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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 538162" data-attributes="member: 5137">The Broken TempleEarth's skin was the only thing that saved them. The smallest spiders had difficulties biting through their hardened flesh, and even the larger spiders had problems finding purchase for their fangs. Still, the situation was bad.Greppa could feel almost all of his strength draining from him as the twelve foot mountain spider near-paralyzed him with its bite... and he was suddenly grateful for the small extra boost of earth's strength that kept him standing upright.Infernal webbing filled the room, making movement or tactics of any sort almost imopssible. And regardless of how difficult the spiders found biting, they were swarming over the heroes and continuing to try.Finally, Greppa managed to cast daylight again, and the heroes got a good look. Each of them was covered in brown and grey-furred spiders that would have been harmless enough if they were not organized by the hell hunter. Greppa was pinned by a massive brown-and-black spider that easily weighed eight times what he did. Merideth was completely trapped in the webbing, and struggling only seemed to make it worse.And then, the heroes finally had a stroke of luck. Although fire did not burn the webbing... sunlight did. The trio took some delicate, first degree burns from the brief flames, but the spiders took it far, far worse, being unprotected by the earth's skin. Almost all of the smaller spiders died, screaming, burning and running. The larger ones (and the large on standing on Greppa) squealed, but continued to fight.Until Athan, enraged, hurled his spear the distance between himself and Greppa, and completely buried it in the big one's torso... by way of its head. The spider lurched off and expired quietly.Greppa, freed again, crafted horrible revenge on the hell hunter in the form of a summoned fire elemental, which streaked onto the hell hunter's skin and began gleefully using up the essence Greppa had given it to burn, burn, burn.The hell hunter finally braved the direct daylight, and attacked Greppa. Perhaps it should have gone after Athan, but it still harbored some idea that spell casters were worse to let live.Two spears, an inflict moderate wounds and another fire elemental, and it finally died. Greppa could barely stand, and Merideth was badly injured as well, but no more spiders were coming for the moment, having retreated further back into the temple area.The room through the hole was even larger than the first, and at the edge of the light the heroes could see pillars, and the stone-paved beginning of the temple itself. On either side of the hole were a pair of statues of warrior-servants to Allas.The heroes retreated to the cavern with the pool of water, and Greppa used his last reserves to fill the room with sunlight. They rested there, and fervently hoped that the big hell hunter was the last.Well, except perhaps for Athan. He was looking forward to it.</blockquote>

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