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Josie sighs as she hears the shouting from the tunnel. Not wanting to get caught, or be forced to fight with the guards if it comes to that, she quickly looks around for ideas. Seeing a small bug scurrying by the thought hits here. "Is anyone good at mimicry? We could pretend to be some sort of animal. Maybe a grotto worm, that should scare them away." She keeps here voice as low as possible to avoid detection from the other group, not wanting to give away the ruse before it even begins.
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Rajan gives Zhou Si a quick nod and gets to work. He smoothly flips his pick in his hand and presses the handle flat against the wall, then drags it roughly to create a rasping sound as he does his best to issue forth an authentic sounding worm call from the back of his throat.
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Yldaren douses his torch quickly, and the rest of you follow suit while Rajan attempts mimicry. Just around the bend from the crossroads of tunnels, you crouch in the dark, waiting.
"It's a damned wyrm, Kerris," a grating voice comes from around the corner. "Just let it be."
"Sounded like people to me," another voice returned.
"Then clean the fucking guano out of your ears." You stay quiet as you can for a few moments while what sounds like a wheelbarrow patrol passes. The Watchers' chatter dims and within the course of a minute, you feel they've moved on entirely.
"Close one," Durnom says, reigniting his torch with a clack of a rock on the rough wall. "Shall we keep moving?"
Vanthar nods to Rajanikant. "Nice thinking."
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"Yes, let's. Before others pass through," Josie says, ready to be done with the skulking and hiding. She looks forward to the freedom ahead, and hopes that it is not much longer before she can repay this place for its atrocities by ruining it and everyone involved. "Is it much further?"
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"A bit," Durnom replies, motioning forward. You travel along for some time down the cave passage, musty air filling your nostrils from ahead. After about another quarter hour, you begin to hear the sound of water trickling. The walls -- previously streaked with rust-colored ore and metamorphic rock -- now look damp and mossy. Cracks in the sides of the passage drip, eroding thin lines down to the floor.
The cave begins to look less artificial, its rough-hewn edges turning into smoother stone from erosion. It eventually opens into a large grotto, and the air feels much more humid here. The group of you filter in, the light from your collective torches reaching the far walls and the ceiling of the cavern.
From up and to your right, a subterranean stream cascades down an incline of rock, moving across your vision and down a slope to your left. The cavern is wide enough that there seems to be space on either side of the river to make your way either uphill or downhill.
"We made it?" Ramis asks aloud, his eyes wide as he looks all around the cavern.
Durnom smiles, sniffing the air. "This dwarf's good for it." He turns to the rest of you. "We wanting to make moves downhill? At some point this stream combines with a few others and winds down the mountainside top-ground toward the Gryst."
"There's uphill, too," Yldaren notes, looking off to the right.
Brelnia nods. "Might be easier to trek the slopes. I think the area this river may spit us out has some outposts of Kelbis guards. Cave beasties makin' it out there and all."
"Uphill, and we might run into some of those creature though," Vanthar says. "Or alpine beasts, too, if we get to fresh air."
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Rajan takes a good look around the cavern, exulting in the freedom close at hand. Then he comes down for a moment at the talk of foes. "Beasts don't report the last place they saw you to other nosy guards. I say we avoid the outposts by a wide bit."
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Durnom grimaces a bit at Rajan's words. "Further from the Grystbehn, though."
"Fine with me," Brelnia replies.
"I suppose we can make it work if that's the vote," Durnom says. "I asked for help getting out of here, but I suppose I didn't specify how."
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"Cave beasts don't have swords or armor either," Alerio adds after Rajan as the group discusses their route. "Though neither do we, so we'd best hope we don't run into anything too dangerous."
Patting his pickaxe, he says, "I guess these pickaxes will serve nicely for now, at least. But I doubt we're going to come across a fully stocked armory around here."
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"I'm sure we would in an outpost, though," Josie replies to Alerio. "It may be best to head that way if we plan to last outside of the mines. They will notice our absence eventually, regardless of if we are spotted, so it may be best to try to escape somewhere we know we can find gear to defend ourselves."
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Rajan cocks an eyebrow at the ghian. "There is also equipment in towns, held by people who won't try to put us in chains on sight." He watches her face for a solid moment, sizing her up. "Or are you thinking more of vengeance than escape? If we're going to go that route, Zhou Si, then we ought to be frank about it, and make our plans for that specifically."
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Can I not think of both? The woman narrows her eyes towards Rajan, not really like the accusatory tone. "I think of escape. Any revenge we'd come across along the way, while welcome, is still secondary to that. I know that there is risk, but would you rather run into people with salvageable equipment, or wyrms?"
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"We can always split paths, too," Yldaren says. "Unless we can come to an agreement."
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"We split paths and we all end up dead," Alerio responds at the elf's suggestion. "We are safer in numbers, whether we face cave beasts or Kelbis guards. The Talon thinks for a moment, unsure of the best way to proceed. And unsure if retribution is justice or something far more sinister. "Josie is right, though," he says, despite his internal conflicts. "Going up against guards may be tougher, but at least we'll have equipment, and we'll survive a hell of a lot longer with that than ill-armed and ill-prepared."
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"Sounds like it's settled then," Yldaren shrugs. "We move downhill. You have an objection, and you can try your own luck."
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Josie smiles, just slightly, at Alerio's words. It is nice to see others share my concerns. She follows after Yldaren as they begin to move downwards along the path, sticking towards the middle of the group for safety.
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"Fine then. Out is out. Let's move." Rajan says, taking a few steps.
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The group filters into a natural marching order as they move along the left side of the stream, downhill -- Bulk in the front, eyes in the back, with the more fragile hanging between. You walk for what seems to be a few miles with relative smooth footing underneath. Little to no chatter fills the air, only the breathing of your fellow man and the occasional skittering of vermin underfoot.
It sticks out to you that the cavern must have been eroded out over time from this river -- or those like it in the past. Mold -- blue, black, and gray in color -- stains the otherwise slick walls. It gives off a musty odor; one that is not acrid nor irritative, but more mellow, like a long-forgotten attic.
On one particular stretch, the trail slopes down the steepest it has yet, leaving the stream to cascade down an outcropping of more jagged stone. Taking more care of your tread, the several of you move slower as you pass, attention focused on not stumbling down the wet floor.
Alerio and Zhou Si recognize the clicking sound of arachnid mandibles, but a moment too late. Torches swing to, and from across the stream, a wolf-sized cave spider latches onto a stalactite. It uses its pointed abdomen to fire off a spray of its thick, adhesive webbing across the cave. Ramis falls to his knees with a shriek as the alabaster silk wraps around him not unlike a bola.
The cries of many more of these arachnid creatures sound from the cavern, crowding the air with their terrifying call. Another half-dozen appear from nooks and crannies in the far wall, climbing along the ceiling and baring their mandibles at you. And they look hungry.
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Your attention grasped by the spiders across the stream, another pack of screeching arachnids surge to action from atop the outcropping ahead of you. One of the creatures, over twice the size as the rest, lets out a bestial cry before firing off a billowing net of web toward the several of you. Aided by two smaller ones beside it, they manage to cover Korgul with the thick organic material.
Shakumon ducks out of the way just in time, while Ramis struggles to tear the webbing from himself to no avail.
The massive arachnid stands at the edge of the rock outcropping, towering above you. It raises its forelegs in an ominous gesture, venom dripping from its mandibles.
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Josie grips her pick tightly and looks around, surveying the scene. Why spiders? Could these caves not produce something less disgusting to attack us? She takes special interest of the larger spider off in the distance, figuring it to be the queen spider, or at least the one in charge of this small group.
"We should stick together," the woman says, standing her ground despite her initial urge to rush the nearest of the beasts. "If we scatter too much they will easily pick us off, on by one."
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At the behest of the young woman, the escape party holds steady in a show of force against the encroaching spiders. The first one seen leaps from the stalactite it held on to, narrowly avoiding a bolt of dark energy from the hands of Rajan. It fires off a projectile of its own, and Yldaren manages to bat the majority of the sticky substance away with a swing of his pick.
Dropping down to the cave floor next to the group, the wolf spider sinks its fangs deep into the thigh of Brelnia as it descends. She grunts in pain and brings her pick down with force, only grazing the spider's thick, spiny protrusions.
Across the stream, the rest of the horde skitters across the ceiling just overhead. "You heard the girl," Brelnia shouts, gearing up for another swing. "Hold the damned line."
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"Well, I guess there wasn't much chance of an easy way out..." Cassandra growls, turning to see spiders advancing from the east. As she stomps one foot, her eyes flash a brilliant, glowing orange and her shoulder-length hair simply ignites. At a sharp gesture, a concussive blast erupts from an area on the cave ceiling over the stream, with fire in its wake.
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Josie involuntarily jumps a bit at the sight of Cassandra's flaming hair, and once more at the sudden burst of flame that knocks two of the spiders into the water. She marvels for a brief second at the inferno before her eyes before deciding on a course of action.
Quickly, the woman bends down and picks up the closest three stones she can find that are large enough to do some damage. She pushes her hair out of her face, lamenting the fact that her hairpins are gone both for their intended purpose as well as the fact they made excellent throwing weapons. With a quick, silent prayer she invokes the Hound to imbue her throwing arm with its strength before launching the three small projectiles forward at the spiders remaining on the ceiling, hoping to knock the rest into the water as well.
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Alerio grumbles to himself as the spiders emerge from the darkness, annoyed that such creatures had to dwell in the caves. Why can't these caves be inhabited by rabbits or mice or something? Not one to wait around like a sitting duck, Alerio jumps into action, approaching the spider nearest to the party. With fierce determination, he swings his fist at the spider before him. He hopes the dwarven woman follows his lead so they may bring the spider down. Let El-unod's talons rip through this pathetic bug.
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With a gust of flame, Cassandra punishes a trio of spiders that venture too close to the escape party. Their fur-like bristles sizzle at the attack and two of them release their grip on the ceiling, abseiling into stream below -- not entirely voluntarily.
Josie's keen eye allows her to slam the three stones she had gathered into a few more of the spiders. They squeal from the force of the blow, reeling back along the cave ceiling in pain. Nearby, Alerio sidles up to the spider engaged with Brelnia, delivering it a formidable strike with his bare fist. She casts him a sidelong glanced, apparently impressed. Grunting, Yldaren slams his own pick into the creature, before taking a step back to survey the scene.
From nearby, Bazros and Korgul settle into formation, ready to riposte any attack made upon them. Almost on queue, a pair of spiders flanking the alpha rush forward to attack the orcs. Korgul takes a glancing blow, unable to land a swing of his own on the enemy. Shakumon on the other hand is caught off-guard, and the spider sinks its fangs into his abdomen with terrifying haste. He moans in pain, feeling the poison course through his veins. The man chops viciously at the spider before him in a futile manner.
"Oh... Goddess above..." Ramis slides even further back, his hands raised upon his temples and his eyes wider than coins.
The massive arachnid stands upon the tip of the rocky precipice before you, launching another massive spray of webbing at the forward group. Shakumon is caught head-on, and the bulky orc goes stiff. The terrible enemy before him taps its mandibles together in preparation, moving toward him with malicious intent.
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Rajan moves forward past Cassandra. As he walks, shadows coalesce around his left hand, taking shape into three black chains with sharp arrowheads at the ends. He twirls them around a couple times, but knowing he doesn't have a lot of time to practice, Rajan lashes the chains at the nearby spiders. The shadowy chains bite into the spiders' chitin, leaving deep gashes in their minds as well as their bodies.
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Summoning dark energies once-proven to the escapees, Rajanikant lashes out with his spectral flail at the massive arachnid and another closeby. The magic courses through their bodies and they wriggle violently, letting out vile screeching from the agony. Withering their frames a bit, they seem to be temporarily weakened.
Trading places with Yldaren, the human Vanthar brings his pickaxe to bear. It slams into the mandible of the spider before him, tearing it off with a spurt of gore. He issues forth a heavy boot to its several remaining eyes, sending the creature sliding back a few paces.
Struggling in the effort, Shakumon manages to tear mostly free from the thick, pliable webbing. He shrugs off the venom's effects but loses a window to counterattack. Nearby, Brelnia lets out a shout as she leans into a thunderous blow. Her pick's edge catches on the same spider that Vanthar had attacked, and its limp body sags into the wake of the stream.
With the very first of the arachnids slain, the remaining several clack their mandibles in bestial rage. They move with a frenzied panic. Two of them who had been knocked asunder into the stream now gain their footing again and fire off webbed shots of their own. The sailing web finds purchase on Brelnia and the newly-freed Shakumon, hampering them greatly. With no hesitation, two of the spiders surge forward and sink their fangs into Brelnia's abdomen and calf. She cries out in pain, venom running through her veins. The tough woman falls to a knee, growling, almost surrounded by enemies.
A couple more of the arachnids move forward now, encircling the front rows of the escapees. Yldaren steps too close to one, and his misstep is punished by a vicious series of bites to his flank. The hardened elf grits his teeth and flinches, but hardly makes a peep.
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Seeing that the situation has become desperate, Cassandra leaps to the forefront ahead of Raj...whatever the rest of his name is, that's not important right now. Hair and fists flaring like beacons in the dark, she screams at the spiders in front of her, "TIME TO BUUUUUURRRNNN!!!!" Before the flames that begin pouring from her open mouth have even reached the arachnids in front of her, Cassandra stomps hard with one foot and fire erupts from the cave floor to the right to scorch the monsters in front of Brelnia and Shakumon. She then slips backwards out of reach of spidery mandibles.
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Josie cringes at the sight of her companions being mobbed, bitten, and webbed by the spiders. The sight is enough to take her thoughts off the other oddities transpiring around her, such as Rajan's shadowy flail or another burst of fire from Cassandra.
As a few of the creatures drop to the ground, freeing up the front lines a bit, the woman rushes forward. Not yet ready to show her own cards, she instead continues to rely on her surroundings. Once more invoking the hound she causes the ground to shake a bit, dropping stones from the ceiling on a few of the beasts before her, greatly hindering their ability to avoid the others. Let's see you sidestep with stones on your backs.
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Alerio grins as he sees more of the arachnids dispatched by his comrades, but grimaces as he spots Brelnia taking heavy hits. He mumbles a quick incantation, hoping to bring strength into the dwarf. Gods protect her from these vermin. Turning, he spots Ylderen in an equally poor state. Rushing towards him and his spider adversary, he shouts, "Get to safety before you get killed!"
Turning to the spider, he invokes his god and delivers a thunderous punch, leaving the creature oozing its arachnae blood. El-unod smite you.
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The cave walls are lit orange as Cassandra commands powerful flames that explode over the spider army. The smell once again finds its way to your nostrils, and their cries to your ears.
Despite the difficulty in seeing through the burning air, Josie and Alerio muster the grit to engage. A few rocks whipped from the young woman's hands slam into their targets, lowering their guards. Past her, the Serranborn sage calls down healing magic on the dwarven woman, knitting her wounds together like phantom stitches. With a powerful strike, he punishes the spider plaguing Yldaren, who slips free.
The line of orcs face off against the remaining spiders, with Korgul finding purchase with a pick to the thorax. Bazros takes a bite that makes him shudder and almost pass out, but he grunts and keeps at it. Nearby, the alpharachnid, gripped by Rajan's shadowy curse, fails to find prey in Shakumon. Amidst the din of fire and fury, a rock tossed by Ramis splashes into the water, missing its mark.
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Letting out a final screech of agony, the massive arachnid is split asunder from Rajan's spectral flail. It spews a torrent of gore and venom from its gut, splashing across Brelnia and Shakumon. They grunt from the pain, but stand their ground.
Vanthar shouts out to Alerio, sliding forward and bringing his pick down atop his prey. As it connects, the arachnid seizes from a passing spark -- leftover magic from Alerio. Vanthar hefts his pickaxe back over his shoulder after wresting it free from the lifeless spider.
Likely cautious from most of its allies falling, one of the remaining arachnids slips free from Korgul's reach and bounds across the ceiling to escape.
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Alerio grits his teeth as the death of the mega-arachnid covers his allies in its toxic goo, though he breathes a sigh of relief that it's finally slain. His relief is further cemented as Vanthar cleaves into the spider before them, bringing its life to a swift end. Justice is swift for those who wrong us.
With only one spider brave enough to remain behind, the Talon rushes toward it, spouting a quick incantation and imbuing his bare fists with the power of the Eagle God. Not even these caves are safe from El-unod's wrath, creature he thinks to himself as he strikes the eight-legged beast with his energized fists. He lets out an invigorated grunt, hoping to boost his allies' morale and bring this spider down.
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Seeing as one of the spiders tries to flee, and both looking near death, Josie once more reaches for some loose stones on the ground and chucks them at the remaining arachnids. Both seem to hit their mark perfectly, reducing the group's remaining foes to motionless heaps along with the other corpses.
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Together, Alerio and Zhou Si manage to bring down the two remaining arachnids with energized fists and skilled tosses. The beasts shrivel in place, unmoving. The cavern is quiet once again, save for the labored breathing from many of you.
"Fuck," Brelnia manages, spitting on the floor and wiping her mouth with her ragged tunic.
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Rajan stares at the dead spider for a moment, pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of his newfound power. The shadowy chains slink back up his sleeve silently. "Fuck." he agrees.
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As the adrenaline wears off, Josie leans back against the wall of the cave and surveys the area where the fighting had just taken place. Not my first pick for monsters, but at least they were quickly dispatched.
"You all fought well," she responds, trying to maintain a cool demeanor despite the blood still pumping rapidly in her veins. "It is nice to know that everyone can hold their own. At least, most everyone," she adds shooting a quick glance towards Ramis.
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Alerio breathes a sigh of relief as the final arachnids are dispatched and the cavern once again falls silent. Taking a knee, he regains his breath and mumbles a quick prayer to his god. "Thank you, El-unod, for watching over us as we fought these vile vermin. They tasted your talons and faced their justice."
Propping himself back up, the Talon nods in agreement with Josie, saying, "Yes, all fought well. It's refreshing to know, should we run into any more cave beasts on our trek, though I pray we don't."
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Ramis looks away with a face of shame at Josie's words, holding the pickaxe awkwardly between his hands.
"Figured we might have one of us carried off by those damned things," Yldaren says through gritted teeth, having torn off a strip of his garb to bandage a wound.
Brelnia smirks. "Maybe you. My plans for life run deeper than being spider food."
After taking some time to patch up wounds, catch your breath, and shake off your anxiety, the group of you begin to move once again. Using the cavern stream as a guide, you move for another half-hour or so before the terrain begins to ease into dirt and grit. "Light," Vanthar notes ahead, pointing at a glimmer cascading down a damp rock-face.
The pace of the prisoners picks up, and within moments you are nearly blinded by the glaring gaze of Ganoltir's sun. Durnom smiles, holding a hand in front of his eyes while they adjust. "Fair deal. We've both got what we wanted."
The mouth of the cave is nestled in the foothills of the mountain, and you currently face north. The hilly terrain before you blocks most of your view currently, but you can catch glimpses of the land some distance away. The walls of Kelbis peek through to the left, built against the mountain and stretching north into the valley.
In front of you and to your right, you can tell large fields of grain stretch some miles out, a few orchards dotting the otherwise patterned farms. Above, the sun is nearing its apex, and the sky is void of all but a few splotches of airy clouds. It is warm, but not unbearably so.
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Josie takes a deep breath followed by a sigh of relief. The sight of the sun is a welcome one, as is the warmth of its rays beating down on her skin. "I didn't know if I'd ever see the outside again, let alone so soon," the woman says, thinking aloud.
She gazes off into the distance, first towards Kelbis, then the fields of freedom ahead. Her first thought is of her comrades in the abolitionist movement, but she quickly pushes that aside. "I suppose we've all got things we want to do and places to go, but before we part ways we should acquire some means of protection. Wouldn't do for us to each venture out into the wilderness alone and unarmed."
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Alerio grins as he is able to see the expansive sky once more, deeply breathing the no-longer-stagnant air around him. I've yearned to spread my wings again for so long. And now I can. At the Ghian woman's comments, the Talon nods. "Yes. We won't get very far out there like this. A lion or hyena will be a lot harder to put down than a spider."
Glancing back into the cave, Alerio remarks, "Let's hope it takes them awhile to notice our absence."