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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 558324" data-attributes="member: 5137">The Broken TempleAfter resting for nearly a full day, and prepping the Earth spells on everyone, the young heroes were ready to go another round. Athan gripped a spear tightly, the other slung at his back (he'd refused to dig through the body of the large brown spider to get the third back). Merideth nodded - she was ready. They stepped into the next room, with sunlight on Greppa's lips (they figured they would get some additional surprise if they stepped in at the same moment as the sunlight).Yes, they were ready for anything.As they stepped through, Greppa never finished his spell. Webbing, coating in some paralytic fluid, dropped him the second he started casting, and he slumped down, his eyes still open but unable to move or speak to cast. And a pair of half-ton brown mountain spiders dropped on top of Athan and Merideth, biting painfully through their Earth's Skin protections and injecting their toxin... Athan seemed unaffected, but Merideth was pinned completely as much of her Greppa-enhanced strength fled her limbs.That left Athan. Bellowing a roar at the top of his lungs, he physically lifted and slammed the offending, twelve foot spider into the cavern wall, severely injuring it, and began pulling out his spear.Merideth's spider, meanwhile, had finished webbing her up, and bounded after Athan as well, just as a thin ray of spiralling flame just missed Athan and melted a section of cavern wall. Athan ignored the two giant spiders biting him, and hurled his spear at the source of the flames. A meaty thunk and angry hiss answered. Then, lacking any other plan, he charged into the darkness, pulling his other spear as he did so. The mountain spiders followed.Merideth cursed, unable to get out of the webbing. She'd not lit a torch... "Well, we've got the sunlight now, right?" she'd said. Her cursing was not lady-like.The fight in the darkness sounded brutal... for the spider. As the paralysis wore off Greppa, he brought sunlight into the room, to witness Athan hauling a 900 pound, deceased hell hunter by two of its legs towards the other two. When he got it back to them, his primal rage drained from him, along with any color his face might have had."I think.. I.. overextended.. my.." Athan collapsed.Greppa freed Merideth, and she healed Athan, but he was still somewhat ashen faced. They rested for a few minutes at most, arguing whether to leave or stay. True to their adrenaline-charged youth, they decided to push on, despite Athan's weariness.Athan tied one of their torches to the messy spear, and hurled it through the cavern darkness, until it thunked into the far side of the cavern, nearly 60 yards away, and Greppa cast sunlight at that point...Revealing a monstrous, bloated, 20+ foot wide hell hunter and a veritable sea of spiders surrounding it, at the steps of the cavern shrine to Allas.The three youths stared at a nightmare come to life. "Hhsethmah hahh soth" it hissed, and a pair of serpent-shaped shadows with eight legs branching from their heads formed from the shadows near it.</blockquote>

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