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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 536726" data-attributes="member: 5137">The Broken Templewherein our heroes actually enter it.By the time Greppa and Merideth returned, Athan was resting against the rocks again, looking bored save for the slightly swollen bite marks and massive spider corpses lying on the ground. Merideth laid healing hands on him, despite his protestations of "it's just a scratch, really".And Greppa had a new trick. One at a time, he cast earth's strength and earth's skin on each of them. As he summoned the earth spirit into each of them, their skin darkened to rich sienna tones, their eyes turned to yellow agates, and heat flowed through their limbs. All three sighed - with heated blood and hardened skin, they felt invincible.Torches were lit, and they walked into the cave.-----The floor gently sloped beneath the tree, and resembled wide, naturally cut stone steps. Iron brackets on the walls held cracked and broken glass spheres. This was no natural cave.They penetrated perhaps twenty feet in, and what looked like eight feet down, when the tunnel opened up into a larger cavern, somewhere inside the cliff behind the tree. All three peered into the darkness beyond the torchlight, trying to penetrate the shadows, but they saw nothing.Then Greppa shrugged, drew a circle in the air, and incanted, "uil allas ger mar". Daylight, true sunlight, streamed from the stalactite-filled ceiling and filled much of the cavern.Athan and Merideth were too shocked to notice the 12 foot long brown-furred spider clinging to the far left wall, now revealed by the light. When the light filled the cave, it hissed and shot webbing from its abdomen at the most heroic looking of the three, Athan.Then, everything opened up at once. A swarm of fist-sized spiders dropped from the ceiling, Greppa began running towards a large pool of water visible in the center of the cave, and Merideth cooly pushed her burning torch into Athan's chest, burning away the webbing and killing some half dozen spiders that had dropped on him.Not that Athan minded. Earth's skin was more effective than hoped for, and neither the spider bites nor the flames hurt at all. The big spider immediately fled, and the trio set to work smashing the littler ones with spear, foot and spell.Greppa, weakened by the casting of daylight, asked to rest for a bit, and so they sat in the sun for about half an hour, watching the hole at the back of the cave carefully. While they were waiting, Greppa noticed something else.Where the daylight was directly hitting the broken globes, the glass was growing back. It was unsettling to watch, until one finished healing, and began to cast its own daylight. Then everyone started to smile."We can restore this temple!" Merideth was excited. Even Athan didn't manage to keep back a grin.So they rested, went back and let Greppa cast daylight on the entrance tunnel, and then they prepared to go through the hole at the back.Greppa cast daylight through the hole, and they charged in, spotting spiders everywhere, including the 12 foot brown one and... a massive, 15 foot black one that looked like the hell hunter, only bigger, and without the red rune on its back.As they ran in, it hissed something foul sounding, and Greppa's daylight winked out. In the pitch black of the deeper caves, the sounds of scurrying could be heard.</blockquote>

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