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Post by Arashi Tento on Jun 27, 2023 22:45:09 GMT -5
As soon as he realized what was happening Arashi turned and ran, he managed to jump and roll out of the creatures mouth just as it's jaws began to snap shut, as he stood up he watched in awe as the creature began to climb out of the ground, 'huge' was a disservice to the size of it, it was a scaly creature without a face, it's only eye was inside it's mouth, attached to some sort of tentacle which took the shape of the fountain. looking at Arashi the creature roared causing more rubble to began falling. Turning around to see Fenrear beckoning him to get out Arashi began to flee "Don't have to tell me twice! Let's get out of here!"
Arashi ran towards the huge gate hoping they'd be able to at least seal the creature again and not let it loose to roam around the ruins, there might be more of these out there actually... a thought best left for after they're out of the imminent danger of being devoured by a fountain-dragon-mimic-thing, he was close to fenrear when the monster seemed to have fully awoken it had roared before but it was still sort of stretching it's legs... it had a hard time moving after such a long hibernation, they didn't have much time before it lunged at them to try and get a breakfast snack.
Arashi would try to cross the gate as fast as possible and once outside try and close it hopefully it could be done fast enough with the help of Fenrear and his undead minions.
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Post by Fenrear on Jun 28, 2023 8:54:23 GMT -5
Fenrear pauses on the other side of the gate as the undead hulk continues to keep the door open. He watches as the massive spike filled tongue lashes out at Arashi who is making a break fit the door. No look back, just run! He yells as the mammoth creature becomes more animated with each passing moment. Why would a civilization have something like this in its city?
In a desperate attempt to give Arashi more steps towards the door, he points a finger at the creature’s tongue and fires the most powerful chaos bolt that he can muster at it. The bolt is so strong that it burns his hand a bit as he releases it towards the beast. As the dark bolt strikes the beast’s tongue, it writhes a little but otherwise seemed wholly unphasd by the assault. Quickly, we in serious trouble!
Kyle, being even more of a chicken than normal, had a lot to say on the matter. Bak bakka bad baga! What! How were we supposed to know it was a giant monster? As I recall, you were one that give us coin, yes? Bak bak mugah! No, you are right, never told us to throw it in fountain but there is no use in laying blame here. We can discuss it later.
He sees a large beam down a bit further and runs over to grab it. He hauls the beam back as the undead hulk starts to strain under the weight of the door. As soon as Arashi gets into the door, he decides he will lodge the beam against it to keep the beast at bay. Hurry swordsman, hurry! He cries into the black of the cave. Baka bak. Shut up Kyle.
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Post by Arashi Tento on Jul 3, 2023 17:26:01 GMT -5
As Arashi closed the gap to the door he could hear Kyle clucking at Fenrear in what seemed like fear and anger, as if he was berating them both for the danger they found themselves in, as Fenrear let go of his magic bolt the he could fear a small sizzle but guessed the monster must've been mostly unharmed by the lack of any indication of damage. soon after Fenrear run to the side possible to get the beam to lock the door. As he was already nearby Arashi signaled the undead hulk to let go of the door so it would begin closing, sadly it seemed sort of stuck on it's hinges... they'd have to close the door by pushing...
Arashi managed to cross the door just as Fenrear brought the beam to block the door, he went around the door and as the hulk let go of the door, he tried to help close it faster by pushing together with the undead, The creature now awake and noticing its food was about to get away, began running towards the door. "Prepare the beam for the door!" Pushing with dread fueled strength as the creature approached, Arashi pushed the door which closed just in time for the monster to be trapped. Holding the door down he waited for Fenrear to lock it with the beam.
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Post by Fenrear on Jul 5, 2023 19:41:40 GMT -5
As Arashi closes the door on the beast, the undead hulk lowers its shoulder to help brace the doors closed. Fenrear sees his opportunity and hauls the beam over as fast as he can. Straining under the eight of it, he can hear the massive creature moving from the other side of the doors. Bwakka bagah! Screams Kyle as he pushes the brace up to one side, preparing to drop it in. I know! I know! He yells back in frustration.
With a final push the beam comes down and locks in place. As it does so, a strange glowing symbol lights up on the face of the door. Apparently activating some sort of seal, the noises behind the door strati go quiet. Ohhh is too close that one, yess? He says to Arashi while he breathes deeply from the exertion. He looks over at the undead hulk who looks strange. Hey, what’s up with.. Before he can finish his question, the undead hulk collapses in on itself, literally falling to pieces until it is nothing but a large gooey pile of body parts.
Confused at the turn of events, he walks over to inspect the parts. After looking at the parts and the door, it dawns on him what had happened. Aggghh gruumic ven va chag! He curses in Gnollish. The turns to Arashi to explain. When the seal on the door activated, it had no power, so it stole the energy from the undead hulk. Had he not been there, it probably would have killed us both to pull the energy to activate. Fenrear felt bad. Unsummoning a creation and having it forcibly taken from you felt very different. There was no point getting miffed over what amounted to a meat puppet but he had grown fond of the creature and was a bit put out to see it destroyed like that. He walked over to the meat pile, put a clawed hand on it and said quietly Thank You.
After a moment, he turns back to Arashi. I think I am done with mapping for awhile. I say we go now…before something else happens.
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Post by Arashi Tento on Aug 24, 2023 21:53:40 GMT -5
As the seal activated, and the barrier fortified the Door, Arashi let out a sigh of relief. They survived! Somehow the monster was sealed again! looking around, he noticed Fenrear's Undead starting to wobble, before it collapsed in on itself becoming not much more than a bony puddle of goo... it was a gnarly sight. still the Gnoll's swearing caught Arashi unaware, as Fenrear turned to him to explain what seemed to have happened to it, He wonders what would've happened were the undead not with them at the time...
Before they leave Arashi bows toward the puddle that once was an undead hulk, showing his respect and his thanks for the unnamed and not very talkative party member for this expedition... Thanks to having mapped everything pretty well on their way down they had almost no trouble getting out of the underground ruins... not many words were exchanged, the atmosphere serious and heavy... still once they were out Arashi gave the map to the scholar and warned of the beast behind the gates, as well as the possibility there may be others of it's kind around... so don't trust awfully suspicious possibly magical wishing fountains... with both adventurers getting their pay. Arashi waved Fenrear goodbye "It was nice meeting you, you've been an excellent expedition partner. Hope to see you again someday..." and with that they parted ways, both with enough money to get by for a while.
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