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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1508370" data-attributes="member: 5675">"So what do we do?" Only minutes after their battle with the cornugon devil, and Rand was itching to get out and confront the Underdark."We've got to wait for Aeron to finish praying. And what's up with Miles?" Yvgeny, the peace-maker, was looking out for the rest of his team."I'm not altogether sure," replied Halbrinn casting a quick spell to check Miles' magical auras. "If I had to take a guess, I'd say that his Ring of Sustenance had malfunctioned. He might not wake up for days.""Oh. So what should we do, then?"Nobody really felt like staying around, and so they left as soon as Aeron had finished praying. Leaving Miles, fast asleep, on his own, in the Underdark.---"Ah!" Flying down the vertical tunnel once again, Rand felt a sharp stabbing pain in his left eye.Wrenching off his Goggles of Night, he was astonished to find that he could still see in the dark, if he screwed up his right eye and squinted through the left. Without the goggles on, his visual range was vastly reduced, but the headaches subsided.Shrugging, Rand passed his Goggles over to his follower, who was struggling to see anything in the darkness. Then he carried on down the passage, not really paying this strange new development any attention.---The group climbed (or flew) back down to the cavern below, and looked around. The only route they had not explored was off to the West; the opening to a second large cavern. Forming up into a small knot, they moved out, seeing a second large patch of mushrooms in clusters and patches around a wide ox-bow lake.Moving into the chamber to explore, the were taken completely by surprise when one large clump of mushrooms bulged, and then was thrown back, revealing an axe-wielding humanoid charging at them out of a pit. The muscular form hurtled at them, foaming at the lips and screaming obscenities in a language none of them understood. His face was blank; flesh covered where eyes should be, but still the axe whistled accurately in at Stedd, slamming into his side and carving into him. Stedd leapt back, but the creature pressured on, swinging the axe again and again, smashing and slicing into him, and Stedd's guard was not sufficient to stop several blows getting past. Before the rest of the group had really even noticed that they were under attack, the axe had carved a gaping wound across Stedd's abdomen, cracking ribs and slicing flesh so deeply and the bunched cords of his stomach (shrivelled away after so many months relying on his Ring of Sustenance for food) were visible. Gasping from the agony of the blow, Stedd drew back further, only to be pressured still more by the axe-wielding cave-dweller.Halbrinn threw one of his most lethally powerful spells at the barbarian, only to stand in amazement as the sightless creature simply ignored the terrifying abomination hurtling towards him. When Rand's cohort leapt into the fight, he was almost immediately smashed down with a terrific blow from the axe, which crashed into his hastily-guarding rapier, knocking it to one side before driving on into the duellist's leg. With a scream, the man fell to the ground, blood pouring from the ruined limb to feed the mushrooms.Yvgeny dived in to drag the cohort out of the fight, before muttering in irritation as his lesser prayer of healing (one of the few remaining to him from the previous day) failed in the terrible negative magic aura.Aeron, to the rear of the party, began to cast his regimen of spells. Already carrying many layers of protective enchantments from his wands, he began by hasting himself, then invoking the favour of Mystra to allow him to wade into combat with his mace. He would not, however, be ready to enter combat for some time, as he still had several spells to cast before he was properly 'powered up'.Rand's magic caused the mushroom patch to erupt in flame, doing terrible damage to the barbarian, who simply ignored his burns.Stedd's hasted fists failed to stun the barbarian, who barely even grunted each time they connected. His return blows, however, were titanic in proportion, each of them with the potential to kill Stedd entirely. Stedd pulled back once more, and was again pressured by the raging humanoid.Before things got truly out of hand, the group rallied. Halbrinn and Rand cast magic missiles and lightning orbs into the barbarian, whilst Stedd and Aeron (deigning to enter the combat 'early') attacked him with fist and mace. Despite inflicting further horrendous injuries, this barrage of blows and spells was too much, and his broken body fell to the ground, covered in gore and mushrooms."Loot him!" bellowed someone from the group.It took some moments to decide who was going to be the one to approach the body, in case it was just faking…</blockquote>

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