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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drnuncheon" data-source="post: 579635" data-attributes="member: 96">Ahoke closes her eyes. "There goes the alliance. Didn't I /tell/ you guys to hold off on the looting until we saved the children?!" Her voice raises several octaves, probably more out of fear than anger.  She ummms, staring at the thing, knowing when she just /can't/ win. "Into the darkness! There's a tunnel on the other side!" After glancing at Sen-Jyu, and assuring herself that he is able to move, she starts to jog into said darkness.Faintly from the tunnel you hear, "Go back! Do not bring it here!"Harvester hears Ahoke's words and sees her running towards the tunnel. A quick glance towards Sen-Jyu confirms that the man is unharmed, relatively. The warrior's blades are scooped up as the priest beats feets into the darkness behind the dwarf.Sen-Jyu follows Harv upon confirming that his daisho are accounted for. In that moment's hesitation, it's clear that had the Harvester not taken them with him, Sen-Jyu would have killed or died for his blades.The dragon statue lumbers forward, around the bowl, leaving a tunnel open behind it leading into darkness. It is slow, and could be easily outrun - if it weren't blocking the entrance to the tunnel you are in.Harvester breathes hard after running down the tunnel for a distance, then slows, and stops. He looks at his companions and holds out Sen-Jyu's Daisho. "I think... these... are yours?"Ahoke runs into the tunnel, glancing over her shoulder as she does so. "Sorry," she says, still talking aloud to no one in the group, "But we don't have much choice." Noting that the tunnel was large enough to accomodate the dragon statue, she says, "Come on, keep going. Maybe we can find a smaller corridor!"Nodding and holding his side from where he collided with the wall, Sen-Jyu looks generally unhappy with the state of things. Accepting the daisho, he ties them onto his belt once more and follows Ahoke.Eerie words echo out of the tunnel in a serpentine hiss...as if quoting a scripture..."'Touch him only with thine thoughtssss, for he ssshall not be sssullied with thy earthly hand'...you ssshould have heeded the warningssss..."Harvester calls out to the voices, "What friggin warnings?? Nobody told us jack-diddly-squat!"  He too, follows after Sen-Jyu, and asks more quietly, "You need more healing, Sen? I'm almost out..."Ahoke barks out a grim laugh. "Ha! Now /you/ hear it too! I am /not/ insane. She keeps running.Behind you, the statue folds its wings slightly to enter the tunnel, crawling on its belly, its stone jaws open in a soundless roar. The wings brush the walls and send dirt and stone scattering. One hits a support pillar, and the sound of splintering wood is heard."Actually, you are..." Sen-Jyu rasps, wincing at the effort of keeping up, "but... now we're just becoming insane ourselves."Ahoke laughs wildly, continuing to run. "Well, at least if we bring the entire place down, we can stop the thanork from eating the children."Harvester slows down a bit, "Hang on, Sen... I'll try and give you one last bit of healin..."Sen-Jyu waves away Harvester's hand. "Save your faith, priest. I'll survive." He coughs up a bit of blood, on cue.Harvester casts a furtive glance over his shoulder, then shrugs at Sen-Jyu's dismissal, "A'ight... let's get the hells outta here then..." He continues to move faster, adjusting the pack and crossbow at his back and shoulder."Foollssss...it wil dessstroy uss all!" The voice is barely audible above the scraping of stone on stone.Ahoke, for one, hasn't slowed down a bit. "Let's lead it to the thanork, then! It can tear through them for awhile, and save us the effort.""And," rasps Sen-Jyu, "you know where to find the thanork?"Harvester continues to trot after Ahoke, and calls out to her, ignoring the voices cursing them, "Go easier, Ahoke... save our strength... we're gonna need it."Ahoke slows, but only a little. "I have strength to spare... and yes, I do. They're up in the lair."CRASH! The stone dragon continues its ponderous way down the tunnel, splintering support beams as it goes.The tunnel begins to narrow, and side tunnels branch off of it."All right," says Sen-Jyu, amiably enough. "So you have an idea as to how to get us past the dragon into the lair."Harvester mutters, 'Why don't you talk to your friends... tell 'em they shoulda told us about the damned statue..."Ahoke tosses her head, glaring at Sen-Jyu and Harvester impartially. "Well, /my/ idea didn't involve wrenching out the thing's eyes while there were still children to be saved, and you can talk to them yourself."The tunnel abruptly ends.Harvester says, "Sh*t!"The stone colossus approaches, rocks clattering to the tunnel floor.</blockquote>

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