PBEM - Episode 494. 2nd Flee as well.

FOUR HUNDRED NINETY FOUR

(I/C)

“Shake a leg, Jess!” Lannis called out, waving the Cleric back, his hands working a spell. “I can’t hold this back any longer!” As she ran back to the party, Lannis shoved his hands out and intoned, “IN ARACHNE REIF! Fireball!" The party all clenched and turned their heads…but instead sticky strands of webbing shot out coating the corner of the “T” intersection a few seconds before the undead horde hit it. He tilted his head back and laughed uproariously, "Hahahahahaha, dick weeds!"

Giving the wizard a cuff on the back of the head, Lyra shook her head to clear the cobwebs from it, the howls of the revenants filling the hall behind here. “Okay, we can go now. Right??? Right???????”

Abraxas was rubbing his chin, head tilted as if listening. “Por que no es un... Boom? No fuego? No Pelota de Fuego? We stay o vamonos?"

Lannis waggled a finger no and replied, "Fuego very-o biggo. Kill-o everyone. O."

“Oh. Si.”

With the undead slamming into the webbing, crying and howling, voices gibbering in the gloom, Brendon looked around and asked, “Are we just going to stand here and wait for them to break through the web or are we moving somewhere?”

Pointing to the door behind them leading back to the grotto and the Ishtari area, Wyn replied, “To de baths, mes amis. Den we come back en do dis again, oui?”

“Works for me!” Lannis said with a zippy smile as the party opened the door and started jogging down the steps. “I’m sure in their dead brains they’re thinking it can’t happen twice.” (Multiple forces pushing on web: 2d4 rounds: 1+2=3 rounds!)

As they got to the base of the stairs and turned south, Kovid asked, “I hope that web was a hit Big Brain, because your humor is always a miss.”

“Hmm, let me try some dwarven humor then.” Lannis deepened his voice and hunched his back before asking, “'What did the rock say to the other rock? Nothing, it's a rock.’" When no one replied to his joke, he scowled and said, “That’s why no one thinks dwarves are funny. Because they aren’t.”

As they were moving on, they could hear it echoing faintly far behind them, something heavy repeatedly beating at the door they had gone through at the top of the grotto stairs. “Well...that doesn’t NOT suck,” Kovid muttered. ‘We ever have a plan on what we’re gonna do assuming they follow us?”

“Hey, I’m the idea guy. I make them up with flashes of brilliance. It’s up to you bojos to make them work. I can’t carry all of you, this is a team effort you know.”

The climbed up the wide steps and arrived finally outside the Ishtari area. Brendon had stopped to listen as they ran on (>Hear Noise, Red 84) but given the distance between here and the grotto, to say nothing of the stairs and the distant door, he could not tell if they were still beating at it…or had gotten through. “I’m fishing blind here,” he said with some worry, bow loaded and arrow ready. “We going through the doors here to the baths or still beating feet and running around the caverns back to the barracks?”

Time now is Day 11, 12:11 PM

(OOC)

Outside the Baths, undead got through the web in 3 rounds (Multiple targets including undead Hoots and Undead Shebear shredded it in short time). They at least tracked you to the door down to the grotto, but you don’t know if they got through or not. What’s the plan? Party is breathing hard, but not down and out yet.