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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3614275" data-attributes="member: 11146">Double-checking that everything has a place and that each piece of essential gear is properly stowed within said place, Arden at the last draws and fits a bolt to her crossbow.  Remaining ensconced on the stone stairs, the small brown-skinned gnome readies her bow, the crosshairs of the weapon triggered to the room below.The stairs' sidewall is too high for Arden to see or fire over; if she wants to get off a shot, she'll need to go all the way down to the bottom of the stairs so that she can at least peer around the corner.With Bird perched back in the guardian room atop the low stone brazier, Phud stalks down the short corridor and has a look into the main chamber.  The temple doors leading to the water and the ferryman outside are thrown open, but the portcullis opposite his position has been relowered.  The kuo-toa bodies slain but yesterday have been drug away, through the now-closed portcullis and down the darkened hall.  Phud's orcish blood does not fail him; despite the dark room, his eyes make out clean detail.  The double stone doors marked with lightening bolts chiseled into the stonework along the north wall are, like their southern brethren, thrown open inward.  Phud makes out four kuo-toan soldiers barreling their way down the now-open hall from the north.  Differently garbed and armed from the monk-like sylphs the companions bested yesterday, these four frogmen sport banded mail.  The front two wield longswords and shields, while the rear pair of the foursome are armed not with shields but with longspears.  Spying Phud standing in the hallway, the front kuo-toa rasps out a singular but violent croak and points."C'mon ya lilly livered, yellow bellied, lobster shelled Varmint-lickers! Yer mammas were Mollusks!"  From back in the guardian room, Wyleck shouts out a taunting welcome to the approaching kuo-toas.  Though it does not sear his flesh, the flame flickering in the halfling's bare hand dances in merry anticipation of a fight to come.Moving down the stairway into the guardian room to stand behind the hulking half-orc bouncer moments before Phud heads out of the room into the hallway, Rowan quickly weaves a protective ward about himself.  Noting that the dwarf is busy doing similar while also drawing a heartily crafted warhammer, Rowan peers down the hall but sees nothing other than Wyleck hunkered by the doorway and Phud standing at the end of the short hall.Initiative:Arden 15Phud 15Kuo-toan guards 14Wyleck 8Rowan 7Gerak 3</blockquote>

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