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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1227153" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter 19, “Can’t you just put a band-aid on it?” September 13th, 1019, 4:30 P.M. Ninety minutes have now passed since Alton had been thrown free of the creature and every attempt to reboard the creature since then has failed.    Alton had initially found himself falling away from the Kadtanach at a height of 150 feet from the ground.   He was heading towards the forest and his initial throught was to transform into a bird, but he instead chose to remain in monkey form.   He maneuvered in the air in order to grab for the first tree limbs that he could, grabbing at the first one to pivot and slow him down, and then using the next limb to stop his descent.   He is successful, taking a minimum of damage for the endeavor. Swinging from tree to tree, he makes his way over towards the Kadtanch, which then beings to move again.   Alton chooses to follow, waiting for an opportunity to run up to one of the legs and climb back on board.   Unfortunately for him, the creature is exercising more care as to exactly where it steps, meaning that its path is now less direct and harder to determine.    He makes half a dozen attempts, four of which are foiled when the creatures suddenly moved further away.  The other two attempts were even worse when the leg suddenly lunged towards him, and he narrowly escaped being stomped.  Alton eventually gives up, deciding to just keep with the creature until it stops on its own, swinging from tree to tree as it walks.    After several miles of this is arms begin to tire, and he mutters “What a time for me to be without my motorccycle.”     The creature eventually stops, providing Alton with his first real opportunity to board.   He charges up to a front leg, just as the creature raises up that leg, putting it down far to the side.  Alton notices that the creature appears to be turning around, and has to move frantically to avoid being stepped on.    He then runs to the closest leg, which is now one of the rear legs, and manages to climb on board. He notices that the creature has now changed direction, heading back to the northeast, and is no longer being careful where it walks.   Alton concludes that the enemies have regained control of the beast.   He quickly scampers up the leg to get out of the way of flying debris from the trees that the monster is splintering as it moves.  Alton climbs up to where it levels off near the buildings and then moves forward.   He notices a lot of gnoll activity, with quite a few gnolls moving in the direction of the front of the creature.   He eventually gets back to a location near the first buildings and starts to climb down towards the yoke.   He is busy approaching the backside of the yoke when Narg severs the ear basket, so is blocked from seeing the basket fall to the ground below.  He does, however, hear the bell alarms sound from the various crow’s nests behind him, and also now sees several gnolls lowering from the catapult deck to the Yoke Howdad crow’s nest.   He decides to stay clear of that area, moving further down the yoke before attempting to climb up it.  Back along the creature’s ear, where the basket housing the basilisk has just been cut off, Narg comments to Mojo “I’m beat, but why don’t you try cutting the basket off from other ear.”   Mojo answers, “I’m not really up to it.  I was serious about feeling weak.  Here, let me make myself visible and you take a look at me.”  Mojo materializes and Narg sees a very nasty wound on Mojo’s neck, where the gith’s dog had bitten him.  “We’d better get you back to Cassie to look at that,” Narg comments.  “Can’t you just put a bandaid on it?” Mojo asks. They come back in and Grelmak ceases his illusion.  Cassie says, “It’s about time.”  Narg answers, “It was like cutting through stone.   They must have put some type of magical protection over those straps.  It’s a good thing we didn’t even bother with those harness straps.  that were three times as thick and wide.  They would have taken us a week to cut through.” Cassie takes a look at Mojo’s neck wound, seeing that the skin and muscle are missing for around an inch in diameter and half-an-inch deep around where the dog bite was.   She examines it closer, noticing no blood, with the wound being more of a window into his body.  She concludes that his body is beginning to shift to the plane that the dog was from.   She cast’s a Cure Light Wound spell on it, which has no effect.   Other spells are suggested, such as Dispel Magic, Remove Curse or Cure Disease.   Cassie says, “Wait a minute.  Have you activated your Protection from Disease amulet that Finder Wyvernspur gave you?”   Mojo hasn’t, and hits the silver harp-shaped medallion.   The party is surprised to see the Chaos Armor that Finder had provided them in the Abyss grow out from the medallion and cover over his regular armor.   This armor is full plate-mail, and glows of light.   Narg says “It shouldn’t have done that without the command word to activate it.”     Cassie comments, “His bite must have been worse than we thought.  How do you feel Mojo.”   He replies, “I feel great.  My full strength is back.”  She comments, “Then I’d suggest that you keep the armor on.”    They all feel the Kadtanach now come to a stop.  Grelmak is still looking out the window and says, “Guys, we have a more immediate problem to deal with.”    They look out the window to see a large group of gnolls exiting the base of the Yoke Howdad.</blockquote>

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