Rogash hacks at the door and turns it to kindling in a few moments. There is yet another of the foul beasts in the far corner of the large room, some 40 feet away. Perhaps even more disturbing are the many niches and alcoves carved into the towering walls, and the makeshift planks and platforms that connect them.
From within the darkened recesses, hundreds of sets of eyes glow in your torchlight, along with more than a few spear tips.
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The fight in the cage seems to be an equal one, but your attention (except for Caerwyn, who is busy doing his gambling) is stolen when the wiry mage emerges from the back room, and b-lines for the exit door without a backward glance.
The sorceress gets to her feet and hurries after the fleeing cage mage, not bothering to call out to him right away. She figures there's little chance of him stopping while he's still inside the Dagger.
Meanwhile...
Shazi blanches. "Shaz? SHAZ?! And when did YOU get to start ordering me arou..."
He pauses, then, at a sound, ducks down to look through the doorway.
"AGH!"
He dumps all his remaining alchemist's fire onto the floor in the doorway and streaks away from the door after Rogash and Uulark even as a thick mist radiates from his skin and envelops him!
(Drops whatever he had left as a free action, invoke Blur as a standard, and fly 60' as a move!)
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The fight in the cage seems to be an equal one, but your attention (except for Caerwyn, who is busy doing his gambling) is stolen when the wiry mage emerges from the back room, and b-lines for the exit door without a backward glance.
Caerwyn makes a show of trying to find his coin and acts like it is his last one for his life. he takes the coin and tosses it after a oment of though and assigns on as heads and the other as tales. flipping the coin it lands as tales
OOC: After a minute of so of running, Uulark will slow enough to look back and see what's gaining on him (besides Rogash and Shazi). If something is, then he will keep running. If not, then he will slow to a brisk walk and start thinking about what their story is going to be to their friends. (I'm assuming (?) that Uulark was able to accurately re-trace the path they took coming in?)
After waiting a two count, Buurt leaves his position so as to follow Talashia on her way toward the arcane combatant. The scout's path takes him by Caerwyn, whom gets a hearty clap on the shoulder and then a nudge toward Talashia and the man in her direct path.
Once that's done, Buurt follows the young woman, but hangs back again as if performing rearguard.
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"huh?" says the barbarian paladin in a most exquisite way.
(picture a blank stare on a blond)
"Oh. OH!" he snatches his gold and says appologeticly, "Sorry, can't let you have my last gold piece today. " then rolling his eyes he continues, " mom and dad arn't letting me play today." he then hurries to catch up with the other two.
The thundering crash echoed through the cavernous room, breaking the reverie of those starving within. The creatures were weak, they knew; what power might it have gained trapped in that small corridor? And the one below--will it too gain strength enough to shake them from the walls? Gorznit lowered his head in defeat, confident the end was near, that he had lead his tribe to their doom.
The crash came again--stronger this time, with more resolve. Again and again, each might wave of sound threatened to shake the tribe from the safety of their perches and down into the clutches of that horrid creature below.
And then the light came, and Gorznit raised his head. The beast! It's gone! he thought, for he didn't have the strength to say it aloud. None of them did. But they all saw it, the charred remains of the second one, and the strangers that had broken through the barred door.
Would they destroy the one below as well, he hoped. And that hope was quickly denied as the intruders screamed and ran like cowards... like Gorznit. But not before throwing fire on the only way out.
But Gorznit was kobold, and he knew that fire. He'd used it in many of his traps, and knew that it would burn out quickly enough. The creature below fled to the back wall, away from the fire and just underneath him. Gorznit knew what he had to do, and knew that he would die a hero this day.
He summoned the strength to speak, and put his draconic tongue to work. "It is time," he shouted. His voice was hoarse, painful. "Abandon your perches on my word! Run past the fire and keep running, never look back!
He took his spear and pointed it down, positioned himself over the slithering abomination. "Run! Now!" he screamed, and then he jumped.
The thing shrieked as Gorznit's spear tip impaled it clean through to the floor. Its many tentacles writhing and shifting, eyes and teeth disappearing and then reappearing, Gorznit held it there with a strength he never knew he had. The thing slapped at him again and again, but still Gorznit held strong as more than a hundred of his tribe leaped from the walls and ran from their prison.
And as the last of his kinsmen fled, Gorznit, too, ran.
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The mage doesn't look back as he exits the Crimson Dagger, and doesn't notice those following him. He begins walking down the center of the dusty road, but screams in the distance stop him dead in his tracks. He turns in that direction. Moments later a dwarf and a wiry human emerge from a darkened corner, chased by a wolf.
"Easy enough," he says to no one in particular, and begins casting.
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In a moment of mental clarity, Caerwyn catches up to his sister and says, what if this guy is a ruse? what if he is the white plumed dandy reshaped into the guy we are wanting to actually talk to?
In a moment of mental clarity, Caerwyn catches up to his sister and says, what if this guy is a ruse? what if he is the white plumed dandy reshaped into the guy we are wanting to actually talk to?
"Well, that's even better, isn't it?" Shai pipes up without being asked. "Because then we're still following him!"
He smiles innocently as the group continues to follow the man out of the building.
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