A journey to the Temple of Fiends

[Olvelsper]

"Follow me!" Craig veered off and began racing towards the cave, "And stop trying to kill me, dammit!" The last was said as an aside to Helena.

[Carthrat]

"You two, get behind me!" shouts Helena upon reaching the front of the cave.

With that in mind, she starts casting another spell.

A large blob of greasy black liquid jets out from her hands towards the ground, and a spark of fire follows soon after, creating an improptu wall of flame.

After that, Helena moves back from the fire, breathing heavily.

"I'm done," she says, pausing to catch her breath. "I won't be casting any more spells today, though, that's f'sure. Overdid it as it is.."

[Olvelsper]

OOC: A post was here, now it's gone.

[Dracos]

The imps, chittering and laughing, fell back before the flame, fading into the woods, the fire burning nicely as it blocked off the exit to the cave.  The cold, dark cave which seemed to go back a ways thankfully.  Away from the hot flames blasting around the front of it at the moment.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Well, at least we're safer than we were before now." Craig sighed as he put away his knives for now, inspecting the cave around them. "How long do you think it'll take to recover, Helena?"

[Carthrat]

Helena pauses.

"A few hours, maybe? Assuming I don't strain myself too much. The latent energies need time to gather," she replies. "There's nothing better for that than sleep, but I don't think we have time for that right now."

[Dracos]

The fire light up the cave as a growl was heard deeper in the cave.

Dracos

[Halbarad]

Patricia glances back towards the rear of the cave, pressing herself up against the wall. "I hope that's nothing too big... or too hungry."

So now we're trapped in a cave with a few hundred imps outside and.... something inside, and we can't even get out. This isn't what I daydreamed about!

[Olvelsper]

"Lovely, just lovely." Craig grumbled as his eyes narrowed in concentration as he edged closer in the general direction of the growl, drawing his knives as he tensed to try and hear how close it was.

[Dracos]

Well, there are many things that lurk in dark caves.


Bats...

Bees...

Wombats...

But none of those were in this cave.

Instead there was merely...

THE BEAR.

A massive creature, maybe three or four times Craig's size.  It has muscles all over.  It's jaws were HUGE!  Bone chunks sticking out of them as it slowly rose from it's place on the ground, stretching, drool dripping from it's jaw.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Helena looks at the bear.

Then she looks back at the firewall.

"Today has been a lousy day," she comments, hand gripping her sword.

[Dracos]

It creaked it's neck and lowered down as it let loose a mighty roar.  The type of roar they write legends about.  They could see all of it's massive teeth as it's jaws creaked open with frightening swiftness, a terrifying tongue inside the massive mouth as it seemed to stay open for half a second before the sound hit, a wave of wind and furious noise as it pushed against them.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Great, we're fighting the pinnacle of bearocity." Craig quickly darted to the side, "The grease fire will burn out quick, right? We're going to have to either knock this guy out or distract him so we can make a break for it!"

He began slicing at the bear with his knives, always moving to keep from getting killed by this omega bear's claws.

[Carthrat]

Helena crosses her arms in front of her face as the wind blasts through her.

"Right!" she says, grabbing a torch from her pack, and heading back to the firewall to light it.

[Dracos]

Helena discovered an obvious thing.

The fire wall was nearly out.

Dracos