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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sniktch" data-source="post: 478392" data-attributes="member: 7704">The sentries, pt. 3Malobar flew back down the tunnel until he came to the standing form of Jack, still snoring peacefully, his armor propping him up.  The zombie stood behind the dwarf where it had been ordered to remain.  The elf landed in front of the dwarf and began smacking him across the face, shouting, “Wake up!  Wake up!”Jack snorted and his eyes fluttered open, staring at the rogue dubiously.  “What’s goin on?  Where is everyone?”“They are fighting for their lives against the drow while you are back here catching a nap,” the bleeding elf explained.  “Now, I could use some healing, if you don’t mind.”The dwarf focused on Malobar and seemed to notice his wounds for the first time.  He laid hands upon his injured companion and prayed to the Lord of Battle, restoring a significant portion of the elf’s lost life, then pushed past him and started running down the hall.  The elf flew after him, exclaiming, “Wrong way!  We need to get out of here! They were too well prepared and now they know we’re here.”Jack ignored him and ran on, meeting Quinn as she clambered back out of the first shaft.  She pulled herself over the edge and sat gasping for air before speaking.  “Artimas can’t get Welby to pull out and Grick went back down to help.  We have to get back down there.”  Jack climbed over the edge and the two dwarves raced off to aid their friends, leaving a disgusted Malobar hovering in the cavern.  “Can’t we make up our minds?  We’re all going to be killed,” the elf lamented before following.*****Welby ran forward, his entire being focused on the desire to slay and maim.  Artimas and Grick rushed to catch up with him and overtook him just as a hiss sounded from the darkness and another ravening bolt of energy split the air.  The halfling and monk dove to either side and Artimas absorbed the full blast, but not before he saw, briefly illuminated, the wand wielding dark elf that cast the bolt.“This way,” he directed, changing the course of his flight and sending a fireball in answer with his own wand.  The cave was illuminated briefly by the broiling sphere of flames, and they saw two opponents standing near the edge of a cliff – one archer and the floating mage.  The chilling laughter of drow filled the room as the flames washed over them but failed to overcome their innate resistance.  Another tongue of lightning smashed into Artimas and two arrows thudded into the halfling’s chest.Welby charged in the direction of his foes and they came into his range of vision.  The drow wizard flew off the ground when it spotted him and dove over the side of the cliff and out of sight, but the archer stood his ground and let fly with two more arrows that bit into Welby’s flesh.  In his current frenzy the little warrior felt no pain and finished his charge, cutting across the drow’s side and exposing its ribs with the powerful blow.  Grick caught up to the halfling and launched a double-fisted punch at the archer, catching it full in the chest and knocking it back and over the side of the cliff.  The dark elf let out a long wailing scream that slowly faded from their range of hearing.It grew very quiet then and the companions realized that they had driven the drow off, at least for now.  Welby moved up to the chasm and peered over the side, then gasped in amazement and awe at the sight before him.  The canyon dropped straight down more than five hundred feet to a raging river.  Stretched across the cliff wall was a spider web of epic proportions, each strand bigger in diameter than Grick’s barrel-like chest.  The strands stretched back and forth between a series of caves set into the cliff wall at varying heights.  The entire web had been decorated with a great number of permanent faerie fires and danced with an ever-shimmering array of blues, greens, and violets.  It was the most beautiful sight the halfling had ever seen, and, considering its occupants, the most disturbing.“Whuzzat?” Grick grunted, pointing at the nearest cave.Welby looked and saw the flying wizard land and begin conversing with a group of drow.  The discussion grew very animated, the floating mage often gesturing toward the cave the three party members watched from.  Soon a group of a dozen dark elves moved onto the web and began scaling up towards the heroes.Welby backed up from the edge and regarded his friends.  “Now we run,” the halfling informed them and bolted, sprinting for the exit.Next:  More mayhem coming!  Beyond the wall of stone, Jack is feeling down, and Welby goes solo!  (How low?  So low you can hardly see what he's doing!  Ba-dum dum)</blockquote>

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