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[William Broom]

((Laremere: Sorry about that. I misinterpreted/misread what you'd written.))

With his high Speed rating, Sherman the Bloodman escapes into the Antechamber as quickly as he can, drawing frowns from his allies, who are not impressed with such cowardice.

Xearius recalls his knife from where it rests in the Witch-Spider's backside. He then raises his crossbow to shoot at her again, but before he can fire, she throws a web-ball at him. The ball strikes him and wraps around him, knocking him to the floor and burning his skin where it touches him. He takes 3 damage. As he falls, the crossbow goes off, but his aim is disrupted by being hit. The chance of success is only 40%.

Fortunately, the bolt flies straight and true! It stabs the Witch-Spider right through her black heart, pinning her to the ceiling. She gives one last scream, and her legs let go. Her body slides down the crossbow bolt's shaft, lubricated by her internal juices, and falls to the floor, where Brog knocks her into the fire with his club.

Sigurd, however, is not content with this. In his Berserker rage, he is intent on finding more enemies to RIP AND TEAR. He sprints to the Antechamber, howling in rage, and attacks the gargoyle door. After several painful headbutts, he remembers that he still has the key to the door, and begins fumbling around with it, trying to get it into the lock.

Knutt gets up, his body full of spider bitemarks, and takes a swig of his Mystery Alcohol as 'medication'. However, once he begins to drink, the taste is so smooth and delicious that he cannot help but swallow the whole thing in one gulp. He is consumed by a coughing fit, and steam issues from his mouth and nose.

"Are you... alright?" asks Xearius, worriedly.

"F-f-f-f-fine!" Knutt says. He looks up at Xearius, who starts backward. Knutt's eyes are glowing a rosy pink colour!

Knutt's Inebriation increases to 80%, so his Intelligence increases to 5. The Mystery Alcohol also appears to have some minor healing effects, and Knutt regains 4 HP. But the major effect of the alcohol appears to be that it confers the powers of an ancient druidic seer upon the wily drunkard. Until the effect wears off, he has the power to see up to 40 seconds into the future, allowing him to warn his allies about ambushes and dodge unexpected attacks. His visions are not always accurate, though - he may still change the outcome of the future by acting upon the vision.

Right now Knutt sees that Sigurd is about to unlock the door and then run headlong into a wall on the other side of it.

[Eric McQuiggan]

>using some sort of stick or sword, poke around the fire looking for loot!

[FishyBoy]

Yell at Sigurd ta get hish shelf over here.

Then, attempt to tear shome more limbsh off of the shpider, ushing the premonitions to aid me.

[Xion]

>Status
>Give healing potion to whoever needs it most and tend to own wounds the old fashioned way.
>If dagger lost poison in the attack, re-poison it using the spider's corpse. Or maybe the bottle of poison if the one dude still has it.
>Meditate.

[Inane]

>Follow Sigurd and protect him from danger! (That is by hacking anything that may attack him)

[Xion]

Haha in his state he seems to be pretty capable of hacking anything for himself.

[Inane]

Not if he accidentally concusses himself on a stone wall or something.

[Laremere]

It's not entirely your fault, next time I do something fancy I'll be more specific.

>Figure out how Snowshard is doing.

[Hideous]

He doesn't have the key to the door, I took it earlier

[Laremere]

I refuse to let this die.

[William Broom]

((Sorry guys, I've just been a little busy over the past few days. It certainly isn't going to die!))

Tolki borrows Xearius' sword to poke around in the fire, searching for some loot that might have dropped off the carcass of the Witch-Spider. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any.

Knutt shouts at Sigurd, but Sigurd doesn't really hear him over the sound his blood pumping in his ears! Also, Sigurd realises that what he thought was the key to the door was actually a mouldy old half-eaten fish. No wonder it wouldn't open! Andreas took the key off him earlier.

Xearius looks around for some more poison to put on his dagger. The spider's corpse is all burnt up, but there's still some poison splashed on the floor where Knutt threw it earlier. Xearius scrapes it up onto his knife. He then looks around for the person most in need of his healing potion. It seems like Sigurd is the most badly-injured among them, with only 9 HP remaining. However, Xearius is afraid that if he gives Sigurd the potion in his current state, he might just smash it and waste it. Fortunately, the berserker rage seems to be coming to an end.

Around that time, Snow Shard comes in, dragging the errant slave by the seat of his pants.

"Please!" cries the slave. "Let me go! Alright, I'll tell you! It's her, the girl! She's not really one of us, she's a monster in disguise! Let me go before she comes back and kills me!"

"She's dead." Vevera tells him.

"Oh." the slave says. "That's lucky. Shall we go, then?"

"Of course." Vevera nods, striding toward the Antechamber.

"Wait!" cries the slave. "You're going further in? You're mad! You don't stand a chance!"

Vevera looks unimpressed. Snow Shard lets the slave go and gives him a sardonic look. Unfortunately, it goes straight over his head, and he immediately flees back into the snow. He should be able to make it back to civilisation without much trouble.

Knutt has a sudden vision of the future. He sees Andreas using his key to unlock the gargoyle door, and the adventurers proceeding into the room beyond. In the vision, it appears to be some sort of circular elevator shaft leading down into the depths of the citadel.

Xearius Rohound
Inventory:
Patchwork Leather Jacket
Spiked Backhanders
Potion of Healing
Xiusiur's Belt of Knives
Gorgon Goggles
Crossbow + 14 bolts
10 severed tongues
3x Xiusiur Knives (one with poison)
Sword
60 talents
Silver Necklace

Strength:1
Speed:3
Intelligence:3
HP:13/24
Damages:bitten thigh, abrased hands, shouted at, stabbed in leg

Incidentally, you can type >MULTI-STATUS to see the HP and status effects of every character in the party.

[FishyBoy]

>Status!

[Inane]

> MULTISTATUSSSSS!

[skaldicpoet9]

The hounds riding on the swift winds...barking, quiet you dogs!

Argh *spits blood* ek skrifaða Konunga Norvegi...auughhhh!!!

*falls to the groound*

Hrm, where...am...I....friends?

Soo, weak....

help...

>status

[Hideous]

I still need to get some kinf of healing potion here. Anyone got one?

> pro-long opening door with key so that 40 second vision is incorrect
> open door after 60 seconds