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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1513241" data-attributes="member: 5675">Wounded, but still buoyant in victory, the Clearwater Crusaders pushed on down the tunnels, leaving Miles behind in the 'too dangerous' cavern. Although several of their number were quite badly hurt, they were relatively confident, as they had never encountered more than one or two sources of evil in a day.So they marched on at a slightly slower pace so that their wounded could keep up, but still made good time through the miles of dry tunnel.A couple of members of the group began to become thirsty, but that was swiftly rectified with a create food and water spell, with several other spells serving to add flavour and texture to the mush which was produced by Yvgeny's initial prayer.After an hour or more of walking, the group began to hear a strange rumbling noise, which seemed to come from the very rock around them. Looking around nervously, the adventurers began to consider making camp, and started looking for a convenient spot to stop marching. The grinding noise continued, however.Suddenly, an enormous toothy maw burst through the tunnel wall, showering the party with rock. Fully 20 feet across, the circular mouth was lined in huge teeth which had been chewing through the rock of the Underdark. The enormous thing stretched out, revealing a massive purple body behind it, and the teeth closed around Aeron, biting him savagely.The group was slow to react, but the enormous lumbering creature was slower still. Therefore, whilst Aeron tried unsuccessfully to free himself from the colossal mouth, Stedd tumbled in beside him to smack at the creature, and Rand and Halbrinn both cast devastating offensive spells at it.Unfortunately, as Halbrinn began casting, an enormous tail whipped out of a side wall, throwing crushed rock all over the group before stabbing a long pointed barb into him. Halbrinn's spell was lost in the agony, but thanks to the ogrish skin he was wearing, he managed to shake off the ill-effects of the venom which had been injected into him.Aeron's struggles were for naught, as the creature appeared to pause, then its mouth closed over the cleric's head, and with a shuddering muscular contraction, he disappeared from view."Don't worry!" came the muffled cry from inside the purple worm. "I'm protected from acid, remember? I can probably last a minute or two in here!"There was another muscular contraction as the swallowing action simultaneously crushed Aeron and forced him further down the enormous gullet."Aaargh! Better make that 20 or 30 seconds!" came the even fainter shout.Rand considered an enormous spell which would shear the creature's flesh off in a massive blast of lightning, but thought better of it.{House Rule - lightning damage gets transferred as half damage to anything inside a swallowed creature which is blasted, with no save}Instead, he concentrated, and a 20 foot long glowing spear formed in his hands, carving a groove along the tunnel roof before being lowered to stab at the titanic worm, which lashed its huge tail out at Rand's cohort, who succumbed to the venom and fell to the ground.Blows, both from within and without began to show their mark on the creature, but it continued to lash out at the party, narrowly missing Stedd with a bite from that enormous toothy maw, whilst the long barbed tail again lashed out, striking Halbrinn once again, this time weakening him considerably due to the venom.More spells lashed out, and Yvgeny and Stedd both punched at the giant worm for all that they were worth, before the monstrosity finally slumped, lifeless, to the floor. Aeron, screaming in pain as the weight of the creature slumped down upon him, continued to hack with a tiny dagger until he finally fell free with a wet slurping sound, acid draining onto the floor around him.Pulling their comrade free, the group set to the monster with sharp blades, tearing open its stomach to find if there was any treasure within.They were disgusted to find that, apart from digested meat and a terrible acidic stench, there were only a small handful of gems.They pulled back to a nearby cavern, and prepared to rest.{DM Note - 4 nasty combats in succession, and the group actually didn't notice a 5th walking almost directly past them. The toughest day they've had to day, and I can't help feeling that it's going to get tougher... Still, we're playing tonight, and I expect the party to reach Maermydra this session.}</blockquote>

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