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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1494377" data-attributes="member: 5675">They trudged tirelessly on for many hours more, with Aeron discussing, but never actually casting another Find the Path spell to ensure that they were on the right track. Lesser divination spells were used instead. By Yvgeny, who glared at Aeron all the while."You're the one who wants to be a Divine Oracle. Why am I doing this?""You're a cleric too, you can cast these spells!""Yeah, but I'm a monk - it's not cool for me to ask God questions!""Whatever. Keep praying, monk boy."And so time passed in the Underdark.---Over a day later, the tunnel opened out into a truly enormous cavern. The group couldn't see the ceiling without casting spells and flying up to it. They could also hear some sort of tearing squeal of a noise, which was loud enough to make their ears ache."Always take the left wall", Rand repeated to himself shepherding the group off in that direction as another squeal in the darkness echoed around the cavern.---The vibrations continued as the group edged carefully along the wall, passing strange rock formations and a 10 foot step up onto a higher plateau.On this new level, the first thing that came into the range of their Goggles of Night was a shaggy carcass, torn open as though smashed into the ground at speed."What could do that?" queried Stedd. "We're in so much trouble now. Whatever it is, I say that we should stay well clear of it."They crept onwards, hugging the left wall, but in the darkness of the cavern, their movements had been detected, and wings flared as two titanic hunting animals leapt from their perches amongst the stalactites.Moments later, the Crusaders were interrupted in their slow advance, as something swooped briefly into their vision, and screamed at Miles, whose skin was lacerated by the sonic vibrations unleashed. Slayer quivered in his scabbard, and muffled obscenities at the beast through the thick leather.The creature abruptly pulled up and flew out of sight.Thinking fast, Yvgeny prayed and a globe of silence surrounded him, protecting him and his companions from any further sonic blasts."What are you doing?" Rand, Halbrinn, Miles and Aeron all mouthed at Yvgeny, and each of them paced swifty out of the globe of silence into the cavern beyond.Which turned out to be a very poor idea, as two of the creatures dived this time. One screamed loudly, causing the adventurers' ears to bleed, whilst the other swooped down and grabbed Aeron in its claws, picking him up easily and disappearing into the darkness.Looking at one another, the group didn't immediately react, beyond Stedd's preotestations of doom and gloom. Rand concentrated, and a glowing spear appeared suddenly in his hand, ready to impale another creature were it to dive upon him. Miles, meanwhile, muttered a spell under his breath and a huge pair of bat-wings sprouted from his shoulders. He leapt from the ground and headed off after the menace.---Aeron's fate was simple. He was taken up, way up by the creature, to the point that it was dodging in-and-out of the stalactites. Then it released him to fall and go splat on the ground below.It confused the Yrthak no end that his fall was suddenly arrested by a pair of 3 inch wings which sprouted suddenly from his boot-heels, causing the cleric to hover in mid-air. So it and its brother both dived again, screaming at the hapless hovering cleric.During this noisy, fast-moving melee, Miles swooped in on his huge dark wings. Stedd ran swiftly over the broken cavern floor, leaping up to attack the creatures when he could. And even Halbrinn, flying swiftly in the form of a pixie after some quick spellwork, flew to join them.Rand and Yvgeny stood by the wall, wondering what was going to happen to their foolish colleagues.</blockquote>

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