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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 562040" data-attributes="member: 5137">Broken TempleAthan, upon later reflection, was pretty sure he'd done the stupidest thing possible. When Greppa's daylight lit up the giant hell hunter, its twin shadow-serpent-spider-things, and the veritable sea of spiders... Athan hefted his second (now only) spear, and charged across the cavern at them all. Rather than be left alone at one end of the cavern, with the killing machine at the other, Merideth ran after him, but kept a careful distance.Still, stupidest things possible or not, it mostly worked. While the giant spider was trying to work its rear end backwards through the shrine's door and out of the sunlight, Athan skidded between the two serpent things, neatly beheading one with a powerful swipe of his spear and finishing the swing by stabbing it deep into the mouth of the other one. Merideth finished the second one with a hasty inflict, and then the spiders were swarming the two.Greppa held off for a hasty circle and sigil, and Uripedas burst into this realm from the great plains of Allas' realm. She was beautiful, a slender hawk with golden feathers and a faint rim of white fire at the edges. She took one look at Allas' broken temple and, screaming, flew at the giant hell hunter like a burning arrow.Then Greppa ran after the other two.-----Unfortunately, as heroic as all of this was, the hell hunter was not even close to done. Yes, there was a burning mote of divine rage flying around its head; yes, the spear-wielding bringer of death was making his way through the spider horde towards its tender bits... but it was thus far uninjured, and it had a cunning plan.When they all got close, it summoned pure, chill darkness from its black heart, to freeze them all where they stood. A cone of bleak shadow blasted the young heroes, stealing heat from their marrow...Merideth nearly died of it. Athan and Greppa suffered dearly. The only good thing to come of it was that the spiders on their bodies were now more of a cloak of brown and grey ice.And then the spider stepped out of the daylight and seemed to be swallowed up by the shadows inside the shrine. Athan, chilled, halfway to death's door, charged into the shrine after it, Uripedas flying over the wall to help.</blockquote>

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