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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 3286560" data-attributes="member: 3285">Deus Ex Machina - Part 6b: MazeCal stalked in the opposite direction, sniffing as he went.  He turned the corner just in time to see a woman dressed in bright yellow robes and a pallid mask toss marbles beneath one of the wooden panels.  “You!” shouted Cal.  He took his axe off of his back strap.“Ahh!” shouted Orpen.  She blurred sideways as Cal’s axe rent a gash in the floor.  “You’ll bring down the ceiling if you keep that up!”Cal swung again, but she blurred backwards.  “Stop doing that!” he shouted.The woman shrieked and ran down through the maze. “Druf!” she shouted.  “Druf, shoot him!”Cal caught a glimpse of her profile as Orpen looked straight ahead.  She was preparing herself for something.  He swung his axe downwards again but she blurred forward, out of reach.  When Cal turned the corner, he saw Orpen clear a long pit.She spun to laugh at the big lizard.  But he wasn’t there.There was a thud behind her.Orpen slowly turned around to look.“I jump good,” said Cal, grinning a saurial grin.  “Down!” shouted someone from within the pit.  Orpen ducked, and a crossbow bolt thunked into Cal’s shoulder.  The lizard looked down at it in disdain. Orpen dove past him.  She grinned back at Cal and turned, only to smack into Beldin’s shield.The cultist fell backwards and raised her hands.  “I give up!” shouted Orpen.Beldin lowered his morningstar to point it at the woman’s head.  “Don’t move.”“I won’t,” said Orpen.  “None of us will.”Then the hilt of Captain Bezyli’s dagger appeared in her forehead. Beldin whirled.  “What did you do that for?”Ilmarė, her hand still extended from the throw.  “She hooked her foot around a pole.  She was going to pull down the ceiling.”  Sure enough, the edge of the woman’s foot was just underneath the wooden panel.“The chanting,” said Cal, peering into the pit.  Another crossbow bolt thudded into his chest from below.  He didn’t seem to notice. “It’s coming from somewhere down below us.”“We’ve got to find a way down there,” said Ilmarė.Cal lifted his axe and roared.  Then he jumped headlong into the pit. A geyser of blood splashed upwards.  Whoever was in there had surely been cleaved in twain by the combined force of Calactyte and gravity. Some of the gore spattered on Ilmarė’s boots. “That’s not quite what I had in mind,” said Ilmarė with a look of disdain.</blockquote>

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