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Vin and Nef being stuck together have a much harder time of it. Especially as Vin is currently suffering from the venomous damage the spiders dealt to him. Elthana hollers to him and he replies "Not.... really..." He is struggling to speak through the burning sensation of the poison coursing through him. Luckily the protective magics that he has slowly work to nullify if but the damage is done. His veins colors and green from where the bites injected their poison. He seems barely able to move but he's not going to be able to do much stuck to Nef in these webs. So the first goal was getting unstuck from Neferox though. The young man works together with the large black hound to help extradite himself from the webs and then he works on helping Nef get out as well. He needs to be careful not to fall though as he feels he's barely conscious at the moment. Neferox gives a small whining noise as she helps get the half-elf to safety.
While he works on this he looks up at the shout of reinforcements as Gewyn and Muir make their way to them. Vin would wave or shout but it hurts to talk or move right now. He just hopes those spider don't come back after being scared because he wasn't going to last even a few seconds if those spiders chased him. He does say weakly "Oh good... I think... I need.... healing." His breathing is becoming labored from the poison. Whatever protective magics at work seem to have him stable but he isn't looking good at all. Nef with her worry begins to tear webbing off of Vin with his help so that he doesn't just fall.
Athletics check for Vin with Nef help getting safely out of the webbing: 19
With Vin stuck to the side of Neferox, the more the dog snaps the strands holding him, the more strain is put on the strands holding Neferox.
Slowly as Vin becomes free, he is lowered and once out of his bindings he rolls onto cold hard rock, his feet falling into the freezing mountain stream.
Neferox looks worried but waits impatiently to be freed herself, she is upside down with two of her legs held, cocked oddly and uncomfortably against her side. Vin sets to work.
Coming from down stream there is an odd clicking, Elthana, Neferox and to a certain degree Sam all feel vibrations come shuddering through the strands that they still have contact with. Something is coming something else.
A yelp of surprise comes from above as the torch illuminated lizard takes a dash and a leap further downward into the chasm.
Wind rushes past Gewyns horns and ears deafening him momentarily, but as Muizard reaches out his claws and tactile pads to catch the other side of the chasm wall, Gewyn finally sees the rest of the group a mere 30ft below him and his steed.
Now illuminated in torch light Gewyn observes the party, some caught in webbing, Sam in a tree, and Vin on the ground not looking good but protected by his now freed hound Neferox. Oddly enough it appears that no hostiles are around.
"Vin needs help," Sam calls out to all. "Form up on him, I think they're returning!"
Even while shouting directions Sam is working to act on them. Sam does everything he can to move, climb and jump to where Vin and Neferox are. If stepping off a branch and falling to the ground speeds up his arrival and saves Sam a movement he will definitely take that option. He is eager to pour his healing potion down the kid's through and rip the webs away from him and Neferox - in that order - as soon as possible. If it means taking a little falling damage, so be it.
If he is able to get to Vin and can put the potion in him - 20 healing to Vin...
Any movement or action or such is left trying to pull them free of webs.
Sam makes his way down from the canopy of his tree as much as he can before dropping the rest of the way, he hits the ground hard but is able to roll with the momentum of the fall and negate most of the shock that goes up his legs and straight to his knees. Luckily the tree growth pushed most of the webbing clear off the floor underneath it's branches and so once back on terra firma, Sam makes his way unimpeded to Vin's side, and much to Neferox's relief, administers the healing.
Behind Sam an odd grinding sound emanates from the tree, but before he can turn to see what is making te noise another fills his ears,
"Pop!"
The blue flashes momentarily light up Sam, Neferox and Elthana, followed by the glowing blue spiders appearing before each of them, vin being flanked by Sam and Neferox appears out of reach.
Two of the glowing bles spiders appear around Elthana, not quite flanking her but using the advantage of her being caught up and restrained by webbing nonetheless, the first easily sinks it's fangs into her (19 to hit, 3 piercing, 18 poison Halved to 9) as the poison pumps into her veins, Elthana wretches away causing the second spider to miss and causing the delivery of poison to be disturbed in the process.
One spider appears behind Sam fangs open it dives for the meat of his calf. But Sam is just too quick, what should have been a perfect surprise attack is somehow deftly avoided by Sam, the poison that surely would have felled the half orc, sputters uselessly across the floor.
Similarly Neferox butts the spider that appears next to her away as it attacks, her senses too quick to be surprised by this creature and her temper at their tenacity of injuring Vin, fuelling her desire to kill.
Clutching to the Leaping Lizard with all his might, Gewyn looks down and sees the situation below. He takes a few deep breathes to still his nerves. "It's hero time."
He lets go of his pack, keeping his torch in one hand and pulling out his dagger with the other as he plummets toward the tree top 30 ft below. He crashes through the first layer of leaves and branches, losing some speed as his feet find a perch, and then he immediately starts running down the branch toward Elthana. He swipes at the nearest spider with his knife (21 to hit, 6 magic slashing damage) and tries to dash the webs at the same time with his flaming torch. (6 to hit)
Gewyns jumps and disappears within the leaves of the tree all at once, arms and legs flailing, but a moment later he is perched on a branch making the entire thing not only look intentional, but good. Effortlessly he takes a swipe at the glowing blue spider to Elthana's left piercing a hole in the recesses of the creatures head, a thick blue gunk drips out as the spider's legs cease up recoiling toward it's center, it loses grip on the webbing and falls to the ground splattering by Sam's feet.
The webbing proves tricky, getting a torch in to where he would be able to free elthana without burning her too, is a delicate process and on this attempt, Gewyn's careful hesitance means the webbing stays for now.
Breaking through the webbing Elthana is able to take a step onto the branch using some of the more fortified strands of webbing to support herself, she rounds on the spider to the side of her ready for anything.
"Hey! I'm working down here! I can't be dodging your castoffs!" Sam complains as a gross and gooey dead skitter-done spider splats at his feet.
Knowing he's perilously close to being imperiled, Sam chokes up on his maul and swings for the treetops!
Maul Attack: 14to hit, 12damage...
Second Maul Attack: 17 to hit, 19 damage...
Having swung, his hand goes to the pouch where he stored the Goodberries Hirsi gifted him. He's tempted to grab the bunch and eat them all in a handfull but resists, for now... "May need those awaken someone who cannot be stopped from falling," he tells himself.
((IF attacks killed the spider Sam is engaged in, then below... Otherwise, ignore.))
And recklessly, probably foolhardily considering his recent brush with death, Sam moves past Vin and Neferox to engage the remaining spider on the ground... He even sidesteps himself around to the back of the disgusting thing in order to give his companions the most distracted foe he can... (ie he moves to flank the spider,)
((Also: "Gewyns jumps and ... a moment later he is perched on a branch making the entire thing not only look intentional, but good."?? I dunno if I buy that. I want a performance or a deception check!))
Sam's wild swings successfully cleave a few legs off the spider, and then cleave the entire thing in half. The half with legs still attached, curls in on itself and doubles over dead.
As Sam looks up to see Gewyn moving deftly amongst the branches, the tiefling spots his observer and gives Sam a wink, which only serves to remind Sam of his own thunderously un-glamorous dismount from the tree.
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The healing potion seems to help immensely as it counteracts the poison in his body. The damage from the deeply pierced fang bites remain but it seems the boy is no longer on death's door. Vin says "Thank you Sam. That was close. Nef says something big is coming. Be ready." Then if it is safe to do so Vin will move towards the tree to have it at his back as he starts blasting with his magic at the various spiders. Seeing Elthana in trouble he calls out "Elthana, I got your back!" Then he sends off two blasts of magical beams at the spider most injured near her.
Eldrich Blast 1: 26 Damage: 8
Eldrich Blast 2: 27 Damage: 12
Neferox meanwhile focuses on the one nearest her as she is making sure it won't go after Vin again. She seems to be eyeing to make sure Vin is safely by the tree. She focuses on mauling the spider to pieces in front of her. She bites in an attempt to tear as many of it's legs off as possible.
The spider near Elthana shrieks in pain as the eldritch blasts tear gout of glowing blue ichor from its abdomen, though it remains on the webbing and prepares it's attack.
Neferox sees red as she turns her attention on the spider next to her, the following attacks are not elegant or measured in any way, as she unleashes a series of ferocious bites she tears through the spider completely and begins feasting on the crunchy carapace of its corpse, she leaves nearly nothing behind.
The now lone spider in melee with Elthana attempts to recover it's senses from Vin's attack and redouble its efforts to poison and paralyse the now freed Elthana, but it's wounds prove too much, as it lunges forward completely missing Elthana and then dissapearing from this plane with a dull flash of blue and the all too familiar "pop!"
Vin now also hears the odd grinding sound emanating from within Sam's tree, the sound is reminiscent of a stone mill, or rock sliding slowly, methodically over rock.
Gewyn spins, his footing on the tree branch sure and deft, as he tries to keep track of all the action. When the last spider vanishes, he sheathes his knife, pulls out his mirror, and looks at his reflection for a moment. Then he snaps out of it, his eyes going wide with shock. "SAM! ABOVE YOU! IT'S COMING BACK!"
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Being directed in Sam's location by Gewyn's exclamation, Elthana attempts to climb down some tree limbs to get closer.
Acrobatics 16
Assuming she lands on the branch she wants to, though not as graceful as normal, she keeps her eyes peeled, readying her action to attack as soon as an enemy shows itself.
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Vin with adrenaline pumping through his veins more then the poison at this time is seeming better as he looks at the tree in confusion. He tries to locate the source of the sound of rocks moving and sliding on a tree of all things. The last thing he needs is a surprise from behind him in addition to these spiders. "Anyone else hear that?" he begins tapping on the tree in an attempt to locate how it's making this noise while at the same time trying to keep focus on what's going on.
Investigation: 13
Neferox however is prepared to mercilessly attack the next enemy that shows up within range of their fangs. they are ready to leap at and attack the next enemy. Especially if they seem focused on Vin.
Sam readies his maul and looks up, readying himself in response to Gewyn's shout. "I don't see anything..." Sam says a bit hesitantly while trying to continue to focus above him despite the distraction that is the tree...
A light dust begins to fall from above, coating parts of the webbing surrounding the tree and making the spider environment look old. The smell of the insides of the three dead teleporting spiders fills the nostrils of those on the ground.
For a moment, after gewyn calls out his warning to Sam and several party member prepare to attack, all is still. The sound of grinding stone still thrumming through the air.
"Pop!" The flash of blue is momentarily blinding to Sam, and all goes in slow motion for him, a spider appears directly on his face as his vision returns, its forelegs already wrap around his head and it fangs are poised ready to strike directly at his eyes. But a low thudding sound explodes from Sam's left, above him Elthana's prepared attack goes off, she punches out and the shockwave of her strike shudders through the spider making it lose its grip, Sam's maul reflexively comes up to his face and scoops the spider off of him and towards neferox's waiting maw. The spider is dead before it even has a chance to react.
A second later Sam blinks the spider fangs gone and Elthana's fist hangs a mere centimeter from his face as she balances upside down from a lower tree branch.
As if in reaction to the explosion of activity, two boulders fall out of the base of the tree, both are about 3ft across and lay inert by Vins feet, as Vin watches the tree it begins to solidify, the hard bark of the trunk slowly turns to stone at the base, and then gradually the rock petrification of the tree spreads.
"Yeww!" Sam calls out, a combination of surprise and disgust (and maybe fear-fueled-ickyness?) as the spider reappears! The grossed out sound is still escaping him as it is summarily dispatched and he is scraping spider-innards off his face and reflexively sputtering viscera out of his mouth, trying not to vomit at the thought of spider in his mouth... (Spiders... spiders... everywhere spiders... crawling... creepy... skittering in the dark... spiders... skittering down his throat even now... he can feel them even as he spits and sputters and tries to hold his rations down... spiders... skittering... crawling down dark, wet caverns of his throat....) But after a moment of this Sam rushes away from the others to go stand behind the tree he created and noisily lose his lunch.
He doesn't ride the vomit train long before being interrupted by the boulders failling out of the tree. Even before things start to petrify (hopefully) Sam is backing away from the tree asking "What the fudge??"
Lizard Muir climbs the rest of the way down to the others and nudges Gewyn with his lizard snout. Lizard Muir snorts and claws at the walls motioning upwards and looking at his back and then towards the group....
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Vin and Nef being stuck together have a much harder time of it. Especially as Vin is currently suffering from the venomous damage the spiders dealt to him. Elthana hollers to him and he replies "Not.... really..." He is struggling to speak through the burning sensation of the poison coursing through him. Luckily the protective magics that he has slowly work to nullify if but the damage is done. His veins colors and green from where the bites injected their poison. He seems barely able to move but he's not going to be able to do much stuck to Nef in these webs. So the first goal was getting unstuck from Neferox though. The young man works together with the large black hound to help extradite himself from the webs and then he works on helping Nef get out as well. He needs to be careful not to fall though as he feels he's barely conscious at the moment. Neferox gives a small whining noise as she helps get the half-elf to safety.
While he works on this he looks up at the shout of reinforcements as Gewyn and Muir make their way to them. Vin would wave or shout but it hurts to talk or move right now. He just hopes those spider don't come back after being scared because he wasn't going to last even a few seconds if those spiders chased him. He does say weakly "Oh good... I think... I need.... healing." His breathing is becoming labored from the poison. Whatever protective magics at work seem to have him stable but he isn't looking good at all. Nef with her worry begins to tear webbing off of Vin with his help so that he doesn't just fall.
Athletics check for Vin with Nef help getting safely out of the webbing: 19
With Vin stuck to the side of Neferox, the more the dog snaps the strands holding him, the more strain is put on the strands holding Neferox.
Slowly as Vin becomes free, he is lowered and once out of his bindings he rolls onto cold hard rock, his feet falling into the freezing mountain stream.
Neferox looks worried but waits impatiently to be freed herself, she is upside down with two of her legs held, cocked oddly and uncomfortably against her side. Vin sets to work.
Coming from down stream there is an odd clicking, Elthana, Neferox and to a certain degree Sam all feel vibrations come shuddering through the strands that they still have contact with. Something is coming something else.
A yelp of surprise comes from above as the torch illuminated lizard takes a dash and a leap further downward into the chasm.
Wind rushes past Gewyns horns and ears deafening him momentarily, but as Muizard reaches out his claws and tactile pads to catch the other side of the chasm wall, Gewyn finally sees the rest of the group a mere 30ft below him and his steed.
Now illuminated in torch light Gewyn observes the party, some caught in webbing, Sam in a tree, and Vin on the ground not looking good but protected by his now freed hound Neferox. Oddly enough it appears that no hostiles are around.
"Vin needs help," Sam calls out to all. "Form up on him, I think they're returning!"
Even while shouting directions Sam is working to act on them. Sam does everything he can to move, climb and jump to where Vin and Neferox are. If stepping off a branch and falling to the ground speeds up his arrival and saves Sam a movement he will definitely take that option. He is eager to pour his healing potion down the kid's through and rip the webs away from him and Neferox - in that order - as soon as possible. If it means taking a little falling damage, so be it.
If he is able to get to Vin and can put the potion in him - 20 healing to Vin...
Any movement or action or such is left trying to pull them free of webs.
Sam makes his way down from the canopy of his tree as much as he can before dropping the rest of the way, he hits the ground hard but is able to roll with the momentum of the fall and negate most of the shock that goes up his legs and straight to his knees. Luckily the tree growth pushed most of the webbing clear off the floor underneath it's branches and so once back on terra firma, Sam makes his way unimpeded to Vin's side, and much to Neferox's relief, administers the healing.
Behind Sam an odd grinding sound emanates from the tree, but before he can turn to see what is making te noise another fills his ears,
"Pop!"
The blue flashes momentarily light up Sam, Neferox and Elthana, followed by the glowing blue spiders appearing before each of them, vin being flanked by Sam and Neferox appears out of reach.
Two of the glowing bles spiders appear around Elthana, not quite flanking her but using the advantage of her being caught up and restrained by webbing nonetheless, the first easily sinks it's fangs into her (19 to hit, 3 piercing, 18 poison Halved to 9) as the poison pumps into her veins, Elthana wretches away causing the second spider to miss and causing the delivery of poison to be disturbed in the process.
One spider appears behind Sam fangs open it dives for the meat of his calf. But Sam is just too quick, what should have been a perfect surprise attack is somehow deftly avoided by Sam, the poison that surely would have felled the half orc, sputters uselessly across the floor.
Similarly Neferox butts the spider that appears next to her away as it attacks, her senses too quick to be surprised by this creature and her temper at their tenacity of injuring Vin, fuelling her desire to kill.
Clutching to the Leaping Lizard with all his might, Gewyn looks down and sees the situation below. He takes a few deep breathes to still his nerves. "It's hero time."
He lets go of his pack, keeping his torch in one hand and pulling out his dagger with the other as he plummets toward the tree top 30 ft below. He crashes through the first layer of leaves and branches, losing some speed as his feet find a perch, and then he immediately starts running down the branch toward Elthana. He swipes at the nearest spider with his knife (21 to hit, 6 magic slashing damage) and tries to dash the webs at the same time with his flaming torch. (6 to hit)
Gewyns jumps and disappears within the leaves of the tree all at once, arms and legs flailing, but a moment later he is perched on a branch making the entire thing not only look intentional, but good. Effortlessly he takes a swipe at the glowing blue spider to Elthana's left piercing a hole in the recesses of the creatures head, a thick blue gunk drips out as the spider's legs cease up recoiling toward it's center, it loses grip on the webbing and falls to the ground splattering by Sam's feet.
The webbing proves tricky, getting a torch in to where he would be able to free elthana without burning her too, is a delicate process and on this attempt, Gewyn's careful hesitance means the webbing stays for now.
Sick of being stuck in the webbing, Elthana wrenches her body hard, trying to escape.
Athletics 13
Assuming that gets her out, she turns to face the glowing blue spider, now at the ready without the webbing holding her down.
Breaking through the webbing Elthana is able to take a step onto the branch using some of the more fortified strands of webbing to support herself, she rounds on the spider to the side of her ready for anything.
"Hey! I'm working down here! I can't be dodging your castoffs!" Sam complains as a gross and gooey dead skitter-done spider splats at his feet.
Knowing he's perilously close to being imperiled, Sam chokes up on his maul and swings for the treetops!
Maul Attack: 14 to hit, 12 damage...
Second Maul Attack: 17 to hit, 19 damage...
Having swung, his hand goes to the pouch where he stored the Goodberries Hirsi gifted him. He's tempted to grab the bunch and eat them all in a handfull but resists, for now... "May need those awaken someone who cannot be stopped from falling," he tells himself.
((IF attacks killed the spider Sam is engaged in, then below... Otherwise, ignore.))
And recklessly, probably foolhardily considering his recent brush with death, Sam moves past Vin and Neferox to engage the remaining spider on the ground... He even sidesteps himself around to the back of the disgusting thing in order to give his companions the most distracted foe he can... (ie he moves to flank the spider,)
((Also: "Gewyns jumps and ... a moment later he is perched on a branch making the entire thing not only look intentional, but good."?? I dunno if I buy that. I want a performance or a deception check!))
Sam's wild swings successfully cleave a few legs off the spider, and then cleave the entire thing in half. The half with legs still attached, curls in on itself and doubles over dead.
As Sam looks up to see Gewyn moving deftly amongst the branches, the tiefling spots his observer and gives Sam a wink, which only serves to remind Sam of his own thunderously un-glamorous dismount from the tree.
The healing potion seems to help immensely as it counteracts the poison in his body. The damage from the deeply pierced fang bites remain but it seems the boy is no longer on death's door. Vin says "Thank you Sam. That was close. Nef says something big is coming. Be ready." Then if it is safe to do so Vin will move towards the tree to have it at his back as he starts blasting with his magic at the various spiders. Seeing Elthana in trouble he calls out "Elthana, I got your back!" Then he sends off two blasts of magical beams at the spider most injured near her.
Eldrich Blast 1: 26 Damage: 8
Eldrich Blast 2: 27 Damage: 12
Neferox meanwhile focuses on the one nearest her as she is making sure it won't go after Vin again. She seems to be eyeing to make sure Vin is safely by the tree. She focuses on mauling the spider to pieces in front of her. She bites in an attempt to tear as many of it's legs off as possible.
Bite Attack 1: 19 Damage: 15
Bite Attack 2: 26 Damage: 15
The spider near Elthana shrieks in pain as the eldritch blasts tear gout of glowing blue ichor from its abdomen, though it remains on the webbing and prepares it's attack.
Neferox sees red as she turns her attention on the spider next to her, the following attacks are not elegant or measured in any way, as she unleashes a series of ferocious bites she tears through the spider completely and begins feasting on the crunchy carapace of its corpse, she leaves nearly nothing behind.
The now lone spider in melee with Elthana attempts to recover it's senses from Vin's attack and redouble its efforts to poison and paralyse the now freed Elthana, but it's wounds prove too much, as it lunges forward completely missing Elthana and then dissapearing from this plane with a dull flash of blue and the all too familiar "pop!"
Vin now also hears the odd grinding sound emanating from within Sam's tree, the sound is reminiscent of a stone mill, or rock sliding slowly, methodically over rock.
Gewyn spins, his footing on the tree branch sure and deft, as he tries to keep track of all the action. When the last spider vanishes, he sheathes his knife, pulls out his mirror, and looks at his reflection for a moment. Then he snaps out of it, his eyes going wide with shock. "SAM! ABOVE YOU! IT'S COMING BACK!"
Being directed in Sam's location by Gewyn's exclamation, Elthana attempts to climb down some tree limbs to get closer.
Acrobatics 16
Assuming she lands on the branch she wants to, though not as graceful as normal, she keeps her eyes peeled, readying her action to attack as soon as an enemy shows itself.
when needed:
Attack: 14 Damage: 8
Vin with adrenaline pumping through his veins more then the poison at this time is seeming better as he looks at the tree in confusion. He tries to locate the source of the sound of rocks moving and sliding on a tree of all things. The last thing he needs is a surprise from behind him in addition to these spiders. "Anyone else hear that?" he begins tapping on the tree in an attempt to locate how it's making this noise while at the same time trying to keep focus on what's going on.
Investigation: 13
Neferox however is prepared to mercilessly attack the next enemy that shows up within range of their fangs. they are ready to leap at and attack the next enemy. Especially if they seem focused on Vin.
Sam readies his maul and looks up, readying himself in response to Gewyn's shout. "I don't see anything..." Sam says a bit hesitantly while trying to continue to focus above him despite the distraction that is the tree...
A light dust begins to fall from above, coating parts of the webbing surrounding the tree and making the spider environment look old. The smell of the insides of the three dead teleporting spiders fills the nostrils of those on the ground.
For a moment, after gewyn calls out his warning to Sam and several party member prepare to attack, all is still. The sound of grinding stone still thrumming through the air.
"Pop!" The flash of blue is momentarily blinding to Sam, and all goes in slow motion for him, a spider appears directly on his face as his vision returns, its forelegs already wrap around his head and it fangs are poised ready to strike directly at his eyes. But a low thudding sound explodes from Sam's left, above him Elthana's prepared attack goes off, she punches out and the shockwave of her strike shudders through the spider making it lose its grip, Sam's maul reflexively comes up to his face and scoops the spider off of him and towards neferox's waiting maw. The spider is dead before it even has a chance to react.
A second later Sam blinks the spider fangs gone and Elthana's fist hangs a mere centimeter from his face as she balances upside down from a lower tree branch.
As if in reaction to the explosion of activity, two boulders fall out of the base of the tree, both are about 3ft across and lay inert by Vins feet, as Vin watches the tree it begins to solidify, the hard bark of the trunk slowly turns to stone at the base, and then gradually the rock petrification of the tree spreads.
"Yeww!" Sam calls out, a combination of surprise and disgust (and maybe fear-fueled-ickyness?) as the spider reappears! The grossed out sound is still escaping him as it is summarily dispatched and he is scraping spider-innards off his face and reflexively sputtering viscera out of his mouth, trying not to vomit at the thought of spider in his mouth... (Spiders... spiders... everywhere spiders... crawling... creepy... skittering in the dark... spiders... skittering down his throat even now... he can feel them even as he spits and sputters and tries to hold his rations down... spiders... skittering... crawling down dark, wet caverns of his throat....) But after a moment of this Sam rushes away from the others to go stand behind the tree he created and noisily lose his lunch.
He doesn't ride the vomit train long before being interrupted by the boulders failling out of the tree. Even before things start to petrify (hopefully) Sam is backing away from the tree asking "What the fudge??"
Lizard Muir climbs the rest of the way down to the others and nudges Gewyn with his lizard snout. Lizard Muir snorts and claws at the walls motioning upwards and looking at his back and then towards the group....