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Message: <blockquote data-quote="htetickrt" data-source="post: 1426306" data-attributes="member: 16534">A Sticky Situation Kyree’s assessment proves right as eighteen distinct tentacles lash out from the darkness toward the mingled party. Moving quicker than they do, the elf backs up out of their likely range and fires a barrage of arrows at the closest. Lenara and Cerridwin join him, unleashing spells at the distant enemy. Wood and steel best magic, as the ropers prove resistant to the latter.Kai shouts a warning before setting loose a fireball into their midst. Her spell proves brutally effective; though the middle roper is unaffected, the third ignites like tinder and the first is charred into death. Seeing this, Dobi backs away, content to let others handle this battle. They must wait for the ropers’ response, however, as tentacles lash out from the darkness. The battle becomes a frantic melee as varied weaponry slaps at toughened flesh in an often-vain attempt to be free of the ropers’ strength-sapping embrace. Khail slices through a tentacle holding Trella, but Quid and Andy are dragged along the rough cavern floor, futilely screaming their defiance. Danek pulls free of another by main force, shouts a battle cry, and charges heedless toward the fore. Kyree and Kai continue their paired assault, and again bow defeats spell in a duel of efficacy. Cerridwin’s lilting voice rises about the din, bringing fresh courage to those whose hearts quail. The pleasant tune only serves to anger the beasts further, and their flailing appendages send Danek to the ground, weaker than she ever was in her previous existence. The barbarian, no longer able to lift her armored limbs, does not like the feeling. She likes even less the feeling of invisible claws sinking into her tender torso, and even Cerridwin’s music is insufficient to push away the creeping fear that rises like bile in her throat as her body becomes paralyzed. Though much of the group struggles near the ropers’ maws, Kyree’s aim remains steady and sure. Several arrows flash out, all hit their marks, and both ropers fall, releasing their intended meals. Unseen, Danek’s body is pulled down the hallway. Thankfully for her, Rhien hears the scrape of Danek’s armor against stone at the last moment, and turns to view the barbarian apparently being dragged through a wall by an invisible creature. The monk shouts, “Danek’s in trouble,” and runs off after her, joined soon after by his companions. The wall proves insubstantial, and so no barrier to pass. What is on the other side pleases no one. Danek lies in the center of a bone-strewn room like an offering, her web-entrapped, paralyzed, weakened body surrounded by eight huge, misshapen arachnid bodies. Poisonous goo drips from their fanged mouths, which are surrounded by hard chitinous plates that cover the entirety of their bodies. Snicker, from his perch atop Kai’s shoulders, telepathically relays, “An ugly ghoul-like thing just dropped Danek off her and fled back through the illusionary wall."  Kai, recognizing her proximal foes, answers, “Maybe we should deal with the bebiliths first.” To be continued....</blockquote>

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