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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2589223" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON09/17/05SEGMENT 116“ Living Stone & Spun Webs”Even as Cedious begins to climb down from the doorway nestled within the mass of sculpted stone mouths, faces and body parts, several sets of eyes watch him.  Once down he waves the others to follow. Once everyone has climbed down they stop to discuss which door to use when suddenly several sculptures rise and swoop at them.  Five gargoyles strike from their hidden perches.The creatures make the mistake of landing.  Cedious is quick to recover and strikes at the closest creature.  Logan, the crazed animal companion Dire Wolverine pounds another creature into the ground.  Soon, four of the five creatures are destroyed leaving only the one.  It goes down quickly after that.  Cedious finds a Platinum and gold Bracelet worn by one of the creatures for some strange reason.  At this point nothing surprises him.  They decide on a door and exit this room.  The magical hallway that connects the rooms together seems simple.  Cedious searches for gravity traps carefully as he crosses it.  Even the others walk softly just in case up becomes down and down becomes up.The door opens and they find a forest setting with thick webs suspended between the trees.  “Spiders.“ says Cedious almost in boredom.  He begins to reach for his Handy Haversack as Taskerdoo looks over his shoulder while on Logan.  “Are those bodies within the webs?”“Yup ….at least for the moment.”  Cedious pulls out the Decanter of Endless water.  He points it at the closest webs that do seem to have three small bodies within it and releases a geyser of water into the webs.  The high-pressure water stream tears and tugs at the webbing until it rips free of the trees and itself.  The three bodies fall loudly to the ground in a rain of web and water.Cedious turns the volume down to show the others what he has done.  They look and see more bodies and objects within the largest tree before them.  Items range from tiny to large; a few inches to ten feet.  “Must have been big spiders to haul some of that in here.” Says Vale looking from the doorway.  Taskerdoo looks and adds, “By the looks of those spiders, I’d say they teamed up on a few people.”  Cedious pops his head back out and sees four then a fifth large monstrous spider appear within the webs and the trees.  “Water didn’t do it-  maybe this will.” Says Taskerdoo as he concentrates.“What are you up to?” says Cedious with some concern.  He knows that the druid / mage was working on new spells….A green bead forms before the halfling druid / mage then streaks into the large tree.  FROOOOOOSH! And squeals of burnt spiders pierce the air as webs, spiders and anything within the webs catch on fire.“Nice.” Says Cedious as he turns the water off completely and prepares to enter the room.Testing a new theory on the rooms, Taskerdoo recasts spider climb onto himself / Logan.  They calmly walk down the illusion-covered wall.  It appears they are walking on thin air.The spiders however recover and most attack by charging down the trees to the three on the ground.  Taking a page from Taskerdoo, Black sands leaps down onto a spider.  Its burnt body cracks opens under his ½ giant frame. Sharshek fires a longbow but misses.  Vale comes up to him and motions for him to go first.Cedious has mixed luck with the spiders but Logan wades through them.  Black sands is distracted as he searches the webs for treasure.  Sharshek drops to the ground with a loud sound of air escaping his lungs on impact.  Vale is next but slips and falls (slipped on water no doubt) to the ground below.  He seriously hurts himself.  Sharshek covers him as he checks on himself.The five large spiders are destroyed but hundreds or even thousands of smaller ones fall from the trees.  Cedious washes them away using his water canon.  Once they feel safe and Vale has used some healing magic on himself they look into the three small bodies first.  The dried husks look to have once been goblins.  Cedious now investigates the large form.  He looks carefully and sees that it is moving.“Uh….guys….”A large and thick hand covered with webbing moves freely through the webs.  Between the water, fire and this form’s great strength, the form becomes free and falls to the ground with a thunderous boom.  Slowly it gets up on two feet.  It is as wide as high (10 feet) and moves forward.“Great….” Mutters the halfling rogue as he prepares to battle this new foe.</blockquote>

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