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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2758783" data-attributes="member: 143">I'm sure I could keep writing stuff for the Travelers, but in all honesty, the epic levels just don't do it for me. I don't know how tabletop players can run epics without having a CPA handy just to manage all the stats and paperwork. * * * * * Chapter 503“We must find another way to get back up to the city,” Arun said.    “Your companion,” Beorna said.  “Clinger can take you up, and then come back for us.”Arun frowned.  “I will try, but the walls of the shaft are almost sheer; there are limits even to what he can do.”“I can assist here,” Umbar said.  He lifted his arms, spreading wide his shield and hammer, his eyes closing as he intoned the rough syllables of a dwarvish prayer.  The chant went on for several seconds before a rumbling in the ground startled them, and they retreated from the spot where Umbar stood.  A moment later, a rough humanoid form, a good eight feet in height, rose up out of the ground before the priest.  The earth elemental bowed to the cleric, who addressed it in the Terran tongue. “The elemental will bear you up the shaft,” Umbar said to Arun. “It won’t be able to carry more than one of us at a time…”“It will only remain long enough to take you; bring a rope to toss down to us below, and we will follow.”“But...”“There is no time, warrior!  The medusa must be stopped.  Go!  We will follow behind as swiftly as we can.”Arun nodded, accepting the rope from Hodge and stepping forward toward the elemental.  The creature did not hesitate, taking up the paladin and treading ponderously into the shaft, ducking to pass through the low threshold of the entry.  The elemental immediately started up the shaft, its legs sinking into the stone as though they were soft sand, using its bond with the earth to carry it upward, its upper body holding Arun clear as it ascended. The ascent seemed to take an eternity, although consciously Arun knew it was only a little over a minute.  The elemental deposited him in the doorway at the top end of the shaft, and then vanished back into the surrounding stone. Arun wasted no time tying off the end of the coil of rope to the nearby doorjam before unwrapping it and tossing it back into the shaft.  It had been a thick coil, well over a hundred feet—but was it enough to reach the bottom of the shaft?  If only he’d had the foresight to bring the flying carpet, despite its bulk… but no, it remained in secure storage in the Temple of Helm above. The paladin shook his head.  He was wasting time, and there was no time to delay.  He already had a good idea of where the medusa was going; rising, he drew his sword, its brilliant glow banishing all shadows and doubts.  Making haste, he started back toward the shaft that led back to the surface.</blockquote>

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