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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ziona" data-source="post: 248728" data-attributes="member: 484">The ChasmThe party stood looking at the chasm that impeded their way, wondering how they were going to traverse such an obstacle.  Nuttin, who had finished telling Lox of his heroics with the young dragon for the third time, was scratching his chin.  Then a thoughtful look crossed his face and he snapped his fingers.“That’s it!  I’ve got a plan, laddies,” he exclaimed. Venus, Dent, and Lox looked at Nuttin for his answer while Belasco chortled and Prynne smirked.  Elmond was trying to communicate with their hairy beast friend (without success).“We can use the dragon to make our way across the gap,” began Nuttin.  “I’m sure I can conjure up something to hold the weight of the dragon wings long enough for us to cross.”“You want us to remove the dragons wings to create a bridge?” asked Prynne.“Precisely, missy,” said Nuttin.“That could actually work,” replied Dent.  “Not a bad idea, halfling,” said Venus. “Lets get to work on those wings!”A laborious while later, the party had managed to remove the wings from the young dragon.  Venus, Dent, Prynne and Belasco were covered in dark, sticky dragon blood.  Lox helped them retrieve water from the dragon’s lair to rid themselves of the bloody mess while Nuttin looked over his spellbook.  Elmond readied the ropes they would use for support.“Here we are,” smiled Nuttin.  He closed his spellbook and began reciting the spidery words to the spell.  A moment later, he had produced  enough webbing to cover the entire chasm.  “Now lay the wings across the web,” instructed Nuttin.  Venus and Dent carried one wing while Prynne and Belasco carried the other.  Once the wings were set, the party looped the rope around each other and began to cross the chasm.  “Wow, Nuttin, that was a great idea! You really are a smart old halfling,” chirped Lox happily.When the party reached the other side of the chasm, they began untying the ropes when they heard a familiar sound.“Ullgh…wwlllrrghhh…wwwuuullllhhhh…”“Oh no!” cried Lox. “We forgot the hair guy!”They turned and looked and found that the Spleckle was standing near the edge of the chasm, mumbling the same string of words they found intelligible.“Ullgh…wwlllrrghhh…wwwuuullllhhhh…"“Leave him there,” grumbled Belasco. “He hasn’t done anything useful, and no one can understand what he’s saying anyhow.”“We can’t just leave him there,” protested Lox. “What if someone catches him again and puts him in another cage? Or what if he falls in the chasm? Or what if…”“Enough!” shouted Prynne.  “We’ll get the damn beast to come over the chasm just to shut you up.”“How are we going to do that when we can’t communicate with it?” asked Dent.“Simple,” replied Prynne. “We just drag it over. I’ll lasso it so even if the webbing breaks, it will still be safe.”“This should be interesting,” commented Nuttin with a grin.“Be careful with him,” sniffled Lox.Prynne took the end of the rope that was wrapped around her waist and tied it into a loop, and began to swing the lasso in a wide circle.  She through the lasso out at the Spleckle and caught it in the loop on the first try.“See? No problem,” she smiled proudly.  She gave a tug on the rope while Dent and Lox called their hairy friend over to their side of the chasm, but he wouldn’t budge.  Frowning slightly, Prynne gritted her teeth and gave the rope a hard jerk, pulling the Spleckle forward.“Ullgh…wwlllrrghhh…wwwuuullllhhhh!!!”The Spleckle responded with a violent tug of his own that dragged Prynne out onto the dragon wings and webbing.“Ullgh…wwlllrrghhh…wwwuuullllhhhh!!!”“Quickly! Grab the end of the rope,” shouted Dent, trying to grasp the remaining rope that hung from Prynne’s  waist.The Spleckle continued to thrash about on the other side of the chasm, causing the webs beneath Prynne’s bare feet to tear.  She was going to fall!  She clasped her hands on to the rope that extended out to the Spleckle and gave another tug.  The Spleckle was yanked forward, making the rope less taught.  However, when the Spleckle yanked itself back up, the loop around it’s hairy body came loose, and sent Prynne plummeting through the webs.  The rope that Dent held tore through his hands, leaving them red and burning.On the other side of the chasm the Spleckle still thrashed about until it ran into a wall, which seemed to calm it down.  It stood motionless again and mumbled the usual “Ullgh…wwlllrrghhh…wwwuuullllhhhh.”“Poor baldy,” said Nuttin sadly.  “She may not have been very nice, but she didn’t deserve to be dropped into a bottomless pit.”“Oh, no,” frowned Lox.  “Prynne is gone and so is our hair creature.”They looked up to see the Spleckle wander off alone back the way they had come.“It’s not fair! Dent, can’t you do something? Maybe Nuttin can cast a spell,” said Lox.“Quiet!  Listen,” said Belasco.  “I hear something…”It sounded like a scraping or chiseling noise, and it seemed to come up from the darkness of the chasm.  As they neared the edge, it became louder.  “I don’t believe it,” said Venus.  “It’s her.”They looked over the edge and saw that Prynne had managed to cling to the side of the chasm wall and was now using her climbing kit to make her way back.“Quickly! Lower a rope,” said Dent.  Venus pulled forth a rope, and both he and Dent held it securely as Prynne climbed her way back to the top of the chasm.“Welcome back,” said Venus with a grin.Prynne looked down at Lox, then turned to Venus.  “You didn’t think I’d let you be the only adventurers to defeat the maze did you?”The group laughed and began investigating the area.  While Prynne was putting her climbing spikes back into her pack, she felt a tug on her cloak.  She turned to see Lox looking up at her.“Miss Prynne?  I just wanted to tell you that I’m sorry you almost fell into the bottomless hole.  I know you were just trying to get the hairy creature to come along so you wouldn’t have to hear me complain, so I think it’s kind of my fault that you fell into the chasm, but I didn’t know that the hairy guy was going to pull you like that…did you think he was going to be so strong? I wonder where he’s from to be so strong? Do you think that’s what he’s trying to tell us? I mean, how do we…”“Lox,” interrupted Prynne.  “Thank you.”She turned from him and began following the group away from the chasm.  Lox looked back one last time to see if his hairy friend had returned.  Seeing that he hadn’t, he just shrugged and followed the group into the next room.The Adventure Continues…</blockquote>

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