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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2516365" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON08/20/05SEGMENT 102“What do you see?” calls up Sharshek.He can hear the wolverine snarl and Black sands give a reply of at last.  Sharshek turns for the rope they used to climb up when the Shifter warns of something in the dust.  Their torch (dangerous) reveals four slowly moving humanoids.  They wear cloaks and have no facial features.  As they get close the three of them feel fatigued.“How many are there?” yells out Cedious as the first metallic spider springs from column to column to reach him.“Four” yells Taskerdoo from the wolverine as he begins to caste spells to protect both himself and his mount.“Five …no Six.” Yells Black sands.The fast spiders attack.  They reach out with their multi-fingered pincers.  The pincer tips separate into even spaced fingers, which then begin to spin and hum ominously.  The Wolverine snarls as it is scrapped by the spinning blades (chain saw).   Twin compressed air driven darts fire at Cedious.  They miss but now Cedious rethinks this as he quips “I can do that also.”The shifter takes several hits as three of the four creatures strike him.  Vale avoids a blow then yells for support from Sharshek.  Sharshek swings, hits then crumbles to the ground in a heap.  Vale castes a spell onto himself and goes to his fallen comrade.The shifter strikes at another of these creatures.  Instead of bleeding blood the creature bleeds sand.  Vale can not awaken the human fighter.  “There have best not be more of these.” Mumbles the cleric as he reassures himself that Sharshek is even alive.Cedious takes down one metal spider and Black sands the other.  “Are these house Cannith?” asks Black sand looking at the mechanically and magic creatures.  At this point, the Wolverine, Logan, (I know- corny I agree but its Bill’s critter and character) destroys two and seriously damages a third.  He hears the shifter snarling and SHIFTING to defend himself.  The 1 ton dire beast turns and leaps from the top onto the closest humanoid attacker.  It bursts into a cloud of sand and dust.  The sand-based creatures are no match to the wolverine’s great strength and savagery.  Soon everything is quiet again.  Figuring there is potential profit here, the barbarian places each broken robot spider into his new bag of holding.  Cedious searches the roof for anything else and finds nothing.  He returns to the floor with everyone else.  Sharshek eventually wakes with a solid slap in the face by the halfling whom stands still to have everyone acknowledge that he could awaken the fighter on his own too long as the fighter grabs for him with his bloody nose.With a sore head, Cedious searches for a door on another side.  He finds one.  Everyone gathers around him.  “See anything?” asks Taskerdoo.“ahhh …nope.”All but the shifter move away.  That was not a confident reply.Cedious touches the door and searing hot air swirls out.  The shifter takes a direct hit but the others back off just enough to take only a small amount of damage.  The burning cloud continues to cook the shifter even after he succumbs to the heat.  Cedious pushes on the door further hoping to get by before becoming burnt himself.  The door opens fully and the hot gases stop.The shifter is dead.OOC:  Can’t we ever keep henchmen alive? Is said by several The few items of worth on the shifter are burnt and heavily damaged.  They leave him outside the stone structure and enter.They all stop quickly.The room here measures 40x40x40.  Outside it measured 60x40x20.   The druid calls up detect magic.  The entire structure radiates in many magics – especially Transmutation magic.  He is forced to turn it off as the swirls of radiated magic blind and distract him greatly.There are three other doors here.  One on each wall.  One of wood, one of iron and the other of stone.  The druid goes to the one of wood.  The moment he touches it the door melds into the wall.  A face appears that seems to first mock him then scream as it spreads and slides up the wall.  Arms and body parts also grow from the very walls.  He turns and sees the door they entered through is gone and has also been replaced by the scene of melted and fused faces and limbs.  Within twenty seconds it is done.   The four walls are now a mass of faces and limbs that match goblins, demons, humanoids and other creatures.  The floor is 75 x75 feet and the ceiling is this also.  A perfect cube.  Four red “X”’s are on the floor also.Black sand runs to an “x” along with Cedious.  Four of the five are on one and Taskerdoo fears something happening to him.  Nothing.  They all look at each other and the look of “WTF”. (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)“What did you do?” asks Black sands of Cedious.</blockquote>

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