The Creme Scene

Arithek attacks, keeping his sights on Kitty. Unbeknownst to Mageta, Sarek, Cinder and Kitty, the vampire had cards up his sleeves-- he had befriended the spiders of the forest and one of them is creeping up from behind the walls to attack one them. Just then a green beam shoots from one of the murder holes, hitting Sarek and he disappears from the scene. Mageta was too flabbergasted by his ally's disappearance, but Kitty and Cinder notice a circular gap on the floor. Mageta engages Arithek but the spider has bitten him; he feels his knees buckle from underneath him as his muscles slack. With a loud groan, the gap on the floor gives way and a hole opens onto darkness. Taking this opportunity for an advantage, the weakened Mageta pushes the giant spider into the hole. Another green flash bursts from one of the murder holes and a few meters behind Arithek, a gnome appears, armed to the teeth but bewildered beyond his wits. Kitty talks and convinces the gnome that they are allies against a mutual threat and the gnome attacks Arithek as well. Arithek uses his guileful words and sends Kitty plummeting into the hole after the spider. Kitty lands gracefully on her feet but the impact still reverberates through her bones and a few feet on top of her head looms the spider. Mageta still weakened by the spider's poison, trips Arithek into the gaping darkness. Cinder then hefts his massive hammer and dives into the darkness with his hammer aimed at the vampire, still recovering from his own fall. The hammer connects and the vampire is stunned by the impact. Mageta follows suit and lances the dazed Arithek. At this the spider lowers itself onto the floor and bites Cinder. Cinder too is now weakened by the poison. Arithek continues concentrating his attacks on Kitty. Cinder and Mageta try to shake off the effects of the poison but each time they do the spider bites them again. At first thinking that focusing on the vampire would be wise, they realize that the spider with its poison is unnecessarily prolonging the battle. They regroup and kill the spider first. While the two are distracted, Arithek knocks Kitty out. Just as Arithek is about to finish Kitty off, Cinder lands a mean blow on the spider sending its innards sprawling on the floor. Mageta hooks the vampire and drags it across the floor the vampire with his spear, away from the helpless Kitty. Cinder attacks but the cowardly vampire turned into mist and slithered away, promising to see them at the catacombs.
Mageta tries to patch the wounded Kitty back and the three regroup. They notice that they are in a circular room with two doors. There are glowing sigils on the walls, one orange, one red, one green, and one blue. On the floor is a desiccated corpse of a giant. Scattered on the floor are vials in various states of repair. They find three intact, a vial of acidfire, a vial of keen oil and a vial of <something else, I can't read from my notes>. After sometime to catch their breaths, Kitty notes that not only are the doors untrapped, but they are also unlocked. She opens one that reveals a masonry wall and nothing else. Then a section of the floor starts spinning clockwise and the walls starts spinning counter clockwise. The green sigil on the wall flashes and a beam hits Kitty; she too disappears. She finds herself on a seven foot platform outside the tower and just a few feet overhead are more spiders, with their pincers dripping poison. Back inside the tower, Cinder and Mageta witness the air coalesce into a whirlwind at the center of the room. Its spins itself into a roughly man shaped form. It then attacks. The walls continue spinning and Mageta decides to kick down the unopened door. Mageta and Cinder see Kitty, behind a set of bars, fighting off the spiders with her dagger. Another flash of green and Mageta is now outside on the platform and Kitty is inside. The creature of wind shoots a gout of pressurized air at kitty sending her sprawling across the room. Cinder pommels it with his hammer, splattering it on the floor. Mageta attacks a spider, contemplating the distance to the forest floor and whether he can jump it or not. The wind elemental recollects itself and attacks kitty again. A third flash of green switches Mageta and cinder's position. Cinder focuses his unbalancingly powerful blows at the spider sending it toppling off the towers face, but just a few feet higher away was another spider waiting for its won chance at the heroes. Back inside Mageta notices that at the floor and walls turning, it reveals a path into a darkened enclosure. Mageta heads for the room and notices four gems, one green, one orange, one red and one blue. Not very smart, Mageta could not figure out how the gems worked and he blindly smashes at one of them: the green one. Had kitty not been busy fending off the wind elemental by herself she would have noticed that the green sigil disappear of the wall. The wind elemental blasts another gout of pressurized air and Kitty is winded. Outside, the second spider approaches Cinder and it is then in turn thrown off the towers face onto oblivion. Cinder hurriedly smashes the bars apart only to find masonry on the other side. He starts smashing at it, as he hears the wind elemental readying for a killing blow. Mageta, now trapped inside the small room after the wall has spun another time, smashes at another gem, the red one. In the main room of the tower, the floor stops moving. But then walls move again and Mageta is revealed to the wind elemental. The wind elemental then realizes its peril and tries to pull the shifter out from the small room with vacuum force. Mageta clings to the door frame and smashes a third gem, the blue. He does not notice a scream of despair as the walls slide again. With this, a path is cleared for cinder and he finds Kitty alone on the main tower's chamber. The walls slide again and Mageta emerges from the small room into the main chamber at this he smashes the orange, and last gem. They take the time to recuperate. With no way up and the platform showing a possibly deadly fall, kitty enters the small room and tinkers the mechanism in the small room. Again the walls slide and another door is revealed to Cinder and Mageta. They shout the discovery to Kitty. The two enter the door and find a stairwell leading down. On the wall is an orange gem like the last one that Mageta destroyed. They relay this discovery to Kitty and with some manipulations of permutations all three of them end up on the stair well. On the stair well, kitty realizes that the gem is a massive amber worth at least 5000 gold. She pries it off the wall before they head down. Climbing down the stair well, they hear rhythmic pounding sounds. They find themselves the wrong end of a trap door. Peering in, they see a vast library. Kitty, feeble from the encounters, asks them if she could an extended rest. Cinder and Mageta watch over her as she does.
Meanwhile, Sarek, after the flash of green finds himself in a cavern surrounded by elves and gnomes armed and waiting. They seemed to be waiting for an attack of some sort before another flash of green blinds him momentarily. He finds himself on top of the tower with a gaping hole in its center. The signs of battle show all participants have dived into the hole by their own power or otherwise. He sits and contemplates his options for a while. He then brushes himself off and casts a spell to land gently on the chamber floor below. There he finds the desiccated giant, a dead spider and traces of a battle. The only exit is a stairwell to his right. He climbs down the stair well and finds a sleeping Kitty, guarded by Mageta and Cinder.
Arithek attacks, keeping his sights on Kitty. Unbeknownst to Mageta, Sarek, Cinder and Kitty, the vampire had cards up his sleeves-- he had befriended the spiders of the forest and one of them is creeping up from behind the walls to attack one them. Just then a green beam shoots from one of the murder holes, hitting Sarek and he disappears from the scene. Mageta was too flabbergasted by his ally's disappearance, but Kitty and Cinder notice a circular gap on the floor. Mageta engages Arithek but the spider has bitten him; he feels his knees buckle from underneath him as his muscles slack. With a loud groan, the gap on the floor gives way and a hole opens onto darkness. Taking this opportunity for an advantage, the weakened Mageta pushes the giant spider into the hole. Another green flash bursts from one of the murder holes and a few meters behind Arithek, a gnome appears, armed to the teeth but bewildered beyond his wits. Kitty talks and convinces the gnome that they are allies against a mutual threat and the gnome attacks Arithek as well. Arithek uses his guileful words and sends Kitty plummeting into the hole after the spider. Kitty lands gracefully on her feet but the impact still reverberates through her bones and a few feet on top of her head looms the spider. Mageta still weakened by the spider's poison, trips Arithek into the gaping darkness. Cinder then hefts his massive hammer and dives into the darkness with his hammer aimed at the vampire, still recovering from his own fall. The hammer connects and the vampire is stunned by the impact. Mageta follows suit and lances the dazed Arithek. At this the spider lowers itself onto the floor and bites Cinder. Cinder too is now weakened by the poison. Arithek continues concentrating his attacks on Kitty. Cinder and Mageta try to shake off the effects of the poison but each time they do the spider bites them again. At first thinking that focusing on the vampire would be wise, they realize that the spider with its poison is unnecessarily prolonging the battle. They regroup and kill the spider first. While the two are distracted, Arithek knocks Kitty out. Just as Arithek is about to finish Kitty off, Cinder lands a mean blow on the spider sending its innards sprawling on the floor. Mageta hooks the vampire and drags it across the floor the vampire with his spear, away from the helpless Kitty. Cinder attacks but the cowardly vampire turned into mist and slithered away, promising to see them at the catacombs.
Mageta tries to patch the wounded Kitty back and the three regroup. They notice that they are in a circular room with two doors. There are glowing sigils on the walls, one orange, one red, one green, and one blue. On the floor is a desiccated corpse of a giant. Scattered on the floor are vials in various states of repair. They find three intact, a vial of acidfire, a vial of keen oil and a vial of <something else, I can't read from my notes>. After sometime to catch their breaths, Kitty notes that not only are the doors untrapped, but they are also unlocked. She opens one that reveals a masonry wall and nothing else. Then a section of the floor starts spinning clockwise and the walls starts spinning counter clockwise. The green sigil on the wall flashes and a beam hits Kitty; she too disappears. She finds herself on a seven foot platform outside the tower and just a few feet overhead are more spiders, with their pincers dripping poison. Back inside the tower, Cinder and Mageta witness the air coalesce into a whirlwind at the center of the room. Its spins itself into a roughly man shaped form. It then attacks. The walls continue spinning and Mageta decides to kick down the unopened door. Mageta and Cinder see Kitty, behind a set of bars, fighting off the spiders with her dagger. Another flash of green and Mageta is now outside on the platform and Kitty is inside. The creature of wind shoots a gout of pressurized air at kitty sending her sprawling across the room. Cinder pommels it with his hammer, splattering it on the floor. Mageta attacks a spider, contemplating the distance to the forest floor and whether he can jump it or not. The wind elemental recollects itself and attacks kitty again. A third flash of green switches Mageta and cinder's position. Cinder focuses his unbalancingly powerful blows at the spider sending it toppling off the towers face, but just a few feet higher away was another spider waiting for its won chance at the heroes. Back inside Mageta notices that at the floor and walls turning, it reveals a path into a darkened enclosure. Mageta heads for the room and notices four gems, one green, one orange, one red and one blue. Not very smart, Mageta could not figure out how the gems worked and he blindly smashes at one of them: the green one. Had kitty not been busy fending off the wind elemental by herself she would have noticed that the green sigil disappear of the wall. The wind elemental blasts another gout of pressurized air and Kitty is winded. Outside, the second spider approaches Cinder and it is then in turn thrown off the towers face onto oblivion. Cinder hurriedly smashes the bars apart only to find masonry on the other side. He starts smashing at it, as he hears the wind elemental readying for a killing blow. Mageta, now trapped inside the small room after the wall has spun another time, smashes at another gem, the red one. In the main room of the tower, the floor stops moving. But then walls move again and Mageta is revealed to the wind elemental. The wind elemental then realizes its peril and tries to pull the shifter out from the small room with vacuum force. Mageta clings to the door frame and smashes a third gem, the blue. He does not notice a scream of despair as the walls slide again. With this, a path is cleared for cinder and he finds Kitty alone on the main tower's chamber. The walls slide again and Mageta emerges from the small room into the main chamber at this he smashes the orange, and last gem. They take the time to recuperate. With no way up and the platform showing a possibly deadly fall, kitty enters the small room and tinkers the mechanism in the small room. Again the walls slide and another door is revealed to Cinder and Mageta. They shout the discovery to Kitty. The two enter the door and find a stairwell leading down. On the wall is an orange gem like the last one that Mageta destroyed. They relay this discovery to Kitty and with some manipulations of permutations all three of them end up on the stair well. On the stair well, kitty realizes that the gem is a massive amber worth at least 5000 gold. She pries it off the wall before they head down. Climbing down the stair well, they hear rhythmic pounding sounds. They find themselves the wrong end of a trap door. Peering in, they see a vast library. Kitty, feeble from the encounters, asks them if she could an extended rest. Cinder and Mageta watch over her as she does.
Meanwhile, Sarek, after the flash of green finds himself in a cavern surrounded by elves and gnomes armed and waiting. They seemed to be waiting for an attack of some sort before another flash of green blinds him momentarily. He finds himself on top of the tower with a gaping hole in its center. The signs of battle show all participants have dived into the hole by their own power or otherwise. He sits and contemplates his options for a while. He then brushes himself off and casts a spell to land gently on the chamber floor below. There he finds the desiccated giant, a dead spider and traces of a battle. The only exit is a stairwell to his right. He climbs down the stair well and finds a sleeping Kitty, guarded by Mageta and Cinder.