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<blockquote data-quote="Cafu" data-source="post: 6267821" data-attributes="member: 6692807"><p>After that the mask fell silent. We formed up in front of the cave and then John went forward. He was very careful around the entrance, examining it quite thoroughly; a little while later, there was a very loud noise and then John ran back, sporting a large bruise on his forearm.</p><p> </p><p>“There is a long narrow shaft leading down into the depths but there is a walkway with handholds next to it; those not wearing armour should be all right.”</p><p> </p><p>He turned to the warriors:</p><p> </p><p>“If you are wearing heavy armour I would have been worried but both of you have those magical boots which should allow you to walk on the ice. There is also a magical wall across the entrance but it is made of sound. That was the noise you heard; I got too close it. It hurt.”</p><p> </p><p>He frowned, obviously puzzled:</p><p> </p><p>“Faden, how can you make a wall of sound?”</p><p> </p><p>I thought about it:</p><p> </p><p>“Well, theoretically…….”</p><p> </p><p>Longhelim interrupted:</p><p> </p><p>“Both of you! Please not now! What’s far more important is, can you get rid of it?”</p><p> </p><p>To John, I said:</p><p> </p><p>“It’s powerful magic.”</p><p> </p><p>Turning to Longhelim, I said:</p><p> </p><p>“Yes; but I suggest that we cast a few spells on ourselves first. Whoever is in charge here will be down at the bottom of that pit. I can put my usual defence on the warriors; the one that gives them protection against weapons. There are also a few other things I can do.”</p><p> </p><p>John added:</p><p> </p><p>“Yes, I’ll also put a spell on Victor; it will protect him against mental compulsion and manipulation and it’ll protect people around him as well. I will also put a spell on Drudge which will allow him to walk on air; much better for him as an archer.”</p><p> </p><p>“I’ll put that spell on you as well, John,” added Felix. “There are likely to be any number of traps on the way down there and walking on air will help you search for them.”</p><p> </p><p>Thus bolstered, I then turned to Felix, but the priest was already ahead of me and was taking out some spell components. He took out a small pebble and taking a few moments to enchant it, suddenly the whole area went quiet around us. He had read my mind.</p><p> </p><p>John went ahead of us as we entered into the cave and had a better look at the walkway and the shaft leading down at a steep angle. It was a deep, dark, opening lined with ice, almost like a child’s slide, except that I did not want to think about what was waiting at the bottom. As described there was a walkway by its side with hand holds designed to ease descent; despite these, it was still very dangerous and for someone who was not trained, it was going to be extremely difficult to keep their feet; something I proved almost immediately as I slipped and almost tumbled down the walkway; the only thing that saved me was the rope that we had wisely tied between Longhelim and myself. John was laughing for all he was worth, but silently within his magic pebble; I shot him a dirty look. He just pirouetted in mid air and then carefully moved forward again.</p><p> </p><p>We all followed him down carefully but then we saw that John stiffened and seemed to be completely still. Fortunately, we had also tied a rope around him and thus reeled him back to us, to find that that he was still and motionless. I examined him and determined that he would return to us in moments but then shuddered at the unpleasantness of the trap: someone carefully making their way down the walkway, suddenly rendered motionless by a magical trap and moments later sent tumbling helplessly down the shaft.</p><p> </p><p>John came to as predicted and explained:</p><p> </p><p>“There’s a magical symbol down further down. I only caught a glimpse of it but that’s all you need for that kind of magic. It’s spent most of its strength now that I have been affected but I dread to think just how more of them have been cast on this walkway. We need someone or something to set them off.”</p><p> </p><p>Drudge immediately began rummaging in his pack:</p><p> </p><p>“I have just the thing,” he said as he took out his little figurine of a bear.</p><p> </p><p>Of course! It was such a clever idea.</p><p> </p><p>Felix was also grinning and it was obvious that there was some mind to mind conversation going on as Drudge was saying something to the bear and then the creature stepped on to the shaft and literally slid down the ice into the darkness, once another spell of silent magic was cast on one of its paws.</p><p> </p><p>I thought that should affect any symbols quite efficiently. We followed up fairly carefully but with the exception that Longhelim was now carrying me; it may have been far less dignified but it was far safer.</p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, the walkway was not as steep as we thought and we arrived at the bottom. The shaft led to a narrow cave with walls made of ice, a light sprinkling of snow on the floor and a small patch of ice at the far end. The whole area was glowing and as we arrived, an apparition became visible above the small patch of ice. It was that of an old man, with a skull mask of a bear, so old and yellowed that for a moment it was almost impossible to discern the difference between the bear skull and his face. He probably slept with that thing on his head.</p><p> </p><p>He began to talk. Unfortunately, it was impossible for us to hear him as we were still within a magical silence. He stopped and then began to talk again. Mentally, I asked Longhelim:</p><p> </p><p>“What’s he saying?”</p><p> </p><p>“I don’t know but I think he’s probably threatening us; in a very dramatic manner.”</p><p> </p><p>Then, his face twisting in frustration as if he realised that we couldn’t hear what he was saying, he made a dramatic gesture with his hand and two huge frost worms erupted from the ice walls on either side of the cave. Simultaneously, from the floor, the ice erupted again and another figure flew up towards the ceiling. It was a huge insect but one that seemed humanoid. A gelugon! Or more commonly known as an ice devil! They were one of the most powerful creatures from the Nine Hells, usually commanding large armies of lesser devils. This one also had several spells already cast on it, such as flying and the same protective spell against weapons as Victor and Longhelim.</p><p> </p><p>So, two frost worms, an ice devil and an inquisitor, probably Kreven or his shade. I did not like our odds, especially as we had just gone through a very tough battle. The first thing the ice devil did was to cast a spell; a storm of ice, wind and snow crashed on top of us, causing a certain amount of hurt.</p><p> </p><p>Almost as if that was a signal, suddenly the walls disappeared making the cave far bigger, the floor lost its dusting of snow, the small patch of ice suddenly occupied almost a third of the newly revealed cave and several other figures were discernible at the other end of the cave. The new players were a blond woman, who wore a cape and tight trousers and carried a staff; her attire identified her as a member of the Wayfarer’s Guild; so, most likely Kreven’s wife, Koren; there was also an orc warrior, wearing red armour with spikes and wielding a large war hammer. There was a pair of humanoids, they may even have been human at one point but their muscles and tendons were completely distorted, stretched and dislocated to such an extent that the figures were inhumanly distended, giving them the look of one of those biomancy experiments gone horribly wrong.</p><p> </p><p>I also caught a glimpse of something huge, dark and with tentacles swimming under the ice.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, there was a pair of dogs; not just any dogs of course; these I also recognized. They were Nessian war hounds, the size of horses, with red, maleficent eyes and mouths which produced small trickles of smoke; more denizens from the hells; and they were racing towards us, as were all the others, with the exception of the Wayfarer, who was staying at the back, casting spells and one of the humanoids, who was staring intently at Victor.</p><p> </p><p>So suddenly from facing three very powerful opponents, we were now in a crowd. This did not look good. Spells flew at us. Kreven cast a spell at us which I recognized as a spell which affected the mind, making the victims far more susceptible to other spells. Then he also cast his famous signature spell and to my horror, Drudge’s left arm was severed! The ranger looked at his arm in stupefaction at first and then with growing rage and horror as he realised that not only did he now have a stump at his shoulder but that his primary weapon now lay on the ground clutched in the fist of his severed limb.</p><p> </p><p>Longhelim moved forward to the first worm, quickly joined by Victor who also managed to land a huge slash against it. Felix moved forward, out of the area of magical silence and a column of fire was cast on the strange distended humanoid.</p><p> </p><p>I waited until John put the pebble with the silence in his pocket and then I managed began to cast my spell as a duelist. I wasn’t sure if there was anyone there who could counter it but I realised that I had to get into the habit of casting my spells in this manner every single time since the Ragesians were master counter spellers.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the unevenness of the floor and the fact that I almost fell to the ground, I managed to get my spell through; a cloud of acidic flog appeared on top of the hounds, one of the distended creatures and the other of the frost worms. At least it held them for a few moments.</p><p> </p><p>It was a good thing I had disguised my casting; amazingly, I had seen the orc in spiked plate mail watching me avidly and attempting to block my casting. The research the Ragesians had done into counter spelling was quite extraordinary; now it looked as if even their warriors had an ability to block spells.</p><p> </p><p>More magic flew in. The dire bear became paralysed; and the frost worm being attacked by the warriors slithered back, opened its mouth emitted a blast of freezing cold air which froze our blood. John managed to get out of the way but the rest of us, especially the warriors suffered badly. Despite these new wounds, Longhelim shook himself free of this disgusting icy saliva and with great presence of mind smashed the torch with its flaming axe head deep into its open mouth and down its gullet, producing a huge explosion as the worm literally blew apart, shards of bone, ice, flesh and teeth flying in all directions, affecting not just us but everyone else in the cave, including the enemy. It also blew away my acidic cloud but left many of the creatures facing bleeding and staggering.</p><p> </p><p>As this happened, Longhelim shouted:</p><p> </p><p>“That devil is trying to tempt me!”</p><p> </p><p>I had no idea what he meant but then had to ignore that shout as another wave of spells flew at us, this time a spell of mental compulsion; fortunately we were warded against this magic in various ways; this was a great help as Victor’s resistance had been greatly weakened against compulsion magic by Kreven’s previous spell.</p><p> </p><p>The two devil dogs moved forward and attacked Felix; the priest had already been wounded by the explosion of the first worm but thankfully both the dogs bit his shield or armour. Victor sped towards the other worm. It was already being faced by the bear who could not move so, coiling back, it opened its maw and a blast of freezing air, saliva and shards of ice erupted from its innards; I was just out of its way but poor Felix was not and he went down in the hail of ice, his body bursting into flame as usual. Victor was also hurt but Drudge somehow dodged it. That changed my next course of action and I cast a spell which would protect me against the cold. I had also been badly hurt by the flying maelstrom of ice.</p><p> </p><p>Despite this, Drudge moved towards the worm, rapier at the ready; he must have been in incredible pain due to his severed arm but he was certainly game. Then disaster struck as Victor suddenly was caught in the gaze of one of those strange humanoids with distorted features; they had been concentrating on him with an intensity that was terrifying and whatever they were doing, it had finally worked; he stopped and was completely still, even dropping his falchion although thankfully, his shield remained defending him magically. The other of those humanoids now loped towards him.</p><p> </p><p>John managed to get next to Felix and tapped him with a wand, rousing the priest. Just as he did so, I managed to cast a spell of speed on everyone. Koren the Wayfarer cast various spells including one of which stripped magic; John immediately moved to tap Victor on his shoulder; I only caught a glimpse of the spell he cast but I saw that it was of a protective nature. The stretched humanoid continued jumping at the warrior with razor claws at Victor; the other kept staring at him from a distance, keeping him in a stupor.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, the orc in the strange red armour finally reached the battlefield and the first thing he did was to point his hand and shoot a ray of fire at Longhelim; it was black flame, reeking of evil and foulness. I could smell it even from my position. Longhelim had been defending Felix while the priest readied another scroll which he managed to cast; I felt another bolt of healing magic so powerful I gasped and then determined my next course of action.</p><p> </p><p>Suddenly, John ran forward through the battle, dodging and swerving, past the worm, the red orc and the devil hounds, aiming at the Wayfarer.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, it was too late for me to stop my action and a long and powerful wall of flame dropped on the worm and on the orc. The latter seemed unharmed but the worm exploded in another huge flash and again striking everyone in the cavern. This hurt one of the devil dogs badly and sent the other back to whatever hell it had come from. It also hurt everyone else in the cavern to a greater or lesser degree. Felix fell down and burst into flame yet again.</p><p> </p><p>The only unaffected one was John and the Wayfarer. It also affectively set a barrier in the cave and Victor seemed to finally shake off his torpor, the gaze of the humanoid now blocked by the fire. The warrior shook himself free from the stretched humanoid and then stepped back and drew another sword.</p><p> </p><p>The old man above the ice was casting spells repeatedly, aiming them at Victor; judging by the moments of his arms and the stance of his casting, I recognized that he was casting the same spell which had proved to be so devastating against Drudge; thankfully, although the warrior was obviously suffering, he was also resisting the most powerful effect of the spell. Thus, all of his Victor’s limbs were still attached to his body.</p><p> </p><p>I stepped forward only to notice that I had stepped into a magical silence spell; at this point, I wasn’t even sure who put it there; nevertheless, I moved in, ready to help Felix with a potion only for me to be suddenly trapped within a small igloo; the ice devil had put it around me. Thankfully, that meant that the magical silence had been negated within and I was able to cast a short distance transport spell out of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cafu, post: 6267821, member: 6692807"] After that the mask fell silent. We formed up in front of the cave and then John went forward. He was very careful around the entrance, examining it quite thoroughly; a little while later, there was a very loud noise and then John ran back, sporting a large bruise on his forearm. “There is a long narrow shaft leading down into the depths but there is a walkway with handholds next to it; those not wearing armour should be all right.” He turned to the warriors: “If you are wearing heavy armour I would have been worried but both of you have those magical boots which should allow you to walk on the ice. There is also a magical wall across the entrance but it is made of sound. That was the noise you heard; I got too close it. It hurt.” He frowned, obviously puzzled: “Faden, how can you make a wall of sound?” I thought about it: “Well, theoretically…….” Longhelim interrupted: “Both of you! Please not now! What’s far more important is, can you get rid of it?” To John, I said: “It’s powerful magic.” Turning to Longhelim, I said: “Yes; but I suggest that we cast a few spells on ourselves first. Whoever is in charge here will be down at the bottom of that pit. I can put my usual defence on the warriors; the one that gives them protection against weapons. There are also a few other things I can do.” John added: “Yes, I’ll also put a spell on Victor; it will protect him against mental compulsion and manipulation and it’ll protect people around him as well. I will also put a spell on Drudge which will allow him to walk on air; much better for him as an archer.” “I’ll put that spell on you as well, John,” added Felix. “There are likely to be any number of traps on the way down there and walking on air will help you search for them.” Thus bolstered, I then turned to Felix, but the priest was already ahead of me and was taking out some spell components. He took out a small pebble and taking a few moments to enchant it, suddenly the whole area went quiet around us. He had read my mind. John went ahead of us as we entered into the cave and had a better look at the walkway and the shaft leading down at a steep angle. It was a deep, dark, opening lined with ice, almost like a child’s slide, except that I did not want to think about what was waiting at the bottom. As described there was a walkway by its side with hand holds designed to ease descent; despite these, it was still very dangerous and for someone who was not trained, it was going to be extremely difficult to keep their feet; something I proved almost immediately as I slipped and almost tumbled down the walkway; the only thing that saved me was the rope that we had wisely tied between Longhelim and myself. John was laughing for all he was worth, but silently within his magic pebble; I shot him a dirty look. He just pirouetted in mid air and then carefully moved forward again. We all followed him down carefully but then we saw that John stiffened and seemed to be completely still. Fortunately, we had also tied a rope around him and thus reeled him back to us, to find that that he was still and motionless. I examined him and determined that he would return to us in moments but then shuddered at the unpleasantness of the trap: someone carefully making their way down the walkway, suddenly rendered motionless by a magical trap and moments later sent tumbling helplessly down the shaft. John came to as predicted and explained: “There’s a magical symbol down further down. I only caught a glimpse of it but that’s all you need for that kind of magic. It’s spent most of its strength now that I have been affected but I dread to think just how more of them have been cast on this walkway. We need someone or something to set them off.” Drudge immediately began rummaging in his pack: “I have just the thing,” he said as he took out his little figurine of a bear. Of course! It was such a clever idea. Felix was also grinning and it was obvious that there was some mind to mind conversation going on as Drudge was saying something to the bear and then the creature stepped on to the shaft and literally slid down the ice into the darkness, once another spell of silent magic was cast on one of its paws. I thought that should affect any symbols quite efficiently. We followed up fairly carefully but with the exception that Longhelim was now carrying me; it may have been far less dignified but it was far safer. Ultimately, the walkway was not as steep as we thought and we arrived at the bottom. The shaft led to a narrow cave with walls made of ice, a light sprinkling of snow on the floor and a small patch of ice at the far end. The whole area was glowing and as we arrived, an apparition became visible above the small patch of ice. It was that of an old man, with a skull mask of a bear, so old and yellowed that for a moment it was almost impossible to discern the difference between the bear skull and his face. He probably slept with that thing on his head. He began to talk. Unfortunately, it was impossible for us to hear him as we were still within a magical silence. He stopped and then began to talk again. Mentally, I asked Longhelim: “What’s he saying?” “I don’t know but I think he’s probably threatening us; in a very dramatic manner.” Then, his face twisting in frustration as if he realised that we couldn’t hear what he was saying, he made a dramatic gesture with his hand and two huge frost worms erupted from the ice walls on either side of the cave. Simultaneously, from the floor, the ice erupted again and another figure flew up towards the ceiling. It was a huge insect but one that seemed humanoid. A gelugon! Or more commonly known as an ice devil! They were one of the most powerful creatures from the Nine Hells, usually commanding large armies of lesser devils. This one also had several spells already cast on it, such as flying and the same protective spell against weapons as Victor and Longhelim. So, two frost worms, an ice devil and an inquisitor, probably Kreven or his shade. I did not like our odds, especially as we had just gone through a very tough battle. The first thing the ice devil did was to cast a spell; a storm of ice, wind and snow crashed on top of us, causing a certain amount of hurt. Almost as if that was a signal, suddenly the walls disappeared making the cave far bigger, the floor lost its dusting of snow, the small patch of ice suddenly occupied almost a third of the newly revealed cave and several other figures were discernible at the other end of the cave. The new players were a blond woman, who wore a cape and tight trousers and carried a staff; her attire identified her as a member of the Wayfarer’s Guild; so, most likely Kreven’s wife, Koren; there was also an orc warrior, wearing red armour with spikes and wielding a large war hammer. There was a pair of humanoids, they may even have been human at one point but their muscles and tendons were completely distorted, stretched and dislocated to such an extent that the figures were inhumanly distended, giving them the look of one of those biomancy experiments gone horribly wrong. I also caught a glimpse of something huge, dark and with tentacles swimming under the ice. Finally, there was a pair of dogs; not just any dogs of course; these I also recognized. They were Nessian war hounds, the size of horses, with red, maleficent eyes and mouths which produced small trickles of smoke; more denizens from the hells; and they were racing towards us, as were all the others, with the exception of the Wayfarer, who was staying at the back, casting spells and one of the humanoids, who was staring intently at Victor. So suddenly from facing three very powerful opponents, we were now in a crowd. This did not look good. Spells flew at us. Kreven cast a spell at us which I recognized as a spell which affected the mind, making the victims far more susceptible to other spells. Then he also cast his famous signature spell and to my horror, Drudge’s left arm was severed! The ranger looked at his arm in stupefaction at first and then with growing rage and horror as he realised that not only did he now have a stump at his shoulder but that his primary weapon now lay on the ground clutched in the fist of his severed limb. Longhelim moved forward to the first worm, quickly joined by Victor who also managed to land a huge slash against it. Felix moved forward, out of the area of magical silence and a column of fire was cast on the strange distended humanoid. I waited until John put the pebble with the silence in his pocket and then I managed began to cast my spell as a duelist. I wasn’t sure if there was anyone there who could counter it but I realised that I had to get into the habit of casting my spells in this manner every single time since the Ragesians were master counter spellers. Despite the unevenness of the floor and the fact that I almost fell to the ground, I managed to get my spell through; a cloud of acidic flog appeared on top of the hounds, one of the distended creatures and the other of the frost worms. At least it held them for a few moments. It was a good thing I had disguised my casting; amazingly, I had seen the orc in spiked plate mail watching me avidly and attempting to block my casting. The research the Ragesians had done into counter spelling was quite extraordinary; now it looked as if even their warriors had an ability to block spells. More magic flew in. The dire bear became paralysed; and the frost worm being attacked by the warriors slithered back, opened its mouth emitted a blast of freezing cold air which froze our blood. John managed to get out of the way but the rest of us, especially the warriors suffered badly. Despite these new wounds, Longhelim shook himself free of this disgusting icy saliva and with great presence of mind smashed the torch with its flaming axe head deep into its open mouth and down its gullet, producing a huge explosion as the worm literally blew apart, shards of bone, ice, flesh and teeth flying in all directions, affecting not just us but everyone else in the cave, including the enemy. It also blew away my acidic cloud but left many of the creatures facing bleeding and staggering. As this happened, Longhelim shouted: “That devil is trying to tempt me!” I had no idea what he meant but then had to ignore that shout as another wave of spells flew at us, this time a spell of mental compulsion; fortunately we were warded against this magic in various ways; this was a great help as Victor’s resistance had been greatly weakened against compulsion magic by Kreven’s previous spell. The two devil dogs moved forward and attacked Felix; the priest had already been wounded by the explosion of the first worm but thankfully both the dogs bit his shield or armour. Victor sped towards the other worm. It was already being faced by the bear who could not move so, coiling back, it opened its maw and a blast of freezing air, saliva and shards of ice erupted from its innards; I was just out of its way but poor Felix was not and he went down in the hail of ice, his body bursting into flame as usual. Victor was also hurt but Drudge somehow dodged it. That changed my next course of action and I cast a spell which would protect me against the cold. I had also been badly hurt by the flying maelstrom of ice. Despite this, Drudge moved towards the worm, rapier at the ready; he must have been in incredible pain due to his severed arm but he was certainly game. Then disaster struck as Victor suddenly was caught in the gaze of one of those strange humanoids with distorted features; they had been concentrating on him with an intensity that was terrifying and whatever they were doing, it had finally worked; he stopped and was completely still, even dropping his falchion although thankfully, his shield remained defending him magically. The other of those humanoids now loped towards him. John managed to get next to Felix and tapped him with a wand, rousing the priest. Just as he did so, I managed to cast a spell of speed on everyone. Koren the Wayfarer cast various spells including one of which stripped magic; John immediately moved to tap Victor on his shoulder; I only caught a glimpse of the spell he cast but I saw that it was of a protective nature. The stretched humanoid continued jumping at the warrior with razor claws at Victor; the other kept staring at him from a distance, keeping him in a stupor. In the meantime, the orc in the strange red armour finally reached the battlefield and the first thing he did was to point his hand and shoot a ray of fire at Longhelim; it was black flame, reeking of evil and foulness. I could smell it even from my position. Longhelim had been defending Felix while the priest readied another scroll which he managed to cast; I felt another bolt of healing magic so powerful I gasped and then determined my next course of action. Suddenly, John ran forward through the battle, dodging and swerving, past the worm, the red orc and the devil hounds, aiming at the Wayfarer. Unfortunately, it was too late for me to stop my action and a long and powerful wall of flame dropped on the worm and on the orc. The latter seemed unharmed but the worm exploded in another huge flash and again striking everyone in the cavern. This hurt one of the devil dogs badly and sent the other back to whatever hell it had come from. It also hurt everyone else in the cavern to a greater or lesser degree. Felix fell down and burst into flame yet again. The only unaffected one was John and the Wayfarer. It also affectively set a barrier in the cave and Victor seemed to finally shake off his torpor, the gaze of the humanoid now blocked by the fire. The warrior shook himself free from the stretched humanoid and then stepped back and drew another sword. The old man above the ice was casting spells repeatedly, aiming them at Victor; judging by the moments of his arms and the stance of his casting, I recognized that he was casting the same spell which had proved to be so devastating against Drudge; thankfully, although the warrior was obviously suffering, he was also resisting the most powerful effect of the spell. Thus, all of his Victor’s limbs were still attached to his body. I stepped forward only to notice that I had stepped into a magical silence spell; at this point, I wasn’t even sure who put it there; nevertheless, I moved in, ready to help Felix with a potion only for me to be suddenly trapped within a small igloo; the ice devil had put it around me. Thankfully, that meant that the magical silence had been negated within and I was able to cast a short distance transport spell out of it. [/QUOTE]
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