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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7319290" data-attributes="member: 6777052">As the players (football players not real players) gingerly sloped towards the site..................  .... Herewulf, Od, Jeli and Nord were meanwhile preparing torches, ten-foot poles, lengths of rope, pitons, small hammers, waterskins and climbing boots ready to explore the beckoning cave. However, just then, a booming voice from somewhere above called out "I'd like you all to make an Isnight check, please ..ease .. ease ...""Is that a typo?" wondered Od, "Do you mean an Insight check?""No, I want you to check if it is night."There was a flurry of dice rolling and tut-tutting and a few groans soto voce because nobody had rolled higher than a 7.Accordingly, the sun had set while they were making their preparations and the long shadows of night had fallen over the cave mouth, making the flickering glare of their torches easily visible to anyone - or anything - watching from outside. If there was anything. Which, of course, there was. You don't just get open caves like that without there being something that sleeps in them do you? Stands to reason. Caves like that don't just get wasted. They get occupied. By things who tend to dislike intruders poking about in their caves. And when I say dislike I mean the roll-for-initiative kind of dislike. A family of green scaly quadrupeds bellowed a challenge and charged out of a nearby wood towards the cave mouth, maws agape to display rows of unpleasantly yellow pointy fangs dripping with drool. Herewulf was the first to react. He dropped the ten-foot-pole-with-a-small-mirror-attached-to-one-end that he was holding, presented his Shield and walked boldly forward as if to greet them. "We come in peace," he declared in a deep baritone voice that resonated with the natural frequency of the cavemouth. "... eace ... eace ... eace ... " It didn't work. Nice try, shows style, but it didn't work. He was knocked down and trampled underfoot, taking 1d4 severe dents in his armour. If he hadn't been a gelatinous paladin, he would have been quite badly hurt but as it was, he was just a bit flattened temporarily.Suddenly, a scream ripped through the air, rising in pitch higher and higher, beyond the limit of human hearing and high into the ultrasonic. The green scaly monsters skidded to a halt, rose on their hind legs and threw back their heads, looking around franatically for terrordactyls. They were afraid of terrordactyls, which were quite capable of swooping down unexpectedly and seizing a green scaly infant in their talons before its green scaly parents could do anything to prevent it. Though they didn't know it, Od had used a Minor Illusion cantrip to imitate the scream of a terrordactyl and had thus sown confusion in the green scaly ranks.Nord eschewed heroism for gallantry. He grabbed Jeli, lifted her bodily off her feet and made a run for it, out of the cave and away from the scene. Jeli protested mightily at the indignity, then fell silent, then burst out laughing. "Put me down, you fool," she cried, "I can run away faster than you!""That's why I'm not letting you," was Nord's gruff reply. "If they get too close, I want to be able to throw you behind me as a distraction while I get away myself."Jeli though about that. It made a horrible kind of sense. Nord was a pirate, after all. But at least she knew where she stood. There was a momentary lapse of reality and Nord found himself holding, not an elf, but a potted geranium and Jeli herself was somehow a fair way ahead of him in the direction he was running. "Wild Magic!" she shouted over her shoulder as she ran helter-skelter down towards the beach. Nord grumbled as he banged his shins on a rocky outcrop. Jeli could see in the dark.Down on the beach, there was no sign of the footballers nor, indeed, of their football. The Phase Rider lay quietly moored in the bay and the gnomes' boat was where they had left it. All seemed peaceful enough. Except ....</blockquote>

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