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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 114937" data-attributes="member: 93">Ulfang, June 3rd, AE 420Meanwhile, Aris and Reana are trying to figure out where to look for Jalea.“I say we should try the taverns and inns near Kentfield’s house,” Aris says.“Do you think Jalea would be foolish enough to go somewhere that close to Kentfield?” Reana asks.“Think about who we’re dealing with here,” Aris replies.Reana has no argument for that, and the two take off for the neighborhood that most of the local nobles call home.  They decide to start closer to Kentfield’s house and work their way further out, so they start with the small tavern where they hid out while Reana got attacked  by the summoned Griffon a few days back.  “Seen any elves around here recently?” Reana asks of one of the waiters, offering a couple gold coins to prompt a memory.“Not recently,” he replies, palming the shiny coins.  “Sorry.”The Ranger and Bladesinger leave the tavern dejectedly, prepared for a long night of asking mostly pointless question of people that don’t have the anwers they’re looking for.That is, up until the hear the screams suddenly filling the street.They both turn to see the late night strollers running in all direction, looking for cover.  Standing in the center of the street is an immense spider-creature, more construct than alive, with cleaver-like claws and four eyes.  It has a saddle, but no rider.“What the…”  Aris begins.He is interrupted as red and gray beams shoot out from the thing’s eyes.  The red beam hits Reana, the gray beam hits Aris.  Reana is engulfed in flame, and seared badly.“Aris, you alright?” she asks of the elf, who is standing there, stock-still.Aris has been turned to stone.Reana next several utterances would make a sailor proud.  She dives behind the low stone wall that surrounds the tavern’s outside seating area, and fires the fireball arrow from Batista’s bow into the spider-thing.  Out of the corner of her eye she sees a horse change form into that of a red-haired woman.  The woman gestures in her direction, and magic missiles fly from her finger tips, hitting the Ranger.  The spider thing also approaches, and brings a cleaver-claw down on her shoulder, drawing heavy blood.Reana retreats into the tavern, where patrons are scattering to all corners.“At least the thing can’t reach me in here,” she thinks.She continues out the back door of the tavern, leaving the Aris statue standing in the center of the street, and begins sneaking back along the side alley to see if she can get behind either of her foes.Back at the Inn, Jovah has arrived, at full flying speed.  Seeing there is nothing he can do to help Gavin and Corwin get out of the bubble of force that has them entrapped, he begins flying around the city in ever widening circles, trying to see if he can locate Aris and Reana.  Finally, his eye is drawn to the smoke from Reana’s fireball arrow, and he zooms over there.Jovah has fly AND expeditious retreat going at this point!  Speedy gnome!He flies down, and sees Aris transformed to stone, and Reana nowhere to be seen.  He watches as the red-haired woman enters the tavern, and then notices the saddle on the spider-thing.“How convenient,” he thinks to himself, and lands in the saddle.The spider-thing can’t reach its own back very well, and it barely seems to notice the gnome at this point.  Reana comes around the edge of the building, not noticing Jovah in the thing’s saddle (or not believing hereyes if she did), and sneaks into the tavern behind the unsuspecting red-haired woman.  But not before the spider-thing shoots off another eye-beam, this one electrical in nature.“Can’t have that,” Jovah says, and he whips a spare cloak out of his back pack and wraps it around the thing’s head, covering it’s eyes.Reana lets her opponent have it, swinging hard multiple times.  She staggers back a few feet, and unleashes another magic missile at the half-elven Ranger.  Outside, the spider-thing fires off its fire eye-beam, burning Jovah’s cloak to ash.“That wasn’t very effective,” he says, pulls out his heavy mace, and smashes it down on the thing’s skull.The red-haired woman steps back again from Reana’s whirling blades, and slowly fades out of view, shouting a command to the spider-thing at the same time.  Reana swings her sword’s half-heartedly in her enemies direction, but they don’t touch anything.Outside, the spider turns around, and begins making its way south-east, through alleys and back streets, with Jovah still sitting in its saddle.  The gnome comes to his senses and decides to vacate the area just in case it plans on taking him somewhere he’d really rather not be (like, say, the Abyss).Inside the tavern, Reana tosses a handful of gold coins to the head waiter.“Sorry about the damages,” she says, and walks out the door.</blockquote>

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