before coming up with a decision. "Let's head down this way - Princess, Del, you can both take point. Keep an eye out for traps. There's always traps," He sighs, shaking his head.
"Thanks," Talon tells the elf, looking about. "Let's keep moving, but keep a look out for more vermin. I've got a feeling those things were the least of our troubles here."
Potions are probably a better bet, but if you think that we can spare the gold, Wondrous Items would get us those nifty little lower cost items even more cheaply - cloaks of resistance, pearls of power, and most important of all, bags of holding. You can never have too many of those.
Well Talon's waiting on some wand healing to sooth his acid burns from the amoebas, but after that, he'll certainly stride ahead and be the meatshield everyone loves.
Talon curses as the amoeba gets in another lucky blow at him, but endures the pain to lash out again at the creature with his double blade.
Post quick, before Talon gets himself eaten by amoebas! You don't want the new student perishing so quickly.
Talon was quite suprised by the amoebas surging out at him, but manages to keep them from grabbing a hold of him - he can feel acid sizzling at his shins, hissing sharply before striking out at both with his new weapon.
"Giant Amoebas! Little help!" He grunts, taking a step back.
Talon gathers up the gear and stows it away for now, wondering who this guy was - or why they died, for that matter. "Let's get to the door now. We can figure out this pendant later, and who it belonged to." He heads over, looking at the letters on the door. "Ready a spell from that new wand, would you? I'll need your healing touch," HE tells Kelgeah, before reaching out to rearrange the words - LISTEN to SILTEN to SILNET to SILENT. Then THE EYES to THEYEES to THEY SEE. Five touches, and he bites back the pain in his hand from touching them.
Okay, plainer language: Would Kelgeah have accompanied Talon back to his place the previous night? And then shown up with him the next morning together?
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