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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2715604" data-attributes="member: 18280">From above, they could hear a voice crying out faintly.  “Horsom?  Horsom?  Are you here?”  Fellan Margrib had returned.  At the sound of the voice, Glom looked up, momentarily distracted.  Kregor shouted, "Horsom, you might want to form a second rank above should we not be able to hold it here!"   Even as he did so, the creature scuttled quickly to the ceiling, moving at a swift pace toward the exit.  Horsom drew two more arrows from his quiver regardless.  He knew that he could do more damage with his arrows than with his axe.  Besides, if the Hisser decided to take to the ceiling to make its escape, there was little they could do to prevent it…save by hanging on to its tail!  The image of the stoic orc priest flailing about as he gripped the beast's tail in a bearhug caused Horsom to grunt with amusement...but his amusement turned to alarm as he realized the creature had done just that!  Horsom let fly two arrows, each of which went wide of the swiftly moving creature.  Horsom moved closer to the entrance, hoping to make a leap and grab at the creature as it raced by.Selanil cursed loudly when the abomination entered the chamber and his arrow missed.  Hoping to have better success, but against his better judgments, he closed the distance with the thing, angling for a better shot.  He fired again, hoping to find a lucky weak point on the thing.  His arrow went right through the creature, breaking on the stones of the ceiling!Kregor watched in disbelief as the beast pulled itself into the chamber, then scuttled up the walls to the ceiling.  He gritted his teeth, about to swing at the monster, when suddenly he gave an angry shout and pelted down the corridor the monster had come from.Dain, who had been standing near to Kregor, went more cautiously down the corridor after the half-orc priest.  Overhead, the creature slipped out of the hole in the ceiling and disappeared.</blockquote>

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