Ep. 119 Stranded in the Maze Chapter Six (C2)

## Listen

C2 Ep. 119 Stranded in the Maze Chapter Six

—Eric

The group starts their decent into Khyber. Erys sends Tasha home. On the way, they see Sigil addressing a group of warforged, and talk to them when they're finished. They say the plan right now is to get the attention of important people.

They head down into Khyber, and fight some skittering horrors.

## Synopsis

The Loaded Dice return from the Jason job and find Cassian ready to go. Erys sends Tasha back to the Cauldron. On the way down, they see a group of warforged gathered, listening to Sigil speak. They're speaking about the plight of the warforged and needing change from the bottom. Reynard waves enthusiastically. When they're done addressing the crowd, Sigil goes over to talk to them. The gathering is about the ghulra schemas, and preventing the control of warforged. Right now they're just trying to get the attention of the right people.

Cassian leads them to the same crack near the Delvers, where the party previously fought the skittering horrors. They go to a tunnel that leads down into into the earth, and only about fifteen or twenty feet they hit a cavern with an orange glow radiating from a flow of lava. Three centipede-looking things, about four feet long drop, down and are crawling over Cassian's armor.

Cassian brushes them off and slinks back to the group; they pursue and chomp into him. Milo flicks his wand at him, and a black beam shoots out, transforming into an arrow and knocking a creature off Cassian. They direct their focus to Milo, instead. There's a thud, and across the lava river a monstrous-sized skittering horror skitters towards them. Erys struggles to aim through her new headpiece. The arrow goes in an unfortunate direct and hits Hob instead of the creature. More skittering horrors cross the lava river.

Reynard is disappointing when his special arrows act as regular arrows, and in response gets trampled by a skittering horror. Erys destroys the creature next to Hob. The rocks above Hob crack, and some of the lava burns his leg. Milo kills two with a flat, black disc. Hob grabs the one off of Milo and smashes it against the rocks.

Reynard pulls out the mini-fletcher Erys made him and shoots the one on top of him right in the belly.

When all the creatures are taken care of, they group takes a breather and heals. They notice the lava rising from the river.

## Spells

* **Hob**
	+ Heal on Hob
	+ Shadow magic at the skittering horrors

## Quotes

"It's like four hobbits and a transformer."
*—Trevor*

"A man's head was cooked from the inside."
*—Eric*

"I know things, but it's threatening."
*—Philip*

"Give it to me. Rip the band-aid off. And then I will put the band-aid on."
*—Jeff*

"Now, Erys, you know how I feel."
"And yet, neither of you know how I feel."
"The difference is I didn't pretend I knew how to shoot, and then reveal later that I've never picked up a gun in my life."
"And yet, here I am, an arrow in my butt."
*—Milo, Hob, and Erys*

"I'm gonna shooty-shooty with one of my special arrows. The one that's not attacking Hobert."
*—Trevor*

## Trivia

* Cassian gets the Slightly Dazed crit condition.
* Milo heals Hob's critical injury.