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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1471002" data-attributes="member: 945">Wow.  *sniff*If that's not an incentive to keep writing it, I don't know what is.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm grossly behind, but I would like to finish it.  Considering I don't have anything to do at work today (or at least next to nothing), I can try to post some more.  Here goes.________________The party debates amongst themselves as to their plans for how to break into the canyon and rescue the avatar.  Rath takes to the sky since his fly is still active, and examines the layout of the canyon.  (ed: I'll upload a map later)  Flying back down, Rath asks Merenya if she knows where the avatar is located.  Drawing on the ground, Merenya maps out the canyon.  "There are two caves leading off the canyon, with entrances here and here (pointing with her stick on the ground).  The avatar is held here", pointing to a place off the left-most wall.  "That's not that far in", Rath observes.  "That's easy for you to say", Bax says, "those spiders will eat us alive once we enter those webs."  "Yes", Rath says, rubbing his chin, "I have a plan"Finding a safe place to throw up a rope trick, the party rests, and the spellcasters memorize a specific allotment of spells they believe will ensure success.After resting, the party emerges, and they stand at the entrance of the canyon, before the walls and darkness of the webs before them.  "Is this plan of yours going to work?", Mournax asks.  "We're about to find out", Rath says, calmly.  Positioning herself just so, Merenya casts a wall of fire that cuts a diagonal path nearly all the way to the cave entrance where the avatar is held.  The fire from the wall burns and spiders scatter every which way, and shriek from the intense heat of the wall.  Bax follows this up with a Haste spell.  Nytor, and Rath cast some extra protective magics, and Merenya imbues herself and two others with protection from vermin.  "Remember, we'll need to walk in a tight formation to take full advantage of these protections.  We run in, locate the avatar, and run out."Merenya drops the wall of fire, and in its wake, a clear path through smoldering webs provides an easy access to the cavern entrance - a funnel of webs that leads into a dark hole in the side of the canyon wall.Running through the webs, the party is unmolested, though following quickly behind this is a literal sea of spiders that closes in on them.  "Hurry!", yells Bax.  Looking up, the party is horrified by what they see - hundreds of spiders hanging from tendrils of webs slowly descending upon them.  "Stay close!", Rath yells, "these wards will help us!"Reaching the cavern entrance quickly, the party is greeted by sticky webs along the ground and the walls.  "Quick, inside!", Nytor yells.  Mournaxe and Ivo pull themselves through the webs with relative ease, but others struggle with it.  Nytor casts a Fire Shield to help burn through the webs.  The others hold up the rear flank, and ready themselves against an oncoming sea of spiders moving up the path behind them.  Already they can see that spiders are repairing the damaged webs behind them.  "Hurry!", yells Bax.</blockquote>

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