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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3930663" data-attributes="member: 5868">They reached the beach, where a grisly sight met their eyes.  In front of the large cave mouth to their left, the entire beach was covered in blood and strewn with the bodies of what must have been twenty or more men and women, each hideously deformed and with the flesh literally stripped from the bone in places.  From back in the cave, horrible shrieks, maniacal laughter, and the sounds of meal striking metal could be heard."We have to go in there?" Thalas asked.  Athal only nodded, and Morderas moved to take point.  The dark elf then charged ahead into the depths of the cave as the main body of the party entered a large chamber with a sandy floor.  Quinn moved ahead to find Morderas, only to return shortly to motion them ahead -- Morderas had already found trouble.They rounded a corner to find Morderas sneaking across another chamber, slinking along the wall to approach what looked like three pirates in discussion ... only to prove to be three deformed, human-like creatures in sailor's garb chewing on the lifeless remains of another human form.  Morderas was able to get close enough to stab one as the others rushed to his aid, firing arrows or swinging swords.  Thalas loosed a both of acid energy from his fingers, striking one creature, as Athal, Kithkanan, and Korlick closed on the others.  Athal jumped up on a table, stabbing down at one, and soon all of them had collapsed into the same hissing pools of acidic goo that the monkeys had become."What happened here?" Thalas whispered to no one in particular, but there was no answer as they continued their march into another passage, the sounds of battle in the distance growing louder and drawing them on.The entered an enormous chamber that must have been sixty feet by a hundred, with passages radiating from it at the points of the compass.  Hanging from the ceiling were dozens of bolts of silk fabric, arranged in row after row so that the far side of the chamber could barely be seen."We ought to bring this back," Thalas mused," The chicks will dig us.""Not so much," Kithkanan replied, pointing.  Most of the silk bolts had been ruined, some by water, others by blood and gore.From out of the silks, something that looked like a cross between a halfling and a raccoon jumped out behind Morderas and attempted to bite him.  As the others responded and moved to surround the things, Athal moved off to scout the rows of silk.  His shout of "Dinosaur" alerted them that there was another opponent out there, though they had their hands full with the raccoon thing.  Thalas moved to his right skirting the wall, attempting to get to where he could see where Athal was fighting.  Quinn, too, charged through the silks, then shouted from help.  Thalas just reached where he could see Quinn thrusting through the silks at a whirling, dodging lizard creature, just as Athal went down beneath one of the creature's claws.  "Help Athal!" Thalas shouted in the direction of Rhiannon and the others, who were finally putting the giant rodent-thing down.  Kithkanan charged off through the silk bolts towards the sound of fighting.  Thalas concentrated and channeled, disappearing from his spot by the wall and reappearing close to the snarling dinosaur while Athal's unconscious form appeared in his former place against the cave wall.  Thalas channeled again as Kithkanan engaged the creature, distracting it, and inflicting grievous wounds on it even as it forced Quinn to retreat.Thalas sprang forward, striking with all his might with his glaive, and the blade swept down into the creature's skull, causing it to rear, convulse, and then drop.  The body then fumed and dissolved into another pool of acid.  Thalas turned, seeing Rhiannon treating a groggy Athal against one wall, while Morderas and Quinn bandaged their own wounds."Tough beast," Kithkanan observed.  "Nearly took all of us down.  Let's hope there aren't any more of them."Thalas merely panted, too exhausted to reply.</blockquote>

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