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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 1895862" data-attributes="member: 143">Chapter 279The companions did not waste any time savoring their relatively easy victory.  After checking the room for further threats, and healing the minor acid burns suffered in the brief exchange with the demodand, the adventurers gathered before the door on the far side of the chamber.  As usual, Mole and Zenna each examined it for dangers of a mundane and magical nature, respectively, and then Arun dragged the heavy portal open, revealing another corridor beyond. This passage only progressed a short distance, perhaps ten feet, before reaching another intersection.  Corridors branched off from the right and left, and continued forward a short distance before ending in another iron door, this one partially open to reveal blackness beyond.  The passages were tight, each only about five feet across.   “I don’t like it,” Dannel said.  “More narrow tunnels.  This would be a good place for an ambush; too many hiding places for our friend the wizard...”Beorna started to push past him.  “Only one way to find out...”“If that last battle taught us anything, it’s the advantage of scouting ahead,” Zenna began.  “It would be foolish now to return to blindly stumbling forward...” “Wait!” Mole said.  “I’ve got an idea!” The templar looked at her dubiously, but Mole’s eagerness was evident as she reached into her bag of tricks again.  She drew out the fuzzy ball, and tossed it out into the corridor.  The magical object grew into the form of a sleek, muscular wolf, who turned and looked at the gnome expectantly.  “Go check and see if there’s an ambush!” she said, pointing down the hallway.  The magical wolf probably did not understand her speech, but it apparently apprehended the gist of what she wanted, for it turned and padded off toward the intersection. “I’m not sure I approve of this,” Shensen said with a frown. The wolf interrupted whatever response Mole would have made, for it abruptly stopped right at the point where the passages intertwined.  Its gaze was fixed on the half-open doorway, and it growled, clearly sensing something there. A dark shadow moved in the depths beyond the open door.  Zenna had just enough time to shout out a warning—“Enemy magic!”—before the walls, floor... even the threshold of the doorway separating the room from the corridor distended and shifted, and dozens of long, rubbery tentacles exploded from the bare rock, eagerly lunging out at them, entwining themselves around the surprised companions.</blockquote>

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