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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 1020566" data-attributes="member: 10820">Mytrym smiled as he watched the little halfling move forward into the darkness. He admired the bravery the little scout had. Sure his motives seemed suspect now and then, but in general the little guy was all right, and he was one heck of a scout.The paladin glanced over the rest of the party. Amador he knew well enough, but the rest he just was not very sure about. The witch and her berserker companion seemed only interested in the Red Wizard named Lurkhaus. That left the shade Delorian. Mytrym watched the shade pick his way slowly and deliberately along the cavern. He seemed to almost disappear amongst the shadows, something that was certainly not outside his realm of capability. But each time he thought the shade had stepped back to his home plane the monk would appear again and slip into the next shady bit of darkness he found. Even the drow that Mytrym grew up with did not use darkness the way the shade did. The paladin wondered for a moment whether the shade was truly on their side, or was the whole battle before just some sort of ruse to gain their trust. The thought amused Mytrym, that was drow thinking. In the drow cities everything was a conspiracy intended to better only those directly involved in the hatching of the plan. Tanerus called softly back, “Something up here.” The group gathered and the halfling showed them how his hand could pass directly through the wall. He slipped through the illusion and quickly called back, “On me! To arms!”Mytrym already had his sword out and was plunging through the illusion the moment Tanerus cried out. He saw that there was a pair of massive spider like creatures in the cavern beyond. As he entered he saw Tanerus tumble up beneath of the creatures. He slammed his small sword up into the creatures soft underside, but his sword was turned by the thick hide that protected the beast. Realizing that this fight would probably not be easy, the paladin quickly quaffed a healing potion. He would be no use to anyone dead.The berserker, Navarr, ran out past Mytrym and sliced at the first of the spider creatures. His sword bounced harmlessly off a piece of armored chitin. Behind the first spider creature, the second spider like beast reared up onto its hind pairs of legs and spat forth webbing. The thicky substance laced across the entrance of the cavern, covering it in sticky strands. Navarr cried out as the strands laced over him as well. He was stuck tight. Mytrym managed duck down and to one side, the webbing surrounded him, but did not catch him.Amador moved in through the illusion and into the back of the webbing. Frowning he tried to see through the web. Delorian stepped up beside the cleric, nodded then pulled his shadow up across him, stepping through the dark doorway it created.Ahead Mytrym could hear the creatures closing on the web. Navarr screamed out in pain, then a massive column of holy fire that cascaded over the two creatures lit the entire cavern. Mytrym looked back to see Amador lowering his hands, satisfied with his spell’s results. Drena stepped up beside the cleric and lowered one hand and pointed to the back of the cavern. Ignoring Delorian’s presence in the area, Drena released a scream and a small pulse of sound arced forward to explode in the cavern. The roar of sound was incredible. The creatures screamed and scittered about in pain. Drena frowned, “Bebilith demons… spider like demons, very hard to hurt and very dangerous.”Tanerus backed toward the web and away from demons. He pulled out his wand, fumbled with it, but could not get the magic item to do anything.Mytrym knew he could not get out of the webs, so he pulled his bow out and loosed a pair of arrows toward the closest demon. The arrows caught in the web halfway there.Amador nodded to Drena’s description then commented, “They did not seem to like the flames the first time, so…” He called forth to Corellian and once again flames erupted in a column around the demons. They cried out again, writhing in pain.Mytrym could not see the fight well from within the webs, but he heard Navarr cry out in pain again. Another ball of sound rippled forth and exploded around the demons. The webs whipped about in the explosion, then settled again. The demons did not get back. Bits of their hard-shelled bodies was stuck the web here and there. Mytrym looked back and nodded, “Good work.”Navarr coughed up ahead. Good, Mytrym thought, he made it. The paladin was able to push backwards through the web and pull back to the corridor. Delorian stepped out of a shadow and joined Drena, Amador and Mytrym there. Delorian frowned, “I couldn’t hurt them, the shells were too hard.”Mytrym shook his head, “I couldn’t get to them, much less see them. If it hadn’t been for these too being able to lob spells from back here, that could have gone very badly.”Amador smiled and shrugged, “We try.”Drena shook her head smirking. “Bebilith’s are large, but minor demons in the grand scheme of things. They are not even considered Tanari.”Mytrym nodded, he knew a bit about the outer planes, and her explanation made sense. “Well do you think we should just rest till the webbing fails or try to rip through it.”From the other side of the web Tanerus called, “Uh, guys?”Mytrym called back, “Yeah Tanerus?”“Navarr doesn’t look so good.” Mytrym looked to Delorian, who nodded and stepped through a shadow to the other side. Mytrym, Amador and Drena began to try and rip through the webbing. Tanerus continued, a bit more frantic, “He’s going into convulsions.”Amador cursed in elven and added, “Poison.”Mytrym was making a quick swathe through the tough webbing, the other two behind him. When he finally broke loose to the other side he saw that Delorian and Tanerus had freed Navarr of the webbing and laid him on the ground. Blood had run from his ears, mouth, nose and eyes. His bloodshot eyes stared at the ceiling of the cavern.Tanerus sniffed and wiped the back of his arm across his nose. He muttered, “Nothing we could do.”Amador dropped down to beside the dead berserker. “I … I couldn’t have stopped the poison had been here.” He looked back at Drena, “I don’t have that spell ready…” He swallowed and looked back at the berserker’s corpse. “I can raise him tomorrow…”Drena stepped forward quickly, “No! I will return him to his homeland.”Tanerus blinked, “What? What about the wizard? What about helping us?”Drena narrowed her eyes, and spoke softly through the mask. “To Hades with the damn wizard.”</blockquote>

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